The GoT/Ed Sheeran appreciation thread

Jedi_Archivist

There. I said it. I am among the small minority that has no clue what the show is about, or why so much hysteria is whipped up around it. I have never seen so much as a scene of the show, and honestly the build up surrounding it is getting tiring. Any others out there like me, who have resisted the pull of the masses?

Balmed Out

Until last night I had never seen a living hedgehog so I know what it's like.

Dave0301

Jedi_Archivist wrote: »

There. I said it. I am among the small minority that has no clue what the show is about, or why so much hysteria is whipped up around it. I have never seen so much as a scene of the show, and honestly the build up surrounding it is getting tiring. Any others out there like me, who have resisted the pull of the masses?

I hope the irony of your username is not lost on you.

gramar

Me neither. I remember hearing the name Jon Snow a lot and wondering why a Channel 4 news reader was always being mentioned.

Collie D

I was in same boat until Friday. Over the last couple of years I have attempted to start it a few times and changed mind just before I hit play.

Have binged on it over the weekend and it's brilliant. Day off today and I expect to have finished season 2 by the end of it.

I need to get out more.

Jedi_Archivist

Dave0301 wrote: »

I hope the irony of your username is not lost on you.

Good catch. My user name is tongue in cheek, as Im not a fan of star wars in any way either lol

topcat72

Is it almost a badge of pride that you have 'resisted the pull of the masses'?
If so, you are doing yourself a disservice - and if (i'm guessing by your username ) you have any interest in genre TV , its simply one of the best genre TV series ever - it took long complex books and made them into a coherent and well scripted series, no mean feat.
I know many people who would have run a mile at the mere mention of dragons ( and they don't feature much in fairness) that love the series. Give it a go, you're in the lucky position you can now binge watch the whole 7 series .

hidinginthebush

Jedi_Archivist wrote: »

There. I said it. I am among the small minority that has no clue what the show is about, or why so much hysteria is whipped up around it. I have never seen so much as a scene of the show, and honestly the build up surrounding it is getting tiring. Any others out there like me, who have resisted the pull of the masses?

I was away in Dubrovnik recently and the majority of their tourism, tours etc. is based around going to places where the show was filmed.

You have a beautiful fortified city, hundreds of years old, which was literally under siege 25 years ago, and the majority of tours will want to take you to where queen Cersi did the walk of shame, the mind boggles.

FWIW I much prefer the books, think the show is a poor substitute.

Winterlong

There is a fella sits near me at work. He has loudly told about 20 people so far that he does not watch Game of Thrones.
He also spends a lot of time telling people how he does not have facebook. Takes a certain pride in it.

Penfailed

Jedi_Archivist wrote: »

I am among the small minority that has no clue what the show is about

I'd say you're in the majority. More people haven't seen GoT than have. It's not even HBO's most popular show - that honour goes to The Sopranos.

Alun

hidinginthebush wrote: »

I was away in Dubrovnik recently and the majority of their tourism, tours etc. is based around going to places where the show was filmed.

You have a beautiful fortified city, hundreds of years old, which was literally under siege 25 years ago, and the majority of tours will want to take you to where queen Cersi did the walk of shame, the mind boggles.

From what I've read the locals aren't too happy with the situation either, and feel "under siege" from the unsustainable numbers of tourists swamping the town.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40592247

Oasis1974

Only started watching a few months back myself not fussed. Found it not the big deal everyone was saying about the show. All talk and real small scale TV show sets even though its all about kingdoms.Sometimes they blow the budget and have maybe 10 extras on screen at one time to give off the grandiose effect. And ofc its a HBO show so liberally sprinkled with adult scenes more bonking than blood

C3PO

hidinginthebush wrote: »

FWIW I much prefer the books, think the show is a poor substitute.

Is it not always so? But as TV shows go, it's up there with the best!! (IMHO!)

Pete Moss

Mr. CooL ICE

This thread is so edgy that I cut my hand opening it.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Apparently Ed Sheeran makes an appearance. The man is inescapable. He'll probably be lining out at corner forward for Mayo next weekend at this rate.

gramar

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

Apparently Ed Sheeran makes an appearance. The man is inescapable. He'll probably be lining out at corner forward for Mayo next weekend at this rate.

Probably for Galway I'd say.

BetsyEllen

I only started watching it around Season 3 when I was ill one weekend and needed a box set I could watch.

Previously I had said I had no interest, who wants to watch dragons and zombies? It sounded ridiculous.

However it was so different to what I'd thought it would be.

It's honestly the best series I've ever watched.
I re-watched Season 6 over the weekend to recap on everything before S7 starts tonight.
Even after seeing it all before I was still in awe at some of the scenes and rewound a couple just to watch them again.

It's as popular as it is for a reason and I really urge anyone who has avoided it so far to give it a go.
I've introduced a few friends to it who were in the 'I'm not watching dragons' camp and not one has said it's anything less than brilliant.

sbsquarepants

Jedi_Archivist wrote: »

There. I said it. I am among the small minority that has no clue what the show is about, or why so much hysteria is whipped up around it. I have never seen so much as a scene of the show, and honestly the build up surrounding it is getting tiring. Any others out there like me, who have resisted the pull of the masses?

Watch it. It has everything you need in a TV show - namely - tits, dragons, fights & midgets:D

salmocab

Id say more people havent seen it than have seen it, I havent but am currently reading the books and will watch it when they come my way as I dont have the channels.

fizzypish

OH was the same. Never like any fantasy stuff. Got her into GoT and she loved it. In her defense, there isn't many well acted and produced fantasy heavy (maybe thats unfair, GoT TV show is more akin to vikings thank anything fantasy related) shows out there. Nothing wrong with siding with the masses. Its not always sheep to the slaughter or a herring bait ball. Zebras all look the same for good reasons. Hmmmm... may have went a bit OTT with the animal references. something something dire wolves.....

rawn

Penfailed wrote:

I'd say you're in the majority. More people haven't seen GoT than have. It's not even HBO's most popular show - that honour goes to The Sopranos.

I have never watched so much as a scene of The Sopranos.

Let's be best friends, OP.

pickarooney

Penfailed wrote: »

I'd say you're in the majority. More people haven't seen GoT than have. It's not even HBO's most popular show - that honour goes to The Sopranos.

GoT overtook it about three years ago.

marcbrophy

I've no interest in fantasy as a genre, so I've never seen a second of it

Pat Mustard

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

Apparently Ed Sheeran makes an appearance. The man is inescapable. He'll probably be lining out at corner forward for Mayo next weekend at this rate.

I heard that he's due to play Blofeld in the next James Bond.

Apparently he murders his victims with bland guitar music.

Hannibal_Smith

Jedi_Archivist wrote: »

There. I said it. I am among the small minority that has no clue what the show is about, or why so much hysteria is whipped up around it. I have never seen so much as a scene of the show, and honestly the build up surrounding it is getting tiring. Any others out there like me, who have resisted the pull of the masses?

I resisted it too for a while. Then I started it last autumn and got bitten by the bug. It's actually really good. There are characters that you absolutely HATE. Like really, you'd probably slap the actor if you met them :pac: . But it's such an in depth world you get drawn in.

The problem is trying to avoid spoilers. Once something happens it all bursts on to fb and social media with such vigour it's hard to avoid. We'llbe a little behind everyone else with the viewing so we'll be on social media lock down for the next few days.

This series is particularly exciting because...well I can't say why in case others are trying to catch up...but im very excited about it

Alun

Jedi_Archivist wrote: »

There. I said it. I am among the small minority that has no clue what the show is about, or why so much hysteria is whipped up around it. I have never seen so much as a scene of the show, and honestly the build up surrounding it is getting tiring. Any others out there like me, who have resisted the pull of the masses?

It's not obvious how you can, on the one had, say that you have no idea why there is so much "hysteria" as you put it around the show, and on the other hand say you've never even seen one scene from it or have a clue what it's about?

Maybe you just see being able to resist watching it as making you special in some way and distinct from the masses, or maybe it makes you feel superior in some way, it's not clear.

Now, I don't watch every single cult series out there either, there simply isn't enough time for me to do so, but if it's a series that piques my interest, I'll give it a go for an episode or two at least, and if it's not for me I won't continue with it, but I must say I actually quite like GoT, so why not give it a try?

SEPT 23 1989

never watched a minute of it but I enjoyed Vikings

better or worse?

Winterlong

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

never watched a minute of it but I enjoyed Vikings

better or worse?

More boobs and better boobs in Game of Thrones.

DavyD_83

The show is much less about dragons, tits and midgets than it is about politics and political manoeuvring.

I haven't gotten around to watching beyond the first few episodes of season 6; I'm getting through it, but always way behind the masses, and I'm generally kind of bored of it all.

Personally, I'd prefer more of the tits and dragons approach than the political intrigue.
It all depends what you look for in TV; at the moment I'm mostly more interested in being entertained than being educated.

I'd rate Banshee, Sons of Anarchy and Sopranos over GOT any day.
Clearly it is a huge production, and amazingly well made and produced, but it really doesn't grab me in the way most people say it will 'if you give it a chance'.

SEPT 23 1989

Winterlong wrote: »

More boobs and better boobs in Game of Thrones.

I like boobs

valoren

Watched a couple of episodes.
Not my cup of tea at all. Couldn't follow it.

I'm sure the appeal of it is a Lord of the Rings mythical land where good, noble people have evil bastards do evil bastard stuff to them and others and get away with it episode after episode until......they either continue getting away with it...to the continuing frustration of the viewer or they get their comeuppance and die in spectacularly satisfying ways for viewers...?

sbsquarepants

marcbrophy wrote: »

I've no interest in fantasy as a genre, so I've never seen a second of it

Me either - was surprised I liked it to be honest.

DavyD_83 wrote: »

The show is much less about dragons, tits and midgets than it is about politics and political manoeuvring.
.

You're thinking of oireachtas report.
There's tits, midgets and dragons all over game of thrones (in that order of frequency too:D)

Jedi_Archivist

Op here, thought I'd better clarify how I came to be among the 'non GoT' camp lol.

Im actually a big horror/fantasy fan in general. When GoT first premiered, I heard Sean Bean was a star and was immediately sold. But I like to binge watch so waited for the box set to see it. Que the last episode and a big mouth 'lady' in work spoiling the ending for me. I was gutted, and thought there's no point now as I knew how the series ended. So I never watched it, despite being what my friends term 'the most you tv show ever'.
I guess the feeling of having the ending spoiled originally tainted the show for me. Though I am intrigued in why so many, generally non fantasy fans, like it so much.

angryIreGamer

rawn wrote: »

I have never watched so much as a scene of The Sopranos.

Let's be best friends, OP.

The Wire? is this some kind of strange HBO bingo?

angryIreGamer

Jedi_Archivist wrote: »

.... I heard Sean Bean was a star and was immediately sold. But I like to binge watch so waited for the box set to see it. Que the last episode and a big mouth 'lady' in work spoiling the ending for me....

you knew Sean Bean was in it and didnt know how it would end?

Its not Sharpe - only one way for it to go

valoren

The problem is that with shows like the Sopranos, the Wire, GOT etc there are no self contained episodes with such programmes. That's pretty much standard for shows like these. You can't just watch a random episode and enjoy it, in and of itself.

I could watch season 7 ep 1 and have no idea what the hell is going on. Who is she? Where is that? What does he mean by that? etc etc
The material, brilliant as it might be, would be lost on me.

A pre-requisite would be to watch almost 60 hours of previous material. That makes such programmes inaccessible to me so I have no interest.

Alun

valoren wrote: »

A pre-requisite would be to watch almost 60 hours of previous material. That makes such programmes inaccessible to me so I have no interest.

You don't have to watch them all in one go. My missus and I watched one episode most nights, sometimes two and got through season 1-6 pretty quickly.

topper75

Winterlong wrote: »

There is a fella sits near me at work. He has loudly told about 20 people so far that he does not watch Game of Thrones.
He also spends a lot of time telling people how he does not have facebook. Takes a certain pride in it.

In relation to both issues, the fella is correct. Pride would be misplaced however.

As a youngster, finding out that somebody was into dungeons and dragons made them a laughing stock.

But then as grown adults, it is not just acceptable, but in some circles practically expected, that you enjoy this kind of thing.

What went so horribly, horribly wrong?

Hannibal_Smith

Jedi_Archivist wrote: »

Op here, thought I'd better clarify how I came to be among the 'non GoT' camp lol.

Im actually a big horror/fantasy fan in general. When GoT first premiered, I heard Sean Bean was a star and was immediately sold. But I like to binge watch so waited for the box set to see it. Que the last episode and a big mouth 'lady' in work spoiling the ending for me. I was gutted, and thought there's no point now as I knew how the series ended. So I never watched it, despite being what my friends term 'the most you tv show ever'.
I guess the feeling of having the ending spoiled originally tainted the show for me. Though I am intrigued in why so many, generally non fantasy fans, like it so much.

So when you say you resisted the pull of the masses, that's not entirely true :pac:

I'd watch it anyway. I don't know what spoiler you heard. But it is well worth watching the journey of how it came to pass.

LordSutch

I have never set eyes on it either!

Not because I don't want to, its just that I don't have the channels that carry it.

marcbrophy

marcbrophy wrote: »

I've no interest in fantasy as a genre, so I've never seen a second of it

This, I have never seen Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, GOT, Pokémon and this stuff as I cant get into fantasy same with Anime and Comics

hefferboi

Oasis1974 wrote: »

Only started watching a few months back myself not fussed. Found it not the big deal everyone was saying about the show. All talk and real small scale TV show sets even though its all about kingdoms.Sometimes they blow the budget and have maybe 10 extras on screen at one time to give off the grandiose effect. And ofc its a HBO show so liberally sprinkled with adult scenes more bonking than blood

Well that's a load of bollocks anyway

jca

Never watched it either. What's GoT? Are the two capital letters essential? I've never seen the Sopranos either.

One_Of_Shanks

I thought it was awful nonsense. Forced my way through 2 seasons of it thinking surely at some point it's going to get better. But no, it was actually getting slightly worse - which was saying something.
I like my TV shows/boxsets but GOT was brutal.

Der Stier

I suffered through one season of that shiite ... no more.
Awful awful stuff, but hey different taste and all .

hytrogen

gramar wrote:

Me neither. I remember hearing the name Jon Snow a lot and wondering why a Channel 4 news reader was always being mentioned.

I always thought it was a guessing game to which pair of mad socks he'd match with his tie

Elmer Blooker

Never watched it either but I believe there might even be a story line between the sex scenes.
Isn't it just soft porn?

Billy86

I'm a big fan of it and didn't notice that much hype or hysteria around this season to be honest.

meeeeh

topper75 wrote: »

In relation to both issues, the fella is correct. Pride would be misplaced however.

As a youngster, finding out that somebody was into dungeons and dragons made them a laughing stock.

But then as grown adults, it is not just acceptable, but in some circles practically expected, that you enjoy this kind of thing.

What went so horribly, horribly wrong?

That kind of snobbery is very much misplaced. The genre doesn't matter if source material is good. Got has some of the most complex characters on tv. Acting is good, dialogue is well written and story is compelling. Got isn't popular because everyone suddenly fell in love with fantasy, it's popular because it's a good show.

Syphonax

If you have seen season 1, you are pretty much watching the same thing at season 7. Only notable episodes I can recall are the red wedding, the one where the Dwarf guy has a trial by combat, and that one where John Snow rides that wildling (great tats)