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I have a problem remembering the character's names.. I think there's just too many for my old brain to keep up with. I remembered Joffrey, Tyran, Jamie and Ed Stark and john snow.. the rest are just a blur.. cercei is "that sarah connor lady", grandpa lanister "last action hero guy", then there's "dragon lady", and "little girl with burned face guy" and "fire chick and that other king fella"

Two books left after Dragon and Ice? Better have Arya at Braavos getting trained

Jihadin, we're trying to be nice to the people who haven't read the books yet.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 Mr Nobody wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Gleeson Played Joffery well. I didnt want to see him dead, I wanted to see him humiliated, shown his place and destroyed, rotting in a dungeon. I wanted Cersei dead.

I actually thought poisoning was a good death for him. Joffrey always thought he was invulnerable from being surrounded by power. Yet all this this power could do nothing save him from a few drops of poison.
.

It was a great death, how he looked like a boy staring at his mother, asking for her help. It was acted greatly. Still, I would have preferred my version. To me and im not sure how many others, humiliation and dethroning would be great.

I have not watch the TV series, but one of the things I like about the book is “no plot armor”, i.e. the fact that even though there are a lot of unresolved plots and subplots tied to you, even if you have obvious story hooks linked to you, you can suddenly die, or something can happen to you that just kills off those unresolved plots and hooks. At any time, when you least expect it. I would quote a specific example that is fresh in my mind, but that would be spoiler.
So, yeah, Joffrey dying a death that was not what we wanted/expected to see is part of the appeal to me.

DJ.stop making me feel more evil

I swear Sansa is just getting better and better looking.

 motyak wrote:
I swear Sansa is just getting better and better looking.

Yeah, but her apathetic, helpless victim personality completely wipes out her aesthetic appeal and then some. Truthfully I find her to be one of the worst characters on the show. I hope at some point she gets something useful to do.

In the book though she becomes harden. Basically put on a show of being weak willed and fragile while inside she a simmering red headed demon. Watch out for Little Fingers being he is going to play a major role in upcoming season and episodes

 motyak wrote:
I swear Sansa is just getting better and better looking.

You mean cuter? She ain't your age dude.

But anyway.
I have to say the latest episodes have gone just as I thought they would. (i've read the books)

And I liked they had Bronn teach Jamie. Seems far more suited to it than the executioner guy.

Well, she's legal and only a few years younger than me. So I'm going to say getting better and better looking.

Thanks for trying to tell me off for no reason though.

 motyak wrote:
Well, she's legal and only a few years younger than me. So I'm going to say getting better and better looking.

Thanks for trying to tell me off for no reason though.

What? Nah, I ain't. (also didn't know she was legal, whoops a daisy) Didn't mean to. She is cute. I will concur. I think all the child actors have gotten better with age. (Acting and looks wise)

I mean Tommen looks like joffery's actual brother now. And sounds like a child king. Arya has always been awesome so. Yeah.

Tommen just seems way to old for how he acts in the books. Can you see this guy being happy as a clam because he gets to stamp royal degrees and then get mad because he doesn't get to play knight?

He is a little too old, yes.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
I have not watch the TV series, but one of the things I like about the book is “no plot armor”, i.e. the fact that even though there are a lot of unresolved plots and subplots tied to you, even if you have obvious story hooks linked to you, you can suddenly die, or something can happen to you that just kills off those unresolved plots and hooks. At any time, when you least expect it. I would quote a specific example that is fresh in my mind, but that would be spoiler.

Well..I'm sure everyone looked their age in Mid-Evil period....I'm centering with Late Mid Evil with Games. Tommen from what I heard is actual "Geoffrey" real life cousin. Think I am totally wrong though but it does and look about right.

Bronn training Jaime makes Jaime even more dangerous. He gets the left hand down and takes on Bronn view and style of sword fight then he's literally a Long Sword Ginsu Machine.

Brann.....oh Hell..he be meeting them "Elves"
Even money and a case of beer he be King of North when he is done training.

 Breotan wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
[…]even though there are a lot of unresolved plots and subplots tied to you, even if you have obvious story hooks linked to you, you can suddenly die, or something can happen to you that just kills off those unresolved plots and hooks. At any time, when you least expect it. I would quote a specific example that is fresh in my mind, but that would be spoiler.

Spoiler:

*cough* Jon Snow *cough*

You are reading my mind!

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Breotan wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
[…]even though there are a lot of unresolved plots and subplots tied to you, even if you have obvious story hooks linked to you, you can suddenly die, or something can happen to you that just kills off those unresolved plots and hooks. At any time, when you least expect it. I would quote a specific example that is fresh in my mind, but that would be spoiler.

Spoiler:

*cough* Jon Snow *cough*

You are reading my mind!

I agree, I liked the scene where Daenerys used the warlock's magic to join the dragons into a three headed monstrosity and burn down the wall, allowing the wildlings to swarm over and murder John and the rest of the night's watch, before she herself got eaten by the black dragon head. The three/one dragon/s then flew south and ate everyone in kings landing before sitting on the iron throne. It was a good ending.

Spoilers.

There was also that time Tyrion learned alchemy, and invented the first series of cannons. These proved to be most useful during the siege of storm's end.

Spoilers.

Now let's see if anyone fell for that...

I am afraid of neon glowing fumes and water slick....

There was no chain on the show if I recall. They went with something a bit more cinematic.

They had both. Book version was horrific. I believe Daavos found religion in .0003

On the subject of casting actors that are older tha their characters in the books:
I heard nobody complain about Daenerys not being 14

 thenoobbomb wrote:
On the subject of casting actors that are older tha their characters in the books:
I heard nobody complain about Daenerys not being 14

I may have a thing for sticking to the books.

But I also have a bigger thing for boobs and on-screen nudity.

So I'll allow it and give them a pass

GRRM has somewhat distanced himself from the rape scene.

For myself, I trust the showrunners and give them the benefit of the doubt that the changes they made were necessary for their vision of how they want to tell the story; an adaptation rather than a 100% faithful re-enactment. Unlike many other (maybe even most other) book to film\TV interpretations, I feel they have done a good enough job up until this point that they have a reservoir of goodwill they may now draw from. I'm good with it for now.

Anyone feeling that this place...looks awfully Necron like?

Nope. I think it looks Egyptian / Babylonian like


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 thenoobbomb wrote:
On the subject of casting actors that are older tha their characters in the books:
I heard nobody complain about Daenerys not being 14

To be fair on them, she was in a lot of sex scenes. I'm sure most would send HBO to the metaphorical stake for showing a 30 or so year man shagging 14 year old girl.

Wait.After a bit..she shagged him instead....

 Jihadin wrote:
Wait.After a bit..she shagged him instead....

The amount of squick would still just be too damn high.

Unless, of course, you are talking about this

I just finished that episode there and I kinda came away from it feeling that nothing much happened in it. - I think I misheard someone saying that this was Oberyn's big episode, but that's still to come.

The best part of it was easily Charles Dance being awesome at the start.

One of the scenes I am looking forward to from the books in the series....Janos Slynt and Jon last exchange

Janos was the city watch commander that got sacked by Joeffrey..the one that betrayed Ned