Can I just say OMG. This finale was wow. I haven't read the books so this is new to me and I picked up on some of the foreshadowing in regards to Khaleesi but I was not expecting the ending......UUUGH Now we gotta wait. Nah I'll just read the books now.
I so cannot wait for Joffrey to get his.
Also, the thing with Maester Pycelle was just a riot. Julian Glover is a hell of an actor.
Oh I agree I was like WTH. Does that play into the story later on?Solo4114 said:
No idea. Might just be an insight into the guy being a LOT craftier than people think. A way to visually represent that he's a very VERY manipulative guy and a born survivor.
That is a good observation and let me just say I went and reread my posts and I swear I'm a 36 year old male father. Not a 15 year old Valley girl.. Lol
Just finished watching the final episode. Geebus! OK I know they got a green light to do a second season almost straight away but bloody hell, talk about leaving a loose thread or two unresolved!
I smell a reckoning. It will be interesting to see how the war goes. Please let someone kill Joffrey.
Don't expect a resolution any time within, oh, the next eight years or so.
They have to get through the three (soon to be four) remaining published books. After that, they have to get through two more books which haven't even been written yet. So, you're talking a MINIMUM of six more years before you get a full resolution. Some plotlines will conclude, obviously, and others will be introduced, but the bottom line is that this story is just beginning.
Now, on a somewhat more troubling note, from talking to my cousin (who's read all the books), he's concerned that the second season may be too slow to maintain its audience. He sees the second book (and thus the second season) as "transitional" to the third one where all hell breaks loose. But all hell breaking loose apparently requires quite a bit of setup and that's the second book.
I've just started the second book, so I can't really comment on it. If the above is an accurate characterization, though, that could be troublesome for the show. It's got to be a pretty expensive show to make. And we know HBO has a tendency to cancel series mid-story. The good news is that even if they do cancel, we've still got the books to read.
The other problem that I see coming is that, apparently, books 4 and 5 actually occupy the same chronological point, but are separated geographically. So, Book 4 is like "The events of the year in the south" whereas Book 5 takes that same time period, but focuses on the events in the north. For shooting purposes, this means they'll probably take both books and do two seasons (or one longer season -- but I expect two) where both books are done simultaneously and chronologically.
And then there's the matter of Martin still having to even WRITE the last two books.
So....yeah. Great show, but here's hoping it doesn't get tripped up by too many of these hurdles.
I thought that was about as good a finale as you could ask for. One slight change from the book that I noticed:
Spoiler:
No biggie, though. Still a great scene.
SmilingOtter said:
Oh, right. I actually had forgotten about that part. I don't suppose it matters, really. There were some other deviations, I think, and I gather that some of the scenes are really being made up out of whole cloth (The scene between Pycelle and the prostitute is a good example), but what they're doing is giving depth to the characters in sort of shorthand ways. That scene with Pycelle says a TON about him and he just does a few things physically with no words being necessary.
Spoiler:
Eh, if her skin is impervious to flames, there's no reason her hair shouldn't be either. It makes little sense from the books that someone can walk into a fire and only their hair would burn off. It really has to be all or nothing. The fact that she could still breath, wasn't suffocated by the smoke and ash too, means there has to be some supernatural cause. Might as well let the actress keep her hair.
I love Arya. She's such a cool character and the actress is doing a great job. I really hope she takes out Joffrey, that would be awesome. "I'm good at killing fat boys."
P*sses me off we have to wait about a year for season 2 though! What is with HBO and air times? I doubt it takes an entire year to finish a show.
Very well made series its how sword of truth should have been.The casting was brilliant just a shame they havent finished the series of books.I have read them all and its pretty grim readingWinters coming!
Aww MAN! What a fantastic ending to the season!Made my hair stand on end at the conclusion!! Now I'm going to read the books.. had them, but was holding off until the end of this part.
Here's a (spoiler) video for you fans:
YouTube - ‪Tyrion Slaps Joffrey For 10 Minutes To Achilles Last Stand‬‏
If anyone still needs a Dark Ages Sean Bean fix, check out Black Death on Netflix streaming. I thought it was pretty good. Not for the squeamish though.
Thanks for the info. I will have to check it out, my brother had mentioned something about that show the other night but he couldn't recall the name.clutch said:
First Sunday without a "Game of Thrones"
Withdrawal is setting in.
Sigh. Yep. Mighty fine while it lasted, though.
They have a number of behind the scenes shorts on Youtube: YouTube - ‪GameofThrones's Channel‬‏
Yeah, I've been fending off the withdrawal by reading the second book. It's slow getting started, but I'm enjoying it anyway. I'm not quite 100 pages in, soooo I've got about 1000 more to go.
I don't know whether to read the books and possibly spoil an awesome series.
I didn't find the series spoiled having read the first book. I mean, I knew what was coming, but it was still fun watching it unfold. They also added a bunch of stuff into the series which, in my opinion, essentially does in individual scenes what the books do in some 50 pages of revealing bits and bobs about the characters.
The scene between Robert and Cersei for example appears nowhere in the book, but it gives you a good sense of some other stuff that's alluded to in the book but very gradually and in bits and pieces here and there. Instead, they condense it to one very crisp, terrifically acted scene.
So, I'd say if you're curious, read the books. As has been said here, though, read only the first three, and then wait for the 5th to come out before reading 4 and 5 back-to-back. Apparently 4 and 5 tell two different sides of a single story and happen at the same time, with 4 happening in the south, and 5 happening in the north.
it isn't going to hurt starting 4 right now. 5 comes out in 2 weeks!
I'm in the middle of book 3. And i've had a lot spoiled for me by my cousin, who is waiting for 5 to come out. But even with things spoiled, I can't WAIT to read and get to those parts, and keep going, and keep finding out more. There are sooooo many twists and turns and wonderful characters.
Tyrion is one of my favorite characters EVER in literature. He's just that cool.
Read the books. It will ease the passing of time between seasons! I'm far too weak to wait. They are soooo good!
A question -
A while back, I got somewhere into book 3 (Storm of Swords) before stopping for whatever reason. I'm re-reading book 2 (Clash of Kings) to re-familiarize myself.
Theon's uncle is priest of the Drowned God, their ritual states "that which is dead may never die" and their emblem is a kraken. Am I reading too much into it, or are the Greyjoys essentially worshiping Cthulhu?
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