joshEH
Senior HTF Member
My wife and I must be among the 10 people in the country who have not seen this series, until recently. With our new AppleTV 4K we have HBOGO and a subscription to HBO via DTV. I think you can subscribe to HBOGO if you don’t have an HBO subscription. So, it looks likethere’s more content on GO than you can shake a stick at.Maybe you need to have read the books to really enjoy this show but I thought it was a total bore. In all fairness to the show, I thought it was very well produced & acted and I've got almost no interest in medieval sword fighting fantasy stories but I can't believe the reviews that this show has gotten based on what I saw.
My wife and I must be among the 10 people in the country who have not seen this series, until recently. With our new AppleTV 4K we have HBOGO and a subscription to HBO via DTV. I think you can subscribe to HBOGO if you don’t have an HBO subscription. So, it looks likethere’s more content on GO than you can shake a stick at.
About 3 weeks ago we started watching it. Fantastically done in every respect. Production values are top notch. I our humble opinion, you don’t have to know the books (we don’t). Nothing about this is boring. I wish they’d dial the violence back a little. I know it’s HBO, but I’m surprised (and delighted) about the amount of nudity and the “explicit” simulations.
We are just into the second season.
Did you mean birth as opposed to wedding. There’s been a red birth, I think. It involved a lot of black.Two words: Red Wedding.
You'll find out.......Did you mean birth as opposed to wedding. There’s been a red birth, I think. It involved a lot of black.
It's coming... and he most definitely meant wedding. And it's red because... well... you'll see... Things just get better until the show runners run out of books from which to draw material and, although they still use Martin's outlines for the unfinished/unwritten books, have to lean on their own dialog writing and plotting abilities which just don't hold up against Martin's. At that point it's still very good, just not as good as before.Did you mean birth as opposed to wedding. There’s been a red birth, I think. It involved a lot of black.
It's coming... and he most definitely meant wedding. And it's red because... well... you'll see... Things just get better until the show runners run out of books from which to draw material and, although they still use Martin's outlines for the unfinished/unwritten books, have to lean on their own dialog writing and plotting abilities which just don't hold up against Martin's. At that point it's still very good, just not as good as before.
While I'll give you Speilberg (IMHO, GOT is better than any SF/Fantasy product from Speilberg) I absolutely cannot put them, or any episode of GOT, in the same league as Kubrick and Kurasawa.I wouldn't assess it quite so pessimistically. There may be some narrative detail and structure missing without GRRM's explicit guidance, but the culminations of the past two seasons have resulted in some of the most stirring and cinematic set pieces, not only in the history of the show, but in the history of TV.
Battle of the Bastards and Money Train is up there with Kubrick, Speilberg and Kurasawa
David Benioff and Dan 'DB' Weiss have gone from expert adapters to pretty decent fan-fiction writers – and just because they're not as good at the latter, that doesn't undo the incredible work they did with the former.
Guess I'm alone this season, as it's really not good in my opinion. It's pretty clear to me that Weiss and Benioff are only good at taking Martin's literal words and scenes, and not good at inventing their own.