For the same reason as Stephen Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine, who appears in his comic strip along with his characters.
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For the same reason as Stephen Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine, who appears in his comic strip along with his characters.
Well, that’s 3 of us.
I watched it until Sean’s Bean got chopped off. I’ll settle for plain old freak.
What’s a “Game of Thrones”?
I have all the DVDs so far released.
Plastic wrap still entact.
I haven’t seen a single episode of Firefly or Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog.
totally would be the freak in the room too.
I, too, have never seen one episode of Game of Thrones*. I have, however, had Ommegang’s Game of Thrones beer (not the 2018 ones, obviously). Wasn’t bad.
* I don’t even have cable. So watching it was not even an option.
I’m a superfreak. I have cable, but no TV.
Rob @#2,
But aren’t Seen Bean’s characters, in any film or TV show, always killed off in brutal fashion? It almost seems like this is written into his contracts.
So, how many of y’all watched any of the Lord of the Rings or Hobbit movies?
hyphenman:
I watched the LoTR movies and enjoyed them.
I watched The Hobbit movies and was so disappointed. They could have stuck close to the book and made it a really good trilogy. Instead, they decided to amp it up and leave out much of the good stuff.
hyphenman @#11,
I watched all the LOTR films largely because I wanted to know why it was that so many people were such fans of the books, but I didn’t want to actually read the books. Once I knew what it was about, I skipped the Hobbit films.
Hah! Not only have I never seen an episode of Game of Thrones, I’ve never seen a James Bond film.
Lofty @ 3. -- Something to do while one is on a toilet I expect.
@ Lofty
Othewise known as the War of the Roses, I think.
Aah, a bit like Musical Chairs then.
I used to like George R. R. Martin’s books — Tuf Voyaging was a favourite — but when I got the first brick of A Song of Ice and Fire I couldn’t get past the first third, finding it tediously turgid.
Apparently, the TV show is full of gratuitous violence and nudity, so I might check it out when I can get it for free. It sounds much more entertaining.
John @#18,
The gratuitous nudity is fine but the gratuitous violence (and there is supposedly a lot of gory stuff) is what prevents me from wanting to see it.
#12
Or they could have stuck even closer to the book and made it a single 3hr movie. The book itself is after all only 278 pages in medium size print, compared to LotR’s 1069 in small print plus extensive appendices. They both have totally different moods -- LotR is a weighty, grave venture with multiple threads to thwart a world-ending foe, while The Hobbit is a comparatively jaunty and fairly linear adventure. Subtract the bloat, and one good movie is what you have left.
I am about to give this a go: The Hobbit: Tolkein Edit. It can only be an improvement over the turgid trilogy.
Not only have I never seen Game of Thrones, I’ve never set foot in a Walmart, either. My students find the latter claim particularly unbelievable.
A serious question: does “Thrones” refer to the king’s chair, a group of people, a surname, or ?
jimf, it’s “the seat of power” — it’s a synecdoche.
Same here. And, for the multiple decades I’ve lived in Europe, have also never set foot inside a scarf-and-barf (McDonald’s).
Never seen any full episode of Game of Thrones either. The snippets I saw didn’t exactly encourage me. See, I have read all five (seven) books and think them vastly overrated. Don’t bother MS, they contain lots of gratuitous violence as well.
I’ve seen Fellowship of the Ring and the second half of Two Towers. I didn’t like him, while I think the books great. From seeing the movies you won’t get why people admire them. However I think the first chapter (A long expected party) will suffice. They say that first sentences matter:
“When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. Bilbo was very rich and very peculiar, ….”
“never set foot inside a scarf-and-barf (McDonald’s)”
I am jealous. I did twice (on two different continents!) and regret both times.
Mind you, I do enjoy junk food say once a month. But not that one.