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Game of Thrones - Season 2 - George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire - Sundays on HBO
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Oh, it's getting there.
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so many uses for this gif
petethepanda
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I like Game of Thrones a lot so far but it's not anywhere close to Deadwood.
I love GoT, but it's not in the same league as Deadwood. It's not even playing the same sport. In GoT, you're talking about one of the better shows currently airing. In Deadwood, you're talking about one of the very best (and in the discussion for the best) television shows in history.
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are the chapters referenced to by character title rather than name one-offs in AFFC?
Like, "The Prophet" or "The Captain of the Guards". Why the change in convention?
Like, "The Prophet" or "The Captain of the Guards". Why the change in convention?
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SerArthurDayne
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Only some. I assume so you don't flip through and see spoilers, potentially. Some are also one off PoVs that Martin needed to tell some plot.
Basileus777
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Emerson
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Lactose_Intolerant
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There is a book thread for this
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Rightio. I thought it was a little bit strange. Cheers.
there were also at least four people watching this thread with nothing to post over the last hour, I'm not exactly derailing anything.
He does do it in a clever way with
Arya, Sansa, and Theon
catotheyounger
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Anyone figure out what tune Tyrion was whistling in Ep.2?
Man, I know you love that show but I personally don't hold Deadwood as high as you. I could see it in a top 10 if you're really into the western setting. The three* season run hinders it a lot.
Yeah, I meant three.
Game of Thrones is 12 episodes in. Those of us who have read the books - we know were simply at the foot of a mountain of climax. I think I consider it on par with some of the greatest shows because I know what potential it has. To someone watching it fresh, they don't have the bias I do. So when I see people say Deadwood couldn't be on the same tier of Game of Thrones I need to remember you didn't say A Song of Ice and Fire. Heh.
By the middle of the entire shows run this show will be on a whole new level.
Game of Thrones is 12 episodes in. Those of us who have read the books - we know were simply at the foot of a mountain of climax. I think I consider it on par with some of the greatest shows because I know what potential it has. To someone watching it fresh, they don't have the bias I do. So when I see people say Deadwood couldn't be on the same tier of Game of Thrones I need to remember you didn't say A Song of Ice and Fire. Heh.
By the middle of the entire shows run this show will be on a whole new level.
Photoshop.
I use this to cut out a mp4 clip from the episode. I then import into photoshop and make the gif from there.
Rains of castamere?
Song that Tysha sang for him?
Those are the guesses I've seen.
I read the first three books too. Yes, its a great source. And like I said, I love the show, so I'm paying it no disrespect. But David Milch's writing is a cut above this and most other shows. It's that he is that good, not that everyone else is that bad.
Appreciate the suggestions.
Tried everything but my CS 5 doesn't seem to want to recognize any file formats properly when I 'Import Video Frames to Layers' -- they're either all greyed out (mp4/avi/anything) or I get a series of black stills (mov/mpeg).
ALAS.
GIF Brewery it is.
PhoenixDark
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GoT is good, and if adapted to its max potential I think the show could be stunning, but as of right now it's just good, sometimes great - not on the level of a show like The Wire or Breaking Bad (I haven't seen Deadwood). The writing is simply too inconsistent imo. The show often loses its footing the more it strays from the novels. That's not to say I'm a purist who hates any change - in fact I like most of the changes they make that advance the story quicker (like making Bronn captain of the Gold Cloaks). But some of the invented scenes are quite bad imo, and attempts to make certain characters more complex don't always work. A lot of the invented dialogue just doesn't sound natural, such as Shae's ridiculous "the city smells like cum...and makes me want to fuck" nonsense, or Viserys discussing the dragons in S1.
It's one of the best shows on television, but I don't see it reaching Olympian heights with Weiss and Benioff
BenjaminBirdie
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The Western setting barely impacts its merit.
It's a Communal setting. It could be set in the fuckin' Rennaisance and it'd still be the most captivating, human, beautiful, hilarious, and uplifting show ever aired.
The Hermit
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Oh shit...
Do you think I should read the books first? I read LOTR before the movies and enjoyed both greatly, but now I don't know what to do...
Lol no
Agreed. It definitely doesn't stand high in the all-time HBO totem pole at this pont. The writing and the conversations the characters hold are just a little too weird and unnatural sometimes.
diunxx
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Yep, and I have to give a special mention to the scene between Littlefinger and Cersei in episode one not only was it a terrible scene it was also incredibly out of character for LF, not to mention that he didn't even went out to search for Arya they both seem to have forgotten that little confrontation.
BlueTsunami
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As much as I love this show, I've found I'm waiting to witness certain arcs at times instead of taking in the linking scenarios. Especially since this show moves pretty fast and its basically a bunch of vignettes tied together.
PhoenixDark
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I loved Cersei in the scene, especially her display of power. And while I liked the scene overall, writing-wise it struck me as a bad fanfiction. I hate being "That Guy" focused on the books, but I just really thought LF's behavior was out of character. It would be as if there was a scene in S1 with Ned Stark drunk in a brothel slapping asses. I really think the writers almost seem obligated to give Gillen scenes to justify hiring him. He's a great actor deserving a good role, and perhaps LF just isn't it (if this is how the writers want to use him).
Overall the lack of subtlety is a problem not just with that scene, but the show in general. Everything is explicit and in your face. I get that this isn't The Wire and needs to help viewers, but even an overt show like Spartacus has more subtlety.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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So StreetFighterXGoT should pretty much be confirmed.
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i can sympathize with the writers. Littlefinger is a major character who needs a strong, leading actor to be cast and introduced from season one. That said, he doesn't really have a lot to do for a while. So the problem becomes multilayered. How do we keep Gillen earning his salary as a full-time cast member when he isn't in the source material all that much? And, perhaps even more importantly, how do we make sure the audience remember who this guy is?
I don't envy the writers at all.
Bingo. It's about society, law and order being carved out of chaos.
JordoftheDead
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I'd have to agree with this. GoT is very good and HBO shows in general are usually playing in a different league compared to 99% of TV, but Deadwood was just incredible. It also moved at its's own pace. GoT suffers a little from trying to cover vast expanses of story very quickly.
Ya it's not even up to the quality of HBO mid-card king Rome.
LegendofJoe
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It's a very different show, though. Sometimes it has to pack too much from the book in, sometimes it's clunky or awkward, but those are small sacrifices for what is essentially the first real fantasy drama series. You compare it to other HBO shows, Deadwood, ROme, whatever, but the thing is it's totally new ground. We haven't seen any world like this presented like this before. I think it's unfair to compare it to other shows that build off of a lot of other cultural products - it was never going to be as polished.
Loved the scene as a definition of real power.
I also was annoyed that Littlefinger was seen as unmoveable even though he can tell his whole life story of patheticness to a couple of hookers having sex. That was more out of character. He's like The Fonz of the show and this cracked the shell a bit without removing a hint of danger about him as evidenced in the next episode.
The writers made it evident that certain things like losing the love of his life was a sore spot and Cercei, with him & Tyrion, is quite good at exposing the weaknesses of others.
Cornballer
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Cornballer
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- NY Magazine Interview: Game of Thrones Richard Madden on Robb Starks Growing Pains *series spoilers*
Funky Papa
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Small spoiler: Oona Chaplin revealed that her character (Jeyne Westerling) will be introduced during the
episode.
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Cornballer
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- WiC.net: Casting Season Three: Mance Rayder *some ASoS spoilers*
Please spoiler tag discussion as necessary (e.g. attributes, plot points from past where we are in the tv series, other characters that haven't been introduced yet, etc...) Also note that you can use the "A Song of Ice and Fire -- **Unmarked Spoilers For All Books including ADWD**" thread if you want to talk about this without spoiler tags.
Please spoiler tag discussion as necessary (e.g. attributes, plot points from past where we are in the tv series, other characters that haven't been introduced yet, etc...) Also note that you can use the "A Song of Ice and Fire -- **Unmarked Spoilers For All Books including ADWD**" thread if you want to talk about this without spoiler tags.
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I'll be pulling for Purefoy all the way.
Funky Papa
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Errmm... should I also spoiler-tag the name of the characters? I mean, Oona's is public knowledge, right?
Cornballer
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No, don't worry about it. Character names are fine.
Forsaken82
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I agree that some of the invented scenes are silly (we certainly didn't need Loras sucking Renly off to beat us over the head that Renly might actually be gay) but I would say most of them add A LOT to the story. In my opinion for every meh new scene, we get 2 great new scenes. Robert Baratheon talking about Lyanna to Cersei for instance was a great scene as is Tywin's lecture to Jaime. I also like that Theon's presence in Season 1 of the show is greater than in the book. I can certainly name far more positive additions than the negatives. I forgot, the Littlefinger/Varys scenes are also really good.
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