#*d and d suck

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I think its a shame that a book series with so many morally grey characters has been cursed with a TV adaptation that is so black and white. Its like what books did you guys read?

I totally agree!

On top of that they don’t take criticism or comments on the adaptation very nicely, and they think they know it all. I think at this point D&D are like two spoiled kids. When people comment on something they do badly, or they’ve exaggerated on the show, they are like “oh really? do you think there’s a lot of nudity? HERE, HAVE A LOT MORE NUDITY”, “oh really? do you think Cersei’s being painted as a victim more like an active part of her decisions? HERE HAVE SOME MORE JOFFREY’S VICTIM CERSEI!!”.

ugh

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Hi there, I'm new to your blog and have to say I love it! Re: Dany and the Dragons, I do wonder if that is a specific drawing point to get more male viewers more interested in the show. I do know that I had to mention dragons, zombies, and sex (yep...) to get my boyfriend interested; he came for those things, stayed for the storyline. So, who would you like to see featured predominantly in advertising if it wasn't Dany? Lbr, without her dragons (and Drogo), I find her kinda boring :/

Hi! Thank you!

That would be the ugly truth, wouldn’t be? Idk. I know a lot of male fans of the show, that watch it for many reasons but Dany and her dragons, and boobs. Though the boobs don’t hurt. But mostly they happen to be book readers. But again, many male viewers (only viewers) are interested in the male characters, Robb, Tyrion, Jon, and Jaime, and don’t care much for the fantasy aspect of the show. Idk, not gonna make generalizations, but it’s true that the show does have a tendency to feature what they think is the selling point of the story. And mainly because they have this assumption that women don’t watch the show. In fact, in earlier seasons, they seemed clearly surprised that the show attracted more female viewers, than male. And as soon as they made that realization, they tried to fight it, and made it all about attracting male viewers. Somehow a show with a larger female viewership, is something that they thought it might hurt the show in the long run (it’s not the first time I’ve seen producers do this though).

I don’t have a problem with the show featuring Daenerys and Tyrion, I have a problem with the show featuring only and mostly them. I don’t need one character to be predominantly featured as the face of the show. The show has a lot of characters, and a lot of good actors, that can be the one of the many faces that could be featured. Early into this show, a couple of reviewers commented on the “annoying" fact that this show didn’t have lead characters, and stupidly enough, the producers went to “fix" what was not broken. The reviewers were speaking from the perspective of people who have no interest in the genre, or even in the show for the long run. And the first complaint was the number of actors and characters, and that Daenerys wasn’t enough in the show. A season later, the producers changed both things, “fixing" everything this one reviewer didn’t like about the show. I doubt the reviewer now sees the show differently, in fact, I doubt he even watches it, cause he didn’t seem interested in the show, nor the genre, and wrote a review with the passion of a turtle, and criticized things that were not a problem or an actual issue of the production, but were only his personal likes or dislikes about the genre, and the show in general. So, in my opinion, the producers are doing what they think attracts the masses, and the good reviews. Ironically, neither of the changes done, have improved the show, from a critical to a fan’s standpoint. The show is now more or less, a good cgi’d show, with some good shock value moments, embellished by some unnecessary nudity. And if some critics and or fans like that, is because they don’t know how good it could have been, if the producers hadn’t bastardized the purpose, the look, and the storyline so much. It’s ok to like it (or love it), but to call it “great, amazing, or groundbreaking" is trying to reach for the stars with a stationary bicycle.

Thanks!

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Filling the season with bullshit instead of the good deleted scenes and plots when they clearly stated that the book would be divided in two SO THAT THEY COULD DO A BETTER JOB WITH THE PLOTS only shows that D&D should not be running this show and have little to none postive input in the story.

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To speak to your Emmy analysis, there is a video on Entertainment Weekly's website with D&D and the three *stars* (I believe they come in around 2:10/2:11). D&D turn to Kit and say 'Now, we have to work on Kit..' (re: an Emmy nomination..). It's also worth noting that the B team (who is much more animated then the A) are not interviewed with D&D but GRRM.

They are so fucking transparent omg.

"work on Kit" They fully acknowledge they had to work on the other two.

Wouldn’t be surprised Kit gets a nom at some point, or at least something related.

WHERE’S LANCEL’S EMMY?!

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I've rewatched the scene and now I'm most comfortable with the Mhysa scene. Honestly, we have to remind ourselves that this is TV, and after Robb's tragic death, It felt like they were trying to make ammends. It's no surprise to anyone that Daenerys is both a book and show favorite, so It made sense to give her that great moment. And in the books, It's a very touching scene. Pity they didn't knew how to execute it.

Hey anon.

we have to remind ourselves that this is TV Don’t agree. Tv or film, the impact of the images we see is huge. The racist-whitesavior issue is still there, and it could have been avoided easily. Grrm’s comments on it, even made it worse, and shows he saw the problem in it, but making it less or non white-savior was expensive, therefore they went with what they had. It’s just tv, is not an excuse for the things the show does. I think we can say it’s just tv and not give it more importance than it should have, when it comes to things that in real life are more important than the white-saviorish portrayal of the character and the scene in a tv show.

The scene still bothers me, in fact it bothers me more now, since there’s a clear boner for the scene, the character and what surrounds her, and I don’t want that part of it to be glorified. If anything recent events, make it even more dangerous and even more patent, that this scene had an impact, but not the right one. The right one was tumblr’s reaction to it, and the criticism that that brought. But unfortunately, that’s not how many people saw it.

It’s no surprise to anyone that Daenerys is both a book and show favorite, so It made sense to give her that great moment. They could have made a great moment. But they did not do such thing.From execution, to acting, to white-savioring, to cheesiness, to structure of the scene and the episode, it was all wrong. Not only it was problematic, but it was a bad and cheesy scene decorated with cgi. The only thing I can rescue from it, is the music.

I doubt I’d let go of this easily. Everytime I see a bit of it, it just bothers me.

Thanks!

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juliable said: i think d&d give the viewers not enough credit. some changes are necessary in order to bring the written story to the screen, but it certainly doesn’t need being dumbed down like that in order to make it “watchable" for the non-readers.

mte.

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would you like to meet GRRM? And if you do, what would you ask him? Also the same about D&D! Thanks!

Hi anon.

(Skipping a couple of asks, and answering this one first).

GRRM, yes! Things I would ask him (of course I don’t really think I would get an answer): 

when are you going to finish the books? I know many people ask him that, and I’m not looking for an answer, as I am looking for a reaction. I want to see what his face tells me. I want to see the conviction in his face when he says he’s half way there, or that he will find time later, or something. I probably won’t get a thing from him anyway. haha

the second thing would probably be if there’s actually a point to sitting on the throne now. I don’t know, sometimes I feel he’s headed in one direction, and then in others. So, I would like to know, with that question, if all it’s in vain, and the war for the throne is not going to matter, as much as the “little" things taking place.

Thirdly, if I would dare to criticize something, I would mention Tyrion, and his continuous need to make him a favourite. I think in that way I would be criticizing, even though I’m not really bother by Tyrion, as many people are. 

D&D, Idk. I don’t think I would like to just because most of the questions and things I would want to say to them would be with a snarky and unfriendly tone. lol

Why Talisa? Why wreck Robb’s storyline?

What’s with the sexism in the show?

How long will you keep selling your show as an amazing tv show like no one has ever seen before, when it actually didn’t even got to that point after season 1?

How come you have to use other fantasy stories brought to the big screen or small screen to sell your show, when in fact, if you have read the source material, and seen those productions, you can notice there’s nothing that can relate them to each other?

Which one is the character they considered has been more “messed with" in order to function with their purposes. As well as given them a couple of examples to avoid the “but we haven’t messed with characters that much" answer.

And a lot more things, which is why I wouldn’t want to meet them.

Thanks!

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lavender-and-creme said: It bums me out that they put so much money into the damn dragons when the direwolves are almost nonexistent. I feel like its their way of saying Dany matters more than the Stark kids.

If they were diving the screen time and money properly, each character would get its chance, and each storyline would be more or less well developed.

When they put more money and more screen time in one or two characters, it's noticeable the lack of both in other storylines. And the one perfect example is Sansa and Tyrion. Not even when it was about her, and her grief after she finds out most of her family is now dead, she was given proper screen time. That pisses me off.