Game of Thrones season 8 trailer...
...has finally been released. I was starting to believe they would never release it simply because they want to milk it and there really is no need for a trailer - they know every fan is going to watch season 8 regardless.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-game-of-thrones-final-season-trailer-is-preparing-u-1833063805
Simpsons Nerd Gif {here}
Looks like a dandy
I need to watch this show and never have.
I wish this show was still good. I blame Martin as much as the show runners and their inability to drive the show without his writing.
As long as Arya marks off Cersei and The Mountain from her list, I'll be happy. Which means this probably won't happen and I will be unhappy for a period of time.
She won't be the one to kill either. From the very first book(s), it was obvious that Cersei would be killed by Jaime and Gregor Clagange by his brother.
Welp, I'm done watching.
Meh - there are a few aspects of both the books/show that have absolutely no subtlety to them (the foreshadowing in Romeo & Juliet was more mysterious than who kills these two characters). That being said, the how will be interesting to see and what happens to the rest of the Stark & Lanister clans is very open to debate.
You had me at "Game of Thrones."
GOT is the GOAT of television. (Read the books...they are amazing...but you would need the show to be in TV for 20 years to do the books justice...so to it like comparing apples to oranges.). Only thing that I am not happy about is once this season is over...that is it. It has been an amazing ride watching this series. (I am sure the prequels will be fun...but prequels even when good are never quite the same.)
The books are good, but not amazing. People claim that Martin is the "American Tolkien", but the GoT books (A Song of Ice and Fire to be more precise) pale in comparison from a literary quality standpoint to Tolkein's works (keeping in the same genre). Martin is a TV screenwriter by nature and his books read similarly.
Yeah, I agree with you there.
Tolkien is a better writer. The books are good but a bit uneven. I think he did get alot of (justifiable) credit for keeping the reader in complete suspense as to what was going to happen.
Do not care.
Way OT and should be so labeled.
It's almost as if you had a choice to not click on the informative title.
It is. But sometimes I like to comment on threads that I believe are mis-titled. Blogs are for opinions. Even if they aren't expressly congruent with mine.
Clicking BACK into the thread you don't care about is some truly next level stuff.
I've never watched the HBO GOT. I read all 5 of the Songs of Ice and Fire books. Did HBO just start making up their own story line after season 5? Jon Snow was killed at the end of book 5 by a bastard black watch, that he helped train. I guess HBO brought him back to life. I'm still waiting for Martin's Winds of Winter to come out. There are reports it may be out in December of this year. I wonder how much different it will be from the HBO series.
1) Jon Snow was always going to be brought back to life.
2) Martin has told Benioff and Weiss(the showrunners)how the series ends as well as the broad strokes of his vision for the plot. So yeah, they have been making some things up, but have been staying within the story structure he provided to them
3) This is likely the reason the rest of the books will never be finished, he's probably pissed that he had to tell someone the ending and is probably trying to figure out how to write a new one now.
4) I think a big reason for a lot of the "fast-forwarding" of season seven was the creators knew it was to set the table for the endgame and they need to cut through all the different plot threads Martin put in and bring everyone back to a similar place, plus you can tell they're all getting pretty sick of making the show and are ready for it to end. It sucks as it was a hit to the quality, but the plot got spread so thin this was the only way to wrap it up without requiring two more seasons.
Movie better than a book? Oh its Dune... No question. I mean it rains at the end of the movie! How great is that?
Book better than the movie: Battle Field Earth by R.L. Hubbard. The movie with John Travolta was just awful!
Read the book back in high school and enjoyed it (thankfully unaware at the time about Hubbard's other writings). Heard from others that the movie was horrible when it was released and refused to see it to this day - still feel it was the right choice.
What have your strategies been for preparing for the final season? It was a tough debate with the wife figuring out how much time we had to rewatch and how many seasons to go back. Ended up starting with Season 4 Episode 9 as I couldn't not watch that one after we had agreed to make time to squeeze in 5-7 before 8 starts.
Obvs I regret not starting earlier and doing all 7 seasons with all the time we had, but oh well. At the time I was binging Breaking Bad and then life got in the way.
Whatever show I am watching my wife always gets into it and then I have to wait for her and am totally slowed down. This has happened with BB, TWD, GoT, Americans and Last Kingdom... very annoying. I sound very selfish.
The Last Kingdom was a good. That is all.
The first twenty minutes of Episode 10 of season 6 may be the best 20 minutes of TV ever (provided that you'd seen the story to that point). Only 45 lines of dialogue in twenty minutes - the music and visuals carried the whole story. That's the kind of stuff only GoT could do.
I’m definitely looking forward to it, but I really feel betrayed by the GR Martin statement, “can’t let them catch me”. Then he did, and Now we can probably expect a weird last book
Yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn
My loyalty lies with the King in the North!
Beat Sparty!!
Has anyone read Fire & Blood, the Targaryen history that came out last fall? Is it worth reading?