deathrey Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 I'll echo that. In the books when they do start describing the battles in detail, I find myself skim reading it, I'm glad there isn't too much of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted March 7, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted March 7, 2013 I bought season 2 on blu-ray Monday. Watching it in hi-def instead of on my laptop is bloody brilliant. The production values on this show really are spectacular. Imagine if they tried making GOT on BBC. It would be so low budget they would probably have to film the scenes beyond the Wall in the Blue Peter garden or something. British TV drama as a whole is just so tired, dull and shit compared to the US shows. The writers and TV comissionors over here these days have got no imagination and no balls.  My boss at work has a film and TV production background, and the very first thing she said when watching a clip of GOT was the exact opposite of your post - that the production values were terrible! Basically, from her professional perspective she could tell all the cost-cutting they'd had to do on budgets - she even managed to correctly guess which countries it had been shot in because of the tax breaks! Her dismissing it like that annoyed me quite a bit, because even though I know she knows more about these things, I'd personally agree with you - I think they do a bloody good job.  She sounds like a right miserable annoying know it all cunt. And also an incorrect one. Steven Spielberg thought Transformers was a good movie so I don't give a shit what someones background is, they can still be wrong. And your boss is very very wrong. It's clear how much effort and detail they put into the sets, special effects and costumes to anyone with a brain.  And most film/TV productions film in places specifically for tax breaks. It's the whole point of there being tax breaks in the first place. Give her a slap for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted March 7, 2013 Awards Moderator Share Posted March 7, 2013 I bought season 2 on blu-ray Monday. Watching it in hi-def instead of on my laptop is bloody brilliant. The production values on this show really are spectacular. Imagine if they tried making GOT on BBC. It would be so low budget they would probably have to film the scenes beyond the Wall in the Blue Peter garden or something. British TV drama as a whole is just so tired, dull and shit compared to the US shows. The writers and TV comissionors over here these days have got no imagination and no balls.  My boss at work has a film and TV production background, and the very first thing she said when watching a clip of GOT was the exact opposite of your post - that the production values were terrible! Basically, from her professional perspective she could tell all the cost-cutting they'd had to do on budgets - she even managed to correctly guess which countries it had been shot in because of the tax breaks! Her dismissing it like that annoyed me quite a bit, because even though I know she knows more about these things, I'd personally agree with you - I think they do a bloody good job.  She sounds like a right miserable annoying know it all cunt. And also an incorrect one. Steven Spielberg thought Transformers was a good movie so I don't give a shit what someones background is, they can still be wrong. And your boss is very very wrong. It's clear how much effort and detail they put into the sets, special effects and costumes to anyone with a brain.  And most film/TV productions film in places specifically for tax breaks. It's the whole point of there being tax breaks in the first place. Give her a slap for me.  It's odd, she's usually really nice, the GOT comments just came completely out of nowhere when a colleague and I were watching the tournament scenes one day (for research purposes, obviously). Right up to that moment, she'd been really excited about borrowing my season 1 box set. I can only assume she was having a bad day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted March 12, 2013 Moderators Share Posted March 12, 2013 Seems the best place for this - Â Â Great 'tache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_suz Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 another teaser, 16 days to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bus Surfer Posted March 16, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted March 16, 2013 Apologies if they've already been posted, but could any kind soul point me in the direction of some decent recap videos for seasons 1 and 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted March 16, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted March 16, 2013 Coincidentally, if you click that link just posted by suz, the first recommended video is a recap of the first two series. I haven't tried it but give it a go. Â Edit: just watched it, perfect recap video that seems to cover everything in ten mins, plus it's official. Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bus Surfer Posted March 16, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted March 16, 2013 Cheers! That'll do nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_suz Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 another trailor lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted March 17, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted March 17, 2013 A nice spoof on GoT Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_suz Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4XSeW4B5Rg trailer #2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted March 18, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted March 18, 2013 I wish I didn't watch that excellent trailer. Gave too much away. I can't fucking wait till this show starts again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted March 18, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted March 18, 2013 Thanks for the heads up Goosh, I think I'll give it a miss if it gives stuff away. Â By the way everyone, the Blackwater episode is on tonight. Still my favourite hour of television. Absolutely superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted March 20, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted March 20, 2013 Tease yourself with 38 seconds of Dany and her dragons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe...p;v=RWyeCEQmAG0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_suz Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 a very awesome and funny watch. game of thrones panel that was streamed tuesday night. i enjoyed it, watched it tuesday live on stream and just watched it again with cobystag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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