Posted on 05/18/2021 3:38:07 PM PDT by 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....
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But it gets better after a few more deaths and fractured spines.
An excellent series!
Leftists who watched it probably think Dragons are extinct due to Globull Warming.
I wonder how many ninnies named their girl babies Daenerys not realizing she was going to turn out to be a full blown nutjob.
I Claudius is worth watching at least once a year. Graves’s book which rhe series is based on is also well worth a read.
Yes, Kazan was great. I put A Face in the Crowd into my queue. I think it was Andy Griffith’s break out role. And the topic seems as relevant as ever, a story about a small town folk singer who is discovered then propped up to national fame and fortune by a TV producer, and goes on to use his platform to “influence” the country’s Presidential Election. It was made 65 years ago. Still relevant.
But East of Eden, On the Waterfront, Streetcar named Desire and many others just incredible films/adaptations.
The best drama I’ve seen recently is foreign German in fact - Babylon Berlin.
It’s a detective series set in the late 1920s. The protagonist is a young German police detective a WWI veteran with PTSD issues from Cologne. He is sent to Berlin to investigate a blackmail & prostitution ring, Berlin is the epicenter of political turmoil and social excesses in the Roaring 20s in Germany. It’s got two flavors of Communists - Moscow & Trotskyite, Anarchists, Monarchists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Nazis and gangsters allying with each other, and fighting with each other. In this turmoil, it has this detective trying to do his job, which he soon discovers there’s much more to it then he was first lead to believe. Its fiction with real historic figures mixed in. For example the German criminologist. - Ernst Gennat who coined the term serial killer and did the initial work that established they existed. He was so famous he survived the initial Nazi takeover of the police. He died early in the Nazi regime of natural causes.
You have to have a bit of a strong stomach because it pulls no punches about what street life was like in 1920s Berlin. The show does a great job of presenting the instability of the Weimar Republic and tenor of the times. It’s a pretty riveting portrayal.
Its 4th season will premiere sometimes this year.
C’mon man! Everybody knows Dragons went extinct when they ran out of unicorns to eat.
I’m surprised it hasn’t been redone. For example they redid Poldark.
True, Barry Lyndon is a beautiful film, but it drags so much they probably charged kids price for admission if you were still 12 when it was over.
Barbecued Unicorn, it puts the Yum in Yummy...
Man, when they can get you to hate a character like Simco...or come to appreciate a character like Major Hewlitt, well...that’s entertainment!
LOL, yes, about 3 hours long. Had an intermission but of course on stream it’s not important. I thought about it and wondered if it wasn’t done that way at least in part to give the film a sense of pacing that life was like in the 18th Century. Nothing moved fast, except maybe horses. But I am hard pressed to think about which scenes I would cut out. Maybe the bit where he seeks refuge with a widowed Fraulein in the woods but it’s not a big part of the movie.
Sounds like a slow weekend in Rio Arriba... 😀
We liked it so much, we have watched it twice. What great acting by the actors that played Simcoe and Hewlett.
That’s funny...we are watching sitcoms from the 80s...we were too busy then...in retirement they make us laugh...things like What About Jim and Everybody Loves Raymond have been a hoot...need to find The Office from the beginning now.
Yep. all good. Don’t miss out on ‘America America’ as well!
Look up the forerunner to Downton Abbey from the early 1970s, “Upstairs Downstairs”.
I only caught a few episodes and Peter Dinklage’s character makes me want to see the whole series. One of these days...
I watching the Office from the start on PeacockTV, NBC’s streaming platform. Subscribed last year to watch the English Premier League games that aren’t shown on NBCSN.
Was pleasantly surprised to see The Office in its entirety available too.
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