HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones - Thread 2. There are a lot of nerds.

was in nyc last weekend and came out of a subway station to see an big billboard ad (first I'd seen) for the upcoming season and was all kinds of stoked. had p much forgotten about it. think it'll get much promotion this spring?

nah, I'm sure HBO has no interest in promoting their lone current big hit

i can't beeelliiiiiiiiiiieve this fucking wait for 6 more episodes. i know that there's a big battle and it took several lifetimes to film and it was miserable and that it will rule and all of that, but come ON

whenever I think about this show now I get "game of thrones" stuck in my head to the tune of the theme song from that movie "Scavenger Hunt" that is "play to win"

and then the image of various GoT characters in small groups trying to collect items on the list, but I have a very hazy memory of the movie and all I remember is Dom Deluise, and a neurotic woman in a french maid costume and something about a toilet ... so now my expectations of the final 6 episodes are kinda like that

GoT is one of the only fantasy epics that doesn't seem to involve a scavenger hunt for rings or Horcruxes or whatever

A year ago I thought I might not bother finishing this but now I'm looking forward to it, but I don't think I'll tune in each week because I'm sick of that palaver and wont do it again unless something really incredible comes out.

whenever I think about this show now I get "game of thrones" stuck in my head to the tune of the theme song from that movie "Scavenger Hunt" that is "play to win"

Game of Thrones is forever associated with "Game of Love" by Daft Punk since around the time I started watching Game of Thrones I also listened to Random Access Memories a lot.

♫ There is a Game of Thrones ♫

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REasBBiJm00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlR4PJn8b8I

The low quality of the last season took me from "Can't wait!" to "I guess I should watch this."

That's the exact same boat I'm in.

current odds have bran favorite to rule westeros i really hope not

https://i.imgur.com/4o0F4RG.png

i'm rooting for tormund

No option for peasant-run democracy?

it's gonna be jon or his and dany's kid, but gendry has good odds

No option for peasant-run democracy?

― DJI, Tuesday, March 5, 2019 6:04 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if westeros does adopt democracy, electing the guy who can see the future wouldn't be the worst choice.

Wait, Littlefinger is on that list, and he's dead (I think)!

there's some talk about him NOT being dead as he's been linked to being around the set for filming.

Jamie sitting on the throne after murdering his sister before she could unleash something awful, echoing his experience with the mad king.

dany + euron is my guess. i haven't bothered looking for spoilers this year.

genuinely rooting for the Night King tbh, fuck all the living people on this show except tyrion

Varys is on the list twice.

more canny maneuvering

Gendry and Sansa imo

Reading that list is a good prep for reminding oneself what the hell was going on when we last heard from GOT. What the hell was going on anyway?

Nephew-Aunt fuckin, undead ice dragon iirc

genuinely rooting for the Night King tbh

Yeah, someone has to put a stop to this dialogue.

Rooting for Arya or the Night King. The show was terrible last season.

Show was never better as when and should have continued as Arya and the Hound wandering a war-torn countryside getting into adventures like Lone Wolf and Cub.

the medieval brutality and hopelessness and absurd but compelling cruelty of the first four seasons seems very far away now, it's definitely turning into Avengers: Westeros at this point. I did enjoy last season, the scope and spectacle is just a good time imo, but it's not nearly the same show.

otm, though of course a decent chunk of those first 4 seasons was a total slog

maybe and yet it all felt part of a carefully thought-out narrative that was closing off any means of escape for so many characters we liked in ways that were really actually shocking and not in ways that seemed cheap or unearned.

no I agree with that. two very different feelings and the former was rarer. but the thought of watching s2 again with no fast forward option fills me with dread

glad to hear i'm not alone in thinking last season felt like padding and soap opera. Perhaps in closing they'll step up their game to the heights of s3 and s6... if i'm remembering correctly.

I still hate that they gave the Night King an implied "personality" that also would suggest a human like motivation.

They cut to his and buddy's faces for their reactions to things the heroes are doing, they're wearing new clothes... all of it just not how I would have approached those characters. They wouldn't even be characters if it was up to me. They'd be these barely humanoid elemental zombie-alien-ice sculpture creatures, and their approach would be akin to a storm front, but they themselves would be barely visible (the zombies would remain at the face of the threat). I'd only reveal them clearly at the most climactic point in whatever battle is about to happen, and they'd look fucking horrifying but most importantly would not have any expressions.

Instead I'm afraid I'll eventually see the Night King start to visibly panic the moment Jon musters up the strength to push their swords back towards HIS face instead, during the epic final duel. Then some chaos- wait what's that? Did NK stab Jon? Oh god, look as his face. It's all over, Jon is done for. NK smirks. Camera slowly pans down. What's this? It turns out it was NK that was stabbed by Jon! NK's face drops, looks up at Jon, eyes roll back and his lifeless body plummets from the top of the Chrysler Building.

at this point I just want to be spoiled on the whole thing so I don't even have to think about it as a phenomenon tbh

Cue police sirens

xp

*Jack McCoy comes out of retirement to prosecute the Night King*

Jon: "Winter. Is. Finished."

Sunglasses drop.

night king's broken body on the pavement, slow close up on the mouth, v/o whisper: "You... know... nothing... Jon Snow. There... is... another...."

I’m doing an epic rewatch now and things were still really good as of season 4. Sometime soon after (probably when the show went past the books) it starting sliding, though. This past season was an unmitigated disaster (note that I don’t like the avengers). Still looking forward to the action movie ending of course

I’ve just made it to season 4 on my rewatch and enjoying it very much so far.

I just finished watching the whole thing for the first time. Watched seasons 1-4 around Christmas and 5-7 the past few weeks. Knowing nothing about it going in, I didn't feel any consistent dips in quality until sometime during Season 6, although yeah, Season 7 seemed to take it right off a fucking cliff.

I dunno I found the unabashed corny Hollywood spectacle of 7 more satisfying than some of the desparate flailings for tone and direction of the immediate post-book era. It still has nothing on the dark richness of 1-4, obviously.

Season 6 was the nadir, that interminable Arya storyline.

That was also the one with Dany and friends just sitting around a throne room for an entire season, right?

Yeah that storyline may have also involved a dispute with Meereenese plumbing contractors or I may have imagined it.

afair the last two or three seasons have followed the template of a big opening episode, nothing happening besides people moving around/being stuck for 6/7 episodes, then a huge battle or showpiece episode, then another finale with some musing and arch looks, maybe a 2-minute teaser of something interesting then season ends.