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If you're a fan of Discovery, did you watch Game Of Thrones?
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Yep. A fan of both.
Cheer up, I like reading your posts
Come on man, it's still too soon for oberyn martell memes. I still cry-eat (eating and crying at the same time) thinking about his handsome face getting turned into chunky salsa.
Are people really yelling at each other? This thread seems pretty civil to me?
I was reading the books GOT was based on long before the TV series came out. So I was a GOT fan before it was "cool".
I thought A Song of Ice and Fire was cool even before GoT? I heard about it from random people years before GoT aired.
So, with they myriad of topics we have to do podcasts on, I feel the way I listen to music and watch tv now is too much making choices, I often have to watch five episodes of something and then make a snap judgment if I like it enough to continue or have to move on to something else.
With that being said, I did watch the first 5 or 6 episodes of GoT and I really didn't enjoy it, well acted and it looked great, don't get me wrong I thought highly of the fundamentals but from those first 5 or 6 it seemed like another show where they are going to be on 11 the whole time, shoving as much drama and as many events as possible in every episode, I dunno seemed like I was watching the days of our lives, medieval edition.
With that being said, I did watch the first 5 or 6 episodes of GoT and I really didn't enjoy it, well acted and it looked great, don't get me wrong I thought highly of the fundamentals but from those first 5 or 6 it seemed like another show where they are going to be on 11 the whole time, shoving as much drama and as many events as possible in every episode, I dunno seemed like I was watching the days of our lives, medieval edition.
Enjoying DISCO a whole lot.
I refuse to watch GoT. It is generally unpleasant, doesn't hold my interest at all, and seems to thrive on shock value to drive its plot.
I refuse to watch GoT. It is generally unpleasant, doesn't hold my interest at all, and seems to thrive on shock value to drive its plot.
I watched the first two and half seasons of GoT then gave up. People praise the performances but outside of a couple of characters I don't really think many stand out. I'd rather watch one well developed character than a million one note characters. And maybe it's just because I'm English, but Kit Harrington's god awful pseudo northern accent is like nails on a chalkboard.
The idea that it is mature TV is completely lost on me as well. For some reason contemporary culture seems to think humourless is a synonym of mature. GoT has some of the most adolescent attitudes towards women, race and politics on TV. There's nothing wrong with enjoying tits and dragons, but call it like it is.
The shows attitude towards violence makes it impossible to care. If the characters unblinkingly accept that rape and murder are par for the course, then why should we care when we watch it? That's how their universe works. Maybe I'm just jaded, but as an adult concepts like incest and murder and torture and rape aren't shocking as abstract concepts, I've long understood what those things are and that unfortunately they occur. And if we are just supposed to be shocked because those things are horrible in real life, then we also can't just accept all of the noble savage imagery and misogynistic bullshit as just being part of their universe, which makes so many depictions in the show problematic. Depicting atrocities is not the same as exploring the ethical, social, emotional or psychological implications.
It's structured like the old Batman show too. Season one has a anticlimactic cliffhanger after nearly every episode, boy gets thrown out of window and he couldn't possibly survive, next episode: he did. He's injured, but he did. If boy wakes up he might spill the incest beans, boy wakes up but doesn't bother saying anything. Dwarf gets locked in room he can only get out of by plummeting to his death, gets let out and leaves with ease.
I don't know, but it's not for me.
And if we are talking golden age of television, I would say that was describing the early to mid naughts when America caught on to the benefits of serialised television and we saw the release of The Wire and The Sopranos and Deadwood etc, or you could even argue for a little bit earlier with Buffy and Babylon 5. Now we just seem to have a lot of television, and a lot of it is just as bad as it ever was except everything is serialised even when it doesn't gain anything from the form.
It's so strange that we live in a time when technology has apparently given everyone these short attention spans yet people think it's reasonable to commit twenty hours of their finite time plowing through a couple of seasons of a middling TV series waiting for it to get good.
That being said, just to quickly undermine myself, I think it's a bit too early to tell with Discovery. I'm not sure where it's going but there have been equal parts things I dislike and things I like. I have found it entertaining though.
TL;DR Thrones is okay, but hugely problematic and more than a little boring. Disco, too early to tell.
The idea that it is mature TV is completely lost on me as well. For some reason contemporary culture seems to think humourless is a synonym of mature. GoT has some of the most adolescent attitudes towards women, race and politics on TV. There's nothing wrong with enjoying tits and dragons, but call it like it is.
The shows attitude towards violence makes it impossible to care. If the characters unblinkingly accept that rape and murder are par for the course, then why should we care when we watch it? That's how their universe works. Maybe I'm just jaded, but as an adult concepts like incest and murder and torture and rape aren't shocking as abstract concepts, I've long understood what those things are and that unfortunately they occur. And if we are just supposed to be shocked because those things are horrible in real life, then we also can't just accept all of the noble savage imagery and misogynistic bullshit as just being part of their universe, which makes so many depictions in the show problematic. Depicting atrocities is not the same as exploring the ethical, social, emotional or psychological implications.
It's structured like the old Batman show too. Season one has a anticlimactic cliffhanger after nearly every episode, boy gets thrown out of window and he couldn't possibly survive, next episode: he did. He's injured, but he did. If boy wakes up he might spill the incest beans, boy wakes up but doesn't bother saying anything. Dwarf gets locked in room he can only get out of by plummeting to his death, gets let out and leaves with ease.
I don't know, but it's not for me.
And if we are talking golden age of television, I would say that was describing the early to mid naughts when America caught on to the benefits of serialised television and we saw the release of The Wire and The Sopranos and Deadwood etc, or you could even argue for a little bit earlier with Buffy and Babylon 5. Now we just seem to have a lot of television, and a lot of it is just as bad as it ever was except everything is serialised even when it doesn't gain anything from the form.
It's so strange that we live in a time when technology has apparently given everyone these short attention spans yet people think it's reasonable to commit twenty hours of their finite time plowing through a couple of seasons of a middling TV series waiting for it to get good.
That being said, just to quickly undermine myself, I think it's a bit too early to tell with Discovery. I'm not sure where it's going but there have been equal parts things I dislike and things I like. I have found it entertaining though.
TL;DR Thrones is okay, but hugely problematic and more than a little boring. Disco, too early to tell.
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