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monsieurxander t1_j9z9pz5 wrote

It's not a real quote. Someone misquoted them as they were live-tweeting an event, and publications ran with it. When the audio turned up with what they actually said, those publications didn't rush to correct themselves. What they actually said:

>“With the fantasy genre on television, tonally it’s very easy [go too] campy. Every scene, you change these two lines and it’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” Weiss jokes. “Also, in terms of fantasy exposition, with proper nouns, it’s almost like a game of Jenga, where you’re trying to plow as many of them as possible without the whole thing falling over. In the first pilot, we had one too many and the whole thing fell over. Going forward, we tried to keep that stuff to a minimum, because we didn’t just want to appeal to a fantasy fanbase. We wanted them to love it, and we wanted our parents to love it, and people who play professional football to love it. We wanted to reach a wider audience, and to do that keeping the tone [under control] was very important.”

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evanmav t1_j9z7tp6 wrote

The shield is for the most part a very episodic show. There typically is some sort of case of the week for most episodes, but like others are saying there is typically an overarching plot throughout the season and most episodes.

I'd compare it to Justified in that sense. But I'll say this, I'm not huge into episodic shows/procedural. But I absolutely love The Shield, it is one of my favorite shows of all time. I do think it gets more serialized in the later seasons but yes overall it is a show about crooked cops and a lot of the episodes are about a case.

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Sinrus t1_j9z4rh4 wrote

Very few characters are mentioned in both the 4th and 5th books, they take place at the same time in different parts of the world. As of where the books left off, Lady Stoneheart is moments away from executing two of the most important characters in the story, I would say that definitely seems to be going somewhere.

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roooonie t1_j9z3be7 wrote

Yeah. I don't really understand why so many people seem to extend their justified anger about the last two season to S5+6 as well.

Yes, both seasons start to show some cracks, but they are not a big step down from the first 4 in my opinion. They also deliver a lot on the build up from previous seasons which to me almost makes up for some of the areas that were not as great.

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