Arpy 4,145 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 In some way I am, but it still doesn't mean I couldn't have hope for a better ending and clearly I wasn't alone in that. Let's also clarify what I mean by investment: The time one devotes or sets aside to watch a series like GoT, the money one spends to purchase a DVD or Bluray, the emotional gratification of wanting to know how a story continues or ends and what happens to the characters in it. Most of the time, those investments are small. @PuhgreÞiviÞm bought Godzilla toys, therefore he was invested enough in the character and whichever version he prefers of the films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 If you're expecting an ROI from Hollyweird, good luck. Often it's best to just have a laugh and get on with it. And yes, I love the character. He's flexible and usually so are the fans – they're lucky they have such a variety of films to pick. But that said, I've noticed an interesting phenomena about fans who collect Godzilla dolls... a fair few of them claim they've never seen a Godzilla film, aside from the Legendary films, rather they just like the novelty of it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Even as far back as season 2 I could feel the cracks forming. It's a myth that Game of Thrones only started to go downhill from S7. I watched the whole thing because when it was good, there was nothing else like it on telly. But all along the way I had issues with various aspects of the series, it was never this stupendously fabulous 1-6 series that some like to revise it as being. Some were more invested than others, so what? Some also just stuck it out for the cool battle scenes. Btw, even those went to shit in S8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Yeah I didn't like the extreme low light in that night battle episode. Very poor aesthetic choice that exposes the excesses of digital cinematography and modern grading. But I had fun with the episode nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 I never had much fun with it personally. That sequence was probably my single biggest disappointment of the climax (the entirety of S8 was intended to be climatic, right?). Coming from the Battle of Helms Deep and the Pelennor, I had been told (by the producers of GoT themselves) to expect a melee spectacle which would outdo even those two benchmark battle scenes. The reality was though that the Long Night wasn't even as good as the Battle of Rorke's Drift. It's a terrible set piece actually, probably Game of Thrones' worst battle sequence. Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 I don't really have any other benchmark to measure it against. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Benioff and Weiss apparently did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 🤷♂️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 I'm sure nobody cares, but HBO went ahead and made all 8 seasons available in 4K now, physically Quote Game of Thrones: The Complete Collection in 4K UHD THE WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON NOW IN 4K UHD Summers span decades. Winters can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne begins. Based on the bestselling book series by George R.R. Martin and created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, Game of Thrones : The Complete Collection is available to watch in stunning 4K UHD for the first time! Daenerys Targaryen Returns to the Seven Kingdoms to reclaim the Iron Throne in the name of her Targaryen family. Portrayed by Emilia Clarke. Jon Snow Bastard son of Ned Stark and raised at Winterfell on near equal terms with the Stark siblings. Portrayed by Kit Harrington. Cersei Lannister Queen of the Seven Kingdoms and wife of King Robert. Fiercely protective of her 3 children and unusually close with twin brother, Jaime. Portrayed by Lena Headey. Tyrion Lannister Called "The Imp," because of his small stature. The youngest son of Tywin. What he lacks in height, he makes up in wit. Portrayed by Peter Dinklage. Sansa Stark Ned and Cat's oldest daughter. Demure and ladylike, her dream is to marry Prince Joffrey. Portrayed by Sophie Turner. Arya Stark The younger of Ned and Cat's two daughters. A tomboy, she would rather fence than dance. Portrayed by Maisie Williams. 73 Episodes. 8 Epic Seasons. Over 15 Hours of Bonus Features. The Best Possible Viewing Experience in 4K UHD! IT IS TIME TO UNDERSTAND HOW THIS GAME IS PLAYED https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08CJLXT1M/ You still can't stream the show anywhere in 4K thanks to their terrible streaming app(s) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 8 minutes ago, Jay said: I'm sure nobody cares, but HBO went ahead and made all 8 seasons available in 4K now, physically Heck, I'm probably one of the few here who has every GOT season on Blu-ray. In stark contrast, I don't own any Star Wars movie on blu-ray, let alone 4K. bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 1 hour ago, AC1 said: Heck, I'm probably one of the few here who has every GOT season on Blu-ray. In stark contrast, I don't own any Star Wars movie on blu-ray, let alone 4K. I have them all bar the last season on BluRay. Just waiting for a bit of time to pass before doing an 8 season rewatch and I’ll pick up the last season then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Game Of Thrones Showrunners’ New Netflix Series The Three-Body Problem has been halted for the foreseeable future after one of the executive producers was killed by someone he was very familiar with Pieter Boelen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 8 minutes ago, Jay said: Game Of Thrones Showrunners’ New Netflix Series On Hold After Suspected Murder Fuck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Can't they just find someone who can write as in the first 4 seasons of Game Of Thrones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Notice how that report on the murder took its sweet time to actually get to the breaking news part but only after a couple of paragraphs going on about how D&D really fucked up Game of Thrones. Priorities and all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Supposed writers who never learned the inverted pyramid rule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Tales of Dunk & Egg Series in Development at HBO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,434 Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 So HBO will really make a Game of Thrones shared universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 HBO considering Robert’s Rebellion series, other Game of Thrones shows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 A series about Robert Baratheon? Yes, please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pellaeon 593 Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 I guess it’s just the paradigm we live in now, where every franchise feels it must church out as much new content as possible. I thought it was crazy when they announced 6+ new Star Trek shows would all be coming out at once, but now everyone is doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 HBO Max developing Game of Thrones animated drama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 I remember after reading the book and enjoying the Robert Baratheon character, I was like whaaaaa? after learning they'd cast Mark Addy in the TV version. But he did okay really, he wasn't bad. Addy was nowhere near as imposing and larger-than-life than the Martin original, though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 On 1/22/2021 at 7:40 AM, AC1 said: A series about The Big Man? Yes, please! 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 HBO Developing Three More 'Game of Thrones' Spinoffs: Nymeria, Flea Bottom, The Sea Snake bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 George R.R. Martin Signs Massive Five-Year Overall Deal with HBO bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 'Game of Thrones' Play in the Works for Broadway, Will Revive Iconic Characters bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Glóin the Dark 1,220 Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 On 3/27/2021 at 1:58 AM, Jay said: George R.R. Martin Signs Massive Five-Year Overall Deal with HBO I'd suggest a series telling the story of a campaign to make Gilly's dad the King-beyond-the-Wall. It would be called Pro-Craster Nation. Edmilson and Yavar Moradi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 Glóin the Dark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 For some reason, HBO cut a brand new trailer for season 8 two years later and released it this week. Weird. Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433 Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 5 minutes ago, Jay said: For some reason, HBO cut a brand new trailer for season 8 two years later and released it this week. Weird. It might be for the Snyder Cut from Season 8 with new footages and a 4:3 ratio Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Amanda Segel has been tapped to write GOT spinoff "10,000 Ships" Quote The drama is expected to follow the journey made by warrior queen Princess Nymeria and the surviving members of the Rhoynars, who traveled from Essos to Dorne following their defeat by the Valyrian Freehold in the Second Spice War. This migration took place around 1,000 years before the events depicted in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docteur Qui 1,544 Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Should be called “10,000 spin-offs” at this rate. I wonder just how bad the Naomi Watts one must’ve been to not make it past the pilot. Edmilson and Jay 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 3 hours ago, Docteur Qui said: I wonder just how bad the Naomi Watts one must’ve been to not make it past the pilot. Right? Even the original GOT pilot was refilmed when they ordered it to series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docteur Qui 1,544 Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 I suspect they’re trying to find the next long-form, multi-season smash hit, but to me it would’ve been more interesting to watch multiple single season-long stories set in different points of the universe’s history. Kind of like what Bryan Fuller’s Star Trek series reboot was going to be before they decided to go all in on just Discovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondheim 1,157 Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 Game of Thrones has been irrelevant for a while now. Unfortunate because it started so strong. But after what they did with the main show, I would certainly never invest any further time in this universe. When George finishes the books, I'll finish those but if they end the same way as the series, then this will go the way of The Wheel of Time. And then everybody will have more time to read Tad Williams, whose fantasy is infinitely superior and is where George lifted all of his ideas, so George agrees. Imitation is the sincerest and all that. Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,356 Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 I seem to be one of the very few who was completely ok with the finale of the show. Yes, in season 6 they began perticularly to repeat themselves. But season 7 and eight were again quite strong again. And yes, this whole night king plot was never really explained until the end. It was somehow just ... there. And then finished. Maybe we will learn more about it in the future. I have absolutely no expectation to this new series. Probably it is crap. In general, I am not a fan of prequel stories. In a way they are doomed to be just cheap fan service, because you know, where this is all leading to, e.g. look at the Solo movie. Here I would call Lucas Star Wars prequels a noble exception. But apart from that I am not aware of any interesting prequel films, series or what ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 I welcome it! Anything is better than Midnight Mass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post blondheim 1,157 Posted October 6, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 6, 2021 Game of Thrones died in the Season 7 Finale when a rag-tag group jumped the shark and survived a hyperbolic zombie assault. The two mission statements of the Game of Thrones always seemed to be: No one is safe and Shit happens. After Season 7, suddenly, no one important ever died again (The Long Night episode was Season 7 Finale x3) and the story stopped shocking anyone. Well the quality of the writing shocked us but there was no more brutal realities. I honestly didn't just disagree, I felt insulted. And I barely had much investment anyway, as the books have been better told by Tad Williams and others, but even the little investment I had pissed me right the fuck off. I watched the whole show in the months before the finale (mostly to see if the ending would be unique or from Tad, and yep, the latter), but if I had watched this show every Sunday for years like others, I can't say I wouldn't have burned something down. I can't believe this is getting greenlit while something like Lovecraft Country isn't. Edmilson, A. A. Ron and Holko 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 44 minutes ago, blondheim said: After Season 7, suddenly, no one important ever died again bruce marshall and GerateWohl 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondheim 1,157 Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 44 minutes ago, AC1 said: I should have clarified. I meant in a massive battle where it would be believable. I was merely commenting on the final episode of Season 7 and The Long Night where just absolute hordes of walkers died multiple times and every important character walked away. Even the filmmaking is obviously just pending time. This is not a show like Indiana Jones where groups of fighters send one man in at a time. Or at least I thought it wasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 Bran was utterly irrelevant and wasted, Arya's significance is somewhat exaggerated and all the other characters we care about are dropped or their characters neutered of their potential growth. I have to stress: potential growth. The show needed more time to develop. D&D were transparently disinterested with the show and were clearly inept without consultation from better writers - what's more is that they jumped ship when Disney dangled the dollars in front of their faces with a potential Star Wars film series! How did they justify this series and the prospect of an audience watching a prequel to a series that is an eight season train wreck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 5 hours ago, Arpy said: all the other characters we care about You care about characters in Game of Thrones? Arpy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. A. Ron 1,742 Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 In seasons 1-6, absolutely. blondheim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,434 Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 GoT's finale was so poorly received by audiences in general that it pushed the show towards complete irrelevance. During the harshest months of the pandemic people should've been re-watching but no one even bothered with that because the ending was so terrible. blondheim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 1 hour ago, A. A. Ron said: In seasons 1-6, absolutely. 1-8 for me. Yes, we all know the writing wasn't what is once was, but I was still fond of the characters. For example, I still wanted The Hound to defeat The Mountain. Docteur Qui 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 1 hour ago, A. A. Ron said: In seasons 1-6, absolutely. Who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 I liked most of them but I never cared for Grey Worm or Missandei for they were too straightforward good (which is boring). They weren't good actors either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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