Was Game of Thrones a product of, or the formation of, everything wrong with modern media and writing?
Was Game of Thrones a product of, or the formation of, everything wrong with modern media and writing?
Was Game of Thrones a product of, or the formation of, everything wrong with modern media and writing?
depends on what's wrong with modern media and writing.
What isn't
It was great until it wasn't
first like 4 seasons were great
>the seasons GRRM was involved in
>the seasons adapting the books
They still had that plot tumor of that random literal prostitute that the Ds loved and was their showrunners' pet character.
She really epitomizes everything wrong with the Ds.
As bad as the later seasons got at least we didn't have Littlefinger exposition dumping to two random prostitutes fricking. That shit really showed what master storytellers D&D were even before they started getting flack.
In hindsight we put up with a lot even in the good seasons. Remember that awful Florence Nightingale subplot? Remember Littlefinger seeing Arya with Tywin and saying nothing and we all assumed it would go somewhere?
>Remember that awful Florence Nightingale subplot?
>Brown girl with big ass
I legitimately thought they were doing some cooky astroturfing of Arienne Martell here, but they managed to butcher that storyline even harder.
It actually grieves me that you will never see the passion put into the first 2 seasons ever deliver on what they started.
and if it turns that the whole bullshit of Arya fulfilling the Azor Ahai prophecy is real, imma start a petition to have fanfics be canon
>implying the azor ahai story is a real prophecy
It's just a story that they hope will come true, anon. All based on garbled retellings of how Dawn was used to fight the White Walkers back before anyone knew how to make Valyrian steel. GRRM is setting it up to mean fricking nothing, contrasting it with all the real prophecies that are bound to one person, like Cersei getting her blood used to see her future or Dany seeing her own future etc. Melly is a shit fire-scryer who thinks she's getting messages from God and all her works will have amounted to nothing but ruin and pain in the end.
Worst-case scenario, AA is prophecy of how the baddie comes to be, like in a certain other well-known and similar fantasy series
>imma start a petition to have fanfics be canon
that's exactly what you got in the end
They stole the plot from Outlander. That nurse is basically Claire.
>travels back in time using Rhoynar magic
>decides to change things so that Robb's forces aren't vanquished at the famed battle of Cúllodyn that all the Maesters talk about in her time
>ends up creating the Red Wedding instead and only realises her mistake when the knife goes into her gut, the man stabbing her looking exactly like her husband in the future
Sounds like perfect fanfiction territory.
I could see George approvoing that then because he is really good friends with the outlander author.
A big cope back then was "it's all part of his plan".
I remember.
I remember when Arya got stabbed in season 6:
>She's staged her death to throw the House of Black and White off her trail. This is a show that has had one or two major characters die from sepsis, they're not going to let Arya swim in a river, stabbed in the guts, and survive. What's happened is that she put a pig's bladder full of fake blood under her shirt. She got the idea from those seemingly unnecessary theatre scenes, where a more half-arsed form of fake blood was used in a staged stabbing. It's called foreshadowing. (The Waif may or may not be in on it.)
Don't forget the theory about Arya actually dying from it and it being the Waif wearing her face that went to Westeros, to be revealed later to really blow everyone's mind.
No.
Was Game of Thrones s1/2 the last time Cinemaphile made jokes through verticals instead of just making the thousandth variation of pepe or wojak? I feel like there were plenty of them for those early seasons and then they just died out completely in favour of low effort phoneposting .
be the change you want to see
>kills rome
>invents modern tvslop
The latter, OP.
/got/
I 'member
Game of Thrones was a coomer bait.
I never liked it, I tried to like it but it didn't work out.
Game of thrones was always mediocre. It just had great actors like Sean Bean/ Mark Addy /Charles Dance elevating the bargain bin writing and direction (at least until their characters were all killed off). Rewatch the first season and look at all the scenes of characters standing with their arms hanging at their sides lobbing exposition at each other
Boar has greater confirmed kill count than entire Golden Company.
>Hide civilians in the crypt from dude who can raise the dead
>Have great opportunity to subvert everyone's expectations and point out that raised dead in the crypt would be utterly harmless and confined in the STONE sarcophaguses
>Like what are they gonna do, punch stone with their bones
>They do
>It actually works
Hiding civilians in the crypt wasn't a mistake, it could've worked if wights weren't arbitrarily strong enough to punch through slabs of stone.
Why do people think his character regressed actually, I never quite caught that. The fact that he never progressed is quite literally the point, the twist is that he's the righteous knight who is being punished for his good deeds, there's no angle where slaying Mad King wasn't a morally good decision.
Jaime who was fricking Cersei and killed Mad King is exactly same Jaime who went to Winterfell to fight white walkers and still wants to frick Cersei. There was no regress because there was never any progress, Pre-Season 1 Jaime is Season 1 Jaime and is Season 8 Jaime.
To prevent the burning of six million Kingslander peasants, all that was necessary was to kill Wisdom Rossart. One might argue that killing Aerys was necessary to prevent further war, but Tywin was about to take care of that, and Jaime had sworn to the gods that he would give his life for Aerys's. He allowed vast numbers of people to get killed previous without intervening; it was only when Aerys ordered Jaime to kill Tywin (a rebel against the crown) that Jaime turned on Aerys. (First pausing to change his Kingsguard uniform for a Lannister one.) Jaime prefers to feel hard done by, but this is not entirely justified; his motives were murkier than was presented in the show.
Regardless of Jaime's motives the deed is all the same, he put an end to mad king.
FAT PINK MASTS JUTTING INTO MYRISH SWAMPS WHILE NUNCLE BREAKS HIS FAST ON BROWN BREAD AND BACON BURNED BLACK WHILE GREASE DRIBBLES ONTO THE NIPPLES OF HIS BRESTPLATE AND AROUND HIM THE PLANKS OF THE SHIP GROAN LIKE A FAT MAN TAKING A SHIT AND IN THE PRIVY THE PRINCESS GUZZLES MULLED WINE BUT THE MORE SHE DRANK THE MORE SHE SHAT UNTIL SHE WAS SHITTING BROWN WATER AND DOESNT SHE KNOW THAT A LANNISTER ALWAYS PAYS HER DEBTS BUT WINTER IS COMING MY SWEET SUMMER CHILD AND WORDS ARE WIND AND DARK WINGS BRING DARK TIDINGS
generals are exclusively shill-fests.