It was kind of weird hearing his real voice in these videos. Mormont is one of my favourite characters and I think his voice in the show is part of it for me.
On another note, i have two episodes left to watch in Season 7 and then I’m caught up. We started from the beginning a couple of months back. It’s definitely my preferred way to watch. It will be weird waiting a week for each new episode now.
Well when you put it that way GOT is a billion times better than any Marvel/DC/Star Wars movie that has come out the past 10 years.
Hell, Star Wars is my most beloved franchise but i'll admit it pretty much is. Dark Knight and infinity war are at least in the same stratosphere, though, in terms of production value, acting, script and character development.
It's just strange in my opinion to see him gush over Shazam in the other thread like it's the greatest thing (to say that's debatable is an understatement), and then come in here and talk about season seven having warts..BUUUUT was able to overlook them.
Seems his criteria for greatness is a little out of whack. Unless he just holds GOT to a significantly higher standard, which I would hope is the case. For the slight dip in plot and dialogue, season 7 still pisses Calvin and Hobbes style on 95% of content from the comic book universes AINEC.
One of those rare shows that has gone above and beyond and put itself in special company. This season is on par with experience of awaiting the release of Return of the King back in '03, with the spectacle and hype that swept everybody up back then.
Last year Shaw had a HBO promotion where you got that and the Movie Channel for free for a few months. I signed up for that and then cancelled when GOT was over.
Hell, Star Wars is my most beloved franchise but i'll admit it pretty much is. Dark Knight and infinity war are at least in the same stratosphere, though, in terms of production value, acting, script and character development.
It's just strange in my opinion to see him gush over Shazam in the other thread like it's the greatest thing (to say that's debatable is an understatement), and then come in here and talk about season seven having warts..BUUUUT was able to overlook them.
Seems his criteria for greatness is a little out of whack. Unless he just holds GOT to a significantly higher standard, which I would hope is the case. For the slight dip in plot and dialogue, season 7 still pisses Calvin and Hobbes style on 95% of content from the comic book universes AINEC.
One of those rare shows that has gone above and beyond and put itself in special company. This season is on par with experience of awaiting the release of Return of the King back in '03, with the spectacle and hype that swept everybody up back then.
Or different people like different things for different reasons according to differing standards.
I don't call out people for liking the Transformers movies just because I think they're Hollywood fluff. If someone receives a moment or two of joy from something I don't particularly care for it's no hair off my ass.
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This article sums up my thoughts on the decline of GoT. It explains how, as the series outpaced Martin's source material, it went from a drama built around intelligent and subtle plotting to an action spectacular that relied on increasingly absurd plot devices.
..But Season 7—the penultimate season, which aired in 2017—is when Game of Thrones seemed as though it might have finally jumped the shark … or dragon, as the case may be. It began with Euron Greyjoy—the contested ruler of a fourth-tier, much-subjugated “kingdom”—using a fleet he built in approximately five minutes (on islands explicitly devoid of lumber) to destroy not one but two of the greatest armadas ever seen in Westeros. This was followed up by the single dimmest narrative thread of the whole series, in which seven principal or semi-principal characters embarked North of the Wall on a suicide mission to capture a wight, which they intended to take to Cersei to persuade her to join them in the war against the White Walkers.
...Yet we endured scene after scene of escalating tension between Sansa and Arya (real? feigned? does it even matter?) specifically so that we could be “surprised” when it was ultimately Littlefinger being judged rather than Arya. Again: Sansa could have had Littlefinger executed at any time without all this elaborate sisterly rigmarole. It was there to trick us, the viewers, rather than anyone in Winterfell.
This is the precise type of shallow reversal in which Game of Thrones has indulged more and more frequently...
...Game of Thrones has been an extraordinary television adaptation of an extraordinary novel series. But as the former has moved beyond the latter, it has become less a cunning reimagining of the classic post-Tolkien epic and more precisely the kind of generic sword-and-sorcery epic it initially seemed engineered to subvert. I, as much as anyone, would be thrilled if Season 8 could surprise us anew.
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If this day gets you riled up, you obviously aren't numb to the disappointment yet to be a real fan.
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I was watching an Alt Shift X video and he was making comments about how much of a letdown it would be for the series to end with something as contrived as a sword fight between Jon and the Night King. Not sure how old it was, he’s been making videos for quite a while. But I just laughed. I can’t imagine a scenario where S8 doesn’t feature exactly that battle.
This article sums up my thoughts on the decline of GoT. It explains how, as the series outpaced Martin's source material, it went from a drama built around intelligent and subtle plotting to an action spectacular that relied on increasingly absurd plot devices.
Game of Thrones succeeds in large part because of its ever-present consequences, which allow its vast and meticulous plot to follow a cause-and-effect structure that feels seamless rather than forced. The Lannisters try to kill Bran, so Catelyn arrests Tyrion, so Jaime attacks Ned and his men, so Robb calls Northern arms for battle, and so on. Part of the fun of the tale is examining how each action and reaction will in turn produce more actions and reactions, which helps the story flow as smoothly as the Rhoyne in summer.
Because consequences affect all characters, moreover, they have arrived most prominently in the form of shocking deaths for heroes: after Ned misplays his hand with Cersei and incorrectly trusts Littlefinger, after Robb reneges on a vow with Walder Frey, after Oberyn Martell taunts his fallen opponent in combat. As Sansa says to Jon in the Season 7 premiere, about Ned and Robb, “They made stupid mistakes, and they both lost their heads for it.”
This expectation raised the stakes in every moment of every episode, because every word and action mattered a great deal for the future. Characters had agency, but that freedom came with a cost.
Once upon a time it did, anyway. Then Jon died and came back to life, and this seemingly steadfast principle began to unravel.
In the 15 episodes since Jon’s resurrection in Season 6, Episode 2—since the show passes by Martin’s existing blueprint, really—the once-clear relationship between actions and consequences admittedly doesn’t disappear in most non-Heartsbane cases, but it blurs.
Interesting article until they started blaming Jon’s resurrection for ruining the show. Totally off base and makes me wonder if the author understands GoT at all.
Interesting article until they started blaming Jon’s resurrection for ruining the show. Totally off base and makes me wonder if the author understands GoT at all.
I don't think they "blamed" John's death so much as noted it as a turning point.
Just in time for the final season, here's a trailer for Game of Bones 2: Winter Came Everywhere.
As the title suggests, it's the porn parody. It is obviously not safe for work but is on YouTube so treat it like a RedBand trailer. Swearing. Sexual innuendo. Etc.
