Game of Thrones

RandomPrincess

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bsiev1977 said:
I just paged through the end of the book that this season is based on.

As much as what happened last episode was major, just wait until next week. Unless they decide to shuffle up some the events from books 3 and 4.
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Book 3 is split over 2 seasons so most of it will wait until next season.

I wonder if they are going to do they same thing as season one. The killed Ned in the next to last episode - then gave us Dani and her dragons coming out of the fire as a hopeful end to the final episode.

I "read" the books after season one. I actually listened to them all on audiobook. I enjoyed listening to the reader he was good. I remember rewinding a couple of times during the red wedding because I thought I had heard things wrong.
 
flynnibus

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I finally watched it last night. While 'shocking' in story twists... I don't think it was all that gory. Well, yes, it was gory in sliced throats kind of stuff... but you've seen that in degrees prior in movies/cableTV, etc. It wasn't as nearly as shocking to me as how graphic much of the sex scenes were in season 1/2 (seemed like lots of gratutious just because they could).

When people started going off after it aired.. I thought it was going to be setting some new standard of gore or something. Beyond the baby womb stabbing.. I thought it was pretty standard fare for the level HBO has been using.

I found the way the city was taken to be quite... abrupt. It didn't ring of suspense to me, but more of 'we'll just cut out this middle part and give you the conclusion'.

I haven't read the books, but I certainly plan to now. I just don't know if I can hold off... I HATE having only hour of GoT a week. I waited until this season to start watching, and watching seasons 1 and 2 basically 3-4hrs at a time was quite enjoyable. One hour at a time is driving me batty :)
 
RandomPrincess

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flynnibus said:
I finally watched it last night. While 'shocking' in story twists... I don't think it was all that gory. Well, yes, it was gory in sliced throats kind of stuff... but you've seen that in degrees prior in movies/cableTV, etc. It wasn't as nearly as shocking to me as how graphic much of the sex scenes were in season 1/2 (seemed like lots of gratutious just because they could).

When people started going off after it aired.. I thought it was going to be setting some new standard of gore or something. Beyond the baby womb stabbing.. I thought it was pretty standard fare for the level HBO has been using.

I found the way the city was taken to be quite... abrupt. It didn't ring of suspense to me, but more of 'we'll just cut out this middle part and give you the conclusion'.

I haven't read the books, but I certainly plan to now. I just don't know if I can hold off... I HATE having only hour of GoT a week. I waited until this season to start watching, and watching seasons 1 and 2 basically 3-4hrs at a time was quite enjoyable. One hour at a time is driving me batty :)
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Th part that bothered me was the killing of Rob's wife. Stabbing her in her pregnant stomach was shocking to me. Especially since Rob's wife isn't killed in the books.
 
bsiev1977

bsiev1977

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RandomPrincess said:
Th part that bothered me was the killing of Rob's wife. Stabbing her in her pregnant stomach was shocking to me. Especially since Rob's wife isn't killed in the books.
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In the books, her fate is unknown. I guess the show wanted to just get her out of the way completely.
Brutal as it was, stabbing her in the stomach fit the tone of that scene.
Sorta like, just when everything was seeming to be turning around for Robb, it gets taken away.
 
Hot Lava

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I found the way the city was taken to be quite... abrupt. It didn't ring of suspense to me, but more of 'we'll just cut out this middle part and give you the conclusion'.
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A lot of decisions they make as to what to show are due to budgetary constraints. That is why you never saw battles in the first season, only the aftermath. It is why only Blackwater was staged, and you barely saw the dragons last season. Now I think they are giving the short shrift to the direwolves. First season, they looked more like they were supposed to. Now they don't really bother with that; they just look like dogs. I would assume the white walkers are expensive also.

from what I know, Robb's wife as in the show didn't exist in the book. The book wife was different, and wasn't even at the RW. Except for Robb's marriage precipitating the RW, they have really changed that quite a bit.

Clearly I should just go ahead and read the books, given what I already know without reading them. :rolleyes:

What is interesting to me is the Martin is in on the show, so he approves changes, even has written episodes. So the assumption is he approves all changes made for the show. I would have to think also, over the years, there have been things he has wanted to change and now he can with the show.

I don't find this show particularly gory. FAR less so than Spartacus. And really, less so than the average ep of CSI, NCIS, or Bones. They show way too much of the bodies now on those shows.
 
acishere

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flynnibus said:
I finally watched it last night. While 'shocking' in story twists... I don't think it was all that gory. Well, yes, it was gory in sliced throats kind of stuff... but you've seen that in degrees prior in movies/cableTV, etc. It wasn't as nearly as shocking to me as how graphic much of the sex scenes were in season 1/2 (seemed like lots of gratutious just because they could).

When people started going off after it aired.. I thought it was going to be setting some new standard of gore or something. Beyond the baby womb stabbing.. I thought it was pretty standard fare for the level HBO has been using.
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It wasn't really the gore that set everyone off. Its that the Starks are the type of characters we expect to either overcome when they stumble (ie. Marry Talisa) and be victorious or at least die heroically. They deserved justice for what the Lannisters did to Ned and despite Robb being kind of boring, you figured him to be safe at this point. Instead they were killed in the most backhanded way possible in a place they were invited guests. Its just really f-ed up.

Plus Arya was so close to being reunited with her family... Now it is gonna take her like an hour to get to sleep she has so many names to recite.

At least with Ned you sort of saw it coming. I mean they cast Sean Bean to play him. That man is famous for dying in everything he is in!
 
bsiev1977

bsiev1977

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acishere said:
It wasn't really the gore that set everyone off. Its that the Starks are the type of characters we expect to either overcome when they stumble (ie. Marry Talisa) and be victorious or at least die heroically. They deserved justice for what the Lannisters did to Ned and despite Robb being kind of boring, you figured him to be safe at this point. Instead they were killed in the most backhanded way possible in a place they were invited guests. Its just really f-ed up.

Plus Arya was so close to being reunited with her family... Now it is gonna take her like an hour to get to sleep she has so many names to recite.

At least with Ned you sort of saw it coming. I mean they cast Sean Bean to play him. That man is famous for dying in everything he is in!
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That's what I think is great about GoT. You can never assume a character is "safe", just because traditional storytelling would make it so. That's why the story is so powerful, there is no such thing as "happily ever after." Viewers/readers are on the edge of their seat because absolutely ANYTHING can happen at any time in the stories.
 
bsiev1977

bsiev1977

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geodon34 said:
Just watched the episode tonight. Holy Shiite. Can't imagine what is next.
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I've read all five books and can tell you that there is more to come, as far as shocking things goes.

Unclear is whether anything major will happen in the season finale this year. Book 3 and Book 4 are being scrambled up a bit in the TV show.
 
Leolioness4200

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I started watching the show before reading the books. At the end of Season 2 I finally started reading and I knew what was gonna happen in last weeks episode. I cried when I read it and I cried when I saw it on the show. I do however think that HBO did a wonderful job of bring that scene from the books on the screen!!
 
njDizFan

njDizFan

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The last 2 seasons I waited til it completed then watch them in quick succession on demand. This season going week to week and it's struggle. I considered reading the books but as others have said it might deminish the show for me not to mention having to wait years in between each books...

As a huge reader of epic fantasy this has been a difficult decison. But I have been quite busy the last couple of years reading the Malazan book of the Fallen and Wheel of time...that's about 25-1000 page books.

Any other epic fantsy readers out there?
 
Hot Lava

Hot Lava

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I heard a rumor Disney is going to buy Game of Thrones and open Game of Throne land.
Okay I am making that up.
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Hopefully, Universal will not sue over the new dragon ride. Although Disney could make it a dark ride where at the end the 3 dragons set fire to your ride vehicle.
 

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