Game of Thrones

Started by Lord Dalek, April 07, 2012, 11:19:49 AM

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Dr. Ensatsu-ken

Quote from: Dr. Insomniac on October 23, 2022, 09:53:43 PM
And speaking of Joffrey, a lot of HOTD's casual viewers looking for something to watch/re-watch while waiting for season 2 will surely be pissed.

Oddly fitting for Joffrey to spoil a major plot point for viewers and chuckle about it. At least it's not the ending of the story, just the war. I mean....

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Aegon doesn't exactly outlive Rhaenyra by long, and he's in miserable pain until his last days, so it's kind of an everyone loses scenario. Also very fitting that Joffrey failed to acknowledge that part of the story.
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Dr. Ensatsu-ken

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Preston's full season review of HOTD: https://youtu.be/sFGU8Pt3Iz0

A lot of people think that Preston is just a book purist who hates the show because he nitpicks a lot of details (mostly for humor in his weekly reviews), but I like how he points out that he's not a fan of Fire and Blood to begin with and actually gives the show props for doing it's own thing and making a mostly cohesive story out of it. And pointing out that he wouldn't criticize it so extensively if he didn't think it had any value also shows that he's not as harsh about it as his weekly reviews make him seem.

As for his criticisms, the only one I disagreed with is how Rhaenyra and Alicent didn't try to change the system that they were brought up in and instead ended up making the same mistakes as their parents. Not that he's wrong in making that observation, but that it's not a flaw at all, but one of the core points of the show's stance on how politics can change people into what they hate.

Every other criticism was on the money, though. Most notably how inconsistent the character arcs and their personal motivations and conflicts feel between time-jumps. A lot of these rivalries or mending of relationships feel so jarring most of the time because there is so much context missing. Like, one episode Viserys kicks Daemon out of King's Landing for flirting with Rhaenyra and then a few episodes later they're married under extremely controversial circumstances and he treats it like it's completely normal and they are all on good terms. How exactly did we get to that point?

Dr. Insomniac

Yeah, there was a Downton Abbey-ness to all the timeskips and character arcs. And even with DA, you can chalk that up to unexpected cast departures hampering the show's season plans.