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What the fuck did I just see ?  |
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Threash
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The two Lannister guards at the beginning of the episode having the stereotypical "who's the best fighter" conversation you see on every single message board cracked me the fuck up.
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kaid
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boy shepard/malamute/english mastiff/great pyranees makes for one impressively big arsed dog. Should be a pretty friendly one though as all the breeds involved are good tempered.
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What the fuck did I just see ? A new HBO show called "Game of Boobs" |
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angry.bob
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Quarth looks like a very nice place to live. I bet they have a lot of fresh fruit there.
Two guards at the beginning were awesome. "How good could he be? He's been stabbin' Renly Boratheon for years now and he's still alive"
Tywin Lannister is awesome, or maybe it's just Charles Dance. Either way, the character seems like my grandfather - spends all his time cleaning up the shitpiles left by his children, grandchildren, and marginally competent employees.
Stannis Boratheon reminds me of Holly from the Red Dwarf TV show. I can take nothing he says can be taken seriously now.
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Der Helm
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What the fuck did I just see ? A new HBO show called "Game of Boobs" Probably true, but I was referring to final scene |
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God of light my ass. I would say burn it with fire but I'm not sure that would work!  |
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Wow. Best episode of the season so far! Joffrey is a devil-child indeed, that young man is, as Joe Pesci would say "a troubled yute". So many great scenes, the torture scene, Robb Stark's scene, any scene with Peter Dinklage and the ending was Boy, that came out of left field! And no Jon Snow. Sorry, but that's the weakest part of the show for me. Just doesn't grab me. I forget why they are even north of the wall. Show comes to a skidding halt every time I see snow. Daenerys exile was just long enough and I look forward to her new storyline. Love Arya's new plotline, this show does have its twists and turns. Surprised how concerned I am for her, but she's a little toughie. Love it love it. |
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Cheddar
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Is Martin involved with the show script? This is truly amazing- I was worried how the plots would pan out due to the deep nature of the books. Whoever is designing the TV series is downright fabulous.
Outstanding.
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No Nerf, but I put a link to this very thread and I said that you all can guarantee for my purity. I even mentioned your case, and see if they can take a look at your lawn from a Michigan perspective.
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Tannhauser
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Isn't he an executive producer? Figured it was one of those appeasement titles, like John Hamm in Mad Men.
Haven't read the books, but wow, what a fascinating world he's created!
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kaid
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Is Martin involved with the show script? This is truly amazing- I was worried how the plots would pan out due to the deep nature of the books. Whoever is designing the TV series is downright fabulous.
Outstanding.
He has a lot of contact with the writers and he does write some specific episodes himself. He has a lot of experience doing TV scripts as he did the old beauty and the beast show. |
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Tannhauser
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I gladly stand corrected. That's pretty great that he has TV experience. I hesitate to draw this parallel, but it's almost like if Tolkien were alive and adapted LOTR for HBO.
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Rasix
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What the fuck did I just see ? A new HBO show called "Game of Boobs" Last episode was a bit more like "Game of Torture (guest starring Boobs)". Glad they've moved on from Infanticide. Still, solid episode, IMO. Moved rather well. Tyrion's scene with Lancel was very well adapted. |
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Arthur_Parker
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I gladly stand corrected. That's pretty great that he has TV experience. I hesitate to draw this parallel, but it's almost like if Tolkien were alive and adapted LOTR for HBO.
Only if his wife had cheated on him with C S Lewis and murdered his cat. |
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Cheddar
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Last episode was a bit more like "Game of Torture (guest starring Boobs)". Glad they've moved on from Infanticide.
Still, solid episode, IMO. Moved rather well. Tyrion's scene with Lancel was very well adapted.
They are knocking out concepts/character development that took hundreds and hundreds of pages. Personally, I love the way they are portraying some pivotal plotlines (example, The mountain and Tickler scene). It makes me warm and fuzzy they will pull off book 3. THAT is going to take some skill. |
No Nerf, but I put a link to this very thread and I said that you all can guarantee for my purity. I even mentioned your case, and see if they can take a look at your lawn from a Michigan perspective.
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Threash
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I see why the skip a lot of stuff, but for example the mountain and tickler stuff was some of the best writing Martin has done and it really hurts to lose Aryas trip through the ravaged countryside with them. You had a palpable feeling of hopelessness and despair while reading all those chapters, it was basically the most interesting part of all the Arya chapters in the entire saga so far. I know they need to drop lots of stuff, but did we really need yet another "Joffrey is a sick fuck" scene?
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luckton
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So...yeah...my wife and I were bored Sunday, so we finally jumped into this series. I've been trying to get her to watch it with me for a while, because she likes the whole medieval-genre, but everytime I brought up the name, she thought it was some weird sci-fi/fantasy show based on title alone Six episodes of visceral sword fighting, jousting, and whoring later, and I think she's pretty hooked  |
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How the hell do you get sci-fi out of the name "Game of Thrones"?
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luckton
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How the hell do you get sci-fi out of the name "Game of Thrones"?
She's a bit...touched...when it comes to stuff requiring the use of one's imagination  |
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Merusk
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So what was the scene everyone's all about? I read the books and I'm not paying for HBO so there's no spoilers for me. Share away (under tags, of course) |
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Ooooh, yeah that's a good'un.
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HaemishM
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When I read that scene in the book, I kept thinking "How the fuck are they going to show that on TV?"
What they showed was even squinckier than what I imagined in the book. That is a cringeworthy scene if ever there was one.
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Ironwood
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"There's no cure for being a cunt." Yeah, that was my favourite line and should have been the title of the whole episode. Have these guys not met a Sadist before ? I'm thinking that the whole experience with 'The Mad King' might have taught them something but clearly not. Also, I really get annoyed when people side with clear and present EVIL in order to gain power. It's like they just don't think it through. I mean, Shadow Demon Babies and shit. How can you rationalise that away ? Also, Desert woman is silly. |
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Threash
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I don't see why creepy has to necessarily mean evil. The direwolves are creepy too.
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Isn't he an executive producer? Figured it was one of those appeasement titles, like John Hamm in Mad Men.
It is a title that can mean a lot of things or nothing as far as actual involvement in production. What it almost always means is that the person is getting some % of the per episode production budget, usually 5-10%. At least in the world of major network and non-HBO cable networks. My kid brother is a TV producer and his pay is almost all out of "EP credits" as he calls them. |
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Hmmm...yeah? Melisandre hasn't done anything evil, she just happens to worship a religion that actually works. |
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HaemishM
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Wait, you don't think squeezing shadow assassins out of her hoo-hah to commit fratricide rather than fight a pitched battle to be pretty fucking evil? Seriously?
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Merusk
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I'm with IW and Haemish on this one. Even reading the books they fail to explain exactly WHY Stannis is mucking about with Melisandre and R'hllor in the first place. The trite explanation Melisandre gives is complete garbage.
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Ironwood
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Wait, you don't think squeezing shadow assassins out of her hoo-hah to commit fratricide rather than fight a pitched battle to be pretty fucking evil? Seriously?
Yeah, I'm not against assassination (you should see my linkedin history) but there's a difference between a dagger in the night or poison in the wine and actually giving birth to an avatar of hate. And, personally, I think it moves the needle slightly above 'creepy' on the omgwhatthefuckometer. Also, my original point was that you simply can't TRUST anyone who would do that. There's no fucking point being allies with them. None. |
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