They changed half the cast almost arbitrarily and I spent the first 20 minutes being like :jesse-wtf: trying to figure out what happened.
Apparently there was like a 15 year time jump or something but most of the characters that didn't change actors look pretty much the same.
Anyway, the show remains very mid, but this bugged he hell out of me. I kinda feel like they went through all the trouble just so they could have a young looking actress get mostly nude in the first arc. Either that or some galaxy brain scheme to save on labor costs.
Feels like it's moving both too fast and too slow in different ways
The timeskips feel off but also how in the hell is it taking the king this long to die? He was old and sick in the first episode
I like that his life is dragging on and on, but damn they keep cutting to black as he's passing out tricking you into thinking he's dead this time.
I like it, its fun
But im a pmc radlib dsa karen, so what do i know
this new show is like GoT if it was only focused on the Lannisters
Damn, this could be both a damning critique or a glowing review depending on the point of view lol
There was a brief moment when Daenerys owned all those slavers where the show was amazing.
I've been googling for 10 minutes trying to figure out what gambo is. I failed
CTH has been calling it Gambo Thrones for a few weeks.
Gamba is a type of shrimp in spanish. Or at least a crustacean that looks so much like a shrimp i cant tell the diference.
So gambo sounds like rambo but with a shrimp asthethic.
I bet the HBO execs spend a lot of time staring longingly out windows thinking about how they should have forced D&D to go to ten seasons instead of being talked into ending it at eight.
That said they need to bring back Rome, dammit! There are so many sagas from Roman history that would look so good with the GoT polish!
They were sinking 10+ million into every episode for the final two seasons, and they were so fucking bad that everyone immediately forgot about it. I can guarantee that there were a fuckload of board exec meetings talking about how the IP was worth too much to sit on for long enough to find a way to do it correctly. They settled for "close enough"
Worst suicide method ever, too. Made no fucking sense. The walk there, how nobody stopped her, pretending the dragon gives a shit.
Generation spanning narratives are a prestige factor. Spending a lot of money is a prestige factor too.
you think the show is mid? im fucking loving it and want this injected directly into my veins
The fact that there were 3ish small time jumps of a few months to a couple years within the first two episodes, followed by this major time jump that literally requires getting rid of all the younger actors means nobody learned fuck all from the teleportation season of GoT and its going to get much much worse
people going from 15->30 change appearance a lot compared to 25->40 or 35->50. it's like a whole thing.
I don't really get the hate for shit like this, but I ever since Matt dunked on the show (which isn't great tbh), it's like people are in a race to find new shit to be upset about.
if you're sitting on the couch and feeling yourself get upset and confused at the box, just remember: "it's a TV progrum. a movie."
They should have just started the show when they were slightly older and used age makeup. I don't have any problem with stuff like this personally - I'm usually very good at suspending disbelief but they went about it in such a disjointed way.
i haven't watched it yet but i have been thinking critically about how bizarre the timeskip/cast change is logistically.
like is this show expected to run literally one season? why wouldn't you save this shit for a season change? how could there not be more to explore in the 'setting up' season for a 'shits going down' season? Season 1 of the predecessor series very much ended on an 'inciting incident' cliffhanger for warfare that was coming, when theres 15 fucking years between the essential set up bits and the bloody bits that is, to me, even more reason to save that.
perhaps the source material doesn't lend itself to a very long series? or didn't have enough content before a timeleap (assuming there even is one). idk its slightly interesting from a production standpoint but i cant be bothered to do research on a fairly mediocre project so far
My understanding is that the showrunners initially wanted to start the series right after the timeskip, and show everything that we've seen so far in flashback and/or just allude to it in dialogue, but GRRM insisted that they do all of the prelude stuff like normal episodes which is what resulted in the strange pacing so far.
:picard-annoyed: what a fucking weirdo. finish your damn book and stop making other mediums based on your books fucked up ya dweeb
He's never gonna finish it lmao. I think he's just straight up lost interest - should have stuck to his original plan of making it a trilogy.
This makes sense... Once I figured out what happened I was like... Why the hell wouldn't they just start the show when they were older?
I mean, yeah all the characters that aren't children or dead after ten minutes of screen time are monsters but I still enjoy the scheming and backstabbing and stuff.
