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Post by Turk on Jul 14, 2017 21:32:49 GMT -5
JD don't post any spoilers. The wife is recording for me. b tone it down a little please or take a chill pill. No problem, T. I hate spoilers too. Even the American programs are in Spanish but I will truly miss watching GOT. I might cave in and watch it in Spanish.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 15, 2017 3:38:36 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/article/449528/game-thrones-lord-baelish-champions-meritocracy-free-marketGame of Thrones returns this weekend and, after six seasons, we’ve learned some important truths: Westeros is a terrible place to live. Few nobles are noble. Lands are ruled by tyrants vested with power through birth or blood. The realm’s subjects exist at the mercy of their autocrats’ whims. And those rare few who do rise in station tend only to do so by their martial prowess. In short, Westeros was never great, so it cannot be made great again. One powerful lord does enjoy a rags-to-riches story, though — and he’s set on making the Seven Kingdoms into a good old-fashioned American meritocracy. I write, of course, about Petyr Baelish, whom you may know better as Littlefinger. I still like Littlefinger even though this NR guy is rooting for him. Hell, if The Donald can become Prez in the America's so-called meritocracy, I guess Baelish, who murdered his wife, could have a shot at running Westeros. He may be evil, but at least he's not nuts.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 17, 2017 1:41:08 GMT -5
Well, I'm trying not to even hint about GOT tonight as it would be a spoiler for Turk. I won't even say that there was not much to say about tonight's episode. I will say there was a wasted scene with some famous singer I had never heard of.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 3, 2017 14:51:43 GMT -5
So can we talk about GOT now?
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Post by Turk on Aug 8, 2017 10:54:30 GMT -5
So can we talk about GOT now? You'll like this JD
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Post by jdredd on Aug 22, 2017 10:41:04 GMT -5
Yikes! Season finale next Sunday already. How much you want to bet it is a cliffhanger? And then the final season, where it all comes to an end. (Maybe. I've heard rumors of a spin-off) Endings are always the hardest part of any story. Lots of great fiction has crashed on the final pages. I hope someone is making a dragonglass bolt to shoot from that big ass crossbow. Or better yet, I'd love to see Greyworm leap on to the bad dragon and jam a dragonglass spear into it's head.
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Post by Turk on Aug 22, 2017 11:38:26 GMT -5
Yikes! Season finale next Sunday already. How much you want to bet it is a cliffhanger? And then the final season, where it all comes to an end. (Maybe. I've heard rumors of a spin-off) Endings are always the hardest part of any story. Lots of great fiction has crashed on the final pages. I hope someone is making a dragonglass bolt to shoot from that big ass crossbow. Or better yet, I'd love to see Greyworm leap on to the bad dragon and jam a dragonglass spear into it's head. It is a safe bet we will be left hanging. The final season won't air until late 2018 or early 2019. That is just plain cruel. Maybe the bad dragon kills the other two and the white walkers rule the 7 kingdoms. It is going to be a long, long wait.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 22, 2017 14:31:36 GMT -5
Yikes! Season finale next Sunday already. How much you want to bet it is a cliffhanger? And then the final season, where it all comes to an end. (Maybe. I've heard rumors of a spin-off) Endings are always the hardest part of any story. Lots of great fiction has crashed on the final pages. I hope someone is making a dragonglass bolt to shoot from that big ass crossbow. Or better yet, I'd love to see Greyworm leap on to the bad dragon and jam a dragonglass spear into it's head. It is a safe bet we will be left hanging. The final season won't air until late 2018 or early 2019. That is just plain cruel. Maybe the bad dragon kills the other two and the white walkers rule the 7 kingdoms. It is going to be a long, long wait. Could happen! Of course, the writers could never walk the streets safely again! Unless, of course we are all saying "Games of Thrones? Sound vaguely familiar" by the time it comes back.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 3, 2019 13:37:43 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/arts/television/game-of-thrones-season-8-questions.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage"In the Season 7 finale of “Game of Thrones,” Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen hooked up, Viserion demolished the Wall, Arya killed Littlefinger and Jaime finally left Cersei. By the end the show had boiled the roughly 9,000 subplots it introduced over seven seasons down to two: Jon and Dany’s coalition of the willing vs. Cersei and Euron the mad pirate. And the White Walkers vs. everyone. But things are far from settled. When “Game of Thrones” returns for its eighth and final season on April 14, here are a few of the questions it will need to answer:" Thank God the time is almost here for the grand finale. But once it's gone, what then? Alas, personally I think Arya must die, as I assume the now childless (maybe) Cercei will. And I'll be waiting to see what happens to the Red Witch (that old crone). Will she just die (like Littlefinger) or will she make an important contribution to the ending?
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Post by jdredd on Apr 15, 2019 20:16:53 GMT -5
Estimated viewers of Super Bowl 2019: 100.7M; Game of Thrones Season 8 premier: 17.4M. Yes, jocks are still almost 6 times more popular than dragons.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 29, 2019 23:51:17 GMT -5
First they kill off Littlefinger, then the Night King, and then Melisandre. All my favorite characters gone. Well, I still like Yara.
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Post by jdredd on May 6, 2019 22:53:37 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-sad-decline-of-the-dragon-queen/"Finally, this may sound strange, but I found last night’s episode to be extremely sad. Daenerys is one of the great characters in fantasy fiction, and to see her subjected once again to profound loss — and to know that this may be the loss that finally breaks her — is deeply melancholy. A world that lacks any meaningful trust, where the gods are capricious and uncaring, and the only true faith seems to be self-belief is profoundly depressing. There’s a moment in the episode, as all the scheming begins again before the funeral pyres from the Battle of Winterfell have cooled, that reeks of existential despair. We sacrificed everything for this?As of now, it seems that no one can truly break the wheel. The wheel is all there is, and it brings despair. The showrunners may ultimately give us a “happy” ending, but we also know that if the show continued — and it was true to the ethos of Martin’s world — the happiness would be fleeting indeed. The wheel would only pause before grinding on, crushing the virtue out of a world without hope." What do I get sad about? When I agree with one of NR's culture warriors. But they way things are going, I'm going to be pretty happy that GOT has wrapped up. Don't look to me to be hooked on another series, but of course you can never say never.
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Post by jdredd on May 13, 2019 12:28:22 GMT -5
We are almost to the finish line. Endings are hard for any writer. I was hoping the Iron Throne would be destroyed but I guess not.
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Post by jdredd on May 13, 2019 13:10:52 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/corner/game-of-thrones-no-justice-only-genocide/"We have no idea how the series will end. We don’t know who — if anyone — will sit on the Iron Throne. Jon pulled the soldiers of the North out of King’s Landing, possibly betraying his vengeful queen. Arya is in the city, and we haven’t heard the last of Sansa Stark. But it’s hard to imagine anything like a truly happy ending to one of the greatest shows in television history. In an NR cover story two years ago, I described Game of Thrones as “Calvinism without Christ.” Human depravity is unleashed, and even the good men and women are terribly burdened by the weight of their own terrible flaws. And there is no great good any person can appeal to for redemption and hope. It’s a bleak vision, to be sure, but it’s also compelling and important. Martin has spoken an important truth. When men and women rely only on themselves for justice and hope, they fail. Tolkien knew this truth, and he delivered his world through a hope that transcended the meager efforts of flawed men. Martin knows this truth as well, but he withholds deliverance — because a world without transcendent truth is a world without justice. Daenerys Targaryen is now the Mad Queen. We should have expected nothing else. The suspense that remains is not whether good will triumph over evil, but whether any decency can preserved. As the series comes to an end, Martin’s bleak vision prevails. We no longer hope for redemption, but rather for a measure of peace. There are no happy endings in Westeros."
It was inevitable that the right-wing culture warriors of NR would go after the apparent nihilism of GOT. Yet their only answer is the failed religiosity that brought us Donald Trump. But it is probably less the religious aspect that offends people about GOT but the Middle Class values that are offended. Then again Arya could ride back in on her white horse and take out the "Mad Queen". It makes no difference to the Many-Faced God.
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Post by jdredd on May 20, 2019 4:26:00 GMT -5
Time heals all wounds...and it will heal the wound in my heart from the ending of GOT.
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