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Vintersorg posted:Phi keep drinking by yourself as you hate-watch this show you pathetic little worm. the nerds defending the show are more angry than I am whoda thunk its just a mediocre show nothing to bust a vein over
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Raxivace posted:You should just take film adaptations on their own in general- fidelity to the source material is completely independent of quality. Honestly the longer I have watched movies in my life the more this seems to be true; you're right.
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Apr 25, 2016 05:03
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SexyBlindfold posted:I'm glad the dogs disappeared because otherwise the dogs would have been hurt and they had a pretty hard job tracking through snow and frozen rivers but they did it!! They were Good Dogs. Honestly, if your dog can't track a man known as 'Reek', you need a better dog Maxwell Lord posted:I dunno, if those were the same dogs Ramsay used to hunt down one of his girlfriends a while back we may not want to be putting them on the "good" side just yet. Also this, Reek even mentions it. Ramsay's dogs are not nice. Also, Ramsay even mentioned that when Miranda wasn't afraid of him, she said it was because he couldn't do anything to her that the dogs didn't do. 
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Apr 25, 2016 05:04
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Maxwell Lord posted:I dunno, if those were the same dogs Ramsay used to hunt down one of his girlfriends a while back we may not want to be putting them on the "good" side just yet. Were they Pinochet-style hunting dogs? Those are the only bad dogs. Otherwise they're just doing their job!
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Apr 25, 2016 05:05
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Raxivace posted:You should just take film adaptations on their own in general- fidelity to the source material is completely independent of quality. I agree with this, but I can still understand why book-readers would be upset that some of the super-cool poo poo they talk about doesn't show up in the show. I feel like I can understand why it doesn't show up in the show (at least most of the time), but I get it.
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Bobo the Red posted:Honestly, if your dog can't track a man known as 'Reek', you need a better dog He had just had a bath, though.
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Xae posted:In the books Doran is a Littlefinger or Tywin level schemer. Pretty much this, one of the better parts of the latter books is the political scheming duel between Vayrs/Littlefinger/Doran with Manderly having his own plans and Sansa looking to eventually join in the last two books. Now it's down to pretty much Varys Order versus Littlefinger's Chaos because Doran's dead, they might not even introduce Manderly, and who the hell knows where Sansa's story arc is headed. Shittastic Dorn subplot aside everything else was pretty enjoyable this episode.
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Ragnarok the Red posted:Pretty much this, one of the better parts of the latter books is the political scheming duel between Vayrs/Littlefinger/Doran with Manderly having his own plans and Sansa looking to eventually join in the last two books. Now it's down to pretty much Varys Order versus Littlefinger's Chaos because Doran's dead, they might not even introduce Manderly, and who the hell knows where Sansa's story arc is headed. Sansa d'Arc maiden of winterfell patron saint of soldiers and france
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Apr 25, 2016 05:07
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Are there many repeated names in the series? I just realized one of the Sand sisters shares the same name as Arya's wolf.
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Apr 25, 2016 05:09
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Phi230 posted:the nerds defending the show are more angry than I am I'm busting my main vein if you know what I mean. Maybe you should take a long hard look at yourself in your stained mirror, remove your choker, and tuck yourself into bed for the long night's rest
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Apr 25, 2016 05:10
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SexyBlindfold posted:(Wait, did you take that from the opening credits? Don't they just list the appearing characters of each episode?) oh if that's the case, I could be wrong. I mean, I certainly hope I'm wrong. I'd like the Dorne scene tonight to just have been DB and DB coming out from under GRRM's thumb and being "yes finally we can kill everyone in Dorne and be done with that poo poo"
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SexyBlindfold posted:Were they Pinochet-style hunting dogs? Those are the only bad dogs. Otherwise they're just doing their job! That's the same excuse they used at the Nuremberg dog trials.
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Buddha. posted:I'm busting my main vein if you know what I mean. i thought i was watching the VVitch at the end there
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Zotix posted:Are there many repeated names in the series? I just realized one of the Sand sisters shares the same name as Arya's wolf. Usually it's people named after other people. Early on, Robert and Robb. They exclusively called Robert Arryn "Robin" so as to not have one more. Jon Snow and Jon Arryn.
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Apr 25, 2016 05:14
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I was hoping that Dany's storyline this season was that she'd be opposed by a Trumplike Khal we're gonna rebuild the fighting pits and valyria's gonna pay for it
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Phi230 posted:the nerds defending the show are more angry than I am
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Apr 25, 2016 05:15
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Sansa will eventually take Winterfell back and become the Queen of the North. Well, after Jon is revived by Melisandre, because he's gonna help her unite the north, then he'll stay at Castle Black to fight the White Walkers while Sansa stays at Winterfell. And somewhere in the middle of that Rickon will reunite with her
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Zotix posted:Are there many repeated names in the series? I just realized one of the Sand sisters shares the same name as Arya's wolf. Another one is that Bran is short for Brandon, which was both Ned's big brother's name (the guy the Mad King burned before the show), and the name of the founder of House Stark and guy who built the Wall, who people call Bran the Builder But yeah like the guy said there's a bunch because just like the real world people like to name their kids after ancestors and heroes and stuff
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Zotix posted:Are there many repeated names in the series? I just realized one of the Sand sisters shares the same name as Arya's wolf. Another one is named after notorious dead person Ellia Martell. Bran Stark might have been named after Edd's older brother, killed by the Mad King. Jon Snow was probably named after Jon Arryn.
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...Are there people still thinking that the book and TV series are one and the same? After what they've done and changed? You'd think that they'd get the hint that the show is going to do its own thing and just use the books for inspiration. I firmly believe most of the complaints are from book readers that aren't allowed to act all haughty and condescending that they know what happens in a show before the rest of us do, and instead get to actually enjoy a show and be surprised with the rest of us. I'm going to make it a point to ignore every post that compares what happens to the show unfavorably to something from the book, because it literally means nothing.
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Apr 25, 2016 05:22
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Bobo the Red posted:I want to know who was creeping on Tyrion and Varys. I was worried.
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Apr 25, 2016 05:23
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Zotix posted:Are there many repeated names in the series? I just realized one of the Sand sisters shares the same name as Arya's wolf. Nymeria was the badass warrior queen of Dorne in ancient history. Arya named her direwolf that cuz she's strong, independent, and not a "conventional" highborn girl. Sand Snake has the name cuz it's Dorne and they're more progessive about women being fighters or rulers.
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Apr 25, 2016 05:23
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I swear to God there is nothing funnier than goons smugposting about how tv shows don't make sense, only to find out they cannot understand the flashing lights and colours dancing before their eyes
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Apr 25, 2016 05:25
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For a good guy, Brienne's been alive for too long. It's gonna suck balls when she dies.
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Apr 25, 2016 05:29
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It's also funny how people can't remember things that happened within an hour's span. Probably because they were too busy on their smartphones shitposting instead of watching the show.
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Apr 25, 2016 05:29
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She completed two different character arcs in two episodes, shes hosed
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Bip Roberts posted:That or something equally contrived like she gave up her life force to bring JS back to life and turned in to a bangin' bod granny. There are hints in the books and the show that she's much older than she appears. The necklace seems to be what helps project the illusion because it disappeared as soon as the necklace came off
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Soothing Vapors posted:I swear to God there is nothing funnier than goons smugposting about how tv shows don't make sense, only to find out they cannot understand the flashing lights and colours dancing before their eyes the ghost of the true detective s2 thread (note: this is not a post about how true detective s2 was a great show)
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Also the choker thing is explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_P0hkDmAG0
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Apr 25, 2016 05:32
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Well, if you have to watch that in order to understand the episode, then that's just lazy writing. Hopefully they explain it in the next episode, if at all.
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Brennan posted:There are hints in the books and the show that she's much older than she appears. The necklace seems to be what helps project the illusion because it disappeared as soon as the necklace came off Someone on another site pointed out, this also means that she's been around a while- she's seen kingdoms fall and winters come and go before, so if she's freaking out now, things are REALLY hosed.
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Xanderkish posted:I agree with this, but I can still understand why book-readers would be upset that some of the super-cool poo poo they talk about doesn't show up in the show. I feel like I can understand why it doesn't show up in the show (at least most of the time), but I get it. Like part of the reason it took me a while to get on board with Game of Thrones is that I thought the first season did a terrible job establishing the relationships between a lot of the bajillion characters. It took me a longass time to figure out who the gently caress everyone was- I suspected that the most of the scripts were just dialogue from the novels copied and pasted in, with maybe some extra bits thrown in here and there. Later I actually read the first book and found that to largely be the case. However novels can also go on tangents very easily and give the reader paragraphs of information about the characters, how they relate to each other, their family histories, what they're feeling in the moment etc. I found this to be much more effective than what the show did because it took basic advantage of the medium of the written word to tell a story. Books are not constrained by visuals, but they also don't have visceral strength of visuals either, something I think the show generally actually handles very well- Ned getting beheaded is much more memorable in the show for this reason, whereas in the book it's not even directly depicted. Similarly, if The Winds of Winter has a chapter where Melisandre becomes an old woman suddenly, I guarantee it will be much less effective than the visual of the attractive, naked Clarice van Houten suddenly turning into a super old woman. I haven't read anything past the first book, so I can't say if what the books do with Dorne would have made for better television than what the show actually did. However we can still criticize what the show did without necessarily falling back on it being different than the books. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Apr 25, 2016 |
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Zotix posted:Are there many repeated names in the series? I just realized one of the Sand sisters shares the same name as Arya's wolf. The entire Frey family.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Someone on another site pointed out, this also means that she's been around a while- she's seen kingdoms fall and winters come and go before, so if she's freaking out now, things are REALLY hosed. Nothing's more depressing than a religious fanatic suddenly being filled with self-doubt.
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Raxivace posted:Hey listen, you loving take that back. Stannis was the rightful heir to the Iron Throne and had the Lord of Light on his side. He defended the Wall when everyone else was going to let it fall. this but also mostly unironically he's on a nice farm somewhere upkingdom with a The Hound to run and play with.
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Lotta people wishing they saw gruesome dog murders tonight.
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Soothing Vapors posted:I swear to God there is nothing funnier than goons smugposting about how tv shows don't make sense, only to find out they cannot understand the flashing lights and colours dancing before their eyes This and lmao - best episode ending evah. I swear, between that and the Sand Snakes bits it's almost as if D&D are deliberately trolling by this point. Or at least I'll choose to believe that, so long as cool scenes like those with Brienne and Davos also keep happening.
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Soothing Vapors posted:I swear to God there is nothing funnier than goons smugposting about how tv shows don't make sense, only to find out they cannot understand the flashing lights and colours dancing before their eyes *Scene cuts to Reek and Sansa running away with dogs audibly barking in the background* *head explodes*
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I swear, I thought you were all just become big RPG fanatics until I had to Google what "D&D" meant.
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The dogs have been totally played up as terrifying man-eaters, and then they just licked Sansa's face and disappeared. This is loving GoT, and least let us watch Pod get ravaged by hounds.
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