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by fabio 06/19/2011, 3:36pm PDT |
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I've never read the books, but good lord this series has all the glacial pacing of a Mary Worth comic.
There's a saying in screenwriting on when in your timeline to being: "Wherever the story starts."
I guess they were too insistent on sticking to the book, because otherwise they would have started right when Boromir arrives at the capital.
Up until then it's over two hours of him and the king exchanging old drinking stories while armies meander along a road (half the series is made up of such scenes).
Scenes are endless repetition of exposition and character traits we already know. Half a dozen scenes of the midget telling the kid "the wall" is a shitty place to live; we get it. Half a dozen of the exact same bonding/training scenes at "the wall"; we get it. Cram in twenty more of the mother being a worrywort or someone worrying at the kid's bedside. We immediately know all blondes are evil. The main characters verbally express that the blondes are evil and suspect them in murder. The mother gets a letter casting suspicion that they're evil. She informs Boromir (after traveling down a long road) that they should be suspicious of the blondes when they already were (she then goes back on the road). Boromir confronts the blonde and we learn the story how the evil blond killed the last king and it's suspected he would do so again. This is immediately followed by a scene where the king confronts the blonde for the exact same story.
This is reminding me of The Phantom Menace where everything that happens is worthless to the overall story and could have been summed up in 10 minute between scenes where things actually happen. It's also reminding me of Plinkett's other prequel criticism: everything is shot flat and boring with 2 people talking in front of a green screen; couches replaced by wooden chairs.
Dialog? I could see these lines seeming clever when read on paper (by nerds), but it's just amateurish sounding when spoken aloud. It's like the author was inspired by Dune to write a book about court politics, but thought he needed to dial down the subtext.
(the only sexual position is doggie)
I quit halfway through episode 4 somewhere around the 14th scene of ponytailed Mongols riding horses down a road. Does anything ever happen?
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Game of Thrones (Nothing Happens: The Series) by fabio 06/19/2011, 3:36pm PDT
Nothing happens! In Game of Thrones! HAHAHAHAHhahahahaHAHAHAHAHahahhahahahahahah NT by Entropy Stew 06/20/2011, 10:00am PDT
about as much as the content of your post by fabio 06/20/2011, 12:04pm PDT
It's amazing the world of script reading wasn't transformed by your amazing insi NT by and then a star wars analogy. 06/21/2011, 7:54pm PDT
Stew is an idiot. The script is plodding because the books are plodding by WITTGENSTEIN 07/19/2011, 8:06pm PDT
posts tell us things about posters: the post NT by up with pod people 07/20/2011, 3:44pm PDT
One month later: fans still powerless to rebuke anything by fabio 07/20/2011, 8:28pm PDT
you know nothing, fabio snow. NT by up with pod people 07/20/2011, 9:00pm PDT
Podpeople you ignorant slut NT by Fabio Akroyd 07/21/2011, 8:13am PDT
Re: One month later: fans still powerless to rebuke anything by col.schickn 07/21/2011, 8:30am PDT
Episode 4 and Sean Bean still has his head. by fabio 07/21/2011, 2:36pm PDT
Wrong. Keep trying, Fabio. One day you'll hate something for the right reasons. NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 07/21/2011, 3:36pm PDT
ICJ, just delete this thread full of fucking spoilers NT by ES 07/21/2011, 3:40pm PDT
Guess what? HE NEVER KILLS ANYONE ELSE WORTH SHIT. NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/21/2011, 4:03pm PDT
Re: Guess what? HE NEVER KILLS ANYONE ELSE WORTH SHIT. by col.schickn 07/21/2011, 8:33pm PDT
Maimed, killed, or worse NT by Entropy Stew 07/22/2011, 9:57am PDT
You're both stupid faggots. BODYCOUNT CHECK OF POV CHARACTERS FOLLOWS by WITTGENSTEIN 07/22/2011, 3:36pm PDT
Re: You're both stupid faggots. BODYCOUNT CHECK OF POV CHARACTERS FOLLOWS by motherfuckerfoodeater 07/23/2011, 5:06am PDT
Holy shit, now I've heard everything. by WITTGENSTEIN 07/23/2011, 6:04am PDT
HRRRRRRRRRNGGGG MFFE IS IRRATIONAL UNNNNNNNNNNGH NT by Wittgenstein 07/23/2011, 7:40am PDT
MFFE thinks 30 pages of a midget fucking and spooning is quality literature NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/23/2011, 7:47am PDT
Re: You're both stupid faggots. BODYCOUNT CHECK OF POV CHARACTERS FOLLOWS by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/23/2011, 9:56am PDT
wnted to bump this after season three by col.schickn 06/13/2013, 9:24pm PDT
So has the POV character death count changed? NT by skip 06/14/2013, 4:45pm PDT
no NT by fabio 06/14/2013, 6:11pm PDT
Re: So has the POV character death count changed? by col.schickn 06/14/2013, 9:15pm PDT
Did you forget where you were posting? Everyone shits on everything here. NT by A Message from Caltrops Cares 06/15/2013, 8:45am PDT
Wittgenstein didn't change the argument by skip 06/16/2013, 12:01am PDT
Robb Stark was really a missed opportunity by WITTGENSTEIN 06/16/2013, 8:07am PDT
Well, I guess one more can be added now. Maybe. by skip 06/15/2015, 1:25pm PDT
Guess Robb Stark wasn't the only missed opportunity by skip 05/02/2016, 12:49pm PDT
Finally slogged through season 1 by fabio 03/24/2012, 6:21pm PDT
I couldn't make it through the first book. by Fullofkittens 03/24/2012, 7:22pm PDT
It makes sense that everyone here defending it is a Mass Effect fan NT by Favorite Movie: The Crow 03/25/2012, 10:42am PDT
You sympathize tons with the guy who gets offed to prove he's old and irrelevant NT by Gutsby 03/25/2012, 3:21pm PDT
What do you want, FABIO? Fucking DNA evidence? 3 blond kids: STATISTICALLY UNLIK NT by Entropy Stew 03/26/2012, 12:24am PDT
Also, the king has tons of illegitimate children with black hair. Everyone in NT by this book is dumb or colorblind. 06/13/2013, 7:19pm PDT
Re-reading Dune again by fabio 04/06/2012, 12:26pm PDT
Re: Re-reading Dune again by Souffle of Pain 06/13/2013, 9:54pm PDT
FUCKING NT by BRO FIST 06/14/2013, 12:22pm PDT
What are some other books of the genre you would say have better dialog? NT by fabio 06/14/2013, 6:10pm PDT
Re: What are some other books of the genre you would say have better dialog? by Souffle of Pain 06/14/2013, 7:50pm PDT
Alright by fabio 06/15/2013, 8:55am PDT
Okay, the whole series should have ended at the Red Wedding by fabio 06/16/2013, 9:23am PDT
My friend prefers Tigana to GRRM's stuff and they're both political fantasies. NT by skip 06/14/2013, 8:00pm PDT
Oh yes, what a horrible scene by Entropy Stew 06/14/2013, 8:34am PDT
Gotta go with Fahbs on this one. by Mischief Maker 06/14/2013, 9:33am PDT
Informed attributes? Really? NT by Entropy Stew 06/14/2013, 10:30am PDT
Re: Informed attributes? Really? by Mischief Maker 06/14/2013, 11:03am PDT
You've finally watched the show? by fabio 06/14/2013, 6:00pm PDT
There are 27 instance of "I", "you", "we", etc in the clip I posted by Entropy Stew 06/16/2013, 5:13am PDT
Game of Thrones: full of inartfully veiled threats (S3 spoilers) by Entropy Stew 06/16/2013, 5:24am PDT
Game of FML NT by Tyrion 06/16/2013, 8:25am PDT
It reminds me of David Mamet, without profanity NT by WITTGENSTEIN 06/16/2013, 8:31am PDT
Re: Re-reading Dune again by Matthew Holland 06/14/2013, 9:20am PDT
nah by fabio 06/14/2013, 6:08pm PDT
I just remembered: by Fullofkittens 06/14/2013, 8:37pm PDT
Re: nah by motherfuckerfoodeater 06/14/2013, 11:18pm PDT
SUCH AS? by Mischief Maker 06/15/2013, 10:55am PDT
Why do you keep fucking posting so many then? NT by The question on all our minds 06/15/2013, 9:28pm PDT
It is not a matter of opinion that Proust is a better writer than GRRM NT by Mister Helper 06/16/2013, 5:03am PDT
Megan Amram on Game of Thrones by Fullofkittens 06/13/2013, 7:58pm PDT
SNL by fabio 06/14/2013, 3:14am PDT
I like this show by Roop 06/15/2013, 9:42pm PDT
Community, Homeland, new Arrested Development, Archer by fabio 06/16/2013, 12:12am PDT
I never would have guessed that Fabio liked Community. by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 06/16/2013, 3:56pm PDT
Only on season 1 NT by fabio 06/19/2013, 1:13pm PDT
It sucks! by Gutsby 06/19/2013, 4:27pm PDT
Community is a nerd show now? by fabio 06/19/2013, 5:29pm PDT
The Problem With The Big Bang Theory by Fullofkittens 06/19/2013, 6:30pm PDT
That article was SJW bullshit :( by fabio 06/29/2013, 12:44am PDT
Season 4 felt like it was generated by E.L. Koba's twitter markov chain NT by Entropy Stew 06/19/2013, 2:35pm PDT
AH! You like Sassy! I hate Sassy :( by Roop 06/18/2013, 8:25pm PDT
So you've never found any show to be funny? by fabio 06/19/2013, 1:17pm PDT
Only four? by Jerry Whorebach 06/27/2013, 1:35pm PDT
This show kind of followed the same quality arc True Blood did by fabio 06/16/2015, 12:54am PDT
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