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doctorMiami1337 t1_j9xzhag wrote

Reply to Game of Thrones Season 4 has to be in the GOAT discussion. by Boss452

Seasons 1-4 of GoT for me are easily the best pieces of television i've watched, ever. Only thing that comes close would be Breaking Bad, i personally prefer the fantasy epic's over anything, which is why i loved GoT way more. That's just me though.

I used to rewatch every single season of GoT before a new one would drop, was doing this since season 3 or 4 i think. That's how much i loved it.

After seasons 7 and 8 and what they did to the show, a large part of my life was just gone. No interest in further rewatches, no interest in book re-reads, in my head GoT was a great piece of television which aired for 5 seasons and then just abruptly ended, no idea why HBO cancelled it!

( the reason why i included season 5 which wasn't as good as season 4 is beacuse of episode 8 "Hardhome", which is a straight 10/10 )

Also season 1 of HotD was fine to me, but nowhere close to season 1 of GoT. I'm interested to see what they can do with season 2, but season 1 was just, eh. I have 0 interest in rewatching it.

The characters and dialogue in HotD for now are just orders of magnitude worse than early GoT 's Tyrion, Tywin, Jamie, Ned, Bobby B, Littlefinger, Varys.... the list goes on and on.

Viserys and Daemon had a few solid moments, but that's about it. I rewatched GoT season 1 alongside the books so many times it's hard to keep track of, couldn't be bothered to even think about a HotD rewatch. I know i'm judging them by the insanely high bar of GoT, but it is a prequel

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GuyanaFlavorAid t1_j9xwrej wrote

Reply to comment by MulciberTenebras in "Shrinking" is making me realize Hollywood fucked up by not putting Harrison Ford in more comedy roles. His dead pan comedic timing is impeccable and hilarious. by Bluest_waters

That's one of the best. When they're trying to stay warm in the barn. "C'mere, darling." LOL Or discussing the last prairie chicken at dinner. "You think you got a chance?" "I think I can say with complete confidence, none whatsoever." And then Ford just grins and gives him the last of the food. Or running from the law waitonvfor sunset "Now?" That movie is just excellent.

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Lippuringo t1_j9xwawk wrote

Reply to A question on shows like Star Trek and Doctor Who by [deleted]

House and Dr Who have subjectively boring episodes. Dr Who reboot, for example, have great actors but no so great budget (which is fair for Dr Who as a whole, it's low budget sci fi from the start). But House was quite stable from start to finish, if you didn't like first episodes, you wouldn't like whole show. You may be like the concept of it and some scenes/parts, but it's like picking pepperoni from pizza and eating them separately.

Supernatural is pretty stable in first seasons and get somewhat bonkers later. But it's pretty much character show (same as House and Dr Who) and characters and their chemistry is pretty much always there. So if you don't like what you see now, you wouldn't like it later.

Can't say anything about Start Star Trek.

You can always do what i did with Agents of SHIELD. I didn't like early season procedural nature of the show, it was kinda generic for me. But i kept hearing that later seasons are amazing and i wanted to see Ghost Rider in context. So i watched whole thing at 1.25-1.5 speed, which is helped with parts that was boring to me, but allowed me to not skip character growth as a whole. Funny part: some scenes was actually more natural at 1.25 speed. I guess they could be directed to be longer, so they could help with runtime.

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