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    Jun 19, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #126

    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.
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    Jun 19, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #127

    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.
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    Jun 19, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #128

    Solo4114 said: View Post
    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?
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    Jun 20, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #129

    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.
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    Jun 20, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #130

    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
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    Jun 20, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #131

    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.
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    Jun 20, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #132

    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.
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    Jun 20, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #133

    I thought that was about as good a finale as you could ask for. One slight change from the book that I noticed:

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    When they find Daenerys after the fire dies down, she's otherwise unhurt, but her hair had burned away.


    No biggie, though. Still a great scene.
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    Jun 20, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #134

    SmilingOtter said: View Post
    I thought that was about as good a finale as you could ask for. One slight change from the book that I noticed:

    Spoiler:
    When they find Daenerys after the fire dies down, she's otherwise unhurt, but her hair had burned away.


    No biggie, though. Still a great scene.

    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:
    I am, however, glad to see that Julian Glover is in better shape than the character he's playing! I was thinking to myself "MAN he's gone downhill", but I'm glad to see he's still pretty spry.
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    Jun 20, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #135

    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.
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    Jun 20, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #136

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    Jun 20, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #137

    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.
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    Jun 20, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #138

    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 reading Winters coming!
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    Jun 21, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #139

    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
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    Jun 21, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #140

    You missed the previous page...

    Kerr Avon said: View Post
    After the last episode, I particularly enjoyed this video of Joffrey getting the **** slapped out of him for 10 minutes: In the Game of Thrones, You Win or You Get ************ by Peter Dinklage for 10 Straight Minutes - Topless Robot
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    Jun 21, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #141

    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.
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    Jun 21, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #142

    I'll have to Check it out. Thanks
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    Jun 26, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #143

    clutch said: View Post
    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.
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    Jun 26, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #144

    First Sunday without a "Game of Thrones"

    Withdrawal is setting in.
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    Jun 26, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #145

    Sigh. Yep. Mighty fine while it lasted, though.

    They have a number of behind the scenes shorts on Youtube: YouTube - ‪GameofThrones's Channel‬‏
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    Jun 27, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #146

    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.
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    Jun 27, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #147

    I don't know whether to read the books and possibly spoil an awesome series.
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    Jun 27, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #148

    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.
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    Jun 30, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #149

    it isn't going to hurt starting 4 right now. 5 comes out in 2 weeks! Six and seven however.. we might be waiting for a while on.

    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!
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    Jul 13, 2011 - Re: Game of Thrones #150

    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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