Game of Thrones (TV) - US Pace - NO BOOK DISCUSSION (that means NO BOOK DISCUSSION)

strawberry floating banana splits. Basically have to go on a 90% internet blackout now because tossers have to look at their Christmas presents early.

Ad7 wrote:strawberry floating banana splits. Basically have to go on a 90% internet blackout now because tossers have to look at their Christmas presents early.

3 of my mates have all watched it because of this.

I've deleted Facebook on my phone so I don't mindlessly open and scroll.

Ad7 wrote:strawberry floating banana splits. Basically have to go on a 90% internet blackout now because tossers have to look at their Christmas presents early.

It's not even restricted to GoT pages, I got something spoiled by a meme someone posted on Star Wars Sithposting, so now I've had to make the difficult choice of foregoing my daily meme intake to avoid spoilers.

strawberry float the internet, man.

Spoilers in my Google notifications. Main headline of an article it recommended.

Beware.

Guys I've put my thoughts on Ayra's death to Sansa in spoilers. so beware going in there



(No real spoilers in any part of this post obviously. I've actually not watched the leak. Will probably tomorrow night )

Mafro wrote:

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Wow

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What the strawberry float?

Does anyone know when Sky are putting the rest of the series on Now TV again?

Mafro wrote:What the strawberry float?

Does anyone know when Sky are putting the rest of the series on Now TV again?

About 2 months before the next season.

Lucien wrote:

ladybayred wrote:Watched the full version.

This show has fallen off a cliff.

Into a pit of amazeballs imo. No more Ayra cleaning a floor for nine hours.

What don't you like out of interest?

Wrote a long (ep6 spoiler free) post but somehow managed to lose it by being logged out.

Basically.
Pacing - aside from the stupid unlocking of fast travel the constant hoping of characters between locations has led to a downplaying of the tension of their actions. For example Davos and Tyrion's jolly to Kings landing and back again in a single episode. Previously this would of taken a couple of episodes and though we wouldn't of seen much of the journey, the passage of time would make the event seem more important. Tyrion went back to Kings landing ffs, behind enemy lines. If it was that easy for him to sneak back in why not send in assassin and be done with it. By moving so quickly, characters haven't had time to develop and thus we aren't invested. Dickon and his dad getting burned alive had no emotional impact as we'd only known them 2 minutes and hadn't become invested. Oberyn by comparison got near enough a whole season and his death had real impact and felt like a proper moment in the greater story.

Tension - Too many characters with plot armour and invulnerable saves. Danny attack on the loot train, while breathtaking visually felt entirely hollow as it was obvious nobody important would be killed off. The cut to black of Jamie drowning entirely failed as we knew he couldn't die and what makes it worse was how they saved him next episode, the suspension in disbelief for me was too great. In plate armour, even with help he sinks like a stone let alone magically resurfaces a mile away completely safe. Nobody of value has been killed off this season so far, all dead characters had either served their purpose and had nowhere to go (Olena) or was killed for fans service (sand snakes were atrocious)

To me it feels like its gone from being serious character driven show (as serious as a show with magic and dragons could be anyway) to a marvel superhero film. All low stakes, high spectacle at the expense of any sort of character development.

Episode 6 simply magnifies my issues 10 fold. Honestly it was wank.

I could not agree more. I still love it but it feels a very different show now.

I couldn't disagree more. But we've disagreed on films and TV before.
After six seasons of setting up - we now have pay off. That's why the pacing is different.
A precedent for sneaking people in and out of Kings landing has been firmly established and really doesn't need addressing again. Especially since Cersei knew about it anyway.

As for the traveling - yes it needs a certain amount of suspension of disbelief at times but nowhere near as much as some of the people on here go on.

It's always amused me how people can watch the same thing and yet have completely different opinions and reactions to it.

I would happily address all the points in that post but what's the point?

I agree to a point.

I still really like the show but it does seem very different now and the travelling is as bad as people make out.

In a couple of instances it is ludicrous. Unquestionably. For some of the others - people really need to get a grip.

I'm one of these people who gets caught up in the excitement and drama of a film or TV show - and small technical details like the travelling don't tend to jar with me. Certainly not to the extent where it spoils my enjoyment of the thing itself. But, a lot of the so called 'teleporting' is actually reasonable and achievable.

Euron going from being feted at King's Landing to then pitching up at the sea off Casterley Rock is the most unrealistic so far. Still didn't bother me that much.

As for the pacing - it is different. No doubt about that but it's about bloody time. This season and next are the pay off. They were bound to be different.
For me the change is refreshing.

I have no issue with the pacing whatsoever. It's very noticeable that it's different and is only happening though because we are nearing the end and they are trying to finish of the story as they decided to end the show. I do think though had the show of been at this pace from the first episode then it wouldn't have been as successful and would have been all wrapped up in two seasons.

Yeah, but Denny, don't you own a Game of Thrones t-shirt?

The prosecution rests.

One thing I don’t understand, Jon and his band of merry men are heading out past the wall to capture a walking dead. Why do they need to go past the wall to do this? We have seen that people dying at Castle Black come back and I assume that is the case anywhere near the wall. It’s winter now, they are living in violent and turbulent times, there must be some people dying near the wall that they could just keep hold of until they reanimate?

Maybe that’s what will happen next episode, they will spend 90% of the episode fighting White Walkers until they capture a dead guy and then get back to Eastwatch only to find there are a few walking dead already wandering around. “By the Lord of the Light” shouts Thoros “We could have just stayed here the whole time!”

Moggy wrote:One thing I don’t understand, Jon and his band of merry men are heading out past the wall to capture a walking dead. Why do they need to go past the wall to do this? We have seen that people dying at Castle Black come back and I assume that is the case anywhere near the wall. It’s winter now, they are living in violent and turbulent times, there must be some people dying near the wall that they could just keep hold of until they reanimate?

Maybe that’s what will happen next episode, they will spend 90% of the episode fighting White Walkers until they capture a dead guy and then get back to Eastwatch only to find there are a few walking dead already wandering around. “By the Lord of the Light” shouts Thoros “We could have just stayed here the whole time!”

I've seen the episode now

It's not