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Nah, Breaking Bad is still much better than GoT. GoT had far too many meandering plots for the second season, regardless of the amazing second to last episode. The whole Quarth plot in general sucked ass until the finale, and I still don't see the point in Snow's plot. BB easily beats it just on that. And I'd still take BB over MM as well.
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No, it didn't. It's following the books rather closely.
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No, it didn't. It's following the books rather closely.
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Then the books have meandering plots...
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"Meandering plots" is kind of the entire point of Game of Thrones...
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Id take Thrones over Breaking Bad 100% of the time, even before Breaking Bad's current solid/unspectacular/underwhelming current season.
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Then the books have meandering plots...
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You're just looking for reasons to nitpick the show. They actually spiced up the Qarth plot a little from the book. Not sure what you mean when you say you didn't see the point to Jon's story either. In any case seasons 3/4 should be outstanding.
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"Meandering plots" is kind of the entire point of Game of Thrones...
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So the Qarth plot being horrible for half the season is the point? That's fine I suppose. I just like MM and BB a lot better than GoT because the characters are a lot more fleshed out, and I don't feel it has as many plots that are just kind of there.
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You're just looking for reasons to nitpick the show. They actually spiced up the Qarth plot a little from the book. Not sure what you mean when you say you didn't see the point to Jon's story either. In any case seasons 3/4 should be outstanding.
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So the Qarth plot being horrible for half the season is the point? That's fine I suppose. I just like MM and BB a lot better than GoT because the characters are a lot more fleshed out, and I don't feel it has as many plots that are just kind of there.
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Game of Thrones naturally has a lot more characters and different story arcs to cover than MM/BB based on the source material. All of the different story lines serve a purpose though and I wouldn't say they're "just there."
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So the Qarth plot being horrible for half the season is the point? That's fine I suppose. I just like MM and BB a lot better than GoT because the characters are a lot more fleshed out, and I don't feel it has as many plots that are just kind of there.
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Dany's storyline is indeed going somewhere, even if it doing so slowly.
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and it hasn't even covered two books. weird that every plot wouldn't be perfectly tied up yet. 
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Game of Thrones naturally has a lot more characters and different story arcs to cover than MM/BB based on the source material. All of the different story lines serve a purpose though and I wouldn't say they're "just there."
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It's just not as strong as those two, if partially due to the grand scope it's aiming for based on the novels. Still the third best show on TV, but bah. A hell of a lot better than Newsroom.
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and it hasn't even covered two books. weird that every plot wouldn't be perfectly tied up yet. 
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Shut up asshat. Should I not judge a show that has had 20 episodes of Daenerys doing basically nothing that I give a flying **** about? And hell, I hated the Drogo character.
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Or Danny's baby dragons? Those things were unfairly cute.
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Wait, there are dragons in this show?
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Or the handmaiden that taught her to satisfy Drogo?!
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Shut your damn mouth until you watch The Shield. ALL OF YOU, ALL! Only those that have seen The Shield can speak on these matters.
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not even a current TV show entirely irreverent to this conversation
and don't watch that video Jvig
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This place is about to get awfully quiet then.
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What is this, horseville? Because I'm surrounded by a bunch of naysayers.
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Shut your damn mouth until you watch The Shield. ALL OF YOU, ALL! Only those that have seen The Shield can speak on these matters.
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I need to finish making my way through Friends first. Much more important.
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"How's it going with that popey changey thing?"
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Please don't steal lines from my favorite comedy show without properly quoting it.
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