Mean Emmy Tweets: Game of Thrones Edition. Also, did the Zeigen deserve all its awards? 

dominated the 67th Annual Emmy Awards Sunday night. HBO’s flagship program

shattered the previous record of nine Emmys in one night (held by

) on its way to picking up 12 trophies. Emmys, as it turns out, weren’t the only thing

was gathering during last night’s ceremonies, as angry fans of

, and other shows took to Twitter to express their anger over 

 sweeping the show. And, thanks to some inspiration from

, I scoured the Twitterverse for some of the more insane and hilariously awful tweets from last night.

Warning: some of these tweets are definitely NSFW, but they are absolutely hilarious, as these people are taking an awards show that means nothing very, very seriously. First up, we have a very succinct tweet from @Optigrab. Mr. Grab feels that

was a show that had nothing at all to do with “boners and boobs,” because Don Draper was a saint that never strayed from his

marriages. Also, I would like to take this time to point out that

This is Ayana. Ayana feels the more question marks one uses, the better chance one has of getting one’s point across. Plus, this is the internet, so proper punctuation be damned! I’m sorry Ayana, but you lost me at “recalling the wisdom of ron swanson.” Your argument is now forever invalid, good day.

I wouldn’t call any episode in either half of that last season of

“amazing.” However, Lindsay is probably right, Cersei is more than likely drunk, somewhere.

Ah yes, the conspiracy theorists were out in full force, Sunday night.

would like to have a word with you. (

also, let’s not forget that two Game of Thrones actresses were nominated for Best Supporting Actress but still lost to Uzo Aduba—it happens.

I like this next tweet because Mrs. Van used a meme to express her dissatisfaction.

And here we have the Social Justice Internet Warrior Club reuniting for one night only, to help bring awareness to the world wide web that

is evil. You may remember the SJIWC— they’re the ones who swore off watching the show ever again after Sansa’s wedding night. Josh seems to be the only voice of reason here.

Season 3 became all about how much the producers could shock the audience. “Oh, you think cunnilingus in a shower while snorting crack off of a hair clog in the drain is shocking? Wait till you see what we have in store for you!”

are on the phone, they want to have a talk with you. They can’t do anything about the dragons, but…

And finally, we come to Deion. You see, Deion is my most favorite person on the internet, and here’s why. Because f@*k books, that’s why. Deion doesn’t have time for your fancy letters and book learnin’ because Deion is a straight badass. Although, I’m not so sure Deion has a fixed grasp in reality, if he thinks watching

Now it is Dan Selcke writing things. I was going to do a separate post on this, but thought it would go well with David’s collection of hate above. Basically, I want to pose a question: did 

was so handsomely rewarded last night, but it hasn’t been lost on people that the show is finally winning Emmys for a season many thought was the weakest in its history. We don’t need to go over the reasons 

Season 5 has been criticized, but we will: not enough context for the Faith Militant, rushing through Stannis’ downfall, altering Sansa’s story in distressing ways, telegraphing Jon Snow’s death, and pretty much everything that happened in Dorne. It was a bit of a bumpy ride.

So why the pile of rewards? Is Season 5 better than we thought? Is this an apology for passing 

over in earlier seasons? Did the absence of a strong competitor like 

sweep very likely had something to do with a change in the Emmy voting rules. This year, voting was open to a much larger portion of the Academy membership, and there were no controls put in place to ensure that voters watched all of the submitted episodes. If this were an ordinary year, the win for Best Drama might have gone to 

, a critical darling finishing up its final year—Emmy voters have a history of giving awards to beloved shows after their final seasons have wrapped, regardless of whether those seasons were the shows’ best. This year, however, the vastly increased voter base worked in 

favor, as far more voters were likely to have been fans of 

was more popular than the competition, not necessarily better. If that is indeed what happened, it kind of devalues the whole notion of awards, but as Ron Swanson says (and shame on David for questioning the wisdom of Ron Swanson), “Awards are stupid.”

combined, and it didn’t even get nominated for a primetime Emmy this year. Clearly, popularity isn’t the only thing at work here, and the fact that 

received awards on the back of a rule change that put more emphasis on the popularity shouldn’t diminish the winners’ accomplishments. David Benioff, Dan Weiss, David Nutter, and Peter Dinklage put on a fine show, warts and all, and have earned the acknowledgement of their peers.

won the Best Drama award in 2005, but it didn’t sweep the awards like this). The television elite have well and truly accepted 

, an aggressively fantastical series, as prestige programming, which can only bode well for the genre.

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Preach it Razor! Not a single thing you wrote that I disagree with

I happy to see GOT won all those awards. To me it makes up for them getting shitted on by the emmys for season 2, when Peter Dinklage should have won for blackwater.

You see it with fanatic eyes. “Oh, this people are hatin on my beloved favorite show when it won all this awards! They are muurons who dont know a shit!”. Well, look at the facts. It was a very weak season where they deviated from the books in a very badwritten way, with lots of plotholes and contradictory character development. It’s nor credible that this one was the season deserving all this awards. It’s simply not. And im not even mentioning your answer to those critizising sansa’s rape, cause if you think it was necessary to write that scene or that “that’s how it was back then” then you need to either grab a history book and/or start analyzing your own views on rape culture.

I think the show got Executive Meddlinged towards pure shock value, the only thing they care about now, is give every year “the most shocking season ever in tv”. And that just can’t be good tv/writing

I think the Lindelof article on EW really goes a long way in explaining GOT’s success.

It isn’t the weak parts of a season that people should focus on (every show has expostion and setup) it is the payoffs and GOT has more payoffs in a season then any other show on TV.

I agree with Lindelof that the end of Harhome with the silence was some of the best TV EVER.

Most people just look at the show as the show. They haven’t read the books like most of us and they do not compare or contrast. Regardless of the storyline direction or how we as uber fans received it, it is still amazing. The absolute worst episode of Game of Thrones is still in the upper echelon of television entertainment. There is no way that GoT can be compared to Mad Men or any other show for that matter. Because it stands alone.

Of course there are these ridiculous comments, “looks like rape had a great night”, get serious. This show isn’t about rape, murder, magic, it is about people. How power corrupts people and the striving to get power corrupts people. How people vie for position, for themselves, for their family. It is about how blurry the lines are between good and bad people, good and evil. Forget the costumes and the magic; you can relate most story lines in this series to our world today. Men are getting their dicks chopped off somewhere in the world. People are being tortured somewhere in the world. It is a story about people.

“Rape and murder had a great night”, fuck you, moron.

On the other hand, The Walking Dead is more popular than Game of Thrones and Mad Men combined, and it didn’t even get nominated for a primetime Emmy this year.

TWD has more viewers on AMC, but AMC is not a premium cable network like HBO, and it reaches almost 3 times as many households. You can’t simply measure popularity based on official viewership numbers, because many people watch these shows illegally (downloads, torrents, etc. GOT has more torrent downloads than any other TV show). If you compare these shows in terms of worldwide popularity, I’m convinced that GOT is better known and more popular.

yes first of all none of these awards shows mean anything at all I haven’t watched the other shows that people were rooting for but could they have deserved it more than this season of Game of Thrones ? probably yes. because we know that this was not Game of Thrones greatest.

these awards are never Fair so basically they gave them to Game of Thrones this year to make up for the fact that they didn’t give them what they deserved in the previous years.

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