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Game of Thrones *Tagged Book Spoilers, Please Read OP* |OT| Season 3 - Sundays on HBO
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Hell yes.
Major SOS spoilers
There's no way they'll undercut the magnitude of the RW by allowing the episode to end on Arya and Sandor, IMO. I'll be shocked if it happens any other way.
I don't understand why the show keeps harping on Melisandre giving Stannis a baby, only leads to confusion of this sort it seems.
There is no more shadow baby.
Major ASOS
If they do it smart it won't undercut anything. The show would have to effortlessly transition from Arya's and Robb's POV back and forth, showcasing the madness inside RW and outside of it simultaneously.
Blackwater.
I don't even know what this means exactly.
For one, there hasn't been an event like RW on the show yet, but I don't see why they wouldn't so the RW and then have Arya and the Hound riding up outside as it is happening, as it happens in the book. Also, if we look at comparable events we can perhaps get an idea. Ned's execution is cutting from Ned's perspective to Arya's. Blackwater is juggling from Stannis to Tyrion to Cersei to Sansa to Joffrey to give us all facets of what's happening to everyone involved in that event. Of course normally they have a single scene with a character/group because in most cases everyone is in seperate locations dealing with seperate story. However they end the episode I have confidence it will be done for maximum emotional impact, and have nothing to do with some weird, imagined adherence to isolated characters because of "bland" editing.
Anton Sugar
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Guess it was just me, but [ASOS]
Arya being struck right after Robb and Cat died did a lot to sell the idea that the Hound killed her. I totally believed it was possible.
DrForester
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Simple thing to balance out...
ASOS
ASOS
Show Robb die, cut outside to show the chaos outside, and Arya getting clubbed, then cut back inside to Catelyn.
Though, to be fair, I never thought Arya was dead in the books.
Though, to be fair, I never thought Arya was dead in the books.
You got me there. I just realized why I have no faith in them doing any clever editing.
Nobody bought the "murders" of Bran and Rickon in the non-reader thread. That was just so terribly done, for me.
Please, imagined adherence to isolated characters? That's what 99% of the show has been. Ugh, just, whatever. I actually stealth edited out my opinion on the direction of the show because I didn't want to deal with this but that guy just had to quote me.
I can see that being the end of season 4. This season being half the book I really have no clue what episode 10 will entail.
Yeah, because 99% of the story is that, so the show is like that out of necessity. Not because the filmmakers aren't capable of doing something else.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
It is indeed Tyrion's wedding to Sansa. The RW being Episode 9 has been confirmed (plus the title is a dead giveaway).
(ASOS)
The end of Season 3 will very likely be the freed Yunkai slaves calling Dany 'mother'. Last episode should also have reaction to the Red Wedding and Jon escaping the wildlings and returning to the Wall.
Arya runs away from the Hound. The Hound rides her down with axe over his head and swings it towards her then cut to black with the sound of her being hit.
Many will think she's dead.
Many will think she's dead.
Yup asos
This is why I don't think Arya getting hit with the axe will get as much importance in the show as people might feel it deserves. In the book it was special because we're being told that Arya was "hit with an axe" right after we find out GRRM is more than happy to kill off more Starks.
Unless they do it dramatically like Arya's running and then turns around, and then it cuts to a shot of an axe swinging down and her screaming or something, I really doubt it'll be the final scene of episode 9, or a significant scene at all. And I hope they don't make it the final scene because the focus should be Robb and Cat. Put it in between their deaths if at all.
Unless they do it dramatically like Arya's running and then turns around, and then it cuts to a shot of an axe swinging down and her screaming or something, I really doubt it'll be the final scene of episode 9, or a significant scene at all. And I hope they don't make it the final scene because the focus should be Robb and Cat. Put it in between their deaths if at all.
Forceatowulf
G***n S**n*bi
Man, these last two episodes have been so fucking good. So fucking good.
I already like this season more than 2 and we're only half way in....
I already like this season more than 2 and we're only half way in....
Random thoughts and musings on the ep, a little late! Been a busy couple days.
http://www.omega-level.net/2013/05/01/this-week-on-game-of-thrones-kissed-by-fire/
Some of my favorite images from this week:
And probably my favorite: Robb, in a scene that deliberately echoed Theon's execution of Rodrik last year, from the look (rain, courtyard) to the sound (same music) to the circumstances (forced execution to prove one's hardiness as a leader to one's subordinates).
http://www.omega-level.net/2013/05/01/this-week-on-game-of-thrones-kissed-by-fire/
Some of my favorite images from this week:
And probably my favorite: Robb, in a scene that deliberately echoed Theon's execution of Rodrik last year, from the look (rain, courtyard) to the sound (same music) to the circumstances (forced execution to prove one's hardiness as a leader to one's subordinates).
SquiddyCracker
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Tywin personally trodding around the place and ordering people killed and burned?
Tywin forcing his children to marry for political gain, while Rob marries out of love?
Cersei intruiging and backstabbing, even plotting to kill her brother?
Jamie attempting to kill innocent children.
And don't get me started on the mad king 2.
The Starks are saints in comparison.
Series:
I think you'll find that the good/bad dichotomy becomes clearer as the shows goes on - as it's pretty clear that the Lannisters have no concern for honour when it comes to the red feast. The worst Stark you ever see is one that has been resurrected through dark magic - and she's really only vengeful.
Yeah when that happened I thought 'hmm, I wonder if he can do it in one swipe unlike theon.'And probably my favorite: Robb, in a scene that deliberately echoed Theon's execution of Rodrik last year, from the look (rain, courtyard) to the sound (same music) to the circumstances (forced execution to prove one's hardiness as a leader to one's subordinates).
I had forgotten that Robb took three swings just like Theon too. Show Robb >>> Book Robb?
ASOS
To be honest, I never even got the interpretation that in the book she was ever in danger of actually being killed in that scene by the Hound. Considering the Hound's motives, as a character at that point, killing Arya wouldn't be an option (he's wanting money). I've always felt it surprising that people read that scene thinking that there was an intent on George RR Martin's part to leave her being alive or dead as ambiguous. To me, when I read that chapter, her ultimate fate (ie, what the Hound was going to do with her at that point), was definitely ambiguous, but not her life or death.
blainethemono
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Robb consciously sent ~2000 men to die against Tywin so that he could take the rest of his army around to ambush Jaime. Robb is painted as one of the "good guys" but his army is doing a lot of the same shit the Lannister army is (killing peasants, etc). On the other hand Jaime saved hundreds of thousands by killing the mad king and everyone hates him for it
while that's true,
In the books, the Red Wedding is an absolutely brutal gut punch, but since it's the middle of the book, you get to keep reading while many of the characters' story arcs rally and things start looking up for many of them in the second half of the book.
Putting that gut punch at the end of a TV season and forcing people to wait 9 months for any signs of hope would be much more brutal. There needs to be some sign of things getting better before the season ends. I'm not sure if Cat's resurrection is the best choice of things to use for that purpose, but there needs to be something.
Putting that gut punch at the end of a TV season and forcing people to wait 9 months for any signs of hope would be much more brutal. There needs to be some sign of things getting better before the season ends. I'm not sure if Cat's resurrection is the best choice of things to use for that purpose, but there needs to be something.
I think ASoS
they might end with Arya being hit somewhere in the RW episode. If not, I think it can be done well too. I am hoping they show her getting hit and don't show her again. Do show a dream sequence of Nymeria pulling out a body and Beric/Thoros/BwB coming up to it. Whether they show the body being resurrected in Episode 10 or Episode 1 next year doesn't truly matter.
Hopefully they show Stoneheart all cloaked up doing things for several episodes and reveal her later on in the season.
Hopefully they show Stoneheart all cloaked up doing things for several episodes and reveal her later on in the season.
probably. I think getting a good performance out of the actor is more important than sticking to a detail in the books regarding a character's voice/speaking mannerisms.
roosters93
Member
Wow, that's so dumb. You can't completely change a character so he has nothing in common with the original and give him the same name.
This guy is crazy!
Yeah, that doesn't come across at all. The interviewer is right.
That Jaime in the bath scene is so good. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is really good at delivering those sort of lines.
Season 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DpD47mmlei4#t=93s
Season 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DpD47mmlei4#t=93s
Then tell your bf to start reading the books.
Thanks!
Not how I pictured him. I wonder if the show will make his character bigger than he is in the books.
Anton Sugar
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Thanks!
Not how I pictured him. I wonder if the show will make his character bigger than he is in the books.
Definitely not how I pictured him, but then as I thought about the Unsullied, it makes sense that he's pretty young, right?
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Yeah, you can't really look like a grizzled old man when you're a member of a warrior caste is castrated at a young age and probably never live past 20.
I dunno I sorta like the idea of a young Obama leading the unsullied.
They all look tiny haha. I guess I just always imagined them as these ripped and lean warriors.
Well, they're castrated before puberty, so their muscular growth is bound to be stunted.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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I did too.
Get new friends.
Steelyuhas
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lol seriously. I got several "best GoT episode to date" texts.
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Speaking of this show being awesome:
Look at that blue reach for uncharted territory!
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