Re: HBO: Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire)
Posted: Mon August 21, 2017 2:40 am
Viserion the Wight Dragon
Simple Torture wrote:I've got more thoughts on this, but I'm on board with this take (i.e. that the show has morphed into conventional fantasy instead of subverting the genre): https://www.theringer.com/game-of-thron ... d-the-wall
It feels rushed, but I loved this one. Funny and suspenseful despite Jon constantly being saved by someone else.BurtReynolds wrote:The show feels very different this season.
this article makes a good point about crossing into straight up fantasyland this episode, and by sacrificing the depth of storytelling that's been so great throughout the series.Simple Torture wrote:I've got more thoughts on this, but I'm on board with this take (i.e. that the show has morphed into conventional fantasy instead of subverting the genre): https://www.theringer.com/game-of-thron ... d-the-wall
some of it doescutuphalfdead wrote:Read the books. The story doesn't suck there.
no it's all pretty goodMecca wrote:some of it doescutuphalfdead wrote:Read the books. The story doesn't suck there.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
A few episodes from the "dragon breathes fire at the Night King, but he doesn't die!" moment and the subsequent "ring to Mount Doom" storyline.tragabigzanda wrote:Seriously. One episode to reveal the ice dragon in combat, another for Dany & Jon to equip Cersei's dragon gun with a dragonglass spear, one episode to shoot it. What else is there? Three or four more episodes of Littlefinger doing his twirly moustache routine?BurtReynolds wrote:Surely some big swerve is coming soon, right? The last season can't just be a long slog of a battle with ice zombies.
Have only read the first 4 books, so sorry if these guesses are what happens:ABNorman wrote:A few episodes from the "dragon breathes fire at the Night King, but he doesn't die!" moment and the subsequent "ring to Mount Doom" storyline.tragabigzanda wrote:Seriously. One episode to reveal the ice dragon in combat, another for Dany & Jon to equip Cersei's dragon gun with a dragonglass spear, one episode to shoot it. What else is there? Three or four more episodes of Littlefinger doing his twirly moustache routine?BurtReynolds wrote:Surely some big swerve is coming soon, right? The last season can't just be a long slog of a battle with ice zombies.
the last two books were a steep drop off in quality from the first threeMecca wrote:some of it doescutuphalfdead wrote:Read the books. The story doesn't suck there.
Ok, so the series actually IS following the books. greatBurtReynolds wrote:The last two were mostly awful.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.