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

Random observation when re-watching: for as prominent as Littlefinger was in the all the intrigue of the earlier seasons, it's odd how no one ever remarked on his death. One would think at least Varys would have a comment.

Varys kinda forgot etc

I kinda feel like Bran would not have given six fux what anyone called him as he wasnt really all there anymore anyway.

Bran was basically Dr. Manhattan by the end.

Dr Branhattan obv

I forgot to add
Brantasm

Bran X

Not Bran X

(This is for the 1960s Marvel comics nerds)

High five

Forbush Bran approved

Don't know why anyone would be so keen on always having one concentrated theme/big idea to hang an entire story on. Doesn't work for every kind of story and I'd like to think most writers don't think in this way when writing.

Def didn't do too much thinking with this show, amirite?

Galaxy Bran

Off Bran

Suggest Bran

just suggest branned you dan m

Bran Fart

Jean-Claude Bran Damme

Branson, MO

Branned in DC

Don't know why anyone would be so keen on always having one concentrated theme/big idea to hang an entire story on. Doesn't work for every kind of story and I'd like to think most writers don't think in this way when writing.

overarching themes don't have to be consciously constructed by the writer, the reader draws them out.

Personally I'm not interested in engaging in a work that doesn't have anything to say - where I can't detect any ideas to keep me engaged or interested - where there's just this empty formal exercise going on.

Fans could put any number of overarching themes on Game Of Thrones.

I very much doubt anyone could find a convincing overarching theme for everything they love. They generally end up so vague and general as to be useless.

And it depends what you mean by "something to say" because I generally prefer things that don't have a very deliberate thing to say.

Fans could put any number of overarching themes on Game Of Thrones.

this thread has failed on that count imo

I very much doubt anyone could find a convincing overarching theme for everything they love.

have you never seen a college lit department

something something more like theme park something something.

have you never seen a college lit department
― Οὖτις, Friday, June 28, 2019 10:53 PM

I probably wouldn't find most of the takes convincing or at all useful.

I often find that when people try to describe these type of big ideas behind their favorite thing, they come across a bit dishonest, like they're flattering themselves and describing something very different to the thing they actually enjoyed. Although the big theme doesn't necessarily have to be the thing they enjoyed about it.

don't even know where to start with that...

Let’s just cut to the chase. The big theme tgat everybody loved but refuses to talk about was gratuitous nudity

for me it was the incest

don't forget the raping

sometimes all in the same scene! truly it was a magical era of television.

don't think there was any nudity in series 8? someone should make a graph.

Bronn in the brothel with 3 women - scene was pretty much the writers going lol remember how much we used to do stuff like this

oh yeah, forgot that scene as it was so out of place. last nude named character was quite a while back, surely?

this season *almost* Arya and later Brienne

a season 1 version version of Euron would have been naked all the time except for a bandana

Brandana

Euron is a homophone of urine and yet there were relatively few golden shower scenes iirc

Just the one with Drogo and Viserys.

Wu Tang Bran

as in Ain't (Got) Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit

Groans at most people who say "what it means to be human" as their overarching theme.

Well, at least we know that whatever it's about, Game of Thrones is most definitely *not* about "what it means to be human." Maybe what it means to be not-human? Perhaps, if they actually bothered to answer that question.

Well, at least we know that whatever it's about

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, June 29, 2019 4:27 PM

maybe 2 times out of 10, but much of the time that description tells you nothing or is really inaccurate.

Thread imitates its subject matter by devolving into an unsatisfactory detente between a couple of people who never cared that much about the title object to begin with

I mostly return to the thread for the gif of the ice zombie falling off his horse in front of a green screen, which I think more than anything captures a certain truth about this show.

You sure that's not just the interpretation that flatters you?

I'm fine with the hating onthread but I find these approaches odd.

But you are right about the falling off horse gif, I was just joking around.

emmy noms for everyone in the cast, basically: https://www.vulture.com/2019/07/emmy-nominations-2019.html