KokoDrogo Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 A friend sent me a link to this...it got me kinda irritated and I wanted to share:http://www.ideacouture.com/blog/2011/05/01/hbo-design-thinking-and-tv/Seems pretty wonky as a critique. What does everybody else think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 They may want to practice their design skills on blog posts less obviously fishing for attention and nakedly begging for work. Heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerraPrime Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 A friend sent me a link to this...it got me kinda irritated and I wanted to share:http://www.ideacouture.com/blog/2011/05/01/hbo-design-thinking-and-tv/Seems pretty wonky as a critique. What does everybody else think?Poorly written, complete op-ed piece of not much substance. Lots of blah-blahing, very little content. To top it off, the second-to-last paragraph is basically an advertisement for the firm. Yeah... ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenophon Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Apparently they missed Ginia Bellafante's explanation that the seasons in GoT are metaphor for global warming. Timely, relevant, and all done without Idea Couture's proprietary zeitgeist-analyzing industry scan. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KokoDrogo Posted May 2, 2011 Author Share Posted May 2, 2011 Among other things, I suppose. My friend just told me that he commented and posted a response to the article but they actually deleted it. Awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swordfish Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 I didn't look at the link, so I'll take it on faith that it's as bad as you guys say.But I will add this: In instances where the show is shown even the mildest of criticisms, fans of the story are not coming off very well.A good example of this is the popcandy blog. If anyone gets geek fandom, it's her, and the comments on her posts about the show were brutal.Granted, it's likely a small percentage of fans, but i don't recall seeing this kind of reaction for other shows/movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NW Deserter Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 I'm really not even sure what that article was specifically criticizing. Horribly written piece.To the above poster...agreed, the fans of GRRM are very fiercely loyal and enjoy defending the books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smegma Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 That was terribly written and muddled - are they blasting those character images? Do they know they were made by fans, not HBO? Maybe they do, but it was hard to discern their actual point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerraPrime Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 That was terribly written and muddled - are they blasting those character images? Do they know they were made by fans, not HBO? Maybe they do, but it was hard to discern their actual point.Seems to me that they just wanted to post something related to GoT to get some foot traffic to their site so they can shill for their service. :dunno: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonias Snow Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 This person is one of those individuals who believes all forms of entertainment should incorporate relevant societal topics and issues within their stories, music, films, etc. That entertainment should preach and teach and not entertain, but the masses want to be entertained, period. If this person only likes what he likes, they should produce it themselves and not try to make the industries change their tune and march to a different drummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L’Age d’or Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Is it just me or the whole didnt have a point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holymoly Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 To be honest I would have preferred it if the producers had shed the whole "fantasy" tag and labelled it instead a "fictional" world. The word fantasy has been used for far too long as a hook from which to hang belittling criticism. If Avatar had been marketted as Fantasy Schlock it would have only attracted the minimal attention it deserved. Instead the "3D" buzzword was used and the rest is history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueMetis Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Not entirely sure what that was about but the paragraph whoring their company might have worked better if the website it was posted on not looked like utter crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywolf2375 Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 I read it. Was going to make a comment then realized it wouldn't make a difference. Well, they plan seems to be working - it is getting people to their site. But...lead a horse to water/get them to drink seems appropriate here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padraig Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 A good example of this is the popcandy blog. If anyone gets geek fandom, it's her, and the comments on her posts about the show were brutal.Granted, it's likely a small percentage of fans, but i don't recall seeing this kind of reaction for other shows/movies.There has been a couple of threads about this. Critiquing the Critics for one. It is an interesting phenomenon. I don't know enough about other shows/movies to compare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naz Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 If you read the last comment (so far) by the blog's author, he digs his own grave by further clarifying that he has no problem with the show on an 'intellectual' level and can understand its 'intellectual' appeal, but it just doesn't resonate for him in particular. How this one's dude's personal tastes have anything to do with such a thing as 'design thinking', I have no clue. Especially when you consider that the term itself is actually meaningless (the way that it's used here, anyway) and is just a means by which certain designers distance themselves even further from the people they're purporting to serve. It's a term used by pseudo-highbrow designers to tell people that designers are smarter than you and that you should let them take care of the thinking for you.And this is coming from a designer. (A pseudo-highbrow one, in fact.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talleyrand Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 I got lost when they started listing other shows for some reason and just skipped to the bottom where they come off like someone trying to do an advertisement while in the witness box."At our firm we don't encourage triple murder suicides!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alguien Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 As someone who works with designers and usually picks who we use, I have to say I wasn't impressed with the website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phostopheles Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 He claims to understand that tv shows should be tailored to public interests even at the cost of originality, yet insists that they all be culturally relevant. He claims that tv should be informative and intelligent, yet watches (and enjoys) some of the stupidest shit out there. He claims that Game of Thrones is neither informative/intelligent/relevant, and yet completely ignores the fact that most of its intrigue spawned from the gritty reality of medieval culture. Worst anthropologist ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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