Meera of Tarth Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 So... Brienne dies in the premiere :lol: :frown5: :frown5: :frown5: :frown5: NO way!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Ghost of Someone Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Cast rule #1 never admit to being a book reader. Rule#2 refer to rule #1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyBazooka Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Gwen Christie HAS read the books. That's why she's probably not going to be connecting again Jaime. :bawl: http://cdn.memeslanding.com/2013/6/13/68413318eb0f9c8b9dfe2462b038df8c.gif ^D&D's face when someone says they read the books outloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kissdbyfire Posted September 16, 2015 Author Share Posted September 16, 2015 http://angrygotfan.com/2015/09/16/season-5-guest-review-why-i-am-done-with-this-show/ Hmm, disagree with a lot there. Still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Ghost of Someone Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 I am sick of tyrion. St tyrion. Sooo sick of him. Killing him and a couple of others would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TepidHands Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Except for everything and everyone found in Dorne. THAT had no time to devolve, as it was trash from the first scene. Ok, I LOL'd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuvuuia Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Ok, I LOL'd. I liked Doran's chair, it was beautiful :frown5: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morgan1213 Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Hotah axe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annara Snow Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 http://angrygotfan.com/2015/09/16/season-5-guest-review-why-i-am-done-with-this-show/ Hmm, disagree with a lot there. Still. The article is OK, except for the completely inaccurate fanon that females have no right to the throne. Which I just pointed out in a comment that is awaiting moderation. Also, teenage girls are definitely not the show's target audience. Or women of any age. Though maybe they thought boy band Trystane would cover the teen girl market. Which shows that they don't even have a clue about pleasing any target demographic other than 18-30 males. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Agrippa Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 I haven't found much on demographics. Midly interesting since the show is big Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TepidHands Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 The article is OK, except for the completely inaccurate fanon that females have no right to the throne. Which I just pointed out in a comment that is awaiting moderation. Also, teenage girls are definitely not the show's target audience. Or women of any age. Though maybe they thought boy band Trystane would cover the teen girl market. Which shows that they don't even have a clue about pleasing any target demographic other than 18-30 males. There are lots of Jon Snow fangirls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annara Snow Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 I haven't found much on demographics. Midly interesting since the show is big I don't know what the statistics are, but it's obvious who the show is primarily catering to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annara Snow Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 There are lots of Jon Snow fangirls. True. But this article claims that Dany is supposed to be the teenage girl magnet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Agrippa Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 I don't know what the statistics are, but it's obvious who the show is primarily catering to. http://www.economistgroup.com/leanback/consumers/how-game-of-thrones-embraces-the-mass-intelligent/ This is back when the show didn't go full Hobbit but I found it amusing. I remember most people who watched the show had no idea Jon snow was the most imporant character and all he got was hate. Granted, they did give him an off-putting storyline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TepidHands Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 According to a 2013 article on Wired, GoT audience for the current season was 58 percent male to 42 percent female ... but "positive social media activity" involving the show was 50-50 (kind of like this board, eh?). Be curious about next season, since a lot of intelligent people (book lovers) are thinking about sitting it out. Then here's something that makes me want to Meryn Trant someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Agrippa Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Book readers won't. They will hate watch. I know I won't watch it because rvb, suits,premier league, euro2016, and Vikings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby b's bobby Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 According to a 2013 article on Wired, GoT audience for the current season was 58 percent male to 42 percent female ... but "positive social media activity" involving the show was 50-50 (kind of like this board, eh?). Be curious about next season, since a lot of intelligent people (book lovers) are thinking about sitting it out. Then here's something that makes me want to Meryn Trant someone. I'd bet that more than half of those saying they won't watch will watch if only out of morbid curiosity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toth Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Then here's something that makes me want to Meryn Trant someone. I have no idea why I read that. Seriously, what did you expect from that article? I just looked at the history of the author and... seriously what did you expect? That woman basically makes a living on stereotypes and being horribly superficial. On another note, we could write up an article "Why intelligent people hate Game of Thrones". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annara Snow Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 According to a 2013 article on Wired, GoT audience for the current season was 58 percent male to 42 percent female ... but "positive social media activity" involving the show was 50-50 (kind of like this board, eh?). Be curious about next season, since a lot of intelligent people (book lovers) are thinking about sitting it out. Then here's something that makes me want to Meryn Trant someone. It's interesting to note that anither statistics shows that 60% of ASOIAF readers are female. Another thing to keep in mind is that the majority of media and entertainment primarily cater to men, that catering to men is seen as the default setting, and that women are used to reading, listening to and watching things that primarily cater to men, while the opposite is not the case. For instance, no one sees anything unusual in a fictional work having a male protagonist, and this is not seen as its defining characteristic. But if it has female protagonist or protagonists, it automatically becomes "chick lit" or "chick flic", unless the protagonist's role is to be a highly sexualized fetish action girl (Charlie's Angels etc.). That's why people tend to assume that, for instance, The Hunger Games series is for teenage girls, though there is no particular reason that should be the case other than the main character being a girl; but no one says that Harry Potter was aimed just at teenage boys, rather than children and teenagers in general. But if Hermione had been the main character, you bet it would be considered a series for girls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toth Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 That's why people tend to assume that, for instance, The Hunger Games series is for teenage girls, though there is no particular reason that should be the case other than the main character being a girl; but no one says that Harry Potter was aimed just at teenage boys, rather than children and teenagers in general. But if Hermione had been the main character, you bet it would be considered a series for girls. Funnily enough a reader from my own essay about women written by men had brought up exactly this point with exactly these examples. And I find my own thoughts regarding this subject extremely troubling. Because it is a self-fulfilling prophecy with that mindset. If you have a book and lable it as 'for girls', you actually try to sell it to girls. That's why I as a male thinking about the Hunger Games cannot help but associate it with a love triangle because this is the part the medias point out as the primary focus because they think this is what the primary focus of the girlish readers should be like. That's pure insanity! And that's how you exclude boys who think they have no business reading something 'for girls'. The Harry Potter example is therefore interesting because I am of the opinion that if you swap the gender of Harry, keep the story otherwise completely intact and don't change the advertising at all... then it would have the same impact upon male readers than it actually had. Because people became invested in the setting, not the gender of the protagonist. But if they changed the advertising, it would all fall apart, because the exclusion would be right there. That's at least what my teenage self tells me, that he would never read 'girl's stuff', he would violently refuse it. (It's actually kinda funny, because I know my tastes at that age. One of my favourite shows while I was in primary school was 'Slayers', an Anime targeted at young boys with the quirk of having a female protagonist. I remember the network it run at had basically no advertising at all, so I just liked it on my own volition. Because it was funny and it had a decent amount of action. I never cared much that Lina was a girl, she was just awesome and thankfully not sexualized at all with her fancy sorceress-attire). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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