Game of Thrones [SPOILERS]

[Threash]

Lol, Sophie Turner who plays Sansa is only like 8 months older than Maise Williams who plays Arya.

[Chimpy]

Lol, Sophie Turner who plays Sansa is only like 8 months older than Maise Williams who plays Arya.

She also grew like a foot between seasons. She is taller than most of the male actors she has scenes with now.

[Viin]

The whole Astapor story line in the books is one of my favorites. I hope they do well with it on the TV.

[grebo]

[Threash]

That version of the bear and the maiden fair over the credits was fucking awesome.

[Phred]

[HaemishM]

I really like the way they are moving things along this season. Lots of great moments with Tyrion (especially the scene with Bronn and Podrick after the whorehouse). I'm glad they moved the Theon stuff forward into this season because he'd have been forgotten about otherwise. They also seemed to have skipped over a whole ton of Jamie and Brienne walking and foreplay.

The Blackfish is a good casting, though I always saw him as the guy from Python's Holy Grail that was the scientist. (How do you know she's a witch?)

[Phred]

The Blackfish is a good casting, though I always saw him as the guy from Python's Holy Grail that was the scientist. (How do you know she's a witch?)

I don't know why they had him take the bow so rudely from his brother though. It speaks of a side to his personality that is never revealed in the book. I think I like him better in the book.

[Threash]

He was already mad at Edmure for his screw up with the Mountain.

[Rasix]

The Blackfish is a good casting, though I always saw him as the guy from Python's Holy Grail that was the scientist. (How do you know she's a witch?)

I don't know why they had him take the bow so rudely from his brother though. It speaks of a side to his personality that is never revealed in the book. I think I like him better in the book.

Blackfish is Edmure's uncle.  I think most of the Tully clan is perpetually annoyed with Edmure.  In the books he always came across as somewhat of a fuck up and buffoon.  Plus in the books (and was shown here), they pretty much only had time for one more shot before the funeral would be totally botched by the boat not catching fire.

[Phred]

The Blackfish is a good casting, though I always saw him as the guy from Python's Holy Grail that was the scientist. (How do you know she's a witch?)

I don't know why they had him take the bow so rudely from his brother though. It speaks of a side to his personality that is never revealed in the book. I think I like him better in the book.

Blackfish is Edmure's uncle.  I think most of the Tully clan is perpetually annoyed with Edmure.  In the books he always came across as somewhat of a fuck up and buffoon.  Plus in the books (and was shown here), they pretty much only had time for one more shot before the funeral would be totally botched by the boat not catching fire.

Which spoke even higher of Blackfish's character in the book that he was gentler on Edmund than in the TV version.
I guess they need people to be "larger than life" on TV.

[Threash]

Like i said, the Blackfish was already pissed at Edmure on the show because he fucked up Robb's plan.  This did not happen until way later in the books.

[Tannhauser]

Such a cool, almost offbeat episode.  The archery scene.  The chair scene.  The whore scene.  The final scene.  It felt like a minor little spin on the normal rhythms of the show.  You know, two people in one room making subtle threats to each other. 

[Cheddar]

Whole thing was brilliant.  Credits were icing on the cake.

The bear, the bear! The bear and the maiden fair!

[Ironwood]

That version of the bear and the maiden fair over the credits was fucking awesome.

I hated it.  Talk about jarring you out of the narrative.

[eldaec]

I don't really think any of the Westorosi songs are working except as a nod to book readers. Even for that they always seem forced.

Woody Allen once said something witty about how songs are too damn long and musicals can only deliver the simplest of plots in the longest of runtimes as a result.

Not really a spoiler but...

[Setanta]

I lost it at the credits :D

I don't really pay attention to the songs in books, I was never a fan of Tolkein's verse (heresy I know) and Jean Auel demonstrated how to really screw up a good story with them.

[Tmon]

I lost it at the credits :D

I don't really pay attention to the songs in books, I was never a fan of Tolkein's verse (heresy I know) and Jean Auel demonstrated how to really screw up a good story with them.

Yup, reading Tolkien taught me to skip any sections that are indented and italicized in any fantasy themed book.

[eldaec]

It is a bit different in that GRRM uses the songs as plot clues, wheras JRRT was basically showing off.

[Shannow]

I lost it at the credits :D

I don't really pay attention to the songs in books, I was never a fan of Tolkein's verse (heresy I know) and Jean Auel demonstrated how to really screw up a good story with them.

Being a fan of Tolkein's verse makes me instantly regard a person as a pretentious douchebag.

[Samwise]

I like words, so I guess that makes me a pretentious douchebag.    Tolkien's stories were almost an excuse for him to have fun with language and poetry.  He once said that he wrote the Lord of the Rings because he wanted to create a world where the sentence "a star shines on this, the hour of our meeting" was a common greeting (elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo).  I know this because my grandpa always cites it when explaining why he hated the LotR movies.

I think songs work best in TV/movies when they're used to back some sort of montage, rather than as a straight musical number where the camera is on the person singing.  If you're watching somebody sing, you're probably wasting screen time that could have been showing you things rather than telling them.

[Velorath]

That version of the bear and the maiden fair over the credits was fucking awesome.

I hated it.  Talk about jarring you out of the narrative.

It was a bit jarring in that it's the kind of thing I'd expect more from an episode of True Blood.

[eldaec]

It was jarring mostly because it made Jamie's moment feel like an early Peter Jackson movie rather than the instant and irrecoverable life changer that it actually supposed to be.

Brienne and Jamie were great throughout ep 3. I remember this point in the books were the first scenes GRRM starts writing actual female characters rather than the one dimensional caricatures that Catelyn/Cersei/Arya/Melisandra/Sansa/Dany have all been up to this point.

[Ironwood]

Brienne seems the most realistic woman to me full stop and I can't exactly call myself an avid reader of the books.

The rest are pretty much fantasy tropes, but she has an air of reality about her.

[shiznitz]

I think the actress deserves a lot of credit for this.  I also think the TV version of Catelyn Stark comes across as even stronger than the written version.  Both actresses are superb.

[eldaec]

You thought the written version came across as strong?

I thought the written version came across as a stereotypically family obsessed middle aged woman.

YMMV.

[schild]

So, I refuse to read the books at this point - which seems like a good thing since George will just die before he figures out how to finish a story and tie it up in a nice bow. But I've had most of the futures of the characters spoiled for me since my fiancee just finished everything and I wanted to know where things were going in relation to the books.

I can think of more interesting futures for nearly every single character. :(

I love the TV show because the acting is wonderful, but all I can think is I would've preferred a Black Company TV show if they could avoid it looking like Farscape/BBC Trash.

[schild]

I just read all of the character spoilers for the entire series of Game of Thrones because I demanded answers for this nonsense.

These books are absurd. They must be fucking well-written because how can you people tolerate this dead/notdead/maybedead/everyone dead shit?

[Tebonas]

Sounds as absurd as any Comic book storyline to me. Or Soap Opera for that matter.

[Ironwood]

I just read all of the character spoilers for the entire series of Game of Thrones because I demanded answers for this nonsense.

These books are absurd. They must be fucking well-written because how can you people tolerate this dead/notdead/maybedead/everyone dead shit?

I've considered this question long and hard for you Schild :

It's the tits.  I tolerate the show for the tits.  And the muff.  And, almost without pause, Dinklage.

Hope that helps.


Oh.  You mean the books.  I dunno, I tried a couple while the wife had them and they seemed standard silly Drizzt nonsense.

But I like tits.

[Arthur_Parker]

The first book doesn't get good until near the end, the next two books keep up the "wtf are you doing?"  spoilers pace, then it's all downhill.

[apocrypha]

That version of the bear and the maiden fair over the credits was fucking awesome.

I hated it.  Talk about jarring you out of the narrative.

Yup, great version of the song but didn't belong there. Reminded me of the inappropriate title music at the start of Boardwalk Empire.

[Lucas]

I just found this fan version on Youtube: yeah, sounds like your average "ren fest" tune, but it's not bad, IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6VMSYIXCCY


Lyrics: http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/The_Bear_and_the_Maiden_Fair

[Abagadro]

 

[Teleku]

Damn you, thats going to make getting through the rest of the work day harder!

Sunday is so sad for me.  I have a built in reaction of "Oh, Sunday, Game of Thrones Time!"  Then I remember that it doesn't air till 3 AM Polish time, and I'll have to wait till Monday night.