Game of Meh

[sonatine]

AV had a good but ultimately overly kind writeup, its worth checking out.


Btw the magic word here is 'budget'. Ive said it before, Ill say it again; this show has a shockingly small budget and the VR firms who take their contract do so at a huge loss because they consider it a resume builder.

Given that there is an epic, sweeping battle coming that will likely deplete 90% of their fx budget in the next 60 minutes of footage, I think what we have left here is a season where writers just kinda gave the fuck up and drew the shortest lines between multiple points because they lacked the resources to do their jobs appropriately.

[ToasterOven]

I was going to drop by and comment to the thread but I was stabbed a half dozen times in the gut late last night. Feel pretty good today, though.

[sonatine]

I was going to drop by and comment to the thread but I was stabbed a half dozen times in the gut late last night. Feel pretty good today, though.

Yeah its a tricky thing, getting your kidney/spleen/stomach/liver perforated. You really cant force it to heal, nothing can really make that happen but drinking opium and sleeping in for a day.

[Suicide King]

I was going to drop by and comment to the thread but I was stabbed a half dozen times in the gut late last night. Feel pretty good today, though.

Yeah its a tricky thing, getting your kidney/spleen/stomach/liver perforated. You really cant force it to heal, nothing can really make that happen but drinking opium and sleeping in for a day.

One day's rest and you can run through the fucking streets

[sonatine]

Yeah its a tricky thing, getting your kidney/spleen/stomach/liver perforated. You really cant force it to heal, nothing can really make that happen but drinking opium and sleeping in for a day.

One day's rest and you can run through the fucking streets

until you open up your wounds of course.

then you need at least a few hours to work out the sepsis and unimaginable pain. my advice is to simply find something to preoccupy yourself with, like carving a womans face off for presentation to your assassin ex-overlord.

[sonatine]

So the season finale is 69 minutes long. AKA exactly how long they can stretch it out for a 2 hour broadcast TV slot. This fucking franchise...

[ltrainkoja]

Only point I disagree with is the Kingslayer siege resolution. That was showing Jaime as a chess player over checkers and not just some swashbuckling, sister fucking assclown. It also says that he has a bigger part to play in all this noise. I mean it doesn't 'say' it, but you know what i'm sayin', riiight?

good point -- but I already thought of him being a chess player. He is, however, a very inconsistent character. He has his moments of ignorance but he was very shrewd with how he became the kingslayer, to negotiating with Caitlyn Stark and his reasoned, if not confusing, calm reaction to Princess Myrcella's Death.

It just seemed like let's pretend that Frey allowed Edmure to get some even though Frey doesn't really condone the marriage. I mean Frey has locked him in a cell for the last few years. Frey's daughter then has a son from the farce. Edmure finally got something right-- that is a pretty big creative license and just bad story telling

also how soap opera bad was Jaime waving goodbye to Brienne-- so cheesy-- these writers are so lost without the books

[varys]

Have to agree that jamies speech to edmure and edmures reaction were god but yeah everything about briennes escape was ridiculously bad. Bronn/podrick and tyrion/missandei//greyworm were also awful scenes and a huge waste of time considering the end is near.

[sonatine]

every tyrion/missandei/greyworm scene has been pure torture and a total desecration of PD's potential.

[4Dragons]

Have to agree that jamies speech to edmure and edmures reaction were god but yeah everything about briennes escape was ridiculously bad. Bronn/podrick and tyrion/missandei//greyworm were also awful scenes and a huge waste of time considering the end is near.

Well since everything seems to happen for a reason in this series and the foreshadowing speech of Brianne, one might preclude that somewhere down the line she drives Jamie's own sword straight through his codpiece... so she had to get away.

[blake]

cersei choosing violence was god though

[4Dragons]

I was going to drop by and comment to the thread but I was stabbed a half dozen times in the gut late last night. Feel pretty good today, though.

Yeah its a tricky thing, getting your kidney/spleen/stomach/liver perforated. You really cant force it to heal, nothing can really make that happen but drinking opium and sleeping in for a day.

Yeah, someone forgot to read that book the Romans put out a couple of thousand years ago where they came to the conclusion that it takes one, 5" wound to the belly to drop a full sized adult soldier. But hey, we got dragons!

[4Dragons]

cersei choosing violence was god though

[varys]

Have to agree that jamies speech to edmure and edmures reaction were god but yeah everything about briennes escape was ridiculously bad. Bronn/podrick and tyrion/missandei//greyworm were also awful scenes and a huge waste of time considering the end is near.

Well since everything seems to happen for a reason in this series and the foreshadowing speech of Brianne, one might preclude that somewhere down the line she drives Jamie's own sword straight through his codpiece... so she had to get away.

Right, im not disagreeing with the concept. Im just saying that 2 minutes before jamie was waving like a gayfag as he let the enemy get away he was threatening to launch edmures infant son from a trebuchet. Like the other dude said, no consistency to a character that had GOAT potential in the beginning.

Edit: Thinking about it more, he was obv pretty damn sure edmure would follow along and he wouldnt have to follow through with his threat, but still...

[ToasterOven]

I'm just thankful that Derek doesn't watch GoT.

[varys]

I'm just thankful that Derek doesn't watch GoT.

its hard to imagine how he could inject his terrible into this discussion but i wouldnt put it past him

[El Gallo]

I'm just thankful that Derek doesn't watch GoT.

LMFAO! He actually does at my place on Sunday nights

[sonatine]

So, kind of a revelation:

The reason the Arya plotline was so wonky and uneven may be because they had to cut a _huge_ reveal to keep it from turning into The Arya Show, because basically fuckall happens to anyone else.

In the books, its revealed that Arya can warg; when shes blind, the Jaqen character (an old man if I recall) beats the shit out of her with his cane on the regular, basically doing surprise attacks like hes Kate from The Pink Panther.

That ends when she parries a shot to her wrist and returns it. It is revealed at that point that she warged into a cat on a rafter and was able to see the blow coming.

Then she gets her site back and bobs your uncle.

I think, in the show, the 'omg she put out the candle' moment was a premise for her using her warg-fu to defeat waify. And they had to cut it because with 15 hours left, they will never touch upon it again, and it would literally make her the only interesting reveal in the entire season beyond the usual knifing victims.

Ergo; this show is sloppy dogshit at this point and the writers are totally and utterly scrambling to shave the edges off jigsaw pieces so they can get _something_ done by the time the series ends.

[sonatine]

varys: Maybe ill smoke a bowl and reread arya chapters


honestly are there other chapters really worth rereading?

[varys]

varys: Maybe ill smoke a bowl and reread arya chapters


honestly are there other chapters really worth rereading?

Not sure, probably brans greendreams. Also the first time i read about danys adventures in mereen etc i thought it was horrible but i definitely enjoyed it the second time through. The political aspect is half cool and adds to the disappointment of hbo dany.