Poll: Winter Is Coming - HBO's A Game of Thrones [READ WARNING]

Who will rule Westeros?

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Scam said:
I'm not arguing about season 8, sorry. I'm just curious as to why you think they shouldn't be in a job. An opinion that directly contradicts 3 of the biggest entertainment companies in the world who have been clambering to employ them.

You say I've got no "sensible argument" yet you're spouting nonsense like the above, together with "biggest pile of garbage in the last decade". Exaggeration much? No?
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thought you were done w/ the thread :-/
i don't see what's so hard to comprehend about why someone who crapped all over 10 years of television and outraged a huge portion of a fanbase then tossed around casual "kinda forgot" excuses for their garbage isn't worth a paycheque. and as i said just because someone gives them money doesn't mean they're quality; look at shayamalan.

it's my opinion based on my watching over the last decade, so no.
 
Nitefly said:
I never really felt that there were completely outlandish character flips in GOT series 8, that some claim. I do think, however, that people had their expectations subverted. Doing that is clearly really rather risky. I seem to love having my expectations subverted, generally.
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Then quite frankly you weren't paying enough attention.
 
Nitefly said:
Which characters did you think flipped then?
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Jaime and Daenerys are the obvious ones, Tyrion has 180'd from his point at the end of season 4 for no real reason and while not necessarily flipped, Jon, Varys, Arya and Littlefinger were completely assassinated and didn't have a character left to flip by the end. You can also consider the Hound considering he never really cared about killing his brother but that became his only motivation for 'teh memez' by season 8.
 
Moothead2 said:
Jaime and Daenerys are the obvious ones, Tyrion has 180'd from his point at the end of season 4 for no real reason and while not necessarily flipped, Jon, Varys, Arya and Littlefinger were completely assassinated and didn't have a character left to flip by the end. You can also consider the Hound considering he never really cared about killing his brother but that became his only motivation for 'teh memez' by season 8.
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I really thought that it was the appropriate end of Danny’s story. An overhyped power hungry god, that everyone put their faith in, went and did what she pretty much promised to do from season 2, yet people had held her back and had her consider other means other than force. She was a targarian and did what targarian’s do best. Go and listen to her earlier rants in the show. She could be really cruel / harsh at times. And losing John just was the little nudge she needed to tip her over the edge and go with her gut.

As for Jaime, people seem to really resent his lack of redemption. Ultimately he was irredeemable. We all wanted him to be redeemable. But he was who he was. A troubled, wounded soul that wanted what he wanted. So he went to get it, to his death. Just quite human, really.

We obviously won’t agree :p I just don’t think it’s quite as objectively bad as people make out. Specifically, people just didn’t like the fact that those characters had true colours that were different than those they had hoped for. That’s kind of just true to real life though.
 
Scrap one and greenlight another...

Mere hours after it was revealed that the already shot pilot for a “Game of Thrones” spin-off had been scrapped, HBO used the WarnerMedia conference line-up to confirm it has ordered its other spin-off in the works to series.

“House of the Dragon” will be set three hundred years before the events of the main show and is based on author George R. R. Martin’s novel “Fire and Blood”. The new prequel is written by Ryan Condal (“Colony”) and was originally developed by Bryan Cogman and Martin. Miguel Sapochnik will also executive produce.

The events in the new series will eventually lead up to The Dance of the Dragons, a massive civil war in the Seven Kingdoms held between two rival branches of House Targaryen
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http://www.darkhorizons.com/hbo-orders-thrones-spin-off-dragon/
 
Rossi~ said:
Kinda like fidget spinners.
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Hey, don't knock fidget spinners. My mother, with dementia, has a red one which she still fiddles with daily. I have to dry it out and lubricate it regularly though... they don't respond well to being dunked in sweet tea. :)

CaptainRAVE said:
Season 8 pretty much made the whole back story irrelevant.
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I'm struggling to think of one prequel that I've ever enjoyed... though as I type that, I'm thinking about Better Call Saul, which surprised me. However even then, knowing it has to dovetail with what I already know makes it feel like a book I've read the final few pages of. Kills part of my enjoyment.

I'm sure there's scope to just switch off and forget prequels are constrained by what we already know has to happen, but with GoT the need to be involved in the same Houses and family dynasties means the future's never as far away as I might want it. I'm wary of saying I won't watch it ever, but I certainly won't be hunting down NowTV special offers at launch time like I did with GoT.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Thank goodness they’ve been booted from the new star wars trilogy. Couple of clowns.
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They delivered one of the most successful and popular TV series of recent times. Yes, the end was weak but it's insane to ignore how marvellous the stuff that came before that is. D&D deserve huge credit for their achievements with GoT.
 
Mr Jack said:
They delivered one of the most successful and popular TV series of recent times. Yes, the end was weak but it's insane to ignore how marvellous the stuff that came before that is. D&D deserve huge credit for their achievements with GoT.
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You mean the stuff that was written for them already and then chose to ignore when there was no guidance?
 
Mr Jack said:
They delivered one of the most successful and popular TV series of recent times. Yes, the end was weak but it's insane to ignore how marvellous the stuff that came before that is. D&D deserve huge credit for their achievements with GoT.
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I'm not going to thank the pilot if he can't stick the landing. The last two seasons made me feel like I completely wasted my time watching the series and getting invested in characters that would be completely gutted and hung out to dry by the end of it.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
You mean the stuff that was written for them already and then chose to ignore when there was no guidance?
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It wasn't written for them. Scripting a TV show based on a book is not merely copying the words: I'm really impressed with what they managed to distil from the meandering, indulgent, and (later on) disjointed books. Even leaving that aside, there is vastly more to making a TV show than writing; and they made something massively impressive. As is obvious from the sheer amount of butthurt over the last couple of seasons. If they hadn't done such a good job with it, no-one would care. It doesn't make sense to ignore that.
 
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