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Game of Thrones [HBO & Sky Atlantic] **Spoilers** (Read Warning Post #1)

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  • #752
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,473 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    didn't the guy who got his hand bit play a vet in that show?


  • #753
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    QUOTED BOOK CHAT SNIPPED.

    I'm sorry but why are ye posting spoilers to the book? Nobody in here wants to know anything about the books so stop posting whether in spoilers or not please!

    I mean Geeky, without the spoiler tags at all, you are saying that <someone> has a role in later books, and possibly a big one WHY?


  • #754
    SuperInfinity
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭SuperInfinity


    Tenger wrote: »
    Sorry, but I can't take that actress playing the wilding girl seriously.

    Care to elaborate?

    Degag, I was just putting something that had already taken place in the book in the spoilers.


  • #755
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I think the question is more WHY are you posting anything to do with the books in the TV show thread? Really, I don't want to know ANYTHING about the books as I'll probably pick it up once the season has finished.

    Sheesh!

    Anyway, great episode. Easily the best thing on TV and I look forward to reading the book for the nuances that the TV show has left out (Unless of course someone just wants to reprint the damn book on the thread and save me a few quid)

    And if you say you've had enough of this thread and are leaving it, can you mean it this time?

    k, thx, bai.


  • #756
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,664 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Dear god, people.... how hard is it to understand NO BOOK DISCUSSION AT ALL IN THIS THREAD!!

    I don't care if it relates to the opening line of chapter 1 or a missing monologue - NO BOOK TALK!

    Yellow cards for Geeky and SuperInfinity, book chat deleted.
    Next time it'll be something stronger.


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  • #757
    geeky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    Ok, calm down - sorry for mentioning the book at all. I was just doing it to explain a specific character that seemed to confuse someone, didn't know it was uniformly verboten.


  • #758
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,664 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    No probs geeky.... people on this thread get upset if the B word is even mentioned (as the reported posts in my inbox this morning attest to) :)

    There is a separate thread on the Fantasy forum for people who want to discuss book/TV comparisons.


  • #759
    geeky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    Cheers. Back on topic,
    now that he's gone, did
    Syrio make anyone else think a little of Senor Ding Dong?
    I miss him already.


  • #760
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Mr E wrote: »
    Dear god, people.... how hard is it to understand NO BOOK DISCUSSION AT ALL IN THIS THREAD!!

    I don't care if it relates to the opening line of chapter 1 or a missing monologue - NO BOOK TALK!

    Yellow cards for Geeky and SuperInfinity, book chat deleted.
    Next time it'll be something stronger.

    Dammit!...i always miss the drama :(


  • #761
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,664 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Start talking about the books and you'll have a front row seat. :)


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  • #762
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Mr E wrote: »
    Start talking about the books and you'll have a front row seat. :)

    Speaking of the books, i hear there are four of them............. :)


  • #763
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Partly filmed near Belfast as I understand. Northern Ireland seems to be taking over from Wicklow as a leader for TV and film.

    There's been quite a few films done up there recently, that new Natalie Portman one for example.

    Bit offtopic, just saw the Irish connection


  • #764
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,866 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Episode 8 was a ratings high for GoT. Good signs anyhow, hopefully get picked up for a third season fairly soon after the start of season 2 then.


  • #765
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    5starpool wrote: »
    Episode 8 was a ratings high for GoT. Good signs anyhow, hopefully get picked up for a third season fairly soon after the start of season 2 then.

    It's not True Blood ffs! :rolleyes:


  • #766
    jayteecork
    Site Banned Posts: 5,676 ✭✭✭jayteecork


    So Syrio wasn't seen dying on screen?

    He's alive!


  • #767
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    jayteecork wrote: »
    So Syrio wasn't seen dying on screen?

    He's alive!
    If the guard was seen later in the programme, it's unlikely but we live in hope!


  • #768
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    I hope he's alive, I realy liked him

    But I realy doubt it.
    Some vicious combat to be heard and then we see the knight later on


  • #769
    duploelabs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,026 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    Is there anywhere that shows a family tree thing showing the relationship between each character and their lineage?


  • #770
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Here you go


    http://viewers-guide.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/#!/guide/houses/


  • #771
    jayteecork
    Site Banned Posts: 5,676 ✭✭✭jayteecork


    In which scene did we see the knight later on?


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  • #772
    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    jayteecork wrote: »
    In which scene did we see the knight later on?

    When they relieved Ser Barriston (spelling could be wrong) of duty in the Kings Guard in the Throne Room, near the end of the episode.


  • #773
    TheFullDuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭TheFullDuck


    jayteecork wrote: »
    So Syrio wasn't seen dying on screen?

    He's alive!

    I love how people are more interested in the fate of Syrio, rather than Ned :pac:


  • #774
    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    Just watched the trailer for next weeks.
    Friggin can't come soon enough, looks great.
    I won't say anymore for fear of being lynched.


  • #775
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,866 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Richard Dower wrote: »
    It's not True Blood ffs! :rolleyes:

    What relevance is this?


  • #776
    dr gonzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭dr gonzo


    Richard Dower wrote: »
    It's not True Blood ffs! :rolleyes:

    You mean its not awful? I agree.
    mikemac wrote: »
    I hope he's alive, I realy liked him

    But I realy doubt it.
    Some vicious combat to be heard and then we see the knight later on

    I highly doubt hes out of the picture. Lets sum up. He spent the entire scene and pretty much every scene previous showing just how badass at sword fighting he is, so much so that a wooden training sword was all he needed to defeat a group of knights. Just because a slighty bigger knight squares up to him and we here somebody getting hurt doesnt mean its automatically Syrio because the same knight apparently appears later. On top of all that they must have known he'd be a popular character so it would be strange to kill him off screen in a very ambiguous way.

    The other knight may still be alive but i would be incredibly surprised if Syrio doesnt turn up again, even as a turncoat.


  • #777
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,719 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    dr gonzo wrote: »
    The other knight may still be alive but i would be incredibly surprised if Syrio doesnt turn up again, even as a turncoat.

    I like this line of thinking. Maybe he'll be back to flash his mickey at us. More likely to get screen time that way.


  • #778
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    dr gonzo wrote: »
    You mean its not awful? I agree.



    I highly doubt hes out of the picture. Lets sum up. He spent the entire scene and pretty much every scene previous showing just how badass at sword fighting he is, so much so that a wooden training sword was all he needed to defeat a group of knights. Just because a slighty bigger knight squares up to him and we here somebody getting hurt doesnt mean its automatically Syrio because the same knight apparently appears later. On top of all that they must have known he'd be a popular character so it would be strange to kill him off screen in a very ambiguous way.

    The other knight may still be alive but i would be incredibly surprised if Syrio doesnt turn up again, even as a turncoat.
    If he died in the book then they'd have to kill him regardless of whether he was popular or not. Also, his sword was broken so he had no way of defending himself against the knight.


  • #779
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Argh!

    All this talk of Syrio and whether he dies or not has me tempted to check google to find out. It's too tempting! Him, Arya & Tyrion have been some of the few characters I genuinely liked in the show, I'd be upset if he really is dead :(


  • #780
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    I've a funny feeling that ned wont see the next series, I hope I'm wrong as he's one of my favourite characters in it along with snow and mormont.


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  • #781
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,667 ✭✭✭touts


    landyman wrote: »
    I've a funny feeling that ned wont see the next series, I hope I'm wrong as he's one of my favourite characters in it along with snow and mormont.

    He was very much a side story in the last ep which could be a bad sign. Remember The Tudors killed off main characters all the time (Wolsey, More, Cromwell, Anne Boleyn etc) and while they had to because that's what happened in reality by the end we were left with a fairly empty set of characters you didn't care much about. If the books (and I haven't read them) knock off a whole pile of main characters and they follow that then we could end up with a Tudors situation where you really couldn't care less about the characters. We have already lost the King, Viserys, and a host of interesting supporting characters who added colour to the show.

    Also if they do kill Ned off I hope we don't end up with another Mother pulling the strings behind the Son story line. Between the Lannisters The Starks and the breast feeding freaks in the Vale the story could get side tracked into a feminist study of the power of mothers very quickly.


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