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The TV Thread (GoT spoilers)

Burnwinter

The first season had an excellent story, and writing in general in my opinion.

The acting was top notch, but perhaps the characters weren't, particularly—I felt they were mostly mouthpieces for some occasionally brilliant monologues.

Haven't seen episode one of season two yet, but I'm not too concerned if it was a bit slow paced and the characters didn't seem entirely engaging. With any luck there's a quality fictional idea behind the season that will show through as it develops.

I've been watching Game of Thrones the last week or two, and I doubt the development of the drama could possibly be as bad.

Qwiss

I think the opposite Burnsy. I think s1 had a pretty ordinary cop story but had 2 really good lead characters. Rust Cole was a brilliant character and the monologues were great. It had a great framing device too. Where they'd lie in the interview and we'd see the truth.

There is just zero interesting about this season. And if people are blaming the cast they're way off. With the right director and script Farrell, Kitch and McAdams are well capable of top performances.

Burnwinter

The framing device was more than half of everything that was good about the first season. I didn't think Rust was all that interesting, haven't you guys all known a few nihilist shit-talkers like that?

Surely Pizzolatto will've come up with some decent literary trick for the second season. If not then fuck him because that's the point of the show as far as I'm concerned.

Qwiss

I know a few nihilist shit talkers alright but they weren't half as much fun as Rust and didn't have Woody Harrelson making faces at their bullshit either.

Timbob

"Zero interesting about this season"....one episode in.

Rex

Quite liked the first episode.

est

Gooner Tim wrote:
"Zero interesting about this season"....one episode in.

I find this strange, since the first episode was clearly used just to make an introduction into the lives of the main characters. Reckon the next few episodes will give a much better idea of how good/bad the show will be.

Agree about the intro being shit though.

Timbob

Just to clarify, i was suggesting that "zero interesting about this season" was a ridiculous comment as we're only 1 episode in.

est

And I agreed with you.

Qwiss

I'd say True Detectives biggest strength at this point is that they moved it to the summer when nothing else is on. That's the main reason I'll keep watching.

Rex

Farell's character is a cliché at this point, which is disappointing, but the female detective has potential as a character IMO.

Burnwinter

I just don't believe they'd even bother filming it if there wasn't a bit of weight in the script. Like I said, it's the whole point of the show.

Burnwinter

😆 Just seen the end of Game of Thrones, what the fuck was that?

goon

😆

They should have just replaced all the Stanis scenes with this Hiroshima bit from Family Guy

Burnwinter

😆 It's a very, very silly show. I liked the twist ending a lot though, it revived my interest in what they'll do next quite a bit.

Gurgen

The worst thing about GoT is how shitty some of the acting is. The whole Daenerys story line suffers from it. The Grey Worm guy in particular is a joke. Charles Dance carried a large part of the previous seasons. When you lose a guy like that, you need similar quality to replace hhim with.

Qwiss

Burnwinter wrote:
I just don't believe they'd even bother filming it if there wasn't a bit of weight in the script. Like I said, it's the whole point of the show.

But sure Nic Pizzolatto has free reign over the whole thing and he's the one who wrote the script so of course he thinks its great.

Burnwinter

Well Pizzolatto showed a deft touch with the first series, and it wasn't his first and only creative endeavour to date as I understand it (wrote a novel before that?)

I don't think the network would have green-lit a second season with this "anthology" format if he hadn't given them a workable premise. I'd say the theory episode one was exposition, and the plot will thicken, will turn out to be accurate. The actors are probably going to stay a problem though.

Burnwinter

Gurgen wrote:
The worst thing about GoT is how shitty some of the acting is. The whole Daenerys story line suffers from it. The Grey Worm guy in particular is a joke. Charles Dance carried a large part of the previous seasons. When you lose a guy like that, you need similar quality to replace hhim with.

Yeah, there were some real mannequins getting way too much screen time in that season. After that ending it might still be able to recover, though.

USArsenal

best fuckin part of GoT is Peter Dinklage.. by far the best actor in the series

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