Probably regretting how season 8 went
(media.kotakuinaction2.win)
Comments (27)
sorted by:
Game of what? Never heard of it. I certainly didn't watch it for years only to be shat on from a great height in the final rushed season.
Nope.
Not interested.
Never again.
Not going to happen.
Even disregarding that, I can only imagine a "more modern take"™ for and even more "modern audience"™.
I'm just done with the content treadmill in general.
Anime has been my go to for the last few years. I had paid subscriptions for years but then after 2 different buyouts of my anime streaming sites that made my experience worse every time, I discovered a free streaming site that has all the features that I want.
https://9anime.me
It works for me and I am loving the site so far.
I have a question. Is anime becoming more woke as it becomes more mainstream? I don't think so, but it is a possibility.
Not the anime that I watch.
There are heaps of different anime. Some I don't like and I'm not interested in, some I absolutely love.
There are strong female characters, but it doesn't feel woke, it feels more like it was just a story choice... a bit like how Ripley from Aliens wasn't a woke character, she was just an awesome character who was female.
Also, for every anime with a strong female lead, there are plenty of harem style anime's.
So no, I don't think it's gone woke, I just think that the depth of options within anime are very deep and there's something there for everyone, no matter what you like.
Honestly, if someone wanted some strong feminist anime I wouldn't be surprised if it's available, and I wouldn't have a problem with it existing because people should be able to create something that appeals to (mostly, within legal limits) whatever audience they want to target.
However I do have a problem when existing characters and stories/worlds are co-opted and transformed to fit some modern political view, like is happening in the West.
Anime has a degeneracy of its own. There's a reason why anime was pushing trans stuff way before it became mainstream elsewhere
They blew their load with the red wedding. It worked because it was the consequence of several important factors of feudal politics and logistics. A boy-king needed to get his army across a river, so be brokered a deal with the lord who owned the only viable crossing, a man from a house that was a rival of the boy-king's maternal bloodline. The boy-king's highest military advisor was also a rival of his paternal bloodline. The boy-king reneged on his deal with the lord of the crossing, so the lord they were at war with offered a deal to the boy-king's rivals, betray the boy-king, and the war will be ended with the lords not only being given amnesty, but will be given control of the boy-king's former holdings. And so they did.
Compare to later seasons, where armies just magically appear wherever and whenever the plot requires, and characters can break their word and do whatever they want without any consequences. Cersei blowing up the great sept should have sparked a peasant revolt unlike Westeros had ever seen, but I don't recall if it was even mentioned after the fact.
The fact that they filmed the Red Wedding demonstrates the show was more interested in shock value than anything else.
I'm not defending Martin, who I think is a hack fraud, but at least in the books it happened off-screen and was shocking just because you're not sure whether it's true or not.
The books are amazing, the show was always shit. You want to know why they didn't see Ghost right away when they found the pups? There was snow on the ground. How is everyone armored? Brightly colored enameled full plate in the books; half plate at best, and mostly leather and mail in the show.
Nearly a decade of hyping the apocaplytic winters of Westeros and we barely even saw any snow at the end.
I liked the big boom battles in surround sound. The money they put into those really shown.
They probably wont even convince kit harrington to do the project.
He holds a grudge for their writing ruining his character and undermining his ability as an actor and his image taking a hit for the role in season 8 and he's still on Marvel's docket as the black knight.
If you watch their brand of cape shit they've been asking who replaces captain america and iron man in the avengers, who will lead? Then they introduced the black knight(kit harington), the leader of the avengers in the 90s.
Even on a sinking ship he'll make more money on cape shit than HBO.
Link to the article for the morbidly curious
He has a less punchable face than some of his co-stars and he does good choreography, but this show is going to flop the same way as the second half of the core series or the entirety of the Targaryen spinoff series.
It's all just cheap melodrama bullshit now, driven by teleportations, character flanderization and hamster logic. It became a parody of itself. A good concept doesn't mean shit when your writers are incompetent mental-children.
LOL they wont out compete disney on price, kit harrington is going to be the leader of the avengers in his role as the black knight.
I bet they eventually do a studio re-cut of eternals.
God knows Marvel's outlook isn't good if they don't reset the universe and sprint away from "DIE" policies in their hiring of writers and directors. Imagine having to make late 80s early 90s comic book characters compelling and well written while also trying to push postmodernist trash on society which is in open revolt against it.
They are all pissing uphill.
Even if I was still was a fan of Game of Thrones, I'd be rolling my eyes at this. Jon Snow was one of the most boring and uncharismatic characters in the show, and from what I've heard from season 8 (which I didn't watch), he was at his worst there. Is he seriously popular enough to warrant a sequel surrounding him? If so, then I don't get it. Furthermore, even taking into account the show's disastrous ending, what is even the point in continuing the story of Jon of all people? Its over, it ended, he completed his arc and went to go galivant with the Wildlings in the far North, away from all of Westeros' bullshit. What the hell else is there to say for him?
Hell, there seems to be an overall lack of focus on what to do with this franchise. HBO really wants to make more shows for it, but rather than just make a solid sequel/prequel set in the same universe, they just keep throwing more ideas at the wall. It all reeks of desperation. Considering how tainted the IP has become, but how apparently in-demand serious fantasy appears to be, it would be better of HBO just ditch Game of Thrones and instead made an all new fantasy IP story instead. But I suppose that would require creativity, and we all know how in short supply that is in Hollywood.
To quote his own line: I don't want it.
I doubt it happens, he's due to be leading the avengers for the next decade.
But he knows nothing...
Who cares about artistic integrity when you can cram the ending with as many possible spinoff as possible
Ah duhnt want it. Ah nevuh wanted it.