Annara Snow Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Overall? I can understand why the episode is getting high ratings, it had an epic battle. Breaking the battle down it wasn't as epic as much as Huh? and Wut? I think they spent all of their fight choreography on this one fight, and filmed War Torne Dorne Porne after the choreographer's contract had ended. (I've said elsewhere that I do believe that the entirety of the Season 5 Dorne arc was written, edited and filmed on the same day, and they just went with the first take on everything.) I had to look up if it was the same actor who played the Night's King. To me he didn't sell it. He looked like the Night King's bastard son or nephew who had been sent off with part of the army o' undead to prove his worth. We might need some other name for him...Night's Knight...Prince Ice? I almost expected them to spoiler Jon right in the spoiler instead of spoiler Dragonsteel. Then I remembered that Spoiler Olly was back at the castle and wouldn't be able to nod approval. Epic fight...well it looked epic. Well shot, certainly high production values, which explains the production value of the rest of season 5. I mean. Its Season 5. Is HBO not convinced that Game of Thrones is about 50% of their fan base right now? Are they really making so little off it they can't make Hardhome the standard? Or do they themselves not trust D&D with their money. The way they handled QoT vs HS was just another nail in the coffin. QoT would never look at a holy man who had achieved the highest status his religion had and yet labored and wore sackcloth and assume he could be bribed with coin. I did have to give the screen the finger when Tyrion mentioned Dany had no advisers. Seriously. My trust in the show died with Barristan Selmy. I had to ask on Ian's twitter if the meeting where he was told he'd been sacked was in anyway similar to the scene where Barristan is relieved of duty from the Kingsguard. I thought it was bad enough they left out The Tysha Revelation, in the book Tyrion's heart is broken, in the show, his character no longer has any soul, as Dinklage seems to feel like putting in as much effort acting Tyrion as the writers do writing him. Are you worthy of me? Remember this: Season 6 is pretty much entirely uncharted territory. Literally anything can happen. And this is the level they are on with actual content to draw from. This is a brilliant observation. And I agree with the rest, too, especially the Tyrion part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonCon's Red Beard Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Well, season 1 did have an example of good sexposition scene (Viserys and Doreah in the bathtub) but it also had the example of worst possible sexposition - "play with her ass". Gods, that was embarrassing. Even the exposition part was awful, it was the beginning of show LF being a moustache twirling and obvious villain. Ah, but it was one bad scene in the sea of good made scenes... I was ready to forgive. I shouldn't have... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Irri and Doreah are dead. Jhiqui just disappeared, alongside the rest of Dany's khalasar.I think there were some Dothraki extras in the background of the earlier episodes this season. But yeah, they've more or less been written out. I doubt anyone who hasn't read the books would realise they are still with Dany given that D&D just seem to have forgotten all about them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cas Stark Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 They replaced them all with Missandei and also gave her a plot. :dunno: Look, MIssandei actress is hot and all, but she's also as robotic as her mistress. They bored each other with her titles, or something. I think she can act? They never give her literally anything to do or say except recite Stormborn's titles and stare at GW. Tyrion Dinklage's fast talk will send her into a seizure and her head will explode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter's Knight Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 It was a tagline from a terrible slasher movie in the 1980s, And thanks to Mr. Google, I found it!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic_%28film%29 There really was not enough drugs in my county to have made that fun. :cheers:Thanks man. I have no idea how I came across that movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1234567 Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 <snip>Not to mention that all girls got married at 12, Prima Nocta was common place, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonCon's Red Beard Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 My trust in the show died with Barristan Selmy. I had to ask on Ian's twitter if the meeting where he was told he'd been sacked was in anyway similar to the scene where Barristan is relieved of duty from the Kingsguard. heh... maybe that's what happened just that this time, he did go around and killed everybody, like the writers of the show and all of this has been created by some minor intern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonCon's Red Beard Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Not to mention that all girls got married at 12, Prima Nocta was common place, etc. And all women were delicate flowers with not personality. Those who were strong disguised themselves as men. Medieval times for women were either Sansa or Brienne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonCon's Red Beard Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 The fact that he got burned with the candle wax was also a nice wink and foreshadowing The way he says "ouch" is... I'm rambling, I have ice cream, brb... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindwalker Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I think she can act? They never give her literally anything to do or say except recite Stormborn's titles and stare at GW. Tyrion Dinklage's fast talk will send her into a seizure and her head will explode. I think that Missandei (forgot her real name) definitely acts better than Emilia. Granted, that may not be saying much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbybuilderton Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I fell severely behind in this thread, but I will say that perhaps they included greyscale because my suspicion is correct, and it has some connection to ghost grass. Greyscale could have origins in a plant that humans ate. It spreading to kill all other grass could have been a metaphor for a disease epidemic. "The grey death sleeps only to waken again." Exactly as you could describe a virus. My point being that maybe if they do kill Jorah, they would do it because the greyscale provides cheap tension and allows for them to keep the disease relevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chebyshov Posted June 3, 2015 Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 Guys, I'm really sorry if I missed this, but are we ranting about this article yet? "...but likewise there are ways in which the show has made its female characters arguably more likeable (such as Sansa’s character in general), or gave them empowering new sequences (such as Brienne fighting The Hound)." I need to throw things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCasualObserver Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Guys, I'm really sorry if I missed this, but are we ranting about this article yet? "...but likewise there are ways in which the show has made its female characters arguably more likeable (such as Sansa’s character in general), or gave them empowering new sequences (such as Brienne fighting The Hound)." I need to throw things. I've always scoffed at people on tumblr being "triggered". How quick I was to judge - this article just triggered me something fierce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facebookless Man Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 My guess is Jon Con will cause an epidemic in Westeros and Jorah's filling in. Could be a long time still before he dies.Wr'll find out next week I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter's Knight Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Guys, I'm really sorry if I missed this, but are we ranting about this article yet? "...but likewise there are ways in which the show has made its female characters arguably more likeable (such as Sansas character in general), or gave them empowering new sequences (such as Brienne fighting The Hound)." I need to throw things.Brb flipping tables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cas Stark Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Guys, I'm really sorry if I missed this, but are we ranting about this article yet? "...but likewise there are ways in which the show has made its female characters arguably more likeable (such as Sansa’s character in general), or gave them empowering new sequences (such as Brienne fighting The Hound)." I need to throw things. So, empowerment comes in two flavors. "likeable" and "thuggish" otherwise, forget it, you're probably a no name extra doing full frontal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonCon's Red Beard Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Guys, I'm really sorry if I missed this, but are we ranting about this article yet? "...but likewise there are ways in which the show has made its female characters arguably more likeable (such as Sansa’s character in general), or gave them empowering new sequences (such as Brienne fighting The Hound)." I need to throw things. How the fuck are they more "likeable"? By being a victim or a mindless brute? And they keep insisting on "the show has done better". This time, they do it IN AN ARTICLE THAT IS AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR. Do they notice this? Does HE notice this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chebyshov Posted June 3, 2015 Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 So, empowerment comes in two flavors. "likeable" and "thuggish" otherwise, forget it, you're probably a no name extra doing full frontal? Fug necklaces = likable. I can't even articulate how angry that just made me. My brain is kind of short-circuiting from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbybuilderton Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 It's EW. I've said it like 5 times. They're bought and paid for by the show or HBO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1234567 Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 And all women were delicate flowers with not personality. Those who were strong disguised themselves as men. Medieval times for women were either Sansa or Brienne.Or sassy sexual jinxes like Marg...no complex female characters back then.....or to be fair many male ones looking at thaeshow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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