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 Mr Morden wrote:
For me they have taken the heart of the early books and formed it into a substantially more coherent story, rather than the increasingly bloated and character heavy amorphous mess that are the books story line.

That's pretty much how I feel about it, too.

I love the books (well, the first three anyway) but the show is more focused and easy to follow (relatively speaking), especially as of late.

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
For me they have taken the heart of the early books and formed it into a substantially more coherent story, rather than the increasingly bloated and character heavy amorphous mess that are the books story line.

That's pretty much how I feel about it, too.

I love the books (well, the first three anyway) but the show is more focused and easy to follow (relatively speaking), especially as of late.

I agree with you both. Book 1 was a bore.

Also, boobs! I miss the prostitute Ros most.

Speaking of the wiener:

 kronk wrote:

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
For me they have taken the heart of the early books and formed it into a substantially more coherent story, rather than the increasingly bloated and character heavy amorphous mess that are the books story line.

That's pretty much how I feel about it, too.

I love the books (well, the first three anyway) but the show is more focused and easy to follow (relatively speaking), especially as of late.

I agree with you both. Book 1 was a bore.

Also, boobs! I miss the prostitute Ros most.

They are the breast part...

*Ahem. *


Someone had to do it!

But yes I think the books are not as good as the show is. Plus we don't have to deal with edric storm, or hell the other characters in the books that are used in one scene then are killed twenty pages later. *cough* martell *cough*

Second promo for next week.

 stanman wrote:

 djones520 wrote:
So obviously people have a problem with equality. Grow up everyone, it's the 21st century. /sarcasm

Boobs aren't genitals. There haven't been had any full on shots of Vagina being laid out there, yes they've had naked women but not any close up of their genitals but we've had a close up of penis and balls. Bring on the Vag and then you can spout about "equality". Honestly the show can get along just fine without showing any genitals male or female but HBO likes to throw in that stuff for ratings & shock value.

Or, you know, because it suits the tone of the setting and not everyone has this bizarre puritanical streak where watching one guy literally mash another guy's head on the floor until it bursts like a dropped egg is cool beans, but a few seconds of willy on screen makes those so afflicted cringe so hard they compress themselves into a singularity

Just to clear things up, i dont care about seeing a weiner. Im a guy, I know what they look like.
I was just surprised out of nowhereit just showed up.

My only complaint is that the cock had "two warts" on it.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Second promo for next week.

HAHAHAHAHA
I love that movie excellent mashup! Maybe time to watch the black knight again hmm

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Just to clear things up, i dont care about seeing a weiner. Im a guy, I know what they look like.
I was just surprised out of nowhereit just showed up.

I saw that and I was like huh,



After that I couldn't stop laughing that and also the boobs in that scene were um lovely.

A random theory/thought i just had:
the voice Varys heard in the fire when he was a kid, was Bran during one of his tree dream sessions. I have no evidence to back this up, or even any reason why it would make sense, I've just been trying to think of any time when any other character might have heard an unexplained voice that could be explained as being Bran...


edit: ooh, actually bran is the lord of light(!) - every time one of the priests/priestesses say 'I stared into the flames and the lord of light spoke to me' - it was actually bran talking to them via the tree dream thingy

 Nicky J wrote:
A random theory/thought i just had:
the voice Varys heard in the fire when he was a kid, was Bran during one of his tree dream sessions. I have no evidence to back this up, or even any reason why it would make sense, I've just been trying to think of any time when any other character might have heard an unexplained voice that could be explained as being Bran...


edit: ooh, actually bran is the lord of light(!) - every time one of the priests/priestesses say 'I stared into the flames and the lord of light spoke to me' - it was actually bran talking to them via the tree dream thingy

That sounds crazy!

> . > *steals idea posts it on reddit*

 Nicky J wrote:
A random theory/thought i just had:
the voice Varys heard in the fire when he was a kid, was Bran during one of his tree dream sessions. I have no evidence to back this up, or even any reason why it would make sense, I've just been trying to think of any time when any other character might have heard an unexplained voice that could be explained as being Bran...


edit: ooh, actually bran is the lord of light(!) - every time one of the priests/priestesses say 'I stared into the flames and the lord of light spoke to me' - it was actually bran talking to them via the tree dream thingy

hmm well it would have been interesting if the tree guy had said - look Bran - this is the deal - we pretend to be the gods - yeah all of them........................now that would have been fun.

Would also have fit in with - what did you see when you died? - "nothing".

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Nicky J wrote:
A random theory/thought i just had:
the voice Varys heard in the fire when he was a kid, was Bran during one of his tree dream sessions. I have no evidence to back this up, or even any reason why it would make sense, I've just been trying to think of any time when any other character might have heard an unexplained voice that could be explained as being Bran...


edit: ooh, actually bran is the lord of light(!) - every time one of the priests/priestesses say 'I stared into the flames and the lord of light spoke to me' - it was actually bran talking to them via the tree dream thingy

hmm well it would have been interesting if the tree guy had said - look Bran - this is the deal - we pretend to be the gods - yeah all of them........................now that would have been fun.

Would also have fit in with - what did you see when you died? - "nothing".

As........................cynical as GoT is at times, that would be taking it a bit too far.

Not that it isn't a bad idea though........................just maybe for a different story!

 Alpharius wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Nicky J wrote:
A random theory/thought i just had:
the voice Varys heard in the fire when he was a kid, was Bran during one of his tree dream sessions. I have no evidence to back this up, or even any reason why it would make sense, I've just been trying to think of any time when any other character might have heard an unexplained voice that could be explained as being Bran...


edit: ooh, actually bran is the lord of light(!) - every time one of the priests/priestesses say 'I stared into the flames and the lord of light spoke to me' - it was actually bran talking to them via the tree dream thingy

hmm well it would have been interesting if the tree guy had said - look Bran - this is the deal - we pretend to be the gods - yeah all of them........................now that would have been fun.

Would also have fit in with - what did you see when you died? - "nothing".

As........................cynical as GoT is at times, that would be taking it a bit too far.

Not that it isn't a bad idea though........................just maybe for a different story!

Ya I'm gunna say that's a bit of a stretch that it was bran playing the lord of light... but you never know haha

He can warg into many different people. Clearly he is the many-faced god.

 d-usa wrote:
He can warg into many different people. Clearly he is the many-faced god.

maybe he is.... Alpharius?

The minimal boobage this season is made up for by the pacing of this season. It's almost like "Oh, gak. We only have 2.5 more seasons to go! We need the dragons across the sea, Clegane-Bowl, White Walkers Go There and Back Again, and at least 30 minutes of Ramsay Bolton dying slowly."

 kronk wrote:
The minimal boobage this season is made up for by the pacing of this season. It's almost like "Oh, gak. We only have 2.5 more seasons to go! We need the dragons across the sea, Clegane-Bowl, White Walkers Go There and Back Again, and at least 30 minutes of Ramsay Bolton dying slowly."

I have a feeling this is what is going to happen:

AHEM




Maybe. Never know could be completely wrong.

Sounds good, but without the capture part. NEW John would lop his head off in the fight.

Agreed, I hope he does, and lops both of Ramsay's heads off. And then he gets eaten by wolves.

The North Remembers Lannisters... The North Remembers.

 Asherian Command wrote:

 kronk wrote:
The minimal boobage this season is made up for by the pacing of this season. It's almost like "Oh, gak. We only have 2.5 more seasons to go! We need the dragons across the sea, Clegane-Bowl, White Walkers Go There and Back Again, and at least 30 minutes of Ramsay Bolton dying slowly."

I have a feeling this is what is going to happen:

AHEM

Spoiler:

The entire army of wildlings come upon ramsay's bolton army, jon sees a hostage and the hostage runs at jon, and then bang, the hostage dies, Jon enraged his army of wildlings and loyal starkmen charge at the boltons while the fighting ensues, the vale rides in and slaughters the bolton army, ramsay retreats to winterfell, but the keep is swiftly besieged and it ends with ramsay and jon fighting some specuticular fashion, but jon spares him and puts ramsay in chains, so he can execute the fether.

Maybe. Never know could be completely wrong.

Er, no. Ramsay will flay some hostages and burn their corpses on the battlefield. (it was in the trailer). I wouldn't put it past D&D to have Ramsay flay Rickon Stark (off screen) purely for shock value. The show has become very gratuitous in that regard, and they're always pushing the boundaries for ratings. Something is going to happen / has to happen that is going to make Jon truly snap. After being betrayed by his brothers and resurrected, he's become very dejected and defeatist, and so far he's been very detached and isolated from the tragedies and betrayals that have beset his family, with him serving at the Wall bound by his oath. But now he's free of his oath, and seeing his family murdered will send him off the deep end.

I'm hoping he becomes a much darker and vicious character, much like Beric Dondarrion did when he was resurrected by Thoros.

Though I am of course looking forward to the prospect of the Stark's finally getting revenge.


No spoilers are necessary here, the show is going way off script now.

So I was at an interview yesterday and doing some reading on between the lines for Mace Tryell and the jailer Septa...
,

Sooo do we think Sansa is Pregnant?

 Mr Morden wrote:
Sooo do we think Sansa is Pregnant?

Yes probably,

She will probably visit the ye old abortionest.

 Asherian Command wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
Sooo do we think Sansa is Pregnant?

Yes probably,

She will probably visit the ye old abortionest.

Maybe Melisande will offer to help.............for good or ill

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
Sooo do we think Sansa is Pregnant?

Yes probably,

She will probably visit the ye old abortionest.

Maybe Melisande will offer to help.............for good or ill

"Hey, you want to terminate the pregnancy and the father? I'm offering a twofer deal today."

Finally caught up.

 Crazy_Carnifex wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
Sooo do we think Sansa is Pregnant?

Yes probably,

She will probably visit the ye old abortionest.

Maybe Melisande will offer to help.............for good or ill

"Hey, you want to terminate the pregnancy and the father? I'm offering a twofer deal today."

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 Crazy_Carnifex wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
Sooo do we think Sansa is Pregnant?

Yes probably,

She will probably visit the ye old abortionest.

Maybe Melisande will offer to help.............for good or ill

"Hey, you want to terminate the pregnancy and the father? I'm offering a twofer deal today."

So, two birds, one stone and the north for the lord of light. Sign here please.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Finally caught up.

Spoiler:

Bran is an idiot, and Summer's death was pointless.
Like really? Jump into the hoard of zombies and stall them for 2 seconds? That's the dog's great sacrifice.

Hodor's death was pretty sad though :(

Summer's sacrifice was at least done with consent