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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 6 Offseason Thread
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Well either way I liked it
Slightly Live
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Trailer link didn't last long. =/
I liked it too, although something to get me excited about the new season would be much better.
Goddamit
Thanks!!
PHOENIXZERO
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LOL that's lame as fuck.
Steelyuhas
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lol pretty much
Upon further review, there really isn't much to complain about.
The purpose of the teaser was just to start that GOT fire but that IMO tolerable approach misfired with the audience. The teaser does the same thing the show itself and the books do, that's what I think they went for. Nice build up, starts chronologically seeking to catch the audience off guard with Ned, goes down the list then aims to wow with implying that crucial living characters are about to die but then denies the very idea it suggested by showing "too many" of vital character's faces.
It's different than what shows and games typically do. For me, even if it the teaser were a 5 minute trailer as good as having the kind of sex that makes your knees buckle after you stand up, I am pretty sure I would still end up with the exact same aftermath: Wanting more.
The purpose of the teaser was just to start that GOT fire but that IMO tolerable approach misfired with the audience. The teaser does the same thing the show itself and the books do, that's what I think they went for. Nice build up, starts chronologically seeking to catch the audience off guard with Ned, goes down the list then aims to wow with implying that crucial living characters are about to die but then denies the very idea it suggested by showing "too many" of vital character's faces.
It's different than what shows and games typically do. For me, even if it the teaser were a 5 minute trailer as good as having the kind of sex that makes your knees buckle after you stand up, I am pretty sure I would still end up with the exact same aftermath: Wanting more.
I see where you're coming from, but to me a tease should actually tease some of the content, and not simply go "Look! It's GAME OF THRONES, remember that?!", which is all this seemed to do.
It's more a reminder of the show's existence than a tease of what the upcoming season may hold, which in itself is a bit self-defeating since their comfort in knowing the audience will inevitably come back in droves is what started this whole lazy advertising shitshow (that has been underway for the last few years) in the first place.
If that's all it is then I'm pretty disappointed. Last season had some of the worst marketing for a show as popular as GoT. If I recall they didn't even post the trailers on YouTube last year until later which is insane. I was hoping they would improve their marketing this year, but it doesn't look like much is changing.
Basileus777
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Getting angry at a teaser is such a bizarre thing.
Serving no content to digest was arrogant and misfired with many as a result. I see your logic but I am hopeful for S6, belief is so often the death of reason.
Steelyuhas
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It's unfortunate as a fan wanting to get a taste of the season, but it isn't exactly a first in the industry. Mad Men famously showed nothing of new seasons before they aired, and their promos were hilariously troll worthy.
biosnake20
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Everything point to a long flashback displaying the last moments of lyanna and I can't understand people who doubt jon snow won't return, he will.
Atraveller
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Bleh, even the teaser has to be about characters dying.
PHOENIXZERO
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Watching it again, hahahaha they even found a spot to throw in that stupid, beyond overused bass drop effect.
As awful as Dorne was that actress playing Tyene was almost fine enough for me to over look it when she was on screen... Almost. (Insert "Bad Pussy" reference somewhere).
This "tease" is just meta revenge for our negative reaction to a certain scene. We want a proper visual/audible starting point for the final surge of speculation to begin. But we need sweet nothings whispered in our ears.
As awful as Dorne was that actress playing Tyene was almost fine enough for me to over look it when she was on screen... Almost. (Insert "Bad Pussy" reference somewhere).
The face on Jon's right belongs to Stannis.
Thug Waffle
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why was tyrion's face in there
Atraveller
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SHOCK MOMENTS
So was every other living main character's face, making the initial interesting premise (dead characters having their quotes repeated in the House of Black and White?!) redundant.
Tyrion's death wouldn't really serve anyone so I doubt they'd do it before he comes back to KL.
Jaime's death would work but not until he's crossed paths with Brienne in a really contrived way.
Cersei can die but she's too good an actress to waste.
Arya can't die until she's not blind anymore.
Sansa can die after the northern war storyline has concluded.
Jaime's death would work but not until he's crossed paths with Brienne in a really contrived way.
Cersei can die but she's too good an actress to waste.
Arya can't die until she's not blind anymore.
Sansa can die after the northern war storyline has concluded.
Thug Waffle
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wtf.
i watched it on my phone, so i couldnt really see. i just remember ned, joffrey, jon, catelyn, and tyrion.
what a dumb teaser.
Jaime will take Riverrun and burn Cersei's letter, as in the book. Brienne, who happens to be bumbling by outside, sees the light of the fire through the window. Suddenly, it all comes back to her. Sansa Stark. The candle. "Do your duty". Using methods known only to her and twenty good men, she makes her way through the encamped Lannister army offscreen, and confronts Jaime inside his chambers.
There it is, folks.
Has anyone here even said that's what they think?
That's the twist. They showed a bunch of living people in the HoB&W so people would think they'll die but not the one person who really will die this season.
Thug Waffle
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i mean i just figured it was using the house to get a point across. the concept fell flat when people who were still alive started showing up.
still a dumb teaser.
lastplayed
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Nice and creepy, love it.
bengraven
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adamsappel
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This reminds me that I have to give credit to D&D for continuing Bronn's story. I always thought that character got short-shrift from GRRM, plus Jerome Flynn is good in the role.
Pyramid head
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Shame the story they continued it with was dogshit. Bronn's story was still a hundred times better 'off screen' in the book than it has been on the show.
Yeah...how is Jaime taking Bronn, who has betrayed countless people for money to Dorne make any sense. All he does is get poisoned and punched. Taking over the Stokeworth castle, naming his son Tyrion and foiling Cersei's assasination attempt are a lot more amusing.
Pyramid head
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He did get to see some tits on the show too, that was important I guess.
I loved reading Cersei's chapters and her growing frustration at Bronn's antics even though he wasn't around.
Rogue Agent
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I think it shifting to the living people is supposed to get people worried that Tyrion, Dany, Sansa etc. are next. The whole "All Men Must Die" marketing thing we've seen a million times already. Yawn.
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