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Okay, given recent... events, I thought it might be useful to have a dedicated Game of Thrones thread (if we had one I didn't find it).

So, I haven't seen anything past season two but during the interminable wait for Blu-ray of season three, I went ahead and read the books. Yes, I am now that guy.

Anyway, how'd you non-readers like the Purple Wedding? Not exactly what you expected to see, eh?

Oh, and if you hadn't seen it yet... why are you reading a thread with the word SPOILERS in the title? o.O

It was pretty good. Tyrion was, as usual, fantastic.

Too bad Jack Gleeson is going to retire, I thought he was killing it as Joffrey.


I thought they were going to save that for the Episode 9, no idea what they are going to go with now.

Yea, I've no idea what's in his head with the whole "retiring" thing. Hope he set aside money for old age.

 Ouze wrote:
Too bad Jack Gleeson is going to retire, I thought he was killing it as Joffrey.


I thought they were going to save that for the Episode 9, no idea what they are going to go with now.

All of the talk prior to the season said this was going to happen early on. Episode 9 will probably be the Battle of the Wall. 10 I would imagine will have a lot to do with Tyrion's escape.

Whoa whoa whoa - battle for the wall this season? I'm not sure they've hyped that enough yet, but I guess they have 6 episodes yet in which to do so.

Yeah, we've still got the trial, Oberyn's fight with the Mountain, the first battle of the wall (from the inside), and the great battle at the wall (stannis) left to do this season. Plenty of stuff to keep it going.

Anyone else notice that this episode was a lot of filler to give reasons for peoples actions later? Stuff that wasn't in the book that you just had to assume. I feel like we're likely to see a lot more of this in the future as the show runners have to tidy up Martin's "story telling".

It also seems like Shae's story is going down slightly differently. Which isn't a surprise given that the various "romances" have seemed to receive the most changes from the book to TV.



They have to tell the stories of the Knight of the Laughing Tree and the Night's King this season, right?

I think it works better for the show based on how they played her character throughout. In the show she genuinely seems to care deeply for Tyrion. In the books it's implied she does but there leaves room for what goes down. Both work, i just think the show is doing a better job based on the conclusion it has to come to.

I was glad to see Joffrey go, but I was actually expecting him to stick around forever to be the annoying ahole king everyone hates. I keep forgetting that all the main characters die at some point.

I think Jamie has to lose his golden hand and replace it with a big spikey mace or something useful like that.

 Hulksmash wrote:
I think it works better for the show based on how they played her character throughout. In the show she genuinely seems to care deeply for Tyrion. In the books it's implied she does but there leaves room for what goes down. Both work, i just think the show is doing a better job based on the conclusion it has to come to.

Yeah, it's probably more tragic this way, if less cold-blooded.

Jaime starts his training quite a bit earlier, and with a different person. I wonder if this is part of the plan to keep the sell-sword more relevant for the near future...

I like the change. The original "trainer" seemed like a horrible idea to me from several angles.

Plus more Bronn is good Bronn. I could see him filling a few different roles instead of introducing new characters as the series goes on.

Interesting in the Bolton change that he didn't bring a girl that looked a little like Arya north like in the books.

The original trainer also didn't really talk...at all. So during the training scenes you would just have Jaime talking to himself and basically thinking out loud.

So the choice is Mr. Say Nothing, or Ser Some Of The Best Lines In The Show.

Note to self, Dont go to a wedding in Westeros

 Hulksmash wrote:
I like the change. The original "trainer" seemed like a horrible idea to me from several angles.

Plus more Bronn is good Bronn. I could see him filling a few different roles instead of introducing new characters as the series goes on.

Interesting in the Bolton change that he didn't bring a girl that looked a little like Arya north like in the books.

Agreed, the more Bronn the better!

That said, I also found it quite interesting how Roose Bolton is portrayed - he seemed quite nice, to a certain extent, this episode.

Jesus, did they have to make it so obvious who is the murderer?

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Jesus, did they have to make it so obvious who is the murderer?

Who did it, then? Me and a friend who read all the books aren't that sure!

"It was Stannis!"

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Jesus, did they have to make it so obvious who is the murderer?

If you haven't read the books, you probably don't have the right answer regarding who's truly behind it and how based on what we saw in the episode.

 Breotan wrote:

That top will cheer when it is relieved of its duty, in true HBO fashion.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Jesus, did they have to make it so obvious who is the murderer?

They didn't really make it obvious at all.....

Well, I know it isnt tywin (sp? little person character)

my bet is its one of the lannisters though, if not one of them maybe littlefinger/the unik/that old guy with the potions and what not.

but I really think its one of the lannisters, but not tywin

I'm probably way off but I think it was mom, cuz she hated the fact that the queen-to-be girl was taking her queen spot, so the only way to get it back to get rid of Joffrey, and blame it on tyriel.. 2 birds with 1 stone kinda thing.

When are the dragons coming?

 easysauce wrote:
Well, I know it isnt tywin (sp? little person character)

my bet is its one of the lannisters though, if not one of them maybe littlefinger/the unik/that old guy with the potions and what not.

but I really think its one of the lannisters, but not tywin

Tywin is the dad, Tyrion is the imp


@Hotsauce All the episode showed was Joffery accusing who he felt was his murdered: if that was how the police actually carried out their investigations there'd be a lot of murderers getting away scot free

Breotan wrote:Yea, I've no idea what's in his head with the whole "retiring" thing. Hope he set aside money for old age.

He said that he was retiring to pursue a career in education. So whether this means to take time off of acting to really focus on going to school and perhaps figuring out if there's something else he wants to do with his life, or whether he's already decided that he literally wants a career in education, is something that I'm not entirely sure of.

d-usa wrote:The original trainer also didn't really talk...at all. So during the training scenes you would just have Jaime talking to himself and basically thinking out loud.

So the choice is Mr. Say Nothing, or Ser Some Of The Best Lines In The Show.

It also doesn't hurt that the original actor for the guy who was supposed to do the training died.

Also I'd like to emphasize, since a few things have popped up already, please no book spoilers outside of spoiler tags in this thread.

Joffer's Noooooooo!

R.I.P The Greatest King of Westeros.

Ding-dong the Mad Kind's dead! Which Mad King? The Bard king!

Literally, don't read this if you want to wait and see who the likely culprit of this wonderful murder is...


The big change they did was that in the book, when Joff starts chocking, his King's Guard actually cut open his throat in an attempt to find/remove whatever is causing him to choke.

Tough decision for Cersei to do the deed.

Nice fist bumping with Arya and Gregor after he ate all the chickens and her not helping carrying someone....

"WTF is a Lommy?"

I still have never seen Game of Thrones nor The Walking Dead series. Am I missing out?

 Fafnir wrote:

Breotan wrote:
Also I'd like to emphasize, since a few things have popped up already, please no book spoilers outside of spoiler tags in this thread.

There is a big [SPOILERS] tag in the title.

If you don't want to read spoilers, then why are you in the spoilers thread