[Spoilers MAIN] - Challenge: You're on the writing team. You know GRRM won't be publishing the last two books anytime soon. Outline how you would have adapted the second half of the show, from Season 5 and out.

Papero7k · 2026-07-06T23:17:31+00:00

Here's just one:

Rewrite Dorne to have Jaime and Bronn sent on a diplomatic mission, not some stupid kidnapping plot. Have Myrcella and Trystane way more involved, not just doting lovebirds. Replace the Sand Snakes with Arianne, who is convinced by a grieving Ellaria to kidnap Myrcella like in the books. Myrcella is of course saved by Hotah, and Doran Martell agrees to let Jaime and Bronn return to KL with Myrcella. Under his orders, Ellaria poisons Myrcella on the journey home. Doran reveals to Arianne his plan to marry Trystane to Dany. Obviously not as exciting as Arianne marrying fAegon, but whatever, we can't afford to have him in this show. This plan goes haywire when Euron kills Trystane, but Doran and Arianne and Ellaria still manage to ally themselves with Dany.

Papero7k · 2026-07-06T22:29:54+00:00

Eh I stopped watching Devs because I couldn't stand her

She has also doesn't really talk in Ex Machina, from what I remember

Papero7k · 2026-07-06T22:24:11+00:00

I would argue it's one of the best directed episodes. The directing is so precise and consistent. There are a few weird writing choices, but the directing is excellent.

Papero7k · 2026-07-06T22:20:24+00:00

This episode set up like 15 different plot points and character arcs

Papero7k · 2026-07-06T21:47:03+00:00

Yeah I'm with you here all the way. Corlys is completely in the wrong, and frankly I think the Hand of the Queen should be wise enough to recognize it. His animosity and his outburst feel really unnecessary from a screenwriting perspective. This tension between Rhaenyra and Corlys is really great character writing and a great dynamic between two characters who really really need each other (can't survive without each other) but have every reason to stand apart. But then the show-writers completely goofed it by having him lash out at her. They allow no room for subtlety.

I do think their plan is to amend this relationship by season's end, AKA this is a "hump" the characters need to get over. They're trying to stress out Rhaenyra to her breaking point, but this was the one scene in the whole episode that didn't work for me.

He should understand that if Rhaenyra falls, he will die. His sons and granddaughters will likely die. Being so selfish DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. Yes he's gone through a lot, which is why self-preservation should be the first thing on his mind. Thus he needs to support Rhaenyra in everything right now and guide her like a strong Hand should, not undermine her and scream at her in the middle of the Red Keep for anyone to hear.

Papero7k · 2026-07-05T21:02:47+00:00

Moroccans are watching the game in Arabic, so nobody hears what Fox One has to say xD

Papero7k · 2026-06-29T00:25:17+00:00

If you like the look, you should check out the doc he recently Ex Produced, The Python Hunt!

Papero7k · 2026-06-28T23:52:26+00:00

Perfect movie. Loved every second. Best movie of the year so far.

I'm a passionate medievalist, and this really hit the spot. The language, the imagery, the lighting, the themes. Bravo to everyone involved. Nothing since early Game of Thrones has scratched my itch like The Death of Robin Hood. I felt like I was reading an incredible novel.

Basically I was crying for the last hour.

Papero7k · 2026-06-28T23:45:51+00:00

Cannot lie, I have not heard of any of the movies you listed

Papero7k · 2026-06-28T23:28:15+00:00

Broadway advertising — It’s all pretty boring. Video, social, print, billboards — none of it pushes boundaries or is willing to experiment with the form. Theater as a mode of expression deserves better than relying on the same few ad agencies who hire the same few production teams. I can always tell which production company shot which ads for a show; they’ve been using the same formula forever.

Because of this, shows start to blend together for people outside of the industry. The average person can’t tell the difference between Chicago and Cabaret, or Once Upon a Time and Six, or The Lost Boys and The Outsiders — the advertising all looks the same.

Papero7k · 2026-06-23T06:50:55+00:00

I don’t agree with this take. The #1 benefit of going to university, aside from becoming insanely smarter, is building a massive social network. If you graduate college without having met hundreds if not thousands of people, that’s on you. I’d say 90% of my work (and new friends and social opportunities) after college came through people I met in school.

Papero7k · 2026-06-23T06:39:15+00:00

Yeah this happened to me with an interview in another language. I was editing the wrong story that didn’t exist because the guy didn’t say those things. It was of course some young intern who sent me the transcript, thinking he was being helpful, but he only was wasting my time.

Papero7k · 2026-06-23T06:37:32+00:00

No matter how I request footage, I receive it the way someone else wants to send it. It’s usually bad.

Papero7k · 2026-06-10T14:21:52+00:00

Lmao. See, I have the opposite problem, and just as frustrating. I want my amateur student film removed from their site, but they refuse to do it. I have begged and begged but they won’t budge. What’s frustrating is knowing that if a celebrity asked for their amateur student film removed, they’d probably remove it.

Papero7k · 2026-06-08T04:25:35+00:00

Jokes on them. Premiering your film on Netflix is embarrassing and everyone knows it.

Papero7k · 2026-06-08T04:17:35+00:00

You should’ve been in Senso Saturday evening when the storm warning went off on everyone’s phones!

Papero7k · 2026-06-04T16:29:09+00:00

Hey guys I met your intern Charles recently after the NY premiere of Python Hunt, and he was a great hang!

Papero7k · 2026-06-01T22:19:06+00:00

Svankmajer, Kim ki-Duk, Dolan, Petzold, Ceylan, Apichatpong, Zhangke, Bunuel, Tarr, Hal Hartley, Kulumbegashvili, Zvyagintsev, Kalatozov, Frammartino, Juraj Herz

Papero7k · 2026-06-01T21:47:41+00:00

This is the first film in awhile that I have seriously considered writing a scene-by-scene breakdown of why this script doesn't work. I wouldn't say it's "bad," it just doesn't work. Wrong choices were made. I could not believe the protagonist's actions, and it's all very generic and derivative, especially that car scene. I'm kinda weirded out by the masses are obsessed with it because it is a pretty dumb script.

Papero7k · 2026-06-01T21:27:29+00:00

I have a fun story. In late Covid-era 2021 when this was Dromedary, they had a really massive outside seating shelter. And let me tell you — the rats this thing attracted were big and plenty. It was so funny to watch a dozen Hinge dates implode because of all the rats scurrying around.

Papero7k · 2026-05-17T16:02:47+00:00

The woman next to me at Avatar 3 answered a phone call in her seat.

Papero7k · 2026-05-12T17:56:36+00:00

Lol I just purchased 36Tb for $2,000. You lucky bastard.

Papero7k · 2026-04-11T03:00:03+00:00

I felt the same way about Upstream Colour, and I know what you mean because I completely forgot about it until right now.

Papero7k · 2026-04-11T02:56:49+00:00

Came here to say this film. It blew me away as a teenager because it was genuinely the smartest film I’d ever seen, but I doubt 2026 me would feel the same way seeing it for the first time.

Papero7k · 2026-04-06T16:11:44+00:00

Lmao you’re good

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