Game of Thrones!

[chickpea]

^^^ hahahaha. especially the ending, because I still have no clue who 75% of the characters are.

 

[Cellmold]

^^^ hahahaha. especially the ending, because I still have no clue who 75% of the characters are.

Haha yeah I was in tears at that part.

"Sneaky dude, sneaky bald dude...grumpy old dad!"

 

[kyuuei]

This is gonna be a fun season. Love the way Oberyn Martell turned out.

Agreed! The only real character change I dislike is Dany's new commander guy. He was such a pretty boy in the books, and he started out that way--I kind of.. don't want him to be more intelligent. I liked his character and how he was so blatantly opposite of Dany. I looooved Oberyn! Sassy and overly confident, they got him down good.

Is that it?

No.. Of course not. The books are better, fwiw.. but Honestly, the story is compelling. It starts out small.. but the themes in it are huge. Do gods exist? Some people witness magic right before their very eyes, and others deny it exists. So does it or not? Does anyone have any right or claim over anything, including their own lives? Does love conquer all? Does family matter? Does blood matter? Who will rise to the top, who will fall? There's a lot of deep conversations that could be had based on the vastly different morals of the story's characters. There's a lot more that meets the eye.. and part of the fun is guessing what will happen to people in the story, and making theories as to who will be next--both as king, and dead.

Don't bother. If you didn't like it by then, you will never never like it.

This, unfortunately, probably is true. Depending on if you were going into it with a bad mentality or not.. If medieval things are not your corner of nerd, this story might just be a bunch of ugh. I seriously haven't met anyone yet that hates the show that's watched it.. I have met people who didn't nerd out over it, and just felt it a show to watch.. but even so, there's a first for everything. I won't completely abandon you A-firm if you decide you don't like it. (... Completely.)

But I'd then like to remind you, A-firm, that you requested someone tell you what to do. And I say watch the damn show.

Haha yeah I was in tears at that part.

"Sneaky dude, sneaky bald dude...grumpy old dad!"

Yeah its REALLY hard to keep up with characters when you haven't read! There are a lot of them, and even more cut out of the show to condense it down. They make some of the side characters more meaningful, and I like that aspect of things. Still, its very true to the books (as much as can be I suppose) so that means dealing with characters that just aren't on screen long enough to be noticed and remembered. So some random old dude walks in and you have to ask someone who read who they are.

 

[Cellmold]

[MENTION=4939]kyuuei[/MENTION]

Funnily enough I'm starting to watch it again and I don't find it too hard to follow all the different characters, but there may be a lot more introduced later on I would hazard.

Especially as some are killed off. It helps I spent some time looking up the characters online out of curiosity, I tend to do that a lot as the research helps me flesh out the world and give me a better picture of its politics, the characters and their relationships to one another as well as motives.

 

[Hive]

Didn't expect this to happen so early in the season. Maybe it was just so long ago I read the books that I can't remember the chronological order of events.

Btw, did you guys notice Sigur Rós' cameo as the wedding band?

They made a totally Sigur Rósified version of Rains of Castamere.

To Joffrey's defense, it sounded more like a requiem than wedding music.

(Which could've possibly been the point. )

 

[Haven]

 

[Cellmold]

I couldn't resist:

Even though it's hardly a spoiler, (in fact I knew about it before I even started trying to watch the series the first time around although I could have guessed given the actor), but lets all bow our heads for the many deaths of Sean bean:

 

[Totenkindly]

I have only watched up through Season #1, Episode #7 (You win or you Die), and


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I HATE JOFFREY.

But someone said it only gets worse.

I should leave again so I won't see spoilers. Bye.

 

[kyuuei]

^

 

[johnnyyukon]

I have only watched up through Season #1, Episode #7 (You win or you Die), and


I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY I HATE JOFFREY

I HATE JOFFREY.

But someone said it only gets worse.

I should leave again so I won't see spoilers. Bye.

He's got a good heart, just needs to switch to decaf.

 

[011235813]

He's got a good heart, just needs to switch to decaf.

I hate Joffrey.

 

[Mempy]

Dedicate yourself to hate, Jennifer. Dedicate.

 

[Elfboy]

He's got a good heart, just needs to switch to decaf.

he doesn't have a good heart at all. he is a psychopath who enjoys unprovoked torture of random people.

 

[Haven]

I feel so smug having read all the books now, that honest video was right

 

[johnnyyukon]

Haha yeah I was in tears at that part.

"Sneaky dude, sneaky bald dude...grumpy old dad!"

From that Honest Trailer

Lol. Few of my favs:

"Lord Friend Zone"
"That's the guy that got his dick cut off!"
"Oh Hodor! That's Hodor!"
"Uhhhhh"
"Uhhh"

Also, while I definitely enjoy all the choice "bewbs" on this show, I didn't realize how many there were until they did the compilation, I was like 1,2,3457810,15,22,25....." haha.

 

[johnnyyukon]

he doesn't have a good heart at all. he is a psychopath who enjoys unprovoked torture of random people.

joke
jōk/Submit
noun
1.
a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter

 

[Haven]

Even though I've read the books it's still totally worth watching because they cut out a lot of scenes and added some for drama.

 

[johnnyyukon]

Even though I've read the books it's still totally worth watching because they cut out a lot of scenes and added some for drama.

I've only read 2 books, but ya, the show almost stands alone. I'll admit, when I first starting watching, and had no idea what was going on. I like, researched all the characters and mythos, just cuz I wanted to understand it, as it was clearly awesome.

 

[Cellmold]

I actually like that so many characters...main characters at that, get killed off. Yes it's partly because of adding to the tension and 'no one is safe' but also because it shows the larger perspective that this 'game' is viewed with.

And in that sense it is, the opening reminds us that we are the viewers of this world and as we take a broad overview of it and the characters in it, the fact they can be killed off so easily helps us relate to the relative cause and effect of our own lives. After all, even though there is truly no such element as 'random' due to cause and effect, any one of us could die by some element we did not or could not consider. It's why the death of Flanders didn't bother me too much, although given the actor....it was unsurprising.

There will always be characters we care about, who help draw us into the story, but it seems to be written well enough that I don't miss too much the ones I did like who have died and there always seem to be new ones alongside the remaining ones, to capture my attention. Which seems to be deliberate. I consider that a bit like our lives, when we might have to acknowledge that there are always more people, something that becomes more important to understand as we experience longer lives.

Actually, off topic but something that occurred to me about living for a very long time, would there be a relationship, (eventually), between a very long life and the eventual disintegration of all original friendships and relationships?

ps: Brienne is hot!

 

[kyuuei]

^ I think so too!! Tyrion and Brienne are both very very attractive in the series.. completely opposite of the books. Tyrion looks like a monster, and they sort of pay homage to that with the whole "Oh, its not as bad as they said, they said you'd lost your nose." in the series. Brienne was described as looking like a shapeless cow.. with pants and tunic actually fitting her better than a dress which just made her look like a horrid cross dressing cow of a man.