Game Of Thrones: Season 8

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orly said:
Right, does anyone else remember why the first season got so many people interested? Not because it was some deep pyschological treatise on dynastic ambition, but because it was funny, violent and there was more rat than the day before the Great Fire of London. Who cares if a rock didn't melt behind Jon Snow. There was a massive visual cue for this right behind him that should have anchored people in the "maybe this isn't real" category. IT WAS A DRAGON RAISED FROM THE DEAD, oh no, it's not very realistic.

That virgin who wrote that Reddit post probably knows the entire script from the scene with Littlefinger and the two prozzies. Make of that what you will.
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Mate I remember people criticising red wedding for killing off characters they liked!
 
orly said:
Right, does anyone else remember why the first season got so many people interested? Not because it was some deep pyschological treatise on dynastic ambition, but because it was funny, violent and there was more rat than the day before the Great Fire of London. Who cares if a rock didn't melt behind Jon Snow. There was a massive visual cue for this right behind him that should have anchored people in the "maybe this isn't real" category. IT WAS A DRAGON RAISED FROM THE DEAD, oh no, it's not very realistic.

That virgin who wrote that Reddit post probably knows the entire script from the scene with Littlefinger and the two prozzies. Make of that what you will.
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The first season got people hooked because of the writing, the dialogue, the characters and the narrative. Standout characters like Ned and Tyrion. Political intrigue and mystery. I would take the scene with Tywin talking to Jaime whilst skinning a dear, or King Robert speaking with Cersei and countless other scenes like those over the “spectacle” we’ve seen this season. Saying that people got hooked because the show was “funny and violent”, you might as well just say that we’re all only watching for “t*ts and dragons”.

Also using the “it isn’t real” argument is just a total fallacy. Fantasy, science fiction, action, horror, it doesn’t matter what genre your show/film is in but generally every single piece of fiction ever establishes ground rules, establishes logic, establishes context and setting. You can’t just throw all that out the window and say “BUH BUH DRAGONS AREN’T REAL SO NOTHING MATTERS”. In the world of the show, the world we are supposed to be immersed in, dragons are real. At one point they’re shown to be massive forces of destruction and then in another you can just hide behind a rock to survive them? That’s just plain dumb. The show is literally breaking it’s own rules, and the magic rock Jon hides behind is just an example of this. The screenwriters and show runners can no longer intelligently script the show and that’s what is breaking immersion and ruining the show. Not dragons. Not the zombie mountain. It’s the inane plotting and awful, lazy, rushed writing.
 
Deckard2049 said:
The first season got people hooked because of the writing, the dialogue, the characters and the narrative. Standout characters like Ned and Tyrion. Political intrigue and mystery. I would take the scene with Tywin talking to Jaime whilst skinning a dear, or King Robert speaking with Cersei and countless other scenes like those over the “spectacle” we’ve seen this season. Saying that people got hooked because the show was “funny and violent”, you might as well just say that we’re all only watching for “t*ts and dragons”.

Also using the “it isn’t real” argument is just a total fallacy. Fantasy, science fiction, action, horror, it doesn’t matter what genre your show/film is in but generally every single piece of fiction ever establishes ground rules, establishes logic, establishes context and setting. You can’t just throw all that out the window and say “BUH BUH DRAGONS AREN’T REAL SO NOTHING MATTERS”. In the world of the show, the world we are supposed to be immersed in, dragons are real. At one point they’re shown to be massive forces of destruction and then in another you can just hide behind a rock to survive them? That’s just plain dumb. The show is literally breaking it’s own rules, and the magic rock Jon hides behind is just an example of this. The screenwriters and show runners can no longer intelligently script the show and that’s what is breaking immersion and ruining the show. Not dragons. Not the zombie mountain. It’s the inane plotting and awful, lazy, rushed writing.
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Tree13 said:
I feel like defecating into an envelope and posting it to Benioff and Weiss at this point.

Please God when the final books get released SOMEBODY with a lot of money gets all the cast and crew back together and says "shall we do it right this time?"
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Mate.

That seems a bit of a kopite-ish thing to want to do......
 
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