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[SmilesJA]

 

We totally know who the father is.  They couldn't make it any more obvious, no?

 

My thoughts on GoT this week:

 

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• RIP Margaery!  She was a really cool character and I was rooting for her, but I kind of knew that she wasn't going to get a happy ending.  I was so frustrated for her when she knew something was up and couldn't get her brother out safely in time. 
• Varys' magical teleportation skills annoyed the hell out of me.  So he leaves Mereen to go to Dorne, shows up to deliver one line, then travels all the way back to Mereen (without the show showing it), just to hop on a boat with Dany to sail right back to Westeros?  I know that Dany's fleet had House Tyrell and House Martell boats, so I understand why, but it was just poorly done.
• I find Jon so boring, but I'm not upset to see him named King of the North. 
• Queen Cersei I is going to have a very very short reign.  The only question is if Jaime will get a new nickname ("Queenslayer") as well.....?
• So how is this setting up?
  • Dany (with the Dothraki, Ironborn, Martells, & Tyrells) against Cersei
  • The North (and the Vale?) against the Whitewalker
• I know she's a bit cliche, but Lyanna Mormont is pretty damn awesome.  I wish I could fast forward and see what the Lady of Bear Island is like when (if?) she's a grown warrior-woman.  She's going to be formidable and curmudgeonly. 
• It took Olenna Tyrell to make a Sand Snakes scene bearable.  I could definitely handle watching her shred them one at a time every episode.
• My biggest question:  Where is Melisandre's story going? 

 

 

Maybe.... but I think the writers will pull a twist.

[Steelcan]

For those more knowledgeable about the series than I, about how much time has passed in book/in show since the story began?

somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 years iirc

[Steelcan]

Maybe.... but I think the writers will pull a twist.

there's only so many people the father can be given who the mother is

 

and there's only one logical choice

[SmilesJA]

I just don't think the R + L=J theorists will get off that easy.

[Steelcan]

I just don't think the R + L=J theorists will get off that easy.

they did all but carve it in stone this past episode, unless you are gonna say Arthur Dayne was daddy all along its over

[DomeWing333]

Welp. Can't win 'em all.

 

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gg Margaery.

 

Great episode. Probably my favorite along with Watchers on the Wall.

[CrimsonN7]

So, I finally watched that GoT finale

 

 

just wow. They saved the best till last, glorious chaos. Feck I love Lyanna Mormont, she doesn't mince her words, brilliant!    

 

I just hope 

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Sansa doesn't fall back into her old guillible ways, I'd kill that snake Littlefinger, poisonous b*stard. Also the prophecy was the worst kept secret, no surprises with that reveal. The King in the North! Arya getting some more revenge, nice, very nice. RIP Margaery, and Tommen, taking Kings Landing literally. Dany looks pretty set to be the next queen, Daario getting left behind, ouch.

 

Interesting to see the Queen of Thorns seeking an alliance with Dorne/Dany. Loved seeing her put em each in their place, silence little girls, let the women talk aha. Cersei is gonna get rekt but I reckon Jaime will do the honours, not the oncoming storm!

 

[Sifr]

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The problem is that even with Jon as the new KOTN, they cannot kill Littlefinger because he still controls the Knights of the Vale, the strongest out of their current armed forces.

 

Sansa can't use the fact that Littlefinger was responsible for the murder of Joffrey against him, as no-one (save Cersei) would care. Nor can she reveal that Littlefinger murdered Lysa Arryn, because it raises the question of why she lied about it when they asked her back in S4.

 

They can't prove anything that Littlefinger did that could have him executed, that wouldn't lose them their forces or end up calling into question Sansa's integrity or have her accused of being a co-conspirator.

 

Crafty Baelish is crafty.

 

Lyanna Mormont has rapidly become one of my favourite characters on the show.

 

It's a lot of fun to watch someone so young with a complete no-nonsense attitude, who can easily verbally demolish people several times their age. She's like a pint-sized Olenna Tyrell.

 

See Sansa, this is what northern women are supposed to be like! 

[Jorji Costava]

I've been watching Narcos this past week; I'm about halfway through season 1. The show chronicles the trevails of the notorious Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar. The nominal protagonist is DEA agent Steve Murphy, who becomes motivated to bring down Escobar after losing his partner in a gang altercation. The show also includes a very large amount of archival footage and expository narration courtesy of the Murphy character.

 

So far I like Narcos but don't love it. If you're familiar with the rhythms of  prestige television, then nothing in Narcos will come as a particular surprise. The performances are generally strong; Wagner Moura is very good in the role of Escobar, while Boyd Holbrook is generally adequate as the somewhat bland protagonist Steve Murphy; I wonder if the character of Major Carillo (based on the real-life Hugo Martinez) might not have made a better foil for Escobar. Carrillo is incorruptible--he won't bow to Escobar's famous dictum of "plato o plomo" (silver or lead), but at the same time, he's willing to do some seriously f--ked up s--t to catch Escobar. In the world of the narcos, even moral integrity itself has a dark side.

 

I guess my main issue with the show is that it never seems to find that comfortable middle ground between being a docudrama versus being a character study. The show's reliance on narration and archival footage sometimes weakens the impact of its storytelling; when the death of an important figure is something that is merely described through narration and archival photos rather than depicted in the story itself, it's harder to get a feel for the characters' reactions to such an event. The vast majority of the dialogue in this show is subtitled from Spanish, and sometimes I wonder if the huge amount of voiceover narration isn't just there to remind us that hey, there's an American in this show.

[BraveVesperia]

I started watching prison dramas lately, so Locked Up/Vis a Vis was my first one. I thought it was going to be a British or US show, but it turned out to be Spanish with subtitles. Apparently Channel 4 is showing popular European shows on their online site. Anyway, I'm really into that. It's more like a thriller sometimes than a prison drama, since the central plot involves a dangerous criminal who wants to find this stolen money. Of course, the unlucky and naive protag is the one who knows its location. Very tense and exciting. I really hope they show the second series too, since I don't know any Spanish.

 

It got compared to Orange is the New Black a lot. Since I've just started binge-watching that, it's safe to say that they're not that similar. OITNB is much more funny, quirky and drama-based. Probably in part because it's a low security prison instead. The only thing they really have in common is a fish-out-of-water blonde protag.

 

I really like them both. I've kind of been sucked into women's prison drama now. I can't watch anything else. My brother recommended Prison Break. Not sure how much I'll like that one, since it's a male prison instead. Might give it a whirl if I can find it though.

[Biotic Apostate]

Prison Break is a mixed one for me. The beginnings were very good and the cliffhangers really exciting (got sucked in, when it was at the height of its popularity). But it was dragged out for too long, and had quite a bit of '...really?' moments. Then again, I grumbled at it, and then watched the series 'till the end. But a new season is scheduled to air next year (8 years after the series finale) and I have absolutely no intention of watching it.

 

Funny thing is, the series almost had a female spin-off, which could have beaten OITNB by 6 years, but no one believed it would succeed.

[nightscrawl]

If you're into prison dramas, check out HBO's Oz. Be warned, it is extremely violent, but the characters are really varied, compelling, and very well acted. If you happen to have watched the various iterations of Law & Order, you will recognize several of the actors.

[Sifr]

A lot of shows suffer in their second season, probably because the the writing staff realise that they had no ideas beyond their first story arc, so they try to cover it by recycling the same old plotlines again.

 

Prison Break and Heroes would have been better if they'd been confined to a single season or a miniseries, rather than trying to extend the premise long past where it should have ended.

[nightscrawl]

I think a LOT of shows would be much better if they were planned as a single season episodic story with 13-26 episodes, with a beginning, middle, and an end. Over and done. But noooo networks want to milk their cash cows to death and the programming suffers for it.

 

That's one thing that is nice about so many anime. Cowboy Bebop, one of my faves, has 26 episodes and a movie, which is basically a movie-length episode that could take place during the series. The series has a definitive ending. The way the show was done, they very well could have continued on bounty hunting into eternity, but the creators chose not to do that.

 

Two Syfy Network shows, Lost Girl (Canadian import) and Haven, both suffered for dragging the show out to a rambling five seasons when they really should have been three max. The endings of both were disappointing (especially Haven), and I didn't care about the people on Lost Girl anymore and only finished it because I had put in all of that time.