Game of Thrones Thread

True Blood- Only saw the first couple seasons, which were enjoyable. I heard the show ends horribly though.

Season 5 was the last good season with the Vampire High Council sillyness and the return of Russel Edgington. Seasons 6 & 7 were pretty bad. 7 was just boring, but 6 had some hamfisted social commentary where they tried to portray vampires as an oppressed minority.
 
I'mma letchoo finish but the wire is still the best original programming HBO ever did.

I definitely agree with you on that, although I feel that GoT had the potential to be better, although we all know what happened...

Also another HBO show: Oz- an enjoyably gritty and nihilistic show about prison life as the breaking down of one's humanity, although it's premise got stale after a few seasons imo
 
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True Detective season two, in retrospect, was a dry run for GOT season 8. A totally baffling and bizarre series that quickly moved from Huh? to WTF? to Bwahaha!! parody. Especially in contrast to season one which, for all the shit the finale got, was still an enthralling watch.

The funniest thing is Mauler timed all the walking and non-speaking in the last episode. 57 minutes. 17 minutes of dialogue. In a SERIES finale. They wrote 17 fucking minutes of dialogue in the last episode of an eight year series.

I think some of you might find this amusing. When scripts are submitted for the Emmy’s writing categories, they get uploaded to the Emmy site for perusal. This is one of the scripts nominated two years ago, the season seven finale:

Sansa stands alone, staring across the snow-shrouded moors. She wears a hood to protect her from the wind and the snow,
making her look like the French Lieutenant’s Woman, a reference Sophie Turner will just have to Google.We don’t have access to her interior monologue, but we’re looking at Dark Sansa here, that much is clear.

Theon, his face a bloody mess, rises to his feet a third time. Harrag takes a deep breath. He charges at Theon, throwing everything he’s got left at his adversary.
Clutching Theon’s face in his big, dirty hands, Harrag slams his knee into Theon’s groin.
But Theon has no balls.
Just the slightest possible smile from Theon, as he receives his first ever benefit from castration. He slams his forehead into Harrag’s nose, the single greatest headbutt in the history of filmed headbutts.

Jon doesn’t quite smile because smiling would seem inappropriate. But still, that almost looks like a smile.
Jorah nods in deference. But he’s not smiling at all. F*—ing punkass little shitburger stole my khaleesi!
 
You know I'm pretty certain that cripples can still get boners and successfully procreate.

his legs don't work and his upper body still functions, I am almost certain that ancient scrolls and or books existed IRL on how to arouse cripples and that shit was written in india.

They can. Even Stephen Hawking, who suffered from motor neurone disease all his life, was able to fertilise his wife while wheelchair bound. I don't know at what point his dick packed up, but it was long after he was reliant on wheelchairs and having difficulty speaking. This is because erection and ejaculation go over the thoracic and lumbar spinal cord, while leg movements are from the sacral spinal cord.

Incidentally, the sacral spinal cord is also responsible for urinary and faecal continence. Yet we never saw Bran's :briefs: in the show, did we. Suffice to say, NEVER sniff the seat of his wheelchair.
 
Stray HBO observations.

- Throwing The Sopranos on the "disappointing" pile is something I just can't go along with. Yeah, that finale was initially baffling, and yeah, the Gay Vito storyline goes on way too long, but the finale is still argued about today, while I don't see anyone coming to the realization that Jon Snow being reduced to UR MUH KWEEN and I DUN WANN IT as if he'd become Hodor is actually some staggering insight into ambition and the lack thereof. While Gay Vito made us all uncomfortable, its resolution is actually pretty chilling -- Phil was a great villain and how he dealt with Vito is legitimately scary. Finally, those last nine episodes are among the series' best. The overall arc of that split season is Tony is given a final chance to change his ways, and yet he can't do it -- he turns away and ultimately becomes even more corrupt and damned than he was before he got shot. They played this over the course of 21 episodes. Dany's heel turn got maybe 2 and a half, if you include all the shots where she's giving Jon Snow the stinkeye at Winterfell High School Prom.

- The heavy-handed journalism story in The Wire's last season (complete with a white knight speech at the end about how awesome reporters are) is thanks to David Simon's journalism background and his own massive self-regard. I find it something of a miracle that The Wire stayed as good as it was for so long, because Simon is a cunt with anger management issues when his views are challenged. How he stayed even-handed long enough to present such an honest look at the awfulness of Baltimore is something I'll never quite understand, but can be thankful for.

Still not sure how they justified McNulty going that crazy in the final season, though.

- True Detective season 1 is fantastic. Season 3 is solid television elevated by Mahershala Ali's performance, which probably ranks among the best HBO has ever featured. Season 2 is a baffling abortion. You'll forget all about the great casting HBO is known for after watching five minute of Vince Vaughn as a crime boss.

- All of you should feel bad for not mentioning Carnivale.
 
True Detective season two, in retrospect, was a dry run for GOT season 8. A totally baffling and bizarre series that quickly moved from Huh? to WTF? to Bwahaha!! parody. Especially in contrast to season one which, for all the shit the finale got, was still an enthralling watch.



I think some of you might find this amusing. When scripts are submitted for the Emmy’s writing categories, they get uploaded to the Emmy site for perusal. This is one of the scripts nominated two years ago, the season seven finale:


That.

That is just speshial.

Emmy writing right there. I hope they also told wardrobe that Jon had to have glasses and a smug adam ruins everything face as he said those lines.
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True Detective season two, in retrospect, was a dry run for GOT season 8. A totally baffling and bizarre series that quickly moved from Huh? to WTF? to Bwahaha!! parody. Especially in contrast to season one which, for all the shit the finale got, was still an enthralling watch.



I think some of you might find this amusing. When scripts are submitted for the Emmy’s writing categories, they get uploaded to the Emmy site for perusal. This is one of the scripts nominated two years ago, the season seven finale:

I have to wonder how many blowjobs it took for D&D to secure the showrunner gig-or sacrifices to Moloch, bribes, nepotism, whatever, they didn't get it based on their writing talent, that's for sure. I could write a better script if I were in a coma, that's peak cringe.
 
Sounds like HBO's track record goes something like

The good
1) Band of Brothers
2) Chernobyl (from what I've heard, haven't seen it and I'm not interested in doing so anyway)?

Cancelled
1) Rome HBO
2) Deadwood

Disappointing
1) The Sopranos (yes I'm including this)
2) Boardwalk Empire
3) Westworld
4) Game of Thrones

Meh
1) The Pacific (definitely no where near as good as Band of Brothers but not outright bad)

Not sure (that is I don't know really know what people thought of such nor bothered looking into myself)
1) Borgias (betting it was the typical BS version of history HBO tends to peddle in just like you see from the Assassins Creed franchise)
2) The Young Pope (probably dealt with in the same way as the above)
3) True Blood (only thing I heard about this is the typical anti-Republican crap you'll get from HBO)
4) True Detective (heard good things about this, but I'm not sure yet to include in the good section)
I thought Borgias was Showtime. With Jeremy Irons? It was great but cancelled.
 
I have to wonder how many blowjobs it took for D&D to secure the showrunner gig-or sacrifices to Moloch, bribes, nepotism, whatever, they didn't get it based on their writing talent, that's for sure. I could write a better script if I were in a coma, that's peak cringe.


Apparently, they scored the gig because they guessed Jon's true parentage and GRRM thought that was enough to qualify them for adapting his stories.
 
I have to wonder how many blowjobs it took for D&D to secure the showrunner gig-or sacrifices to Moloch, bribes, nepotism, whatever, they didn't get it based on their writing talent, that's for sure. I could write a better script if I were in a coma, that's peak cringe.
One is the son of the former chairman of the United States President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and former head of Goldman Sachs and to top it all off they're both jewish.

Born with that kind of influence, you don't need to give blowjobs.

Apparently, they scored the gig because they guessed Jon's true parentage and GRRM thought that was enough to qualify them for adapting his stories.

Let's be honest. They promised him a shitload of money.

Their influence is such that when they ruined the million dollars costing pilot, they got more money to shoot it again. That practically never happens.
 
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Apparently, they scored the gig because they guessed Jon's true parentage and GRRM thought that was enough to qualify them for adapting his stories.
In complete fairness, I don't think George had decided on what Jon's parentage was going to be yet. The whole thing was a tossup between Lyanna Stark and Ashara Dayne. People are still hoping N + A = J is the real secret and George was just trolling D&D. Fat Bastard just fills his books with all sorts of mystery bullshit that doesn't really matter but people speculate nonetheless. I doubt Jon being a Targ would matter much in a post Final Long Night world besides the whole dragon riding thing.
 
The Borgias was on Showtime.

Ah, my bad on that.

Also heard good things of The Wire but couldn't remember if HBO was involved or not.

Still overall, not a good track record.

@Mola Ram eh...yeah probably isn't fair to put the Sopranos on the Disappointing list throughout its course. It's still pretty good overall, but that ending was stupid and the Furio in love with Carmela...like wtf.
 
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Ah, my bad on that.

Also heard good things of The Wire but couldn't remember if HBO was involved or not.

Still overall, not a good track record.

@Mola Ram eh...yeah probably isn't fair to put the Sopranos on the Disappointing list throughout its course. It's still pretty good overall, but that ending was stupid and the Furio in love with Carmela...like wtf.

The Furio thing was worth it in retrospect because it led to that incredible knockdown, drag-out fight between Tony and Carmela in the S4 finale. Makes Jon's last meeting with Daenerys look like a walk in the park. It did come out of nowhere, though, and I sympathize with the people who wonder why Furio's balls did a Jimmy Hoffa. (I always wondered if it was supposed to tie in with him getting nearly groin-shot in the prior season, but whatever.)

Also: thanks to this thread I've been rewatching bits of The Wire and it suddenly hit me that Bran becoming king is just like Valchek becoming Commissioner, except when they did that you were supposed to shake your head in dismay.
 
One is the son of the former chairman of the United States President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and former head of Goldman Sachs and to top it all off they're both jewish.

Born with that kind of influence, you don't need to give blowjobs.



Let's be honest. They promised him a shitload of money.

Their influence is such that when they ruined the million dollars costing pilot, they got more money to shoot it again. That practically never happens.

Goddamn that's some terrifying nepotism. These guys must have had complete omnipotence on set, with the actors having to helplessly watch in horror as D&D destroyed their characters. It does make one wonder if they purposely ruined the finale to spite the cast, audience, or both for disagreeing with their dumb ideas.
 
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