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AStrangeDuelist posted:Which two? Dany being a dumbass (Season/Book 2) and Jon being an idiot (pick a chapter/episode). The only reason Cercei's not up there is that (like the books) she's hardly been present since Ned's execution (minus the Blackwater episode) until Joffrey dies.
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computer parts posted:Dany being a dumbass (Season/Book 2) and Jon being an idiot (pick a chapter/episode). I wouldn't say either have been dumb or idiotic so far, apart from Jon losing the Halfhand when trying to execute Ygritte. They were MUCH worse in ADwD.
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Jan 18, 2014 16:04
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AStrangeDuelist posted:I wouldn't say either have been dumb or idiotic so far, apart from Jon losing the Halfhand when trying to execute Ygritte. They were MUCH worse in ADwD. Dany literally spent the last half of Season 2 in quick cameos yelling "MY DRAGOOOONS!  " until she went to the House of the Undying.
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Jan 18, 2014 16:17
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computer parts posted:Dany literally spent the last half of Season 2 in quick cameos yelling "MY DRAGOOOONS! It's not like her ACoK chapters were much better, though.
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Jan 18, 2014 16:21
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Toplowtech posted:The books have been translated in French, Italian, Polish Dutch, German and Spanish since the end of the 90s and in Japanese and Korean since 2001-2002. Check the Japanese covers. These covers are seriously awesome. They make me want to play a Game of Thrones jRPG.
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Jan 18, 2014 17:27
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Marijuana posted:It's not like her ACoK chapters were much better, though. They were. Anything is better than the dragon theft, especially when Dany's ACOK chapters include The House of the Undying and the arrival of Arstan and Strong Belwas.
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Jan 18, 2014 17:33
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AStrangeDuelist posted:Which two? How do you know that? Most of the problems with reading them came from the choice to split them geographically rather than chronologically, which will obviously be going, and with poo poo moving too slowly, which the TV show can fix. Also, just because they've clung closely to the structure of the more narratively successful books doesn't mean they'll do the same with the ones that had issues, "they made good books into good TV so they'll make bad books into bad TV" is not a logical progression.
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Jan 18, 2014 17:42
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In It For The Tank posted:They were. Anything is better than the dragon theft, especially when Dany's ACOK chapters include The House of the Undying and the arrival of Arstan and Strong Belwas. I was mostly being sarcastic and I was excluding the House of the Undying chapter and I should have mentioned it. That is definitely one of the spookiest chapters in the entire series. I forgot about the market scene with Belwas, Arstan, and the Sorrowful Man. But other than those two chapters, I remember her time in Qarth being really boring. With that said, the tv adaptation with the dragon theft and Daxos making himself the King of Qarth was loving awful.
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Jan 18, 2014 17:50
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GuyDudeBroMan posted:Imagine if the Iron Throne was made of dicks Maybe  but you do realise that Jaime makes this exact quip about Renly in the show, right?
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Marijuana posted:I remember her time in Qarth being really boring. That's because there was no tension in her chapters. There's literally nothing driving her events there other than Xaro constantly proposing marriage to her and the warlocks imploring her to go to the House of the Undying. And I guess Quaithe? Quaithe didn't really give her prophecy to Dany in the show has she? I'm probably more inclined to prefer the season 2 storyline, granted, I saw the show's events before reading the books, but at least there's something driving the action. I wonder if they'll bring Ducksauce back in the show though...it could be a really cheesy HE'S RETURNED FROM THE DEAD soap opera moment that I would kind of love.
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Jan 18, 2014 19:22
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Dany doesn't have that many chapters in ACOK, so although what is there is somewhat lacking in suspense and intrigue it's not as annoying as what we had in the show where for obvious reasons they have to focus on Dany and have her do something heroic in time for the season finale. The previous season felt somewhat similar with Dany's story after the sacking of astapor, particularly with the finale. I think that the next season might be similar in that regard.
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Jan 18, 2014 19:35
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Mike N Eich posted:I wonder if they'll bring Ducksauce back in the show though...it could be a really cheesy HE'S RETURNED FROM THE DEAD soap opera moment that I would kind of love. He wasn't killed in the show though, just locked behind a door, with a smoking hot hooker to keep him company until somebody comes along and breaks the wall.
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Jan 18, 2014 19:36
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Midnight City posted:He wasn't killed in the show though, just locked behind a door, with a smoking hot hooker to keep him company until somebody comes along and breaks the wall. Nothing can break Valyrian Stone 
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Jan 18, 2014 19:41
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I don't know if this has been posted in here but Jack Gleason recently had another speaking engagement where he discusses his overall view of how his life has been affected by the show. The more I hear him talk the more I believe we'll never see him in acting again after the purple wedding. http://youtu.be/uKboLTwzFTs
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Jan 18, 2014 19:48
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Mike N Eich posted:I wonder if they'll bring Ducksauce back in the show though...it could be a really cheesy HE'S RETURNED FROM THE DEAD soap opera moment that I would kind of love. Or, because he was lying about virtually everything else, he also lied about the impenetrable vault and just waited a while before opening the door from the inside.
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Well, after several incidents of people finding themselves locked into impenetrable safes, Qartheen regulations state that all immense vaults must have an emergency release handle on the inside, as well as a small emergency light to illuminate it.
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Jan 18, 2014 19:54
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Dany's plot in CoK was "Dany finds a city that's nice to her and hangs out in the lap of luxury for a while until she decides to visit a warlock house because that might be fun. Turns out it isn't fun, so she burns it down and leaves the city." I get that she wasn't great in Season 2 but they had nothing to work with whatsoever.
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AStrangeDuelist posted:Looking forward to season 4, but after I'm done with this series. Really hated the direction George took after the 3rd book, and frankly not looking forward to Dumbass!Dany, Slutty!Cersei and Dipshit!Jon. Cersei was "slutty" in every book since two. The only change in her sexual lifestyle after her son died was she tried having sex with a woman to see what it was like, otherwise we had Tyrion's chapters constantly informing us of the various men she was using as surrogates for Jaime. And Daenerys and Jon's stories in 5 were pretty much logical extensions of their characters in the first 3: Daenerys has consistently been fawning over and pining for her dead rapist brute of a husband so her falling for a shithead like Daario isn't farfetched, and Jon's entire arc has really been about loyalty. Unless you're referring to something else, I don't really see what you mean.
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DeepQantas posted:Brienne and Pod visit a monastery and the head monk dude is like "Yea, Hound is dead, buried him myself" but then there's this mute new guy that gets along well with dogs or sth.
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JT Jag posted:The Hound is dead. Sandor Clegane is alive. So who killed all those people in Saltpan? Oh right he's dead as well, well, Lem is the hound now. You can't kill an idea, man.
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emanresu tnuocca posted:So who killed all those people in Saltpan?
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Sandor is probably the best character in the books to me just because of how consistent he is. Maybe it's due to no POV chapters for him but he really doesn't make any decisions that aren't understandable. I'm hoping the show doesn't do what the books do and he doesn't just disappears on the show after Arya leaves him or it's going to suck.
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emanresu tnuocca posted:So who killed all those people in Saltpan?  Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man.
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Marijuana posted:Nothing can break Valyrian Stone Oh the Valyrians are the best at everything 
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Midnight City posted:Sandor is probably the best character in the books to me just because of how consistent he is. Maybe it's due to no POV chapters for him but he really doesn't make any decisions that aren't understandable. Yeah, he's quite the character in the books, and Rory McCann does a pretty solid job, which only makes it that much more enthralling.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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ShaqDiesel posted:Oh the Valyrians are the best at everything Except for not going extinct.
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In It For The Tank's OP posted:
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We know he's not Styr, but we know he's involved in the Battle at the Wall in some fashion. Based on this photo, it looks like there is notably bald contingent of raiders, probably Thenns. You also can see Gatt hanging out with the rest of the cast from the Battle of the Wall here. Also, while I was snooping through Winter is Coming's tumblr looking for those picture, I learned that today's the SAG awards, and then found my favorite picture:  Why is Isaac slowly becoming Kit Harrington from 2009? In It For The Tank fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Jan 19, 2014 |
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In It For The Tank posted:Why is Isaac slowly becoming Kit Harrington from 2009? Because younger brothers emulate their siblings? Alternatively, he needs glasses?
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In It For The Tank posted:Why is Isaac slowly becoming Kit Harrington from 2009? I believe you will find Kit Harrington actually used to look like JJ Abrams.
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In It For The Tank posted:We know he's not Styr, but we know he's involved in the Battle at the Wall in some fashion. Based on this photo, it looks like there is notably bald contingent of raiders, probably Thenns. You also can see Gatt hanging out with the rest of the cast from the Battle of the Wall here. Oh my God Theon has that shiteating grin even as a child
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Mike N Eich posted:Oh my God Theon has that shiteating grin even as a child This is 2009? Did he age 10 years in only one?
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ShaqDiesel posted:Oh the Valyrians are the best at everything Maybe the reason Melisandre overlooked Daenerys is that out east by Asshai none of the Valyrian stuff is particularly special or impressive, and to her the Targaryens are just another group of savage western warlords.
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Some more footage from the upcoming season got posted in a little featurette. A bit of Tyrion's trial and the raid on the Wall with some other miscellaneous stuff mixed in. http://www.hbo.com/video/video.html?autoplay=true&vid=1362499
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The Sharmat posted:Maybe the reason Melisandre overlooked Daenerys is that out east by Asshai none of the Valyrian stuff is particularly special or impressive, and to her the Targaryens are just another group of savage western warlords. Is Rhollorism an export from Asshai?
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lifts cats over head posted:I don't know if this has been posted in here but Jack Gleason recently had another speaking engagement where he discusses his overall view of how his life has been affected by the show. The more I hear him talk the more I believe we'll never see him in acting again after the purple wedding. This is really nice. I think he's flat-out stated that he wants to get into academia (and possibly clergy??) but I would love to see him do some writing in another 10-15 years.
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colonel_korn posted:Some more footage from the upcoming season got posted in a little featurette. A bit of Tyrion's trial and the raid on the Wall with some other miscellaneous stuff mixed in. Things noticed: Brienne in full plate, apparently in some sort of fight? Also, likely the scene where Jaime gives her Oathkeeper (she's examining a sword and he's there, though I almost didn't recognize him) Bald dude with strange ridges in his head: Magnar of Thenn? Got giddy seeing Oberyn - Tywin - Mace seated for the trial. Also a shot of Oberyn with his leg up at a council meeting or something, they're really doing a lot with his body language already.
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You know how we occasionally joked that all the parents naming their daughters Dany or Arya would eventually be embarrassed by their namesakes becoming Fantasy Hitler and Fantasy Jack the Ripper? Yeah, well, it could be worse. Some poor girl was apparently baptised Cersei  fake edit: also ctrl-F "beijing" on that page for a bonus round
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CapnAndy posted:Dany's plot in CoK was "Dany finds a city that's nice to her and hangs out in the lap of luxury for a while until she decides to visit a warlock house because that might be fun. Turns out it isn't fun, so she burns it down and leaves the city." And at least the shows gives her a reason to go into that goddam house. It never made much sense in the books. "Here is this spooky house of those strange guys who had been insisting that I should go there I dont know why! People say they are dangeours and that whoever goes there never comes back, but it surely sounds fun and perhaps they can give me some clues! Oh, I have to go alone? Sure, no problem! Oh, and I have to take this drug first? Hell yeah!" Elias_Maluco fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Jan 19, 2014 |
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