Game of Thrones

I should've known better than to browse a WATMM topic about a show I'm really enjoying. Never again.

i don't even know... i suppose i'm saying i've a hunch that next season will be a differest beast...so to speak, due to an influx of popular interest over the last 2 years, thus higher budget, etc. but then i saw on wiki that this season was shot just last year or so i'm starting to believe this may be more imagined than real...

  On 5/26/2015 at 9:20 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

I should've known better than to browse a WATMM topic about a show I'm really enjoying. Never again.

lol

this shit is getting more atrocious with the minute

I think part of what was making this season underwhelming is that it appeared that all the "bad guys" where winning, with no sign for the "good" ones to turn things around anytime soon. So it's no wonder that the episode where someone get's what's coming to them that the show feels better.

Yeah, it's pretty much just been 5 straight seasons of "really bad things happen to characters you like", so at some point there needs to be some comeuppance or they're gonna lose people.

I haven't read the books so I dunno how this all plays out but seeing Cersei get locked up was a wonderful suprise and really got me excited for the rest of the season.

b00b5

  On 5/19/2015 at 8:43 PM, Hoodie said:

 

lol. the fella who plays gendry comes into my bookshop a fair bit, he's a nice bloke.

Well that was certainly something

dude that snow scene... what kind of sword was that?

The sword is Valyrian steel.

That episode was fantastic. I'm really excited to see where this show's headed. Few slow bits in the middle of season 5 but with finally getting to see a large-scale ice zombie fight (making the threat they're constantly talking about feel real) & Cersei's imprisonment (finally giving some long-overdue comeuppance) it really feels like they're firing on all cylinders and delivering the goods quite satisfyingly.

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Best episode ever

I didn't think anything could top that balls-out-fighting episode with the Wildlings and the Nights Watch.

The scene$ in the north were amazing.

yeah very very good episode, the whole episode could of just been in the north, the rest just felt a bit rushed like trying to touch base with everything else going on skipping around a bit not really leading anywhere slightly rushed, some dull, scenes which wasnt really necessary & distracting from the main story of the episode of beyond the wall which was awesome one of the best episodes yet & has pulled me back in...just when i thought i was out.....

well that was more fun than in the books, where he just reads a raven sent note about it.

I'm going to be extremely disappointed if this show gets shitty or gets cancelled before getting a definitive conclusion. How many seasons do they expect to have?

I expect that the ratings will stay high enough that it'll stay on the air and have a proper budget until the conclusion, but I'm actually worried that if (when?) they reach a point where the show's plot is further along than the books, it might significantly decrease in quality because they won't have things like excellent already-written Tyrion dialogue to draw upon. I wonder if the show's writers would be able to come up with dialogue that stays true to the characters George Railroad Martin wrote without actually having literal source material to adapt into a teleplay. Maybe they already have and I'm just unaware because I haven't read the books.

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knock up a few more special swords and they'll be fine.

  On 6/2/2015 at 12:43 AM, jhonny said:

knock up a few more special swords and they'll be fine.

they don't know how to anymore unfortunately.

why cant those dudes swim?

  On 6/2/2015 at 12:50 AM, vincentvc said:

why cant those dudes swim?

White walkers

  On 6/2/2015 at 12:34 AM, Hoodie said:

I can't speak for the dialogue because I haven't read the books, but I've heard that they've made a lot of modifications in the plot that make zero sense.

 

 

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For example, Littlefinger taking Sansa to the North and marrying her off to Ramsey Bolton. Sansa is his most valuable asset and he's leaving her with the infamous "flayed man" Boltons who killed her parents? ... why? In the books, he keeps her at her aunt's castle under disguise, grooming her in a creepy way, but protecting her until she can finally take back the North when the time is right. This makes way more sense within the context of the plot and characters. By leaving Sansa with Ramsey Bolton, who is infamously brutal, he paved the way for Sansa's rape and torture. He lost his most powerful ally, because I'm guessing Sansa is not too happy that Littlefinger set all of this up. Why would he make such a dumb move? I've also heard the changes in Dorne suck (a major female character in the book was nixed for Oberyn's main squeeze to remain in the show) and not to mention plenty of cut content such as Lady Stoneheart, the Greyjoys, Young Griff, Brothers without Banners, etc. I was excited to see this stuff, but now it looks like it won't be in the show.

 

TL;DR: Overall, I think the show's quality will greatly suffer once they run out of source material, especially because they are cutting out many of the interesting plot lines from the books.

 

  On 6/2/2015 at 12:54 AM, chim said:

 

  On 6/2/2015 at 12:50 AM, vincentvc said:

why cant those dudes swim?

White walkers

 

theres a surface underneath all that water