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[Willfor]

This is a counter-piece, written about that review.

Actually, the outage at that bad review may have stirred up some nice publicity for the show itself. Doesn't justify putting down a show due to its genre, but what-have-you.

[Zrk2]

That review was almost as much fun as reading the actual books.

[Solifuge]

If folks haven't had a chance to watch the first episode, I'm going to be watching/streaming it this Saturday. A brief sampling makes it look pretty good, but I've read very little of the actual book for comparison (up to the wolf bit). Details over on the Livestream Thread.

[Tilla]

Finally got around to starting on the books after the premiere, loaded up Game on my Kobo and have been enjoying it immensely.

And WOW that reviewer needs to be canned for sexism and elitism immediately.


The Slate reviewer Patterson was at least pretty obvious in his trolling if anyone looked at his past writing; he gave Lord of the Rings an A- in a glowing review while working at EW, while writing a silly thing mocking Fantasy in his GoT review.

[Grakelin]

I liked that she accused True Blood, which had a first season dedicated entirely to allegorizing civil rights movements, of being cheap because it has nothing to do with our history.

[Tilla]

Fuck yeah Tyrion.

[Vel]

Wow, that NY Times review is possibly one of the worst examples of a professional review that I have seen in quite some time, utterly aside from the point of it's negative views of the show. The issue with the review is that it rambles incoherently and shifts focus to things which have utterly nothing to do with the show in question..

if you're going to give a show a negative review, at least write about the show itself and explain why you're giving it a negative impression! Yeesh.

[Solifuge]

As a heads-up, I'm going to be showing Episode 1, and possibly Episode 2, on the Livestream very soon. If you miss it, they'll be on the net for a bit too.

[RF]

Wow.

I've never seen a bunch of reviews and went "fuck these guys are really trolling / don't know what they're talking about" (except Jim Sterling, but he's a special case in a lot of ways), but just reading these...

"I don't like fantasy, so this series is terrible."
"...a scary race called the Dothraki, whose men look like centaurs who have lost their extra legs." (This guy does just realise they're humans, right?)
"Still, for all that money, “Game of Thrones” doesn’t touch the heart. The series too often puts children and animals in jeopardy; depicts lopped heads and geysers of blood; and lingers over an incestuous relationship with unsettling results. You’re subjected to a lot of unpleasantness, but there’s no dramatic payoff to make the slog worthwhile."
etc

Fucking journalistic integrity my arse.

[scriver]

"...a scary race called the Dothraki, whose men look like centaurs who have lost their extra legs." (This guy does just realise they're humans, right?)

This doesn't even make any sense! Does he even know what a centaur is? What "extra legs"? Is he really saying that they look like centaurs without horse parts?
There's no sense! No sense!

[Grakelin]

Getting upset with an HBO show for not featuring an immediate dramatic payoff to the horrible things that happen to people. I'm still waiting for the Russian to come back and take revenge on the DiMio family.

Fuck, I've been waiting 5 seasons for Dexter to be punished for murdering all those people.

[Rilder]

Fuck yeah Tyrion.

I could watch that forever.

[Vector]

Who is he even smacking?  Geoffroy, or however you spell dude's name?

[Vertigon]

Fuck yeah Tyrion.

I could watch that forever.

Ahahaha. That synced up perfectly with the music I was listening to, and I watched it for about 5 minutes.

[Tilla]

Who is he even smacking?  Geoffroy, or however you spell dude's name?

Yes, that pretty little thing is Prince Joffrey.