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Skerret

Brooks wrote:

She's gorgeous so I might.

I did. Footage is weird, if I didn't have a name to go on I wouldn't see much resemblance. Less unsavoury than Jerome Flynn's past.

Nose job. It's in the eyes (not the nose job, that's on the nose. Not that it's a bad nose job)

In your country and ours PF, it's arse. Get it right. Game of Arses.

Andy, hi 5s/

Bollockoff

Called a fool on a page turn. I am slain.

pantyfire

Skerret wrote:

Brooks wrote:

She's gorgeous so I might.

I did. Footage is weird, if I didn't have a name to go on I wouldn't see much resemblance. Less unsavoury than Jerome Flynn's past.

Nose job. It's in the eyes (not the nose job, that's on the nose. Not that it's a bad nose job) In your country and ours PF, it's arse. Get it right. Game of Arses. Andy, hi 5s/

Well in one of the movies a guy definitely went balls deep in her ass.

Skerret

r/porn is thataway.

Vela

I finished reading A Dance With Dragons last month. I wont spoil anything, but I love how the tv show brings out the same shock as the books.

Cant wait to see how other upcoming events are received.

weadre

monkey wrote:

Just for pedantry, Mrs Stark and the rest of Westeros thinks her youngest children are dead. Do non book readers know who is torturing Theon Greyjoy? I can't remember how clearly it was explained who the people were who initially captured him.

I accidentally read somewhere about who is behind all that. Turns out there have been a number of clues that make it fairly obvious, I'd missed them all though.

Chief

Vela wrote:

I finished reading A Dance With Dragons last month. I wont spoil anything, but I love how the tv show brings out the same shock as the books. Cant wait to see how other upcoming events are received.

Honestly, that book bored the shit out of me. One or two moments aside (obviously won't mention them) it just dragged on and on, proving that Martin has no idea what pacing is.
If I'm brutally honest, the only decent books are A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords, the rest are a horror show of bad pacing and entire pages dedicated to who fucking sewed somebody's dress, or an entire menu of a twenty course meal. His editor should be shot.

monkey

weadre wrote:

monkey wrote:

Just for pedantry, Mrs Stark and the rest of Westeros thinks her youngest children are dead. Do non book readers know who is torturing Theon Greyjoy? I can't remember how clearly it was explained who the people were who initially captured him.

I accidentally read somewhere about who is behind all that. Turns out there have been a number of clues that make it fairly obvious, I'd missed them all though.

Yeah I think it's possible to watch the series and more or less know what's going on, but you'd have to be paying a lot of attention to the briefest bits of dialogue. Most of it probably in the last series.

monkey

Chief wrote:

Vela wrote:

I finished reading A Dance With Dragons last month. I wont spoil anything, but I love how the tv show brings out the same shock as the books. Cant wait to see how other upcoming events are received.

Honestly, that book bored the shit out of me. One or two moments aside (obviously won't mention them) it just dragged on and on, proving that Martin has no idea what pacing is.
If I'm brutally honest, the only decent books are A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords, the rest are a horror show of bad pacing and entire pages dedicated to who fucking sewed somebody's dress, or an entire menu of a twenty course meal. His editor should be shot.

That fifth book is mostly pointless. The absolute worst thing he does throughout his writing is these stupid cliffhangers. You have to read probably a hundred odd pages until he goes back to that character which is just frustrating more than it is gripping. Then he won't even bother to explain how the character got out of their situation, until its mentioned in passing towards the end of the chapter. Just in time to set up another cliff hanger.

The technique works but its not enjoyable.

I_R

The structure does begin to fall apart quite badly, which turns it into a real plod and highlights the repeated cliff hangers. Bending the story to the needs of a TV season might help and the younger cast members naturally ageing in a way they don't in the books will hopefully add some momentum and definitely avoid some of the more unbelievable plotting.

Blocks100

Someone explain this to me: How come he didn't foresee the massacre of his House at the hand of the Freys? Do the books cover this at all?

I_R

The Freys are his uncle's (Edmure, the man getting married) vassals and he'd eaten their bread and salt. Rules of hospitality and all that.

adored

Good final episode, sets thing up nicely for next season, few nice reveals as well.

Loved the final scene.

Blocks100

Shit I should stay the hell outta here forgot the final one had dropped!

adored

tigersgogrrr

adored wrote:

Good final episode, sets thing up nicely for next season, few nice reveals as well. Loved the final scene.

Yup, excellent stuff.

Roll on series 4!

adored

Only started on Season 1 last month, going to be a right ballache having to wait for them to make a series.

Gamermike

Obligatory dragon ending shot - check.

Bollockoff

Onion Knight more like Ballache Knight.

I do love the sinister theme for Melisandre.

And I guess that's it for this thread till next year.

Brooks

Crumbs, we hit season finale already? Better watch it I suppose.

RamSteelwood

so are spoilers allowed in here or not?

in case not...

Spoiler:

I_R

It's the same as The Wire, The Sopranos did it as well at times I think. Resolve plots in the penultimate episode, show the fallout from that resolution and start new plot lines in the final episode. Very HBO.

Jacuzzi_Jackson

Thought the last episode was fairly dull.

RamSteelwood

I see I_R....this is possibly the first HBO thing i've watched multiple complete seasons of, so i've not noticed that pattern before. ta.

I_R

Jacuzzi_Jackson wrote:

Thought the last episode was fairly dull.

Tywin/Tyrion and The Hound/Arya were good, but I don't think the material is strong enough for it to pull off quiet episodes. It needs the plot to be moving forwards at all times.

Bollockoff

Arya's first murder seems quite significant.

And I don't remember Theon's sister caring quite so much? In season 2 my memory thinks that she was as unenthused by his return to the Iron Islands as their father.

I_R

First man she's killed, she stabbed the boy when she escaped from the castle in the first series.

monkey

Bollockoff wrote:

Arya's first murder seems quite significant.

And I don't remember Theon's sister caring quite so much? In season 2 my memory thinks that she was as unenthused by his return to the Iron Islands as their father.

Yeah quick turnaround there.

Thought the latest one was really good. It was just a 'coming next season' type affair but I like most of the characters that have been brought in or had their roles from the books padded out a bit. Thrones has the best collection of tyrannical old men.

Hopefully with some clever pacing they can avoid the worst of the drift that plagues the books from this point on. Iirc, they've already held back some stuff from book 3 to bring into next season.

Thought the bastard of Bolton reveal tied itself up nicely as well.

Generally the deviations they make from the book seem well-judged. Not just adapting the thing but correcting many errors as well.

Bollockoff

I_R wrote:

First man she's killed, she stabbed the boy when she escaped from the castle in the first series.

Ohhhh yeah.

The chap who plays Roose is an unsettling chappy.

I_R

monkey wrote:

Hopefully with some clever pacing they can avoid the worst of the drift that plagues the books from this point on. Iirc, they've already held back some stuff from book 3 to bring into next season.

I think they're two thirds of the way through the third book, although it was supposed to get two series. The fourth and fifth books cover the same time period for a lot of characters, so we could actually get onto material from the latest book next year. There's definitely huge scope for fixing the pacing issues, but I'd guess a lot of people have different opinions on what to cut.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/06/09/game-of-thrones-future/

That's the first interview I've seen where the producers acknowledge they've got some tough decisions to make.

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