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CWCissey said:
I disagree with this part.

BAD POOOSEEEE was the memetic decider.
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Without that, it still would have been a meme, I think, but you're right, that stole the show.

How the fuck was whip girl ever going to be effective in any fight? That's such a fucking dumb weapon.. Sure, whips hurt against skin, but they're fighting people in armor, and worse yet, with metal weapons.

Also, the entire logic of the sand snakes just never worked. "I'm so mad my lover was killed in a duel he volunteered for! I remember how he talked about how Dorne doesn't hurt little girls. That makes me think... what if we murder his brother, nephew, and his nephew's fiance? That'd be the perfect way to avenge him! Oh and we'll just leave after, I'm sure the power vacuum will fill itself competently..."

The perfect thing would be for a smushed head Obryn to show up and kill sand mom and titty snake, having been semi-resurrected with qyburn magic. He'd first give a speech about what terrible people they are, and how poorly written they were, then stab them with his poison spear they forgot to mention was poisoned.

Then suddenly we find out actually the invasion of highgarden was just a dream, because come the fuck on, they just forgot to have an army?

But now I'm just rewriting the whole show...
 
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Corbin Dallas Multipass said:
How the fuck was whip girl ever going to be effective in any fight? That's such a fucking dumb weapon.. Sure, whips hurt against skin, but they're fighting people in armor, and worse yet, with metal weapons.
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It works fine when you speed the camera up 150%, you misogynist neckbeard.
 
The thing that really gets me along with several other things is whose idea was it to even think taking this project on was a good idea to begin with? Like really.

1) First you have a series which wasn't even finished as the show just started and which as many of you have noted, might not have been finished because of the author's incompetence.

2) Next you have the show's two hack jobs Dumb & Dumb tasked with pretty much all the writing even though so far as I'm aware they had no real credibility to warrant trusting them to do the job.

3) And last but not least, you have HBO's (and others) god awful track-record when it comes to making long series whose quality does not remain relatively constant throughout.

Combine all those considerations together, and ask yourself what were the executives even thinking? The last show they made that lasted so long was the Sopranos and even they managed to botch that show up despite how, compared to GoT, simpler that show was (especially in terms of production value).
 
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The thing that really gets me along with several other things is whose idea was it to even think taking this project on was a good idea to begin with? Like really.

1) First you have a series which wasn't even finished as the show just started and which as many of you have noted, might not have been finished because of the author's incompetence.

2) Next you have the show's two hack jobs Dumb & Dumb tasked with pretty much all the writing even though so far as I'm aware they had no real credibility to warrant trusting them to do the job.

3) And last but not least, you have HBO's (and others) god awful track-record when it comes to making long series whose quality does not remain relatively constant throughout.

Combine all those considerations together, and ask yourself what were the executives even thinking? The last show they made that lasted so long was the Sopranos and even they managed to botch that show up despite how, compared to GoT, simpler that show was (especially in terms of production value).
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Uhh... what were they thinking? Maybe "Piles and piles and piles of money? Yes please!"

Artistic integrity don't pay the bills, son.
 
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I mean got Maisie Williams throwing shade about her killing NK and this from Emilia Clarke back in September 2018. Normally actors don't talk shit about a production they recently finished, its usually years later at most. That's how ridiculous they thought the writing had become that it seems they just don't care.

 
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I mean got Maisie Williams throwing shade about her killing NK and this from Emilia Clarke back in September 2018. Normally actors don't talk shit about a production they recently finished, its usually years later at most. That's how ridiculous they thought the writing had become that it seems they just don't care.

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Her mouth says everything is fine but her eyebrows say "please kill me".
 
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Whatevs said:
I mean got Maisie Williams throwing shade about her killing NK and this from Emilia Clarke back in September 2018. Normally actors don't talk shit about a production they recently finished, its usually years later at most. That's how ridiculous they thought the writing had become that it seems they just don't care.

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Damn! Grey Worm cleans up real nice!
 
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The show really fucked up Stannis. I believe he was one of George's favorite characters, too. In the book he's incredibly complex and is righteous for a reason - the throne is his as a matter of fact and he's being screwed out of it by everyone.

In the show he was just a gloomy gus that the Onion Knight would never have followed. Oh, also, he burns his daughter a few episodes after having a touching scene with her.

I still watch this show, but the true rot could be seen in retrospect with how they handled this character even at an early stage.
 
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The show clearly hated Stannis and loved Renly, presumably because Renly was a fag. Ironically their version of Renly was a much more negative fag stereotype than the book version. At least book Renly wasn't afraid of blood.

Corbin Dallas Multipass said:
I wish her fucking eyebrows would shut up. Are those really eyebrows, or are they magic caterpillars? They seem much too mobile... And she relies on them too much to convey emotion.
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I doubt she can help it. I think at this point the eyebrows control her, not the other way around.
 
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Feline Supremacist said:
Remember when Seylse tells Stannis their daughter should be beaten and he says "She's my daughter and no one's laying a hand on her" at dinner? I missed the part where he added "Except for Melisandre, she can burn her if she wants".
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That was inferred, he did a little eyebrow waggle at the end.

Just like when Dany was held prisoner by the horse fuckers, then jorah and whats his face showed up because they find her ring in a giant field, and she was like "Get out of here dummies, you're gonna blow my cover". After that, she does a little eyebrow waggle, telling Jorah and shitty replacement dario to find some accelerant and douse the entire structure. This is why the entire thing goes up in flames instantly when she knocks over the brazier.
This was the desperate fan explanation for why it wasn't dumb as fucking hell that the structure was apparently made of solid gasoline.

I'm still mad about replacement Dario. Not just because I preferred the original actor, but because they just swap out a tall, long haired blond dude for a boring short dude with short brown hair, and just fucking expect us to deal with it... They couldn't even bother to come up with some halfassed lampshade? Like "Oh wow Dario, you look much different with your hair cut", or "Yeah the faceless men taught me that in case I had to change my identity, like, for example, in case I murdered the leaders of a huge mercenary gang. Unfortunately I only knew how to do it that one time."
 
Starscreams Cape said:
the throne is his as a matter of fact and he's being screwed out of it by everyone.
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I always thought it was funny, how the War of the Five Kings started because the line of succession was mudied, even though that line only ran for one previous king who was only king because he took the throne by force from a different line of succession.

Which is why it baffles me that the Iron Throne is actually going to be the final focus of the story when up until now it’s been the focal point for people’s pettiness and shortsightedness while the literal end of the world was sneaking up on them. I still haven’t watched last week’s episode but I’m assuming it starts with Dany telling everyone in Winterfell “Well, we dodged that bullet, now let’s go get me that throne because nobody’s learned anything!”
 
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Corbin Dallas Multipass said:
That was inferred, he did a little eyebrow waggle at the end.

Just like when Dany was held prisoner by the horse fuckers, then jorah and whats his face showed up because they find her ring in a giant field, and she was like "Get out of here dummies, you're gonna blow my cover". After that, she does a little eyebrow waggle, telling Jorah and shitty replacement dario to find some accelerant and douse the entire structure. This is why the entire thing goes up in flames instantly when she knocks over the brazier.
This was the desperate fan explanation for why it wasn't dumb as fucking hell that the structure was apparently made of solid gasoline.

I'm still mad about replacement Dario. Not just because I preferred the original actor, but because they just swap out a tall, long haired blond dude for a boring short dude with short brown hair, and just fucking expect us to deal with it... They couldn't even bother to come up with some halfassed lampshade? Like "Oh wow Dario, you look much different with your hair cut", or "Yeah the faceless men taught me that in case I had to change my identity, like, for example, in case I murdered the leaders of a huge mercenary gang. Unfortunately I only knew how to do it that one time."
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Oh my God don't get me started on Ed Skrein being replaced although to be fair he wanted out. He really did convey the cockiness and charm that book Dario has but maybe he saw the dumpsterfire coming.

Also, how hard is it to add some dialog like "Oh yeah btw Ser Friendzone go get some oil and you guys throw it on the hut OK?"

Edit: So apparently the "I'm moving on to do something else" statement at the time Skrein made was PR and he was actually replaced/let go. I wonder why. Doesn't make a difference now but I'm curious.
 
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Your Weird Fetish said:
The show clearly hated Stannis and loved Renly, presumably because Renly was a fag. Ironically their version of Renly was a much more negative fag stereotype than the book version.
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Both Renly and Loras have pretty awful portrayals in the show, and Loras especially. I was going to bitch about it here but this really says it all.

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