Game of Thrones Season 8 Spoiler?
Jaime Lannister cruelly force-fed delicious smelling German wurst and drowned...only to survive? Deus ex machina is getting out of hand on that show...
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guffguff fuckes your gradeds balls!, Wed 13 Sep 2017, 8:53,
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Game of Thrones has been utter wank since Season 4. Total fucking shark jumping sellout soap opera fast food television these days.
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Righto.
I suppose it's okay if you like lots of action and dragons and Emilia Clarke's complete dogshit acting abilities. But it has the intellectual depth of an episode of Celebrity Big Brother these days.
As soon as the television series got ahead of the novels and the writers started writing it for the fans instead of an adaptation of the existing books, it's gone downhill rapidly.
From the get-go, there weren't really enough episodes in a season to do the various character and story arcs justice. But with the introduction of completely disposable and irrelevant characters (Brienne, Gilly and her stupid baby, Podrick,
Add to this the clearly hurried attempts by the screenwriters to stitch the story together in the remaining 13 episodes of seasons 7 & 8 including Jon Snow and the Spoopy Gang's apparent use of wormholes to traverse thousands of miles on foot in a couple of days and you're left with complete popcorn please-the-masses disposable soap opera.
I suppose it still makes for better than average Saturday night television, but it's a far cry from what it was achieving in it's first few seasons. I assume, mainly because the majority are more impressed with big fucking dragons than story.
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I'm not quite as down on it as you are
But season
Also we've gone from a position where anyone could be offed at any time to characters cheating apparent doom in the most preposterous ways because they're needed for the finale.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 13 Sep 2017, 11:11,
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Yep, it's shallow, rushed nonsense now.
If the earlier seasons were lovely home cooked Christmas dinners, season 7 was a Happy Meal.
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Yeah, the TV show was doing alright but they're fluffing it a bit now .I can't wait to get back to the books.
There was a little musical they staged in the TV show with Kevin Eldon frolicking about recapping the story of the last 5 series. That musical is what the TV show is to the books in my opinion.
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presferatu, Wed 13 Sep 2017, 11:40,
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It's a show about murder, intrigue, combat, fucking, dragons, incest, eunuchs, dwarfs and arseholes
...and you enjoyed the early seasons for their intellectual depth?
To be fair it was much more interestingly written before, and the pacing felt a lot better, but it's clearly at the "fuck it, lets just get on with the big CGI battles that everyone's been patiently waiting for" stage.
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^this SOAPY TITS AND DRAGONS
Couldn't get past the first episode. Twice.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 13 Sep 2017, 12:42,
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I, for one, am quite happy to watch anything with soapy tits in.
Dragons are a bonus.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 13 Sep 2017, 16:22,
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Ha!
I've been distractedly watching this dull shit for 6 seasons (my wife loves it), waiting for it to get to some sort of point and actually do something.
S7 was the first one I actually enjoyed.
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Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Wed 13 Sep 2017, 18:52,
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