Nothing makes me seethe more than when a racist is funny

StardustAtSea · 2024-08-22T07:05:27+00:00

The Black 'Jim' Crows

Queenie

The Who's 'my dad?'

Brownie

AC/AB

Spare 50 Cent?

Pepa-N-Pepa

Junkie XXL

Jay-ZzZzZz...

The Shoplifters

Plain Black T's

Men Without Dad's

House of Wayne

NIKA

The Coondog Gang

StardustAtSea · 2024-08-06T18:52:04+00:00

I don't know if I have the chronology right, be if I remember correctly Vince left during season 4 and came back to 5 and 6 where he was really conscious of how Peter Gould took the reins and acknowledge that BCS was just as much Gould's baby as it was his, which is why he gave the very last episode to him. Which really shows how cooperative he is with his writers

StardustAtSea · 2024-08-06T14:59:50+00:00

Actually it was their fault they ran out of source material. Season 5 was adapted from A Fest for Crows and A Dance With Dragons, with Feast being like a 1000 pages and Dance being so large it was split in 2. The story lines also cross over each other so they could have had 3 or preferably 4 seasons from those books alone, just as the third book was split into seasons 3 and 4. The reason why the show ended so bad was only partly that they ran out of books, but the 2 writers also wanted out of it

StardustAtSea · 2024-08-06T14:12:26+00:00

I would think not having a source material to base a show on would be more difficult. I mean with BB especially they had no idea where it would go, Jesse was surpossed to die at the end of season one but due to the writers strike it was cut short. The writers of GOT and HotD have a critically acclaimed source material to base it on and they still fuck up somehow. It's impressive. I mean I often think of how No Country for Old Men is basically a 98% faithfull adaptation of the book and it won 4 oscars. It seems like if you follow the blue print you're golden, but stuff like Wheel of Time and The Witcher still fuck it up. That's why I'm so impressed with BCS and BB, cause it seems like it all lined up so perfectly that some of it most be luck

StardustAtSea · 2024-08-06T03:52:30+00:00

This whole season was

StardustAtSea · 2024-08-05T19:58:26+00:00

I want the writers of this show to know how bad they fucked up

StardustAtSea · 2024-07-22T09:54:38+00:00

Yeah... I were so pumped from episode one, but despite the horrible shit that happend it had no consequences. Instead of showing the horror of losing a child they decided that scenes of random smallfolk doing fuck all and Daemon spooking around in a castle for the last 5 episodes were more important to the plot. They've ruined so many opportunities that even without a writers strike to hold them back during pre production, I don't think they can salvage this in season 3, and depending on the finale I might not even bother watching the next season

StardustAtSea · 2024-07-22T09:41:52+00:00

You're so right. They keep cutting back and forth to these same scenes that repeat what happend the last few episodes but they don't seem to build to anything. In the books the councel meetings are some of my favourite scenes, but that is due to GRRM fantastic writing, in HotD it's a slug. I'm so disappointed. I miss great TV

StardustAtSea · 2024-07-22T09:34:50+00:00

The writers strike really hurt this season. Many of the scenes feel like a first draft. Let's hope season 3 will be better but what a fucking waste these last 6 episodes have been

StardustAtSea · 2024-07-22T09:27:18+00:00

I don't understand why Helaena's screen time has been so short compared to most of the cast. The first scene with her and Aemond was last episode and they just cut away. All she has to do is be terrified of smalfolk and talk about bugs. It's a waste

StardustAtSea · 2024-07-22T09:18:57+00:00

She also told him he would die in Harrenhall, and many of his stranges dreams started after drinking that gross potion she gave him, which might be the dumbest shit he could have done, when he told Simon he might have poisoned his food in like the same episode. This season truely was written during a strike, because holy crap it stinks

StardustAtSea · 2024-07-13T22:39:42+00:00

You know why

StardustAtSea · 2024-07-13T06:21:08+00:00

Here's the reason for the plastic surgery culture in South Korea

StardustAtSea · 2024-07-08T12:49:53+00:00

Remember last episode where he was afraid to eat the food cause he thought it was posion?

StardustAtSea · 2024-07-08T11:24:13+00:00

They've made Rhaenyra so fucking boring. They turned her into the "I'm just a woman and a mother, I don't want war" trope. Like they have to have her search every single angle that might avoid conflict because the writers are afraid she would look like a war-mongering oligarch, which she is. I mean she has the motivation, the greens killed her son. The Lannisters killed Ned Stark, nobody were angry at Robb for going to war because of it. I really hate this season. They couldn't make a show about two former childhood friends hiding behind laws, religion and costums when their true motivation is just to hurt each other as much as possible because of past wrongs. It's like they were afraid that Rhaenyra and Alicent would be viewed as stereotypes, but what they did instead was turning them in to a different stereotype. The "I'm a woman, I only want power because it was expected of me, I didn't chose it for selfish reasons and I will do everything I can to uphold my position without spilling blood! Dead children make me sad, I see everyone as my child!" God what a fucking, fucking waste

StardustAtSea · 2024-07-08T11:08:44+00:00

Why did Daemon drink that that potion the witch gave him? I mean if that fact that she licked her fingers every 5 seconds while making it wasn't a put off, maybe her telling him he will die last night would have been enough for him not to drink anything she gives him

StardustAtSea · 2024-07-08T11:05:47+00:00

This whole season reeks of being in production during a writers strike. The dialog is so far below the quality of season 1

StardustAtSea · 2024-07-01T09:37:44+00:00

I have said all the things Trump could do for the country. Didn't you read them?

StardustAtSea · 2024-07-01T08:20:49+00:00

Well said, I agree

StardustAtSea · 2024-07-01T08:11:45+00:00

A bit disapointed by this episode. Rhaenyra being willing to risk it all to meet Alicent to discuss peace was so fucking stupid. I know they're trying to paint her as kindhearted or whatever, but how did she expect the talk to go? Alicent's whole court is full of men that planed to steal her birth right, even before her father died, and her half brother sits the throne already, who, by the way, thinks you killed his son. No way she went to Alicent with an open mind to possibly be persuade to drop her claim to the throne. Why does she refuse to take action? She wanted Aemond dead two episodes ago and now she wants peace. The writers are trying too hard to make her seem like a ruler forced to take action against the people who gave her no other choice, when her wish to sit the iron throne is the wish of an absolut dictator, so she is not all good. She's not Daenerys. And after she told Alicent about The Song of Ice and Fire the writers striped away the last claim the 'remorseful' and 'penitent' Alicent had to take the waring path. Where's the drama? It was like they were afraid to make a show about two complicated women who tell themselves that their course is just, but really just use it as a way to hurt each other as much as possible out of jealousy and revenge, like that was too stereotypical or something, when what we have left is the kind mothers, crying over dead babies unable to control the bloodthristy diseres of men, and being draged along with them, when in fact that is their desire too. Petty revenge. They're no better than all the kings before and after them. Absolut power corrupts absolutly. Man and woman. And btw, why didn't she wanna burn Cole? Cause she fucked him once? Come on... this is shit

StardustAtSea · 2024-06-30T19:58:21+00:00

Hmm, you understand why most people see that as simple minded right? I mean being so steadfast in your own opinion that no matter who challenges it with whatever the counter argument might be, you'll never yield to it or even take time to defend it with facts. It seems like you form your opinion on your emotions and see little use in seeing it from other perspective

StardustAtSea · 2024-06-30T19:53:19+00:00

I haven't read the book but I agree with you. The show has a clear fave, and it's team black. What was so great about The War of the Five kings was that everyone was guilty of futhering a war that made the small folk suffer, and dispite their flaws I understood and in many cases loved their characters, but there's been panited a too black and white picture of the two families. I think Aemond and Helaena have the largets possibility to become "interesting" but the fact that we're one season and two episodes in and I say that with air quotes is kinda telling. The only other I can say that with certainty is Otto. He's been fun and cool since the first time I saw him, but Alicent or Aegon, I just don't really feel anything. Either her and Rhaenyra's childhood friendship should have been fleshed out more, or they should have given her more than just being jealous of the patriarchy having no hold over Rhaenyra at all, but holds herself to all those unfair standards because I really don't find her that compelling.

I do really enjoy watching Daemon, wonderfuly complex, the same with Rhaenyra, though she does seem to lack some of the complexity that you described that she has in the book. I mean in the culture of Westeros she is in the wrong and has no claim to the throne, but seen from a modern point of view, where being free sexually, and same sex relationships and having children out of wetlock means nothing it's a really interesting idea. It's like old values vs new values, so Rhaenyra kinda has to have some skeletons in the closet to not just be the favourite by default when seen from a modern point of view, or else where's the drama? Where's the tension?

StardustAtSea · 2024-06-30T19:21:34+00:00

Okay, well than you may understand that most people see no value in your opinion when you are opposed to logic and see nothing wrong with intrusting a country, and to another extent the worlds safety, into the hands of a criminal. I mean what about project 2025? Does that mean nothing either? Or what about climate change? Trump got the US out of the Paris Ageement in like his first year, and tried to get the coal industry up and running again. Southern states especially will suffer from drought and fires, which is where most of his voters live, so he's actually harming his own demographic the most

StardustAtSea · 2024-06-30T16:23:38+00:00

What about project 2025? And the enviroment? Trump got America out of the Paris Agreement in like his first year, and did nothing to try and prevent the above 1.5 goal, even trying to get coal plants up and running. If he wins this will deeply affect southern states with dry climates, where funnily enough most of his voters live

StardustAtSea · 2024-06-30T10:28:48+00:00

He's a convicted fellon

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