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RE: Game of Thrones
GrandDuke > 31/03/2018, 01:23
I hate proms that tell you too much though. To be honest, I would prefer they didn't do them at all. If I see a teaser that shows something exciting or dramatic, I spend half my time waiting for it to appear in the actual programme and second guessing (usually incorrectly) what is going to happen around it. -
RE: Game of Thrones
GrandDuke > 31/03/2018, 01:33
In a similar vein to promos, I absolutely hate TV programmes that saying 'coming up next' and show what is coming up after the break. Its intention is to stop you turning over to another channel during the adverts and staying there. However, for me it is a spoiler and makes me want to turn over the channel for good instead.
This is yet another 'Americanism' that we blindly follow like British puppy dogs following their American master. They had TV with a hundred channels to choose from 30 years ago when we got by with much less. They showed programmes in 10 minute chunks which consisted of 2 minutes of what has just happened before the break, followed by 6 minutes of new footage and then another 2 minutes of what will be happening after the advert. It did my head in when in the States and thanked God that we were not so crass in Britain. It seemed to assume that the audience had the mental capacity and memory of a goldfish!
Unfortunately, we are now not far behind them. At least we do not have to review what happened before the break on every programme. Yet! -
RE: Game of Thrones
gymaddict69 > 31/03/2018, 12:50
Wow, that was kinda deep, GrandDuke..but certainly apt. By all means show a brief recap of the previous episode at the start of the following episode but to show a preview of something that due to occur during that very same episode..whats the point. I watch a couple of shows that pull that very stunt (uk based shows as well). All i wind up doing is skipping the previews. Just got the vibe from that particualar GoT promo that it served no other purpose than to remind us they are still planning on bringing us the awaited final season..even if the powers that be are seemingly making us wait an eternity for it. -
RE: Game of Thrones
GrandDuke > 31/03/2018, 13:52
I absolutely love GOT and will be avidly watching it when it finally arrives. If I live that long! Lol. Sorry if my comment turned into a bit of a rant (we have another thread specifically for those!), but it is one thing that has bugged me for years and have never had the chance to say it.
There, I feel better now I have got that off my chest. -
RE: Game of Thrones
GrandDuke > 31/03/2018, 13:55
On a more reasoned note, I too fast forward through the previews before the adverts, and the adverts themselves for that matter, which is why i only usually watch recorded programmes not live. Whenever i have to watch TV live, such as at someone else's house at Xmas, i am itching to get hold of the remote control and fast forward and get frustrated I cannot. -
RE: Game of Thrones
gymaddict69 > 07/04/2018, 09:19
I know right..who watches tv as it screens in real time anymore..thats sooo retro lol..well, with the exception of those getting fitted up, sitting at home, watching 'Saturday night takeaway'. Swear the time the fam insists that we have to watch it, in real time as its aired, i will know we are gonna be popping up on it lol. Nothing wrong with your rant Grandduke, it was entirely justified. Fret not..weve only got a year to wait now for final season thrones (cries inexplicably). -
RE: Game of Thrones
GrandDuke > 07/04/2018, 11:36
It will feel like a long, long year. Problem is, by the time it finally arrives, I will need to watch every single episode again to get myself up to speed. That's another month out of my life. LOL.
Did not do that for the last series and suffered badly as a consequence as I desperately tried to make sense of everything that was happening. Why does it have to be so bloody complicated! But I guess that is what makes it so interesting too. -
RE: Game of Thrones
StrumSolo > 14/11/2018, 17:52
Did we already know that the eighth season would be starting in April?
Kind of feels like we did; but then if it wasn't news, would this tweet, featuring a montage of some old footage with a date at the end of it, have gone quite as spastic as it has?
There's not even any tits in it.
So yeah, April. GoT it in your diaries. LOL. -
RE: Game of Thrones
StrumSolo > 26/03/2019, 17:10
Sophie Turner for the lads (goths)
![[Image: sophie-turner.jpg]](https://lic.me/image/sophie-turner.jpg)
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RE: Game of Thrones
StrumSolo > 03/04/2019, 14:39
11 DAYS TO GO!