Re: GAME OF THRONES is such an embarrassment at this point.
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 21/08/2017 11:49:10 AM
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I'm fine with stupid shows being stupid--I will love DOCTOR WHO until the day I die--but I feel like I was promised a 4 course meal and given cotton candy and skittles instead. What on earth are the writers thinking? Are basic concepts of continuity something else that little Arya McSociopath has indiscriminately slaughtered? Does Westeros shrink when it gets cold?
I'm fine with stupid shows being stupid--I will love DOCTOR WHO until the day I die--but I feel like I was promised a 4 course meal and given cotton candy and skittles instead. What on earth are the writers thinking? Are basic concepts of continuity something else that little Arya McSociopath has indiscriminately slaughtered? Does Westeros shrink when it gets cold?
Emilia Clarke and Maisie Williams still can't act, though I doubt anyone could salvage the writing of those characters at this point. I protested to Cannoli last week that Danaerys was being purposefully written as unstable. I think I was wrong. I think the writers are unstable.
What a train wreck.
The writers are filling space between spectacles with navel-gazing and dialogue that follows the formulas of "smart" drama, and forced conflict, to get the critical praise, while the spectacles and gratuitous pandering keep the general audience hooked. Their job is not to tell a coherent story but to keep people talking. This medium was called the "boob tube" years before HBO was allowed to show actual mammaries.
Cannoli
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
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Deus Vult!
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
GAME OF THRONES is such an embarrassment at this point.
- 21/08/2017 04:10:45 AM
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Amazing episode tonight, it just keeps getting better and better! - MAJOR SPOILERS
- 21/08/2017 04:49:28 AM
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Re: GAME OF THRONES is such an embarrassment at this point.
- 21/08/2017 11:49:10 AM
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Meanwhile I think the show is doing an amazing job.
- 21/08/2017 03:17:20 PM
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I agree. Enjoyed the episode.
- 21/08/2017 04:25:12 PM
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"Better than WoT's ending" is such a low bar to clear that it's practically a pipeline. 
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- 21/08/2017 05:01:41 PM
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- 21/08/2017 05:01:41 PM
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It's fine if you are looking for mindless entertainment.
- 21/08/2017 05:00:42 PM
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Game of Thrones was always mindless entertainment to me. Just very well done.
- 21/08/2017 05:52:20 PM
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I guess that's one way of getting around the kind of issues that Martin's faced for so long?
- 21/08/2017 05:55:51 PM
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She's too small, too baby-faced & the eyebrows ruin the immersion.
- 22/08/2017 02:21:45 PM
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I've already replied to the minutiae, but in the big picture... (spoilers)
- 24/08/2017 08:04:06 PM
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