GAME OF THRONES

[Jay 29926]

Here's a good article that explains HDR10 vs Dolby Vision vs HDR10+

 

https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/hdr10-vs-dolby-vision

 

Seems like HDR10 and now HDR10+ is really becoming much more of a standard because companies have to pay a licensing fee to use Dolby Vision.  And it seems like HDR10+ made a lot of improvements over HDR10 to bring it more in line with what Dolby Vision was capable of

[Bilbo 3606]

On 4/8/2022 at 7:28 PM, Nick1Ø66 said:

 

Cool! Pics?

 

[Edmilson 4261]

George R.R. Martin Kept ‘Out of the Loop’ on Four ‘Game of Thrones’ Seasons and Doesn’t Know Why: ‘Ask’ the Showrunners

[Nick1Ø66 3253]

18 hours ago, Edmilson said:

George R.R. Martin Kept ‘Out of the Loop’ on Four ‘Game of Thrones’ Seasons and Doesn’t Know Why: ‘Ask’ the Showrunners

 

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"J.R.R. Tolkien Kept 'Out of the Loop' on first Season of Rings of Power and Doesn't Know Why: 'Ask' Bezos

 

[Pellaeon 573]

Isn’t it amazing? Amazon wanted a Game of Thrones of its very own, and they’re actually modeling it after the later seasons of GoT by plowing ahead without source material. Sheer fucking hubris!

[Docteur Qui 1375]

On 12/08/2022 at 11:46 AM, Edmilson said:

George R.R. Martin Kept ‘Out of the Loop’ on Four ‘Game of Thrones’ Seasons and Doesn’t Know Why: ‘Ask’ the Showrunners

 

They probably just wanted him to finish the damn books so they had something to work with lol

[Pellaeon 573]

The turning point for the TV series came in S4 E2, (“The Lion and the Rose” — the one with Joffrey’s wedding). The episode, which mainly adapts Chapter 60 (out of 80) of the third book, had originally been written by GRRM himself, who (up through this point) wrote one episode per season. But the showrunners changed the episode in ways that were unacceptable to GRRM, and that’s when he ragequit his involvement in the show, supposedly to go work on his books. The episode turned out pretty good, IIRC, but several plots were set in motion in a very different direction from GRRM’s novels — i.e., failing to set up several of the plotlines of the fourth and fifth books (which were already published at that point).

 

On some level, can you blame GRRM for not finishing his books after all? Because even if he had finished them, the showrunners had already shown that they were going to do whatever they wanted. That’s got to be demoralizing AF.

[Bilbo 3606]

45 minutes ago, Pellaeon said:

On some level, can you blame GRRM for not finishing his books after all?

Yes. 

[Edmilson 4261]

1 hour ago, Pellaeon said:

The episode turned out pretty good, IIRC, but several plots were set in motion in a very different direction from GRRM’s novels — i.e., failing to set up several of the plotlines of the fourth and fifth books (which were already published at that point).

How so?

[Tom Guernsey 1276]

Super late to the GoT party, but finally finished it so wanted to unload some totally unsolicited thoughts (some spoilers, but not sure anyone reading this won't know them already):

 

• I really like the music for the most part. Djawadi wouldn't be my first choice of composer (I don't know who would... these days I guess Amazon and HBO would be fighting over Bear McCreary), but the main theme has (rightly) reached iconic status and I was gratified that he used it here and there throughout the series. Never to the point of it feeling overused, but it nicely ties everything together. His finale based choral version is terrific. I'm sure someone has catalogued the other recurring themes and I'm sure I spotted a few, but I can't say I'd especially recognise them out of context. The music for the quieter, more haunting scenes is definitely the more interesting. The action is a bit RCP, but not in a distracting way - I rather think that most of the bigger battles could just have been tracked with James Horner's battle music for Braveheart. It just needs a lot of acoustic percussion and horn calls.
• The 8th season is much better than its reputation suggestion. I rather wish I didn't know about the controversy but I can see that, based on the pace of the show to that point, the 8th season should probably have had a couple more after it. It definitely felt like; Night King. Gone. Cersei. Gone. Dany goes mad then gone. Everyone agrees on something marginally less tyrannical. The end. Having said that, the two culminating battles (one per season would have been more than enough) are superbly staged with some genuinely haunting moments. The real shame is that Dany's fall into madness/tyranny/whatever would have been far more powerful over a longer period. You only really see the start of it and then it feels they pushed it so she goes OTT quickly so they can wrap the story up. Shame.
• The directing, at least from a cinematography/imagery point of view, is often exceptional. Interesting to compare it with The Rings of Power which looks undeniably lovely, but is all quite brightly lit and clean/neat/production designed. GoT on the other hand is all shafts of light, dust, snow/ash, light and dark, fire and ice (obvs), with innumerable artfully framed scenes that have a wonderful painterly quality but without standing out or being distracting.
• The effects are mostly excellent. The dragons, in particular, are perhaps the best on screen dragons I can recall. They look plausible in terms of size and proportions (even if, from a physics perspective, they probably aren't), have a nicely realistic/quasi dinosaur type look and act something akin to real animals rather than just being monsters. The effects for them only really falling down when doing close-ups of the characters riding them when the blue screening looks a touch janky, but that kind of match moving is probably hideously difficult. The set extensions stuff such as the huge castles and so on is almost always brilliantly executed, making great use of the locations and extending them into a plausible fantasy realm.
• It might get explained in House of the Dragon, but it always struck is as implausible that such a violent and regicidal society could have built so many amazing buildings and other edifices. Sure, they are meant to be heightened versions of real historic castles and churches, but it kinda feels that life is so expendable in Westeros that there never would have been enough societal cohesion to come together to build them.
• The spin-off should clearly have been Aya going off to explore. Enough with effing prequels. They are blond, they have dragons, they go mad. The end.
• GoT connections to my life. I have been to both Valetta in Malta (first season King's Landing) and Dubrovnik (rest of the show King's Landing). In the latter, they were filming some crowd scenes and I managed a few photos (despite the security people... but hey, it's a public place). I don't recall seeing any of the main cast alas. I used to work for a company who had a Belfast office next door to where they filmed GoT at Titanic Studios (seriously). I never saw them filming there but colleagues said they often saw some outside semi-studio bound scenes being filmed. The family of one of my former colleagues from said office owned the land on which they filmed (I think) Winterfell. Apparently they did quite well of it... as you can probably imagine.

[Edmilson 4261]

The sixth book is coming! Eventually... In about a year or ten...

 

George R.R. Martin Says ‘The Winds of Winter’ Is Now Three-Quarters Finished

The author gave Stephen Colbert an update on the long-awaited 'Game of Thrones' novel — and how he wishes he could take a dragon to the Kremlin.

[MaxMovieMan 56]

Most disappointing show of all time but at least the music kept getting better and better.

[Knight of Ren 356]

I already shared it on the House of the Dragon thread, but I might as weel leave it here.

 

This is the first part of a series of videos I will upload analyzing the soundtrack for House of the Dragon, this first part being about familiar themes returning from the Game of Thrones show, and how Djawadi repurposes them in new and interesting ways. I hope you enjoy this part and the rest of my analysis which will also be shared in here. Feel free to share any thoughs, corrections or additions you might have!

 

 

[Knight of Ren 356]

Here's the second part of my breakdown of the themes of the show, this time focusing on all the different themes and motifs for the central character of the show, Princess Rhaenyra.

 

Djawadi created several different ideas that he develops through the season (and I'm sure will come back in future seasons) and I tried my best to comment them all, their meaning, and their development in each episode. I even did a complete analysis on one of my favorite cues of the season, The Crown of Jaeharys, which features almost all of Rhaenyra's themes into one single, glorious cue.

 

 

Hope you enjoy it! Feel free to share your thoughts and be sure to stay tuned for next part, where I will cover the different themes for the Black side of the story (Viserys, Daemon and House Velaryon).

[Knight of Ren 356]

And here's the third part of my breakdown of the themes of the show, this time focusing on all the different themes and motifs for the character in the black side of the story, Viserys, Daemon and the members of House Velaryon.

 

Djawadi created many different ideas for all this characters, some more prominent than others, and I'm sure he will get to develop many of them as the seasons go on. I tried my best to comment them all, their meaning, and their development in each episode, so I hope you enjoy it, and feel free to share your thoughts!

 

 

Next in line is the last part of my analysis, covering the themes for the greens, as well as some secondary ideas worth mentioning. Enjoy!

[Knight of Ren 356]

And finally, my fourth and last part of my analysis is here. I hope you all enjoyed my breakdowns as much as I enjoyed doing them! This time we cover the Hightower themes, plus some secondary ideas like the Dance of Dragons theme, the Betrayal theme or the Funeral theme.

 

Hope you enjoy, and feel free to share your thoughs!

 

 

[MaxMovieMan 56]

On 6/12/2010 at 4:04 AM, SF1_freeze said:

This will for sure be the best new show on television next year. The books this show is based on are on par with Lord of the Rings quality wise, but more realistic, dark and gritty. By the way "Game of Thrones" is scored by oscar winner Stephen Warbeck, not bad in my eyes and this further shows the ambition and quality HBO is known for!


This is a 10 minutes behind the scenes look

 

This is crazy to look at now wow.