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Game of Thrones *NO BOOK SPOILERS* |OT| Season 3 - Sundays on HBO [Read the OP]

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Mashing

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Battle Born said:
Set 1 is awful. I think I prefer how Set 2 looks but I also like the Tully Cover from the third one.
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I do not like the Tully cover as there's no red in that cover (Tully sigil is Blue and Red).

With that said I like the 3rd set because it's different than the standard Stark/Lannister/Targaryen covers you usually see.
 
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kellycandthedragons

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Set three is not winning because people dont' care about tully, stannis, or tyrell. People are probably voting for the families they like, rather than the best looking/most unique covers.
Though I do like the direwolf for set two.
 
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Neki

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get to twitter people, we need #teamstannis to win the box set cover wars!

the true heir to the season 3 box sets, and rightful king of physical media!

am i doing it right
 
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lastplayed

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Greyjoy was the best cover.

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Chopper

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So pleased there's a thread for those not interested in reading the books.

I just blitzed all three seasons, having read nothing about it and staying WELL away from online resources. Literally just finished the last episode.

Oh my fucking God.
 
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Ogni-XR21

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Chopper said:
So pleased there's a thread for those not interested in reading the books.

I just blitzed all three seasons, having read nothing about it and staying WELL away from online resources. Literally just finished the last episode.

Oh my fucking God.
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Welcome to this thread. It's the only place I ever go GoT related.

Were you spoiled on anything before watching? Or were you lucky enough to not even be spoilered on S1 stuff?
 
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Chopper

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Ogni-XR21 said:
Welcome to this thread. It's the only place I ever go GoT related.

Were you spoiled on anything before watching? Or were you lucky enough to not even be spoilered on S1 stuff?
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I was lucky enough to have had nothing at all spoiled for me. My brain nearly melted with all the fuck.
 
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Vashetti

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Chopper said:
I was lucky enough to have had nothing at all spoiled for me. My brain nearly melted with all the fuck.
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That's amazing.

Care to detail your favourite parts/characters/anything?

Love hearing new people talk about their love for the show.

Edit: Oh shit new page.

#TeamDany
 
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gotoadgo

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In regards to the Blu Ray sets, I think I'll hold off on anything like that until the entire series is finished and it's all in one nice neat box. The second set of covers is definitely the best though.
 
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Junior Asparagus

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As long as no one votes for the first set, I'm ok. They better bust out the new sigils for Season 4 if Set 2 wins this time around though. The sigil covers are badass, so as long as there's an option to not have to repeat ones I bought before, I'll be happy.
 
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PhoenixDark

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rhfb said:
He has already read LOTR if you looked at the post. If anything the dad and/or mom should just buy their own copy and then they could read it together and have a discussion once a week or something.

Just glad my parents didn't care WHAT I was reading when I was in school as long as I WAS reading at all, probably why I still read to this day when so many adults stop as soon as it is no longer required of them.
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It said he read the LOTR books not The Hobbit though.

I'd also suggest Narnia. The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe and The Silver Chair specifically. Also A Wizard of Earthsea.
 
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Chopper

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Vashetti said:
That's amazing.

Care to detail your favourite parts/characters/anything?

Love hearing new people talk about their love for the show.

Edit: Oh shit new page.

#TeamDany
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Blimey, where do I start?! My favourite parts, of course, were the shocking event at the end of Baelor and the red wedding. I'm sure it's been said a thousand times, but I have never been so blown away by a TV show in my entire life. I consider the likes of 24 and Lost amongst my favourite shows ever, so am well used to plot twists, but I felt emotionally drained by the death of the Stark family in their respective scenes. My girlfriend and I sat with our jaws agape in complete silence, as tears rolled down our faces, for a good three minutes before we could even utter a word to each other in both cases. Shocking, incredible moments I won't ever forget. Cat's final scene will literally stay with me forever.

Otherwise, scenes I absolutely loved include the final shot of Season 1, with the dragons finally making there debut on a naked Khaleesi as the camera panned out. I marked out hard for that. Fortunately I knew so little about the show tha, the whole season I had been thinking "Oh my God, I hope those eggs are gonna hatch"! Tyrian's uprising during the battle against Stannis was wonderfully done too. I love that dude. And the removal of the Kingslayer's hand was pretty special too.

The Imp is probably my favourite character, but that's probably because he is the most "human" of them all. God of tits and wine indeed. Dany is fucking awesome, and I cannot wait for her to go full-on Dragon Queen on the battlefield whilst her children slay millions of Lannister men. I'm assuming that has to happen at some point. Cersei is terrifying and brilliantly portrayed. Arya is fantastic and her arc's been a hell of a ride. Her and the Hound are a formidable team! And I'm really not happy about starting to like Jamie Lannister. Dude looks a distracting amount like Sawyer from Lost, but otherwise he's a wicked character that I have thoroughly enjoyed hating up until his kind treatment of Brianne.

I could go on and on about how much I love this show, but my articulation definitely couldn't do it justice. I'm thirsty for knowledge now that I can safely Google "Game of Thrones". I need to find a resource that can clarify all the locations, houses and lords in my mind. I'm pretty sure I understood more or less everything, but I've spotted some conversations here in this thread where there are certain names I don't recognize, which I must amend.

I am now completely torn as to whether or not I want to read the books. :/

kellycandthedragons said:
Whatever you did to avoid spoilers, keep doing that. Run from here. Far, far away. It seems safe but it is not. There is only death here. Only death...
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Now that I've seen the show and can browse this thread, only now do I appreciate how lucky I have been. Luckily the Facebook friends who have mentioned it tend to be "OMG GoT is incredible!!!!" rather than "Fuck me, Ned Stark's dead.", so I cottoned on to the necessity to avoid info pretty early on.
 
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blainethemono

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Chopper said:
I could go on and on about how much I love this show, but my articulation definitely couldn't do it justice. I'm thirsty for knowledge now that I can safely Google "Game of Thrones". I need to find a resource that can clarify all the locations, houses and lords in my mind. I'm pretty sure I understood more or less everything, but I've spotted some conversations here in this thread where there are certain names I don't recognize, which I must amend.

I am now completely torn as to whether or not I want to read the books. :/


Now that I've seen the show and can browse this thread, only now do I appreciate how lucky I have been. Luckily the Facebook friends who have mentioned it tend to be "OMG GoT is incredible!!!!" rather than "Fuck me, Ned Stark's dead.", so I cottoned on to the necessity to avoid info pretty early on.
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You definitely still shouldn't google anything about GoT or character/house names. I think the best thing is to stick to the show-only wiki or PM one of the people listed in the OP if you have questions about stuff. Googling stuff will still end up spoiling things
 
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Chopper

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blainethemono said:
You definitely still shouldn't google anything about GoT or character/house names. I think the best thing is to stick to the show-only wiki or PM one of the people listed in the OP if you have questions about stuff. Googling stuff will still end up spoiling things
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Yeah. I meant Game of Thrones as in "the TV show" as opposed to the book series A Song of Ice and Fire. Game of Thrones is just the name of the first book, right? I won't Google anything silly.
 
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Chris R

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PhoenixPause said:
It said he read the LOTR books not The Hobbit though.

I'd also suggest Narnia. The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe and The Silver Chair specifically. Also A Wizard of Earthsea.
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The Hobbit is a child's book, same goes for Narnia (outside of maybe the final book that gets a little dark). LOTR is much closer to GoT in terms of what the reader's "level" should be to fully appreciate it.
 
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blainethemono

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Chopper said:
Yeah. I meant Game of Thrones as in "the TV show" as opposed to the book series A Song of Ice and Fire. Game of Thrones is just the name of the first book, right? I won't Google anything silly.
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Yeah, but even then you can potentially run into spoilers on the auto-complete or related searches results or whatever. Like if you google "Game of Thrones *name of house*" you can get fucked over pretty easily

Better just to not even risk it. This wikia is all show-only stuff so it should be safe

http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_Wiki

Also you should check out the animated histories/lore videos from the blu rays. They're all up on youtube http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFF586E36EFD74763
 
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PhoenixDark

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Chopper said:
I could go on and on about how much I love this show, but my articulation definitely couldn't do it justice. I'm thirsty for knowledge now that I can safely Google "Game of Thrones". I need to find a resource that can clarify all the locations, houses and lords in my mind. I'm pretty sure I understood more or less everything, but I've spotted some conversations here in this thread where there are certain names I don't recognize, which I must amend.

I am now completely torn as to whether or not I want to read the books. :/
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Actually that google search could definitely lead you to some huge spoilers. A lot of people use Tower Of The Hand for info, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it. The third season covered a little over half of the third book, meaning if you just look up that book you'll be hit with some big spoilers.

It seems like HBO's wiki for the show is safe. I just looked at Dany's page and it references lots of back story, but nothing that spoils future events. It's worth noting HBO's wiki is VERY different from the Westeros wiki, which includes spoilers for the book. So if you decide to look around, use HBO's instead of Westeros'.

For instance here's an article on House Stark. It mirrors the info on the Blu Ray discs, plus some more depth from the books (but no spoilers of current events).
http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/House_Stark
 
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El Daniel

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blainethemono said:
Yeah, but even then you can potentially run into spoilers on the auto-complete or related searches results or whatever. Like if you google "Game of Thrones *name of house*" you can get fucked over pretty easily

Better just to not even risk it. This wikia is all show-only stuff so it should be safe

http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_Wiki

Also you should check out the animated histories/lore videos from the blu rays. They're all up on youtube http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFF586E36EFD74763
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Voice-overs from King Robert are so good.
 
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Funky Papa

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Neil Marshall returns to direct S4

The wishes of the showrunners and fans alike have come true! Neil Marshall, who directed the stunning and pivotal Blackwater in season two, is returning to the show according to Empire Online. (SPOILER ALERT, do not follow the link if you have not read through A Storm of Swords!)

He will helm the final episode of season four. Given what he managed to accompilshed on such short notice in S2, we can expect quite a treat with enough planning ahead of time this year.

Hear Me Roar: Colour me excited! I guess we now know what will constitute episode 410. Remember to cover all your spoilers in the comments.
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Hell fucking yeah. WiC kind of implies that he may be directing a different episode, though. Something badass, I hope. Marshall has an eye for carnage and he can work the shit out of a budget, so I'm expecting great things.
 
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Steelyuhas

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Funky Papa said:
Aria and Sansa present...VINECEPTION.

Anyway, is this still the to-go thread for non-spoilery thangs regarding S4?
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Yes, but there won't be much non-spoiler news to post for a while.

There are a couple items though:
-Comic-Con Panel next Friday the 19th (should be free of spoilers, but I'd wait until a book reader watches and says it's safe just to be sure)
-[URL="http://winteriscoming.net/2013/07/breaking-down-the-thrones-actors-emmy-chances/"]WiC.net breaks down GoT actors chances at Emmy noms[/URL]
 
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kellycandthedragons

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Is it a spoiler to say that
Kristian Nairn says he's more excited than he's ever been for next season?
That sounds promising. My source is Game of Owns, which is a podcast that has two non-readers, so they don't spoil things. One of the book reader hosts is pretty annoying sometimes though, because the way he says things occasionally makes me feel like he's trying to lead us to conclusions. Definitely smug book reader vibe at times
 
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iNvid02

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this is what martin sees when he pictures the throne in his head

infinitely more bad ass than what we have i must say

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The image was painted by French artist Marc Simonetti, and is made, as Martin describes, from "thousands of swords."

"It's a throne made by blacksmiths hammering together half-melted, broken, twisted swords, wrenched from the hands of dead men or yielded up by defeated foe."

So what does Martin think of HBO's version of The Iron Throne? It's good, he reckons, but not quite good enough.

"The HBO throne has become iconic. And well it might. It's a terrific design, and it has served the show very well...everyone knows it. I love it. I have all those replicas right here, sitting on my shelves.And yet, and yet... it's still not right. It's not the Iron Throne I see when I'm working on (the forthcoming sixth Game of Thrones novel) The Winds of Winter. It's not the Iron Throne I want my readers to see. The way the throne is described in the books... HUGE, hulking, black and twisted, with the steep iron stairs in front, the high seat from which the king looks DOWN on everyone in the court... my throne is a hunched beast looming over the throne room, ugly and asymmetric...

The HBO throne is none of those things."

For good reason, it seems. Martin goes on to explain that if the above version were to appear on the popular HBO show, it would take an interior as big as St. Paul's Cathedral or Westminster Abbey to house it.
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Kave_Man

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Chopper said:
I was lucky enough to have had nothing at all spoiled for me. My brain nearly melted with all the fuck.
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Yes someone else to join with me.

I've done well to not be spoiled. Only thing I got spoiled on was in here with the whole Roose Bolton's bastard but otherwise seemed to always just miss under the radar spoiling.

I regularly only discuss the show in real life with people I know that aren't going to read the books.
 
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