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Foxtel's (Australian Pay TV) online streaming services have crashed on the same day the seventh season of Game of Thrones was released on the platform. Foxtel confirmed its services — including Foxtel Now, Play and the Foxtel App — were down.
Some users said they were frustrated they had "tried to do the right thing" by paying for the streaming service, rather than downloading pirated versions. "At this point it's just easier to torrent Game of Thrones than do the right thing and get Foxtel to work ... just a joke," Luke Johnson posted on Twitter.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by hemocyanin on Tuesday July 18 2017, @04:58AM (1 child)
I became progressively more dissatisfied with GOT. It had an great start but by book 5, what a total slog. I'll wait until the whole thing is finished and read the wikipedia summary, or laugh like at all the suckers when Martin kicks the bucket without finishing the book but after introducing additional pointless story lines designed to sell future volumes that won't ever be completed, because his heart got sick of pumping blood through all that lard. Talk about milking something for all it's worth and ruining what could have been a good tale -- Martin is a real mother fucker. And if I ever watch it, ethically I could only do it via piracy (something I've not done since the very early 2000s).
(Score: 4, Informative) by Webweasel on Tuesday July 18 2017, @08:56AM
I gave up half way through the 5th book too. Martin seems to get bored with his characters, so either kills them off or forgets about them. You get little interesting bits (Like the Stark mum coming back to life) that are never followed up on, just a few pages then forgotten. In the 5th book he really got bored of all the characters, jumped to another Kingdom and I was several chapters in wondering who these people were, as I had no investment in the characters and the characters I wanted to know about he had just stopped writing about.
However the TV show is different. Season 3 seems to be a mix of the books from 3-5 all jumped around a bit and from then on the TV show is no longer following the books, so give it a watch. I guess the producers got tired of his shit too, so they start making their own story and ignore most of the later books. AFAICT anyway.
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