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I hate them, and never watch them. The only time I see them is when I see them by accident, like Get Out, and Parasite. And I did enjoy those. I somehow thought Get Out was going to be a romantic comedy like Meet the Parents, but with a interracial thing. Brought my wife to see it on a date night with that as the pitch. Woops.
Then similar story with Parasite. Those were good because of the social commentary. But generic horror films just make me anxious and uncomfortable. Whats the appeal? Side question, if you like horror films, do you also like spicy food?
Yea, I’m glad. Very interesting and provocative. I hated when they ended episodes though. I feel sorry for anyone who watched them when they came out and had to wait for the next ones. For a while, we stopped them in the middle of episodes at good stopping points. And then, the next night, we would watch the second half of the episode, and the first half of the next. Just so much more satisfying.
I liked the last two seasons though. They are the third act. And the third acts are always the worst, because they stop introducing new characters and conflicts and have to start tying things together. But given that, I found it satisfying to see all the loose ends and broken relationships come face-to-face and resolve.
during a re-watch I often saw myself thinking “How did I not see the next twist coming? They’re hinting at it everywhere.”.
Did you feel that way about the last seasons too? When Jamie Lannister stayed at Winterfell with his brother and others, then left to be loyal to his sister again, I was surprised. But I should have seen it coming. All the signs were there. Same with Denaris burning Kings Landing. She said she wanted to do that over and over, but only held back to appease Tyrian. Once she decided to stop listening to him, we should have expected it. So, I agree with you, but I think it applies to the later episodes too. I definitely didn’t see Bran becoming king. It makes sense though, he is the one most likely to be a benevolent ruler. And he was treated as a major character throughout the show, seemingly out of the blue to be honest. I mean, his story didn’t really relate much to the other stories until the last season.
THE WRITERS ARE COWARDS no real protagonist death no matter how fucked their situation goes
Yea, I noticed that in season 7. The main characters never die in battle. So the suspense of the battles was gone. Was that the case in the books?
she has really at every single point of the history used violence and power to reach her goal
Thats interesting. And I think her plotline was played like a classic tragedy. We should have seen it coming, and hated her. But they did present her as good as much as possible so we should want her to win. Part was probably that we wanted to see those dragons kick ass for the power of good. Partly because she is sexy. But you’re right, she was not good. She didn’t have any of that coalition building power that Jon Snow had, or inspiring people to join. Well, the slaves she feed joined her because she freed them and gave them a choice to go. That was really her best moment. But she couldn’t keep Moreen, because she ruled from the to of a pyramid. That was a red flag too. I think it was really showed at Winterfell, after the night battle, when she wasn’t celebrating. Nobody wanted to talk to her. She hadn’t even made any friends. Great films have morally ambiguous characters though, so we like them, but also wonder if we should be liking them. And she definitely had that all the way to the end. For everyone else, we figured out if they were good or bad much earlier. Maybe thats why people complain about the last two seasons. The ambiguous characters were sort of forced to take a side and become boring.
the camera zooms out into other things and if it looked like jon is fucked don’t worry next time he is on camera he will be fine
Yea. How about when Theon is guarding Bran in that battle. One or two times, it shows an overhead shot of them being overwhelmed by at least 20 zombies charging in. Then a few shots later, they are still holding a line 100 feet away. It made no sense whatsoever.
Do you think it should have ended with Daneris on the throne? I was feeling like I was finally understanding how things worked in that world, and felt like that would have been the correct ending. But instead, they sort of ended it like a Hollywood film, where the good guys all live and live happily ever after and the bad guys die.
I learned about this proxy war in a college class by a professor who had been there numerous times and was involved in convincing congress to defund it. I remember the US and soviets backed opposing sides at one point, and later they both changed sides and supported the opposite sides at a later time.
Yea, this pandemic would be a really wild ride, politically, if Bernie was the nominee. And that is exactly why the effort went into his campaign. But the deeper question always was, "is there a tipping point, where the left can win electorally? Or is electoralism within the grip of power to a degree that it will always be abused to prevent real power distribution.
