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I enjoyed the first season, but I quit watching season 2 after about episode 3 or 4. They completely lost the plot, so to speak. No story advancement, random weird scenes that seem to serve no purpose except to fill the gap left by poor writing, best written and best acted characters from season 1 either gone or getting minimal air time, et cetera. I couldn't take it any longer.
The only noteworthy moments in this season have been the duel between the Cargyll twins and Rook's Nest, but beyond that pretty much nothing has happened. They have Daemon have neverending stoner dreams the whole season, including a particularly disturbing one, as well as other characters act completely out of character. During S1 I was staunchly pro-Black but this season has made me root for the Greens out of spite lmao (they do have Aemond anyway).

Oh and don't get me started with the fact they cut Nettles from the story, terrible decision.

I loved GOT and the first season of HOTD, but they seriously dropped the ball with this season. Such a disappointment.
 
The only noteworthy moments in this season have been the duel between the Cargyll twins and Rook's Nest, but beyond that pretty much nothing has happened. They have Daemon have neverending stoner dreams the whole season, including a particularly disturbing one, as well as other characters act completely out of character. During S1 I was staunchly pro-Black but this season has made me root for the Greens out of spite lmao (they do have Aemond anyway).
I haven't noticed any difference between the two seasons in this regard. The show involves a lot of talking, bickering and posturing with very little truly coming from it all. I don't mean flashy action sequences for that last bit either. More like results of the aforementioned talking, bickering and posturing.

I don't think the show has done a particularly great job of properly capturing changes to the state of the chess board. If anything it's more like a perpetual, stagnant stalemate with some pawns getting blown up here or there. Even when things shift it doesn't really drive home the significance. It's like 99.9% build-up with no pay-off.

It's also been hard for me to root for anyone. A series of petty squabbles involving entitled nobles with big ole sticks hanging out of their assholes as they try to elevate their own sense of self-importance. If anything I don't want any group or individual to win. It'd be preferable if the Dragons banded together and lit everyone up. Burn em all I say. Let the gods sort them out. :)
 
I haven't noticed any difference between the two seasons in this regard. The show involves a lot of talking, bickering and posturing with very little truly coming from it all. I don't mean flashy action sequences for that last bit either. More like results of the aforementioned talking, bickering and posturing.

I don't think the show has done a particularly great job of properly capturing changes to the state of the chess board. If anything it's more like a perpetual, stagnant stalemate with some pawns getting blown up here or there. Even when things shift it doesn't really drive home the significance. It's like 99.9% build-up with no pay-off.

It's also been hard for me to root for anyone. A series of petty squabbles involving entitled nobles with big ole sticks hanging out of their assholes as they try to elevate their own sense of self-importance. If anything I don't want any group or individual to win. It'd be preferable if the Dragons banded together and lit everyone up. Burn em all I say. Let the gods sort them out. :)
Yeah but S1 had the excuse that it was the pre-war phase, only when Aemond feeds Luke to Vaghar is when the Dance truly begins, we should have gotten 5 Rook's Nests since then as it is supposed to be all out war now. The dragonseeds being discovered and getting their dragons should have happened way earlier. It feels like S1 had more battles and more stuff going on.
 
Yeah but S1 had the excuse that it was the pre-war phase, only when Aemond feeds Luke to Vaghar is when the Dance truly begins, we should have gotten 5 Rook's Nests since then as it is supposed to be all out war now. The dragonseeds being discovered and getting their dragons should have happened way earlier. It feels like S1 had more battles and more stuff going on.
Hmm, that may be a fair point. It's just with GoT you'd have a set of intertwining story arcs kind of playing out at once and the show jumped around between them. Each would have some build up to some critical event going down. Either for the individual characters related to the arc or via multiple character arcs converging. With HoD it seems as if the build up within each individual story arc drags and drags. The critical event bit feels like it never comes up or is excessively delayed.

Perhaps the best way to put it is the pacing is kind of meh. Between building up to some event occuring and that event actually occuring. GoT was a much better paced show. With HoD it often feels like the individual story arcs have... stunted progress. They don't go anywhere for extremely long intervals of show time.

I'm not saying it's necessarily bad either. Some folks might be on board with or even prefer it. The show has it's moments. It's more a general observation....
 
If anything I don't want any group or individual to win. It'd be preferable if the Dragons banded together and lit everyone up. Burn em all I say. Let the gods sort them out. :)
Yes. Now that's something that would get me to watch season 3. The dragons have had quite enough, and have decided to rewrite history.
 
Yes. Now that's something that would get me to watch season 3. The dragons have had quite enough, and have decided to rewrite history.
The only reason I want to watch S3 is to finally see
the Daemon/Aemond fight (God's Eye) and Rhaenyra's death
 
Despite being confirmed dead, it looks like Dexter is getting "resurrected". The attempt at a sequel a couple of years ago just didn't recapture the magic of the original. The sequel tried to be all about Dexter, whereas in the original series, Dexter was sort of a blank wall for the other actors to shine against. I'm not sure what this new one is going to try to do.

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Despite being confirmed dead, it looks like Dexter is getting "resurrected". The attempt at a sequel a couple of years ago just didn't recapture the magic of the original. The sequel tried to be all about Dexter, whereas in the original series, Dexter was sort of a blank wall for the other actors to shine against. I'm not sure what this new one is going to try to do.

The way Dexter is looking at this new actor, the show might not be alive very long.
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Dexter New Blood was disappointing to the point the original ending was actually a better conclusion to the story. They should have let it be. Now I fear what they might do to the show, just as I fear what they'll do to the upcoming new GOT shows after the disappointment that has been HOTD S2.
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Well, I just saw Ep 7 of HOTD and I have to say that episode has been better. Small wonder, as it was centered around the dragons. Still lots of incoherent things going on though.
 
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That last chapter of HOTD was the crown and king of all disappointments, this show is officially dead.

I'm only gonna keep watching for Gods Eye and nothing more but curiosity, but this show is an insult to ASOIAF at this point. What a waste of a season.
 
That last chapter of HOTD was the crown and king of all disappointments, this show is officially dead.

I'm only gonna keep watching for Gods Eye and nothing more but curiosity, but this show is an insult to ASOIAF at this point. What a waste of a season.
After your comments about episode 7, I watched it. I agree that it was good.

I watched episode 8 tonight to see how they built on episode 7. Not sure which issue annoys me the worst: that episode 8 was back to all build-up and no pay off ( for a season finale ??!! ), or that it ended with the arrogant assumption that people are going to tune into season 3 to see what should have been episode 8 of season 2. For the first episode of a season, it would have been okay. For the last episode of a season, it was a disaster.
 
Dredd (2012)

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Underrated masterpiece for fans of dystopian Science Fiction / Cyberpunk.
 
Dredd (2012)

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Underrated masterpiece for fans of dystopian Science Fiction / Cyberpunk.
Karl Urban did a good job. The story is a bit underwhelming and I think the villains are mostly terrible. However, the environment is awesome. The movie does a good job of portraying the self-contained ecosystem that megabuildings are supposed to be. That was one of my big regrets about CP2077. We get such a small slice of any megabuilding that they really just feel like big apartment buildings.
 
Last movie I watched was Captain America, it was ok, nothing brilliant. Not as funny as Thor or the first Ironman movie. But want to see them all before the Avengers come out.

Watched the pilot of Terra Nova today, I liked it. Just remains to see what the other episodes will be like. My favourite show at the moment is Game of Thrones.
I have a feeling I wrote this.
 
A Korean drama called "The Frog".

I've seen some complaints that the pacing is too slow at the beginning, and to fast toward the end. Those reviews are missing the entire point, maybe because of the unfortunate English name. The Korean name is a reference to the old philosophical question, "if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?".

The pacing is a brilliantly written literary interpretation of a tree falling. The rest of the writing is a brilliant literary interpretation and answer for the philosophical question, with two trees falling: one was heard by society which came to gawk at the destruction, and the other which only the small creatures in that part of the woods heard.

The acting ranges from good to outstanding, depending on which character we're talking about.
 
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