posted this in the nominations thread already, but I thought it'd be fun to track the scenes-per-season breakdown as we go through:

Season 1: 13
Season 2: 9
Season 3: 13
Season 4: 10
Season 5: 5
Season 6: 7
Season 7: 4
Season 8: 3

this'll be randomized but I'm gonna try to avoid same season matchups for as long as possible

full list of nominees

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Mountain vs Viper Dany kinda forgetting about the Iron Fleet Jon facing down the Bolton cavalry Arya convinces Jaqen to help her Jon kills a Walker Ned's execution Red Wedding Purple Wedding Tyrion's trial monologue End of Hardhome Aemon reveals his identity Syrio teaches Arya waterdancing Jaime/Brienne in the hot tub Chaos is a laddah Birth of the dragons Tywin teaches Joffrey about ruling A crown for a King The Hound slicing up some soldiers after they kill Al Swearengen Mhysa scene Tywin sends Joffrey to bed Theon chats with Luwin during siege of Winterfell Theon executes Rodrik Jon getting trapped/emerging from pile of bodies Sept gets blown up The Hound kills a bunch of men over a chicken disagreement Robert/Cersei talk about their marriage Brienne vs Hound Tyrion kills Tywin Jaime confronts Ned in the streets Hodor holds the door Oberyn's speech to Tyrion Rickon's death The Night King spears Viserion Dany & Drogon burn down King's Landing Shireen gets burned Joffrey being bitch slapped by Tyrion Theon charges the Night King The series intro in the woods Grenn and co. stare down the giant Melisandre drinks poison Olenna's confession Margaery/Joffrey crossbow scene Drogon attacks the loot train Tyrion threatens Joffrey at his wedding Littlefinger/Varys chat in the throne room Tyrion's speech at Blackwater Tyrion/Shae/Bronn drinking game Cersei considers poisoning Tommen Theon confesses to Ramsay Loras roasts Jaime Jaime loses his hand Dany burns the masters of Astapor Jorah winning in the fighting pit Jon hangs his killers Drogon saves Dany from the fighting pit The Wall is broken Arya and Tywin's chat Tywin telling his kids who they'll marry "What do we say to death?" Battle for Castle Black courtyard battle Cersei's power is power speech Bronn hits the shot Edmure misses the shot KINGINDANORF!

These Tyrion moments filling up the first batch serve as nice reminders that he was once a fully utilized and great character

so since Jon vs Styr / Castle Black tracking shot are p much the same scene, I'm combining them and slotting in an Arya/Jaqen scene. mkay

TYRANNY RAWR RAWR RAWR

also combining Arya killing Polliver with the Hound/chicken scene. Putting in the Shireen death instead. MMMMMMKAY

Rewatching these old clips really hammers home how bad the show got in its second half. The difference is insane, there are so many great small moments of dialogue in the early seasons. And they're spread around to so many different characters

Like these Theon scenes, it's WEIRD to see him talk so much in them. He says more in one quick monologue than he has in the last four seasons. Maybe a bad example because his development kinda shut him up, but Varys, Littlefinger, The Hound, etc. The show just became the Jon and Dany show instead of sharing the wealth with everyone else

https://www.cnet.com/news/game-of-thrones-episode-hated-by-fans-seeks-emmy-for-best-writing/

lol

I can’t wait for it to be nominated and win cuz it’ll get the final season treatment

It doesn’t deserve a single award this season. Nothing for acting, writing, directing. CERTAINLY not best drama!

They really should’ve picked ep 2 for writing if anything

The script for the series finale was probably 2.5 pages long

Curtis @ 11/6/2019 16:00

I can’t wait for it to be nominated and win cuz it’ll get the final season treatment It doesn’t deserve a single award this season. Nothing for acting, writing, directing. CERTAINLY not best drama!

Idno. Cinematography, music, sound mixing, makeup etc. were all great.

The actors did the best they could with what they had too. Reminiscent of the SW prequels lol.

Mercator @ 11/6/2019 19:07

Curtis @ 11/6/2019 16:00 I can’t wait for it to be nominated and win cuz it’ll get the final season treatment It doesn’t deserve a single award this season. Nothing for acting, writing, directing. CERTAINLY not best drama! Idno. Cinematography, music, sound mixing, makeup etc. were all great. The actors did the best they could with what they had too. Reminiscent of the SW prequels lol.

None of those categories make the telecast, I was just talking about the Emmy telecast categories rly. But yeah those were always consistent

The really dumb thing is it only started winning at the Emmys around...S5 for some reason. Which leaves no doubt that to me that they'll give it Best Drama again, and maybe throw in some awards for Clarke/Dinklage too

it had to go up against the final 2 seasons of Breaking Bad, which was handed basically every award those 2 years. i think Peter won before then too, but yeah there were not even as many nominations as there should have been early. for instance Charles Dance was never nominated for best guest actor, despite qualifying for it.

...AND WITH THAT! All first round matchups are up. Prob will start Round 2 tomorrow depending on how many people have voted by then

Boc @ 11/6/2019 18:07

...AND WITH THAT! All first round matchups are up. Prob will start Round 2 tomorrow depending on how many people have voted by then

There's probably over 4 hours of clips, might as well start a rewatch.