Liquidsnake
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Do the show runners know how disappointing season was?
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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 6 Offseason Thread
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RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
It was their highest rated season and they won a bunch of Emmys, so they probably don't see it that way.
Junior Asparagus
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I'm going Martell, but yeah I don't like how they all have that same color background.
EDIT: Huh. The Martell sigil for this season is totally different than the previous one they had.
WaffleTaco
Wants to outlaw technological innovation.
Yeah I thought that weird...than I read one of the comment's that made me hate the show again...
biosnake20
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Pretty sure Bryan Cogman knows so D&D know too.
I thought Season 5 was awful, but for some reason both critically and in terms of awards, it actually did really well. So who knows...
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
You're right, they are totally different. Weird.
viciouskillersquirrel
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I don't know how true this is, but I get the feeling that book readers hate S5 on the basis that they know what was cut and what was changed. To a book reader, these changes seem awkward and unnatural, ruining characters and messing up essential set ups for the story ahead, the story we know to be critically important and truly great.
To a show watcher, these are unexpected twists and ten episodes of gripping television. To a show watcher, the Boltons have replaced the Lannisters as the family they love to hate. To a show watcher, what happened to Stannis Baratheon was a heartbreaking betrayal - he sacrificed the thing he loved most in the world because he felt he had to fulfil his destiny, but he still failed anyway.
I'll just do what I did since season 2 - treat both as the separate yet parallel stories they are.
To a show watcher, these are unexpected twists and ten episodes of gripping television. To a show watcher, the Boltons have replaced the Lannisters as the family they love to hate. To a show watcher, what happened to Stannis Baratheon was a heartbreaking betrayal - he sacrificed the thing he loved most in the world because he felt he had to fulfil his destiny, but he still failed anyway.
I'll just do what I did since season 2 - treat both as the separate yet parallel stories they are.
-Pyromaniac-
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TWD has gone up in quality over time. GoT has gone down.
But it's all still entertaining. This show would have to seriously be abysmal for me to not watch it and I don't even think it's possible for it to be that bad.
Shuggananas
Banned
People really love some bad pussy. Also titties.
I disagree. First season was the best when it had Darabont da gawd at the helm.
I loved that dialogue, bet it's straight from TWOW.
-Pyromaniac-
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well critically reviews have gotten better scores fans seem to mostly agree on all the discussion sites. Darabont peaked in episode 1 lol.
I wonder what will be this upcoming seasons version of that
higgsboson1997
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I didn't think it was disappointing at all. It was much better than season 2, at least.
I checked Metacritic and it has seasons 1 and 3 tied for the highest score. Everything else is lower. I stopped watching after season 4 anyways, show just wasn't doing it for me after they axed Darabont.
Huh? Season 4 is the highest on Metacritic at 94, and season 1 is by far the lowest at 80.
http://www.metacritic.com/tv/game-of-thrones
He means TWD score
Not sure this works considering that the book season 5 is based on doesn't exist.
Don't be like that, I'm sure it will come out soon.
I think they know some fans didn't like it, and also think those fans are wrong. To them, anything that people didn't like was necessary to fit the story into a season and to make the budget work for their Hardhome episode. Maybe in private they're more disappointed with the season than they let on in public, but in public they admit to nothing.
Also, on this year's covers, why is everyone yellow? I guess I'm buying Martell, because I already have a Targ and I don't want Bolton in colors that aren't even close to right. I wish they had though through these sigil covers better, since I guess no season will ever sell with a Baratheon cover now.
biosnake20
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I'm just hoping Season 6 picks the quality back up. A lot of people were super down on the show after Season 2 too but then we had 2 great seasons after.
Zoso Achilles
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Holy shit, I completely forgot they burned Shireen. I guess that goes to show how nonsensical I thought that was lol
biosnake20
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But that's gonna happen in the book too
PhoenixDark
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S1's biggest problem is the pedestrian direction outside of the last two episodes (which are still two of the best in the series IMO). Later seasons really upped the quality in terms of direction and cinematography.
Steelyuhas
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Yeah the jump in direction with Alan Taylor at the helm was big for the show for the end of that season and forming how the show would be directed in the future.
A Storm of Swords was the third book though
reelbigtink
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It's not the dialogue that's bad. It's the fact that it probably tells us exactly where the show is going and it's incredibly predictable and not very George-like.
Edit: Not George-like in its predictability. At least his prophecies are vague and happen like 3 books in advance.
These kinds of statements are stupid and pretentious because they assume that your opinion of the season mirrors every other fans' opinion.
Tons of people really enjoyed this past season, myself included. The Dorne plot was bad, but everything else was very good, I felt.
bengraven
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Same here. I've only noticed the hate in this forum and maybe a vague comment here and there.
I liked it a lot. The Sand Snakes were lazy, I know they needed to build to a Dorne cold war, but they could have showed one scene in the last episode of Myrcella wandering around the gardens with the girls, then one of them poisons her. Jaime and Bronn spent half the season wandering to the city, then we get a rush of quick scenes that lead to Myrcella's poisoning.
I loved it as well. Can't wait for season 6.
Lactose_Intolerant
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I don't have high hopes
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Some interesting, not necessarily good, stuff if true.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
I'm an original-released-as-they-came-out book reader, and I'm a big fan of both the book and the show, and I loved this season. Because I understand the difference between novels and TV maybe ::shrug:: - so, to a book reader and a show watcher, they both do what they do in their respective formats well, so we both win!
That said, Feast for Crows was my least favorite book by a fair margin, so i actually thought this season of TV was far more entertaining than the book equivalent parts, if that's your criteria for how "good" the show is ::shrug::
Exact same feeling.... some stuff is cool but others... (if true of course)
Battle in the sea with Dorne and the Tyrells fighting someone... Aurane or Aegon?
Oldest Snake
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Euron, most likely. The Tyrell brothers are squaring off against them in the books at Oldtown.
Ah true, don't why I didn't think of that. Makes more sense.
biosnake20
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And Jon was carried away on a white walker horse and revived. sogood.gif
Steelyuhas
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We should spoiler tag discussion of stuff that may be legit leaks, but yeah it's worth noting that we've had stuff like this in previous years that doesn't always turn out to be true.
Same thing with Barristan and Tyrion
I'm going to say I don't buy this. It's 90% things we already know, sprinkled with a few little "this character dies in mysterious circumstances" bits. The characters we know little about it barely touches on. Like, no details on the Cersei plot, Tyrion's summary is very vague, built only out of bits we know from casting. Its summary of events in King's Landing consists of nothing but the one plot point that has leaked from Margaery.
Also its call on the bodies on the crosses would be...underwhelming. A guy who died a year ago and you didn't even kill, plus your own dad? No one's going to be demoralized by that.
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