Rant & Rave Season 8 [Spoilers]: When you are cool like a cucumber, as evil as the mother of madness, but never as perfect as the pet!

[Minsc]

27 minutes ago, Cas Stark said:

Yes, like everything else in the show, the costumes inexplicably got worse as the seasons went on.  There were a lot of costumes I enjoyed in the first couple of seasons, although, it must be said, making Winterfell  a dirty rustic hovel without any grandeur at all was tragic. You would think over the course of 8,000 years they would have accumulated some nice art and porcelain, not to mention better candle holders, LOL. 

I recently rewatched the scene where Sam has dinner with his family that has to be one of the worse sets in the series.  The dinner scene is an almost pitch black like the Tarlys have no light in their castle at all.  Yet, on the outside IIRC the castle looked more like off the set of Downton Abbey.

[Count Balerion]

 

[Lady Fevre Dream]

Ah, Michelle Clapton of the Cloven Hoofs?  I ran a search for that picture, alas, Google did not seem to understand my request, LOL 

 

[Le Cygne]

15 hours ago, Lady Fevre Dream said:

Ah, Michelle Clapton of the Cloven Hoofs?  I ran a search for that picture, alas, Google did not seem to understand my request, LOL

Cloven hoofs!

[Lady Fevre Dream]

55 minutes ago, Le Cygne said:

Cloven hoofs!

HA!!  I can almost understand Google's confusion.  Why oh why would someone that's a supposed costume designer, fashion aficionado wear such things?  You were kind not to give a closeup the clovenness, so to speak. 

[Count Balerion]

FIRE CANNOT KILL A DRAGON, CHAPTER 28. SEASON 8 BEGINS

not much in this chapter. but ...

anderson (GW) "i had a certain level of suspicion."

hempstead-wright (bran): "at first i genuinely thought it was a joke script." [!!!]

technical difficulty w/ scripts: cunningham (davos): "everybody thought i was a luddite b/c i couldn't open them [scripts]. later i got to belfast ... and they couldn't open them either."

NCW sent gwendoline christie (brienne) an e-mail about scripts. "i sent back a being-sick emoji. how modern."

"as the showrunners continued to check their e-mail, several cast members felt abruptly inspired to take long walks."

weiss: "why aren't they writing?! does that mean they like it? does that mean they hate it?"

ms. turner: "when you're actually reading it, and partly b/c david and dan are pranksters, you're thinking 'this can't be true!'"

emilia clarke: "the effect it had on me was profound. i left the house ... and walked home w/ blisters b/c i walked for hours."

more later.

[The Dragon Demands]

yeah

[Count Balerion]

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[Le Cygne]

15 hours ago, Count Balerion said:

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That will never not be funny - "he hopes for one last moment with her"! The whole scene is just so stupid, and so stupidly written... and then comes that last stupid line.

And it just calls out that they didn't give her a last moment. A main character didn't get to say something profound about her own ebbing life. It was All About Him.

She went crazy because of some guy, and then she died because of some guy, and they still made it all about some guy. I'm surprised they didn't make her thank him!

[The Dragon Demands]

yeah

[Le Cygne]

They were all about the shot (those faces! make it shocking! add special effects! copy a movie!) They don't write stories, they string together meaningless shots with nonsense.

(It's also funny how they just blatantly admit that's what they did.)

 

[SeanF]

3 hours ago, Le Cygne said:

That will never not be funny - "he hopes for one last moment with her"! The whole scene is just so stupid, and so stupidly written... and then comes that last stupid line.

And it just calls out that they didn't give her a last moment. A main character didn't get to say something profound about her own ebbing life. It was All About Him.

She went crazy because of some guy, and then she died because of some guy, and they still made it all about some guy. I'm surprised they didn't make her thank him!

I suppose the same way that Denis Neilsen hoped for "one last moment" with the people he'd just strangled. 

[Count Balerion]

tounching, yes?

"last minute" seems to be a big part of their modus operandi.

[Ghostlydragon]

4 hours ago, The Dragon Demands said:

Also consider that they admitted they focused all their attention on this one “perfect” scene, for awards baiting,...  at the expense of paying attention to the rest of the season. How in the series finale inside the episode, only released in the blu ray....they blurt out casually “we spent so much time focusing on getting that one scene perfect that we didn’t think of the political fallout after that until the last minute”

They should have ended it there. Let it end with Drogon seeing what Jon has done, prepare to kill him. Focus on Kit's face, and then end on that cliffhanger.  

Everything that came after was so stupid and made no sense anyway so why not just end the story with the end of the Targaryens.

[Nowy Tends]

20 hours ago, Count Balerion said:

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The script is so bad that even my toilet bowl would reject it but we could hope that the actors would "take it upon themselves"…

Alas no… I've seen high school plays in which the tragic scenes with the death of the loved one were far more believable and moving. 

[Lady Fevre Dream]

So, this is the clip that came by my TTL on Twitter today.

For The North?  Jon Snow centric? 

 

Honestly, I don't know whether to be mad or sad:  It is so obvious in this trailer that there is a flow thread lacking in the whole thing.  The beginning and the end are not connected by any kind of sensible middle?  It's such a disconnect. 

[Lady Fevre Dream]

My computer is still a nightmare, so let's see if I can get a simple message across.

One good thing, I can't imagine seeing any finished product from the D&D bozos anytime soon.  They seem to keep having projects taken from them.  It seems no one really trusts them.  I can't imagine why, LOL

[divica]

18 minutes ago, Lady Fevre Dream said:

My computer is still a nightmare, so let's see if I can get a simple message across.

One good thing, I can't imagine seeing any finished product from the D&D bozos anytime soon.  They seem to keep having projects taken from them.  It seems no one really trusts them.  I can't imagine why, LOL

weren t they paid a fortune by netflix?

[Lady Fevre Dream]

1 minute ago, divica said:

weren t they paid a fortune by netflix?

Considering they were already rich, I'm not sure that is the point.

MY point is that we still haven't seen any WORK with their names on it.  That seems to be what matters to them most, anyway.  If Netflix doesn't get something out of them, then Netflix can worry about the cash they blew on them. 

[divica]

7 minutes ago, Lady Fevre Dream said:

Considering they were already rich, I'm not sure that is the point.

MY point is that we still haven't seen any WORK with their names on it.  That seems to be what matters to them most, anyway.  If Netflix doesn't get something out of them, then Netflix can worry about the cash they blew on them. 

but before covid they had a show planed right? I remember readind about it somewhere.