A thread about being appreciative of the TV show we have, rather than the creations our minds would rather have.
After all, the TV show could have been made in the 1990s, and looked like most other fantasy television (campy, extremely new agey, but enjoyable) of that era (and instead of Ramin Djwadi, it'd be complete with either a synthesizer score or the choral world music tribal sounds of Adiemus), as this video is here to remind us of that decade 20 years in the past that saw fantasy as strictly on the corny side (that's right, I just made a 1940s reference--voice should click the link as his ideal dream of Ashara Dayne is in the link). I say this not as I don't love those things. I clearly wouldn't be going out of my way to reference them if I didn't.
It's just Season 1 showed that in some aspects a Fantasy Show could be more than just that on TV. And heck, it could always be worse.
It's just Season 1 showed that in some aspects a Fantasy Show could be more than just that on TV. And heck, it could always be worse.
Now we need a buddy show for Tyrion and Bran (Starksy and Hutch).
A procedural crime drama for Jon to experiment on wights. Or perhaps for Qyburn.
An 80's soap like Dallas or Dynasty--Dynasty sounds about right. Cersei and Margaery can have enormous hair, lots of cocktails, and occasionally slap each other with perfectly manicured hands.
Gilly and Shireen could provide the After School Special.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde.
It's just Season 1 showed that in some aspects a Fantasy Show could be more than just that on TV. And heck, it could always be worse.
Now we need a buddy show for Tyrion and Bran (Starksy and Hutch).
A procedural crime drama for Jon to experiment on wights. Or perhaps for Qyburn.
An 80's soap like Dallas or Dynasty--Dynasty sounds about right. Cersei and Margaery can have enormous hair, lots of cocktails, and occasionally slap each other with perfectly manicured hands.
Gilly and Shireen could provide the After School Special.
I think you mean that a Bromance series for Tyrion and Bronn that played on 1940s nostalgia, in which they'd sing and visit exotic locales and get into hi-jinks, I think that's perfectly acceptable:
Jon and the Night's Watch are on Law & Order--with Jon rising from a rookie cop to being the head of the department over the forty plus years of the show. Qyburn would be one of the guest stars on the program as one of the "ripped from the headlines" based plot concerning quack doctors.
Cersei & Margaery either get Dallas or Dynasty remnants, or they get put into a big sweeping TV mini-series that was still popular at the time and star-studded:
As for Gilly, Sam, Shireen, and other such characters--they of course would be on sitcoms as their characters are simply conducive to 90s sitcom relations. Heck, Sam and Gilly already have the sitcom marriage worked out, just add 10 years to their ages and Baby Sam. Little Sam meanwhile is friends with Shireen who is depicted as a "going places" girl typical of 90s sitcoms (later seasons of Topanga from Boy Meets World being an example, whereas earlier seasons of Topanga depict her more as a freakazoid extreme hippie child).
I think you mean that a Bromance series for Tyrion and Bronn that played on 1940s nostalgia, in which they'd sing and visit exotic locales and get into hi-jinks, I think that's perfectly acceptable:
Heck, Sam and Gilly already have the sitcom marriage worked out, just add 10 years to their ages and Baby Sam. Little Sam meanwhile is friends with Shireen who is depicted as a "going places" girl typical of 90s sitcoms (later seasons of Topanga from Boy Meets World being an example, whereas earlier seasons of Topanga depict her more as a freakazoid extreme hippie child).
Excellent! With an awkwardly humorous episode when Gilly's family comes to visit for Christmas.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde.