Game of Thrones Season 8

[cfives]

Not particularly specific to the final season, but a nice cover of the theme song by a fan.

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[Bay Arean]

It's too busy to sit and read for a long time, but some of those Reddit posts are hilarious.

PS. After earlier post, you worms can now call me Ser Divod Bayaryean. If you don't stop obsessing on GOT I will utter that magic word that will destroy your computers: Pingaryas!

 

[TheRobSJ]

Plot twist: Jon enters the woods in the wild north to live out his days, runs across a lumberjack named Dexter.

Lol. Now there’s a show that ended as bad as a show can end.

 

[kevin 714]

A lot of long faces today at work over the ending. This show seems to be messing with people's lives

the level of emotional investment in a for profit tv show is insane, and sad, and honestly a bit pathetic

I enjoyed the show, the finale of season 6 was probably the greatest single episode in TV history. the long night and the bells were marvels to watch and while not my favorite season, I enjoyed it, and the series as a whole

the hollowness of peoples lives and ensuing hardcore fandom(and ensuing rage: see star wars now too) is a cultural lowpoint

 

[Bay Arean]

the hollowness of peoples lives and ensuing hardcore fandom(and ensuing rage: see star wars now too) is a cultural lowpoint

I have been developing an inner theme or meme, what have you, that post-modern life in the comfortable places have people living lives like they are all in a big waiting room, staring at their devices, waiting for some big thing to happen that will require their moblization. But in the meantime, they will meander into exploratory fetishes (I don't mean sex, though there is that too) of being completely absorbed in fantastical domains.

Even the Fox TV couch screamers. They sit and watch that shit and get all worked up, but you keep wondering, don't you have something to do? And I feel that way about people that go crazy for Hello Kitty type-of-obsessions, collecting lots of memorabilia, getting tattoos, just going really deep for what is something fundamentally silly. I am reading about it at work, and, on the one hand, it proves that I myself have the luxury of that, but it seems like peoples level of engagment would preclude actually working for a living given the money they spend and lengths they go. Where do they get the scratch to buy all that shit and go to all those "cons" and stuff? How do they have the time to send thousands of texts.

It just seems that regular life is so meaningless and non-fulfilling that only fantasy, imagined life is worth putting real time and money into.

I dunno, I can't quite express it but that's my stab.

We have been kickin this around at work (the GOT finale and reactions). I think of the original Star Trek conventions as some kind of starting point of all of it. From it came a type of cosplay, of course, and people learning "Klingon" and then the action figure collecting by grown men. I guess video gaming too by genre. All downhill since then.

True story, Ms. BA's cousin is in a Star Trek rock band, where they dress up like ST officers then play original music with very grown-up themes and stuff. I never actually heard them, but that they even have existed just seems a bit odd.

 

[Bubba_s]

the level of emotional investment in a for profit tv show is insane, and sad, and honestly a bit pathetic

I enjoyed the show, the finale of season 6 was probably the greatest single episode in TV history. the long night and the bells were marvels to watch and while not my favorite season, I enjoyed it, and the series as a whole

the hollowness of peoples lives and ensuing hardcore fandom(and ensuing rage: see star wars now too) is a cultural lowpoint

If that was the episode where Cersi is drinking wine while the religious nuts get blown to smithereens then I totally agree (Just said this last night).

 

[SFMCjohn]

Mr Douthat on the popularity of GoT:

But the important thing is the political storytelling and the sociological invention — the machinations of statesmen and soldiers and queens and cutthroats, under the weight of particular institutions and traditions, in a world more violent and extreme and death-shadowed and therefore (let’s be honest) more narratively interesting than our own ...

... Two of the most successful completed sagas of the last 20 years, Robin Hobb’s Farseer novels and Tad Williams’s “Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn,” balance political machinations that would be at home in Shakespeare’s histories and larger world stories about the death and life of magic ...

How ‘Game of Thrones’ Failed Fantasy
“The show embodied the reasons for the genre’s appeal — and then forgot them.”

be more worried for us in general if GoT failed to involve the emotions of a lot of people ...

we’re living in a golden age ...

 

[Bay Arean]

If that was the episode where Cersi is drinking wine while the religious nuts get blown to smithereens then I totally agree (Just said this last night).

I don't know how many of the GOT fans know about Savanorola in Florence but that story arc was interesting to me for that reason.

 

[Bubba_s]

I don't know how many of the GOT fans know about Savanorola in Florence but that story arc was interesting to me for that reason.

I had to look it up, that had to be the basis for the GoT story line. Thanks, I learned something today!

 

[Bay Arean]

I had to look it up, that had to be the basis for the GoT story line. Thanks, I learned something today!

Yes, during the episodes, I truly did not know where the story line was going, as I hadn't read any of the GOT books, assuming that was in the books to begin with.

I enjoyed that walk of shame immensely, for different reasons (nyuk) but wasn't sad to see the fanatic meet his end either.

 

[thedub]

the level of emotional investment in a for profit motorcycle racing series is insane, and sad, and honestly a bit pathetic

I enjoyed the show, the finale of season 2006 was probably the greatest single race in TV history. Laguna 2008 and Sepang 2015 were marvels to watch and while not my favorite season, I enjoyed it, and the series as a whole

the hollowness of peoples lives and ensuing hardcore fandom(and ensuing rage: see WSBK now too) is a cultural lowpoint

Changes in bold. Just sayin', you could literally say that about anything in popular culture that people are really into.

 

[kevin 714]

Changes in bold. Just sayin', you could literally say that about anything in popular culture that people are really into.

youll have no argument from me on people investing far too much emotionally, in motogp (or any sport)

and yes you can say that, because my critique is a critique of th enotion of popular culture to begin with

 

[Bowling4Bikes]

ok should we move on and are there positives? yep

arya is a fookin badass and I'm very happy she survived. Her story arc was legit good stuff.

Super stoked for the Starks in general. So much despair, and for them to come on top was a twist I wasn't seeing. Sansa being hailed Queen of the North was very cool.

I had a feeling Tyrion and Sansa would hook back up, ehhh??

The Unsullied and Dothraki are a unified force under Wormwhatever. They sail to Naath to protect the isle, but eh Dothraki start being Dothraki. Wormdude orders their execution. They cut off all communications with the 7 kingdoms and leave the story.

Jon will pout for a while. Bran will croak in short order after Samwell records some juicy shit for later. Jon will become King since the Unsullied won't show up to the council after Bran's death.

Prove me wrong

 

[banshee01]

I loved the series, season 8 was ok and my only complaint was that it should have been longer.

Can't wait for the spin offs. A prequel and hopefully am Arya story also

 

[Cycle61]

A dwarf once brought a jackass and a honeycomb into a brothel. The Madame asked, "what can we do for you?"
He said, "I need a woman to lay with, for mine has left me."
The Madame asked "You poor thing; whatever for? And why do you have a jackass and a honeycomb?"
"Well," he answered, "my woman stumbled upon a genie in a bottle, and he granted her 3 wishes. The first was to have the nicest ass in the land, so he gave her this jackass. Her second wish was for a 'house fit for a queen', so he gave her this beehive."
The Madame asked, "And what of the third wish?"
"For her third wish, my woman asked the genie to make my cock hang down past my knee."
"Well, that one's not so bad!" the Madame exclaimed.
"'Not so bad!?', he replied, "I used to be 6 feet tall!"

 

[SuperMike]

There's also this one:

I once walked into a brothel with a jackass and a honeycomb and said to the madame, "I am weary from long travels. May I trade my donkey for a warm bed and a woman to share it with me?" Seeing the value in the deal, she obliged my whim. I went on, "If it's not too much to ask may I trade the honeycomb for something to eat?"

This seemed to puzzle the madame. She asked me, "Why do you need something to eat when you can just eat the honeycomb?"

To which I replied, "For the same reason I'm trading the donkey for a night with one of your women; I am tired of eating honeycomb."

 

[Hooli]

^^^And that's why Tyrion is The Man.

 

[Bassem]

^^^And that's why Tyrion is The Man.

Dude he escaped 3 trials. He's the MVP

 

[westie]

^^^And that's why Tyrion is The Man.

(half-man)

 

[SuperMike]

(half-man)

The tallest Lannister.