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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 4 - Sundays on HBO

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Adalian said:
GAME OF THRONES S4 debuts to 6.6M viewers, smashing record for its most-watched episode ever. #GameOfThrones
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- EW: 'Game of Thrones' return gets epic record rating
All hail HBO’s Game of Thrones. The fourth-season premiere of the fantasy delivered the show’s biggest audience yet: 6.6 million viewers. That makes the Thrones opener HBO’s most-watched program since The Sopranos’ series finale in 2007.

By comparison, season 3 opened to 4.4 million viewers and eventually peaked at 5.5 million for the sixth episode (nope, the Red Wedding was not a record high, and nor was the finale, which delivered 5.4 million).
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Haven't seen the episode yet, thanks to HBO GO being down all night, but just popping in to say FUCK YEAH at those numbers!
 
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-Pyromaniac- said:
now they just need to more than double it to get them walking dead numbers. Imagine HBO didn't pass on it and they had that AND game of thrones. Good lord they'd be sitting pretty.
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AMC subscriber base = 100M people
HBO subscriber base = 28M people

If The Walking Dead were on HBO, they wouldn't be getting 15M viewers an episode.

Not to mention, that when you factor in repeats, On Demand and HBO GO views, Game of Thrones is pulling in nearly 14M viewers per episode. That is 50% of their subscriber base. You'd need to have 50M people watching TWD on AMC to equal that.

What GOT is doing is really, really impressive.
 
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gutshot said:
AMC subscriber base = 100M people
HBO subscriber base = 28M people

If The Walking Dead were on HBO, they wouldn't be getting 15M viewers an episode.
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they'd still get shittons of em. I bet they still slap themselves for passing on it.

But yeah I'm not surprised GOT gets so many people. Not saying it's not impressive but I kind of expect it. Also if you pay for HBO and aren't watching it, wtf are you watching lol.
 
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gutshot said:
AMC subscriber base = 100M people
HBO subscriber base = 28M people

If The Walking Dead were on HBO, they wouldn't be getting 15M viewers an episode.

Not to mention, that when you factor in repeats, On Demand and HBO GO views, Game of Thrones is pulling in nearly 14M viewers per episode. That is 50% of their subscriber base. You'd need to have 50M people watching TWD on AMC to equal that.

What GOT is doing is really, really impressive.
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People subscribe to HBO specificially for HBO's programing though.

AMC is part of your cable package. Hallf of the people won't even know which channel on their TV Guide AMC is.
 
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Hasphat'sAnts said:
People subscribe to HBO specificially for HBO's programing though.

AMC is part of your cable package. Hallf of the people won't even know which channel on their TV Guide AMC is.
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Doesn't matter. Most HBO shows are lucky to get over 1M viewers on a first airing. Only a few shows before GOT have breached the 6M viewer barrier. And to do it in this day and age, with so many other ways to watch, including torrenting?

I'm not saying that The Walking Dead's numbers aren't impressive, because they are. I'm just arguing that GOT's are equally as impressive, if not more so.
 
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Haha

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Kadayi

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rexor0717 said:
The replacement Dario feels like a downgrade. :(
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Agreed. Original dude had the right combination of cocksure doucheness to him. Not too sure what inspired the recast (though there is talk of Ed Skein getting film work) but I think the shows producers should of made a bit more of an effort to keep the guy on. Plenty of people manage to do other work around filming the show, so it shouldn't of been that hard. Plus he'd of been a regular role for this season. If nothing else they could of at least recast with a similar looking actor. Huisman always looks like a vagabond with that hair and beard tbh.

As regards the show. Decent opener. A little awkward in places in terms of fitting everyone in as well as catching up story lines (Janos Slint) but good enough. Arya & the hound at the pub was definitely the highlight though.
 
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True Blood first 4 season numbers for comparison:

Season 1 - 1.44M
Season 2 - 3.70M
Season 3 - 5.10M
Season 4 - 5.42M

True Blood peaked at season 4.
 
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General_Frags said:
I thought so too, thanks for the better map, its just that the camera panned left instead of right and very quickly arrived at Mereen, I guess someone needs to timelapse it so we get an idea of the rest of the map (in the show not for the books).
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I just watched it. The camera span away from the Wall to the left (west) but turned around and flew right (east). I agree it did a poor job of conveying the scale, though.
 
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Hasphat'sAnts said:
People subscribe to HBO specificially for HBO's programing though.

AMC is part of your cable package. Hallf of the people won't even know which channel on their TV Guide AMC is.
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AMC is a cable channel, you need a specific cable package for it. It is not part of the cheapest plans (unless you go like Dish Network or osmething)

It isn't as expensive to get AMC as it is HBO sure, but its still like 1 package below HBO on Comcast..
 
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MagnitudePopPop said:
I would assume they probably don't realize the world is round. But yeah it's weird there's been no mention of what is west.
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I find that hard to believe, considering how advanced civilization seems to be in this universe. They probably don't sail west for the simple reason that they don't know what's out there. Trying to sail as far as you can in an open ocean with limited provisions and no guarantee you won't get lost and die is probably a pretty daunting task.
 
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Nice episode to set up certain important events.

Hound and Arya were great.
Kit Harrington's acting was much improved in that scene.
Oberyn was flawless.

Good episode overall, I give it a rating of 4/5 chickens.
 
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DeathCubeK said:
Probably been posted, but little five minute interview with the BBC and Martin

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26923282
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The last bit that HBO ultimately gets creative control is interesting...

It means they may consider letting someone like Tywin survive the end of this season because he is such a popular character... but then again... they did appropriately kill off Ned in season 1 so who knows...

Also Arya + Hound is one of the best things on this show... wonder if that gets drawn out, which brings up another question...

Assuming they stay true to the series... this season may be the last growing season for the show given that some of the best parts that the show has to offer are essentially over after this season (Tywin, Arya + the Hound, no more longing for Joffrey's Death). Feast and Dance has a lot of character moments over action moments, and most of them don't translate very well into Television.
 
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Nah. They're gonna stick to this book's big events

I'm guessing they'll start exercising greater control with the next couple books/seasons where the pacing is meandering
 
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q_q said:
I find that hard to believe, considering how advanced civilization seems to be in this universe. They probably don't sail west for the simple reason that they don't know what's out there. Trying to sail as far as you can in an open ocean with limited provisions and no guarantee you won't get lost and die is probably a pretty daunting task.
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People have sailed west, they just never return. During the Kingsmoot one candidate proposed sailing west to discover new lands and he got booed off.
 
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WhereAreMahDragonz said:
Also, should the person with the first post of a page mark it that this is the book thread for non-bookies? I'm cool with it, but I just wasn't sure what everyone else thought.
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I would but I have a different number of posts per page than the default so... :\ It's easy enough to just subscribe to the right thread and avoid the others, I think.

Higgins113 said:
Why is it "split her in half with his longsword"? I thought it was "bashed her fucking head in" in the books? Does this mean Oberyn will be split in half instead or was it just some sexual euphemism
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He bashed the head of "Aegon" (? lol) against a wall, and yes he says he bashed her head in "just like this" to Oberyn, but who knows, he could have cleaved her in half for good measure too. And/or maybe Oberyn doesn't know the intimate details of the murder and is just repeating what he heard.

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He looks homeless. Daario was always supposed to be a flashy rouge.
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(Sorry, pet peeve of mine. I have no idea how so many people can't spell rogue... XD)
 
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Forsaken82 said:
The last bit that HBO ultimately gets creative control is interesting...

It means they may consider letting someone like Tywin survive the end of this season because he is such a popular character... but then again... they did appropriately kill off Ned in season 1 so who knows...

Also Arya + Hound is one of the best things on this show... wonder if that gets drawn out, which brings up another question...

Assuming they stay true to the series... this season may be the last growing season for the show given that some of the best parts that the show has to offer are essentially over after this season (Tywin, Arya + the Hound, no more longing for Joffrey's Death). Feast and Dance has a lot of character moments over action moments, and most of them don't translate very well into Television.
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If they let Tywin live they have to rewrite basically everything that happened in westeros+Tyrion's storyline, it's impossible.
 
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Abstruse Moose said:
So why the hell don't the Westerosi just sail west to reach the shadow lands? Every time someone mentions sailing in this universe it's always going east across the narrow sea. Is there some kind of invisible wall blocking the west?
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This dude tried. I always thought maybe he actually found another continent and that there was a whole other family of Starks living there. He "never made it to Asshai" but I dunno if that fully answers the question
 
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Those people who guessed the ratings would go down when they killed the Stark hope last year must feel pretty stupid right now
 
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ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE. THERE BE SPOILERS!

It is funny how HBO now has to quickly reintroduce Dontos because he is important again.
 
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