demagogue on 29/4/2019 at 16:55
This final season is a bump up from the last few ones, just in terms of the story and characters since it's wrapping things up and everybody's packed in together to allow it to happen. There are also some very memorable and visually nice scenes. There's still some foibles with the plotting and fan service too, but the goods greatly outweigh the bads IMO. All in all I think it's worth seeing this out to the end. (As opposed to The Walking Dead, which really is irredeemable and not worth watching anymore, or at least I can't muster the motivation to continue.)
Edit: What I like about this final season of GOT is the little homages strewn all over the place to the whole rest of the series. So if you've been paying attention to little details, it'll reward you when you notice the references.
Renzatic on 29/4/2019 at 18:14
Quote Posted by demagogue
The show is called "Game of Thrones", meng. The actual game of thrones, who gets to sit on the Iron Throne, has to be the climax.
Not necessarily. From the very opening of the very first episode on, the White Walkers were geared up to be the true threat of the series. All other concerns paled to the threat they represent.
[spoiler]Killing The Night King before addressing Cersei just doesn't seem to gell with how things felt they were being set up through the previous 7 seasons. After ending an existential threat to all of humanity, even she seems somewhat like an after-the-fact aside.
Though I wonder how they'll manage to pull of taking the Iron Throne, given that there are now roughly 20 people left in Daenerys' army (which Cersei did predict would happen, and it will be interesting to see how she takes advantage of it).[/spoiler]
Oh, and Cobra Kai season 2 was just as awesome as the first.
...but how in the hell did all those kids manage to not get expelled.
Nicker on 29/4/2019 at 20:22
If you haven't, you should. Second episode airs tonight on HBO.
[video=youtube;Gce44fIgV3g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gce44fIgV3g[/video]
Witty, wry, compelling and fresh. Suranne Jones', Anne Lister is remarkable.
SubJeff on 29/4/2019 at 21:55
Quote Posted by Starker
I tried to watch GoT, but stopped after season 3 when I realised it's going to be focused more on T&A and SHOCKING PLOT TWISTS than characters and worldbuilding.
You're wrong.
froghawk on 29/4/2019 at 22:28
What a deeply compelling argument!
Renzatic on 29/4/2019 at 23:27
Quote Posted by froghawk
What a deeply compelling argument!
He is right. I won't deny that these last 2 seasons feel a little too rushed for their own good, but through season 6, it's been a solid show.
froghawk on 30/4/2019 at 00:31
Eye of the beholder I guess, but to me the show starting breaking its own rules and lost what made it compelling in addition to becoming quite poorly paced.
Nicker on 30/4/2019 at 03:50
GOT is dragging along so many sub-plots it is missing the main ones.
After stringing us along for years that there would be some sort of battle in the spirit world, between Bran and the Night King, Aria appears out of nowhere and shivs the frosty bastard. Thu Ennd. That was Bran's plan?
Whoever organised the defense of Winterfell was working for the wrong side. You have Dragons. You can literally "recon by fire". You have trebuchets with a multi kilometer range. Don't put your infantry in front of the fire pits, you put them behind the fire pits and behind your fucking walls, or maybe on top of them with those long poky things. You don't send your elite cavalry on a five kilometer, full gallop against an unknown number of infantry with infinite espirit de corpse. That's called genocide.
I will watch because I love most of the characters but the writers lost me with the episode where the origin of Hodor was revealed. For that to make sense, every action before and since must have been rigidly predetermined in the GOT universe, right down to the particle effects level. What's the point of exploring the moral complexity of your characters if their choices are pre-scripted?
Nicker on 30/4/2019 at 05:07
I highly recommend these most amusing and wry videos by (
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6NfCuHyH4Er0MTezxlfJwg) Rogue's Gallery Online. Arranged by period and miscellaneous categories like Libertines, Lady Rogues and Complete Bastards.
Here's one on the real James Bond.
[video=youtube;GlKUT63xKg4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKUT63xKg4[/video]
And another on the author Gustave Flaubert.
[video=youtube;vIG99qPEuy0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIG99qPEuy0[/video]
henke on 30/4/2019 at 06:55
I am now 100% SPOILER INOCULATED after having watched Avengers Endgame and GoT S8E3.
GoT S8E3
That sure was something!
Avengers Endgame
Liked:
-The opening scene with Hawkeye.
-Thanos and the stones getting taken out of the game in like the first 15 minutes, totally throwing my expectations for how the movie would unfold out of the window.
-FAT THOR! :D In fact I would've been fine with that being his character design from day 1. Fits with his good-time, mead-swilling persona. And what does he need to be in shape for anyway? He's a god! It's not like his divine strength comes from his actual muscles. As far as future Marvel movies I'm looking forward to, Thor teaming up with the Guardians is at the top of the list.
Did not like:
-Captain Marvel. I haven't seen her movie, but the only thing I learned about her character from this one is that she likes to change her hairdo a lot. Also she conveniently leaves the movie from most of the running time for REASONS only to show up at the end and act as a deus ex machina.
-Thanos turning into a regular comic book villain at the end. He was evil but compelling in the last movie, but when he decides to just wipe out all the life in the universe here the screenwriters are just giving us permission to unambiguously hate him and the whole thing turns into a bog-standard GOOD vs EVIL story.
Did not like AND ALSO Liked:
-Iron Pepper Potts. Totally out of character and fan service-feel-y that they would put her in an ironman suit at the end, but then it totally paid off anyway because they could have her there in Stark's final moments, so Goop could act her ass off and really make us feel it.
Overall, yeah. I liked it, tho it wasn't quite up there with Infinity War. It's a bit messy, and not as much fun.