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Game of Thrones
2019-05-23 20:31Yes, I watched Game of Thrones, despite my utter dislike of anything related to zombies. The earlier seasons I even watched repeatedly, because of the dense story-telling that made every scene, even seemingly innocuous ones, plot-relevant - as in, skip it (or doze through it) and sometime down the line the story will cease to make complete sense.
In that regard, GoT's earlier seasons were an utterly, densely connected plot, forcing me to even endure the creepy white walker scenes (and yes, I still hate zombie tales; I don't even watch iZombie, which is about as candy-colored fluffy a Barbie-tale as undead tales can be), but GoT required the information in these scenes for it to make sense. A summary wouldn't have been enough! So I went through them as well - often with a very fine comb!
However, since season 7 - and partially already season 6 - the scenes are no longer connected, resulting in something resembling something I call "a lazy fanfic", i.e. one in which the author only bothers with the juicy scenes they want to play with and don't bother with character development and world building that make the juicy bits make sense. In most series that wouldn't stand out as much as it did in the case of GoT, which in its earlier seasons showed that it can be done MUCH BETTER in respect to character developments.
( slight spoilers from here on out - including fascist developments )
In that regard, GoT's earlier seasons were an utterly, densely connected plot, forcing me to even endure the creepy white walker scenes (and yes, I still hate zombie tales; I don't even watch iZombie, which is about as candy-colored fluffy a Barbie-tale as undead tales can be), but GoT required the information in these scenes for it to make sense. A summary wouldn't have been enough! So I went through them as well - often with a very fine comb!
However, since season 7 - and partially already season 6 - the scenes are no longer connected, resulting in something resembling something I call "a lazy fanfic", i.e. one in which the author only bothers with the juicy scenes they want to play with and don't bother with character development and world building that make the juicy bits make sense. In most series that wouldn't stand out as much as it did in the case of GoT, which in its earlier seasons showed that it can be done MUCH BETTER in respect to character developments.
( slight spoilers from here on out - including fascist developments )
