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Game of Thrones *Tagged Book Spoilers, Please Read OP* |OT| Season 3 - Sundays on HBO
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Im very curious about how they will handle Shae's betrayal. Will they go a different way with Shae? Looking back at Shae's conversations with Sansa it will not make any sense if she ends up in bed with Tywin. Will Tywin threaten her or is she just a golddigger after all? Or will Tywin not sleep with her but just kill her in front of Tyrion?
Great episode and surprisingly changes from the book are pretty good and logical. And clever. Huh.
I'm REALLY curious about one thing though. [series]
I'm REALLY curious about one thing though. [series]
Obviously it's about Mel/Arya scene. And I don't mean that line about eyes and blindness and what not, but more about "We will meet again".
If someone else had said that - whatever, who cares. But it's Mel. It felt like she really meant that they will meet again one day. So unless there is some major stray from the books so far, that might be even ADoS-level spoiler.
Unless it was a throwaway line, a courteous gesture, but I doubt it at the time
If someone else had said that - whatever, who cares. But it's Mel. It felt like she really meant that they will meet again one day. So unless there is some major stray from the books so far, that might be even ADoS-level spoiler.
Unless it was a throwaway line, a courteous gesture, but I doubt it at the time
Does anyone really think Arya won't return to Westeros at some point? I guess Mel still being alive at the point is in question, but them meeting in the future shouldn't really be too big a surprise.
Here's what I think of Season 3 so far:
Ep1: Garbage. Boring, tries too hard, still looks cheap.
Ep2: Still garbage, thinking of just dropping the series because it's pretty bad in general.
Ep3: Finally a decently good episode. Stuff happens, Tywin and Tryion are the only characters still worth a shit, everyone else overacts.
Ep4: Dany is the worst thing about this series, she can't act. Awful. There hasn't been good sex in the show for too long, I'm falling asleep.
Ep5: Oooooh yeah! Named character nudity! Loras gay sex! A Beheading! Yes, this is what this show should be - a trashy sex and violence romp, trying to be anything else is painful.
Ep6: Cliffhanger + CG from 1995 + "Chaos is a ladder" + dramatic monologue w/ dramatic music and montage + Hollywood kiss at sunrise/sunset ending. ROFLMAO. Worst final scene in any episode in the entire series so far.
Ep1: Garbage. Boring, tries too hard, still looks cheap.
Ep2: Still garbage, thinking of just dropping the series because it's pretty bad in general.
Ep3: Finally a decently good episode. Stuff happens, Tywin and Tryion are the only characters still worth a shit, everyone else overacts.
Ep4: Dany is the worst thing about this series, she can't act. Awful. There hasn't been good sex in the show for too long, I'm falling asleep.
Ep5: Oooooh yeah! Named character nudity! Loras gay sex! A Beheading! Yes, this is what this show should be - a trashy sex and violence romp, trying to be anything else is painful.
Ep6: Cliffhanger + CG from 1995 + "Chaos is a ladder" + dramatic monologue w/ dramatic music and montage + Hollywood kiss at sunrise/sunset ending. ROFLMAO. Worst final scene in any episode in the entire series so far.
FootballFan
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You know nothing, Duckroll. It is known.
The Dany incinerating the slaver scene was great.
Words are wind.
I know it's a pretty bad series which I'm only watching because of my affection for the books! I also know that it's not as bad as Newsroom!
You have terrible opinions about everything.
Tell me how you really feel.
<3
Fidelis Hodie
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Kind of feeling the same here, mainly because newsroom is also awesome.
But such are opinions.
FootballFan
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Words fall from your mouth as shit from ass.
Spartacus (SoGoood.gif)
How did Newsroom turn out? Only watched 3 episodes.
Fidelis Hodie
Infidelis Cras
ROFLMAO!
But how do you feel about boardwalk? this is the real divider!
Honestly, this episode felt pretty weak. Weird to see Ros go like that, but the speech at the end was quite invigorating. Always love me some Spider vs. Finger banter about realms and chaos.
If you're looking for a quality drama about news broadcasting and a sensible critique against the flaws of the modern system it is a wretched waste of time.
If you're looking for a semi-comedic overdramatic soap opera about people working in a newsroom having sitcom personal dramas and the biggest waste of a talented cast on a HBO series ever, you'll probably love it.
But how do you feel about boardwalk? this is the real divider!
Boardwalk Empire is the best series I've seen this decade. My favorite show on TV by a long mile.
FootballFan
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Absolutely agree. Their interactions are very entertaining and make for great TV.
even though I probably agree with a lot of duckroll's complaints, i do have to wonder how duckroll gets through any episode of anime with complaints like those
The same way I get through Game of Thrones every week. It's just entertainment. If I only watch things I feel have no flaws or very few flaws, I won't be watching anything at all.
Sho_Nuff82
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You are still supposed to tag everything in this thread guys. Preferably with the book title in front of the spoiler.
ThisWreckage
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The only thing I really agree with duckroll about is the CG. I thought it was awful last night, particularly at the end with those two kissing. But I still think that this season is by far the best season.
peanutbutterlatte
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Good to know mods aren't immune from crippling wrongness S3 far and away beats S2 for me, so far anyway.
S3 far and away beats S2 for me, so far anyway.Well, thats true enough. Still, I think a character whose existence is defined by her exposition of other characters, and is promptly killed off once she is no longer a useful exposition tool, well that seem like a poor character to me, whatever the format may be. Well, they made well use of her death though, showing the evil cunning of Littlefinger and that Joffrey is still a psychopathic, sadistic prick. Exposition into the very end.
ThisWreckage
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On the bright side, she is gone either way. She won't be a part of the show anymore. Personally, I felt like she was a minor distraction and was taking screen time away from better characters. I'm not sure if the writers are getting the response from her death like they thought. I'm not sympathetic toward her and she won't be missed. She wasn't even particularly tragic, just stupid.
Well yeah she wasn't as much as a character but rather someone to be on the screen while the other main characters have their monologues, pretty much. So her death really captured her essence. Also it was great seeing Joffrey return to being a dick, because in S3 he seemed to have normalised with Margeary around.
Good to know mods aren't immune from crippling wrongness
S2 had Renly and Loras. <3
peanutbutterlatte
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You mean the two characters whose sole defining character trait was that they were gay? And Renly was a nice guy but not really "king material"?
What does being king material have to do with his performance in bed? <3
Exterminieren
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Good to know mods aren't immune from crippling wrongness
It's Duckroll. He's immune to rightness.
Why are you even watching Game of Thrones? Shouldn't you watch Spartacus or something?
Because that's mostly what the show is? Better than Spartacus at it too, since it has characters I like.
Sho_Nuff82
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In the Free Cities it's said
the red priests actively take part in the slave trade. Ransoming Gendry (when they've already announced their plans to do so to Arya) didn't seem horribly out of character.
Enosh
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oh it's perfectly in character for the red priest to do it I am just not so buying the brotherhood being willing to give up one of their own like that for some gold, don't they even knight him or some shit?
I hear that there will also be
a live bear,
Agreed.
This Theon stuff is starting to get annoying. Completely unnecessary. Yes he's crazy. Ok. Move the fuck on. This isn't 'gritty storytelling'. This is bullshit exploitation to force an emotional response. It's bad storytelling.
cubicle47b
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The Theon scenes were interesting tonight. Ramsay was playing the game with the audience more than Theon. "Guess what house I'm a member of and what conclusions you can draw from that."
I didn't look through the non-reader thread much but they have figured out he's a Bolton.
I didn't look through the non-reader thread much but they have figured out he's a Bolton.
roosters93
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lol at ros not even getting a proper death scene.
I really noticed in this episode how much older Bran looks now.
There's a post on r/got at the moment about how just because you saw someone on GoT put something in the mouth of an epileptic you shouldn't do that irl. lolwtf
After they got to the top of the wall I was expecting Jon to get out a weapon and threaten Orell or say something like "I'm gonna to kill him" to Ygritte.
Cheers bruv
Yeah there are lots of whores in ASoIaF.
heh reminds me of this pic I saw on r/got last week.
You're a monster!
I really noticed in this episode how much older Bran looks now.
There's a post on r/got at the moment about how just because you saw someone on GoT put something in the mouth of an epileptic you shouldn't do that irl. lolwtf
After they got to the top of the wall I was expecting Jon to get out a weapon and threaten Orell or say something like "I'm gonna to kill him" to Ygritte.
Cheers bruv
I can't make out all of what Orell is saying. Anyone care to transcribe?
Yeah there are lots of whores in ASoIaF.
heh reminds me of this pic I saw on r/got last week.
You're a monster!
Stormwatch
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I was thinking the same thing! I mean, ADWD
Don't the Bolton's have a skinned man as their sigil?
ThisWreckage
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I don't see how you could say that. They have a mutual respect for one another because of their vast webs of knowledge, but they also view one another as competition as well because of the same very reason.
Sho_Nuff82
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ASOS
For a book reader, these scenes are quite fascinating. After his abduction at the end of ACoK, Theon loses his status as a POV character in the following book. We have no idea on the extent of his injuries until much later in the story. We simply know that something is happening, and that something is horrifying. I guess the show is trading off the shock of revealing it all at once vs showing you bits and pieces as the story progresses. Since the show doesn't use flashbacks and exposition on these events wouldn't really make sense, it has to be this way, especially since these events reveal a great deal about both Theon and his captor (and for his captor, about what he is). It is supposed to elicit an emotional response, that response being horror and revulsion, even as it happens to a character who shouldn't expect sympathy. Be advised: "if you're expecting a happy ending to all of this, you haven't been paying attention."
I'd actually say that they fit their characters perfectly. Littlefinger v Varys verbal scenes are always the highlight of any episode to me.
As a non book reader I think the signs were very nice and subtle throughout the season that it's Bolton's bastard. You had the sigil, the fact that he was outside Winterfell at the end of S2 and now the trumpet.
BarrenMind
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He hadn't been skinned at all yet when he was asked to figure out where he was. I bet he's got a good idea now who's holding him prisoner.
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