This is encouraging. I never read the books but the first few seasons of GoT was among the best to ever. I hope they can approach that and learn all the lessons of what not to do from the final couple seasons.
It shouldn’t be encouraging, I think it’ll suck :) It’s just not a lock based on later seasons of GoT, not really relevant, I just think it’ll suck because most fantasy shows suck and there’s no base of good material to draw from.
Hooray corporate personhood!
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You’re kind of right, but not about the CGI imo. They cut back on the dragons and almost eradicated the direwolves to save money on CGI. Possibly discounting battle scenes, I’m fairly sure the last season had less CGI, not more. And there’ve been big battle scenes in every season since the Blackwater.
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I’m ready for everyone to hate me. GoT wasn’t very good.
On average, I agree. The first few seasons were amazing. The final couple were among the worst of all time so it averages out to meh.
The first two seasons hold up. After that, D&D had trouble compressing the material, made bad choices about what to leave out, more bad choices about what to insert off their own bat etc. And once they ran out of source material it went to dogshit. So I don’t really disagree.
Hard mode: Dorne sucks and is boring as shit even in the books, so minimising Dorne is one of the few unimpeachable choices D&D made. That’ll rustle a few jimmies. It’s true, though.
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Compared to what?
Without limited liability our heroic capitalist saviors would never risk their hard earned capital to (checks notes)…replicate the restaurant bust out scheme from Goodfellas. Or create hyper addictive, fatal drugs and deceptively market them while killing hundreds of thousands of people. Or deceptively sell investment products like mortgage backed securities.
The horror.
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GoT was pretty great for a long time. This was the last great moment in the show
Followed immediately by the moment the show jumped the shark
Someone got upset w me recently when I suggested the show wouldn’t hold up over time.
As a book reader the show took me from a place where I would check on the next one every month or so, to a place where I neither expect or care that they will ever be written. So, all in all, pretty bad. I do remember staying up to watch the first episode on a dodgy internet stream and being excited, though. Happy times.
I’ve never watched it. I bought the first book, but fantasy books are def not my thing and I called it good after a few chapters.
Deadwood and Breaking Bad are the only two scripted series I’ve watched in a decade plus that I can think of. Don’t really feel like I’ve missed out, it’s just something to pass time imo.
I used to think so too but have come to disagree with this take. S6 was past the books and imho was one of the better seasons of the show with the High Sparrow and Euron’s appearance and Arya in Braavos and the Battle of the Bastards and Bran’s training under Three Eyed Raven and HOLD THE DOOR et al.
They just ran out of ideas altogether and chose fan service after that
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I’m guessing Deadspin is done. It’s been 24 hours since their last blog post. Sucks. I always enjoyed the site.
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I am guessing micro will say “Canadian Swallow Migration Documentaries”
Yeah as a non book reader I enjoyed season 6. Definitely more than 5.
But whoever made the point above about Arya’s faceless men storyline was dead on, and fits in with what you’re saying about fan service.
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After Battlestar Galactica ended, they tried to do a prequel series called Caprica. It wasn’t bad but was still canceled before the end of the first season.
A two pronged problem there. Before things fell apart in last couple days, readers were already protesting auto play videos and sharing contact emails of the higher ups of the company who owns deadspin. This was being done throughout the comments system.
One staffer said the boss of the parent company was standing behind the CTO demanding he delete blog posts and comments as he watched.
The horribleness that is these guys said the primary attraction was it was so dirt cheap to buy.
Funny the EIC wrote a farewell letter posted yesterday I think and she talked about a lot of the mess. Including how non sports stories got twice as many page views as sports stories. That they wanted page views to quadruple while only allowing sports posts.
This guy is the same guy who turned Forbes online presence into a dumpster fire. The biggest irony is there is probably real money there for someone who wanted to nurture the site, over the long term. But it has been burned down. I assume the staff realized it was just a matter of time before they were all done.
Caprica had a lot of potential, it was a shame.
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I don’t know how much of this is new information to you (I did just read it), but it was updated less than an hour ago:
CNN: Deadspin revolts and editor fired over ‘stick to sports’ mandate