Let’s just cut to the chase. The big theme tgat everybody loved but refuses to talk about was gratuitous nudity
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Friday, 28 June 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
for me it was the incest
― VAR me to the end of yawn (jim in vancouver), Friday, 28 June 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
don't forget the raping
― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 June 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
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.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 28 June 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
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
― nashwan, Friday, 28 June 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
oh yeah, forgot that scene as it was so out of place. last nude named character was quite a while back, surely?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 28 June 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
this season *almost* Arya and later Brienne
― omar little, Friday, 28 June 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
a season 1 version version of Euron would have been naked all the time except for a bandana
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Friday, 28 June 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
Brandana
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 June 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
Euron is a homophone of urine and yet there were relatively few golden shower scenes iirc
― Velcromancer (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 29 June 2019 00:46 (four years ago) link
Just the one with Drogo and Viserys.
― AlanSmithee, Saturday, 29 June 2019 02:27 (four years ago) link
Wu Tang Bran
― Madchen, Saturday, 29 June 2019 06:13 (four years ago) link
as in Ain't (Got) Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit
― nashwan, Saturday, 29 June 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
Groans at most people who say "what it means to be human" as their overarching theme.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 29 June 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 June 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 29 June 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 29 June 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 June 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
You sure that's not just the interpretation that flatters you?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 30 June 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
I'm fine with the hating onthread but I find these approaches odd.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 30 June 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
But you are right about the falling off horse gif, I was just joking around.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 30 June 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
emmy noms for everyone in the cast, basically: https://www.vulture.com/2019/07/emmy-nominations-2019.html
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
lol I was like Who the hell is Alfie Allen? Oh. Him?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
this is honestly pretty baller: https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/gwendoline-christie-game-of-thrones-emmy.html
― Roz, Friday, 19 July 2019 08:40 (four years ago) link
Lame that they didnt submit her, easily one of the best performances in the show
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 July 2019 09:10 (four years ago) link
They didn’t submit Melessandre or Theon either and they got nominated as well
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 19 July 2019 11:44 (four years ago) link
Christie getting herself nominated would be much more impressive if they had been more discriminate. Headey, really?
― Simon H., Friday, 19 July 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
Yeah, they nominated everyone but Yara.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 19 July 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
I assumed the nominations were kind of a lifetime achievement award, since the last seasons were so bad?
― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 July 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
headey probably deserved one for a past season so i wouldn't be mad if she won.
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Friday, 19 July 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
Lindsay Ellis on 'what went wrong' https://youtu.be/BGr0NRx3TKU
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 15 August 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
the script for the finale confirms that Benioff and Weiss are complete morons (not that we didn't already know)
https://www.theringer.com/game-of-thrones/2019/8/1/20750249/game-of-thrones-series-finale-script-questions
― Number None, Thursday, 15 August 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
that ellis take is very good
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 15 August 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
I still haven't gotten around to watching the final season of this. I guess I should just not bother at this point? I'm tempted to just read the wikipedia synopsis (or the novels, I guess, if they ever come into existence)
― silverfish, Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
yeah, don't watch it; it's hot garbage. zombie fight is fun, but stupid.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
I'll wait for the wikipedia article about the podcasts about the crowd-funded remake of the final season thank you
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
Ellis has a good eye for details there, cf Bronn abandoning his gold at the loot train to save Jaime vs him a season later being easily bribed into killing Jaime and Tyrion
― omar little, Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
― silverfish, Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:34 (yesterday)
If you've got low expectations (as I did), you'll probably enjoy it.
― chap, Friday, 16 August 2019 09:02 (four years ago) link
It's enjoyable enough up until the final episode which is a complete car crash.
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 August 2019 09:48 (four years ago) link
It's not great, but it's fine. It easily hurdles over the low bar of being better than the BSG and Lost finales, at least.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 16 August 2019 11:57 (four years ago) link
The season or two before it wasn't great either. If you enjoyed those keep with it? There's stuff to enjoy regardless.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Friday, 16 August 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
Last season is worse than having your nuts smashed in a car door, better than having them caught in a moving escalator.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 16 August 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
I'd rather spend an eternity in hell rewatching the finale than a disappointed fan vlog about the finale
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 16 August 2019 12:16 (four years ago) link
the last season isn't so bad if you think of it as a very long action movie starring actors who previously appeared on the tv show Game of Thrones
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 16 August 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link
It was the last ever episode of Numberblocks this week, now that's how you nail a finale.
― JimD, Friday, 16 August 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
Oh man that Q and A session
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 28 October 2019 11:58 (four years ago) link
At 3PM David Benioff and D.B Weiss #DnD started a session at the #AustinFilmFestival, I am a little late, but will live tweet as soon as I get there. #GameOfThrones— Needle & Pen (@ForArya) October 26, 2019
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 28 October 2019 11:59 (four years ago) link
Damn, what a fail-up - by their own admission seems like show really succeeded literally in spite of them.
― nashwan, Monday, 28 October 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
the subtext of everything is: Will this be just for nerds? No, it will be for cools too!
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 28 October 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link