Basileus777
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Hasn't the idea of them filming two seasons back-to-back pretty much been debunked? We might get more than 10 episodes for season 3, but that's it.
Some stills/gifs:
Back in our day, you weren't a real man until you fucked one girl from each of the Seven Kingdoms and the Riverlands. We used to call it "Making the Eight".how many bastard children did Robert have?
season 2 started out great, glad that the show is back
just how many bastard children did Robert have?
Thing is, aren't the Riverlands one of the Seven Kingdoms? I think they meant to say "the Crownlands".
The North (Stark), The Vale (Arryn), The Westerlands (Lannister), The Stormlands (Baratheon), The Reach (Tyrell), Dorne (Martell), and... the Riverlands (Tully), right?
Thing is, aren't the Riverlands one of the Seven Kingdoms? I think they meant to say "the Crownlands".
The North (Stark), The Vale (Arryn), The Westerlands (Lannister), The Stormlands (Baratheon), The Reach (Tyrell), Dorne (Martell), and... the Riverlands (Tully), right?
The Kingdom of the North, Kingdom of the Vale, Kingdom of the Isles and Rivers, Kingdom of the Rock, Kingdom of the Reach, Kingdom of the Stormlands and Kingdom of Dorne.
Yeah, I made them, post them wherever you like, you can use my forum name.These are awesome. I love these kind of subtle animated gifs. Did you make these? I wanna post them to my Tumblr. How would you like to be attributed?
Yes, but clearly label the spoiler as EP2 related.Can we talk about the second episode in here if it's spoiler tagged?
Ep.12 and ACOK spoiler/question:Does Mel foreshadow Mathos' death by telling him 'death by fire is the purest death"?
I didn't notice anything, but a couple people in the thread have mentioned that.Btw, did they change the opening theme for the show? Is it a slightly different arrangement? It doesn't sound right.
I didn't notice anything, but a couple people in the thread have mentioned that.
I didn't notice anything, but a couple people in the thread have mentioned that.
Pretty sure the intro is longer.
It definitely doesn't have as nice of a flow like the S1 had.
They need to ditch the Vaes Dothrak sections, imo. Too long.
Pretty sure the intro is longer.
It definitely doesn't have as nice of a flow like the S1 had.
They need to ditch the Vaes Dothrak sections, imo. Too long.
They are making the introductions really short now. Pyke is like 5 seconds.
Their idea of it "orienting the viewer" I don't think ever helped me personally.
They need to keep things zoomed out and all that shit if they're going to do it properly.
Too many sweeping camera moves.
Awesome to see the beginning of season 2 start with my favorite minor character, the Hound. Mace to face action .
Joffrey continuing to be the little shithead that everyone hates, the actor plays that part too well.
Love how Petyr just outplayed Cersei and the best she could do is abuse the power she didn't even earn. Even though he betrayed Ned Stark I think he deserves the throne more than any other person in king's landing.
Jon's story is my favorite in the series. Awesome start in that area.
Don't care for Daenerys or Bran's story.
They could have introduced Stannis/Melisandre better. It's easier to understand what's going on in the book because Stannis is referenced a few times in the first book. Melisandre's actor is so beautiful. Love the glowing necklace, I was hoping they would use that from the book.
Also don't care for the random sex scenes. They don't add anything to the story and the loud moaning that comes all of the sudden is really unnecessary. The renly/tyrell scene from season 1 was ok because it revealed something about major characters.
[ADwD]I'm really interested in seeing what sub plots they are keeping. Wonder if Sandor/Sansa thing will still be going on. The opening scene implies that, a long with the scene from last season where he stopped her from pushing joff over the edge. Also wondering if they'll do the shadow baby, which I never completely understood. Is it implying that stannis is making these babies with melisandre? I seem to get that hint, a long the same lines as Loras and Renly being gay.
ACOK spoilers[ADwD]I'm really interested in seeing what sub plots they are keeping. Wonder if Sandor/Sansa thing will still be going on. The opening scene implies that, a long with the scene from last season where he stopped her from pushing joff over the edge. Also wondering if they'll do the shadow baby, which I never completely understood. Is it implying that stannis is making these babies with melisandre? I seem to get that hint, a long the same lines as Loras and Renly being gay.
more ACOK spoilerACOK spoilersShadowbaby is happening. Catelyn's actress commented about filming a scene with a ton of special effects.
Only real complaint I have is the Ros/Littlefinger scene. Haven't we established enough times that Littlefinger is only in it for himself and is generally a pretty bad guy? Scene felt totally unnecessary, and Ros is useless. (That's coming from someone that actually thought her arc made decent sense for expanding Theon in the first season.)
I think they are overdoing it with Littlefinger.. In the books, you know something is wrong about that guy, he's a minor player in the beginning, until later you find out that he's a BIG player and major schemer with a hand/finger in most of the major "incidents" in the whole story...
In my opinion they are already establishing him as an evil SOB and that's gonna lessen the impact of some of the later reveals...
I think they are overdoing it with Littlefinger.. In the books, you know something is wrong about that guy, he's a minor player in the beginning, until later you find out that he's a BIG player and major schemer with a hand/finger in most of the major "incidents" in the whole story...
In my opinion they are already establishing him as an evil SOB and that's gonna lessen the impact of some of the later reveals...
What impact? His lack of character was already known from the events of book 1.
ACOK/ep2For me it's more about just repetitive scenes that keep making the same point about him. We have to hammer home a point about Littlefinger that's already been made several times and we don't get a single Robb or Bran scene? I'm nitpicking, but it is really the only thing that D+D have done with the show that annoys me quite a bit.
Storm of Swords spoiler;
Sansa learns that Littlefinger instructed Lysa to poison her husband Jon Arryn and blame the Lannisters for the crime, which is a catalyst to the events of A Game of Thrones.
I would say that's a pretty big impact on the reader, I mean I always thought whilest reading he was an annoying, evil little bastard, but having revealed that indirectly he's the instigator for the whole "war of the five kings" is a pretty big thing if you ask me
Butnone of that has been revealed in the show. Some of that might be even less apparent because they cut out some stuff dealing with the dagger and Tyrion in season 1.
They definitely did remix it a smidge. It's a little more drawn out in parts and a choral bit closes out the map now.
Also, about <ep2>i don't remember Stannis fucking Melisandre in the books... and so, does it seem out-of-character for Stannis, considering his borderline absurd obsession with justice and honor? "The right way of things" wouldn't be cheating on his wife. Seemed a bad change...just like Littlefinger being stupid enough to openly challenge Cersei.
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Also, about <ep2>i don't remember Stannis fucking Melisandre in the books... and so, does it seem out-of-character for Stannis, considering his borderline absurd obsession with justice and honor? "The right way of things" wouldn't be cheating on his wife. Seemed a bad change...just like Littlefinger being stupid enough to openly challenge Cersei.
Series spoilersAlso, about <ep2>i don't remember Stannis fucking Melisandre in the books... and so, does it seem out-of-character for Stannis, considering his borderline absurd obsession with justice and honor? "The right way of things" wouldn't be cheating on his wife. Seemed a bad change...just like Littlefinger being stupid enough to openly challenge Cersei.
There are two major original scenes in ep2 which seem to indicate the show is starting to move more rapidly into its own direction for some characterizations, rather than being completely faithful.
The Stannis/Mel scene and the Jon scene at the end are stuff which were not in the books at all, but contain elements which were suggested or hinted at in the books, yet never confirmed by any of the characters. By depicting them in this way, especially Jon seeing a baby taken by an Other... I'm not sure where they're going to go with this. But I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt first.
There are two major original scenes in ep2 which seem to indicate the show is starting to move more rapidly into its own direction for some characterizations, rather than being completely faithful.
The Stannis/Mel scene and the Jon scene at the end are stuff which were not in the books at all, but contain elements which were suggested or hinted at in the books, yet never confirmed by any of the characters. By depicting them in this way, especially Jon seeing a baby taken by an Other... I'm not sure where they're going to go with this. But I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt first.
Basileus777 said:Series spoilers
Stannis did fuck Mel in the books, it's just never shown or outright stated. The shadow takes Stannis' appearance, and Mel insinuates to Davos that Stannis is all used up when she tries to seduce Davos. There's some hints of it in her POV in ADWD too. The son Mel talks about in that TV scene is probably the shadow baby used to kill Renly
Series spoilersStannis did fuck Mel in the books, it's just never shown or outright stated. The shadow takes Stannis' appearance, and Mel insinuates to Davos that Stannis is all used up when she tries to seduce Davos. There's some hints of it in her POV in ADWD too. THe son Mel talks about in that scene is probably the shadow baby used to kill Renly
ACOK SpoilersYes but now the context is very different. In the books, Stannis always got the benefit of the doubt, because everything he says and does goes against him actually doing something like that. It is left up to the reader to consider whether Stannis had a lapse in judgement, or if somehow he was force into it or bound by magic to do something like that. Mel is always seen to be the dark shadow behind Stannis, while the man himself is upright and unwavering.
This scene in the show makes him look weak. And that changes his character depiction substantially. I'm not sure if I like it, but I think it also depends on how they handle Stannis for the rest of the season and beyond.
I am sure you're right. It just felt wrong so early, at the very least...
I can see why they would choose to spell out the whole other thing. Jon doesn't do a whole lot in ACOK and this adds some more tension/drama to all the Craster stuff.
Clash of Kings spoilers --Stannis and Melisandre were sharing a tent for a while...and Melisandre once remarked that she had no use for a bed when Stannis wasn't around. I just always assumed they were banging...didn't Stannis basically just hole himself up with Melisandre for a while