THE GAME OF THRONES/ASOIAF SPOILER THREAD (WARNING: SPOILERS)

THANKS OBAMA

the motherfuckers played us like yo yo ma

lol

I'm not really that pissed, but it's kinda jarring and baffling that they didn't use such a ready-made cliffhanger "Wow!" moment.

Guess they wanted to wait until next season for it. That or it was hard to get MF for some reason.

It was weird. We were half joking 'well it's the epilogue so maybe after the credits' but no.

Otherwise it was actually a great episode! Loved the Harryhausen-style skeleton wights.

I mean THANK GOD they fast-forwarded Bran's story

I AM SHOCKED.

LIKE THIS IS THE MOST SURPRISING THING D&D COULD'VE DONE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT.

Maybe NOW we'll get dead Freys?

lol by NOW I mean next year.

they had to treeify bran asap before he got any taller

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/predicting-when-game-of-thrones-author-george-r-r-martin-will-come-out-with-his-next-book/

jfc

I guess Tyrion is too much of a fan favorite for them to include the bit of him lying to Jaime about killing Joffrey

I was wondering about that.

the reveal about his first wife tysha seems like the more significant omission, i think that makes the following scenes make more sense

Yeah - this last ep would have benefited from 10 more minutes, I think

when they cut to tyrion for the first time at like 9.58 i was thinking "what the fuck is going on here"

Used to be worried about the series outpacing the books but now in a full blown panic after they accelerated Bran + Dany's storyline

They can probably get 2 seasons at most out of AFFC/DwD

Think the only logical choice would be to fully split off the TV series from the books and have them come out to different endings

they shd def do that anyway

Yeah it would be cool

Jon Snow becomes King of Westeros but he is trapped in the body of an owl and his attendants never know what he wants and always have to ask him yes or no questions to which he responds with one blink for yes two blinks for no

invent a scenario where varys and tyrion go to braavos and meet arya, and then have a whole holding season of those three getting into mischief

I guess Tyrion is too much of a fan favorite for them to include the bit of him lying to Jaime about killing Joffrey

but on that front, I thought the worst bit of whitewashing was having Shae try to stab him, and then him saying "I'm sorry" afterwards.

and blah blah noone cares about book/show whinging I know, but they need to stop cutting out backstory/motivations and leaving the big events the same. The Tysha story has been mentioned in the show, and the Jaime & Tyrion interlude before the trial by combat would have been a good place to do a reminder.

I agree with that but OTOH what we got was a good five minutes of the writers bashing Orson Scott Card, which was kind of hysterical

he's significantly more moral than in the books.

Yeah I find it a tad ironic that GRRM made this series partly through deflating a lot of swords and sorcery cliches but the TV series has pretty much gone on full steam ahead with wellworn TV tropes

they def were trying to sully tyrions rep as a good guy via killing shea but just gently

yeah i remember in seasons past when they made the tyrion-shae relationship seem more reciprocal wondering if it was going to make it that more devastating at the end or if it would kinda ruin it and i think it turned out the latter. was generally happy w/ the finale, thought the appearance of stannis' army north of the wall was handled fantastically, they're getting better at that kind of thing. surprised they didn't have lady stoneheart, it just seemed such an obvious 'holy shit' moment to wrap the finale on but i guess they like to keep a surprise on standby to drop early next season plus they've done so little to set it up. was laughing a little on the other thread where someone was saying 'nobody ever dies of infections' thinking 'just you wait' but then nope they off the hound a different way. loved that, in general like the deviations and think when they allow the characters to breathe and let scenes play out a little it really works and becomes nearly as good a show as some ppl think it is.

I don't understand this twilight-related youtube video embed, was it meant for this thread?

lol jeez I got busted.

Didn't watch the video, what was it about?

I was surprised mance mentioned that magg the giant was the last of his line, I thought wildlings didn't care about bloodlines

I thought it's been established pretty well that Mance is kind of weird compared to most Wildlings

(because he's former Night's Watch)

He puts his toilet paper roll with the lead facing in rather than out, for example xp

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/06/16/game-of-thrones-why-no-lady-stoneheart

Didn't watch the video, what was it about?

It was a song called "Heart of Stone."

theme ready to go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yp88JIUVQk

yeah i remember in seasons past when they made the tyrion-shae relationship seem more reciprocal wondering if it was going to make it that more devastating at the end or if it would kinda ruin it and i think it turned out the latter.

Tywin scene on the other hand I loved.

I see what you did there.

i think the show dudes are actively fucking with the book crowd by this point so it is hard to read that piece with graves and take anything from it. but it is cool, when you are in this situation where you have a demographic among your audience who are sure they know what's coming, keeping them off balance is a great trick and v much in the spirit of the show itself.

isn't Graves the guy who didn't realise he directed a rape scene

lol jeez I got busted.

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Monday, June 16, 2014 5:55 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

WAIT A MINUTE DID YOU MEAN-

also, yeah stupid people are stupid, but the show really got that wrong.

https://24.media.tumblr.com/4168a28267a40728ed48053d7980a7f3/tumblr_n79qkooOcU1s7nmv5o7_1280.png
https://24.media.tumblr.com/b0ecec9bb63da9903530f936fbc543aa/tumblr_n79qkooOcU1s7nmv5o1_500.png
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etc etc

You know Shakey's meltdown on the other thread has got me thinking, the Others can swim right?

Like the dudes who Jon Snow sends to save the wildlings at Eastrock or Eastwatch or w/e that is send a message to Jon Snow (I think) that there are 'white walkers in the water' or something like that

Or is it that the Others infected dolphins and whales and maybe lobsters and crabs too

dont fuck w my lobsters warning u

I was disappointed by treeman, did not expect him to be so human looking. I had zero problems with the skeleton fight, they looked good.

also, I really like show Qyburn

http://i.imgur.com/Cdusm5a.jpg

IIRC this was the storyboard for that scene, not sure what happened on the path to being filmed

LOLLLLLLL.

Like the dudes who Jon Snow sends to save the wildlings at Eastrock or Eastwatch or w/e that is send a message to Jon Snow (I think) that there are 'white walkers in the water' or something like that

This part I don't remember clearly, but I do know that any time the Walkers are approaching, the ambient temperature drops dramatically, so maybe they're icing over the seawater and walking on top?

m'lady stoneheart

dude in the tree was like pre-special effects jabba in og star wars. no money left i guess. also thought the skellies were cool, nice homage and let's face it, those dudes have the most ad&d storyline so what do you expect? ppl are ok with cool dragons i guess but get rattled at other reminders that this is some lord of the rings shit. fyi dragons are the worst.

v sorry for any minds blown by my dragon reality check

Shakey's meltdown

hyperbolize much