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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 5 - Sundays on HBO
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Cornballer
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Tread lightly...
Regarding the precap, if you want to discuss under tags, it isn't a huge deal, but please don't link to leaked material. The quote above is referring to actual leak of the episode content. We have less than 24hrs to go, be smart about what you post. Thanks.
Emerson
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The fact that something happens on the show doesn't mean it happens in the book or is a spoiler. The character in question is a great example of something the show might change to make it simpler.
You Know Nothing
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You mean mussels, cockles, and clams. Stop disrespecting George's vision!
I'm also anticipating the Cersei scenes.
vas_a_morir
Banned
Thanks for clarifying re: the precap, Cornballer. I was terrified to speak of it and looked for an update from you before doing so. Haha.
Benjen, oh my god. This could go a few ways. He's back or he isn't. He's being seeded now for an "R+L=J" confirmation from someone whose words would hold profound series-spanning weight on the matter later on, perhaps. His horse is in the recap to reacquaint viewers with the concept of "warging" in time for FTW, perhaps. It's a red herring the likes of which they've never before achieved, perhaps. So many questions. Best. Spoiler. Ever.
If they merge Varamyr Sixskins character into Benjen just for that, I'd probably die of laughter.
Basileus777
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How are they even going to have time to cram more stuff into this finale?
Still hard to believe he manage to survive out there. He'll probably show up as a corpse or something
inb4
It's always surreal seeing all of the Starks (plus Theon) in one location during the start of a rewatch/reread
ChaosZeroX
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They don't. My girlfriend is show-watcher only and she had no idea who he was. I had to explain it to her lol
Yeah, going through the Stark chapters during the beginning of AGOT again were rough during my reread. Really rough.
Cpt.Underpants
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Is it bannable to post a gif of Snow
getting stabbed?
LatvianHitman
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Not if you wait about 20 hours. Otherwise...probably not a great idea.
You cannot link anything from leaked materials. After the show airs go for it.
Posting the gif up would be....really shit. Even if book readers know what's coming.
I leave and don't pay attention to the topic for a day, and I come back to black baaaaars.
Ok, I can't figure out any plausible way to have that bit of flashback in the precap for episode 10. I just hope that Horse Benjen didn't go off with Stannis to war. They ate those horses.
Wonder if it's in there to really make the TV watchers really go nuts when FTW happens. They'll be expecting something with Benjen to happen all episode, then curtains.
Wonder if it's in there to really make the TV watchers really go nuts when FTW happens. They'll be expecting something with Benjen to happen all episode, then curtains.
On the topic of characters show-only viewers frequently forget, I've had to remind at least six people IRL who Beric Dondarrion was this year alone. And it gets worse!
"I'm just kind of surprised you'd forget a dude from S3 who revived multiple times!"
"Uh... doesn't ring a bell at all!"
"Remember when he fought The Hound?"
"Uh..."
"There was a flaming sword! It scared The Hound."
"It... sc... oh yeah, him."
"I'm just kind of surprised you'd forget a dude from S3 who revived multiple times!"
"Uh... doesn't ring a bell at all!"
"Remember when he fought The Hound?"
"Uh..."
"There was a flaming sword! It scared The Hound."
"It... sc... oh yeah, him."
Basileus777
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It is really a surprise? That's a minor event from three years ago and most people don't rewatch the series multiple times.
I dunno, it's a bit of a surprise to me. It surprises me more than some of the other characters cited in this topic, that's for sure. And it was only two years ago, but... semantics, mostly.
Cpt.Underpants
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its a joke gif mind you
its from a scene in breaking bad where walter orders the executions. Only the faces are plastered with Aliser and his goons plus
its from a scene in breaking bad where walter orders the executions. Only the faces are plastered with Aliser and his goons plus
Olly
Basileus777
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I dunno, it's a bit of a surprise to me. It surprises me more than some of the other characters cited in this topic, that's for sure. And it was only two years ago, but... semantics, mostly.
This thread is full of dedicated fans who talk and read about the series regularly. Ask someone who casually read the books years ago and they won't remember every minor character or event either.
This is what my headstone will say.
I totally understand that.
Perhaps I'm unusual in that I consider Beric a show character who ought to stick more freshly in viewers' minds, but I do enjoy gauging these metrics. I typically host viewing parties of 15-25 people per week and ~80% of them haven't touched the books and don't rewatch episodes, so it's good fun hearing what people have to say. Beric Dondarrion, to me, is someone I'd anticipate clicking with people more thoroughly, given his death-defying revelation.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
There he is!
There he is!
Black/Green? So he's been at Greywater Watch this entire time.
Seeing Magic being played is awakening something in me, and I think I just heard my wallet gulp.
The Smoking Bun
Banned
What's the deal with Olly anyway? Why is the little kid being set up like a villain?
Because he's an ungrateful little shit.
Cpt.Underpants
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He's a kid who doesn't understand what Jon is trying to do
The Smoking Bun
Banned
It just seems so petty and small... what he hates wildlings and so by proxy hates Jon because he consorts with them?
Yeah, but going through the episodes he gives aside glances and menacing glares like he's Tywin Lannister reborn. He should learn to... LET IT GOOO!
True, I suppose it would be bit like Jon trying to convince Batman that Joe Chill and Gotham's mobsters are real swell dudes once you get to know them
Far be it for me to go total devil's advocate with Olly of all characters, but I can appreciate his inability to embrace the future that Jon has foreseen when his whole life was brutally slaughtered by a group of people whose de facto leader was present and bellowing when it happened.
Cpt.Underpants
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Yeah, clearly that little shit is up to no good
futuredrew
Banned
I can't understand why not a lot of people understand that. Look Jon is my favorite character and this little shits going to kill him so I'm not being on his side to be on his side. It's quite understandable why he would be pissed off at Jon, especially if he has Alliser and the rest of the Watch in his ear pushing him.
nelsonroyale
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I think it is more that is dealt with in a heavy handed manner. Sure John is giong to feel for him over it, but he is has got so much more on his mind and many people around him who have suffered tragedy. The show makes it seem like Olly is the third thing on his mind. It is very heavy handed.
nelsonroyale
Member
There he is!
Wait...that name on the left...very unfortunate.
Discotheque
Banned
why are you all saying "kill"? we have yet to know he's dead.
fuck olly though, i was convinced for the whole season that he's the writer's son or some shit because the camera constantly cut to his face during night's watch scenes lol.
makes more sense that they were just building up "Et tu, Olly?"
fuck olly though, i was convinced for the whole season that he's the writer's son or some shit because the camera constantly cut to his face during night's watch scenes lol.
makes more sense that they were just building up "Et tu, Olly?"
Why?
If you've heard that's a spoiler from the yet-to-be-released episode I'd recommend deleting that.
WrenchNinja
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yoooo
Fuck olly
Fuck olly
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