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Game of Thrones A General Commentary (BOOK & SHOW SPOILERS)

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  • #52
    Tazzimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,936 ✭✭✭Tazzimus


    nyarlothothep wrote: »
    Spoilers ahead...

    Ok, I've just watched episode 8 and I had to post this as it was just overboard imo.


    Happens pretty much the exact same way in the book, minus some of Oberyn's cooler quotes during the fight.

    That scene wasn't the show trying shock tactics, they were following the book fairly well.


  • #53
    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    I thought they said it will be 7 seasons?

    Either way I'm ok with it, I think the show is better than the books overall anyway.

    :eek:


  • #54
    AnneSam
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭AnneSam


    Oberyns death is played out pretty much to the tee of the scene in the books, the evolution of the characters as the books/show moves forward is definitely more explicable. Arya always annoyed me, and Sansa but they begin to come into their own and become very much the products of their experiences. I think the book deal very much with the fact that simple/historical choices (Jons mother??) have paved the way for these current circumstances and that all that the characters have to go through. If Lysa had never falsified the facts in the letter to Cat about Jon Arryns death would Ned Stark have investigated further and ruffled Cerseis feathers?? Its brilliant I really have very little to fault about the books (aside from feast of crows that was tough to get through!) or the series.


  • #55
    Liam O
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,338 ✭✭✭✭Liam O


    Tazzimus wrote: »
    Happens pretty much the exact same way in the book, minus some of Oberyn's cooler quotes during the fight.

    That scene wasn't the show trying shock tactics, they were following the book fairly well.

    The Mountain came off as more of an oaf in the book talking about Oberyn making his head hurt and such. More gruesome parts too with the slicing in half of civilians and whatnot. I was happy with the adaptation though.


  • #56
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    Maybe it makes me a horrible human being, but this video makes me laugh every time I see it.



  • #57
    GerB40
    Registered Users Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    username123 wrote: »
    When you get to the end of The Wastelands, pause and think how it would be if you had to wait 6 years for the next one, like I did!

    Delighted you're hooked, it gets weirder!

    I'm just starting the last book now, The Dark Tower. (Not counting The Wind Through The Keyhole, which I'll undoubtedly read too). Jesus when you said it gets weirder you weren't joking.

    It got to a point in Song of Susannah that it officially became to weird to explain to anyone who hasn't read it (walk-ins?!?). But the best thing about the story is that slight believability about it. Yeah, I know it's gone completely mental where I am in the story but the characters recognise how bizzare it is rather than accept it like in other fiction..

    I think after this I'll leave fantasy alone until The Winds of Winter, hopefully it won't be too long now..


  • #58
    GerB40
    Registered Users Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    http://airherald.com/game-of-thrones-movie-coming-after-winds-of-winter/17399/

    I wouldn't hold my breath on this but if it did happen it would have to be Dunk and Egg ten years after The Mystery Knight. Then again it could be anything knowing GRRM.

    I just finished the three novellas and the geek in me would love to see a Targaryen filled story (especially Bloodraven) but I can't imagine viewers caring much about what they'll inevitably see as Game of Thrones without their favourite characters.

    What do ye reckon? Another wishful thinking moment from ASoIaF fans or a chance to expand on an already over bloated world??


  • #59
    delaad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭delaad


    First time I've watched this, but the english bit of it(yorkshire v london) strikes me as Emmerdale wi' a fair bit of riding - especially by a vertically challenged gentleman - gratuitous nudity and a nice little bit of beheading.

    IOW, it's a an attempt to exhibit the naughty bits of modern society thru' an arty version of the "barbaric" past,... i.e., its voyeurism in purest form!


  • #60
    GerB40
    Registered Users Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    Game of Thrones Season 5: A Day in the Life (HBO): http://youtu.be/p9Mi17nLflY Very interesting look at the making Game of Thrones...


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  • #61
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,767 ✭✭✭eire4


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    I thought they said it will be 7 seasons?

    Either way I'm ok with it, I think the show is better than the books overall anyway.



    I just got into the show earlier this year but absolutely loved it once I started and ended up when I had some time binge watching my way through season by season till I was all caught up. I haven't read any of the books yet but did buy the first 2 and put them into my to read pile. Looking forward to reading them and not bothered that I have already seen the show.


  • #62
    GerB40
    Registered Users Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    So GRRM read out an Aeron Damphair TWOW chapter at Balticon earlier today and fúck me it's a good un. There's only notes that people took down at the event, I assume he'll release the whole thing soon. I hope so at least. Anyway here ye go http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?/topic/140571-twow-spoilers-aeron-i-balticon/&page=1

    There's major spoilers in it that seem to have major ramifications for the rest of the story so don't say ye weren't warned...


  • #63
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,071 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    The full chapter is released and WOW!!!!!

    I really hope the show can do Euron justice, he is far more interesting villain than Ramsay (and is clearly just as sadistic)


  • #64
    Thar_Cian
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭Thar_Cian


    Not sure where else to ask, but does the Sky Atlantic simulcast have adverts?


  • #65
    J. Marston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,221 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Thar_Cian wrote: »
    Not sure where else to ask, but does the Sky Atlantic simulcast have adverts?

    Yes but only 2 unlike the Monday night showing that has 3 or 4.


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