GAME OF THRONES

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0 likes 22 Sep 2017

Quote by Buz
It's now football season and college bands are playing music from Game of Thrones when their team goes on defense. Finally, move over Star wars Empire music. Well, at least my alma mater doesn't play any of those but will play Bad Bad Leroy Brown.

I've checked out some of those spoiler 'prediction' sites but I will not post what I read.

I can't wait for next season. I hope they do get a budget increase because I'd love a long battle scene with a lot of tactics. And I would love to see more of those wolves.

What the fuck is there to watch on TV now? Well, football, of course. But I'd love to have a great series to watch until...

I think everyone wants more of the wolves. It's funny that the wolves are actually more expensive than the dragons.

Ghost, for example is an "actor" wolf named Quigley from Calgary. Because of the permits involved in transporting animals overseas it was actually cheaper to fly the cast to Canada to film those scenes. It just becomes way too expensive to have the wolves. If you see the deleted scenes with the green screen wolf, then you can see how bad that can look.

The new season starts filming in October. I'm in no hurry to see the final season. I'll be happy to wait a bit and get the best possible outcome,

Buz

The Linebacker

0 likes 22 Sep 2017

A good point, Damon. I'm willing to wait longer if that's what it takes to create an outstanding last season.

While the dragons are an impressive example of special effects, I actually was drawn to the wolves more. That would've been great to have had them take on a bigger role. I well understand the compromises to stay within budget.

SereneProdigy

Cryptic Vigilante

0 likes 17 Mar 2018

Quote by SereneProdigy
I practically never ever watch TV series, but my girlfriend recently borrowed the first few seasons of this from one of her friends and has been rewatching it with me (on the basis that I enjoyed The Lord of the Rings and would therefore potentially enjoy this fantasy setting). I guess it's been our it's-raining-outside-and-we-might-as-well-cuddle-while-watching-this activity in the past few months.

We just finished Season 2 last week. My review: interesting characters/plotlines... but daaaamn does it take a whole fucking lot of time before any interesting events unfold (which is the main reason why I usually avoid these TV shows). I actually much preferred the first season, though I suspect that this is partly because I'm already growing a bit weary of it all. Yes, even with all those fabulous medieval titties. On a favorable note (and despite the massive eye-rolling reaction of my girlfriend), this series prompted me to download a hot porn-scene featuring Peta Jensen as the Queen of Dragons. I'm not sure how many more seasons I'll manage to watch, but I guess this TV show already had a few positive repercussions in my life, haha.

Seriously though, the bluish-guy featured in DamonX's post just appeared at the very end of Season 2. Will I really have to go through all of seasons 3-4-5-6 before finally witnessing whatever will happen with him?

Fuck.

I had to briefly resurrect this thread because this is quite astounding: I've managed to watch all 7 seasons of this series! My girlfriend and I had a Game of Thrones marathon during the last Christmas break where we practically watched the last 3 seasons back-to-back. And yes, this is most definitely the greatest commitment that I've ever had toward a TV series in my entire life.

I enjoyed pretty much every bit of it and loved nearly all of the characters, [s]even[/s] particularly those that we all love to hate. My only major complaint about that whole show was this guy, the archetypal loser named Stannis Baratheon:

In retrospect (and if you refer to my first intervention into this thread), the reason why I disliked Season 2 so much was predominantly because of that character. I mean, is it just me or did that guy simply fill the role of the disposable villain which just about any idiot could foresee the downfall of from his very first few appearances? I genuinely never perceived him as a threat at all, especially when compared to such great villains as Cersei, Joffrey or Ramsey Bolton. Plus 90% of his screen-time pictured him in the comfort of his own castle, a thousand miles away from all those other characters that we cared about. He was essentially just there to repeatedly get his ass kicked and hardly ever achieved any significant exploit.

Well, he managed to assassinate his own brother with the help of that redheaded [s]bitch[/s] witch, but even then, he wasn't even present and nobody gave much of a fuck about his brother anyway. He also helped at Castle Black at one point, but that was very late into the series and already waaay beyond the point of possible redemption. His death and the fall of his army was particularly lame. Anyway, I personally think that he was poorly handled by the producers and considering that he was a huge part of the focus in Season 2, this is by far the season that I appreciated the least.

I was pretty much hearing that sound whenever his face appeared on the screen:

Quote by DamonX
Is it just me or is this season seeming very rushed. The first 6 seasons were so meticulous and methodical. This one seems like they are just trying to go through the paces just to get a a pay off.

Still the best show on TV, but I'm getting the feeling that they are trying to tie this up before the actors' contracts come up for renegotiation.

The change of pacing didn't bother me personally, but my own theory is that the series finally managed to cover the 5 books which G.R.R. Martin has released so far and the producers are trying to conclude the show as soon as possible not to diverge too much from the canonical denouement (which has yet to be revealed in the novels). There are supposedly 2 books still to be released, and considering that G.R.R. Martin publishes a book once every 5-7 years, at this point it's completely unrealistic to expect that the series and novels will both end at the exact same time.

In the early seasons, the producers were approaching things very slowly hoping that all of the books could be released before the later seasons. Now that they're realizing the unlikelihood of it, they prefer to opt for a quick ending (and probably leave a few things open to speculation at the end of Season 8) rather than to impose their own hypothetical vision of how the tale should end. That's how I see it anyway, and it would actually make perfect sense.

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0 likes 18 Oct 2018

Gosh, it's a long wait!! isjda