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[FRANK_THE_TANK]

Foreshadowing is both totally important and totally legitimate. I felt however that in this episode it was more blatant which is why I called it telegraphing. It was just so painfully obvious where everything was going.

I've heard that a lot of it is following the books quiet well but somehow simultaneously wondering off on it's own.

Television as a medium is just so different. I think that something like GoT plays out better on TV than it would in film but I think that the show could be far more engaging episode to episode. The last two have been fairly disappointing. Oh and the opening sequence from "First of his name" was confusing and cut like crap (I hear that wasn't in the books at all).

 

[Xant]

I've only read the first book about 3/4 of it.

What I mean by telegraphed is that the moment you see the mount it's obvious that Obyrn will be Tyrion's champion because his spent every episode telling anyone that will listen to him that "The mountain killed my sisters children and then raped her with their blood still on his hands!" He is in fact

sorry about the shitty song over the top of this awesome scene.

On top of that, all the moon door ranting gave away Peter tossing her down the whole. The moment you saw her standing next to it, it was just a slap in the face.

Personally I think that the problem is each episode has no clarity of vision because we bounce from place to place learning pretty much nothing new.

Tyrion's trail by combat should have been one stand alone episode and it should have been the latest one. That way you can save the reveal of the mount to that latest possible moment and make Oberyn a surprise. Instead every things been mapped out all of the interesting surprises available to us have been wasted on sloppy writing on the part of the script team.

They are too busy trying to do a crazy kind of lock n load meets rashomon with dragons thing instead of delivering tight, super fun episodes. Each one of these things could have been a roller-coaster instead it's like watching one of those stupid monitors on the fancy bikes in the gym that run a really crappy video of where you are riding.

So, everything is super obvious, is it? So you can easily predict what happens with Tyrion's trial by combat, right? Since it's so painfully obvious.

[Vibe]

someone's gonna die, that's my prediction

[Moncho]

someone's gonna die, that's my prediction

Well that's usually what happens when there is a duel to the death, but hey, kudos on the predictive abilities

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

So, everything is super obvious, is it? So you can easily predict what happens with Tyrion's trial by combat, right? Since it's so painfully obvious.

My guess is Oberyn will hurt the mountain, seriously fuck him up in revenge for the death of his sister and the last possible moment the mountain will just crush his skull or snap his neck or something like that.

What I don't know (edit) is if Tyrion will die as a result of the whole thing or receive his original punishment of banishment to the wall. But Oberyn is going to die that's my guess, it would be too clean if he won and go against what keeps happening in this show. I just wonder who else is going to die in the next couple of episodes to send the whole thing cascading into a deeper level of madness.

I'm waiting for Jon Snow to crack and kill some old stupid people.

[Overdriven]

I'm looking forward to see how they play it out. Will be awesome if they get it right 

[NejStark]

My fucking god that arrogant cunt was daario nahariis ?
What happened to elvish actor QQ

He left out of choice iirc

[Chosen1]

[SirCymro_Crusader]

So, everything is super obvious, is it? So you can easily predict what happens with Tyrion's trial by combat, right? Since it's so painfully obvious.

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[NejStark]

Chill you fucking mugs.

Preview for next episode
http://www.hbouk.com/game-of-thrones/season-4/clip/episode-preview-the-mountain-and-the-viper/

[Franke]

Chill you fucking mugs.

Preview for next episode
http://www.hbouk.com/game-of-thrones/season-4/clip/episode-preview-the-mountain-and-the-viper/

So the castle they show about 10 seconds into the clip is Moat Cailin? Not quite how I imagined it, but that'S only an impression from a like 2-second-exceprt...

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

So I'm guessing I was right then.

I've got more, you want more of pointless predictions? No cure for being a cunt!

Tywin will die because his the only really important person left that you can kill off that will cause turmoil instead of just ending a "story line". Can't kill Stanis yet because his just idling round, in fact killing Tywin will make it more likely for the Iron Bank to hand him more money. You can't kill Daenerys because it won't lead to anything other than her army falling apart. Jon Snow is too interesting and there is no one to replace him as the "lead" at the wall so that would a pointless thing to do this season. Of the major plots going on the only one you can disrupt and cause some serious bs to happen with is what I'll call the "Kings Landing Plot" and the only thing you can do there that would actually cause things to happen is killing Tywin, he is keeping the whole thing together.

[Molly]

Keep dem predictions coming!

What about Cersei? And Tyrion? And the Kingslayer?

[Vibe]

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[FRANK_THE_TANK]

Keep dem predictions coming!

What about Cersei? And Tyrion? And the Kingslayer?

Tyrion to the wall Cersei as regent no idea about old one hand.