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My review of Game of Thrones

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Over the past few weeks I have been watching game of thrones. I watched every episode. All 8 seasons. I just finished watching the last episode. My review is mixed. The storyline and plot, not to mention some of the special effects and pagentry, were some of the best of any movie or TV series in history. This show could have been one of the best ever produced. However, the nudity (yes, parts of this were XXX rated), and the blood and gore ruined it. Rather than being looked at as a classic in years to come, it will be forgotten, except for those who make it into a cult series. It could have been much better. Did the producers really take it for granted that blood, gore, foul language, tits, ass, and even dick, was what people asked for instead of a great story? They were sadly mistaken. Yea, it did have a large audience for now, but what could have been great will eventually be known as mediocre. Hollywood has devolved into Hollyweird.

Thank you, and **** you. LOL.
 
For all its nudity, Game of Thrones falls behind several other shows when it comes to total number of nude scenes. The bare-naked champ is Shameless with 238 nude scenes out of 110 episodes in the series so far. Also more naked than GoT: True Blood (137 nude scenes out of 80 total episodes), The Girls Next Door (129 nude–albeit blurred out–scenes out of 91 total episodes), The L Word (106 nude scenes out of 70 total episodes), Masters of Sex (92 nude scenes out of 46 total episodes), and Girls (89 nude scenes out of 62 total episodes).
 
danarhea said:
Over the past few weeks I have been watching game of thrones. I watched every episode. All 8 seasons. I just finished watching the last episode. My review is mixed. The storyline and plot, not to mention some of the special effects and pagentry, were some of the best of any movie or TV series in history. This show could have been one of the best ever produced. However, the nudity (yes, parts of this were XXX rated), and the blood and gore ruined it. Rather than being looked at as a classic in years to come, it will be forgotten, except for those who make it into a cult series. It could have been much better. Did the producers really take it for granted that blood, gore, foul language, tits, ass, and even dick, was what people asked for instead of a great story? They were sadly mistaken. Yea, it did have a large audience for now, but what could have been great will eventually be known as mediocre. Hollywood has devolved into Hollyweird.

Thank you, and **** you. LOL.
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I came to GOT after it had been on a few seasons. Initially, I was impressed. A bit of suspending belief was necessary. They lost me somewhere when the woman gave graphic birth to a black cloud and when the woman went into the fire with her dragon eggs....
Loved some of the characters and the sets and filmography (?).
 
HumblePi said:
For all its nudity, Game of Thrones falls behind several other shows when it comes to total number of nude scenes. The bare-naked champ is Shameless with 238 nude scenes out of 110 episodes in the series so far. Also more naked than GoT: True Blood (137 nude scenes out of 80 total episodes), The Girls Next Door (129 nude–albeit blurred out–scenes out of 91 total episodes), The L Word (106 nude scenes out of 70 total episodes), Masters of Sex (92 nude scenes out of 46 total episodes), and Girls (89 nude scenes out of 62 total episodes).
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That is some serious data mining!
 
danarhea said:
Over the past few weeks I have been watching game of thrones. I watched every episode. All 8 seasons. I just finished watching the last episode. My review is mixed. The storyline and plot, not to mention some of the special effects and pagentry, were some of the best of any movie or TV series in history. This show could have been one of the best ever produced. However, the nudity (yes, parts of this were XXX rated), and the blood and gore ruined it. Rather than being looked at as a classic in years to come, it will be forgotten, except for those who make it into a cult series. It could have been much better. Did the producers really take it for granted that blood, gore, foul language, tits, ass, and even dick, was what people asked for instead of a great story? They were sadly mistaken. Yea, it did have a large audience for now, but what could have been great will eventually be known as mediocre. Hollywood has devolved into Hollyweird.

Thank you, and **** you. LOL.
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Wasn’t made in Hollywood. Made in Belfast Ireland from a mostly English cast.
 
danarhea said:
However, the nudity (yes, parts of this were XXX rated), and the blood and gore ruined it. Rather than being looked at as a classic in years to come, it will be forgotten, except for those who make it into a cult series.
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With all due respect, fans of the genre will continue to treasure it partly because of all the sex and death.
 
HumblePi said:
For all its nudity, Game of Thrones falls behind several other shows when it comes to total number of nude scenes. The bare-naked champ is Shameless with 238 nude scenes out of 110 episodes in the series so far. Also more naked than GoT: True Blood (137 nude scenes out of 80 total episodes), The Girls Next Door (129 nude–albeit blurred out–scenes out of 91 total episodes), The L Word (106 nude scenes out of 70 total episodes), Masters of Sex (92 nude scenes out of 46 total episodes), and Girls (89 nude scenes out of 62 total episodes).
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Now you're talking my language. I am huge fan of Shameless. In fact, I've watched a few episodes of the UK original and I believe the US version is way better. Sigh, with Fiona gone, I wonder how it will fare....big sigh...

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I've missed the agoraphobic neighbor 'Sheila' played by Joan Cusack. But 'Kevin' more than makes up for her loss, he's hysterical.
 
The only season I found overly gratuitous for nudity was season 1, and it was very misogynistic. A lot of the fans complained and then they toned it down in further seasons. The blood and gore was part of the brutality of the universe they're in, which is a medieval reimagining, so I didn't find it too much.

My main complaints are all about how the incompetence of the show's writers to effectively create new material after they had no book material to adapt from. They were skilled at adapting but not inventing, which lines up with the other crappy things they've written in the past. It also seems like they totally shortchanged the GoT audience to go do Starwars. Season 8 desperately needed those extra 4 episodes that the network offered them, but they wouldn't take them. Imagine... you get offered a full season plus an enormous budget, and as a writer you say no over prestige. It was sad.

I didn't think GoT was all that Hollywood until after season 4, when it became about the lowest common denominator. The characters did things and behaved in ways that were completely contrary to the cannon, sometimes completely opposite. It's like the writers didn't even check their own backstory that they created to make sure that the new content made sense. For example...

Jamie and Brianne sitting in the steam baths after he got his hand cut off. He told the story of how he killed the Mad King because he was about to burn all the innocent people of King's Landing, even though it meant him earning the name King Slayer. The look of pain in his face as he told this story... and then looked at Brianne and said "What would you have done?" Flash forward to Season 8, when Tyrion is freeing him, he tells Jaime that they have to get to King's Landing to prevent a massacre of the people. Know what Jaime says, "I don't give a **** about those people."

It's like...??? Really? Did the writers not bother to cross check the very story they wrote?"

I can think of dozens of other such examples.
 
Northern Light said:
The only season I found overly gratuitous for nudity was season 1, and it was very misogynistic. A lot of the fans complained and then they toned it down in further seasons. The blood and gore was part of the brutality of the universe they're in, which is a medieval reimagining, so I didn't find it too much.

My main complaints are all about how the incompetence of the show's writers to effectively create new material after they had no book material to adapt from. They were skilled at adapting but not inventing, which lines up with the other crappy things they've written in the past. It also seems like they totally shortchanged the GoT audience to go do Starwars. Season 8 desperately needed those extra 4 episodes that the network offered them, but they wouldn't take them. Imagine... you get offered a full season plus an enormous budget, and as a writer you say no over prestige. It was sad.

I didn't think GoT was all that Hollywood until after season 4, when it became about the lowest common denominator. The characters did things and behaved in ways that were completely contrary to the cannon, sometimes completely opposite. It's like the writers didn't even check their own backstory that they created to make sure that the new content made sense. For example...

Jamie and Brianne sitting in the steam baths after he got his hand cut off. He told the story of how he killed the Mad King because he was about to burn all the innocent people of King's Landing, even though it meant him earning the name King Slayer. The look of pain in his face as he told this story... and then looked at Brianne and said "What would you have done?" Flash forward to Season 8, when Tyrion is freeing him, he tells Jaime that they have to get to King's Landing to prevent a massacre of the people. Know what Jaime says, "I don't give a **** about those people."

It's like...??? Really? Did the writers not bother to cross check the very story they wrote?"

I can think of dozens of other such examples.
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Once the HBO writers finished telling the story of George R.R. Martin's novels 'A Song of Fire and Ice', the three HBO writers took over the script writing and made up the story as they went along. They knew that they had to end it but the last season had no sense of the imagination and brilliance of George R.R. Martin.
 
Crystal said:
Wasn’t made in Hollywood. Made in Belfast Ireland from a mostly English cast.
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I was using "Hollywood" in a symbolic sense. TV and movies of today have gone downhill.
 
danarhea said:
Over the past few weeks I have been watching game of thrones. I watched every episode. All 8 seasons. I just finished watching the last episode. My review is mixed. The storyline and plot, not to mention some of the special effects and pagentry, were some of the best of any movie or TV series in history. This show could have been one of the best ever produced. However, the nudity (yes, parts of this were XXX rated), and the blood and gore ruined it. Rather than being looked at as a classic in years to come, it will be forgotten, except for those who make it into a cult series. It could have been much better. Did the producers really take it for granted that blood, gore, foul language, tits, ass, and even dick, was what people asked for instead of a great story? They were sadly mistaken. Yea, it did have a large audience for now, but what could have been great will eventually be known as mediocre. Hollywood has devolved into Hollyweird.

Thank you, and **** you. LOL.
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LOL how prudish.
 
danarhea said:
Over the past few weeks I have been watching game of thrones. I watched every episode. All 8 seasons. I just finished watching the last episode. My review is mixed. The storyline and plot, not to mention some of the special effects and pagentry, were some of the best of any movie or TV series in history. This show could have been one of the best ever produced. However, the nudity (yes, parts of this were XXX rated), and the blood and gore ruined it. Rather than being looked at as a classic in years to come, it will be forgotten, except for those who make it into a cult series. It could have been much better. Did the producers really take it for granted that blood, gore, foul language, tits, ass, and even dick, was what people asked for instead of a great story? They were sadly mistaken. Yea, it did have a large audience for now, but what could have been great will eventually be known as mediocre. Hollywood has devolved into Hollyweird.

Thank you, and **** you. LOL.
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"blood, gore, foul language, tits, ass, and even dick" seems to be what modern audiences want, perhaps minus the "dick"....

I do agree it tends to ruin things. Every movie these days has to have the obligatory sex scene shoved in there. I'm no prude. Really, I'm not. But I can find porn easily enough on my own, thank you. I don't need the plot broken up to have six minutes of hot naked people bumping uglies, even if they are hot naked people bumping uglies.

The question for me is whether it adds or subtracts to the story. In most modern movies, it subtracts simply because it's so obviously pasted on.





Truth: I did kinda appreciate the "tits" and the "ass". I mean, over a 10+ episode series in general you can afford a little bit of that, no?
 
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