This forum should be right smack in the middle of the demographic they are going for.

I agree (both with you and the points Tray makes). We who have also read the books also know that Jamie is soon to do "the right thing" as well as confessing to maybe his worst betrayal.

Jamie is a damaged character, he had a sense of honour and like we all fails to live up to his own standards.

But until I'm proven wrong I firmly believe Jamie will be there for the final battle against the white walkers, and maybe then he will find redemption.

I am James Cameron. AMA
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2 … meron_ama/

So last night I was drinking beer and hanging out with friends and I confessed that this video has been in a heavy rotation for me for the last few days. I can watch this over and over again and for some reason I love it little bit more every time Turns out another friend of mine had the exact same reaction to it and had been watching the same clip obsessively.

Ladies and gentlemen… the musical stylings of Jim Rash

Well played Netflix, well played!

Yeah I'll take Star Trek as one but it is so rooted in TV that it's not a pure example of what I'm thinking about.
But I'll give Star Trek that it did it well.

Star Wars seems to be heading down that road and like Ghostbusters I have a bad feeling about it.

One meta example a friend mentioned to me was ‘After Earth’ where Will Smith was going to pass the action hero torch to  Jaden. What a mess that turned out to be.

I fixed it... here's hoping forum members start using the thread now that's cleared up

Before Cotterpin asked for the top five I had already put down 4 things that I take away from the show.
I think it tells a great deal about people and their priorities what you take from the show. We are informed by so many things that make up who we are and who we think, wish, would like we are.

What I took from the show is what I take from most visual storytelling.

1)  Cinematography - I am in awe of the mastery of the camera that was put on a display for us in these 8 episodes. The compositions of the frame just blew me away.

2)  Story (Narrative) - I liked both but I understand that some might have issues with both elements. For me they both worked but for many they were lacking. But then again I've never been after the "perfect" story. I come from a more mythology/folklore background and am more interested in themes, motives. Fragmented storytelling has never been a problem for me. I have also said here on the forums before that I'll take a story that says something to me over a "perfect movie" that check's all the boxes but does not speak to me. I would prefer them to be both but I take emotional, thought and discussion provoking stories before technically well made that have little to nothing to say.

3)  Dialogue (and performance) - For me it was poetry, others did not like it. So it goes. A show can't be all things to all people.

4)  Tone - Loved the tone of the show, writing, editing and DI work came together for me. Other opinions are available. It does not bother me that other people did not like it.

p.s. Are we not all waiting for the they died in the end a la Taxi Driver rhetoric to begin? Now that will bother me to no end when such nonsense begins.

You and me both, you and me both.