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What the World Need Now
Is Game of Thrones Talk
That's the sort of thing
that's there's just
too little of!
What the World Need Now
Is Game of Thrones Talk
That's the sort of thing
that's there's just
too little of!
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Lindsay Ellis: We Need To Talk About Game of Thrones
- Thread starter Crispy75
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Just finished watching it, I'm inclined to agree. Though I'm glad it was two partner because at first I thought that was it.
This episode was kind of pointless due to the recap, but I don't mind because it just means spending more time dunking on D&D's garbage. Now patiently waiting for part two.
As someone who only casually followed the events of the show from the outside I appreciated the recap but it was only about 17 minutes' worth of a 40 minute vid. Not terribly offensive.
Kind of wish people could do 10 seconds of self-reflection and choosing to engage or not engage with the thread's topic by either posting something in direct response to the content of the OP or just leaving in peace.
Instead we get 5-6 jokers racing in here with thread-shitting "jokes" about not wanting to discuss GoT or Lindsay's take on it. Like there's a trophy for coming in fifth place of that competition.
Instead we get 5-6 jokers racing in here with thread-shitting "jokes" about not wanting to discuss GoT or Lindsay's take on it. Like there's a trophy for coming in fifth place of that competition.
The last episode I watched was Joffrey kicking the bucket, and I've followed the book series before the second book came out. As such, I found the video very illuminating. The biggest kicker is the idea that subverting expectation is a laudable goal in and of itself. It's a bad callback to the old days of Dungeons and Dragons where the DM was encouraged to treat it as a competition with the goal of killing off his players. Where the heck does this idea come from, and why does it persist? If you're going to make a mystery and foreshadow events, then you're created an unspoken contract that viewers should be able to guess ahead of time. Break that contract and you're probably going to end up with a mess of a story that doesn't flow from what you've established. It's mindbogglingly bad storytelling.
But they have to show off how much more clever (and funny) they are than the rest of us!
The thread title is missing the "I Guess" at the end of the video title, though.
This analysis would work better as one part i think, but i understand that due to the time and the work involved it had to be 2 parts.
As someone who basically only followed the show from half-contextualized twitter rants in the last couple seasons I'm very much looking forward to watching this.
I spent about 35 minutes thinking that she glossed over the most important aspect of the whole thing after she said "need to finish the show in a set period of time" or whatever, and then she brings them running off to Star Wars up at the end. So, it's fine, but I'm looking forward to the next one.
Putting money down on a joke about her not being able to add anything really new or tremendously insightful for her viewers because the million already-published hot takes have hit pretty much everything that needs to be said, aka, the TV-Reddit parallel.
Putting money down on a joke about her not being able to add anything really new or tremendously insightful for her viewers because the million already-published hot takes have hit pretty much everything that needs to be said, aka, the TV-Reddit parallel.
Yeah I don't understand this new trend of talking about things after they happen.
I dunno I usually watch her stuff but I'm a little tired of Game of Thrones hot takes, even smart hot takes.
Maybe in a few months I'll check it out and I won't feel burned out by internet stuff by then.
Maybe in a few months I'll check it out and I won't feel burned out by internet stuff by then.
I stopped mid season 2 cuz lost access to HBO and stopped reading after the 1st book cuz the plot was going nowhere. Glad my instincts were right.
The writers have stated that "themes are for 8th grade book reports", which is so wrong on so many levels that it's hard to fully explain just how dumb that statement is. Not surprisingly, treating basic coherence with contempt leads to, as you said, mind-bogglingly bad storytelling.
I don't know where that mentality comes from either. To me, it smells too much like these people felt like paying attention to the plot threads of the story was too much work, so they threw all that out the window, pulled whatever they wanted out of their asses, and hid behind this "we're too good to pay attention to themes anymore" bullshit attitude as a way to run from all criticism.
Yeah, I didn't need a recap of the entire season. This one needed to get to the point, especially since it's late to the party and most are sick of talking / hearing about it. I'll watch when she actually delves into season 8's issues, though I'm kind of over it at this point. Chernobyl saved me.
Yeah, that was mindboggling. If some but not all fans figure something out that just means you did the foreshadowing right.
I will say that can see much better why people gravitated toward Daenerys as a character now because her arc so far seems like the only coherent one.
Even if it involves a...pro-slave rebellion? Am I understanding that right? People engaging in armed conflict in order to be made slaves? That can't be right, can it? Is...is that in the books?
Even if it involves a...pro-slave rebellion? Am I understanding that right? People engaging in armed conflict in order to be made slaves? That can't be right, can it? Is...is that in the books?
Isn't it actually a rebellion led by the formerly slaveholding local aristocracy?
No, not really lol. When Daenerys conquered Mereen and Slaver's Bay she freed all the slaves. The former slave masters allied together to take back the cities she freed and reinstitute slavery.
Yeah, this ^
Would have appreciated knowing it was a part 1 before I started to be honest. Video had some good points but was kind of a waste of my time.
Now I'll wait for Part 2 I guess.
Now I'll wait for Part 2 I guess.
Can someone break down the Westworld Season 2 rewrite situation? I watched the first two episodes and just couldn't bring myself to watch the rest of season 2 after enjoying the first so much, and I probably won't try again at this point.
I didn't know people adjust their scripts to own the reddits. this is probably the dumbest thing I've heard (today).
I didn't know this either but doesn't surprise me considering Westworld is the dumbest show ever.
It completely explains how Westworld became the garbage "haha! gotcha!" it is.
'Mario, your dramatic reveal is at another location with a vague name'
It's amazing what a bad run at the end of a series does to how the whole thing is perceived. I really, really loved this show at one point. As a book reader beforehand, even. I thought it was an impossible adaptation that they pulled off, and even tweaked in ways that made perfect sense for a TV show. And then it kept going. And now I don't like thinking about GoT at all.
I feel a pull to watch this, because I like her videos but a lot of the media she covers isn't stuff I'm into. But do I really want to think about GoT again? I'm so close to being at the point where I only care about what's going on in the books again.
I feel a pull to watch this, because I like her videos but a lot of the media she covers isn't stuff I'm into. But do I really want to think about GoT again? I'm so close to being at the point where I only care about what's going on in the books again.
