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    Ballers - General Discussion

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    8 hours ago, luckyroll3 said:

    I only know this because I recently watched the previous season (after realizing I never actually finished it), but near the end of last season, Joe went to Lance to get Lance to change what he was offering for Joe and Spencer to buy him out of the company.  It was still a low ball offer, but Lance said he would drop the entire thing if Joe dropped Spencer and partnered only with him, which supposedly was his original plan since him and Joe were apparently besties (yeah, I don't know).  So when Spencer pulled out of the company because of the lawsuit (and also because he wasn't paying any fucking attention to what was happening in the company cause he's a douche and shitty partner), it was a quick and easy solution to Joe's problem and he could move on with the partnership with his BFF, Lance.   

    Thank you, must have missed that scene last year.

    Ballers - General Discussion

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    On 8/30/2019 at 12:40 PM, Michichick said:

    The doughnut box didn’t just say doughnuts on the side. It had some brand name I never heard of. I don’t know why I feel the need to mention this.

    I will watch this season until the end because I love Dwayne Johnson, but lord this show is terrible. Absolutely no follow up on the NCAA lawsuit. I hope we get some flashbacks eventually. I hate how this show drops storylines and just has Spencer jump from opportunity to opportunity with no logical transition. He’s a money manager! He’s pitching for a team to move to Vegas! He owns an extreme sports company! He’s pimping some high school football player! He’s suing the NCAA! What the fuck?

    I've noticed, I still can't remember when Joe and lance got along again.

    S08.E06: The Iron Throne

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    8 hours ago, RealReality said:

    I just want to say that I'm not sure where I fall on the issue of race.  But I want to thank those posters who brought it up because I truly had never thought about it, and it's an interesting dynamic with so many facets and differing points of view. 

    I wonder if they talked about lando calrizzian this much back in the day?!?!!

    No, He was well written and got a redemption arc. Had they kept him a Gillian it would have gone badly. 

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    Game Over: How YOU Would Have Done Season 8

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    4 hours ago, RoberTee said:

    First give it two more full seasons so things don't get rushed. I actually liked most of the plot points of the finale (Dany goes mad after losing everything and Jon has to kill her to save the Seven Kingdoms is a perfect ending for their arcs), but everything was so rushed that none of the characters choices made sense. We should've seen Jon and Dany relationship develop more, while at the same time the works around her crumbles and she descends into tyranny. 

    Like I said, the biggest problem is still D&D refusing those extra two seasons HBO was willing to give. 

    Jon killing Dany, the biggest climax of the whole show, was supposed to be the toughest decision of his life, not only because she was his queen and he's a man of honor, but because he was suppose to be genuinely in love with her. 

    But what happened is he bent the knee, had sex with her and found out they're related in literally three episodes (7x06 - 8x01), so we never actually saw them happy for long, so why are we supposed to care about their relationship drama? 

    Whilst, for example, the Jon/Ygritte arc developed through three seasons, from the time they meet (2x06) until he burns her body beyond the wall (4x10).

    And the same goes for pretty much every plot point this season. This could've ended exactly this way and be brilliant, if only they took the time to develop what happened. 

    That said, everything that happened post- Jon killing Dany was absolute non-sense. I posted this on the episode thread, but here it goes. After Jon killed Dany, this is what I wanted to happen:

    "Seeing his Mother dead, Drogon goes on a grieving rage and burns the Throne Room, Jon included. Flames everywhere. The Iron Throne melts. Suddenly, through the fire, comes Jon Snow, aka Aegon Targaryen, naked (mirroring Daenerys at the end of season 1, reborn from the flames). Drogon knows "fire cannot kill dragon" so he turns his back on Naked Jon/Aegon, takes Daenerys body and flies away. As he leaves, we see Grey Worm at the door, who just realized what happened. Grey Worm and Naked Jon/Aegon have an epic fight amongst the flames in the Throne Room, and Naked Jon/Aegon ends up killing him, not without giving him a chance to surrender first. A bleeding, fatally wounded Naked Jon/Aegon leaves the Throne Room and is assisted by Davos (mirroring season 6, when Jon Snow comes back to life, naked and falls into Davos arms). "What have you done?!", Davos shouts. Naked Jon/Aegon asks for Arya. She arrives. "I was brought back for a reason... And now my watch has ended." Naked Jon/Aegon dies in Arya's arm, who cries over her brother's body. This scene is intercut with scenes of Ghost, still in Winterfell, howling. Cut to Bran, in the Godswood, hearing Ghost and realizing what happened. He's emotionless. Cut to Sansa, in the Great Hall, sheding a single tear. Cut to the Godswood again but now Bran's chair is empty. The camera lingers on the Old Tree, suggesting that now that the world is safe at last, he officially became the Three Eyed Raven and merged with the tree. Cut again to Arya holding Dead Naked Jon/Aegon, and then Drogon crossing the Narrow Sea, with Daenerys, arriving to Essos, her true home. Some time later Tyrion assembles a Council Meeting to decide who will rule the Seven Kingdoms. Since the last Targaryen are dead, so should the Seven Kingdoms, which were united by the Aegon the Conqueror. Therefore it's only fit to break them apart after the death of the last Aegon Targaryen. The North will be ruled by Sansa Stark; the Iron Islands will be ruled by Yara Greyjoy; The Westerlands will be ruled by Tyrion Lannister; The Reach will be ruled by Samwell Tarly; the Stormlands will be ruled by Gendry Baratheon; Dorne will be ruled by whomever is there already; and Dragonstone will be given to Davos Seaworth. Arya sails west anyway. Brienne becomes Queensguard to Sansa. The show ends with a raven (is it Bran?) flying over Westeros, watching each Kingdom try to rebuild itself after the horrors of the war, sort of like a live-action version of the opening credits. The raven then goes beyond the abandoned wall, we see the wildings, Tormund, Ghost... The raven keeps flying north, where there's pretty much nothing more than darkness. As the screen starts fading to black, we see two blue eyes. THE END."

    Wow, that works well.

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    Game Over: How YOU Would Have Done Season 8

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    On 5/19/2019 at 9:08 AM, BooBear said:

    I am just going to go with what they wrote. I am not sure increasing episodes would have done anything because most of season 7, imho, was a stall and a waste of time.  It seems that D&D didn't know how to get to a satisfying ending and only knew how to continue plot arcs that GRRM started. But,

    • Dany would not smile when her dragons scared the northerners.
    • Dany would not make any scary threats when Sansa seemed cold to her. 
    • I would have cut the Jon rides a dragon scene from the first episode and had Jon do that in desperation in episode 3 - maybe to get to Bran.
    • The entire thing with Sam would have been done differently. Jon would have run into him in the court yard early on. Sam would tell Jon about his background. Jon would tell Sam about his dad.  
    • Sansa and Arya would have more to do with Dany and Jon.
    • The night king battle would have had the army behind the walls of winterfell.
    • One dragon would have guarded the other taking out the army fo the dead either for the air or on the ground.
    • People watching from the inside would be overwhelmed and thrilled with Dany and her Dragons. 
    • Jon would make it to protect Bran against the night king but would look to be losing. 
    • Arya would come out of no place and take out the night king.
    • Jon would be amazed at what Arya can now do.
    • Jamie, Brianne, and many more would die during the battle.
    • Dany would be a big hero. Sansa would apologize for not trusting her. 
    • Time would pass before going after Cersie.
    • Yara would take out Euron.
    • The army would take out or start to take out the golden company.
    • Dany will take out Cersie and the red keep. 
    • Cersei will escape and lose her baby.
    • Dany will take the iron throne. 
    • John chooses to go north and restart the nights watch --but for some good reason like in case the walkers come back.  He will never tell anyone about his Targaryen background. 
    • Sansa is Warden in the north. 
    • Last scene. Cersie with her minions smugly drinking her wine thinking she escaped and Jamie finds her... strangles her, the look on her face is shock and horror, once done Arya is the killer and crosses Cerise's name off her list. 

    This might not be shock and horror but to me it would have been satisfying. 

    I'd have loved that. 

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    S08.E06: The Iron Throne

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    17 minutes ago, filmfan2480 said:

    So the reason Jon was not King or not tossed around as possible King was because and ONLY because the Iron Throne was no more?  Is this correct?

    It was probably for the shock value of bran being king.

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    S08.E06: The Iron Throne

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    15 minutes ago, AuxArx said:

    I thought it was a pretty satisfying ending; not exciting, but satisfying.

    Poor Drogon and his mother...I wonder where he took her?

    Ghost got his boy back!

    Seeing dead Jaime and Cersei was kind of sad, even if they were a couple of twisted individuals.

    I was afraid Grey Worm was going to do something to Jon there at the ships, but he just glared.

    Almost everyone got an okay ending except maybe for Jon, but I don't think he ever would have been happy as a ruler.

    Arguing about the merits of brothels, yay or nay, was kind of funny.

    And Tormund needed to go back and comfort Brienne!  Come on, big guy.

    It's kind of like the ending to Lost--there are parts you like, and parts you just don't quite understand.  But that's okay.  I will miss the show, though.

    He took her to a spinoff! Only there's no human characters, it's 8 seasons of adventures of Drogon!

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    Franchise Of Thrones: Possible Spin Offs Speculation, News and Spoilers

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    19 hours ago, ShellsandCheese said:

    After season eight the only spinoff I would be interested in would be one about Drogon. What did he do when he disappeared for long stretches of time because he’s like a super dragon and so agile. He could teach a class on how to zigzag -  LOL.

    You never know, a spinoff can be a quasi seqaustralopithecenesuel. Maybe a blackfyre from the female line finds him and goes for the throne. 😉

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