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« Reply #600 on: June 04, 2012, 10:48:15 AM »
this thread  :rofl
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« Reply #601 on: June 04, 2012, 11:07:16 AM »
most of the complaints I've seen are just "it's not like the book therefore it's bad" but no effort is made to explain why it's bad other than "because it's not what was in the book"

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« Reply #602 on: June 04, 2012, 11:45:03 AM »
Jon is a fucking distinguished mentally-challenged fellow in the show and his storyline was butchered.

Arya an Twyinn scenes made no sense and her storyline in the show was terrible.

Danny lol.

Robb lol.

Asha was fugly and boring.

Direwolves are practically no existent.

Cat released the Kingslayer just because.

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An Other just ignoring Sam wtf!

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« Reply #603 on: June 04, 2012, 12:23:23 PM »
Jon is a fucking distinguished mentally-challenged fellow in the show and his storyline was butchered.

Arya an Twyinn scenes made no sense and her storyline in the show was terrible.

Danny lol.

Robb lol.

Asha was fugly and boring.

Direwolves are practically no existent.

Cat released the Kingslayer just because.

Ros.

An Other just ignoring Sam wtf!

The richest man of Qarth.

Is any of this supposed to mean anything if you haven't read the books/aren't demanding a completely, 100% faithful adaptation?

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« Reply #604 on: June 04, 2012, 02:05:03 PM »
Show defenders seem to be on a whole different level of fucking distinguished mentally-challenged, it seems. Thankfully, the books really are that good.

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« Reply #605 on: June 04, 2012, 02:20:57 PM »
Show defenders seem to be on a whole different level of fucking distinguished mentally-challenged, it seems. Thankfully, two books really are that good.

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« Reply #606 on: June 04, 2012, 02:50:50 PM »
i dont know this is how it happens in the book
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Daenerys stands before the House of the Undying, which appears no more than a ruin. Drogon is on her shoulder. Most of those with her, Ser Jorah, Jhogo, Aggo, and Xaro, tell her she should turn back, but she will not. Pyat Pree comes up to take her to the building. As they near the entrance, Pyat gives her some instructions. She must always take the door to her right, and if she comes to any stairs she must go up. She will see visions of the past and future as she climbs, and those that would speak to her from other rooms, but she must keep her path until she reaches the Undying themselves. At the door, a dwarf gives her a glass of shade of the evening to prepare her for the truths within. She enters with Drogon. As she goes through room after room, she begins to see visions through some of the open doors on her left. In one, a woman is being worked over by four men with rat-like faces. In another, she sees a room full of slaughtered corpses at a banquet, with a king with the head of a wolf on a throne.1 In the next room, Ser Willem beckons her to the house with the red door. Another door near the end of the hall reveals an old man with dark eyes and long, silver-grey hair on a barbed throne proclaiming to a man at the foot: "Let him be king over charred bones and cooked meat. Let him be the king of ashes."2 After several more doors, she sees a man that looks like Viserys, but taller and with eyes of a darker purple.3 He turns to a woman nursing a babe and names the child Aegon. The woman asks if he will write a song, and the man replies that "He has a song. He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire." He turns to Daenerys then, and almost seems to see her before adding "There must be one more; the dragon has three heads."4

At the end of the hall, Daenerys finds no door on her right and sees the torches going out behind her. She suddenly realizes that the last door on the left is also the first door on the right, and she steps through. After several more rooms, an apparition disguised as Pyat tries to lure her left, but she is not fooled. At the top of a staircase, she opens a door and sees a beautiful room full of people with perfect features. One of them says they are the Undying and bids her to enter. Drogon recoils, and Daenerys realizes there is actually a small door to the right. She flees and enters this one instead. She enters a gloomy room dominated by a long stone table above which floats a human heart, blue and corrupt. A voice hails her as mother of dragons. She can make out the Undying at the table. They are old, wizened, and blue. They appear dead, but just as she thinks that, the voice calls again and says they live. They call her "child of three" and give several foretellings based on that theme. They say she will light three fires: "one for life and one for death and one to love."5 They say she will ride three mounts: "one to bed and one to dread and one to love."6 Finally, they say that she will know three treasons: "once for blood and once for gold and once for love."7 Next, a series of visions come to her faster and faster: Viserys covered in molten gold, her stillborn son Rhaego as a man with a burning city behind him, Rhaegar dying on the Trident, Stannis holding aloft a flaming sword but casting no shadow, a cloth dragon swaying on poles amidst a cheering crowd, a great stone beast taking wing from a smoking tower, Silver riding towards a stream beneath a sea of stars, a corpse with bright eyes and gray lips smiling sadly on the prow of a ship, a blue flower growing in a chink of ice,8 Mirri Maz Duur performing her shadow magic, a young Daenerys outside the house with the red door, Mirri Maz Duur dying as Daenerys's dragons hatch, a bloody corpse naked bound and dragged behind Silver, a white lion running through grass taller than a man,9 a line of naked crones coming out of a great lake and kneeling before her,10 ten thousand slaves reaching out to touch her and crying "mother" as she rides past.11 Suddenly, Daenerys realizes that the Undying are all around her touching, clawing, and biting. She cannot move. Drogon belches forth flame and soon the whole room is ablaze. Daenerys runs out of the room and down a long hallway which finally ends in a door leading outside. Pyat Pree is there gibbering in a strange tongue. He lunges with a knife, but Drogon flies at his face. Jhogo and Rakharo subdue him as Ser Jorah comes to Daenerys's aid.
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that sounds alot better and make more sense than what actually happened in teh show.
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« Reply #607 on: June 04, 2012, 02:53:33 PM »
I'm not a book purist so I won't waste anyone's time with a long bitch list. I'd just ask two questions: were Arya or Jon's arcs in the show better than they were in the book? And I'd rest my case. The show pretty much ruined perhaps the best POV segment in the series (Arya's in ACOK) for no reason I can comprehend. A few changes were budget issues and I'm fine with that, but I'm talking about specific narrative and character changes that have nothing to do with money or time.

On The House Of the Undying: the visual medium is quite different from the written one, and some things that work in books may not work in films (and vise versa); that segment is one of them. A strict adaptation of that scene might have spoiled some things because the imagery/visions might be too heavy handed. That being said, I am bummed that they didn't try to add even a hint of subtlety for new viewers to ponder over. For instance, what if Dany walked up to the Iron Throne and saw [this doesn't happen in the book, but I'll spoiler tag it anyway just in case]:
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an infant wrapped in black cloth.
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Lost was popular in part because fans were able to debate theories and nonsense for years. It kind of sucks new viewers can't have their own community where they ponder theories, prophesies, etc.


Oh well. S1 and S2 featured a lot of shovel work, lots of building and plotting (and people talking about what they were going to do). S3 will feature some of that, but overall the pace should be significantly faster. The Night's Watch won't be wandering around for a couple episodes with nothing to do - they're about to get attacked, as everyone saw in the finale. Tyrion has awakened to a dangerous new world. Bran is on the run for his life. Theon...yeah. Dany started this season as a naive girl and ended as a warrior queen, which carries into next season. Etc. There will be a ton of new characters, but I'd imagine every nearly every episode will be eventful.
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« Reply #608 on: June 04, 2012, 02:57:36 PM »
it felt like there was a episode misisng here becuase the way it ended it didn't really feel like a finale. breanne and kingslayer walk down a road. the hound disappears. sansa goes around the corner after she gets dumped. master luwin dies . nothing happened rly
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« Reply #609 on: June 04, 2012, 03:06:32 PM »
it felt like there was a episode misisng here becuase the way it ended it didn't really feel like a finale. breanne and kingslayer walk down a road. the hound disappears. sansa goes around the corner after she gets dumped. master luwin dies . nothing happened rly

Question specifically for you, since you read the HOTU segment:
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(I'll preface by saying the vision doesn't specifically say she saw Stannis, just a king with blue eyes who cast no shadow, waving a bright red sword. Most people believe it's Stannis)

In terms of the specific visions of events she sees, what do you think? Some might not make much impact on you because they discuss characters who haven't been discussed much in the show.

While I would have nixed the visions for the show as well, I do think Dany should have been told of the three mounts, three betrayals, and three lies. At least that would give new viewers something to think about
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« Reply #610 on: June 04, 2012, 03:17:36 PM »
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ya the three mounts three lies stuff would've added alot and set up the show, I thought the visions in the show was kinda lame especially when it was just Drogo. they really shouldve got Aegon etc in there. i dont feel like anything in the shows version set up anything just a "heres a dream where what wouldve happened if everytrhing went right"
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« Reply #611 on: June 04, 2012, 03:25:41 PM »
this is what i think one by one:

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In one, a woman is being worked over by four men with rat-like faces. In another, she sees a room full of slaughtered corpses at a banquet, with a king with the head of a wolf on a throne.1 In the next room, Ser Willem beckons her to the house with the red door. Another door near the end of the hall reveals an old man with dark eyes and long, silver-grey hair on a barbed throne proclaiming to a man at the foot: "Let him be king over charred bones and cooked meat. Let him be the king of ashes."2 After several more doors, she sees a man that looks like Viserys, but taller and with eyes of a darker purple.3 He turns to a woman nursing a babe and names the child Aegon. The woman asks if he will write a song, and the man replies that "He has a song. He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire." He turns to Daenerys then, and almost seems to see her before adding "There must be one more; the dragon has three heads."4

1. Women with rat like faces not sure. some rape maybe dunno
2. room full of  slaughtered corpses at banquet with head of a wolf on a throne maybe stannis on the throne in winterfell or something? i can see how if they showed too much of this one it'd spoil it
3. Not sure about king of ashes stuff
4. Viserys vision I guess was the birth of Aegon but he's barely been talked about in the show


. She flees and enters this one instead. She enters a gloomy room dominated by a long stone table above which floats a human heart, blue and corrupt. A voice hails her as mother of dragons. She can make out the Undying at the table. They are old, wizened, and blue. They appear dead, but just as she thinks that, the voice calls again and says they live. They call her "child of three" and give several foretellings based on that theme. They say she will light three fires: "one for life and one for death and one to love."5 They say she will ride three mounts: "one to bed and one to dread and one to love."6 Finally, they say that she will know three treasons: "once for blood and once for gold and once for love."

1. three fires one is drogo pyre the other two i dunno maybe when she burns westeros with the dragons for death and maybe at one point she has to kill jorah
2. three mounts, one is drogo, one to dread did she ever have to fuk her brother i forget his name
3. three treasons one would be the blood magic to keep drogo alive?
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youre right tho even that last part would've made the scene 100% more interesting and encourage theories
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« Reply #612 on: June 04, 2012, 03:36:51 PM »
Exactly, just that part would have worked. I'm fine with leaving the more specific visions out, but Dany is given some important information that new viewers would have appreciated.

One specific thing about your comment (no worries, nothing spoilery for you):
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The person she sees as an older Viserys is Rhaegar, her older brother. He's playing a sad song with his harp, and tells the woman cradling their baby that he is the Prince That Was Promised, but there must be another. The show hasn't discussed Rhaegar at all, which I find baffling. S1 would have been the perfect time to talk about him, and that alone would have generated some interesting discussions among non-book readers. Interestingly in the book, Rhaegar is considered as quite honorable and mythic by everyone except Robert.
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« Reply #613 on: June 04, 2012, 03:45:13 PM »
I think i would've liked Jorah coming in and saving her instead of a warlock being killed by fire by baby dragons.

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why didn't they have ser barristan like they did in teh books
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« Reply #614 on: June 04, 2012, 03:46:45 PM »
You know where he's heading? I'd suggest some caution, it's easy to stumble across big spoilers while looking for little stuff

That character will be back next season
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« Reply #615 on: June 04, 2012, 03:51:03 PM »
I just read a spoiler i guess about what he does in book two was expecting it to happen this episode oh well. will start reading book 3 soon. guessing we won't see the show back until next spring :(
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« Reply #616 on: June 04, 2012, 03:53:05 PM »

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« Reply #617 on: June 04, 2012, 05:22:09 PM »
Show defenders seem to be on a whole different level of fucking distinguished mentally-challenged, it seems. Thankfully, two books really are that good.

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« Reply #618 on: June 04, 2012, 07:36:35 PM »
CoK, FFC, and DWD are all middling to unbearable.
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« Reply #619 on: June 04, 2012, 08:39:18 PM »
Show defenders seem to be on a whole different level of fucking distinguished mentally-challenged, it seems. Thankfully, two books really are that good.

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« Reply #620 on: June 04, 2012, 08:58:15 PM »
CoK, FFC, and DWD are all middling to unbearable.

Clash of Kings was better than Game of Thrones though?  Heck, I think it's better written than a good chunk of Storm of Swords (though SoS has more major events for people who want more stuff happening). 

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« Reply #621 on: June 04, 2012, 09:47:50 PM »
Storm of Swords is my favorite because of the events that you know of, and I think the tension built between all the shit that goes down is very interesting.  Bran's chapters were the only ones I was meh on.
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« Reply #622 on: June 04, 2012, 09:58:20 PM »
For me, ASOS > ACOK > AGOT.  Felt that it kept getting better as it went along.  My main criticism of ASOS and why I don't "love" it, is that it feels really rushed in the last 400 or so pages.  I like how ACOK had some room to breathe and really develop the characters with lots of great dialogues and internal monologues.  My only complaint about ACOK is that Arya's story is like 35-40% of the pages, and while it's a good tale, it's very long winded.

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« Reply #623 on: June 04, 2012, 11:40:26 PM »
Clash is amazing BN is wrong as usual.
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« Reply #624 on: June 05, 2012, 12:45:58 AM »
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Season two finale tops 4mil viewers, sets new series high

After weeks of hovering just under the 4 million viewers mark for the initial airing, Game of Thrones finally broke through in a big way. James Hibberd reports that last night’s season finale attracted 4.2 million viewers for the initial airing and 5.1 million total!

In related news, Hibberd also reported last night that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have signed on for two more seasons, meaning they are under contract up through season four, provided HBO orders a season four (which, at this point, they would be crazy not to do).

Winter Is Coming: Nice! Looks like that dip last week was simply due to the holiday and not any indication of a downward trend. Cannot wait to see what the numbers look like for the season three premiere.
http://winteriscoming.net/2012/06/season-two-finale-tops-4mil-viewers-sets-new-series-high/

Total views among all platforms per week is currently at 10.4 million, making GoT the third most popular HBO show in its history (behind True Blood and The Sopranos).

I don't expect the show to surpass True Blood simply because it doesn't have a firm enough pull on the female demographic like that show has. From what I understand, True Blood's ratings among women went through the roof in S2 due to the addition of a popular character who turned into a major draw among females. Thrones doesn't really have that, and S3 most likely won't either.

Although hopefully my man crush Oded Fehr gets a role as the boss of bosses, Oberyn Martell (The Viper)

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« Reply #625 on: June 05, 2012, 01:54:58 AM »
CoK, FFC, and DWD are all middling to unbearable.
Not even close. CoK is probably the weakest of the three, but AFFC and ADWD have fantastic prose and set up a lot of great things to come.

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« Reply #626 on: June 05, 2012, 01:56:31 AM »
Not going to lie, really didnt like that final ep, it was all over the damn place

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« Reply #627 on: June 05, 2012, 01:57:20 AM »
>>fantastic prose
>>AFFC

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« Reply #628 on: June 05, 2012, 03:17:11 AM »
>>fantastic prose
>>AFFC

yep, we're done here.

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« Reply #629 on: June 05, 2012, 04:00:38 AM »
>>fantastic prose
>>AFFC

yep, we're done here.

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"Is a broken man an outlaw?

There are many sorts of outlaws, just as there are many sorts of birds. A sandpiper and a sea eagle both have wings, but they are not the same. The singers love to sing of good men forced to go outside the law to fight some wicked lord, but most outlaws are more like this ravening Hound than they are the lightning lord. They are evil men, driven by greed, soured by malice, despising the gods and caring only for themselves.

Broken men are more deserving of our pity, though they may be just as dangerous. Almost all are common-born, simple folk who had never been more than a mile from the house where they were born until the day some lord came round to take them off to war. Poorly shod and poorly clad, they march away beneath his banners, ofttimes with no better arms than a sickle or a sharpened hoe, or a maul they made themselves by lashing a stone to a stick with strips of hide. Brothers march with brothers, sons with fathers, friends with friends. They’ve heard the songs and stories, so they go off with eager hearts, dreaming of the wonders they will see, of the wealth and glory they will win. War seems a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know.


Then they get a taste of battle.


For some, that one taste is enough to break them. Others go on for years, until they lose count of all the battles they have fought in, but even a man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred-and-first. Brothers watch their brothers die, fathers lose their sons, friends see their friends trying to hold their entrails in after they’ve been gutted by an axe.


They see the lord who led them there cut down, and some other lord shouts that they are his now. They take a wound, and when that’s still half-healed they take another. There is never enough to eat, their shoes fall to pieces from the marching, their clothes are torn and rotting, and half of them are shitting in their breeches from drinking bad water.

If they want new boots or a warmer cloak or maybe a rusted iron halfhelm, they need to take them from a corpse, and before long they are stealing from the living too, from the smallfolk whose lands they’re fighting in, men very like the men they used to be. They slaughter their sheep and steal their chickens, and from there it’s just a short step to carrying off their daughters too. And one day they look around and realize all their friends and kin are gone, that they are fighting beside strangers beneath a banner that they hardly recognize.

They don’t know where they are or how to get back home and the lord they’re fighting for does not know their names, yet here he comes, shouting for them to form up, to make a line with their spears and scythes and sharpened hoes, to stand their ground. And the knights come down on them, faceless men clad all in steel, and the iron thunder of their charge seems to fill the world …


And the man breaks."

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« Reply #630 on: June 05, 2012, 04:28:23 AM »
I see no point in letting yourself be trolled. AFFC is the best written book in the series but it's not hard to see why most non fans and some fans didn't like it. I love it, and haven't heard a good argument against it. Can we discuss the show now?
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« Reply #631 on: June 05, 2012, 07:31:43 AM »
Feast and Dance are amazing, BN and Old Man must have the taste of a distinguished mentally-challenged monkey if they thing the shit we saw this season was better than those books.
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« Reply #632 on: June 05, 2012, 02:41:52 PM »
Feast and Dance are amazing, BN and Old Man must have the taste of a distinguished mentally-challenged monkey if they thing the shit we saw this season was better than those books.

This is what happens when you drink the water in 3rd world countries, people.  Your literary taste goes straight to hell.
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« Reply #634 on: June 05, 2012, 04:03:48 PM »
Feast and Dance are amazing, BN and Old Man must have the taste of a distinguished mentally-challenged monkey if they thing the shit we saw this season was better than those books.

This is what happens when you drink the water in 3rd world countries, people.  Your literary taste goes straight to hell.
Stop drinking their water, then.

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« Reply #635 on: June 05, 2012, 04:16:34 PM »
I am enjoying AFFC fwiw

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« Reply #636 on: June 05, 2012, 06:05:44 PM »
I am enjoying AFFC fwiw

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« Reply #637 on: June 05, 2012, 06:13:49 PM »
I am enjoying AFFC fwiw
Good to hear, it's a good book.

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« Reply #638 on: June 05, 2012, 08:52:16 PM »
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« Reply #639 on: June 05, 2012, 11:44:26 PM »
Some was good, some was not it was the stronger plotline of the season but not nearly as good as in the book.

Alfie deserve the nominations not peter.
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« Reply #640 on: June 05, 2012, 11:50:09 PM »
Alfie suffers from having a bit of a ridiculous face lol, but he did a great job this season. Whereas Dinklage kind of dropped the ball with the two emotional scenes he got
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« Reply #641 on: June 06, 2012, 12:08:18 AM »
Huh? He absolutely nailed his last scene of the season with Shae. Absolutely. Nailed it.

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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #642 on: June 06, 2012, 01:05:31 AM »
Shit, I agree with zephyrfate about something.
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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #643 on: June 06, 2012, 02:41:46 AM »
Eh you're right, perhaps my opinion is being clouded by Shae being there. Still, it didn't strike me as amazing. And of course the "I would kill for you" scene a few episodes ago was weak.
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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #644 on: June 06, 2012, 06:59:14 AM »
Eh you're right, perhaps my opinion is being clouded by Shae being there. Still, it didn't strike me as amazing. And of course the "I would kill for you" scene a few episodes ago was weak.

Pretty much anything Tyrion related that has had him playing the game this season was top notch, though.  Are you forgetting the episode where he played Varys, Littlefinger and Pycelle to find Cersei's mole?  Any of his interactions with Cersei were really good too. 

In fact, Lena whatshername seems to be finding Cersei's character more and more- been progressively impressed with her this season.
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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #645 on: June 06, 2012, 01:21:50 PM »
I'm not saying he wasn't impressive, just that he seems one note-ish. Of course he excells at scenes where he plays the game; the performance is quite focused in swagger, wit, etc. But he isn't given much emotional stuff to work wit, and he was disappointing in his first emotional scene of the season

I forgot to mention he was great during the battle speech. You could see him convincing himself of what he was going to do, then convincing the soldiers slowly; it was just a perfect scene of emotion

You're right about Headley, she improved a lot. I think part of it is that she's very comfortable with Dinklage, and she also had been given some interesting material this season
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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #646 on: June 06, 2012, 01:47:32 PM »
Agreed that Alfie deserves the awards for his work this year. Dinklage was great, but I kind of agree with PD in that he was one note, but that's not Dinklage's fault, but the writing itself. Tyrion would usually appear for like 30 seconds to a minute in most episodes, and he'd be using the same snark he had the last time we had him. Which, while great, didn't really show us the range we know Dinklage is capable of. That said, he was great in his final scene of the season AND the during speech and entire set of battles at Black Gate.

Cersei stepped up her acting chops.

Arya stepped up her acting.

But I think Theon was the standout.
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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #647 on: June 06, 2012, 05:06:14 PM »
You're right, Theon's another standout. The actor playing him has really managed to sell the character.

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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #648 on: July 13, 2012, 06:25:19 PM »


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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #649 on: July 13, 2012, 06:29:13 PM »
Hey it's Gareth from The Office...he looks like shit now
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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #650 on: July 13, 2012, 06:57:25 PM »
The actors they got for Jojen and Thoros are spot on.
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« Reply #651 on: July 13, 2012, 07:46:22 PM »
Hey it's Gareth from The Office...he looks like shit now
I thought pot noodle and a wank too.

I'd copy and paste my intense feelings of GRRM, but fans, it's a simple click on my name and bathe in the soft waterfall of conciousness. And so much better than Vengenace, oh my god.
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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #652 on: July 13, 2012, 09:10:22 PM »
holy shit Kristofer Hivju is going to play Tormund Giantsbane  :o :o :o


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wow he looks perfect
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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #653 on: July 14, 2012, 04:27:36 AM »
It's not better than Vengeance.

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« Reply #654 on: July 14, 2012, 06:35:04 AM »
Coming from anyone else I'd argue bias, but not you ZephyrFate.
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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #655 on: July 14, 2012, 12:51:52 PM »


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Reeds are in, nerds can stop suiciding

During that old The Avengers show, I always wanted to see Ms. Peel nekkid.


Note to show-runners: I no longer need to see Diana Rigg nekkid. KEEP HER CLOTHES ON, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #656 on: July 14, 2012, 01:22:11 PM »
Rest of casting news, including Tobias Menzies (Brutus from Rome) as Edmure Tully
http://winteriscoming.net/2012/07/season-three-casting-announced/#more-19314

Mance Rayder hasn't been cast yet. Can't wait to see who gets the role. Hopefully someone from Rome as well
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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #657 on: July 15, 2012, 12:35:45 PM »
Rest of casting news, including Tobias Menzies (Brutus from Rome) as Edmure Tully
http://winteriscoming.net/2012/07/season-three-casting-announced/#more-19314

Mance Rayder hasn't been cast yet. Can't wait to see who gets the role. Hopefully someone from Rome as well

Tobias Menzies, oh man he was fantastic in Rome. The only thing that saddens me about this series is that there are so many characters that we can't really spend a good amount of time with certain characters (especially auxiliary ones like Edmure).
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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #658 on: July 15, 2012, 12:48:48 PM »
Brutus always made me laugh in Rome, it just seemed like he was always involved in some cowardly scheme :lol

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Re: Game Of Thrones S2 (HBO, 9PM EST) thread
« Reply #659 on: July 15, 2012, 01:16:39 PM »
Rest of casting news, including Tobias Menzies (Brutus from Rome) as Edmure Tully
http://winteriscoming.net/2012/07/season-three-casting-announced/#more-19314

Mance Rayder hasn't been cast yet. Can't wait to see who gets the role. Hopefully someone from Rome as well

Tobias Menzies, oh man he was fantastic in Rome. The only thing that saddens me about this series is that there are so many characters that we can't really spend a good amount of time with certain characters (especially auxiliary ones like Edmure).

Agreed. While this season will introduce more appealing characters - at least from the perspective of new fans - they're likely to not get enough scenes given the time constraints. Which makes me even more upset that Ros is still getting 15-20m a season that could have been spent elsewhere...

Stannis and Davos are two of my favorite characters, but I think many new fans weren't particularly into them or invested in their story. Whereas I think new fans will likely dig the Reeds, the Queen of Thrones, Torrhen Giantsbane etc.
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