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I am going to bitch about this massively overrated show some more by fabio 05/16/2017, 11:59pm PDT
I had stopped watching at season 4 three years ago. The show was following a loop: have several sideplots in a holding pattern, shockingly(!!!) kill off a key player in one of the main plots, rob that of any meaning by replacing it with almost the exact same plot.

I was invited to a season 7 premiere get together, so I popped it on to try and catch up. I tried 5 episodes and don't think I can do it anymore.


- Everyone defends this show's killing off major characters as a selling point. What is the point of it if they just replace it with the same setup and characters? Roose Bolton is Tywin, Ramsey is Goffrey, and Kennel girl is Cersei. The patriarch wants Sansa to marry into their family and the child just wants to torment her. They keep Tyrion/Theon around to humiliate. They even recycle the exact same character, Stannis, invading them to take the throne even when it makes no sense (if they ever explained what he was doing beyond the wall, I missed it). The only thing killing off the characters does it prevent any kind of satisfying clonclusion to any of the arcs before they just reset the damn thing again because it's painfully obvious this is all being made up by Martin as he goes along. Dude just wants to keep it going indefinitely and get paid.

- There are THREE sideplots about magical children stuck in a holding pattern for 2 or more years. Did Orson Scott Card write this? The appeal of the show was that it was mostly low fantasy. Magic-less medieval assholery was a fresh break from the Tolkein shit. Now we have magical Bran talking to animals learning to cast FIREBALL FIREBALL FIREBALL from gay druids, and Arya's go nowhere plot.

- Holy shit Arya's plot. I didn't think it could get any worse. At least wandering around with The Hound had people getting violently killed every other scene. This faceless assassin temple plot is every kung fu movie training cliche meets every conversation from The Matrix sequels meets the thrills of mortician apprenticeship. Hopefully it'll have as good a non-payoff as the Brotherhood Without Banners...shit remember them?

- White messiah complex dragon lady. Remember when her getting the dragons and army made you think shit was finally going to start happening with her? Well fuck that, let's do another year of her playing Sim City. Why is it they can make King's Landing feel like a living city, yet every city she visits is an obvious green screened sound stage?

- Oh boy, zombies. fantasy zombies!
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I am going to bitch about this massively overrated show some more by fabio 05/16/2017, 11:59pm PDT NEW
    Martin's not about the money. He's about the adulation. by skip 05/18/2017, 6:56pm PDT NEW
        Re: Martin's not about the money. He's about the adulation. by Sad Kid 05/18/2017, 9:19pm PDT NEW
            Whatever you say about Rowling's work, she at least finished it without making NT by excuses - skip 05/20/2017, 11:03am PDT NEW
                You're right. I was really just making thinly-veiled fat jokes. NT by Sad Kid 05/20/2017, 11:19am PDT NEW
    Season 5 by fabio 05/20/2017, 1:54pm PDT NEW
        I liked me some Lena Headey titties by ( . )( . ) 05/20/2017, 4:47pm PDT NEW
            Those were stunt titties :/ NT by Mysterio 05/26/2017, 9:38pm PDT NEW
                Wait. Really? NT by Too embarrassed 05/26/2017, 9:57pm PDT NEW
                    'Game of Thrones': Lena Headey's nude Walk of Shame body double speaks out by Mysterio 05/27/2017, 8:28am PDT NEW
    Season 6: episode 1 by fabio 05/23/2017, 2:05am PDT NEW
        Episodes 2-3 by fabio 05/23/2017, 9:32am PDT NEW
        Episode 4 by fabio 05/24/2017, 7:59pm PDT NEW
        episode 5 by fabio 05/25/2017, 1:50pm PDT NEW
        episode 6 (first 10 minutes) by fabio 05/26/2017, 5:54pm PDT NEW
            Jaime lays siege to Riverrun NT by again 05/26/2017, 5:57pm PDT NEW
            Can you believe the producers of GoT force me to watch this garbage? by - Fabio "Thought Leader" 05/26/2017, 7:03pm PDT NEW
                Don't listen to him, this is the most honest assessment of the series I've read NT by in years 05/26/2017, 8:29pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Don't listen to him, this is the most honest assessment of the series I've NT by I won't. It's just some cunt. 05/26/2017, 9:01pm PDT NEW
            episode 6 (the rest of it) by fabio 05/28/2017, 1:17am PDT NEW
            episodes 7-8 by fabio 05/30/2017, 4:20am PDT NEW
            episodes 9-10 by fabio 05/30/2017, 4:22am PDT NEW
                Season 6 (death to the patriarchy) by fabio 05/30/2017, 9:28am PDT NEW
        Somewhere in here I stopped watching this show by Roop 06/01/2017, 5:02am PDT NEW
            Some have plot anti-armor by fabio 06/01/2017, 4:04pm PDT NEW
    Keep this up, I want to hear more NT by not sarcastic 05/25/2017, 9:00am PDT NEW
        Whoa. Tone it down. NT by Jacob Freeman 05/25/2017, 11:09am PDT NEW
 
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