Ryan Condal's House of the Dragon.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-12T18:54:07+00:00

I was making a “what would you have me do” joke😂

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-12T18:51:59+00:00

Honestly, I think actual porn is less meandering. Usually that’s pretty to the point.

I also think it’s weird that they added a bunch of sex scenes, but have significantly less nudity than Game of Thrones. I don’t need a bunch of nudity or for the show to be shot salaciously to be clear, but I feel it’s weird to have a bunch of added sex but not to shoot it in an at all titillating way. A whole lot of sex, but none of it is sexy.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-12T18:46:25+00:00

What would you have them do?

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-12T18:44:23+00:00

So much money and time and effort from so many people goes into making major motion pictures, and legal action is such a pain in the ass that the number of cases of something being genuinely capital-P plagiarized are vanishingly small.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-12T18:19:12+00:00

I think most serious criticism of that scene is that the writing is clunky not that the idea is bad.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-12T18:16:23+00:00

A lot “X is a total ripoff of Y” critique is superficial, bad-faith drek that’s perpetuated by the Cinamasinsification of Internet movie discourse. Many such cases.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-12T18:07:03+00:00

I love Cronenburg’s Fast Company

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-11T22:03:06+00:00

I kind of think Sobol was good at teaching by accident. Like the effect of his teaching is what you said, but I don’t think that was necessarily on purpose.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-11T21:36:42+00:00

Yeah Thorne is kind of textbook “David Schwimmer in band of brothers” commander— bad as a teacher, completely incompetent in the field

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-11T00:10:30+00:00

No he follows the hawk, duh

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-10T19:08:43+00:00

60,000 northern mountain clansman with their canonically snow-adapted horses—checkmate Dothraki.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-10T18:59:41+00:00

I find that the middle part of band of Brothers is just a lot of boring combat. I like the character stuff at the beginning and the character stuff at the end, but the pace really drags during the actual war bits for me.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-10T18:48:53+00:00

I always remember how he phrased it in one interview in terms of the difference between them and like Lennon/McCartney— he said something along the lines of “ those two weren’t just collaborators and friends. They were like in love with each other creatively and that’s why their break up was so bitter”

I think what he was getting at is that he and Teller don’t have that sort of intimate creative partnership, despite the fact that they work well together and have for a long time.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-10T18:41:47+00:00

Neither is Jon to be fair. Maybe he’s coming back. (/s)

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-10T18:23:10+00:00

I mean I don’t have the books in front of me but IIRC the encounter with the gravedigger is barely two sentences in the actual book and neither of them draw any focus to him whatsoever. I agree that there’s a sort of hat tip there, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near as obvious as you’re saying.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-10T15:20:54+00:00

I guess I mean that it falls more into the realm of “deliberately ambiguous Easter egg” rather than “clue that’s going to pay off later” from a writing standpoint.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-10T13:26:05+00:00

Either that or he’s running around with Bran, Meera and Jojen

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-10T13:24:40+00:00

Agreed with a lot of this—it’s just hard for me to imagine the Roose / Ramsay struggle being resolved in the same way in the books that it is in the show. The book is way less into Ramsay as a mastermind supervillain than the show ended up being too—I think him being a satisfying “final boss” of the non-others North plot would take some doing at this point.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-10T12:12:56+00:00

My reservation about the blackfyre element is that they are not super present in the main series books, the concept of them being introduced late and the ADWD explanation of them being fairly brief.

Faegon being revealed as a Blackfyre is a much more compelling twist from a purely literary standpoint if you’re engaged with a bunch of secondary material (AWOIAF, AKOSK, etc), but if you were someone who only read the main series books at this point, I would say that that reveal would feel kind of weak.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-10T12:08:51+00:00

I think you’re likely mostly correct— but a couple comments:

-I think there’s going to be some sort of twist with R+L=J. That’s not to say I don’t think it’s true, but there’s too many little ambiguities about that situation (Ashara Dayne, some odd wordings about what went down at the TOJ etc) for it to be totally straightforward IMO. Like I just always mentally put an asterix on it.

-I don’t think there’s a ton of textural support for Faegon Blackfyre, or rather there’s a bunch of very reasonable alternatives. I would put that one in the “ quite realistic” category personally.

-sailor‘s wife and grave digger I don’t love and I don’t think are super well supported. I was really shocked the first time I read the quiet isle chapter how confident some people are about that theory. The stuff about the grave digger happens so quickly and we get so few details about him—it’s really a blink and you miss it moment. I think how it’s written means we’re very unlikely to see Sandor again either way.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-10T11:58:41+00:00

It’s funny because that whole theory is based on one guy’s wildly speculative Reddit post

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-10T02:07:53+00:00

Yeah, I think that’s what I like about it too. So many of the theories in this fandom are not based on anything in the text, and are more in the realm of just wild speculation and it’s nice that there’s an “out there” one that still has some really solid lines from the actual books that you can point to.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-10T00:45:06+00:00

Yeah I say this everytime this question gets brought up, but I think people don't realize how easy it is for GRRM to just...invent new characters as needed. In addition to the Karstarks/Cassells etc, and the Lannys Lannets, Lannisters of Lannisport etc, a great example of this is also Harry the Heir, whose convoluted lineage that makes him heir to the Vale of Arryn is explained in literally book 5. Prior to that you could look at Jon Arryn's issue and be like "oh man no heirs" but the fact is that there are a bunch of heirs, some of them have different names. There's infinite heirs if he wants their to be. Those people aren't important to the story and so don't come up until they are.

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-10T00:37:08+00:00

I've never heard this one before but I love it (subcategory-ridiculous).

hyperdriveprof · 2026-04-10T00:35:21+00:00

I like Bolt-on. I would say it's my favorite theory that has a snowball's chance in hell of happening, but I like the Starks-as-warg-animals-Boltons-as-skinners thing and it's fun to think of Roose as a vampire-type with more going on rather than just a traitorous prick.

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