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[drvenner]

Judging by convo here…. People hated it bc the characters were nothing like the books.

I enjoyed both. I read the books before watching any of the series. I thought overall, the series was very well done. I don't hate the final season as much as some do. It had some good moments.

 

[drvenner]

Oooof. Awkward

Terrible look for them. I feel bad for the kid.

 

[drvenner]

Apparently, he was dumb enough to take them at face value

Naive, maybe. Dumb is not the right word, IMO.

 

[Devo182]

I get why HBO and GoT kept going...but if we're all honest the Arya moment was good enough to end the series on.

Not sure why there is always this push to wrap things up in a nice bow and try to give each character a "walking away" moment in TV shows.

Not sure they needed all that either.

But they did need to put an end to the game. Thus the ending was about the only way. The thing is most fans probably wanted to see the game continue, but it wasn't the point of the entire allegory I suppose.

 

[SpringBokVol]

Having Dee Williams for this game will be noticeable.

 

[drvenner]

I don’t post much about it, but my wife could use every single prayer available right now. Probably not happening today even though she’s in a lot of distress. Doing everything we can to try and give her comfort.
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All the prayers I can muster, Brother. Truly hope and pray everything goes as well as it possibly can.

 

[drvenner]

On our way to watch the Vols play!!!
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Is your Georgia fan joining you? If yes, who is he pulling for on Saturday? Go Vols and bring us home a big win, please.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Some kids don't know the game and I have no ill will toward the kid. I think it's a shady practice to "officially" offer a kid and not let them commit though. Colleges need to work on their own terminology.

I mean honestly can they stop him from committing though? Until he's trying to sign his NLI or get his scholarship money does it really matter if it's a committable offer or not?

 

[drvenner]

What whiskey do you mix with said Cheerwine though?

Uh, clearly the wine is already mixed in, or do you have a reading comprehension problem? Geez.

 

[SmokinBob]

Where are y’all from?!? It’s Coke. Just coke, regardless of whether it’s Pepsi, or Sprite, or Mountain Dew, or Mellow Yellow…it’s Coke.

Truth

 

[Devo182]

On our way to watch the Vols play!!!
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That's one big Prius ya got there

 

[drvenner]

Man, that is freaking Candy Land.

 

[mrMet]

Where are my real bourbon heads at?

might be too high class for you morans

Evan BIB is good as hell tho

 

[Nash_Vol97]

Non political grandstanding takes for HOTD basically tell me that they don’t flesh out the characters because they skip ahead in time radically episode by episode. Sounds like they didn’t catch the same lightning GOT did just based off that take. GOT was so good because of how in depth the first 4 seasons were. After season 4, quality gradually fell off until the last season really rubbed me the wrong way because they seemed like they put 3 seasons worth of content in 7 episodes. I understand the actors and actresses were gradually becoming unfathomably expensive. None of them were stars when the show started, after all. But good lord, you spent almost a decade building up to Winter coming.. and then when it comes you wrap it up in an episode. It was like blue balls almost lol

Ive thought character development and the build up of the tension between characters has been well done, despite the fast forward in time. I’ve also felt like the casting has been spot on. Also, I’m not sure if viewers have dropped or not but HOTD in the first episode or two were setting HBO viewership records. Will it sustain it? We will see. GOT will always be the standard, at least the early seasons, but I’ve felt like HOTD has held up pretty well so far. JMO.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

True. But I rarely heard "what kind of coke do you have," it was almost always "what kind of soda or soft drink do you have."

Was that in Nashville? That sounds like middle Tennessee lingo

 

[jave36]

Was that in Nashville? That sounds like middle Tennessee lingo

Arkansas and Knoxville.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Not sure they needed all that either.

But they did need to put an end to the game. Thus the ending was about the only way. The thing is most fans probably wanted to see the game continue, but it wasn't the point of the entire allegory I suppose.

I guess I disagree on this point...especially if the goal was to create spinoffs.

There is never truly a winner in GoT and that's "the game" once you get the cheese you're then in the trap and it's just a matter of time.

 

[Christian Lowe]

Ive thought character development and the build up of the tension between characters has been well done, despite the fast forward in time. I’ve also felt like the casting has been spot on. Also, I’m not sure if viewers have dropped or not but HOTD in the first episode or two were setting HBO viewership records. Will it sustain it? We will see. GOT will always be the standard, at least the early seasons, but I’ve felt like HOTD has held up pretty well so far. JMO.

It helps that their only competition right now is that god awful lord of the rings show and She-Whore attorney at law

 

[Jimmy Football]

I mean honestly can they stop him from committing though? Until he's trying to sign his NLI or get his scholarship money does it really matter if it's a committable offer or not?

You’ve hit on the problem. It’s couched in contractual language, but there are no actual obligations created until signing day. Just a minefield of misunderstandings.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Where are y’all from?!? It’s Coke. Just coke, regardless of whether it’s Pepsi, or Sprite, or Mountain Dew, or Mellow Yellow…it’s Coke.

I've never asked for a Coke unless I wanted a Coke. I'll have a soda, pop, or -name of choice-

 

[Vol464]

People that hold significant/historic home run balls ransom money… they’re all scumbags

Why? The guys that hit them make multimillions and the teams are charging lots of money to get in the park and 8 dollars for a coke.

 

[SmokinBob]

That's weird ngl haha.

Why not just call it what it is? Coke is a brand (well, coca-cola, which is what I ask for at restaurants...specifically a "coca-cola classic" because I don't do that mexican coca-cola or diet aspartame crap)

And if at a friend's house, I just ask "y'all got grape drink?!"

I say “what kind of coke do you have?”

 

[bpalmer28]

If we get this guy hopefully he is much better than Henry.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

Arkansas and Knoxville.

West Knoxville?

Pop, soda, soft drink sounds like West Knoxville

 

[MoCo_Vol]

You’ve hit on the problem. It’s couched in contractual language, but there are no actual obligations created until signing day. Just a minefield of misunderstandings.

I mean the kids say "I'm accepting my offer to play at the University of..."

I could be wrong but either the player, his family, or his HS coach is trying to get him noticed. As someone else pointed out he's apparently having a killer year, and now because of this FSU gets egg on their face and the kid's name will be buzzing on social media for a bit.