Now your watch is ended, as Seth Meyers and Leslie Jones roar through the Game Of Thrones finale
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Warning: This article contains spoilers for the Game Of Thrones finale.
There are some friends who just make everything you watch better. For Seth Meyers, fate has gifted him with former Saturday Night Live pal and all-around enthusiast Leslie Jones to watch TV and goof around with, as seen for the past few years in Meyers’ Late Night segment, Game Of Jones. With Game Of Thrones superfan Jones at his side, Meyers has had the best TV running partner since Crow T. Robot, as the pair plowed through the latest installments of the HBO fantasy juggernaut along with beer, chips, and the occasional uproarious GOT cameo with infectiously boisterous camaraderie. But, with the endlessly discussed (and that’s just getting started) Game Of Thrones finale having aired on Sunday, the week trudged on with Meyers making his usual jokes about how Donald Trump and the GOP are stripping away all pretense of upholding the rule of law without a glimpse of his friend and comrade in sight to lighten the load.
Thankfully, Leslie will never let Meyers (or us) down, as the duo saddled up one last time to watch Sunday’s finale, as Game Of Jones, perhaps unlike like Game Of Thrones itself, went out in a blaze of glory. As when Meyers brought in Lord Varys (okay, Conleth Hill) to his buddy’s raucous surprise and delight, Jones reacted to the finale’s big twists with accustomed, gleeful outrage. After asking Meyers seriously about Jon Snow’s continued allegiance to his genocidal aunt-lover Queen Daenerys, “Why is he defending her, tell me . . . from a man’s side?,” Jones was set up for a spectacular shocked bellow when Jon unexpectedly let Daenerys have it in the middle of an embrace. (“Yeah, bitch, ya got a knife in ya!”) And pity poor Drogon, for not only is he an orphan now, but Jones out-roared the dragon’s fire-spitting, throne-melting grief, as Meyers was left helpless with laughter. Not as much as when he reacted to whatever Jones said during her completely bleeped-out summation of whatever Brienne was thinking about “one-handed fuckboi” Jamie Lannister, but still.
And while Meyers’ suggestion that the pair start watching Chernobyl for their next HBO binge left Jones unmoved, she did have a final message for those, um, fans who’re still griping about things in Westeros not going their way. “Take a big glass of ‘grow the hell up,’” Jones admonished, “because Game Of Thrones is not real.” And that’s how you nail a finale.
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I’m going to need the unbleeped version.
I soooo want them to do Chernobyl.
“What the fuck is a Chernobyl, White People” Don’t ever change Leslie Jones. You are the best!
“[laughs] It’s true, we are so lame!”
Ignorance pays well.
I mean I figure Leslie Jones knows quite a bit about disasters, considering she’s been a part of a few big ones.They’re called “modern SNL” and “Ghostbusters (2016).”
Personally I find her one of the best parts of modern SNLand Ghostbuster(2016) is hardly a disaster. It’s not my favorite movie in the world but I stand by that its 2/3rd a decent comedy. It’s really that last act that makes is a bit stinky. It is definitely not the disaster the Incels and MRA pricks want the world to think it is
One of the best parts of SNL is a low compliment, but you’re not wrong
I have a theory that for every one person who thinks SNL is the worst it’s ever been, there is a young kid who just figured out he or she can stay up late on Saturday nights and watch TV and for them this season of SNL is going to be their nostalgic favorite.
They do say the best season of SNL is the one you watch when you’re 13.That said, I Think You Should Leave is basically SNL but written by a cast member who knows comedy, not an old man and a Staten Island douche.
She really is. That so many people feel the need to shout her down instead of just tune her out says a lot.
When I decided avoiding spoilers was impossible for this season, I still had to draw a line at repeatedly posting videos of the episodes themselves and ended up unfollowing Jones. I might refollow her when this shit dies down a bit.
““Take a big glass of ‘grow the hell up,’” Jones admonished, “because Game Of Thrones is not real.” And that’s how you nail a finale.” Funny, I don’t recall her having the same sort of reaction to hearing they were making a Ghostbusters 3 that had no connection to the Ghostbusters she did. THEN it was okay to whine and complain. It’s such hypocrisy. When YOU complain about something you’re invested in and care for ending up bad, you need to grow up, but when I do it, I’m just showing my passion!” You double-standard-having hypocrite.
So this will be the last post about GOT?! Promise?
Even without Seth Meyers, Leslie Jones has been reviewing every episode of the 8th season of GOT on youtube. And it’s been great.
I think this is exactly where and at what level GoT was trying to deliver: it’s an empty-headed popcorn-fest, or Transformers with more coherent cinematography. Leslie Jones is just rolling with the punches, and I think that’s kind of useful to remember when we go on tirades about how none of this makes any sense any more. If you care about sense, it’s not for you, and you kind of need to grow up a little and realize that no, not everything has to be for you. I say “a little” in this case, because it’s also important to recognize that GoT used to be a lot smarter in its scripting and plotting than it is today. It would be one thing if fans were demanding something that the show just isn’t. It is another if the fans came to the show thinking, justifiably, that the show is The Sopranos meets Lord of the Rings, got four seasons of that, and then starting getting their Transformers mixed in. I think there’s room to have a civil fan discussion about the optimal fan response when something starts as something you love, but then becomes something different when the show writers decide, or realize, that there’s Star Wars money to be made by changing it.
Yeah, the writers totally bailed on the last two seasons. Boo. We fans deserved two, ten-episode seasons, not this short-cut crap. HBO was willing, wtf.There’s also this perspective, which brings up some important points: Mostly, I think that HBO, the media, and the fans themselves built up hype and expectations for the final season to such a crazy degree that it became almost impossible to meet those expectations.I went back and started re-watching from the beginning, just an episode or two a day, and I’m going to see for myself when and where they nailed it, and when they went off the rails. Either way, there isn’t gonna be any do-over so everyone needs to give that idea up. After all, we’ve all just spent eight seasons and ten years watching a very awesome fantasy soap opera. There are much worse ways to spend our off-hours.
I don’t think there’s any concrete point where the show “jumped the rails”. It’s more of a gradual accumulation of adaptation errors that piled up as the show went on, which then collided rather violently with Martin’s pre-determined end points for many of the main cast members. I don’t think David and Dan were lying or being facetious in the fact that they really liked writing to the strengths of certain actors like Lena Headey. That’s easy to understand, because Headey was outstanding in her role. And because they liked Lena Headey, they just naturally adapted Cersei in a more sympathetic direction. She became someone who genuinely loved her children, rather than someone who sees Jaime and her children only as extensions of herself.Which becomes a problem when they hit seasons five and six, not because the show jumped the rails, but because they then tried to stick to Martin’s beats, with a character that just didn’t fit that story. If she loves her children, then why in the hell would she go so far out of her way to antagonize Margaery? Margaery is a great match for Tommen, and Tommen seems (understandably) smitten. If she genuinely loves her children, there’s no reason Margaery gives for the poison Cersei brings to that relationship. If she’s a power-hungry narcissist, then she can’t love her children. It’s inconsistent, and it’s an inconsistency they just kept adding onto and doubling down on once the Aegon subplot was cut, because now you have to have the city of King’s Landing behind a wildly popular leader, despite the fact that nothing Cersei’s done would make her popular.
Same for Dany. At the end of Dance of Dragons she’s set on a clearer path of blood and fire. In the series (despite Tyrion trying to tell the audience otherwise) Dany was always set up in a more heroic light.
There was always a lack of subtlety and nuance to D/D. It became worse and worse as the show got bigger and more unruly.
That’s the biggest takedown since Greatjon Umber got his fingers bitten off by Grey Wind the direwolf!
“Homicidal” aunt-lover, please. Only if Dani had ever got around the systemically eliminating an entire race would the word “genocidal” apply.