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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Indeed...I expect I will buy the whole thing one day...
We are finally near the end of Breaking Bad. Season 5, episode 14 tonight.
When we first started it, I wasn’t sure what all the hoopla was about, but, wow!
I just couldn’t give a damn about the main character. I really liked The Duelists though.
Why?
I'd wait until perdition freezes.
Saw it last week for the first time. Excellent movie nothing like what was written about it forty years ago when it was jokingly called “Boorie Lyndon”.
Every scene is the equivalent of a masterpiece painting.
I was pretty disappointed with the final season, but at least it was an ending. I’ve read the books, but I don’t think we’re getting an ending there.
I agree totally on Jaime Lannister. He’s one of the best written fictional characters I’ve ever come across.
Read the books I Claudius and Claudius the God. Also Graves’ translation of Suetonius. Definitely better than lots of trash put out today.
If you all want to watch a docu on the real game of thrones go watch the BBC docu-The Devils Brood.
About the Plantagenets. some 300 years of deadly family fights.
Martin claims he took many of the plots from UK & European Dark Age & Medieval history.
Thanks...not sure we get that...but will check.
With dragons.
I recommend “Travellers” on Netflix. Only three seasons, outstanding drama / acting / storytelling.
I might watch GoT eventually, but I haven't gotten through all the WWII videos yet.
Yes very much so !
At times found the whole fantasy motif annoying.
It seems like it became a crutch to get out of a situation or just keep the plot moving.
I am no fan of fantasy books or movies. That’s why it so unusual I liked GOT.
Yes
Oh no doubt.
Read the history about those bastards. It is simply unreal.
And yet some of our basic laws came from them. Richard the 3rd brought the system of bail, for example.
As the story of of Fire & Ice nears it’s conclusion, every storyline that Martin writes must be traced back to the beginning to make sure there are no contradictions. His book editor needs a proof-reading committee of sorts to work through the drafts. I think that & HBO constantly milking Martin for show ideas is making the old troll just a bit cranky.
Leave Shrek out of this...
She had axes to grind and as her power rose, so did her ambitions, surpassing her initial objectives.
She had no initial objectives but what Viserys wanted. After his death, her only objective was the Iron Throne. Not parades. Meereen was not for her:
Meereen was not her home, and never would be. It was a city of strange men with strange gods and stranger hair, of slavers wrapped in fringed tokars, where grace was earned through whoring, butchery was art, and dog was a delicacy. Meereen would always be the Harpy’s city, and Daenerys could not be a harpy.
That's from A Dance With Dragons while Daenerys is wandering the in wasteland after Drogon flew her out of the fighting pit. She was near death at that time.
The book series is called A Song of Ice and Fire. She's clearly the fire. What is the Ice? The show runner's blew that angle. It could have been Jon, or it could have been the White Walkers. Neither got proper treatment.
Her MTOE was Unsullied, Dothraki, and a bunch of Freedmen. Mostly not the "downtrodden." She also had two allied kingdoms in Westeros that the show runners threw away.
I've seen your analysis before from others. It's quite misogynistic. Daenerys was not Joan of Arc by any means, but in the context of the middle ages, par for a leader. She was more like Henry Tudor who grew up in exile to ultimately take the crown after winning Bosworth Field with the help of foreign forces.
Her arc had the ugliest, laziest, crash. It could very well have ended tragically, but different if the show runners cared.
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