Then Kit is genuinely an idiot. How could you be surprised by the reaction to season 8??
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He wants in on Rowling's crap, so I'm going to have to say he's a fucking dipshit.
He obviously didn't watch it.
Harington, who starred in the HBO drama as Jon Snow, told the Times that he was in rehab when the final “Game of Thrones” season premiered. When he got out, he was shocked by the overwhelming negativity
First of all thanks to the author, because I was like “who?” I thought he was a writer for a moment.
And second, it sounds like there were a lot of reasons the last season didn’t go well.
They don’t call him John Snow for nothing👃
Because he white?
"You know nothing"
“How dare you have the opinion that lousy writing is lousy!”
What an absurd thing to be genuinely angry about. And considering his other work he's probably going to want to get used to people not enjoying his efforts.
I can't recall anything good any of the leading stars have been in after GoT.
Sophie Turner has had a decent run of mid-tier high budget movies (the jennifer lawrence xmen movies) and I think is the new live action Lara Croft?
Robb Stark was in that show about the bodyguard who banged the president while calling her "mum" the entire time? I hear that was good? And he has pivoted that into even more pseudo-spy dramas?
Kit was one of the less offensive things about Marvel's Eternals. Allegedly. Nobody watched it.
But I think it is also important to remember how a lot of these major franchises go. Most of the cast are hired REAL young because they are basically signing a contract to be in something for a decade or more. The known greats are wary of that and are going to want a lot more money and may just bail. See Elizabeth Olsen in the MCU where she clearly decided she was done with that shit. And that is why it tends to be less "Wow, so and so was a great actor" and more "So... both the leads of Twilight kind of just became known for really quirky low budget films they took because they are already set for life monetarily?"
Sometimes you get lucky? Most of the time you don't. And you rely on your supporting cast to carry the production. And most of the GoT supporting cast were already known amazing talent with established careers who just continued doing their own thang after the fact.
Rose Leslie (Ygritte, Snow's wildling live interest) has anthe lead in the Time Traveler's Wife (series remake). It's a little cheesy, but I did enjoy it very much and the ratings are quite OK
"So... both the leads of Twilight kind of just became known for really quirky low budget films they took because they are already set for life monetarily?"
I've really enjoyed following the careers of those two. Stewart in particular is very underrated. She has a very laid back, "natural" style which didn't gel well.with big budget cringe like Twilight but comes off as very realistic and convincing in smaller indie dramas.
I think Stewart just full on embraced weird shit being her thing, and I have really enjoyed just about everything she's done. And I had zero interest in Twilight.
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Peter Dinklage was good in Roofman
The Dinkman was fairly successful before GoT, though.
And the new Toxic Avenger
New dexter too
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True and it's a shame because Emilia Clarke seems to put her all into everything she acts in, but she's had some REALLY cheesy movies since GoT... Last Christmas, Me Before You, and Marvel's Secret Invasion series
She seems to be a very nice person, but to me, she had the weakest performances of almost anyone on the show. Could be a me problem, but the scenes with her always just broke my suspension of disbelief. The only thing worse was seeing Ed Sheeran...
no, I'm with you on that. I just didn't really buy her character a lot of the time.
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I don't see how that could work. I don't even think that starbucks still make those cups.
He didn't say he was surprised, though.
Maybe he was mad about the "competent" part? Because, the writers showed they were competent, so they apparently just DGAF in the last season.
Competent when they were making a screenplay from amazing novels. Not so much when they had to go it alone.
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