Game of Thrones [SPOILERS]

[HaemishM]

Good character episode. It certainly feels like they are accelerating some things and maybe starting to use the books to chart out the big events. I get the feeling Brienne and Pod

[Threash]

I like Dinklage a lot better this episode than the trial one.  His scene Oberyn was great acting by both actors.

[schild]

All of the important things happening in this season will be able to be compressed into one AWESOME episode at the end of the season. I may take it upon myself to do that. Could probably do it with every season, really.

Maybe they should do that with the books also. Could get rid of two entire storylines (the wall and everything not happening on the mainland, whatever the fuck its called).

[Samwise]

Go here to bitch about the books plz.  Or Yegolev will get sad.  And when Yegolev gets sad I get upset.

[Threash]

We used to have a no spoilers show thread for the people who gave a shit about stuff like that.

[Merusk]

So minor quibble but Lyssa only said, "I killed for you" but didn't spell out exactly what she'd done.  Did I miss something in my flipping between this and Cosmos or are we going to have Peytr explain that blurb to Sansa later?

[Ruvaldt]

I think it was mentioned in episode five of this season.

[Threash]

Yeah she specifically explained the whole thing a couple episode ago.

[Tannhauser]

Then she had a bit of a tumble. 

[Samwise]

We used to have a no spoilers show thread for the people who gave a shit about stuff like that.

I think it's more that spending multiple pages talking about the books (and going off on tangents about other books) is boring and irrelevant to people who don't read the books, independently of the spoiler issue.

[MahrinSkel]

So minor quibble but Lyssa only said, "I killed for you" but didn't spell out exactly what she'd done.  Did I miss something in my flipping between this and Cosmos or are we going to have Peytr explain that blurb to Sansa later?

She poisoned her husband (and told Cat Stark the Lannisters did it).  Revealed a couple of episodes ago.

--Dave

[Merusk]

Ah gotcha.  I didn't have HBO until two weeks ago when we moved in to the new place, so I'm a fair bit behind.  Thanks.

[Yegolev]

We used to have a no spoilers show thread for the people who gave a shit about stuff like that.

I think it's more that spending multiple pages talking about the books (and going off on tangents about other books) is boring and irrelevant to people who don't read the books, independently of the spoiler issue.

That's it.  Spoilers are something else.  This thread went into talking about Robert Jordan and that isn't really a problem except that I believe we still have plenty of television to talk about.  Once the season is over, we can derail into complaining about Jordan, Stephen King, George Lucas, and Guy Fieri.

[WayAbvPar]

I would definitely tune in for ice zombies tearing Guy Fieri's head off.

[WayAbvPar]

Blatantly stolen from Twitter, but this made me LOL-

[Ironwood]

Oh man, Poor Friendzone.

[Cyrrex]

I know it has been said already, but new Daario is terrible.  He just isn't slick enough to pull it off.

[Merusk]

Yeah but that whole storyline is zzzzzz.

This week is the trial by combat.  I hope it's as epic as it has been in my mind for the last few years.

[Samwise]

I'm pretty confident it will be more so.  This show has better fight choreographers than my imagination does.   

[Xanthippe]

Go here to bitch about the books plz.  Or Yegolev will get sad.  And when Yegolev gets sad I get upset.

I've given up reading this thread around page 77 because I've already found out things I don't want to know, and I haven't clicked on any of the spoilers. I came to this page to post a similar complaint but Samwise beat me to it.

It's not that talk of the books are boring to me, it's that book people can't help themselves in spoiling things without meaning to. I'm planning on reading the books later, after the series is finished, and some time has passed, so that I can enjoy it without comparing the two.

[Tannhauser]

So that happened.


Hey we had two action scenes!  Looks like maybe we'll finally get some action out of this show.

[Threash]

[Merusk]

I'm pretty confident it will be more so.  This show has better fight choreographers than my imagination does.   

It was enjoyable, but I'd definitely built it up too much in my mind.  It was a realistic fight as shown. My mind had some 6 minute blockbuster nonsense that would have been more appropriate in a Kung Fu film going on.

[Chimpy]

I wanted the fight scene to be a bit longer, but overall it was decently done.

I do have to say that the cadence of his chant made Christopher Guest pop up in my mind and yell "Stop saying that!"  .

[Threash]

It actually made me feel a bit ill to watch.

[Samwise]

That was exceedingly well done.   

[Bunk]

I expected that fight to be this monumental action movie moment, full of adrenaline. Instead, the feeling went from trepidition, to uneasyness, to downright queezyness. Yet, I'm glad. I think they did the scene justice.

Am I wrong, or did they change the reason as to why the person who lost, lost. From the book I mean. I seem to remember
Oh, and the laugh? Possibly my favourite scene in the whole series so far.

[Samwise]

I think you're mixing it up, but I could be remembering it wrong.

And yeah, the laugh was great.  I really love how both the Stark girls are basically going crazy in order to cope with their insane circumstances.

[murdoc]

I think you're mixing it up, but I could be remembering it wrong.

And yeah, the laugh was great.  I really love how both the Stark girls are basically going crazy in order to cope with their insane circumstances.

Yes, you are mixing it up.

[Rasix]

I thought the coup de grace was done a bit differently in the book, but ohh well, that was sufficiently squicky.   Still, they did a great job with a difficult scene.

edit: Read the scene.  Close enough.   

[Setanta]

Holy fuck - GRRM needs to take writing lessons from the show writers. As someone mentioned before, the film choreographers do a better job than the books.

Sansa became awesome - in the book I disliked her - now I'm happy to put money on her winning the game and Baelish wasn't bad either.

Lord Friendzone - meh scene, TBH I was more interested in the Gray Worm mini-arc than anything to do with Daenerys.

Outside of the fight Baelish's line was the scene-stealer for me... people die anywhere

[Merusk]

I thought the coup de grace was done a bit differently in the book, but ohh well, that was sufficiently squicky.   Still, they did a great job with a difficult scene.

edit: Read the scene.  Close enough.   

Yeah close enough as it ends properly.  I visualized the fight itself a lot more like this comic:
http://mccomseycomix.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/the-red-viper-vs-the-mountain-that-rides-a-12-page-comic/

Oberon was agile enough in the show I'm satisfied. Tyrion's quip was decidedly missing, though.

[Threash]

I thought the coup de grace was done a bit differently in the book, but ohh well, that was sufficiently squicky.   Still, they did a great job with a difficult scene.

edit: Read the scene.  Close enough.   

Yeah close enough as it ends properly.  I visualized the fight itself a lot more like this comic:
http://mccomseycomix.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/the-red-viper-vs-the-mountain-that-rides-a-12-page-comic/

Oberon was agile enough in the show I'm satisfied. Tyrion's quip was decidedly missing, though.

Well that is an exact depiction of how it went in the book so i imagine thats how most people visualized it.  Even so it was very well done on the show.

[Speedy Cerviche]

They are significantly changing the Vale Baelish/Sansa happenings. Much better IMO, love the editing/re-write the HBO team is doing (presumably in consultation with GRRM). It's pretty cool actually he gets a re-do on some of the more turgid aspects of his work. Just chopping out long boring arcs wholesale.


Not TV spoilers, just spoilers if you plan on reading the book because TV is now ahead of it.

[Shannow]

I'll miss the Viper.

Seriously HBO did you need to cut back to his head again?