Mournblade Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 Guys I didn't watch Season 8 -- will wait for it on BR. But spoilers are all over the internet, and I happened across some scathing audience reviews over on RT (who cares about critic reviews those guys are shills). I'm stunned. I'm not one of these guys who was actively rooting AGAINST GOT (like you will get in the Star Wars franchise), I was pretty indifferent to it, although having watched the past 7 seasons, it would have been nice if it turned out good. The thing I'm angry with is the fact that I watched the last few seasons of the TV series without having waited for the books first. The books are VASTLY better than the TV series. TV series are just a thumbnail sketch of the books, really. In the books, GRRM gets you to care about small characters like Sam Tarly. On the TV series, by contrast, whenever the fat oaf who plays Tarly comes on, I hit fast forward. The show gives you no reason to care about him. Now I'm never going to be able to enjoy the reading books, even if they are masterpieces. Which they very well might be. Ah well. At least "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" looks great. Helps ease the pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Momma There Goes That Man Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 On 5/25/2019 at 1:58 PM, Mournblade said: Ah well. At least "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" looks great. Helps ease the pain. I read it got a 6 minute standing ovation after its first screening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCSaints_fan Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 On 5/25/2019 at 10:58 AM, Mournblade said: Guys I didn't watch Season 8 -- will wait for it on BR. But spoilers are all over the internet, and I happened across some scathing audience reviews over on RT (who cares about critic reviews those guys are shills). I'm stunned. I'm not one of these guys who was actively rooting AGAINST GOT (like you will get in the Star Wars franchise), I was pretty indifferent to it, although having watched the past 7 seasons, it would have been nice if it turned out good. The thing I'm angry with is the fact that I watched the last few seasons of the TV series without having waited for the books first. The books are VASTLY betterthan the TV series. TV series are just a thumbnail sketch of the books, really. In the books, GRRM gets you to care about small characters like Sam Tarly. On the TV series, by contrast, whenever the fat oaf who plays Tarly comes on, I hit fast forward. The show gives you no reason to care about him. Now I'm never going to be able to enjoy the reading books, even if they are masterpieces. Which they very well might be. Ah well. At least "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" looks great. Helps ease the pain. I thought they did as well as a job as they could have seasons 1-4 which drew from the books. Prince Oberyn for instance, awesome in both the book and TV as portrayed by Pedro Pascal. Although they could have included Ned's "fever dream" in S1, it may have been hard to pull that off without either confusing the audience or giving up too much. Season 5 they started to go downhill with the major changes like Littlefinger giving Sansa to the Boltons, which was a total headscratcher for his character. It only made sense from a writers perspective of getting Sansa out of the Vale, because they didn't want to deal with that plot line, as it would introduce new characters, and source material was very thin (though maybe a missed opprotunity here - they could have had the Blackfish flee to the Vale and combine his plot there instead of dying stupidly like he does and having Littlefigner give Sansa to the Boltons). Another missed opportunity was the Northern lords turning on the Bolton/Frey alliance which many book readers suspect is the case. After S5, it was almost train wreck after train wreck, with a few decent moments here and there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 Not sure what to make of this. Also I think he may be misreading Gendry. Oh and I somehow missed Ghost leaving with them at the end of the episode when I watched it on Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRobi21 Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 Has it's flaws, but it's 100x better than the ending D&D gave us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purbeast Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 Documentary that released tonight was pretty cool. Worth watching and so cool seeing all the behind the scenes stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) looks so damn good in that show. I've seen other pictures of her though and I'm like ehhh. I don't know if it is makeup or she just got older. Obviously I'd still hit it ten times a week but still, way better in the show. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Springfield Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 Could his hair be ANY greasier??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 Good luck to all of them. Hell of a run. It'll be interesting to see which of them go on to success with other shows or can mount a successful film career going forward with the show bump. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 Too bad Solo was a box office bomb, she and Donald Glover dominated that movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 1 hour ago, FanboyOf91 said: Too bad Solo was a box office bomb, she and Donald Glover dominated that movie. Huh, I didn’t realize it did bad at the box office. I watched that at my parents house and we all enjoyed it. I thought she did good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhead36 Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 I'm not sure how many if any of the GoT cast will go on to be major players in TV/movies. Kit Harrington in particular, I don't think he's that good of an actor. The rest will probably get typecast. I could see Maisie Williams being a comedy riot on a sitcom as the rebellious daughter though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCB Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 Apologies if this has already been posted. It's VERY NSFW but also very freakin' funny. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCSaints_fan Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 2 hours ago, Warhead36 said: I'm not sure how many if any of the GoT cast will go on to be major players in TV/movies. Kit Harrington in particular, I don't think he's that good of an actor. The rest will probably get typecast. I could see Maisie Williams being a comedy riot on a sitcom as the rebellious daughter though. Dinklage and Turner have already been in Xmen, and Turner has a major role in the new Xmen. I hope Dinklage gets some good roles down the line. He is an awesome actor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCB Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 I still think his best work was in The Station Agent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma There Goes That Man Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Nickolai Coster-Waldau (Jaime) is great as the lead actor in Shotcaller. It’s about a Wall Street banker that gets sentenced to prison and has to join a gang to survive and how everything just snowballs from there. It’s a great movie and he is awesome in it. Think it’s still on prime video 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesMadisonSkins Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 (edited) The Last Watch was awesome for anyone who is boycotting all things GOT and might reconsider. It’s pretty crazy to see how much goes into the Production. All hail Andy McClay! Edited May 28, 2019 by JamesMadisonSkins 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 The actor who played Robb Stark was great as Cosimo in Netflix's Medici series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chew Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 11 hours ago, Momma There Goes That Man said: Nickolai Coster-Waldau (Jaime) is great as the lead actor in Shotcaller. It’s about a Wall Street banker that gets sentenced to prison and has to join a gang to survive and how everything just snowballs from there. It’s a great movie and he is awesome in it. Think it’s still on prime video Loved that movie and NCW was indeed excellent. Watched Oblivion for the first time in like 6 years this weekend, forgot he was in that, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer_FFX Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 The Robb Stark actor was also good in the Netflix series Bodyguard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 (edited) I figured most of the main characters’ endings came from Martin. Brienne’s too, likely. Edited May 30, 2019 by visionary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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