i had no idea the bulgarian national women's choir did the theme for xena, that's a shocker for me
― the craziest half-court shots and wildest WAGs (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
RFI LONG TERM ARC: my human woman-friend is upset about gender roles in this mideval/fantasy series. Do the ladies get to do stuff besides get drilled; married off or should I resign myself to watching this... myself? No need to sugar coat it.
Follow up: Is there an episode we should jump to in order to calm her fears of a 16-ep rapefest?
― Guy was knee-deep in water (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 18 March 2013 11:13 (eleven years ago) link
NB - we barely made it thru the first episode
there's some strong female characters but probably not enough to balance out that stuff if you're already balking at ep #1
― ciderpress, Monday, 18 March 2013 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
I am surprised you were shocked, they have such a distinctive sound.
― Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, 18 March 2013 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
ffs@people jumping on the bulgarian choir bandwagon in 2013? since slovene balakov left it's all been commercial shit anyway.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
(well worth googling "bulgarian names" imo - if you want to achieve you have to put the work in and get it right.)
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
V good thx u I will watch w-o others then
― Guy was knee-deep in water (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
Trailer 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4XSeW4B5Rg
― Gukbe, Monday, 18 March 2013 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
game of tron
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
Jimmy,
The books do a good job of focusing on the stories of many different female characters, detailing how they live in a very harsh world that is particularly bad for women and how they each must develop their own personal strategies for navigating and succeeding in such difficult environment.
So far the HBO series has followed these same stories, but it tends to undermine them by throwing in lots of unnecessary sex and nudity that didn't show up in the novels. Any time a potential titilating detail is hinted at in the books, it turns into a soft core porn scene in the tv show. Plus the bulk of additional scenes in the tv show that were not in the books are sex scenes.
― Moodles, Monday, 18 March 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
I am surprised you were shocked, they have such a distinctive sound.― Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, March 18, 2013
um... i may never have watched an episode of xena beforeLG, The Choir at Vanderbilt was the first concert I ever paid to see back when i was like thirteen and o wait u are fucking with me
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
Reviews for the first 4 eps of season 3 are beginning to pop up, but more interesting perhaps was this little interview:
http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/game-of-thrones-producers-say-season-3-as-big-as-were-going-to-get
― Gukbe, Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
let me guess: producers say season 3 as big as they're going to get
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 28 March 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder if some torrents will appear
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 28 March 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
can't wait for their interviews before season 4: "this year is solid sure, but like we said, last year was really the obvious peak."
― Clay, Thursday, 28 March 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder if some fake torrents will appear
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 28 March 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
They weren't saying it was "the biggest and best season", they were saying that as far as number of characters/storylines go, this is the biggest in terms of size. He says that pieces get moved off the chess board and it starts to thin out after this season.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
yeah if you've read the book that comment provokes a 'no shit'. gonna be fun watching ppl react to this season.
― balls, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
i can't wait. i feel i was vaguely spoiled a few years ago but maybe not.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
yeah if you've read the book that comment provokes a 'no shit'.
Which would be a small proportion of the people who watch the show.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 29 March 2013 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
o no i guess they can worry that some quote from some producer in some glossy is overhyping this season
― balls, Friday, 29 March 2013 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
or you could read the bloody quote:
"Season 3 is probably the biggest in terms of the number of new characters, number of new stories overall," Benioff explained. "The universe has expanded as much as it's going to, and now it's going to contract... As pieces start to get removed from the chessboard, we'll have fewer on there. We're nearly to the midpoint (of the story), and it'll be interesting to see what's going forward with the endgame."
― Gukbe, Friday, 29 March 2013 11:21 (eleven years ago) link
tl
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 29 March 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
dr
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 March 2013 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
how are we at the midpoint of the story when season 3 is the second half of book 2? (right?)
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 29 March 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
It's the first half of book 3.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 March 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
because books 4 and 5 move the story forward about 2 centimeters
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 29 March 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
at least they don't have extended scenes of everyone bathing
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Saturday, 30 March 2013 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
Well, they haven't been adapted yet.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 30 March 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
i hope this means they're going to severely curtail dragon woman's arc
― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Saturday, 30 March 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
i mean not that i'm going to watch the show? just that i hope these professionals employed in this business of making narrative entertainment are at least as smart as i am
― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Saturday, 30 March 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
is there a new thread for the new season?
enjoyed it well enough, i guess they have to set the scene once again, solid ep imo.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Monday, 1 April 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah. Will probably take me another episode to get back into the rhythm of "here's 3 minutes with this character". Dany's adventures look promising!
― Gukbe, Monday, 1 April 2013 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
the tywin/tyrian scene was great. tywin so obviously the embittered one accusing tyrian of being that.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Monday, 1 April 2013 12:58 (eleven years ago) link
I couldn't figure out how much time had passed between last season and this one. Those dragons grew a lot while Jon was being walked to Mance.
Also I really liked Natalie Dormer in this.
― Gukbe, Monday, 1 April 2013 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
yeah interesting stuff with her character winning people over. presumably it'll initially help joffrey but speeds up the phasing out of cersei.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Monday, 1 April 2013 13:05 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't see that dynamic coming at all, so this is exciting. I felt the Margery thing in the finale last season was kind of a throwaway thing.
― Gukbe, Monday, 1 April 2013 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
Worst part of the episode was the lack of Arya. I guess she'll just be walking around Westeros though.
i thought this was a very boring premiere
― homosexual II, Monday, 1 April 2013 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the comet at the beginning of season 2, and wish they could have done something like that here, but otherwise I think this is about what to expect from GoT early season episodes.
― Gukbe, Monday, 1 April 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
The Tywin vs Tyrion and Margaery vs Cersei scenes were great standouts. Also: a giant! But, yeah, no Arya or Brienne of Tarth, but otherwise it was a fine setting-up-the-pieces opener.
Those dragons grew a lot while Jon was being walked to Mance.
And while Davos was lying on that rock.
― DavidM, Monday, 1 April 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
this premiere was at least less boring than the doctor who premiere, but still a bit boring. still, looking forward to things!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 1 April 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
Game of Sassy Conversations
― polyphonic, Monday, 1 April 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't get what had gone down at Harrenhal. Last I remember, in season 2, Arya escaped and Tywin rode off for Kings Landing. And somewhere between then and this episode a huge battle/massacre occurred... ? idgi. I've clearly missed something.
― DavidM, Monday, 1 April 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
"The Northern army prepares to seize Harrenhal, only to find that Ser Gregor Clegane has already abandoned the castle and put all the Northern and Riverlands prisoners to the sword."
― Clay, Monday, 1 April 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
interesting stuff with her character winning people over
And Joffrey being all "she's very good at this... charity thing", and not dismissing or admonishing her. I'm starting to get a kind of a Charles and Di vibe from these two.
Having black smoke wafting off a ruined Winterfell in the title sequence was another nice touch.
― DavidM, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Gleeson's delivery of "charity" was pretty great, as if he was actually searching his head pretty hard to land on that word.
― Clay, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
And when you found out how Smokey gets to the Island from Lost... oops, spoiler.
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 06:09 (eleven years ago) link
OTM, best scene in the episode. I like where the Joffrey storyline appears to be going as well.
I can't work out whether the actor playing Stannis is poorly cast or whether the character is just boring, but the scenes with him really sag, even if he's laying siege to a city or something.
Also can anyone refresh my memory as to what happened at Winterfell at the end of last season? Like I know Theon went mental and then they knocked him out and got him out of there, but who was it who actually wrecked the place? There appears to be a conspicuous lack of victorious Lannister dudes wandering around.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 10:11 (eleven years ago) link