nah, I'm sure HBO has no interest in promoting their lone current big hit
― Οὖτις, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
i can't beeelliiiiiiiiiiieve this fucking wait for 6 more episodes. i know that there's a big battle and it took several lifetimes to film and it was miserable and that it will rule and all of that, but come ON
― Karl Malone, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
whenever I think about this show now I get "game of thrones" stuck in my head to the tune of the theme song from that movie "Scavenger Hunt" that is "play to win"
― sarahell, Friday, 14 December 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
and then the image of various GoT characters in small groups trying to collect items on the list, but I have a very hazy memory of the movie and all I remember is Dom Deluise, and a neurotic woman in a french maid costume and something about a toilet ... so now my expectations of the final 6 episodes are kinda like that
― sarahell, Friday, 14 December 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
GoT is one of the only fantasy epics that doesn't seem to involve a scavenger hunt for rings or Horcruxes or whatever
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Friday, 14 December 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
A year ago I thought I might not bother finishing this but now I'm looking forward to it, but I don't think I'll tune in each week because I'm sick of that palaver and wont do it again unless something really incredible comes out.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 14 December 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
Game of Thrones is forever associated with "Game of Love" by Daft Punk since around the time I started watching Game of Thrones I also listened to Random Access Memories a lot.
♫ There is a Game of Thrones ♫
― silverfish, Friday, 14 December 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REasBBiJm00
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlR4PJn8b8I
― Number None, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
The low quality of the last season took me from "Can't wait!" to "I guess I should watch this."
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
That's the exact same boat I'm in.
― Gaseous Clay (Leee), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
current odds have bran favorite to rule westeros i really hope not
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 22:56 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/4o0F4RG.png
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link
i'm rooting for tormund
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 22:59 (five years ago) link
No option for peasant-run democracy?
― DJI, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link
it's gonna be jon or his and dany's kid, but gendry has good odds
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:18 (five years ago) link
― DJI, Tuesday, March 5, 2019 6:04 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if westeros does adopt democracy, electing the guy who can see the future wouldn't be the worst choice.
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:22 (five years ago) link
Wait, Littlefinger is on that list, and he's dead (I think)!
― Gaseous Clay (Leee), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:26 (five years ago) link
there's some talk about him NOT being dead as he's been linked to being around the set for filming.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link
Jamie sitting on the throne after murdering his sister before she could unleash something awful, echoing his experience with the mad king.
― DJI, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:51 (five years ago) link
dany + euron is my guess. i haven't bothered looking for spoilers this year.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link
genuinely rooting for the Night King tbh, fuck all the living people on this show except tyrion
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 00:10 (five years ago) link
Varys is on the list twice.
― nickn, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 01:28 (five years ago) link
more canny maneuvering
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 01:51 (five years ago) link
Gendry and Sansa imo
― gbx, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 01:56 (five years ago) link
Reading that list is a good prep for reminding oneself what the hell was going on when we last heard from GOT. What the hell was going on anyway?
― tobo73, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 02:11 (five years ago) link
Nephew-Aunt fuckin, undead ice dragon iirc
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
genuinely rooting for the Night King tbh
Yeah, someone has to put a stop to this dialogue.
― jmm, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link
Rooting for Arya or the Night King. The show was terrible last season.
Show was never better as when and should have continued as Arya and the Hound wandering a war-torn countryside getting into adventures like Lone Wolf and Cub.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
the medieval brutality and hopelessness and absurd but compelling cruelty of the first four seasons seems very far away now, it's definitely turning into Avengers: Westeros at this point. I did enjoy last season, the scope and spectacle is just a good time imo, but it's not nearly the same show.
― omar little, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
otm, though of course a decent chunk of those first 4 seasons was a total slog
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
maybe and yet it all felt part of a carefully thought-out narrative that was closing off any means of escape for so many characters we liked in ways that were really actually shocking and not in ways that seemed cheap or unearned.
― omar little, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
no I agree with that. two very different feelings and the former was rarer. but the thought of watching s2 again with no fast forward option fills me with dread
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
glad to hear i'm not alone in thinking last season felt like padding and soap opera. Perhaps in closing they'll step up their game to the heights of s3 and s6... if i'm remembering correctly.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
I still hate that they gave the Night King an implied "personality" that also would suggest a human like motivation.
They cut to his and buddy's faces for their reactions to things the heroes are doing, they're wearing new clothes... all of it just not how I would have approached those characters. They wouldn't even be characters if it was up to me. They'd be these barely humanoid elemental zombie-alien-ice sculpture creatures, and their approach would be akin to a storm front, but they themselves would be barely visible (the zombies would remain at the face of the threat). I'd only reveal them clearly at the most climactic point in whatever battle is about to happen, and they'd look fucking horrifying but most importantly would not have any expressions.
Instead I'm afraid I'll eventually see the Night King start to visibly panic the moment Jon musters up the strength to push their swords back towards HIS face instead, during the epic final duel. Then some chaos- wait what's that? Did NK stab Jon? Oh god, look as his face. It's all over, Jon is done for. NK smirks. Camera slowly pans down. What's this? It turns out it was NK that was stabbed by Jon! NK's face drops, looks up at Jon, eyes roll back and his lifeless body plummets from the top of the Chrysler Building.
― Evan, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
at this point I just want to be spoiled on the whole thing so I don't even have to think about it as a phenomenon tbh
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
Cue police sirens
xp
― Evan, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
*Jack McCoy comes out of retirement to prosecute the Night King*
― omar little, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
Jon: "Winter. Is. Finished."
― jmm, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
Sunglasses drop.
― nickn, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
night king's broken body on the pavement, slow close up on the mouth, v/o whisper: "You... know... nothing... Jon Snow. There... is... another...."
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
I’m doing an epic rewatch now and things were still really good as of season 4. Sometime soon after (probably when the show went past the books) it starting sliding, though. This past season was an unmitigated disaster (note that I don’t like the avengers). Still looking forward to the action movie ending of course
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 March 2019 00:08 (five years ago) link
I’ve just made it to season 4 on my rewatch and enjoying it very much so far.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 7 March 2019 01:46 (five years ago) link
I just finished watching the whole thing for the first time. Watched seasons 1-4 around Christmas and 5-7 the past few weeks. Knowing nothing about it going in, I didn't feel any consistent dips in quality until sometime during Season 6, although yeah, Season 7 seemed to take it right off a fucking cliff.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 7 March 2019 12:30 (five years ago) link
I dunno I found the unabashed corny Hollywood spectacle of 7 more satisfying than some of the desparate flailings for tone and direction of the immediate post-book era. It still has nothing on the dark richness of 1-4, obviously.
― chap, Thursday, 7 March 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link
Season 6 was the nadir, that interminable Arya storyline.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 March 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
That was also the one with Dany and friends just sitting around a throne room for an entire season, right?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 March 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
Yeah that storyline may have also involved a dispute with Meereenese plumbing contractors or I may have imagined it.
― chap, Thursday, 7 March 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
afair the last two or three seasons have followed the template of a big opening episode, nothing happening besides people moving around/being stuck for 6/7 episodes, then a huge battle or showpiece episode, then another finale with some musing and arch looks, maybe a 2-minute teaser of something interesting then season ends.
― FernandoHierro, Thursday, 7 March 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
i for one look forward to the climactic reveal, in the closing moments of the final episode, of the statue of liberty half-buried in the ice beyond the wall
― invited to an unexpected ninja presentation (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 March 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link