Game Of Thrones

Dunno if anyone has seen the latest trailer, but damn. I got a semi.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVkr9oYsIbo
 
And finally finished A Dance with Dragons. Thought the last two chapters were meandering a bit, but then THAT ending.

 

Ramius

Dunno if anyone has seen the latest trailer, but damn. I got a semi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVkr9oYsIbo

And finally finished A Dance with Dragons. Thought the last two chapters were meandering a bit, but then THAT ending.

Yeah looks amazing and there's not long to go now! I loved the snippet of dialogue between Tyrion and Cersei (spellcheck =P)

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65% through the first book, just read the bit where Ned confronts the queen just after Robert's death. Strangely got me angry going through it again. Still not sure if I think his stupidity is implausible or really good writing.

RIP Joe                                    "You say the hill's too steep to climb.

Holy fuck the new trailer looks immense! 

Pidge

65% through the first book, just read the bit where Ned confronts the queen just after Robert's death. Strangely got me angry going through it again. Still not sure if I think his stupidity is implausible or really good writing.

Both, they've written his stupidity and naivety very well! 

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Anyone after the paperbacks of A Dance With Dragons Pts 1 & 2 should try Asda or Sainsburys, both are doing both books in their 2 for £7 offer.
 
Better than £8.99 each...

Soon oh soon the light, Pass within and soothe this endless night, And wait here for you, Our reason to be here...

Just looking through the cast pictures on the FB page, and Ygritte looks pretty much exactly as I'd imagined her to.
 

Jaqen H'ghar looks bang on, too.
 

Hmm... read while watching or wait to read the book after the series...

RIP Joe                                    "You say the hill's too steep to climb.

Ygritte and Jaqen are perfect.

There's a 22min pre-season episode available on torrent sites. SE02 EP00

S02E01 was decent enough, then. A bit functional but they need to introduce a host of stories and characters.

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S02E01 was decent enough, then. A bit functional but they need to introduce a host of stories and characters.

 I totally agree didn't get anywhere really but at the same time they needed to introduce and set the Season up for the new characters :) 

A good first episode I thought. Sets the scene for the series pretty well.

Have to say that Crastors Keep looks exactly like I imagined it. I'm looking forward to seeing more of Hannah Murray as Gilly too.

Melisandre is pretty bang on too. I wasn't sure when I first saw pictures of her; but that first episode has allieviated those fears.
Stannis doesn't look like what I imagined though. I actually pictured him looking remarkably like the guy who plays Davos. Maybe I'll warm to him in time though.

Hopefully Renly and his lot will appear next week. I saw a picture of Brienne the other day. They've certainly been faithful to how fugly she is in the books XD.

Yeah, funny they've gone out of their way to make a pretty average looking lass ugly for Brienne, but hired the handsomest dwarf out to play a guy that's meant to be hideous 
 
I imagined Crastor as an older, wirey guy. Probably a bit like Walder Frey. But I think he probably works better as a bit younger and less outwordly sleazy but very uncomfortable presence.

Brilliant first episode.

 

That was wicked.  It's good to see the guys playing Robb and Joffrey can pull of being so intense. I was actually a little bit scared of Joffrey when he threatened his mother. Also the ending was chilling

Loved it. Nice chunky bit of Dinklage gurning got things moving perfectly. Great acting.

RIP Joe                                    "You say the hill's too steep to climb.

Great stuff nice to see nearly all the main characters feature. Joffrey is still a nasty little fecker i would love to kick the crap out off.Dinklage is the man , great actor.

Just finished watching the first 2 episodes.. fucking great start!
The Red Priestess would get it, over and over.
 
I love Salladhor Saan already.
"I'm not going to rape the queen, I said I am going to fuck her... you don't know how persuasive I am!"
Genius

Well, I did not know there are TWO episodes out!
 
 

Great first episode, set everything up very well. Robb's doing a great job, he's believable as the King in the North although in the book's he comes across as much younger so the choice of actor obviously had a lot to do with it, but I really like how they've developed his character. Finally seeing a full-sized direwolf rocked. Joffrey is so hateful I can't even explain.

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He IS much younger in the books. All the children are older because Dany had to be in order to show her having sex in certain nations (including Britain) and when they're born in relation to other events is important (well, less so Sansa, Arya, Joffrey etc, but it's important when Dany, Jon and Robb were born). Though Martin has said in hindsight that he probably should have made them older from the outset anyway.

Yes I figured that had to be something to do with the reasoning, it reads much worse in the books than it actually played out in the first series for obvious reasons. Interesting the author said that, as those few extra years do give him an air of authority I didn't fully believe in when reading - having said that I've only read the first book and a bit of the second.

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I think it was a commitment to the kind of ages many genuine (as well as legendary) medieval characters came to prominence both in actual ruling/battle and simply as adults (hence the age people are confirmed/have bar mitzvahs etc). But a modern day audience finds it all a bit far-fetched. 

Episode 2 (NO SPOILERS, fear not): Way better than the first episode. Still very much setting the scene and introducing people, but full of better scenes. Gendry and Arya are obviously going to be fun to watch together. Great patter with Salladar and Davos. A hysterical brothel scene. THAT scene from the book with Theon and Asha  Theon's really excellent in the episode, actually.

Yeah, I much preferred the 2nd episode to the first

Just watched the 2nd episode, series is still not doing it for me so far, maybe expectations were too high.

 

Lucy

How come the second episode was on so soon?

Didn't know there were two episodes out, gonna have to give the second a watch tomorrow.

HBO go streamed on their site then its been ripped

 

Lucy

Ahh fair so it will be Ep2 next week then. Thanks ill still watch it then for the quality :)

I can't be bothered to check all 26 pages to see if this has been posted yet, but:  http://www.youtube.com/wa...dded&v=qYNeT2nzEgA
 
10 minutes well spent. 
 
 
//EDIT:  Actually, I prefer the Guile theme tune one:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUS2LSJR22k

 

Decent enough, but was it just me or was there more to pick at in that episode than there was the entire first series? Everything seemed to happen out of order and even then it didn't happen as it did in the book. When Stannis's maester tries to poison Melisandre it just looks as though he decided to top himself for no reason.

 

Ramius

When Stannis's maester tries to poison Melisandre it just looks as though he decided to top himself for no reason.

 
I haven't read the second book yet (about 1/3 through the first), but i thought that was a bit odd as well. Couldn't work out if he was trying to poison her or commit suicide.
 
Other than that i enjoyed the episode, sets the stage well for the rest of the serie (hopefully)

 

I haven't read the books so enlighten me if I am wrong, but is she meant to be a witch of some kind? That was my trail of thought through out that scene and would give some explanation to his death.
 
 
 
 
 
 

          
   
 
 

I'd have thought it perfectly clear that he simply wanted to poison her because he feels she's going to force his Lord into an unwinnable war, and didn't think he could be sure of her drinking it unless he tried to dress it up like that.
 
I also don't think the ordering of the scenes matters a jot so long as the episode flows well (which it doesn't always in the first episode, second is better) and that it's chronologically accurate enough for the story arcs to work out correctly.

I decided to read the books the other day and at it's a fantastic read very hard to put down and chances are I'll finish the first book before the next episode airs.
 
Also in reading the first book it's given me a much greater appreciation of the work that went in to the first season, especially the casting. Maybe it's because I'd seen the show first so I could picture every character as I was reading the books but everyone seems perfect.
 
And yeah, the aging was definitely neccessary, no way could they have shown a 13 year old Daenarys humping Khal Drogo.

I think there will be more criticism of this season due to how many of the TV audience from the first series were turned on to the books.
 

          
   
 
 

I'm glad its back, I'd missed my regular fix of dwarf porn
 

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