Recent content by Chris Tian

I think there is no way the next Mass Effect will take place in either a new Galaxy or prior to the Human First Contact. In a new Galaxy it would practically be a new IP and have almost nothing in common with the previous games, they would never do that. Bioware most likely wants the fans to...

My thoughts exactly. What does "writes 'by the seat of his pants'" mean? Sorry, my english is not perfect and somehow I can't make sense of it. Not that its all that important, but Oberyn clearly buries almost the whole length of his blade, which looks like almost 30cm in The Mountains...

How is it a "falsification of my claim"? My claim is that specific events that are clearly supposed to be shocking did not shock due to predictability. I never claimed to be able to predict "overall winner". I repeatedly statet that GoT lacks any kind to overarching storyline to even be able...

I never argued for "more formula". My point is if your not doing that, you have to do something else. Not doing what everybody else does is not inherently a good thing or makes for good writing just on its own. I whatch the show too remember? My working theory is, everybody is just like me...

I can obviously not know if he has the story mapped out and an endgame planned or not. The whole show just feels like he doesn't because its going absolutely nowhere until now. Yes exactly and why are they overused? Because most of them serve a very specific function. For Example: The Red...

Do you even read what I'm writing or are you just randomly ranting? I repeatedly and specifically statet that I could see the shock moments comming and that GoT lacks a overarching storyline and/or direction and now you ask me to predict how the story will unfold longterm to make my point...

The way Martin does it, yes. Good for you if he can surprise you, but alot of people see his "shocking moments" comming to early for them to work properly.

I criticised spesifically that GoT lacks a mainstory or any real longterm goals for its characters that I can watch them work towards. Thats why I said Harry potter is a bad example, It has those. It has a very clear main story in every book and establishes another overarching mainstory in...

I agree that killing a desperatly needed interesting "good guy" character was not the smartest of all things for GoT right now. I hear its because The Viper is not nearly as likable in the books or has less "screentime" there or somesuch. The whole fight was ridicioulus bullshit from a...

I couldn't agree more, especially the last sentence. If he would just do what he does and write an interesting mainplot, I would be really happy.

Well good that you are here now, otherwise I would never have known that I actually was very surprised about the outcome of that battle. I never claimed he subverts tropes whenever he can, I just said when he does it its almost as predictable as the tropes themself, so the whole "its so...

Why do people discuss how its unrealistic for the Mountain to take Oberyn down and bash his skull in? Thats definatly one of the more "realistic" parts of that fight. In a real fight Oberyn would have been hacked to pieces when he attempted his first ridicoulus backflip.

Well, in Haryy Potter every book had its own very clear storyline, so thats a bad example. I see it exactly the opposite way :D We are already at the end of book 3, thats almost half way through, we should be done with the setup and premise phase by now.

I agree with you, that the show has quite a few interesting characters. The problem for me is, that except John Snow, none of those doe anything particularly interesting or have any longterm goals, besides survival, that seem to be achievable at all. I actually agree with you that his...

Well, then they could continue the show how they liked and we might get an actual storyline instead of random shit happening randomly.