Game of Thrones definitely worth watching

[Steve Williams]

Six Years Late To The Game but better late than never

well believe it or not I was one of the few people in the world who never saw one episode of Game Of Thrones in the entire 6 years it has been on HBO. This summer has been terrible for good movies and very few decent TV series to boot. One day after a lengthy phone conversation with ddk our thoughts drifted from stereo, to politics and ultimately to Game Of Thrones. Sheepishly I admitted that we had never watched it and because it is now 6 years of 60 episodes we chose not to consider. Well David told me it was one if the best TV series he has ever seen and so much so that it was almost addicting to watch

Well my wife and I decided to watch Season One Episode one about 6 weeks ago and we were instantly hooked. Over these past 6 weeks we have binged on the series and finally last night finished the 60th episode

What an amazingly wonderful series.What IMO is even more amazing is the magnitude of each episode in it's depth and scope. The staging, costumes, animal etc etc that went int each production was mind boggling. I have heard talk that each episode cost $15M to produce and that ain't hay.

Does anyone have any idea as to how much longer it is going to run as there are still many side stories going on at the conclusion of Season 6

The computer graphic imaging is also extremely well done throughout.

I have to admit I am looking forward to Season 7 after consuming the previous 60 episodes in 6 weeks

David has made me promise that I will now watch Penny Dreadful

 

[JackD201]

Only 2 seasons to go. Shooting and release of Season 7 will be a few months delayed, not the usual April opening. Why?

WINTER IS HERE

 

[Johnny Vinyl]

I only got into it last year and was hooked right away as well. We don't watch a lot of TV, so no HBO for us, but I purchased the Blu-ray editions.

 

[KeithR]

welcome to the GOT club, doc! there is one final season, split likely into two, 7 episode components. my guess is winter next year Pt 1 release, since it fits the theme and the filming delay to accommodate winter shooting.

if you want to read the books in the interim, 1 and 3 are exceptional. 4-5 are meandering, wastes of time.

 

[YashN]

Six Years Late To The Game but better late than never

well believe it or not I was one of the few people in the world who never saw one episode of Game Of Thrones in the entire 6 years it has been on HBO. This summer has been terrible for good movies

It's a good thing people are voting with their wallets and not financing further reboots, prequels of sequels and remakes.

Yes, GOT totally makes you reconsider 'made for TV' shows as they are so well made now.

Actually, not only we had not started to watch GOT until quite late, I had actually stopped watching TV for 11 years or so (therefore, no shows either).

Breaking Bad and GOT rekindled my interest for TV shows, and this new trend for better 'made for TV' (I include Netflix as a provider for these shows too) was confirmed and sustained by: Hannibal (until end of S02 only), Daredevil, Sherlock and Narcos. The Walking Dead S01 only was great too while Darabont was involved.

In these shows, the story-line and characters have much more time to develop. The finances are there, so they don't look like cheap productions anymore.

That's why I now watch much more shows in a short time, I'm catching up!

 

[still-one]

Six Years Late To The Game but better late than never

well believe it or not I was one of the few people in the world who never saw one episode of Game Of Thrones in the entire 6 years it has been on HBO. T

No, there are many others who have passed on GOT. We started watching the first episode and the gratuitous violence was absurd. Then after a couple of years of hearing people talk about the show I decided to give it another go. As soon as I saw flying dragons I dumped it for good.

I have found too many good shows on Netflix and Amazon to waste my time GOT.

 

[Steve Williams]

To each our own . I passed on the show initially for the very same reason that you mentioned here. I too heard from too many people about how great the show was and I gave it a chance and I'm glad that I did. I loved it. I can't wait for season seven.

 

[Folsom]

GOT makes you think about the quality of TV shows? Um, no... that happened way back in the day with Band of Brothers.

 

[YashN]

GOT makes you think about the quality of TV shows? Um, no... that happened way back in the day with Band of Brothers.

I don't care about War-related shows or movies.

 

[bonzo75]

On this forum, while speed reading, I thought you said Game of Thorens

 

[NorthStar]

On this forum, while speed reading, I thought you said Game of Thorens

How fast (speed) is your Internet?

 

[rbbert]

Interestingly, although certainly the visual aspects of gratuitous nudity, sex and violence are missing from the books, my impression is that the TV series is actually toned down a bit from what it could be based on the books.

 

[Folsom]

My brother reads the comics for "The Walking Dead" and I asked him how they're different he said, "they talk more, and there's more rape... A LOT MORE rape."

I doubt GOT is much different. But I wonder if the weird feminist vibe peeks it's head up as often in the books?

 

[YashN]

My brother reads the comics for "The Walking Dead" and I asked him how they're different he said, "they talk more, and there's more rape... A LOT MORE rape."

This Season's new episode was quite shocking.

 

[Folsom]

I have high hopes TWD... But I wish they would've killed other characters. Who knows, they seem to have this theme with bully groups coming and going. I can't help but wonder why none them get military armaments... well I guess "The Govern" did have a tank. I'd be all about having tanks, rockets, etc. It sure seems like they're lax at preparing for invasion/issues with other groups.

GOT should be good so long as they don't make it too Daenerys centric, as her whole SJW theme gets a bit silly at times. I had a moment of denial when I read the words "it'll be delayed for awhile"; that hurts.

 

[JackD201]

What's SJW Folsom?

 

[Folsom]

"Social Justice Warrior"

Don't be confused by the Google definition, it's really a term for annoying people that think if you're for one cause you're for all the ones no matter how insane - on the fundamentalists-terrorist spectrum of liberals - , are complete bullies with no respect for differences in opinions/morals, and are object to facts and science. It's not the easiest description for someone not familiar, and harder to understand the derogatory nature without experience with the types since they align with so many things at least one you will agree with.

The Mother of Dragons is often non-sensically concerned with things in such a way they're out of their period of "history" or rather age of humans - even in an alternate universe. Perspective of someone in those times simply does not align with things predicated on decades of theory in the USA, primarily, on subjects that are bastardized horribly from history's reality to fit narratives that serve the repeating theories. This is a long topic, which will offend someone's morality and turn political even though it's historic. (Yes I know GOT isn't in our universe, not real, but it's mostly based in reality for structure, and everything short of magic)

I hope that helps and doesn't make it worse.

 

[JackD201]

How fast (speed) is your Internet?

33 1/3 or 45 LOL

 

[JackD201]

"Social Justice Warrior"

Don't be confused by the Google definition, it's really a term for annoying people that think if you're for one cause you're for all the ones no matter how insane - on the fundamentalists-terrorist spectrum of liberals - , are complete bullies with no respect for differences in opinions/morals, and are object to facts and science. It's not the easiest description for someone not familiar, and harder to understand the derogatory nature without experience with the types since they align with so many things at least one you will agree with.

The Mother of Dragons is often non-sensically concerned with things in such a way they're out of their period of "history" or rather age of humans - even in an alternate universe. Perspective of someone in those times simply does not align with things predicated on decades of theory in the USA, primarily, on subjects that are bastardized horribly from history's reality to fit narratives that serve the repeating theories. This is a long topic, which will offend someone's morality and turn political even though it's historic. (Yes I know GOT isn't in our universe, not real, but it's mostly based in reality for structure, and everything short of magic)

I hope that helps and doesn't make it worse.

Got it. We have a name for that here too which I shall keep to myself.

 

[YashN]

Got it. We have a name for that here too which I shall keep to myself.

They're friends of Special Snowflakes, who need Safe Spaces to be able to travel from place to place, otherwise they feel offended.