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  1. NOT TRUE. The problem is the writers who are nowhere close to the guys at Mad Men. We could get a taste of how differently it could be run with "Blackwater" which almost felt like Tyrion/Cersei special. The novels are narrated through point of view storytelling. There is nothing that stops the writers from doing anything...save their lack of skill and talent.
  2. That was sarcasm. A tv show is governed by different rules than the books but it doesn't mean that it can stop making sense. For example HOTU visions should obviously be different for clarity's sake but who they are now unintelligible and Drogo.. that was waste of time.What she was told and shown in the HOTU moves the next two books forward and not backwards. Similarly the Others have an intricate backstory in the books and in the show they are random monsters that look like blue crap. BLUE CRAP. Good art in a tv show is not about flashy cgi unless you are 7 and watch Transformers. Also If there is no sensible mythology regarding whitewalkers in the show - and there ISNT so far. The second season is much more fun to watch if you read the books mostly because spotting characters and events from the book is so much fun. But it is much weaker as a whole and on its own. Being a fan of the series does not mean you need to put 5 of 5stars everywhere like some fanbois. But perhaps you would also like to give 9/10 to this steaming piece of marketing crap that was known as Lost seasons 3 to 6? In this case I would ask whether you might have charged Kings Landing with Stannis without helmets.
  3. GRRM liked foreshadowing events with omens. I sadly think that the title 'valar morghulis' is such an omen. The quality of the episode suggested that the main creative force behind the series - Benioff and Weiss are out of their depth by far. First season was easy because the book was shorter, less descriptive and had fever pov characters in fewer locations. It was easier to adapt then because all you needed to do is simply translate the book page by page into a script. With CoK they had to do some creative work and it is clear they failed miserably. They completely lost story arcs relating to the Others (plenty of subtle hints in the novels) and the coming of age for many of the primary pov characters. They completely butchered the nature of the world - they shades of grey rather than black and white. Catelyn was greyed properly in season 2 by Jamie (finally). Robb turns out to be stupid not tragic with his marriage. Sansa wasn't naive and childish and confronted with harsh reality not known from songs and tales but just... well... bland...and boring. Bran is nothing special in season 2... and why? Dany is terrible... it is actually painful to watch. I often skip her scenes when watching again... The show turns out to be predictable and full of cliches everywhere the writers have a say. And there is political correctness which annoys the hell out of me in sf and fantasy settings It took a chunk of a amazing realism which Martin put into his world.Arranged marriages are rarely seen for what they really were as if the mere concept was offending. To even things out all whores are saints - so we get a lot of Shae and Ros and other saintly prostitutes.Ygritte turns out to be just a dumb horny b*tch from your regular high school and not the feisty free-minded woman who believes that Jon Snow "stole" her as it was her people's custom. And who by the way was a bastard... born out of wedlock - huge problem south of the wall, no problem up north. But apparently he chose the Watch because black was always his color. He just looks good in it.
  4. Hi Everyone.This is my first post so please forgive me the lenght of it. I can without any reservations give the final episode of the series a very strong zero.It was a huge letdown in term of overall writing, concept and annoying cheesiness and in particular - lack of proper plot execution for a season finale. The important thing is that the fault lies almost exclusively with the writers of the show. Every other aspect of the show was satisfactory at worst. It were Mr Benioff and Mr Weiss that completely butchered the episode and the season for me. I would be more satisfied if the previous episode (written by Marint) was the last one this season - even though it left so many subplots completely unresolved. This is the masure ot B&W failure ... or rather I should say a proof of their utter and complete lack of talent and imagination. Direction, scenography, actors...everything was great, good or just ok. Except for the story... a bundle of chaotic, pointless and downright annoying ideas of how to completely butcher a great story and fascinating characters. There were some great scenes in the episode. Most importantly Theon - the only pov character untouched by Benioff and Weiss' lack of writing skill and imagination. Arya and Tyrion were quite decent, believable, fairly faithful to the spirit of their characters and quite well played. The problem with Arya is that the scene was taken out of context which completely killed an interesting pov subplot. Tyrion was treated unspeakably in this episode. Not only we get very little of his loss of status which is a pivotal point to many many events in the season and will be in the next one (hopefully) but also we get the annoying good-hearted whore Shae again.To make things worse the writers get their motivations backwards to what they were in the novels. It is entirely believable with Tyrion since he is a bit different character here but that can only mean that Shae is going to be yet another whore saint in the future.Varys was great as usual and I can't only understand why we were fed this annoying whore Ros. To show a pair of regulation tits? Stannis again is a pale distant shade of the Stannis we know from the books and some of the better scenes in the series. Apparently he suffered some head injury when he charged the walls last week because he acts a little like a bipolar personality. Since the writers decided to forgo the struggle between Melissandre and Stannis' men altogether (why I will never know - it was fundamental to his story) his violent reaction to her makes some sort of sense yet when he is shown some pivotal revelation in the flames it is underplayed at best. What did he see? Himself on the iron throne? Because there was no single sign in the season that Melissandre is about anything more serious than some dynastic dispute. The scenes with Robb and Bran were boring. Robb in particular lost all his tragic elements with the way his story was handled. The tension between him and Cat was close to non-existant and his marriage to Oona Chaplin makes him immature and unreliable not tragically conflicted and young as in the novels. I pitied Martin's Robb ... this one seriously gets on my nerves. Also his new wife's profile is surprisingly unattractive. Catelyn was decent and her exchange with Jaime a few episodes back certainly made her a bit more faithful to the novels. These were the good and decent scenes. Here come the bad, the really bad and the truly monstrously awful... First Sansa/Cersei/Joffrey/etc. Horse taking a dump - fan favourite? Forced. Spoils of war? Artificial and forced. Bethrodal of Margaery? Unbelievable and primitive and it doesn't work even with the "revamped" golddigger Margaery of the series. Sansa's reaction? Well was she happy or sad? And what was the business with Baelish... The whole scene made no sense other than introduced some plot elements for future seasons and showed off actors on payroll. Sandor Clegane was right - f**k the king! It would be sooo much better to have Pycelle or Varys or Bronn tell that to Tyrion since that would give more screen time to a better and more important character. Lord Tywin was painfully disappoiniting also. He is so much more interesting than a guy on a horse. Then comes Jaime. To show how deadly Brienne is we have her fight Jaime, win and humiliate him and then they both get caught by Mummers and Jaime loses his sword hand.End of scene - great cliffhanger! Only that never happened! Instead we get some idiotic and pointless scene that takes up time and moves the story nowhere. But it can get better. Next on the list is Daenerys. It is truly unfair to complain about the lamest, most artificial and forced main character in the whole series. For once it is because this Daenerys is obviously some other Daenerys, probably some stupid D&D character. I am half ready to believe she is a fire elf or some such. The writers should have explained that the similarity with Martin's character is purely incidental. And I completely miss to see the point of the vision in the House of the Undying. The writers obviously do not understand why Martin put it there so why not simply cut to the showdown. But that is not the worst. The worst is undoubtedly Sam and the finale. Why would three horn blows foil a shit gathering raid rather than assasination attempt I will never know but then this is problably why I am not writing the series. But why on earth after all those disappointments, budget cuts and other changes we actually get to see the mythical, dreadful, unknown, unseen for millenia Others if all the creative people can come up with are some cheesy B-movie knock-off monsters who squeal like a butchered pig??????? Were they supposed to be scary? They were laughably pathetic even more so than those furballs we glimpsed in the prologue. But my main reason is why they were there in the first place. Can anyone honestly tell me why they are there in the first place??? I can manage some stupid nonsensical magic because of the dragons... but why those clowns???? Gods be good we know that the writers can't see the most important story arc in the whole saga. Sorry for the lenght of it.
  5. Hi Everyone.This is my first post so please forgive me the lenght of it. I can without any reservations give the final episode of the series a very strong zero.It was a huge letdown in term of overall writing, concept and annoying cheesiness and in particular - lack of proper plot execution for a season finale. The important thing is that the fault lies almost exclusively with the writers of the show. Every other aspect of the show was satisfactory at worst. It were Mr Benioff and Mr Weiss that completely butchered the episode and the season for me. I would be more satisfied if the previous episode (written by Marint) was the last one this season - even though it left so many subplots completely unresolved. This is the masure ot B&W failure ... or rather I should say a proof of their utter and complete lack of talent and imagination. Direction, scenography, actors...everything was great, good or just ok. Except for the story... a bundle of chaotic, pointless and downright annoying ideas of how to completely butcher a great story and fascinating characters. There were some great scenes in the episode. Most importantly Theon - the only pov character untouched by Benioff and Weiss' lack of writing skill and imagination. Arya and Tyrion were quite decent, believable, fairly faithful to the spirit of their characters and quite well played. The problem with Arya is that the scene was taken out of context which completely killed an interesting pov subplot. Tyrion was treated unspeakably in this episode. Not only we get very little of his loss of status which is a pivotal point to many many events in the season and will be in the next one (hopefully) but also we get the annoying good-hearted whore Shae again.To make things worse the writers get their motivations backwards to what they were in the novels. It is entirely believable with Tyrion since he is a bit different character here but that can only mean that Shae is going to be yet another whore saint in the future.Varys was great as usual and I can't only understand why we were fed this annoying whore Ros. To show a pair of regulation tits? Stannis again is a pale distant shade of the Stannis we know from the books and some of the better scenes in the series. Apparently he suffered some head injury when he charged the walls last week because he acts a little like a bipolar personality. Since the writers decided to forgo the struggle between Melissandre and Stannis' men altogether (why I will never know - it was fundamental to his story) his violent reaction to her makes some sort of sense yet when he is shown some pivotal revelation in the flames it is underplayed at best. What did he see? Himself on the iron throne? Because there was no single sign in the season that Melissandre is about anything more serious than some dynastic dispute. The scenes with Robb and Bran were boring. Robb in particular lost all his tragic elements with the way his story was handled. The tension between him and Cat was close to non-existant and his marriage to Oona Chaplin makes him immature and unreliable not tragically conflicted and young as in the novels. I pitied Martin's Robb ... this one seriously gets on my nerves. Also his new wife's profile is surprisingly unattractive. Catelyn was decent and her exchange with Jaime a few episodes back certainly made her a bit more faithful to the novels. These were the good and decent scenes. Here come the bad, the really bad and the truly monstrously awful... First Sansa/Cersei/Joffrey/etc. Horse taking a dump - fan favourite? Forced. Spoils of war? Artificial and forced. Bethrodal of Margaery? Unbelievable and primitive and it doesn't work even with the "revamped" golddigger Margaery of the series. Sansa's reaction? Well was she happy or sad? And what was the business with Baelish... The whole scene made no sense other than introduced some plot elements for future seasons and showed off actors on payroll. Sandor Clegane was right - f**k the king! It would be sooo much better to have Pycelle or Varys or Bronn tell that to Tyrion since that would give more screen time to a better and more important character. Lord Tywin was painfully disappoiniting also. He is so much more interesting than a guy on a horse. Then comes Jaime. To show how deadly Brienne is we have her fight Jaime, win and humiliate him and then they both get caught by Mummers and Jaime loses his sword hand.End of scene - great cliffhanger! Only that never happened! Instead we get some idiotic and pointless scene that takes up time and moves the story nowhere. But it can get better. Next on the list is Daenerys. It is truly unfair to complain about the lamest, most artificial and forced main character in the whole series. For once it is because this Daenerys is obviously some other Daenerys, probably some stupid D&D character. I am half ready to believe she is a fire elf or some such. The writers should have explained that the similarity with Martin's character is purely incidental. And I completely miss to see the point of the vision in the House of the Undying. The writers obviously do not understand why Martin put it there so why not simply cut to the showdown. But that is not the worst. The worst is undoubtedly Sam and the finale. Why would three horn blows foil a shit gathering raid rather than assasination attempt I will never know but then this is problably why I am not writing the series. But why on earth after all those disappointments, budget cuts and other changes we actually get to see the mythical, dreadful, unknown, unseen for millenia Others if all the creative people can come up with are some cheesy B-movie knock-off monsters who squeal like a butchered pig??????? Were they supposed to be scary? They were laughably pathetic even more so than those furballs we glimpsed in the prologue. But my main reason is why they were there in the first place. Can anyone honestly tell me why they are there in the first place??? I can manage some stupid nonsensical magic because of the dragons... but why those clowns???? Gods be good we know that the writers can't see the most important story arc in the whole saga. Sorry for the lenght of it.
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