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Forums - Gaming - Game of Thrones Season Six's 100 Million Budget, Sure Has Paid Off. ***spoilers tagged***

 

I am...

Loving season 6. 45 60.00%
 
Hating season 6. 4 5.33%
 
Eh...ask me in 6 weeks. 16 21.33%
 
Indifferent. Thrones, you say? 10 13.33%
 
Total:75

Not surprising at all. Big budget movies cross 100 million all the time, why should these big hit shows not be doing the same when they are producing way more content? Especially when we live in a day and age where TV and streaming services have become as big as they are.



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Last episode was fucking brilliant!



Season 6 is looking to be better than at least both 5 and 4 so far! Really good start, things are finally happening!



JOKA_ said:
All the Sunday night HBO shows are killing it compared to last season. I'm loving GoT, Silicon Valley, and Veep

My annual 3 month HBO Now subscription, great shows!



Man. Episode 5 ending was saddest ending for me. The show is like Harry Potter. Every piece of puzzle is coming to a piece. Never seen any TV which is consistent throughout the whole show.



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I gotta say that episode 5 of this season is in my top 3 most disappointing episodes. I just didn't enjoy it, elves with like grenades lol Every time the white walkers appear I roll my eyes, I know they are important but I love GoTs more when they aren't involved.



While I've found this season to be terrible, last night was a bright spot. Bran's story actually felt more like an extension of where it was heading rather than going off the rails.

I still laugh at how in the show characters can travel massive distances in a day (Baelish is a Wizard way he zips around), but at least it had emotional payoff at the tree actually got to me.

On budget biggest thing I saw was the children looking closer to book interpretation (not quite, but hell of a lot better than when introduced) and use of effects on wights and white walkers.



Qwark said:

FW a million barely
LT 6.5 million top

 

I don't see Uncharted 4 doing much better than it's predecessors to be honest. Uncharted 3 didn't outsold 2 or just barely while it was a true gem of it's generation (Uncharted 2 only, 3 was a major step down). I don't see why the fourth entry will do better than the third since that was hyped as fuck and had a larger userbase.

 

TLOU 2 can perhaps reach that 10million mark but Uncharted just doesn't got what it takes and rightly so.

 

John2290 said:
think-man said:
I gotta say that episode 5 of this season is in my top 3 most disappointing episodes. I just didn't enjoy it, elves with like grenades lol Every time the white walkers appear I roll my eyes, I know they are important but I love GoTs more when they aren't involved.

Well the book series is called A song of Ice and Fire....lol. Do you expect the series creators to completely throw Martins themes and story direction out the window? In the books it is a LOT more complex and there is incredible lore told through conversations or just hinted at, don't knock it because their an integral part of Martins story! And they are sure to make up much more of the content going forward. What I am trying to figure out is how the fuck the Night King his army from Hardhome to the Three so quickly...its weeks away. I think the show creators are taking some liberties as to not draw things out. 

doesn't change the fact that i think its lame. Its basically my only complaint about Game of thrones, I've literally only ever praised the show, and so far it's my favourite tv series of all time.



John2290 said:

Well the book series is called A song of Ice and Fire....lol. Do you expect the series creators to completely throw Martins themes and story direction out the window? In the books it is a LOT more complex and there is incredible lore told through conversations or just hinted at, don't knock it because their an integral part of Martins story! And they are sure to make up much more of the content going forward. What I am trying to figure out is how the fuck the Night King his army from Hardhome to the Three so quickly...its weeks away. I think the show creators are taking some liberties as to not draw things out. 

They travel from city to city in about 1/100th the time in the show it actually takes in the books.  Getting from the wall to Riverrun in Winter would take years, and guessing Sansa will get there in roughly a week.  Not to mention how information gets around and people seem to know things happeing all over.

For me, the best episode this season.  Death wasn't just some stupid shock thing like was in Dorne, it meant something and I really felt it.



think-man said:

doesn't change the fact that i think its lame. Its basically my only complaint about Game of thrones, I've literally only ever praised the show, and so far it's my favourite tv series of all time.

Due to magic or just the idea in particular?

The idea that man was this great menace that committed near geocide on another sentient species is fascinating to me.  With all their magic the break the arm to Essos and yet men with bronze weapons beat them back to force them to create a weapon that brought the long night and forced their alligence with man and exile to the lad of always winter.  Love that element being explored in a grounded world.

The poit of this era in Westeros is seeing layers of history and how things happened one year, ten years, a hundred years, or a thousand years shape the world.