So... What's Replaced Game of Thrones?

[Gukahn]

5 hours ago, Evaloves4 said:

> This. We also found it incredibly boring regardless of some perversions they copied from GOT. And our desire to watch it was killed when they replaced the blond princess with another actress.

And the Effects on the Dragons were just awful..The one Thing you would think they would do a decent job with regarding the Characters they were focusing on ?

 

 

Vikings is not bad. It's actually a pretty good series, even the Characters so are supposed to dislike, you feel sympathy with and understand their motives.

The Sequel however.. Was bland

 

[Miauzi]

then rather the film adaptations of the Discworld novels

I mean the old ones - when the parts were filmed individually

My personal favorite -> "Going Postal" (filmed by "Sky" in 2010)
(Ms. Liebherz: "...Boris...You have a bad boy...")

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and yes - I have it all in book form too

[belegost]

10 hours ago, KoolHndLuke said:

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power seems like it might be decent.

No it isn't. Amazon did to LOTR what Netflix did to Witcher, only worse. It seems like the whole plot was written by someone with mental capabilities and life experience of an early-pubescent teen.

Edited March 27, 2023 by belegost

[Grey Cloud]

9 hours ago, KoolHndLuke said:

They seem more concerned with being PC

Once again I give you Rings of Power as an example. Warrior Galadriel, multicultural hobbits, you name it. While trashing Tolkien's canon upset almost everyone.

WoT is similar but not quite as bad.

[Mr. Otaku]

That's a flawed question. Even if something can match the buzz GoT created back during it's peak it wouldn't replace it because it was still a big deal itself, if something's good it's good you can't just replace it with something that's also good.

 

But in spirit of the question i would've said Better Call Saul since it's pretty well regarded and memed out but it's a completely different genre so it can't be a replacement.

[Grey Cloud]

13 hours ago, Miauzi said:

film adaptations of the Discworld novels

Didn't realise such things existed. I'll be looking into this. ?

Terry Pratchett was the best British author of the 20th century IMO.

[Grey Cloud]

13 hours ago, belegost said:

It seems like the whole plot was written by someone with mental capabilities and life experience of an early-pubescent teen.

Excellent summation.

[Miauzi]

Vor 2 Stunden sagte Grey Cloud:

Wusste nicht, dass es solche Dinge gibt. Ich werde dem nachgehen. ?

Terry Pratchett war meiner Meinung nach der beste britische Autor des 20. Jahrhunderts.

 

I was actually a bit skeptical myself at the beginning - but the first of them "Color of Magic" was already implemented perfectly for me

but in addition to "Disc World" he also wrote "Goods omen" - both the novel and the screenplay for the series adaptation

 

The "God Reaper" is the secret star of the disc world... doesn't have to be mentioned separately

Edited March 27, 2023 by Miauzi

[belegost]

2 hours ago, Grey Cloud said:

Terry Pratchett was the best British author of the 20th century IMO.

Certain Oxford professor would like to know your address... for research purposes of course.

Edited March 28, 2023 by belegost

[Darkpig]

You could read the novels (Shrugs)

[Faolon]

On 3/27/2023 at 12:41 AM, belegost said:

No it isn't. Amazon did to LOTR what Netflix did to Witcher, only worse. It seems like the whole plot was written by someone with mental capabilities and life experience of an early-pubescent teen.

 

 

The only reason The Witcher turned out as well as it did was because of Henry Cavill. Based on what's been said or implied by producers and directors of the show, Cavill was working his ass off to keep the show on point which they all hated him for.

 

Hollywood hates hiring fans of shows because they(hollywood) want to change products to suit their political agendas. This is why people like Affleck and Cavill are out, while that little psycho Ezra Miller is kept in.

 

This is the reason for the decline in quality in everything from GoT and LOTR to Marvel flicks. This is why Willow sucked. Hollywood learned NOTHING from the success of the original Marvel movies or the first few seasons of GoT.

Edited March 30, 2023 by Faolon

[belegost]

27 minutes ago, Faolon said:

The only reason The Witcher turned out as well as it did

It did not "turned out as well". I dropped it 15 minutes into episode 2 of first season because it was just unbearable from the very beginning. It was shit from the start and it only went downhill from there, Cavill or no Cavill. Pretty telling that the old, obscure Polish series from 22 years ago, which was pretty bad and I considered it the lowest any adaptation could go for 2 square decades, suddenly started to look appealing in comparison.

Edited March 30, 2023 by belegost

[Faolon]

10 hours ago, belegost said:

It did not "turned out as well". I dropped it 15 minutes into episode 2 of first season because it was just unbearable from the very beginning. It was shit from the start and it only went downhill from there, Cavill or no Cavill. Pretty telling that the old, obscure Polish series from 22 years ago, which was pretty bad and I considered it the lowest any adaptation could go for 2 square decades, suddenly started to look appealing in comparison.

 

 

No, it was going to be worse. Cavill was the only reason it stayed so close to the game. The producers and basically everyone in charge was fighting him hard to make it diverge far from the source material. The source material being the game, not the original stories or the subsequent books.

[Grey Cloud]

I watched the TV series before I read the books and thought the TV series was okay. To me the books are pretty average as the author doesn't seem to know what the story is about - is it about the Witcher or about Ciri and the war?

[KoolHndLuke]

On 3/30/2023 at 12:58 PM, Grey Cloud said:

is it about the Witcher or about Ciri and the war?

More about a world that is much more interesting than this one. 

 

Had Beth's upcoming space shooter been based on any number of good sci-fi books available... it would be decidedly better I think.

 

Edited April 2, 2023 by KoolHndLuke

[belegost]

On 3/30/2023 at 7:58 PM, Grey Cloud said:

is it about the Witcher or about Ciri and the war?

Both.

 

On 3/30/2023 at 7:58 PM, Grey Cloud said:

To me the books are pretty average

Blame David French. English translation is pretty lacklustre. It misses a lot of nuances, some parts are translated wrong and some are dropped entirely. As if he tried to translate word for word instead of attempting to find a suitable cultural or linguistic references for Anglophone audiences. You're better off with German or Spanish translation if you know these languages, as I suppose any language east or south of Oder river is out of the question.

[belegost]

On 3/30/2023 at 7:33 PM, Faolon said:

No, it was going to be worse. Cavill was the only reason it stayed so close to the game.

Except it was supposed to be based on the books. Games are a fan fiction. An amazing, lovingly crafted fan fiction, but a fan fiction nevertheless.

[Grey Cloud]

48 minutes ago, belegost said:

as I suppose any language east or south of Oder river is out of the question

Any language east or south of the river Irwell is out of the question for me. ?

[Miauzi]

Vor 4 Minuten sagte Grey Cloud:

Jede Sprache östlich oder südlich des Flusses Irwell kommt für mich nicht in Frage. ?

 

ca. 25.000 km östlich davon beginnen die USA - also deren "Sprache" kommt für MICH nicht in Frage

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Edited April 7, 2023 by Miauzi