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Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!
Originally posted by ExileOnDaytonStreet View Posthttp://i.imgur.com/ZTW2Ixh.jpgCode:As of 9/21/10: As of 9/13/10: College Hockey 6 College Football 0 BTHC 4 WCHA FC: 1
Originally posted by SanTropezMay your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.Originally posted by bigblue_dlI don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..Originally posted by KeplerWhen the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
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Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!
Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View PostIt's hardly beneath the show. That kind of scripting has been going on since season one. Be it Sansa and Joffrey, Joffrey and Margery, Margery and Tommen, Jon and Ygritte, hell, even Tormund and Brienne. So either you've ignored it up to this point or now you tolerated it. I don't know what has changed.
I'll be honest, it really comes off as the ugly and boring hipsterish garbage that AV Club puts out. Gotta get out in front of the haters lol.
Regarding the time warping, it's hard to wait two episodes while Gendry runs back to the wall, sends a raven to Dragonstone over the next two, and then spend an extra episode with dany flying up to torch everyone when your season is only seven episodes long. Of course they're going to compress timelines. There just isn't enough time to take an entire season to ride up to the wall anymore. It's the nature of the beast. You should have known this was coming since they announced they were only going to do 13 more episodes.
Were there a few hokey moments? Sure. But i guess I've just decided to ignore them and enjoy the show instead of rolling my eyes and thinking, "Well, I could do better."
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What? No "neener neener"?Code:As of 9/21/10: As of 9/13/10: College Hockey 6 College Football 0 BTHC 4 WCHA FC: 1
Originally posted by SanTropezMay your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.Originally posted by bigblue_dlI don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..Originally posted by KeplerWhen the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
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Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!
I'm with DX on this. I'd rather just accept that there are things they need to do to fit into the time they have onscreen, and enjoy the show.Having a clear conscience just means you have a bad memory or you had a boring weekend.
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Originally posted by Gurtholfin View PostApologist"If you leave ignorance and stupidity alone, ignorance and stupidity will think it's ok."
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Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!
Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View PostIt's hardly beneath the show. That kind of scripting has been going on since season one. Be it Sansa and Joffrey, Joffrey and Margery, Margery and Tommen, Jon and Ygritte, hell, even Tormund and Brienne. So either you've ignored it up to this point or now you tolerated it. I don't know what has changed.
It's not as if the entire show is in the dumps. The story at Winterfell has some real teeth, so long as they don't flub it. Everything else has been fine, but not as explosive - thematically - as past seasons. It just feels like they used to do more while simultaneously putting less on screen. Now they're punching up the action almost non-stop, and story development has slipped a little, though it's not entirely gone."The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984
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Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!
Originally posted by First Time, Long Time View PostGood argument...
Good job recognizing a joke.
Do I need to add one of these next time?Last edited by Gurtholfin; 08-21-2017, 09:30 AM.
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This thread is interesting in almost fanboy intolerance of dissenting opinions.
It's a great show - one of my favorites of all time.
I can enjoy something while at the same time recognize flaws.
I even had quibbles with Breaking Bad.
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Originally posted by Gurtholfin View PostI have no problem with one of the dragons dying coz obviously its story over right then and there as the army of the dead was easy pickins.
Would have been hard to explain why that didn't happen unless one of them died.
In my favorite movies the protagonist does the obvious or even clever thing and is still screwed. My rule of thumb is the writer should have thought of everything I did. I had a few minutes to absorb the story and react to it. She had weeks or months to WRITE it. I should never be ahead of the protagonist; that's lazy writing.Cornell University
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Originally posted by Gurtholfin View PostGood job recognizing a joke.
Do I need to add one of these next time?"If you leave ignorance and stupidity alone, ignorance and stupidity will think it's ok."
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Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!
Originally posted by Gurtholfin View PostThis thread is interesting in almost fanboy intolerance of dissenting opinions.
It's a great show - one of my favorites of all time.
I can enjoy something while at the same time recognize flaws.
I even had quibbles with Breaking Bad.Cornell University
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Originally posted by Gurtholfin View PostThis thread is interesting in almost fanboy intolerance of dissenting opinions.
It's a great show - one of my favorites of all time.
I can enjoy something while at the same time recognize flaws.
I even had quibbles with Breaking Bad."If you leave ignorance and stupidity alone, ignorance and stupidity will think it's ok."
-Gallagher
R.I.P.
Grandpa G. ~ Feb 11, 1918-Oct. 6, 1999
Grandma ~ Jan 2004
Dad ~ Nov. 4, 1958-April 21, 2008
Grandpa S. ~ June 21, 1932-November 11, 2013
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Originally posted by bigblue_dl View PostI'm with DX on this. I'd rather just accept that there are things they need to do to fit into the time they have onscreen, and enjoy the show.
I'm sure the writers and producers desperately would want this as well. But reality is a harsh mistress.Code:As of 9/21/10: As of 9/13/10: College Hockey 6 College Football 0 BTHC 4 WCHA FC: 1
Originally posted by SanTropezMay your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.Originally posted by bigblue_dlI don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..Originally posted by KeplerWhen the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
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I don't have any gripes with the ravens or really the Dany/Jon thing but there are some legit gripes to be had. Seems like they have too much story to cram into too little time. The fact that only minor characters are dying in these impossible situations is another issue that kinda goes against earlier episodes and makes things a bit more predictable.
Also this stupid plan of Jon's that even the smartest characters are going along with... just seems like they're forced to move the plot in a certain direction but not sure how to do it.
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