-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
NFL Off-Season |OT2| My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Draft
- Thread starter Buckethead
- Start date
Who are you?
I think when you are given the wrong books, that impression might be true to you. It was for me, and as a result, I ignored this genre almost entirely throughout my childhood and youth. Only picked up some fantasy classics a few years ago and realised, I should've taken certain works more seriously.
Buckethead
Banned
I haven't read A Feast For Crows yet.
S2 isn't great so far. Let's hope it picks up.
S2 isn't great so far. Let's hope it picks up.
DeaconKnowledge
Member
Its a pretty enduring problem with me, Im afraid. Ive tried tons of fantasy for years on end and the same thing always happens I wander off, then lose interest and drop it. I just dont latch onto the concept in print. Pretty much any other genre, no problem.
that's like people saying the next Metallica album is going to be like Master of Puppets. Ship has sailed. The shark has been jumped.
The most hilarious thing about the TV show's OT is that fanboys are defending the cheesy skinemax sexposition on the show.
I'd skip it. Maybe the tv show can make something watchable out of books 4 and 5.
You're going to feel pretty dumb when
the Zombie Starks
I'd watch.
cuevas. PhD.
Member
I just found out Morgan Freeman's dating his granddaughter, what da fuck nfl gaf?
DeaconKnowledge
Member
Whats the average age of GAF? 17? That exposition is responsible for about half of the threads orgasms, minimum.
Dutch Gronk
Banned
Grover Cleveland
Member
I was going to tell you to back away from the bottle, but it seems to be legit.
I'll never watch Bruce Almighty the same anymore, knowing that God was basically a child molester.
Hasn't this been going on for a while? Not exactly new news. Still disgusting, but not new.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
I personally don't feel like it jumped the shark, but I can admit that AFFC and ADWD were not perfect. However, I feel like the ire directed toward those books is overblown.
Futurevoid
Member
Step-Grand Daughter.yacobad said:
goldlion054
Member
I'm gonna pretend you didn't use that movie just for the joke and that you actually like it. This will be important in a moment.
Why would you ever watch that garbage after the first time?
Didn't need to read the rest of it. Step was the only word that mattered
Grover Cleveland
Member
You shut your whore mouth right now! That movie was GREAT!
Real talk, I've only seen maybe five minutes of it, the whole concept seems stupid to me.
Buckethead
Banned
Game Of Thrones fans remind me of Lost fans.
Completely unable to admit flaws in their favorite show.
Completely unable to admit flaws in their favorite show.
AngmarsKing701
Member
The first 2 books of ASOIAF were awesome. Then the 3rd one was great, and then came AFFC and ADWD and you could tell that GRRM is above being edited. Someone needs to take a samurai to those two books and hack it to pieces and re-assemble them into a single, concise story. There's just waaaaay too much shit in those books. There are some pearls, but you really get a mouthful of FMT's favorite in finding them.
My ass... No deal. Then again, any ridiculous rumour involving Ireland could happen.
Futurevoid
Member
There's plenty of flaws. I don't get the uproar or caring about the sex scenes though. From what I've read online, the show is far more tame than the books in that regard (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) and the show is on a pay channel.Buckethead said:
Baelish is a grimy, conniving bastard that runs a high priced whore house operating in the underbelly of King's Landing for instance. I don't go into his scenes expecting Barney and friends nor do I expect HBO to treat them as such. Is it gratuitous? At times but meh. I don't know and considering it hasn't hampered the storytelling at all for me - I'm completely ambivalent to it.
Maybe to her fish pie, I dunno. At least you don't want her to defecate on you. German scat porn must've spoilt you
cuevas. PhD.
Member
You disgust me.
Dutch Gronk
Banned
Maybe to her fish pie, I dunno. At least you don't want her to defecate on you. German scat porn must've spoilt you
If she would insist, I'd might consider it....
Btw is it just me or are the days going by so sloooooooow. My life is boring.
Just get darkside to post.
Buckethead
Banned
Some maybe but it's always worse in your imagination (see Hitchcock's implied action concept).
Also... books are books.
You can be as detailed/extravagant/long-winded as you like. No limits but your imagination.
For TV you're severely limited by budget/running time/deadlines.
You can relay info more quickly and eliminate the fluff which is basically what most of the sex stuff is/has been. When you keep unnessary stuff in and even add to it - it's just extremely self-indulgent.
Also the stuff with Littlefinger and Christina Hendricks Jr. has been overly long and redundant.
goldlion054
Member
Your opinion means as little to me as you do
TheJollyCorner
Member
...wha?? I haven't heard this rumor yet. :/
Psh, we gettin' Beason and T Davis back baby! And we brought in competition for that sad sack of shit Sherrod Martin! Bout to punish people this season!
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Alligatorjandro
Banned
I try to read the Game of Thrones books but theyre so huge.
Felt the same way, but after I watched the show I picked them up during a trip to Costco. Plowed through them pretty quickly. Glad I did it, I enjoy the show but the books are a fun ride.
Sviatoslav
Member
Maybe a bounty program can help improve their tackling?
Futurevoid
Member
By those rules, the folks behind Game of Thrones can feel free to be as self-indulgent as they like with their interpretation of the books. The two aren't mutually exclusive based on medium. If anything, I'm less apt to excuse/accept a long-winded (read: laborious) book than I am a 30 second explicit sex scene on a TV show. I don't have to read page upon page of the latter.Buckethead said:
We could argue budgetary constraints in so far as the effects work, production/sets etc. I don't think HBO is paying a premium for tits and ass. Though they seem to be charging for it.
I do agree on the self-indulgence aspect of the sex scenes (at times) and surely some of the titillation is due to HBO having the ability to show and tell as mentioned, but from a purely subjective standpoint it simply hasn't distracted from the storytelling, pacing or my enjoyment of the show. My wife watches the show with me and has no issue with it either. /shrug
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Ænima;36791651 said:
His wife divorced him apparently in part because it was a 10 year affair. She's 27 right now. He is 74. Just saying.
Buckethead
Banned
They've cut a lot of stuff out already. If you haven't read the books it's very unclear.
Cutting down on the sex stuff they could have:
- Properly introduced Stannis/Dragonstone/The Seven vs. The Lord of The Light (proper prologue)
- Set up The Nights Watch moving beyond the Wall instead of them getting to Craster's in 2 seconds.
- Set up The Nights Watch moving beyond the Wall instead of them getting to Craster's in 2 seconds.
It's not just the 30 second stuff which is awful enough. It's Ros and Littlefinger. Get them the fuck off the screen.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
Ænima;36791651 said:
Its still creepy.
Futurevoid
Member
That's understandable. As a non-book reader you could see where it wouldn't be as a much of an issue for me. One of those "don't know what I'm missing" situations. Though personally, it's nice going into a series based on a book with none of the baggage for once (a rarity for me). A big reason why I'm happy to wait until the show has wrapped up before I delve into the books. Though I may give the first two a read after S2 wraps up.Buckethead said:
Ok, embarassing question time: Is there a rule where the ball is placed along the yard line before the play? I'd guess it's always placed in the middle, but I think I've seen plays, especially kicks, where it's closer to the hash marks?
If I'm completely confused, just ignore my rambling ;-)
If I'm completely confused, just ignore my rambling ;-)
Not sure if serious.
The ball is placed between the hashmarks depending on where the play ends. If it's between the hashmark and the sideline, it's placed right at the hashmark. If it's between the two, its placed at the same spot.