Siliconemelons
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight
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Wombat
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You're not wrong that the sudden 20th century soundtrack did remind me most of A Knight's Tale, but I meant this:
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Bald Brah
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They definitely did the FF ending which was dumb because no one cares about ser Arlene of pennytree and the actor didn't even die. It was kind of a middle finger, making a joke at paul walker's goodbye scene.
Fits in with all the pissing and shitting and man meat scenes. The show runners are aiming for low brow irreverent comedy.
Fits in with all the pissing and shitting and man meat scenes. The show runners are aiming for low brow irreverent comedy.
Mahes
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This was pretty good. The last scene with Pennytree riding with them felt more like a passing of the torch rather than a fond farewell. My main gripe with the show was how they portrayed the story. It would have been better to have just done a 1-6, rather than a 324516. I am tired of stories that go back in time when the story is about the life of a person as a progression. Just tell the story as it happened. Episode 5. which was the best episode, would have been even better if they had not interrupted the combat with a long memory that could have just been made into episode 1.
Still worth watching but I will most likely not watch it again until near season 2.
Still worth watching but I will most likely not watch it again until near season 2.
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Aldarion
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This 100%.
Its writers sniffing their own farts about being clever writers instead of just telling the fucking story.
Cybsled
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Linear storytelling doesn’t always work. It really depends on the story being told and the character involved.
You need a reader/viewer invested in a character before they care about their backstory. If the backstory is strong enough to to grab the reader/viewer, then sure. Otherwise you need to present the character, get the reader/viewer invested, then you peel back layers of story as needed to provide backstory context. You can do a flashback or exposition, but because TV is a visual medium, showing is sometimes better than telling unless the story is better served by the telling.
For a recent example of telling is better, Picard season 3 when the captain is at the bar and telling his experience of Wolf 359. They don’t show it, although as he tells it you hear some sounds in the background like he is remembering the explosions and screams. But that works better because the focus is on the captain’s trauma and him blaming Picard for it as Locutus, so you’re focusing more on the emotion.
You need a reader/viewer invested in a character before they care about their backstory. If the backstory is strong enough to to grab the reader/viewer, then sure. Otherwise you need to present the character, get the reader/viewer invested, then you peel back layers of story as needed to provide backstory context. You can do a flashback or exposition, but because TV is a visual medium, showing is sometimes better than telling unless the story is better served by the telling.
For a recent example of telling is better, Picard season 3 when the captain is at the bar and telling his experience of Wolf 359. They don’t show it, although as he tells it you hear some sounds in the background like he is remembering the explosions and screams. But that works better because the focus is on the captain’s trauma and him blaming Picard for it as Locutus, so you’re focusing more on the emotion.
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