2019-05-24, 04:00 | Link #2261 |
Shitpost Gremlin
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Formerly Iwakawa base and Chaldea. Now Teyvat, the Astral Express & the Outpost
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A French youtuber have made a apt description of the finale season, especially the last episode. I quote from memory and will put it in english the best I can, "Its closer to a draft than to an actual written scenario. We get the bones of the ending, but not the meat. Which is why it have this slight unfinished, uncooked, taste. Leaving a lot unable to digest the fact that Bran is the winner."
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2019-05-25, 17:23 | Link #2263 | |
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
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For me it doesn't get much worse than a prisoner that was just asked to shut his mouth choosing the next King on his own and the Lords basically acting as yes men. An actual discussion might have been nice.
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2019-05-25, 19:15 | Link #2264 |
Seishu's Ace
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kyoto, Japan
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It's an incredibly low bar, but I would concur that while awful, the finale was less awful than I feared. At the very least, "The Last of the Starks" ended up being the low ebb of the series.
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2019-05-25, 23:28 | Link #2265 |
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Game of Thrones’ Exciting Future: Dragons, Mermaids, Zombies and More:
"There’s no way to tell when another TV cultural event on the scale of Game of Thrones will come along, but at least three more stories set in George R.R. Martin’s world are currently vying for a chance at success on the small screen. The Song of Ice and Fire author is at work on at least one prequel series helmed and co-written by Jane Goldman (Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, Kingsman). The pilot for that series—which may or may not unofficially be titled The Long Night, as Martin hinted in his blog before HBO hushed him up—has locked down a director, its cast, its lead (Naomi Watts!), and will start shooting early this summer. And that’s just one of the five different Game of Thrones spinoff concepts that HBO commissioned before its biggest ratings smash took a final bow. But when you play the game of shared-Thrones-iverse franchise domination, you win or you die—and at least two of those spinoff concepts are already kaput, according to Martin. That leaves Goldman’s pilot and another two pitches from a talent pool including Mad Men and Leftovers scribe Carly Wray, Kong: Skull Island screenwriter Max Borenstein, and L.A. Confidential writer Brian Helgeland. While we know Goldman’s potential series is set near the end of Westeros’ Age of Heroes (more on that in a bit), we’re still in the dark about the other two. All we know is that each takes place before the events of Thrones. HBO president Casey Bloys squashed the idea of a direct sequel in an interview with Deadline last week, meaning we’re unlikely to watch Arya Stark discover what’s west of Westeros, find out where Drogon laid down Dany’s corpse, or see what happens to Westeros after a human screensaver is installed as king. “I think it’s best to try the prequels in other areas of George’s massive universe—just feels like the right thing to do, let the show stand on its own,” Bloys said." See: https://www.thedailybeast.com/game-o...-more?ref=home |
2019-05-26, 08:19 | Link #2266 |
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Vladimir, Russia
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I don't really think GoT prequels can become as nearly as big as GoT itself. Right now, out of the upcoming fantasy series series (of course, if they won't fail quality-wise) the only one that might compare is Wheel of Time adaptation. There's also Witcher series coming out, but it's fundamentally different series of books - while it does have some political intrigues and warfare, it's more about colourful characters and witty dialogues. And action. Early stories are pretty much "Fairy tles having a more dark and realistic turn". There's also Lord of the rings TV series by Amazon, but it's hard to judge the result, sicne it's an original series.
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2019-05-26, 09:56 | Link #2267 | |
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sums up the finale season perfectly.
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