Game of Thrones: The Final Season (April 14, 2019)

Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by Parachute Woman, Nov 13, 2018.

  1. GodShifter

    GodShifter Forum Member

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    Doesn’t float your boat, huh?

    Meh, me either but this entire series has been leading to one great, climatic battle. Ironborn, Westeros, Dothraki, etc, v. the Night King and his walkers.
     
  2. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    I'm sure 'the BATTLE' will be a sight to see....
    but, in all honesty, I got wrapped up in the characters, and, like I said earlier, some have never met, and some haven't seen each other in ages..
    I would assume these 'meetings' would be a writers paradise....and actors paradise, ,too.
     
  3. Deuce66

    Deuce66 Senior Member

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  4. GregM

    GregM The expanding man

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    Actually I am inclined to think those kinds of meetings would feel rather forced and anti-climactic, and I'd bet the writers would be finding a way to avoid such scenes. The character dev on GoT was quite awesome and helped the sense of discovery, but by now the characters are all fully developed with only the endgame moves left to reveal.
     
  5. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    ...making them one-dimensional; only concerned with 'the battle'?......
    uuuuuuhhhhhhh...... me no like........
     
  6. GregM

    GregM The expanding man

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    That's like criticizing a chess master because you don't like the finishing move after the board was developed beautifully. Why do you think so much time was spent on character dev? So you'd become invested and care about the characters. Mission accomplished.

    We will still get to see a number of further developments, I'm sure, with good dialog and perhaps some characters' arcs fully resolved. But there's a fine line between resolution and forcing things into a neat package.
     
  7. Chazro

    Chazro Forum Resident

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    Because that's the way the story was originally written. The moment the show's writers deviated from the original story was the moment character development took a back seat to special effects, exotic locales, and battles.
     
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  8. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    "We shall see.", said the zen master.
    Chummy 'reunions', and 'first-time' meetings......will make for more exciting television to me...
    even if, they have to 'speed-things-up' by saying, "Bran told me."!
     
  9. GodShifter

    GodShifter Forum Member

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    It was heading that way anyway. They didn’t “deviate” so much as to had to improvise as Martin stopped collaborating (to supposedly “work on his book - still not finished btw). The end of this thing was headed towards a bombastic conclusion from the get go (“A Song of Ice and Fire”). You’re getting what was intended. Benioff and Weiss are working of Martin’s “outline” (supposedly).
     
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  10. GregM

    GregM The expanding man

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    I don't think that's altogether true. Dubrovnic and other scenic locales have been used from the beginning. The effects, battles and other production values have been ramped up gradually as the show's popularity and budget grew. The show's writers took liberties with the original story all along, and they are careful to be true to the characters. The stage has been set for the ending, not ongoing character development.
     
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  11. GentleSenator

    GentleSenator what if

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    all i ask is for them to not repeat the last season which was really, really silly.

    oh, and come up with better names for things than "battle of the bastards" and "loot train attack". :sigh:
     
  12. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    AND...no more 'time-killers', like that scene of everyone 'getting-dressed' before the big church blew up!
     
  13. Chris from Chicago

    Chris from Chicago Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes

    This is a great example of too each his own. The first 15 or 20 minutes of S:6 EP:10 which... yeah. . Included a lot of people getting dressed... was this series finest moment. The drama, the music, the surprise loss of tons of major characters, the what-in-the-hell is this leading up to-ness of it all. I loved it.
     
  14. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    The only sort-of 'time-killer' I liked was when everybody entered the room when Tywin was 'hand of the king'!
    Tyrion's scraping of the chair.... CLASSIC!
     
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  15. GentleSenator

    GentleSenator what if

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    agree. that was an example of what we could probably use more of!
     
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  16. Deuce66

    Deuce66 Senior Member

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  17. mrjinks

    mrjinks Optimistically Challenged

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    I've told a few people that if I were VP of Marketing for HBO, I'd certainly not air them on successive Sundays. I'd stretch those things out: 1/month for six months, especially if the rumors of them being longer episodes (80+mins) is true.

    That would be one way to keep subscriptions up. :hide:
     
  18. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    Good thingYOU'RE not in charge!!:p
     
  19. Ski Bum

    Ski Bum Happy Audiophile

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    I can't wait until Dany explains to Jon Snow that in the Targaryen family they prefer that sisters marry brothers and that nieces marry uncles.
     
  20. GregM

    GregM The expanding man

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    Talk about awkward conversations and long silences.
     
  21. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    Perhaps.....
    The must 'in-breed' with each other...
    since, her 'baby' with Drogo was some sort of scaly mess....
    They may only have 'human' babies when they mate within the family....
     
  22. GodShifter

    GodShifter Forum Member

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    People have waited long enough. Let’s get on with it.
     
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  23. mrjinks

    mrjinks Optimistically Challenged

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    Oh I totally agree. Just saying that I won’t be surprised if HBO milks this a little longer...
     
  24. SJP

    SJP Forum Resident

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    Not sure this is a correct conclusion. It was a sorceress who was responsible for what became of the unborn child.
     
  25. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    I'm just 'spit-balling' here....
     

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