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Game of Thrones *Tagged Book Spoilers, Please Read OP* |OT| Season 3 - Sundays on HBO
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ToyMachine228
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I've never figured out why GAF harps on
"how wrong Robb was" and how the Red Wedding and the fate of the North in the war is all his fault. He's a kid for Christ's sake. He's a character that you're supposed to feel sympathy for. He was so young that he is still wearing his heart on his sleeve and follows it. He won every battle that he fought, he was probably the most just and honorable king of the "kings" fighting as far as treatment of his own people goes. Did he break an oath? Yes he did. And it obviously cost him, his family and the North greatly. But you all act as if he deserved it the Red Wedding. Do any of you remember what its like to be young? Or to be torn by love interest(s)? Robb is supposed to be a character that readers symphathize with and cringe at the loss of. But everyone around here acts like it's cut and dry. "He didn't want to marry an ugly girl from a dishonorable family, so he deserves what he gets and he should know it's all his fault." In a world filled with men incest and prostitution, the guy who follows his heart (albeit at the cost of a marriage promise) is the bad guy. Makes sense.
User 100115
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Your quote has broken spoiler tags, fix that.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
FIX DAT SPOILER TAG !!!
Still disappointed about the new casting for The Mountain last season.
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Is there any hope at all we can get Stevens back for Season 4? Viper vs. The Mountain would not be right with the actor they used in Season 2, imo... Just would not be right.
Another thing that upsets me about the show is how very little The Mountain is shown or talked about. In the book he was like some kind of fucking nightmare. The show does not give the viewer the impression of just how terrible this guy is, imo.
Another thing that upsets me about the show is how very little The Mountain is shown or talked about. In the book he was like some kind of fucking nightmare. The show does not give the viewer the impression of just how terrible this guy is, imo.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
Because Jon isn't a fuckup. Acok
Jon had a chance to run from his responsibilities and he didn't. He did what he vowed to do, and was rewarded for it. You'd be right if there wasn't Jon to contrast him up there, with even more responsibility on his head than Robb.
Maybe if every Stark kid was a fuckup like Robb, but even though Ned is dead he's still a main character. His kids are always thinking about him, and what he would do. Jon constantly thinks about his father and his choices, and Robb always invokes his name as if to say "I was raised by Ned Stark I do the honorable thing when no one else will" even though he's more Robert than Ned.
You even see that a girl he could've had is actually kind and pretty, and whatever Frey says he still gave him men to die for Robb and a crossing when he needed it most for RELATIVELY good terms. Rebelling against the throne for someone else doesn't come cheap.
Maybe if every Stark kid was a fuckup like Robb, but even though Ned is dead he's still a main character. His kids are always thinking about him, and what he would do. Jon constantly thinks about his father and his choices, and Robb always invokes his name as if to say "I was raised by Ned Stark I do the honorable thing when no one else will" even though he's more Robert than Ned.
You even see that a girl he could've had is actually kind and pretty, and whatever Frey says he still gave him men to die for Robb and a crossing when he needed it most for RELATIVELY good terms. Rebelling against the throne for someone else doesn't come cheap.
Jon is best Stark.
Pai Pai Master
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Fix your quoted spoiler tags.
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And I do feel bad for Robb. It is tragic. But he was a dumb stubborn kid and that was his downfall, as his mother pretty much told him it would be.
He obviously didn't deserve the RW, but that doesn't change the fact that his dumb mistake allowed his enemies to take advantage of his situation and bring him down.
He obviously didn't deserve the RW, but that doesn't change the fact that his dumb mistake allowed his enemies to take advantage of his situation and bring him down.
Good call, will probably rewatch the first few episodes of the season this week. I don't think there is logically any way they can reveal what Theon did to the boys at Winterfell prior to the wedding anyways.
David Incorporated Esq.
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I love the other thread sometimes. Series:
Somebody totally nailed the Jon Targaryen connection. Dragon's gotta have three heads son!
User 100115
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You know, people have joked about me being a mod before, but this is one of those times where I wish I was, so I could fix that spoiler tag myself. >.<
It kinda
It kinda
upsets me a little actually, because he mentioned he got the theory from talking with a friend about it, and that friend is likely a book reader. There haven't been hints about the Targ connection AT ALL in the series. I think you wouldn't be able to pick up on that unless you were a book reader, personally.
IAmtheFMan
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Um... wtf at the other thread right now.
Pai Pai Master
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Yeah......we need mod help in both threads STAT
IAmtheFMan
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User 100115
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I hope it's a perm, christ people can be assholes. Again with me wishing I was a mod just until the end of this season.
Pai Pai Master
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And I feel bad for the spoiler on this page and I can't do anything about it, even though it was my quote ;_;
That's bullshit though, he's clearly intentionally doing it just to be an asshole. Permaban is needed on that one.
That's bullshit though, he's clearly intentionally doing it just to be an asshole. Permaban is needed on that one.
User 100115
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I PMed a mod, checking to see who else is online.
IAmtheFMan
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At this point, with it just right there, I think the best move is to ban, edit and just cut your losses.
Fiction needs to be our Mod in the North.
6 months, but maybe they'll make an exception
Hope you wouldn't ban me. Might've veered a bit too close to teasing them but I didn't mention anything specific.
I think only duckroll has read the books but it's too late I guess. Put his head on a spike outside of neogaf castle.
User 100115
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Naw, wouldn't have banned you, but yeah, what you put was crossing the line for that thread. No worries, we all make mistakes
BrokenEchelon
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^ One of the few redeeming qualities from that roller coaster of stupidity.
Oded is a boss too though.
"God's Beard!"
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User 100115
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Edit: Good call, ultron.
Edit: Also, the picture two posts above me is my real not ridiculous choice for
. My dream person will not get cast, and is very ridiculous.
None of us should post in that thread about how shitty it is, please, since that will confirm that it's a spoiler.
Edit: Also, the picture two posts above me is my real not ridiculous choice for
the Viper
Duane Cunningham
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[series]
Eosos is definitely a book reader too: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=36683998&highlight=#post36683998 What a stupid asshole to commit account suicide this way.
Naw, wouldn't have banned you, but yeah, what you put was crossing the line for that thread. No worries, we all make mistakes
Just watched the Kingsroad scene between Bobby B and Ned as well. Odd that they don't mention AGOT
Ned bringing the boy with him to Winterfell from the rebellion
vitaminwateryum
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None of us should post in that thread about how shitty it is, please, since that will confirm that it's a spoiler.
Edit: Also, the picture two posts above me is my real not ridiculous choice for. My dream person will not get cast, and is very ridiculous.the Viper
You should probably tag your post just in case.
What did you post?
User 100115
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Yep, already done.
People were speculating about Jon's parentage, and
He lamented that they hadn't clarified where Benjen was during the rebellion on the extras. When people were wondering if maybe Benjen was Jon's father. I felt it crossed the line to 'correcting' non-reading speculation.
User 100115
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Dude is banned. Bet he's going to regret that when he sobers up.
BrokenEchelon
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Does anyone who hasn't read the books even post in this thread anymore? Genuinely curious.
IAmtheFMan
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Good.
Series
I've been telling people I know to just read the books because there's no way they'd stay unspoiled for four or five plus years. There's always going to be that one asshole, like the guys that bought the last volume of Harry Potter early and then drove by every Barnes and Noble in town at midnight launches and screamed the conclusion to the series out their window.
User 100115
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There are people in this thread who are at different points in their book reading. Also, we spoiler everything just in case a non-book reader accidentally clicks this thread vs the other.
I'd hope not. [ASOS]
If they haven't figured out by now that something on the level of Ned's death is coming up in the next episode from everything that has been outside of spoiler tags on these last few pages they have no reading comprehension.
vitaminwateryum
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There've been a few people who come in and ask a question before everyone urges them to leave and not come back unless they've read the books, but no one off the top of my head.
gregor7777
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seriesman, that's a shitty thing to do. though honestly I'm surprised it hasn't happened frequently with that non book thread. I feel bad for those folks; not because they haven't read the books, because people seem so hellbent on screwing up their enjoyment as TV watchers.
series
Yep, all you can do is limit the damage.
John Dunbar
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What did the guy spoil in the other thread?
User 100115
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At least
Hopefully only a few people were spoiled, and the ban confirms it's a spoiler, which is shitty but necessary. I am trying to think of a clever way to wipe the spoiler from minds without being a 'Oh yeah, totally not a spoiler, don't worry about it.' asshole come next episode heh.
Duane Cunningham
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His post originally read "Robb dies in the next episode, lawls". That's verbatim.
Pai Pai Master
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there is still a spoiler on this page that needs tags corrected.
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