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Fergus Mac Roich
Nov 5, 2008

Soiled Meat

i'm almost 100% positive that's wrong but i'll never look at any statistics to know for sure

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damn horror queefs
Oct 14, 2005

say hello
say hello to the man in the elevator

a cop posted:

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

this is shocking but true im sorry

Bwee
Jul 1, 2005

a cop posted:

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

Game of Thrones is not a good show.

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

GreaseGunner posted:

King Of The Hill is my favorite anime.

This is a great sig that would make a lot of (deserving) people very upset.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug
Like I can't even recall any nudity in the first 2 eps of this season, I feel like the whole sex in GoT thing is a bit overblown.

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004

Chinatown posted:

its actually very entertaining and thats all that needs to be said unless you are a human being TVIV poster who cares waaay too much about TV shows

Lord Frankenstyle
Dec 3, 2005

Mmmm,
You smell like Lysol Wipes.
Compared to the books, the show is a work of art. Weighing it on it's own merits it's embarrassingly bad softcore porn for Dungeons and Dragons nerds.

gay sewer monster
Jan 18, 2015
Probation
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Wafflz posted:

This is a great sig that would make a lot of (deserving) people very upset.

wtf

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

ArbitraryC posted:

Like I can't even recall any nudity in the first 2 eps of this season, I feel like the whole sex in GoT thing is a bit overblown.

I'm pretty sure most goons just echo overblown complaints other goons had so they can look funny or hip in GBS or something.

A bunch of people bitch that there's too much 'political bullshit,' and a different bunch of people bitch that there's too much violence and sex. You can't please everyone. There is a lot of sexposition though.

cr05580n35 posted:

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

Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Apr 22, 2015

Bwee
Jul 1, 2005
Being hip in GBS is the cool thing, which is why I'm posting about this terrible show, Game of Thrones

spank my snatch
Jun 4, 2009

there was some comically gratuitous nudity and sex in the first season, but it's been winding down as the show has become more popular

Blurry Gray Thing
Jun 3, 2009

Poetic Justice posted:

it's better than the books :twisted:

Yeah.

First book was okay if only for its gimmick (people die a lot). It's a pretty good gimmick. Most people don't do it because killing off characters the audience care about is a good way to end up with a plot full of worthless poo poo-people, but it's still neat to have a story about a violent setting where people really can die. Then it just gets bogged down and slows to a crawl.

Then the gimmick changes and it's suddenly all about "undermining your expectations", non-stop. You can pretty much hear the fat man who wrote it giggling in every paragraph. Bet you thought it was one way, but it's another. Bet you didn't see this coming. Haha, I tricked you! He just stops writing a story and starts playing assgrab with his fandom or something and it's impossible to give a poo poo. Then magic goes from being uncommon to hella overbearing and really ill-defined, because he needs to pull new magic out of his rear end for his latest expectation-subversion.

The show is doomed. The books just get irredeemably bad.

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Jan 18, 2015
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:

Yeah.

First book was okay if only for its gimmick (people die a lot). It's a pretty good gimmick. Most people don't do it because killing off characters the audience care about is a good way to end up with a plot full of worthless poo poo-people, but it's still neat to have a story about a violent setting where people really can die. Then it just gets bogged down and slows to a crawl.

Then the gimmick changes and it's suddenly all about "undermining your expectations", non-stop. You can pretty much hear the fat man who wrote it giggling in every paragraph. Bet you thought it was one way, but it's another. Bet you didn't see this coming. Haha, I tricked you! He just stops writing a story and starts playing assgrab with his fandom or something and it's impossible to give a poo poo. Then magic goes from being uncommon to hella overbearing and really ill-defined, because he needs to pull new magic out of his rear end for his latest expectation-subversion.

The show is doomed. The books just get irredeemably bad.

See, this is why I will never give this show a chance.

Pro Target
Oct 29, 2006

The nudity and sex isnt even the point, the entire show is escapist pornography from dumb fetishization medieval culture to the list of 300 made up names for imaginary places

Bwee
Jul 1, 2005
Where do black people come from in the land of Game of Thrones and why aren't there any that are main characters

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Blurry Gray Thing posted:

Yeah.

First book was okay if only for its gimmick (people die a lot). It's a pretty good gimmick. Most people don't do it because killing off characters the audience care about is a good way to end up with a plot full of worthless poo poo-people, but it's still neat to have a story about a violent setting where people really can die. Then it just gets bogged down and slows to a crawl.

Then the gimmick changes and it's suddenly all about "undermining your expectations", non-stop. You can pretty much hear the fat man who wrote it giggling in every paragraph. Bet you thought it was one way, but it's another. Bet you didn't see this coming. Haha, I tricked you! He just stops writing a story and starts playing assgrab with his fandom or something and it's impossible to give a poo poo. Then magic goes from being uncommon to hella overbearing and really ill-defined, because he needs to pull new magic out of his rear end for his latest expectation-subversion.

The show is doomed. The books just get irredeemably bad.

*writes a fantasy book* "ugh what derivative schlock'
*writes a different fantasy book* "ugh nice 'undermining your expectations' gimmick :rolleyes:'

gay sewer monster posted:

See, this is why I will never give this show a chance.

why? because a goon exaggerated on the internet or because you don't watch 'mainstream' TV?

ulvir
Jan 2, 2005

Bwee posted:

Where do black people come from in the land of Game of Thrones and why aren't there any that are main characters

they appear later on as elite eunuch slave soldiers. they live in the ~mysterious east~ full of sand, temples, slaves and nomads

Nigmaetcetera
Nov 17, 2004

borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins
sexposition is awesome, ,but i could never get into it

it's just a bunch of dudes with beards murdering eachother

Bwee
Jul 1, 2005
Haha does the show have some weird obsession with eunuchs isn't that bald fat guy a eunuch

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004

Poetic Justice posted:

it's better than the books :twisted:

I didn't think this was ever even in question. Truthfully the books are not that good.

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

jiharlequinade posted:

there was some comically gratuitous nudity and sex in the first season, but it's been winding down as the show has become more popular
Yeah I recall noticing it when I first started watching and marathoned the first season or so but like it's on season 5 now and there doesn't really seem to be that much nuditiy. I was trying to google the nude runtime and found a compilation video with ~15 mins of footage and when you consider they're currently at ~42 hours of runtime that's like half a percent of the content.

Lord Frankenstyle
Dec 3, 2005

Mmmm,
You smell like Lysol Wipes.

Bwee posted:

Where do black people come from in the land of Game of Thrones

According to book mythology they're descendants of the burn victims of the great war. That's why they're called "Dragon Crisps".

Bwee posted:

and why aren't there any that are main characters

Because they're the only crisps GRRM doesn't like.

damn horror queefs
Oct 14, 2005

say hello
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Pro Target posted:

The nudity and sex isnt even the point, the entire show is escapist pornography from dumb fetishization medieval culture to the list of 300 made up names for imaginary places

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
black people come from the summer isles and there's plenty of them in the books.

HBO is just racist.

Bwee
Jul 1, 2005
actually if you think about it black people and white people both come from africa

razamataza
Jan 2, 2006

gutted jon snow dies

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

Bwee posted:

Where do black people come from in the land of Game of Thrones and why aren't there any that are main characters

Something something "medieval realism."

Moridin920 posted:

black people come from the summer isles and there's plenty of them in the books.

HBO is just racist.

Basically this, too.

Bwee posted:

Haha does theshow have some weird obsession with eunuchs isn't that bald fat guy a eunuch


It's even worse in the books every time any male character is hostage for even like half a minute someone's going to threaten him with gelding.

Although tbpf the scene where the psycho pale kid cuts off the jerkoff kid's penis wasn't in the books, only implied.

Moridin920 posted:

*writes a fantasy book* "ugh what derivative schlock'
*writes a different fantasy book* "ugh nice 'undermining your expectations' gimmick :rolleyes:'


why? because a goon exaggerated on the internet or because you don't watch 'mainstream' TV?

Hahaha holy poo poo get a load of you.

Twitch
Apr 15, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
Some elements of the show's writing don't really hold up to scrutiny, but overall it's really fun to watch/read.

ulvir
Jan 2, 2005

Bwee posted:

actually if you think about it black people and white people both come from africa

I recall a genetic study concluding that blacks are actually more humans, genetically, than whites, because we had sex with neanderthals a whole lot

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Jan 18, 2015
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No loving way.

spank my snatch
Jun 4, 2009


Yeah Starks tend to be a little slow on the uptake

Decebal
Jan 6, 2010

You actually think that is from the hbo show ?

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I dont own a TV and I do not read books

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

jiharlequinade posted:

Yeah Starks tend to be a little slow on the uptake

This is exactly why Sansa's story so far is good while literally every single other Stark plotline is a tragedy, especially Arya's.

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Decebal posted:

You actually think that is from the hbo show ?

I know nothing about it.

Jerry Mumphrey
Mar 11, 2004

by zen death robot

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razamataza posted:

gutted jon snow dies

they just say he gets stabbed in the stomach, no mention of him being actually gutted

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

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

It's soooo hosed up that the white dude thinks badly about the other white dude because he's the wrong white dude. loving HBO.

damn horror queefs
Oct 14, 2005

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Jerry Mumphrey posted:

they just say he gets stabbed in the stomach, no mention of him being actually gutted

iirc he gets stabbed by a bunch of dudes in homoerotic succession b/c he keeps all the magic enema potions for himself and the men of the nights watch are really peeved about it

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Dec 2, 2014
I don't like GoT or Elder Scrolls or any of that crap

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