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Man the last time I took two weeks to read a book I was seven years old. It wasn't her chapters that kept me going.
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When reading late-period GRRM, you take your enjoyment where you can.
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Joffrey's wedding is near enough that they could do them at the same time, just move his up a bit. Call the episode "The Red Wedding" and let people assume the red refers to the Lannister colors. I'd structure the episode so we see Joff first and the non-readers think it's some kind of contrast or reversal and then start the slaughter at the Twins.
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Jun 5, 2012 10:35
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While that's the better way to do it, no question, they could also do it if Walder Frey or someone creepy is given a line about deflowering a girl and calling it a "red wedding", feinting the audience by making them think it's just a memetic reference to the awful way women are treated in the GRRM-verse.
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Jun 5, 2012 15:30
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Get Billy Idol in there as a minstrel. He knows a pretty good wedding song.
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Joda posted:Also, while on the topic of CGI budget, I hope the show gets a significantly bigger budget next year. I'm worried they'll have to default to characters talking about the vast majority of events involving White Walkers and dragons. 
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Related: From here quote:2. Are the White Walkers back for good? It's like watching characters in a horror movie going down into the basement. Don't go down there, girl.
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quote:10. Will Brienne get Jamie Lannister to his destination in one piece? So I'm assuming he hasn't lost his hand yet. That is the best question.
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Jun 5, 2012 17:32
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We all shall have balls a legendary shade of blue, like a pair of white walker eyeballs nestled deep in their rotting sockets to keep out the winter's chill in a cold, dying world
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Jun 5, 2012 17:35
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RizieN posted:Can someone settle a dispute? To be fair, it was the guy's friend, not that poster, but 
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Jun 5, 2012 18:19
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So Daenerys believes she's the last Targ and that she's infertile -- has she spared a moment to think about this or is she content to let Westeros devolve into the inevitable war of succession after her death?
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Just watched the last episode. "They'll be waiting a long time" sums up Dany's storyline pretty well.hand of luke posted:So Daenerys believes she's the last Targ and that she's infertile -- has she spared a moment to think about this or is she content to let Westeros devolve into the inevitable war of succession after her death? Urdnot Fire fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Jun 5, 2012 |
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Jun 5, 2012 20:34
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Well, now. HBO truly has no shame at all when it comes to merchandising. I look forward to the high-quality replica of Sean Bean's noggin and a realistic wolf mask you can don beneath your nine-spiked crown of bronze.
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Jun 5, 2012 22:24
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$30 grand for a big lovely metal chair? You could learn how to weld, by the materials, make the loving thing, pay yourself $100/hr for all that AND buy a car to haul the poo poo home from Hope Depot and still have money left over.
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Jun 5, 2012 22:32
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HBO can do as they like.
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Jun 5, 2012 22:41
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What, now Loosechanj changes the tag to "unfunny"?
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Jun 5, 2012 22:54
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whowhatwhere posted:What, now Loosechanj changes the tag to "unfunny"? What was it before? poo poo? It probably should be poo poo.
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IRQ posted:What was it before? poo poo? It probably should be poo poo. Gross would work.
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It was still Event. Because ADWD had come out around a year ago. Oh well, get thread title, get labelled unfunny. GRRM is a fickle mistress.
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Jun 6, 2012 00:50
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Or sex.
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Goddamn, watch this viewer capture everything about Dany based entirely on the show:Axeface posted:Given the contrast with the experiences of Sansa, Cersei, Catelyn, Brienne, and Margaery, I'd say Dany's arc is very consciously written as a rebuttal of standard fantasy cliches...it's just that I think it still has to exist in tension with the rest of work, and, within that context, with the values of its own fairly self-contained narrative. I'm as down with righteous warrior princesses as the next guy, but Dany's not written quite that simply. She starts out as the same kind of passive, domesticated princess that Sansa does, and her whole arc (and Sansa's, and implicitly Cersei's, etc.) is growing out of that through hard experience. But where Sansa et al. found their ambitions run headlong into GRRM's disdain for fantasy tropes, Dany has instead been fairly successful overcoming obstacles on her own terms. She’s the Mother of Dragons, right? But that doesn’t make her just a fragile princess: That makes her the Chosen One. And I think the main thrust of Dany’s arc is deconstructing that trope. Sometimes it really is the smart thread.
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from me again, but I’m sticking by my point: Dany is absurd, and this absurdity is the driving force behind all the narrative tension that she generates.
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Jun 6, 2012 01:25
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No nudity outside of the requisite Ros tits, and there was some good poo poo: Alfie Allen and Peter Dinklage still were shining beacons and the Fist was pretty nice (though the quality of the White Walker's face varies depending who you ask). Robb is really dumb and married Jeyne for no real reason, and Qhorin and his duel with Jon was super underwhelming. All in all, it was a disappointment after Blackwater.
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The finale was pretty dumb though the scene with the Walkers was okay.
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Tyrion's scar was total pussy rear end crap. And Shae just gets worse and worse.
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By which you mean more and more people think she's actually pretty cool instead of yelling at Tyrion for being an idiot?
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Seriously, this Shae is much better than the one from the start of the season or the books.
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It's specifically the actress I don't like, and by worse and worse I actually mean consistently bad.
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Most of Shae's scenes make me uncomfortable because they just serve to underline what a complete sad sack of a man Tyrion is. I mean, gently caress. He loves this whore he basically just met because she's kind to him. That is tragic as hell. Especially because Tyrion is so drat smart and cunning and yet he can't help but fall under at the slightest kindness. Even when rationally he knows that he's paying for it. It's loving sad. Tywin broke the hell out of him. However, I don't mind Shae schoolin' Sansa on how not to be murder bait. That's the only time I enjoy her character. Well, that and "I'll cut their faces off!" That was pretty cool. But flouncing around telling me how she loves the smell of cum? Bitch can get strangled annny old time. Even Ros is classier than that, HBO. 
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GRRM insisted on one (1) mention of sexual fluids per season as one of the nonnegotiable elements of the contract. Preferably mentioned by beautiful women. He's going to insist on the licking the sticky princes line being in an ep.
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As much as no one wants to hear it, I don't think they'll show his wolf's head sewn to his body in the HBO series. Just throwing that out there.
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Dead Man Posting posted:As much as no one wants to hear it, I don't think they'll show his wolf's head sewn to his body in the HBO series. As long as we still get to hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth of newbie fans, it's all good. GRRM can rape his way into their hearts, just as he did ours.
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I was pretty amped to see "Weasel Soup" play out this season, but that sort of not happened.
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Martin Van Buren posted:It's specifically the actress I don't like, and by worse and worse I actually mean consistently bad. That long post about Dany reminded me about some feminist blogs that complain that Gurm is throwing poo poo at all his female characters. It's true, the fate of Sansa, Cat and even Cersei is certainly not enviable. But not only strong and weak women suffer, strong and weak men do as well: Ned, Tywin, Tyrion and especially that womanizer Theon. Latter's case is pretty strong argument against misogyny. I just hope Gurm really isn't in love with Dany. Princess Perfect is tiresome.
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Dead Man Posting posted:As much as no one wants to hear it, I don't think they'll show his wolf's head sewn to his body in the HBO series. You don't even "see" it in the books.
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Why talk about ASOIAF when we can talk about James Harden's beard, thats what up
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Rurik posted:I just hope Gurm really isn't in love with Dany. Princess Perfect is tiresome.
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Stupid sexy Emilia Clark.
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Stupid sexy Ned Actually more like stupid Ned Stark.
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