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Maybe I'm Being a Hipsterfag
AZDuck
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But this season of Game of Thrones really, really sucks.
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Maybe changing the fucking script for half the story lines wasn't such a hot idea?
But it's HBO and he previous stuff was awesome, so LIPO...?
Now it seems like they are racing through plot points (as evidenced by each new episode getting five minutes of "Previously on Game of Thrones" flashbacks.
Also, very very rapey. And I'm an actual duck saying that.
And more of Khaleesi doing it doggy style like in season 1.
This season was likely going to be slow regardless of how close they stuck to the books. Books 4 and 5 have plenty of tedious parts.
On some aspects I'm glad they sped up the plot line (we don't need 23 episodes of Daenerys doing nothing in Mereen).
Similarly, they had the right idea to abandon the Jaime-wandering-aimlessly-in-the-Riverlands story, but didn't execute it well. The "Jaime and Bronn Visit Dorne" show plays out like a cheesy buddy cop movie, and the sand snakes are corny, leaving us with a total shit sandwich. The only redeeming factor is that we got to see some tits. BRB, JO
I'm liking the Bolton/Sansa part, and Arya's story is playing out nicely. Cersei's story is pretty true to the books and is working well.
I'm guessing that the last two episodes of the season will be awesome, and we will forget about how the rest of the season has been meh.
And whoever said we need more Khaleesi doggystyle poundins, I agree that it would fix everything.
To me, the core issue is that the author built up a dynamic world of interesting characters in books 1-3 and now, subconsciously, is incapable of bringing each storyline down to their conclusions; consider his timeline of writing books 1-3 in less than 6 years and then taking 16+ long years to write the next two which most readers deem to be inferior.
Doing this ruined Jaime's arc AND the Dorne arc. Cutting out the Riverlands story also cuts out Lady Stoneheart, the siege at Riverrun, the Brotherhood w/o Banners, and the Blackfish.
OK, they decide not to do that, fine. He goes to Dorne instead, fine.
But then why bother hiring an awesome actor to play Doran Martell if he's only gonna get 3 minutes of screen time all season? The Sand Snakes have been awful (except for the titties last ep). And the entire Dornish plot has gone nowhere. After the amazing job Oberyn did last season of introducing his house/Dorne, they've done a shit job of following it up.
If they decided to take their time introducing new characters and places (like in the books) and gave us the same development and backstory as the original cast, fine. But instead, they've given us almost nothing about any of them. The reason people complained about the 4th book was that is was such a slow down in action after the first 3. But that's because GRRM actually explained everything about the new people/places the story was expanding to. You can't be slow paced and shallow on substance.