Ah, I've actually read the same to what you're saying concerning the plot. True and valid points, although I haven't really realized it myself. I am not sure the plot will ever come together? Since it is spanning 4 books out of planned 7 at the moment. I do find it interesting and I am falling in love with the characters quite easily
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Yes, I feel like they should have really paced themselves better there. I mean the book series isn't even finished! The author takes 5 years per book! If they're planning to do the whole series (I really have no idea what their plans are but they have been approved for the 2nd season) and season per book they're going to run out of books pretty soon.
"But yes, nipple action, it has plenty of it, it is like they're adding sex and blood and gore every opportunity they've got."
It's very Hollywood and gratuitous. It doesn't seem natural and like its a mean to demonstrate something or to show something. In Rome fucking, lesbians, gays, incest, pedophilia, rape etc. was done exactly how it was supposed to be done. You didn't felt like "oh, and this is for the fellas so they can fap on a Friday night" or "let us shock our viewers Saw style just for the sake of shocking", while with Game of Thrones I definitely feel it this way. Rome was raw and more than once it went deeper to the most darkest and twisted realities. There was a certain 5 rated experience when watching in Rome a sex scene or a cruel gore fight. It had a rawness and a push of limit the scenarists and directors took responsibility from day 1 (and you could feel that; it was fucking unbelievable). Here is just like child play and it's like a scene from Beverly Hills 2010.
Yes, it is like that. For some reason they're using the sex scenes to get more exposition on the characters, which on one hand is very useful since it clues you in on things you'd find out by yourself in the books naturally and here there just isn't time for it, but then again it could have been in another way. Like in the last episode they had het scene with Theon Greyjoy to clue you in where he might stand in his allegiances to Starks, and a gay scene to show both Loras' and Renly's ambitions
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A large part of it has to do with the fact that it's HBO too. As a cable channel you have to pay a lot extra for, I think they feel the need to have gratuitous nudity/sex and violence like they did in True Blood.
Oh, that makes a lot of sense. I wasn't thinking about price people pay for shows. Omg, True Blood, I was rolling my eyes all over the place every time there was a Bill and Sookie sex scene. I didn't mind Eric and Sookie ones that much ;D
i agree with most points you make, with the possible add that i seem to be far more willing to be bored (i am very tired you know and i need distraction)
still, i feel the episodes are very long and full of information and not that much action. but as you said, characters are sketchy and the information comes in lots of dialogue. actually, i think the books might be better, because in books there's more space to develop things, to introduce things. i have a very big problem with pace and characters. they are clearly complex characters but they are many characters and sometimes they are barely sketched and given too little screen time for one to really start caring for them, and other times they are given way too much time and information for which we are given too little time to adjust or digest... i dunno. it's... i have no clear opinion so far
i like the savages, i like the supernatural aspect, madness, myths and all those things, but there is still something in my mind that keeps telling me "this is not that great
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"with the possible add that i seem to be far more willing to be bored (i am very tired you know and i need distraction)"
i adore you
"with battlestar... in the pilot , there was... i dunno. i couldn't stop watching and my brain was shouting holy shit all the time from the very beginning"
But the series are captivating, I do plan on catching up!<3
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i think that's the problem that i feel the most acutely to be honest
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It's very Hollywood and gratuitous. It doesn't seem natural and like its a mean to demonstrate something or to show something. In Rome fucking, lesbians, gays, incest, pedophilia, rape etc. was done exactly how it was supposed to be done. You didn't felt like "oh, and this is for the fellas so they can fap on a Friday night" or "let us shock our viewers Saw style just for the sake of shocking", while with Game of Thrones I definitely feel it this way. Rome was raw and more than once it went deeper to the most darkest and twisted realities. There was a certain 5 rated experience when watching in Rome a sex scene or a cruel gore fight. It had a rawness and a push of limit the scenarists and directors took responsibility from day 1 (and you could feel that; it was fucking unbelievable). Here is just like child play and it's like a scene from Beverly Hills 2010.
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still, i feel the episodes are very long and full of information and not that much action. but as you said, characters are sketchy and the information comes in lots of dialogue. actually, i think the books might be better, because in books there's more space to develop things, to introduce things. i have a very big problem with pace and characters. they are clearly complex characters but they are many characters and sometimes they are barely sketched and given too little screen time for one to really start caring for them, and other times they are given way too much time and information for which we are given too little time to adjust or digest... i dunno. it's... i have no clear opinion so far
i like the savages, i like the supernatural aspect, madness, myths and all those things, but there is still something in my mind that keeps telling me "this is not that great ( ... )
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i adore you
"with battlestar... in the pilot , there was... i dunno. i couldn't stop watching and my brain was shouting holy shit all the time from the very beginning"
ohyeah. it was brilliant. one of a kind.
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