Game of Thrones

[SIC]

7 hours ago, angels4u said:

We watch  the weather channel lol,my husbands favourite channel

Where I live the weather is very predictable. Hot and humid till 4 in the afternoon. Then starts raining heavily till 6. The same thing happens 300days a year. Lol 

[appy]

7 hours ago, appy said:

My post was not directed at you or speaking of you specifically.  I responded to something  else said in the thread.

@SIC

You lost me on what was funny about my reply above.  I said the above because you quoted another post, authored by me. So I took it to mean that you felt singled out and needed to defend the reason for your initial question. 

 So in the above quote I attempted to clarify my response.  The quote below, was from Didymos to another member who posted in this thread.  I was hoping to respond to the statement itself without calling direct attention to the author.   

In other words, I wanted my post to be about the topic itself and not the author.  About the statement below. Since we are not present in a person's home to witness whether he/she did or didn't, the statement itself is an unfair assumption and assessment of someone. 

 

On 11/8/2021 at 5:48 AM, Didymos said:

In order to compare the two you must at least have seen seen some of both.

[SIC]

1 hour ago, appy said:

@SIC

You lost me on what was funny about my reply above.  I said the above because you quoted another post, authored by me. So I took it to mean that you felt singled out and needed to defend the reason for your initial question. 

 So in the above quote I attempted to clarify my response.  The quote below, was from Didymos to another member who posted in this thread.  I was hoping to respond to the statement itself without calling direct attention to the author.   

In other words, I wanted my post to be about the topic itself and not the author.  About the statement below. Since we are not present in a person's home to witness whether he/she did or didn't, the statement itself is an unfair assumption and assessment of someone. 

 

No offence intended Appy. 

[appy]

4 hours ago, SIC said:

No offence intended Appy. 

its ok. Don't sweat it.

[Starise]

 I was curious about GoT because a musician I was following played the game the movie came from and even made some music that was like that music. The music side of it interested me and I ended up obtaining some of the tools these people use to make the music. TBH it isn't as much fun once you see how all of this is done in the movies  It's like the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz. Aside from the video imagery, the music side of it can be very powerful, especially pumped through a nice sound system like you have in a theater.

Some of the family said it was something I might like. Most of the time I'm watching a documentary on Youtube or similar old fart boring stuff ( to most other people).

But I did watch this series because the story line hooked me. I couldn't wait for the next one to come out. While there is a scene here and there that is definitely risque, I wouldn't call it porn. I hate to admit that in my past fleshly nature I had watched porn and this is a far cry from that. I  would not ever recommend it as wholesome for children. They sneak a few bad scenes in here and there, like 2 second clips that are few and far in between. Still it shouldn't be there at all.

The themes in it likely reflect the barbarity that existed and probably still exists in parts of the world. The setting is medieval. They did some pretty barbaric things back then. There was no time then to think about being desensitized to what was happening, especially if it was happening to you. It's really 'out there' in terms of the characters and what happens because like sci fi, it's all fiction. The old plot of good .vs evil carries over even here. There are the good guys and there are the bad guys. 

Like any recent Hollywood film it depicts an imaginary world without the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. A world of imagination, warriors and dragons. As an adult I digested it like junk food, felt a little guilty for getting caught up in what the next one was going to be. I could simply ignore the stuff that I knew wasn't right and allow myself to try to get into the rest of it in looking at it like an 'adult' would look at it. The saddest thing about this is that it really isn't a kid's movie but it is based on a kids/teens game. So who will watch it? Yep many moms will allow their kids to see it and think nothing of it which is truly sad. Most here I suspect wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

And herein lies the error in my adult thinking. That I can maturely 'handle' an R rated movie because I'm an adult and I've heard and seen it all before. That I can internally dismiss the parts I know are worldly. This is probably over confidence on my part. To think that because I am an adult I won't allow myself to absorb the bad stuff, yet inevitably some probably rubs off in one way or another...and time I spend doing this could be time I spend reading or looking at something more profitable.

I had almost forgotten I watched it until I read this. I haven't watched anything R tared since. The last thing I was caught up in was the SoS murders because it's a crime series on TV which shows the results of an ongoing investigation and it's ties with Satanic occult. That show is a documentary.

Like anything evil GoT starts out innocently enough as a very well produced fictional movie that for the most part is simply a reflection of human nature at it's worst. That part doesn't surprise me. What saddens me is the makers then throw these little 'hooks' in here and there that to watch apart from the rest of it none of us here would accept it, yet when combined with a story and good production many will accept it as something to be endured in order to watch the whole series. Me being one of those people. Some reason 1% bad isn't bad. I decided after that not to watch any more movies like this. 

This is an older series now and I'm surprised it came up again. You know you're probably doing more to advertise it by bringing it up?

[Still Alive]

On 11/6/2021 at 11:13 AM, angels4u said:

I favorite thing is to learn more from the Bible,read the Bible and listen to  good Bible studies from certain speakers I trust. Somebody connected me with Rightnowmedia and I'm finding lots of good stuff on there, I'm actually not interested to watch or read much mainstream tv shows of movies,it belongs to the world and I'm not staying here,this is not my home. I do watch now and then a nice older tv show ,right now I'm watching video's from Dr.Jack Graham

Just my 2 pennies..

Heh. We find old TV shows interesting. Two that were surprising: Route 66 was overtly Christian in its stories sometimes. Petticoat Junction would be rated G by today's standards. But I'm finding I'm just naturally losing interest in any modern media. And even then, it's mostly documentaries. Movies and TV have a harder and harder time successfully getting me to suspend my disbelief. I've literally turned of shows ten minutes or a half hour before they end because I honestly don't care how they end. 

The result is that more and more of my viewing is on Youtube, and then it's not fiction. I'm also finding I'm reading more and more. I'm getting this today from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0830851925/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Still Alive]

On 11/6/2021 at 12:41 PM, Josheb said:

Patterns have been established but 1) in the beginning they could and would have profited on anything they broadcast and 2) if the removed all the dross and began emphasizing education people would watch it. The rise of the Khan academy (Discover channel, PBS, etc.) is testimony to this. People are not going to stop watching television if all the sit-coms, sci-fi series, and crime procedurals are taken away. 

That explains the Milton Berle show.

I think we agree more than we disagree. I think everyone that produces any kind of performance art is trying to sell a way of thinking. Not just the overt stuff, but everything. At least to one degree or another.

[Guest]

6 hours ago, Starise said:

 I was curious about GoT because a musician I was following played the game the movie came from and even made some music that was like that music.

Game of Thrones is an unfinished book series by George R R Martin that was made into multi-year cable series by HBO.  HBO made changes to the books for their cable channel.  HBO was responsible for the music and opening credit music.  It was never a movie and the series ran on HBO for seven or eight years.  I am not aware of any game.

Edited November 11, 2021 by Saved.One.by.Grace

[Starise]

17 hours ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

Game of Thrones is an unfinished book series by George R R Martin that was made into multi-year cable series by HBO.  HBO made changes to the books for their cable channel.  HBO was responsible for the music and opening credit music.  It was never a movie and the series ran on HBO for seven or eight years.  I am not aware of any game.

I maybe falsely seen the series as a bunch of movies. There were many games made off of the concept. I'm not a gamer but I found one link to some of it HERE.

The game music was the music I'm referring to.

[angels4u]

20 hours ago, Still Alive said:

Heh. We find old TV shows interesting. Two that were surprising: Route 66 was overtly Christian in its stories sometimes. Petticoat Junction would be rated G by today's standards. But I'm finding I'm just naturally losing interest in any modern media. And even then, it's mostly documentaries. Movies and TV have a harder and harder time successfully getting me to suspend my disbelief. I've literally turned of shows ten minutes or a half hour before they end because I honestly don't care how they end. 

The result is that more and more of my viewing is on Youtube, and then it's not fiction. I'm also finding I'm reading more and more. I'm getting this today from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0830851925/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

That's what we do, youtube has some interesting documentaries, the tv and netflix is all geared to prepare people for what is to come or is already here..

I'm thinking of buying the book from Arnold Fruchtenboom "In the footsteps of Messaiah"

At the moment I'm reading "Every womean in the Bible " by Sue and Larry Richard,very interesting! There's one for men in the Bible also..