KingHenrik30
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Ahh gotcha, can't help you there. The board game is fantastic though!
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Game of Thrones *Tagged Book Spoilers, Please Read OP* |OT| Season 3 - Sundays on HBO
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Ahh gotcha, can't help you there. The board game is fantastic though!
this time they had a shit band do a shit version of a book song. completely different
blainethemono
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They're pretty awful
Basically you have 3 legit options:
Medieval 2: Total War with Westeros Total War mod
Mount & Blade with Game of Thrones/Clash of Kings mod
Crusader Kings 2 with A Game of Thrones mod
those are all much better than either of the actual licensed video games
Yeah, TV series Stannis seems to know all about the shadow babies and is perfectly fine with it.
Book Stannis might have some inkling, but he is in total denial because it doesn't mesh with his strict honor code. TV Stannis also looks quite healthy, while in the books he was a total mess at this point.
As ever, in the books things were much more nuanced and complicated while in the TV series D&D felt the urge to dumb things down to the basics. It's not a matter of budget, it's just simplifying stuff for the audience.
ASOS
except when they invent their own little stories. I have no clue where the convoluted Theon plot is going exactly, but I'm pretty sure how it will end. Replacing Edric Storm with Gendry makes sense though.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Was it too obnoxious noise that immediately kicked in after a heavy scene like that?
KingHenrik30
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Count me in on this as well. This is my first season watching the show after having read all the books, and noticing the additional scenes like this that really add up to be nothing more than time wasters is annoying as hell. There are at least 2 per episode. Spend that time somewhere else.
I don't watch it as a joke either...but it was a great moment puncuated by a great and unexpected music choice, similar to the Rains of Castemere during the credits after Blackwater last season. It's a purposeful dissonance of time, and a daring creative choice; the song style is incongrous to the "time period" of the show, but the style is very fitting for what happened at the end. Describe it as a "punk" moment with a "punk" song to cap it off. Obviously it's such an unorthodox choice that not everyone will like it. But it's not meant as some kind of joke that you aren't getting.
I think that's a large misreading of the moment. If anything, it's far more complicated for the audience. Jaime started as the most despicable character on the show, but the more we get to know him the more we understand and like him. This episode was a turning point for his character. We see a camaraderie form between him and Brienne, and he does one of the more noble things we've seen recently in saving Brienne from rape and possible death. He didn't have to, in fact logically probably shouldn't have since he was her captive, but he did anyways. We see some serious shades of grey with him. So just as we start to see that BAM hand cut off. Anyone actively cheering for that moment hasn't been paying enough attention.
KingHenrik30
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I didn't find it that jarring at all.
It's mediocre.
Also I read a synopsis of Theon's intro story from a pre-screener critic, anyone want to hear it?
bodyofanamerican
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Hit me up.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
I've been a pretty happy fan of the show... but this season... idk... I'm kinda tired of watching Robb's army march everywhere or seeing just the aftermath of battles/major events so they can spend time on some dorky scene about a brothel that has like no bearing on anything of import.
It is a little frustrating.
It is a little frustrating.
Give Jamie Lannister a hand, ladies and gentlemen!
Yes!
the same joke for the hundredth time
Yes!
Eighty Deuce
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That song at the end ruined the final scene, absolute garbage.
cj_iwakura
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Hit me.
KingHenrik30
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I'd also like to hear it
Dabookerman
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KingHenrik30
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Thanks for that man
cartoon_soldier
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I do!
They totally ruined Jaime's hand scene. Such awful music to follow something like that doesn't work well. Not sure what they were thinking. Feel underwhelmed by the episode. Brynden was great. Enjoyed the stuff north of the wall. Theon stuff was pretty good. Quality of the show feels all over the place though... 10 episodes, even with the split season, feels so short. Jumping all over the place not giving enough time for the stories. Seriously, if I hadn't read the books I would be like wtf? at the Stannis storyline right now.
one of my favorite scenes of the series, too. so disappointed
Here's the quote
While it was pisspoor timing, the end song was actually a punk cover of The Bear and the Maiden Fair (a song from the book)
That's a very good point.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Maybe it is different for me, since I didn't read the books, the scene was (somewhat) unexpected. You and others knew it was coming.
I imagine for you it was probably very clear what was about to happen, you may have been waiting for it to happen, wondering when it eventually would happen, and so in the lead up you had a bit of time to process it preemptively.
For someone not aware of that eventuality, it was surprising, and just as I was thinking "wow that was something"... terrible modern mood-killing music.
Anyway, talked about that enough.
Best scene for me this ep was the small council meeting at the table... rest was a bit forgettable.
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If you haven't read the books you shouldn't be in this thread.
If you haven't read the books you shouldn't be in this thread.
But it totally did! Some of you guys are just so boring and unimaginative!
Forgettable? Uhhhh.....You say that now.
i'm pretty sure we all know it's from the book...
reggieandTFE
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Supremely awful.
Eighty Deuce
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Punk music does NOT fit with fantasy. Especially a story with a serious tone as this. It pulled me from the setting in a rude manner.
Cpt.Underpants
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I don't understand the timing of the music at all
What a mood killer
What a mood killer
It would only be in one episode then. lol
bodyofanamerican
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Sorta sad that I read that now, but that is fucking BRILLIANT.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
The spoilers seem marked well enough.
I have to say though, I'm thinking about stopping the show and reading the books instead. Either way, major events are going to be spoiled, and considering how this season seems so scatterbrained and light on detail... I'm thinking maybe it'd be best to experience this stuff first in the books. Watch the show later.
Never had much interest in the books, but this season just doesn't feel right so far. I have a million questions, and the characters I like seem to get so little breathing room.
As a book reader I really enjoyed Tyrion/Bronn/Pod's trip to the whorehouse and their sharing secrets afterwards. *Shrug*
Stannis characterization is off but they are playing up the romance angle whenever possible and alot of that scene felt like exposition to the audience as to why Mel just can't send another baby out.
Music was jarring but I guess that was what they were going for
Stannis characterization is off but they are playing up the romance angle whenever possible and alot of that scene felt like exposition to the audience as to why Mel just can't send another baby out.
Music was jarring but I guess that was what they were going for
I'd prefer that to what they're doing now. It's like checking in on her. Ok, so she talked to the guy and got the warriors, great
But it was SO FITTING! It was such a punk moment. It's complete cognitive dissonance that matches perfectly to the moment at the same time. The guy probably wasn't going to even cut off his hand until the second he decided he was doing it. He definitely shouldn't have as it severely lessens the likelihood of a fair trade and endangers Robb's sister(s). It was a completely dangerous, spur of the moment thing he did, in other words COMPLETELY PUNK. I mean, I imagine the band at the end playing that song, kicking speakers over, breaking a guitar and slicing off Jaime's hand! Ugh it was so good and you guys are missing the point and being all pouty and lame.
Her chapters haven't translated well to the show post birth of her dragons. Her chapters are interesting to read because of the brutality of the setting, and you get more fleshed out scenes with her and Mormont/Barristan. Cutting back and forth for 5 minute scenes makes her stuff forgettable.
cartoon_soldier
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I felt the same but didn't feel like reading the books. So I just spent hours reading the wiki...
I'm glad I didn't read past episode 3's part, then. Can't wait for ep. 4!
Perhaps because of my history of reading the novels and watching the show, this episode had some really great emotional moments. Arya and Gendry leaving Hot Pie, and Catelyn grieving felt really poignant.
The song at the end is jarring, but it seems to fit in with the "troll" stylings of George R. R. Martin and A Song of Ice and Fire. I don't have the perspective of a show-only watcher, so I can't expect the same reaction.
The song at the end is jarring, but it seems to fit in with the "troll" stylings of George R. R. Martin and A Song of Ice and Fire. I don't have the perspective of a show-only watcher, so I can't expect the same reaction.
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