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Otacon
Aug 13, 2002


spartacus was good too because lucy lawless has some tittays

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dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
i like it when they sniff the guys rear end in a top hat

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
(im just imagining what its about because ive never seen it but thats probably the best part)

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

play with her arrrse

Bwee
Jul 1, 2005

Decebal
Jan 6, 2010

How a white woman should be treated !

JB50
Feb 13, 2008


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P38EG97zlOg

Dead Gay Romans
Mar 19, 2015

Pitbull enthusiast

Randarkman posted:

Rome was better

I like GoT but this is true.

To be fair, it ends at a logical place and in a pretty good way for the over-all plot. It tells a story and it tells it well. They could have kept going I guess, but where? Pax Romana just doesn't have the drama man.

texting my ex
Nov 15, 2008

I am no one
I cannot squat
It's in my blood
dragon chick is hot as gently caress, other than that i dont really care

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

Dead Gay Romans posted:

I like GoT but this is true.

To be fair, it ends at a logical place and in a pretty good way for the over-all plot. It tells a story and it tells it well. They could have kept going I guess, but where? Pax Romana just doesn't have the drama man.

This got me thinking..

Did Rome do sexposition? I mean it for sure had a lot of nudity and sex, particularly in the first few episodes IIRC, but I remember most of that nudity being background characters such as slaves being nude, because why not, or them having sex was part of the plot, as in they were having an affair or something, or it was Antony being Antony.

Pro Target
Oct 29, 2006

Bwee posted:

Ignoring the obvious problematic nature of "sexposition" and racism that is everpresent throughout the show, it is, in its very nature, a really poorly written D&D game made into an HBO series

I agree

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
i like it when they fist each other and poo poo on each others faces

Pro Target
Oct 29, 2006

It's another continuation of the trend of Nerd Garbage that requires almost zero intellectual engagement going mainstream

spank my snatch
Jun 4, 2009

dad gay. so what posted:

i like it when they fist each other and poo poo on each others faces

so you HAVE seen the show

Pot Smoke Phoenix
Aug 15, 2007



Smoke 'em if you gottem!
Dinosaur Gum

gggiiimmmppp posted:

my favorite character is the midget

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
"owl" have some of that! lol

Bwee
Jul 1, 2005

Pro Target posted:

It's another continuation of the trend of Nerd Garbage that requires almost zero intellectual engagement going mainstream

Yeah plus it's inherently neoliberal

Jerry Mumphrey
Mar 11, 2004

by zen death robot

(and can't post for 4 years!)



Randarkman posted:

play with her arrrse

cr05580n35
Mar 24, 2015
I really enjoyed the books, but have become less excited with the show.

Otacon
Aug 13, 2002



"my-assssss! my-assssss! my-assssss! my-assssss! my-assssss!"

Decebal
Jan 6, 2010
Last 2 episodes have been kind of lame. I hope they build up to something

They better do the worm eating scene with Arya and the old priest, or else. Also, where are the Sand Snakes ?

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug
I wish shows like this just focused a bit more rather than trying to do everything at once, like I understand it's a big world and a lot of this stuff is happening simultaneously but I'd much rather have episodes devoted to fleshing out specific arcs up to a certain important plot point then jumping from arc to arc until we're all caught up instead of this whole 5 minutes of these guys followed by 5 minutes of those guys then back to the first group etc.

Jerry Mumphrey
Mar 11, 2004

by zen death robot

(and can't post for 4 years!)

cr05580n35 posted:

I really enjoyed the books, but have become less excited with the show.

I like that they even made the nasty old frog-woman fortune teller witch kinda hot

Pro Target
Oct 29, 2006

Bwee posted:

Yeah plus it's inherently neoliberal

Well, in all fairness pretty much everything put out for public consumption today is tinged with neoliberalism

Pro Target
Oct 29, 2006

Pick your favorite focus grouped distraction from capitalist alienation

shipwrek
Dec 11, 2009

Drunk octopus wants
to fight you
Tried the first season and a bit into the second and just found it predictable. Whoever mentioned I, Claudius got it right combined with Guiding Light or some other soap going baps out.

lorn Wayne
Jan 7, 2006

:staredog::meowth::pipe:
y..you've done it now OP

Bwee
Jul 1, 2005

Pro Target posted:

Well, in all fairness pretty much everything put out for public consumption today is tinged with neoliberalism

Definitely. It's all, as Marx would say, "opium for the masses" :grin:

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

shipwrek posted:

Tried the first season and a bit into the second and just found it predictable. Whoever mentioned I, Claudius got it right combined with Guiding Light or some other soap going baps out.
Yeah I really don't understand how people are consistently surprised by the bad things happening to good characters twist. The show is very predictable for a pessimist.

Pro Target
Oct 29, 2006

Bwee posted:

Definitely. It's all, as Marx would say, "opium for the masses" :grin:

The Opie & Anthony Of The Masses

damn horror queefs
Oct 14, 2005

say hello
say hello to the man in the elevator
The first season felt less soap-opera-y but once I got halfway through the second season you could literally time the transitions of

Violence
Now sex
Buncha political bullshit that is barely explained
DRAMATIC FORESHADOWING
More violence
ZOOM INTO WISTFUL GAZE
Sex again

With a metronome.

Show bad. Watch porn.

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

If you want realistic epic war fighting scenes, you have to make the series into a movie trilogy. You have to hand the story to Ridley Scott or Peter Jackson to make 3-6 movies series, who no doubt will throw out 90% of the intrigues and palace power struggles. It's a compromise no matter what media you choose to adapt the books. I am very happy HBO have been very faith to the intrigue and mystery elements of the books and do the best job they could for the fighting.

damn horror queefs
Oct 14, 2005

say hello
say hello to the man in the elevator
Also:

Otacon posted:

lucy lawless has some tittays

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

drat horror queefs posted:

The first season felt less soap-opera-y but once I got halfway through the second season you could literally time the transitions of

Violence
Now sex
Buncha political bullshit that is barely explained
DRAMATIC FORESHADOWING
More violence
ZOOM INTO WISTFUL GAZE
Sex again

With a metronome.

Show bad. Watch porn.

is there really that much sex in GoT? I recall reading girls had more nude scenes.

Locker Room Zubaz
Aug 8, 2006

:horse:
~*~THE SECRET OF THE MAGICAL CRYSTALS IS THAT I'M FUCKING TERRIBLE~*~

:horse:

ArbitraryC posted:

is there really that much sex in GoT? I recall reading girls had more nude scenes.

no one wants to see the nude scenes in girls though

Trash Trick
Apr 17, 2014

Wow really? Is game of thrones actually not a good show?

Fergus Mac Roich
Nov 5, 2008

Soiled Meat
there's a lot more sex in the show than in the books and it is offputting but whatever

Stoic Commie
Aug 29, 2005

by XyloJW

Fergus Mac Roich posted:

there's a lot less sex in the show than in the books and it is offputting but whatever

Stoic Commie
Aug 29, 2005

by XyloJW
i agree op, the books were better

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Stoic Commie
Aug 29, 2005

by XyloJW
epic doublepost

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