#Morn gets all the action

[spockvarietyhour]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Good Morning, World.

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[way-too-obsessed-gamer]

In my dream last night I went to the store to get ouaw action figures that sort of looked like those funko ones and they were like. Really shitty and charming in that funko way. And also 350 dollars for all of them. Anyway here's what they looked like vaguely (yes they were packaged exactly like this)

[ceasarslegion]

No i dont think its a good thing to make hating children your entire personality but can i please just say that i dont like them and dont want to deal with screaming temper tantrums and meltdowns from other peoples kids (especially, ESPECIALLY when the parents are absolutely useless in dealing with them) without 30,000 people crawling out of the woodwork to assume that i think all kids should die

[spirit-meets-the-b0ne]

House of the Dragon was built to fail

Which the greatest shame of that is, I truly believe they got an incredible cast of talented actors, it's distressing to see them largely wasted. I've been an HBO fan (in a Stockholm kind of way) for the better part of two decades and even some of their usual pitfalls were accelerated here. While it's easy to just blame Ryan (5 spits for an enemy Condall) it still feels like there's more than just writing or directing so this post won't focus as much on the characterization follies but more on the story's infrastructure. While budgetary concerns with a show like this are obvious considering the dragons cost a great deal of time and money it is odd to me that this is a series rather than a mini-series. By that I mean, HBO for most of their big productions had seasons ranging from 10-15 episodes (Sopranos S1 13 episodes, True Blood S1 12 episodes, The Wire S1 13 episodes, etc) so this is exceptionally short of a season for House of the Dragon. Game of Thrones original run was largely a 10 episode format until the later seasons which were also notably shit.

This structure was never designed to give the characters or an audience time to breathe. While this is something that is continually brought up across the cinema/film community these days it seems especially important here. It also seems very easy for an audience to decide against investing time and energy into a series that only holds you for 8 weeks and then takes another 2-3 years of production. As most of the audience knows, it isn't like there is a shortage of materials for the show to incorporate. It's an active choice to not dive more into the lives and circumstances of these character and their relationships. Now, I'm not expecting Lost 2.0 where every character will get an episodic focal point and backstory. Still, you have plenty of non-dragon riding characters whom you could spend time with that don't require maxing out your VFX budget for. Because as of right now from the posts I've been seeing it's clear that most of the general audience at this point is more invested in the dragons than any human character in the show save for some Stans. I can't say I blame them. Most every character at this point is barely tolerable or straight up deeply unlikeable. That's a failure of the writers and directors explicitly. I think the actors are genuinely doing the best they could with the material they're given.

It's frustrating because while I was expecting this show to disappoint (both because of GoT's outcome and HBO's late game losing streak shout out to True Blood for getting so bad I never watched the final episodes) this production is hitting that wall way sooner than expected. If there was another 2-4 episodes to actually develop the characters and their relationships (even with piss poor writing) it might have helped tremendously but this structure is going to leave an audience wanting more and not in a good way. If there is a season 3 I can't imagine in 2 years that a lot of the current viewership would return. So even the "fix it" episode rewrites fans make don't seem like enough, to me you genuinely need more material, more for an audience to invest in or feel a part of. If this season was even 10 episodes there would have been so much room for improvement. The Last of Us was able to deliver a satisfying plot and character arcs with 9 episodes and there's a huge difference with the way that was received by audiences vs. HotD. The obvious difference is the amount of time they needed to tell that story vs. the amount of time you rightly needed to tell this one, which is case in point why HotD needed more time. So, while a short season can deliver satisfaction in some cases, I don’t believe as a rule it should all be common place to condense stories and characters. Especially considering HotD's compression is coming largely at the expense of the women in the show (Rhaena, Jeyne Arryn, Helaena, Nettles, Rhaenrya and Alicent's respective character assassination, etc). That's to say even if these character plots deviate from the canon they have the room to grow and develop a character completely to an audience. If you're going to change a character from the source material at least make them a well-developed different person.

[sillyabtmusic]

hmmm hwon

[averlym]

some very very quick costume shorthands!

[royjamieism]

what have they been feeding phil dunster over these last seven years

[afaroffsong]

Okay. For practical but also for writing purposes what is actually the antidote to despair, if you know what I mean?

[badolmen]

I’m going to an action for the first time since my surgery + in a new state where I don’t know anybody :’] Wish me luck!

[cryolyst]

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[superfluouskeys]

i'm wondering about making a rule that i can't check my e-mail while i'm still in bed...idk i feel like it's adding stress to my mornings even tho it's convenient a lot of the time.

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

I like how everyone probably expected just another lighthearted sitcom with The Good Place given Mike Schur’s previous work and instead were gobsmacked with a show about how it is impossible to be a perfect ethical human and that we’re all just trying our best.

[liamgallaghermpreg]

I think the thing w Sam & Dean’s actions in the show is “correct” or “redeemable” or whatever doesn’t necessarily apply; it’s about whether or not they’re understandable in context and they always are whether or not it’s something they SHOULD do or if it was the RIGHT thing to do or not. And, you know, their actions are always designed to fight against the other’s main “thing.” Sam uses demon blood to save Dean because he’s driven by grief but Dean is angry because he’s just spent 40 years being tortured by demons. Dean lets Gadreel possess Sam, who struggles with bodily autonomy. Sam lets the Book of the Damned unleash a biblical evil to save Dean, who has a savior complex. Etc etc. So idk, you can feel a type of way or not but I personally find “irredeemable” to be kind of a reductionist word to apply to, y’know, the things that drive the themes of the show. It’s ALWAYS grey, there’s never a black and white answer. And that keeps it interesting!

[mashmouths]

12 straight hours of phone in bed give it up for 12 straight hours of phone in bed folks

[cattatoir]

Anyway this is what I mean by I want to see Adam and Jesus talk