I finally watched Game of Thrones

PatriotRetort.com ^ | May 10, 2021 | Dianny

[CheshireTheCat]

Two years after it ended, I finally watched the series Game of Thrones. Okay, you can tease me for being a few years behind everyone else. But I don’t have cable TV at all, let alone HBO. So there was no reason I would’ve seen Game of Thrones while it was still on the air.

But every year for my birthday, I buy myself something. So for my 58th birthday last month, I bought the entire digital box set of Game of Thrones to see what all the fuss was about.

If nothing else, I finally understand all those GOT cultural references people have been using for the last decade.

I’ll say this about Game of Thrones, it sure isn’t boring. I haven’t read any of the books the series is based on, and I probably won’t. I’m not much for reading fantasy. I hated the Tolkien books with a passion when I tried to read them decades ago. It’s just not my thing.

So I admit, I went into Game of Thrones not expecting much.

Boy, was I wrong. It is really excellent.

Though, there were some things I didn’t particularly like. Actually two things specifically.

First, is it grisly as hell. Gory... During the Battle of Blackwater Bay, one guy gets the top of his head cut clean off. Grisly, grisly stuff.

But I suppose the fact that I was completely grossed out by the gore is a sign that the special effects are really good.

Second, like most premium-channel shows, the sex and nudity is over-the-top and gratuitous...

But other than the occasional “intestines splashing to the ground” and too-graphic sex scenes, Game of Thrones is one of those shows you can’t stop watching. It is epic scale storytelling to be sure....

[BDParrish]

Intermission?
It was for the reel change. It doesn’t take that long to change it, but you gotta let the crowd go to the bathroom and especially buy more popcorn.

My family saw Gone With the Wind” when it played in Cinemascope On main street in Charlotte in 1967. I remember staying seated along with almost the whole crowd to listen to the overture by Max Steiner. The sound was unbelievable. The composition is so good, to my momma the intermission music was part of the show. I was enthralled. Later that year Daddy bought a beautiful RCA stereo console and we played the soundtrack album on it full blast. My sister has that record now.

I was trained as a projectionist by the film school at Unusual Films at BJU. I only ever showed 16mm shorts in churches. I did a reel change once, “Sheffey”. Mostly my duty was to show the promotional film for the college while on Ensemble tour.

[zaxtres]

Man how idiotic do you have to be to respond like that. The discussion was about the number of times Emilia Clarke appeared nude. So again take your moronic pea sized brain and stay out of a conversation you interpretted wrong.

Like I said before people exaggerated the nudity in GOT. (For the pea sized brains out there who think they are self-righteous that is the number of appearances not the how nekkid one got.) Some people are sooo stoopid.

[JohnBrowdie]

look, I get that you think you’ve got the inside dope on the strangely addicting semi-pornographic gore ridden TV series. And I get that you get your feelings hurt when people mention the obvious, that Emilia Clarke’s boobs were in the same galaxy of hopeless overexposure as Pam Anderson’s boobs back in the day — and MUCH less spectacular.

but you’re going to have to deal with it. not everyone worships her.