My favorite was when in the last scene of the series finale Tyrion walked into the council meeting and just said "What, are we just gonna sit here and play our little Game of Thrones?"
My favorite was when Hillary stans compared her to Daenerys and then there was an episode where Daenerys massacred a city, causing said Hillary stans to complain about "Berniebros ruining television"
For people who had read the books published in 2015, it was painfully obvious that stanning anyone as Khaleesi or naming your kid that would look silly in the future. From the books released, she had already ordered children to be tortured and it was heavily foreshadowed she might be murderously insane.
Like I get it but god damn making the only person in the show who was willing to fight for the freedom of slaves into a medieval fascist was pretty fucked.
The first could of seasons have a lot of staying power, that's for sure. Amazon tried to unseat GoT with their Wheel of Time show and it was just embarrassing. My guess is that Apple's LotR will crash and burn too.
i like my fantasy slop leave the wheel of time alone!!! :rage-cry:
In all seriousness, most genuine praise I’ll give the show is that they made some decently thought out changes to some characters that I always thought were just dumb and cringy. Not specifically talking about character traits or character growth, but Robert Jordan’s hints of weirdness coming through.
My biggest gripe is how rushed everything turned out.
It's closer to the author pointing out how dumb those takes are by flipping them on their heads, like having characters talk about how gossipy and useless men are.
Sure, you can categorize scifi and fantasy from the 50s-90s based on plot, subject matter, genre, whatever. Or you could categorize it based on the authors barely concealed sexual fetish that will reliably show up in every book they write.
It's not like movie theaters where you can look at the box office reciepts and know for sure that a movie was or was not a flop, nothing on streaming ever crashes and burns. Even if literally nobody watches it and the critics pan it, LotR will get a ton of marketing and multiple seasons so that they can claim it was totally successful.
Just let me know when we get a show that starts by making you think it's a GOT spin-off until revealing it's really a Westworld spin-off that takes place in the GOT park
Hosts get woke, realize feudalism is a bunch of great man theory pigshit, start a robo-revolution :cyber-lenin:, become true breakers of chains, and melt down the iron throne for recycling.
The best thing about GoT references is that they'll be culturally relevant forever
My favorite was when in the last scene of the series finale Tyrion walked into the council meeting and just said "What, are we just gonna sit here and play our little Game of Thrones?"
I think the objectively best moment was when Game Throne walked into the room and said "It's Thronin' time!" and Throned all over everybody.
Honestly, that still wouldn't be as stupid as the whole "Hold the door" thing...
i thought that was kinda cool though, what I won't forgive is fucking up the Tower of Joy scene with some shitty Hollywood shenanigans.
that was my favorite episode to trick my hodor-loving SO into watching. just sad the whole thing didn't turn out better.
My favorite was when Hillary stans compared her to Daenerys and then there was an episode where Daenerys massacred a city, causing said Hillary stans to complain about "Berniebros ruining television"
For people who had read the books published in 2015, it was painfully obvious that stanning anyone as Khaleesi or naming your kid that would look silly in the future. From the books released, she had already ordered children to be tortured and it was heavily foreshadowed she might be murderously insane.
Like I get it but god damn making the only person in the show who was willing to fight for the freedom of slaves into a medieval fascist was pretty fucked.
Yeah, but her "idealist slowly transforms into a ruthless ruler" arc was set up pretty early on.
Haiti just nodded quietly I am sure
This is why I always try and tell people sometimes realism ruins the immersion. :bernie:
Yall joke but they actually said the name of the show in the first season
The first could of seasons have a lot of staying power, that's for sure. Amazon tried to unseat GoT with their Wheel of Time show and it was just embarrassing. My guess is that Apple's LotR will crash and burn too.
i like my fantasy slop leave the wheel of time alone!!! :rage-cry:
In all seriousness, most genuine praise I’ll give the show is that they made some decently thought out changes to some characters that I always thought were just dumb and cringy. Not specifically talking about character traits or character growth, but Robert Jordan’s hints of weirdness coming through.
My biggest gripe is how rushed everything turned out.
Everything I've heard about Wheel of Time makes it sound like 14 books of :grillman: level takes about how women are like this, men are like that
It's closer to the author pointing out how dumb those takes are by flipping them on their heads, like having characters talk about how gossipy and useless men are.
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Sure, you can categorize scifi and fantasy from the 50s-90s based on plot, subject matter, genre, whatever. Or you could categorize it based on the authors barely concealed sexual fetish that will reliably show up in every book they write.
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I will never stop being mad they just gave Perrin a new wife to fridge her Ep 1 like excuse me, he has a wife, she's the queen of fucking Saldaea
I'm very hopeful season 2 is more salvageable. I just wanna see my poor emo red haired better-Anakin please 🥺
It's not like movie theaters where you can look at the box office reciepts and know for sure that a movie was or was not a flop, nothing on streaming ever crashes and burns. Even if literally nobody watches it and the critics pan it, LotR will get a ton of marketing and multiple seasons so that they can claim it was totally successful.
Literaly the Alex Kurtzman/CBS strategy for Trek.
Just let me know when we get a show that starts by making you think it's a GOT spin-off until revealing it's really a Westworld spin-off that takes place in the GOT park
That's the slop I'm waiting for
Hosts get woke, realize feudalism is a bunch of great man theory pigshit, start a robo-revolution :cyber-lenin:, become true breakers of chains, and melt down the iron throne for recycling.
I still haven't seen it and probably never will
sorry, still don't care