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I intentionally left the final, 50th episode, for after a brief pause.Thoughts? Well, mixed. Overall a very good show, but with some decidedly silly story lines. That whole story of dragons belongs in the silly kids movie, and their "mother" too. I would name that line the weakest in the show.
The strongest? Everything with Dinklage and Dance in it. And if any of those guys was great, the two of them together is simply nuclear, their fighting dialogue scenes are decidedly superb.
Ditto for a couple of other memorable and poignant duos: Dance and Arya nearly stole the whole show, so good it was - albeit brief. And then Arya with The Hound also had me riveted.
From there... any scene with Jaime was a treat to watch. Good story in itself.
Lena Heady is simply outstanding, and should definitely change her real life hair color to blonde.
But from here you move down to mostly disappointing, gray mass, performances and stories. The whole Wall and Night Watch plot is boring, and so is the Red Woman... her character barks but doesn't bite. Ditto for all those skeleton warriors, and other such goofy stuff.
So the bottom line - those disappointingly weak areas do lower the show's overall standing, it is almost like reading War and Peace, where boys would skip the Peace scenes, and the girls do the exact opposite - I yawned through the dragon scenes, waiting for the real heroes to re-appear.
Yes, the BD quality is, indeed, outstanding - I watched it on a Samsung plasma, and it was a treat! The Season 5 is only available on a DVD, so it was a step down. I might buy the BD when it comes out.
All in all - a show deserving some respect and attention. I certainly would not give it 9.5 out of 10, but perhaps a solid 8.
And did I mentioned - I just LOVED Dinklage and Dance... once again... so there! :)
Edits: 11/16/15 11/16/15Follow Ups:
According to the news, the Season 6 promo shows at least one formerly dead character kicking again.
Apparently 20 stab wounds to the belly is not enough to kill a real hero!
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Now go for the books in the meantime to the last season
in this day and age of canned formulaic mainstream television, makes it that worthy IMHO, not to mention I find most of the storylines, even the dragons and mother of dragons, compelling. I do find the "Wall" stories a bit slow. Unlike you, I like the red witch character, especially when she shows her naughty bits ;->
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It is a fantastic spectacle overall. I can't imagine what it took to put together such a production.
It is heartless, however, as others have indicated. I am not a squeamish kind, but I felt very real physical pain watching the end of the 49th episode (no spoiler). I hate to admit it, but it did affect me.
That's a pretty heavy budget for a one hour TV movie. It is worth it. When I first started watching I got hooked into binge-ing and I viewed three to four epi's a day straight through.
From what I've read the end of season five had caught up with the books. Season six will certainly be all.
I figured you for falling head over hills for Brienne of Tarth.
...I seem to recall that the four stars of Friends were pulling one mil each, for each episode, that's 4 mils in their salaries alone!
And that was in the 80's money. So 6 mils today doesn't strain my imagination... but like I said, me no experD, I don't know what other "typical" shows cost.
Do you know?
have the hutzpah to even try to pull something off like that????? Yes, we both were affected.....
Tell us your thoughts on Epi. 50 once you see it.
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...did not impress me nearly as much. I thought it looked like the whole crew was tired, looking forward to get the job finished. Several scenes were, for this reason, way too overdrawn, especially the Walk of Shame... was it just to give the extras something to talk about? They surely got their eyes full. But to make the viewer to feel sympathy for an evil person - IS an achievement in itself. I suspect the payback will be a bitch.
The last scene left me almost indifferent - throughout all 50 episodes I managed not to develop strong positive feelings towards that character. Something in it kept me cold.
Wonderful last scenes by Dinklage, with a strong promise of more to come.
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