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Friday Fun Thread for November 11, 2022

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Watched the first three episodes of house of the dragon. Does it get any better? So far the whole thing was incredibly boring and badly written.

I stopped watching for the same reason but a friendly Finnish fascist said it gets better afterward and lo he was right.

Gets better though not to the level of early episodes of GoT.

Maybe middle seasons of GoT, after it ran out of steam but before it became a trainwreck. Only the black valyrians and dragonflight physics are noteworthily jarring, and I kinda got used to the blackies. Makes no sense from book lore perspective, though one could imagine a country made up of non-interbreeding peoples, like e.g. India, I guess.

The black Valyrians just look weird but whatever. They found a decent lore excuse for them I think. I will watch a couple more episodes trusting your Finnish fascist friend I guess. So far the entire thing has been super shallow repetitions of the duality between royal duties and personal freedoms, in endless conversations between same characters. The story is just devoid of deep political intrigue that made game of thrones great and runs like a soap opera.

Not really a friend - I follow him & his wife* on twitter. They're some sort of far-right media / political types and I use translator to peer in what's going on in Finland sometimes.

Heh. Apparently he's a Moroccan born Finnish anti-immigration activist, which is quite ironic. Thought he looked a too dark for a Finn., which I'm guessing implies he's half French or more likely Arab and once again drives home the uncanny inclusivity of the racist club. (the famous quip included as jpeg).

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*(a psychotic valkyrie, according to their version of rationalwiki)

Well, for you I would say no.

I thought the entire thing was great and as good as the first few seasons of GoT.

What did you like so much about it?

Not to be a knob about it, but everything.

I'm just not a critic when it comes to my entertainment, and I usually don't have a tolerance for people who are too critical of things. Likewise, I understand completely when someone says they didn't like something.

I thought it was incredibly entertaining, well written, had multiple fantastic characters, had some dope ass battle scenes, etc. I just thought it was cool, and fun, and yea it was mostly a court drama about a family.