QUOTE(McBadgere @ May 10 2013, 04:14 PM)

QUOTE(ImperialSnob @ May 10 2013, 01:47 PM)

Anyone know when The Walking Dead is coming back?
In Europe anyways.
Well, as all the series' so far have started in the October, likely it'll be a Friday in the month, very soon after the US has seen it...
We started watching Game Of Thrones...I think we lasted all of three episodes before the wife decided that she'd had enough...
Not the sex or anything...
I wasn't arsed enough to argue...
I watched some of Game of Thrones and gave up as well, though not for the same reasons the wife. There were a lot of reasons actually. For one the overabundance of characters made the story feel fragmented to me. That is good for a story that is focused on portraying grand, sweeping events, because it allows you to show show all of those events through those scattered viewpoints. Obviously that is what they are going for here. But I prefer character-driven stories, and for those to work well you need a tight focus on one or a few characters so that you can really get to know them, and see how they grow and evolve through the story. When a character only gets five minutes of screentime, you cannot get much of that. It is not so much a slam on the making of the story, but rather that it is just not what I prefer myself.
The other is that there are three distinct stories going on at once. Again, it is just a personal preference, but give me one story at a time please. Give me the civil war from start to finish, or give me the magical wildlings of the north menacing the world from start to end, etc... Just like with too many characters, there are too many plots for me. I would have preferred three completely different series shown years apart, rather than mashing them all together in a big stew. To me it feels like the equivalent of trying to tell the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit all in one series of movies, rather than two completely separate ones.
The stories themselves are what disappointed me the most though. They are just too derivative. The civil war one especially. It feels like a blatant copy of the War of the Roses, right down to having a House Lancaster (oh wait, that was Lannister, my bad...

) In the end I realized that I could skip the series, and just read a book about the RL WOTR instead, and get the same thing.