Acting vs Emoting in Game of Thrones. Repost of a segment from my much longer video on “Why the Stannis storyline failed in Game of Thrones”.

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  1. What is it called when the writers change a fictional character to suit the natural abilities of an actor? It seems to be the complete opposite of acting. The actor no longer has to channel the state of the character, for the character is forced into mirroring the state of the actor.

    This precise process of changing a fictional character to fit within the mold of an actor seems to go far beyond that of mere emoting.

  2. I beg you m'lord, do away w/ these pretenders. Cast them back & seal their silence.

    We can't do shit about this series, but hopefully we can severe any connection to future projects. On a side note, how would you feel about '(The Doom of) Old Valyria' as a prequel series?

  3. You should make a video on how they basically just didn't even try and made Jon Snow Ned Stark in season 7. Also how there wasn't even a script just taking old dialogue and from pass seasons. Lol

    Also Bronn is so overused in the show.

  4. I have now watched the video. Bwahahaha. Everything is 'dramatically satisfying'. Also 'creatively it made sense because we wanted it to happen.' I read somewhere that Cogman wrote the whole play within the play as a cry for help. If he did write it self-awaredly then he's much worse than D&D because he's clearly a much better writer than this tripe of a show.

  5. No offense to Clarke or Harington as people but they are not very good actors. Harington has been typecast in this one show, emotional range has disappeared since Ygritte's death. Clarke has, for some reason, become really deadpan in her dialogue delivery after season 2 and shows no emotional range except perhaps once or twice. Allen and Turner are the only newcomers to consistently give good performances despite their development making little sense. But to make actors abilities an excuse to make random changes in plot and/or character is stupid as greatly evidenced by the massacre of the Dorne plot. If actors have range you give depth to their characters which they would have if their character arcs had been properly adapted, particularly Sansa and Theon. Thanks for the short videos. I can't watch the full ones because of my baby. Haven't seen this video yet but here goes…

  11. For future vids, can you slow down the voice-less slides a bit? I was trying to read through and I wasn't even able to skim those before they blew by (I cast to my tv from my phone so pausing and rewinding is a hassle)

  20. George Lucas, when he made The Phantom Menace, complained constantly that he was never going to outdo James Cameron's Titanic. Sounds like an eerie precursor to D&D trying to beat Breaking Bad.

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