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I do and like what I want son. Prometheus was the best movie EVER
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GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings
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Ossoi
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agree, there's no other show I've rewatched as much as GOT - but I don't think it's "better" than The Wire, which I've only watched once.
Jozu
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The Wire is a better show from a narrative and writing standpoint.
Thrones gives you more of an expansive view of the world and has a sense of wonder and intrigue that a show like The Wire can never provide.
Both are top class in the pantheon of TV shows I just feel the Wire is more substantive and well done from a purist point of view.
Thrones gives you more of an expansive view of the world and has a sense of wonder and intrigue that a show like The Wire can never provide.
Both are top class in the pantheon of TV shows I just feel the Wire is more substantive and well done from a purist point of view.
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The Wire, Rome, and Deadwood all have some deep, existential human shit in them. Spartacus and Game of Thrones are just good stories that are entertaining to watch. There's nothing wrong with either, but it's hard to compare them because they're not the same thing. I love Game of Thrones, but out of the 900 characters on the show, not one of them is half as deep as Pullo, Swearengen, or Omar. There are minor characters in Deadwood that are more human than anyone in GoT.
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Warmuth
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Spartacus celebrates its characters being over the top, hell it celebrates everything about the show being over the top and pulls it off brilliantly. Its basically the Rocky 4 of tv shows.
Siliconemelons
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Deep characters... Spartacus had them. I never enjoyed a character death more than Ashur - and almost man cried over Spartacus having to kill his man-bro because
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In my opinion both The Wire and The Sopranos created the famous "golden age" of TV shows, while both Deadwood and Rome, being niche shows at the time, helped expand this golden age (1999-2009 more or less). I know it's kind of bland nowaways, there are a lot of very good TV shows around, but I'm gonna be another internet dude encouraging you watching these shows at least once. During that period, even good TV shows like 24, The Shield couldn't compete with HBO production.
AMC kind of tried to follow these steps with Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Rubicon and these shows are all very good. Showtime with Dexter and Brotherhood. Starz with Boss. Netflix with House of Cards. All these TV shows nowadays feel like orphans when you watch Game of Thrones because whenever some actor is doing a top notch job, some scene is awesome, you're reminded either Daenerys actress or some cheesy plot sequence reminds you it's just not that good.
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iannis
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Spartacus is a masterpiece of goreporn.
Seriously, a masterpiece. Its an x rated version of Hercules and his legendary journeys.
Its hard to imagine how sprticus could be improved on. There was only that one annoying woman.
Just a masterpiece of absolute crap. The fact that season one is undisguised softcore gay porn is just so hilarious. And then.. LUCY LAWLESS TITTIES
Seriously, a masterpiece. Its an x rated version of Hercules and his legendary journeys.
Its hard to imagine how sprticus could be improved on. There was only that one annoying woman.
Just a masterpiece of absolute crap. The fact that season one is undisguised softcore gay porn is just so hilarious. And then.. LUCY LAWLESS TITTIES
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Siliconemelons
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Starz really ramped up and put their hand in the jar with Spartacus and then The Pillars of the Earth, a great show and it's decent generational followup World Without End, both adapted from Novels by Ken Follett.
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SOMEONE never watched Breaking Bad. Hands down the most compelling first Season for multiple reasons. Rome was good. DAMN good. Deadwood is also good. But pulling those from HISTORY cheapens the value IMHO.
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Breaking Bad's first season was probably the worst of the run. I wasn't fully hooked until season 2 or 3
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Rewatch it. Season one had some of the strongest character development of a single person ever. Most people didn't get on board until later but that first season was so critical and well done. I'm not taking anything away from Rome or Deadwood or The Wire (debatable as best show in last 20 years), but to ignore WWs initial transformation is just silly.
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Crazy Handful of Nothin' has to be ranked as one of the best single episodes of television ever made.
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