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404notfound posted:Long take in the courtyard was pretty sweet. Hell no she was trying to figure out how to switch sides gracefully.
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That episode rocked socks. I would've been happier if they wrapped up Jon's story for this season, but whatever. We only get one battle a season at most, and this one kicked rear end. If you actually count the number of people on the south side of the wall, there really aren't that many. You had about four in the kitchens, 20 at the start, plus about 10 or so that filtered in to help out. It definitely looks like a lot more when you've got all the wildlings killing dudes, too. That battle probably had 60 people in it, max. I bet some guy's gonna  and make a video counting the deaths, but I would actually watch it, because I'm kinda curious how much attention they paid to the whole thing.
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Some cool visuals, I still don't give a gently caress about John, RIP Ygritte. Badass Sam was ok.
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ParliamentOfDogs posted:I was expecting Jon and Sam to walk into the tunnel at the end and get mauled by the giant. I was shocked Team Grenn took it down with them. I wished they would have showed it instead of Slynts bullshit.
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Episode would've been greatly improved with half of Sam's unnecessary bullshit conversations replaced by Tormund telling us more about that time he hosed a bear.
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No More Heroes posted:I wished they would have showed it instead of Slynts bullshit. Same. I was pumped up for that poo poo. *giant charges* "AND WE ARE THE MEMBERS OF THE NIGHTS WATCH" *giant charges even closer* "AND WE WILL FIGHT UNTIL" *giant bashes the wall* *smash cut to the boring battle up top*
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Jun 9, 2014 05:45
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The best part of these threads is all the people who feel superior because they haven't read a book.
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Ogmius815 posted:The best part of these threads is all the people who feel superior because they haven't read a book. You can feel like an insecure weenie without anyone feeling superior about anything, fyi
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Ogmius815 posted:The best part of these threads is all the people who feel superior because they haven't read a book. If that is what you think motivates the people who don't like OKAY I AM PISSED ABOUT WHAT THEY CHANGED IN THE BOOKS BLAH posts then you aren't very perceptive.
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Ogmius815 posted:The best part of these threads is all the people who feel superior because they haven't read a book. Nerds are super obsessed with others perceiving them as smart and cool, whether it's lording the fact that they read thousands of words about rape and lemoncakes over someone else's head, or jumping on a bandwagon when something is an HBO show (and thus socially acceptable) while decrying its almost identical source material as garbage for mega virgins
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Ogmius815 posted:The best part of these threads is all the people who feel superior because they haven't read a book. Well, the show is much more enjoyable for them, so in a way, they are better.
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a cop posted:Well, the show is much more enjoyable for them, so in a way, they are better. I don't get this, really. The show's loving great, and the books are great but in a different way. If a were a useless moron who couldn't enjoy it unless it followed the books closely, I can see how I'd be upset, but luckily that's not the case. The show has, by and large, taken everything that's awesome about the books and made it as good or better. If the tiny details that change upset you to the point you'd even bother talking about them, you should probably have yourself checked out for autism.
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Episode was so dark and brown. Following the action was fun, but it was visually bland as gently caress.
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PT6A posted:I don't get this, really. The show's loving great, and the books are great but in a different way. If a were a useless moron who couldn't enjoy it unless it followed the books closely, I can see how I'd be upset, but luckily that's not the case. The show has, by and large, taken everything that's awesome about the books and made it as good or better. If the tiny details that change upset you to the point you'd even bother talking about them, you should probably have yourself checked out for autism. Sorry
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BubbleGoose posted:Game of Thrones is so drat bleak, I half wish that after the series is finally done HBO invites back the entire cast in full costume to do a choral rendition of 'Comedy Tonight.' That would be really nice. "Don't worry folks, it's just a show!" All CGI'ed atop the smoking ruin that is all that remains of Westeros when the Lord of Light makes His appearance in the form of a red comet that everyone has ignored for six seasons. OOPS! You're all exploded into meat chunks and the tsunami went across the sea and killed all the towns over there. Ha ha ha ah <GRRM cashes his checks and dances off to his wolf sanctuary> I loved the giant scythe. Hahahah that was badass.
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This episode was pure hollywood, and after 4 seasons of everyone I love dying, it's kind of refreshing.
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FAGGY CLAUSE posted:I actually want Mance to win. I pretty much hate everyone in Westeros and I'd like to see him gently caress things up a little bit.
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a cop posted:Sorry Apology accepted. Obviously, you're not drinking enough if you can remember things that happen in the book by the time the episode comes on.
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DaveKap posted:Everyone wanted the kid nodding but quite honestly it sucks in gif form. Have you considered it sucks because your gif of it sucks
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That was great when Jon Snow used the SPIT IN ENEMY'S FACE move he unlocked by fighting the Gin Alley superstar guy. I was a little disappointed with the head cannibal man, turned out his entire purpose was basically to be a boss fight.
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Sam the man > Stannis the Mannis.
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That was the worst game of thrones episode I've seen. Sam and Jon are really loving boring and there is a ton more interesting stuff going on elsewhere. Absolutely nothing interesting happened. This could have been a 5 minute battle and got the point across. I hope they never focus on a single charater in one episode again What a let down.
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Meowbot posted:That was the worst game of thrones episode I've seen. Sam and Jon are really loving boring and there is a ton more interesting stuff going on elsewhere. Absolutely nothing interesting happened. This could have been a 5 minute battle and got the point across. I hope they never focus on a single charater in one episode again What a let down. On the other hand, gently caress that.
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I thought this episode was garbage personally.
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ParliamentOfDogs posted:If that is what you think motivates the people who don't like OKAY I AM PISSED ABOUT WHAT THEY CHANGED IN THE BOOKS BLAH posts then you aren't very perceptive. I normally don't give a poo poo if people are upset about if something was changed from whatever source material or not. Provided the adaption is good content that stands on its own. However, as a viewer, stuff in this episode didn't seem to gel right in general, and there are some parts that literally make no sense at all. Then book readers are disappointed about it. That makes me think HBO did their own thing and ended up loving it up compared to if they had just done what was in the books. This doesn't feel like the stupid whining about the exact wording not being the same when Little Finger pushed whats her face off the castle. Or maybe it was a larger deviation in that episode too. It doesn't matter because it was well executed, stood on its own, and made perfect sense. I've only read the first book, and that was right after season one. The first season was basically a straight copy and paste from the book, and they only glossed over some minor details, or changed stuff for budget reasons (like Ned's wife takes a very budget friendly trip on a road, where she takes a budget guzzling ship in the book). After watching season one and reading the first book, I didn't feel the desire to read more books. This episode makes me want to read the books, because I'm feeling like they really hosed up something pretty epic.
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Meowbot posted:That was the worst game of thrones episode I've seen. Sam and Jon are really loving boring and there is a ton more interesting stuff going on elsewhere. Absolutely nothing interesting happened. This could have been a 5 minute battle and got the point across. I hope they never focus on a single charater in one episode again What a let down. Troll harder
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Why do they have to man the wall? Why are there night's watchmen on the wall? It's a big wall. The only way to get through the Wall is the gates, and the only reason they don't seal the gates is so the night's watch can go through them. Seal them up and get down from there. What are you doing, why are you building another castle on the wall? It's a thousand feet high the only thing you are doing is introducing more doors on the wall and a giant ladder system that people can use to climb the wall. If the night's watch did not exist and they just left the wall as an actual wall there is no way the wildlings would ever be able to cross with all their families and wagons and mammoths and giants. Let them climb the wall, half of them would die anyway and the rest would sack Molestown. Wait, no they wouldn't because that lovely town only exists because of the Night's Watch. They would sack some stupid windmill or kill a potato dad and then Winterfell would crush them. There should be two castles on the wall: one at each end, where it hits the sea. Send patrols every now and then to make sure it hasn't fallen down. That's it. No more. Everybody GET DOWN FROM THE WALL IT IS DANGEROUS.
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I can see how people would find this episode boring when taken by itself. However, when watching the series as a whole where can you just watch the next episode immediately? It's going to be pretty awesome and the majority of complaints about it will be gone.
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I've had a hard time giving a gently caress about anything happening in the wall or the north so while this was a fun episode, I couldn't really have been less interested in it.
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Cyclomatic posted:book books book book book books Well gently caress off and read the books then. Stop posting about them.
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HaroldofTheRock posted:That was great when Jon Snow used the SPIT IN ENEMY'S FACE move he unlocked by fighting the Gin Alley superstar guy. At first I thought Sam killed him but on the second watch-through I see Sam killed the warg 
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The only actual bad part of the episode was Jon and Ygritte's ~True Love~ scene. Also kinda meh on how visually dark the whole episode was as well. But other than that, it was pretty great. The giant archer was  as all hell and the Scythe was loving rad.
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Rodyle posted:That was terrible. I've never seen an episode of Game of Thrones that I've disliked. Scenes? Sure. But the worst I've said about whole episodes was "that was better in the books." This time? EVERYTHING got hosed up. Every single good thing about the two wildling battles was made awful in this. What a piece of poo poo episode. AS A BOOK READER I think this show is improving on all the weak parts of the books and is making the good parts even better. See how I did that? My opinion must be right, because I'm a book reader. No one gives a poo poo about the books in this particular thread, I say that as a book reader. PT6A posted:I don't get this, really. The show's loving great, and the books are great but in a different way. If a were a useless moron who couldn't enjoy it unless it followed the books closely, I can see how I'd be upset, but luckily that's not the case. The show has, by and large, taken everything that's awesome about the books and made it as good or better. If the tiny details that change upset you to the point you'd even bother talking about them, you should probably have yourself checked out for autism. This is basically the truth.
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I'm really rooting for the Wildling army to stomp through the wall and start laying siege to Westeros. They got stuck on the wrong side of the wall through sheer circumstance, as far as I know there's no immigration system in place to help well-intentioned Wildlings start a new life in the south, and yet they've overcome their frankly poo poo situation to finally rally and take control of their fate. Westeros, on the other hand, is a corrupt latter-age Rome situation that functions as a playground for a bunch of unworthy oval office leaders. I'd watch the rag-tag team of giants and cannibals sack King's Landing with glee. Also Tormund. Tormund for president.
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Junkfist posted:Episode would've been greatly improved with half of Sam's unnecessary bullshit conversations replaced by Tormund telling us more about that time he hosed a bear. loving Ygritte interrupting the beginning of a good story. How will we ever know now what comes after he finds out the ladybear is soft down there?
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