Game of Thrones Season 8
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I think you nailed it. Sansa is good at the long-game, Dany is good at being a dynamic/motivational leader.
I don't know, Amazon shows like The Man in the High Castle are superb. I now really wish they'd have done the show instead of HBO.
Amazon has some very high quality original shows, but IMO not enough to make me subscribe to Prime without the other prime benefits. Sneaky Pete, Transparent and Goliath are awesome shows imo, but no where near the quantity of quality content of HBO or Neftlix.
Not yet maybe, but their budgets have to be going up. They got Bryan Cogman for their LOTR show and $250m budget.
Cogman wrote the best Episode of this season of GoT. I am excited for that.
My wife and I both thought that a great little twist would have been when Tyrion found Jamie and Cersi under the bricks - he pulled back Jamie's face to find Arya.
Because you are right, there was A LOT of wasted storyline on Arya and the faceless man for it to not really go anywhere.
how about pull back the bricks and find no Jamie, just Cersie and a gold hand and Jamie's face skin....
honestly, I wasn't terribly happy that Cersei got to go out being comforted
It didn't go anywhere? She avenged her family's death with Walder Frey's face.
If they go to the faceless man well too many times, it loses its impact, and it's really corny.
I watched the show first. Just started the books. I haven't caught the whining as much as she's a proper highborn lady in training. Her interaction with the Hound on their way back from the tournament after party was fantastic.
If/when GRRM finishes and publishes the entire book series, would you watch an animated tv series using mostly/only source material from start to finish?
No visual effects budget constraints, no actors out-aging the characters, no actors looking to move on to other projects, take as long as story needs without rushing to an end.
No visual effects budget constraints, no actors out-aging the characters, no actors looking to move on to other projects, take as long as story needs without rushing to an end.
That, and her storyline was not about becoming a faceless man. It was about realizing that she was, in fact, Arya Stark and nothing could change that. Her devotion to her protecting/avenging her family members propelled her through the last few seasons (Killing the Freys, Going to Winterfell to see Jon, Fighting/Killing the Night King) and now that her family is safe she is free to go do what she wants to do.
I always saw the house of black and white as Arya's training to become the killer she is today, and never expected her to go full-faceless man. The fact that Arya trained to essentially completion with them, and then said **** you I'm Arya Stark, should have been the kicker that it wasn't about the abilities they have with faces, but that they are renowned for being some of (if not the) best assassins in the world and she just learned from them. It would have been cool to see her do it one more time, even though the final time we saw her use the ability was about as bad ass as it got in this show.
Interesting idea. So, sort of like this, but with incest?
Still my favorite version! And the music kicked ass! And Roger Daltry!
When specifically should she have used it in the last season that would have made a big difference or would even have made sense in the context of the story? I can’t see a time. It wouldn’t have helped her get to Cersei, and she did not attempt to kill Dany. Wouldn’t have helped her against the Night King.
So what other conflict should she have used it in?
I agree and think it is way overstated. You are reading the perspective of a 13 year old lady. It is going to be much different than Tyrion, Jamie, Ned, etc.
Hell Jon was plenty emo early in the books. And it made sense he was a 15 or 16 year old teenager at the beginning.
