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So, I saw The Avengers: Endgame on Saturday, watched three episodes of Lucifer on Sunday, and Game of Thrones penultimate episode...which basically proved ...( spoilers )
Hands down, Avengers: Endgame tromped Game of Thrones plotting and ate it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. While I was emotionally moved by Endgame (I laughed, I cried, my jaw dropped in awe at the tricky and well executed combination of plot, metaphor and emotional character arcs coming to a satisfying and more importantly well-earned conclusion) -- I was...largely ambivalent about Game of Thrones, and slightly bored. This series still has serious pacing issues, even though they are rushing the action in ways that bring to mind daytime soap opera logisitics and plotting. Also none of the character moments felt earned. There were some nifty isolated moments or canapes, but none of them felt connected and some felt rather contrived and out of character or a devolution of character, so as a result, I found it hard to care all that much. In other words, yes, there are some brilliant isolated sequences in here that if you separate them from the piece as a whole are rather wonderful, like canapes, but taken as a whole or in the entire episode? Not so much.
I've read a lot of reviews from professional critics today on it, and determined that if you were or are fannish about certain characters -- then it may have worked for you? Or if you loved the whole over-arcing theme about vengeance never works and war is hell and destroys everything...than maybe? Although I felt this was be clunky in how it was rendered. And far better done in well The Avenger's : Endgame with Tony Stark and others arcs. Mileage Varies, I suppose.
It's not fair to compare the two. So I'll try really hard to stop there, and just explain what did and didn't work in last night's episode.
( Spoilers galore -- or it's not the ending, it's how you get there )
So, I saw The Avengers: Endgame on Saturday, watched three episodes of Lucifer on Sunday, and Game of Thrones penultimate episode...which basically proved ...( spoilers )
Hands down, Avengers: Endgame tromped Game of Thrones plotting and ate it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. While I was emotionally moved by Endgame (I laughed, I cried, my jaw dropped in awe at the tricky and well executed combination of plot, metaphor and emotional character arcs coming to a satisfying and more importantly well-earned conclusion) -- I was...largely ambivalent about Game of Thrones, and slightly bored. This series still has serious pacing issues, even though they are rushing the action in ways that bring to mind daytime soap opera logisitics and plotting. Also none of the character moments felt earned. There were some nifty isolated moments or canapes, but none of them felt connected and some felt rather contrived and out of character or a devolution of character, so as a result, I found it hard to care all that much. In other words, yes, there are some brilliant isolated sequences in here that if you separate them from the piece as a whole are rather wonderful, like canapes, but taken as a whole or in the entire episode? Not so much.
I've read a lot of reviews from professional critics today on it, and determined that if you were or are fannish about certain characters -- then it may have worked for you? Or if you loved the whole over-arcing theme about vengeance never works and war is hell and destroys everything...than maybe? Although I felt this was be clunky in how it was rendered. And far better done in well The Avenger's : Endgame with Tony Stark and others arcs. Mileage Varies, I suppose.
It's not fair to compare the two. So I'll try really hard to stop there, and just explain what did and didn't work in last night's episode.
( Spoilers galore -- or it's not the ending, it's how you get there )