I am not. I thought it was clear that I am neither DJing or MCing.
I think I haven’t seen this linked to yet – Kit Harrington as Jon Snow apologizing to the audience for season eight: BREAKING: JON SNOW FINALLY APOLOGIZED FOR SEASON 8 - YouTube
Alright, I normally wouldn’t engage in the meme posting game, but this onegot me. What a great scene that was, and what a contrast it shows between then and now.
Ha! Yeah, that is a good contrast.
mispost. Nevermind
Just watched HBO’s excellent miniseries Chernobyl. Three *GOT *alums make appearances:
Donald Sumpter (Maester Luwin/a Communist Party ideologist)
James Cosmo (Jeor Mormont/a Soviet miner; blink and you’ll miss him!)
Michael McElhatton (Roose Bolton/a Soviet prosecutor)
The Terror is finally on Prime. Its protagonist and antagonist are in Chernobyl, but more relevant it has Edmure Tully and Mance Rayder.
I’ve recently been watching the miniseries Rebellion about the Irish Easter Rising in 1916, which features Barriston Selmy married to Catelyn Stark.
GOT earns a record number of Emmy nominations: 'Game of Thrones' sets record with Emmy nominations | CNN
I guess the Emmy people are not among the tantrum throwers who demanded season 8 be redone. 
It’s not just people who throw tantrums that recognize that it was pretty bad.
Are the Emmy nomination voters dumb, or do they just vote for bad stuff for the hell of it? Maybe they voted for GOT just to see people’s heads explode all over again like they did during season 8?
Kind of like Return of the King, the last but IMHO second-best *LOTR *movie, getting the most Oscar nominations - and wins for both Best Picture and Best Director.
Oh you see, for most people the problem with Season 8 was the writing. And pretty much just the writing. The bad writing doesn’t make the, I don’t know, hairstyling any worse.
I will be, for instance, outraged if Ramin Djawadi doesn’t win for best musical score.
I think the voters tend to be a bit lazy, and love the path of least resistance. If you’d nominated a particular person before, it’s easier to just keep nominating him or her. A good example is Lena Headey. Headey is a great actor, both over the course of Game of Thrones and just in general. But in Season 8 her entire season was spent smirking on a balcony. She got exactly one and a half good scenes (her death and her reaction to Cleganebowl), which is just not Emmy-worthy. But it’s an easy nomination, because it’s Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister!
GOT was nominated for best drama show. I think the writing plays a big role in the overall show quality doesn’t it?
A Song of Vanilla Ice and Fire is probably the best remix I’ve heard this year.
This. The actors and everyone besides the writers did an amazing job. Actually the writers of episodes 1 and 2 were fantastic, not fair to lump them in with the rest. And frankly most of the things that made season 8 suck were the result of bad writing from previous seasons.
I’m sure that’s a major factor. The show and its actors and crew are being recognized for a body of work, not a single season.
Absolutely- So those are the nominations that will be highly debated, the writing and the best overall drama, not all the other nominations.