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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]
« Reply #1515 on: June 02, 2014, 07:16:04 am »
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That was gruesome. Tbh i kept looking at the damn timer the entire time, before the fight. When he started talking about beetles and seeing that there was only like 6 minutes left till the end of the episode I  was frankly quite scared that GoT had fucked us and dragged the dialog so long again that the fight would happen in the next weeks episode. But they got it in there and im pleased. Good episode.

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]
« Reply #1516 on: June 02, 2014, 07:18:23 am »
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That was gruesome. Tbh i kept looking at the damn timer the entire time, before the fight. When he started talking about beetles and seeing that there was only like 6 minutes left till the end of the episode I  was frankly quite scared that GoT had fucked us and dragged the dialog so long again that the fight would happen in the next weeks episode. But they got it in there and im pleased. Good episode.
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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]
« Reply #1517 on: June 02, 2014, 08:43:47 am »
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it was still a bit clumsy, if thats the word for it. (some of the editing cuts didnt quite match up to me). but yes it was alot better than previous. fucking fantastic scene, some stuff is always going to be way more hard hitting visually than in pages!

edit: watching it again and I must say one critque. why the fuck would he be swinging that sword 1 handed, mountain obv played too much darksouls.
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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]
« Reply #1518 on: June 02, 2014, 10:11:17 am »
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Why I am so sad ? I knew that was going to happen for like 2 years now, but I watched it like 5 times, and my inner voice screamed like Ellaria everytime.

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]
« Reply #1519 on: June 02, 2014, 10:41:24 am »
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That was pretty gory. Splat like that.


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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]
« Reply #1520 on: June 02, 2014, 12:02:41 pm »
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I lot better than the last episode, the only cornball writing was mole town. Seems like everything lifted from the books is a whole lot better than everything added in by the writers/producers.

Guessed the outcome but I thought he was going to punch his head into dust or stomp him, not that, that was horrific.
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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]
« Reply #1521 on: June 02, 2014, 12:36:31 pm »
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Nothing surprising but I was expecting a longer and more intense fight, not very satisfied though tbh.
All my GoT experience can be summed as "not very satisfied tho tbh" anyway  :lol:

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]
« Reply #1522 on: June 02, 2014, 12:52:48 pm »
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GoT might not be perfect, but people who are still whining about it, considering the other shows on TV....


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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]
« Reply #1523 on: June 02, 2014, 12:58:05 pm »
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GoT might not be perfect, but people who are still whining about it, considering the other shows on TV....


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Or we aren't clawing at the electric box in the living room begging for relief from our awful lives.

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The scene when Arys and the hound arrive at the bloody gate was awesome, loved that.
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« Reply #1524 on: June 02, 2014, 01:02:24 pm »
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Or we aren't clawing at the electric box in the living room begging for relief from our awful lives.
No, instead you're getting on an online forum trying to get attention by being "special" for relief from your awful lives.
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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]
« Reply #1525 on: June 02, 2014, 01:11:50 pm »
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Agiwhore spear spammer died by 2h mastergorillarace str clutcher.
Nothing surprising but I was expecting a longer and more intense fight, not very satisfied though tbh.
All my GoT experience can be summed as "not very satisfied tho tbh" anyway  :lol:

Nothing is ever going to equal what you can visualize in your head as you read. To really do the books justice it would've had to be some insane 12 movie series each with the budget of a LOTR production. The TV show has done extremely well with what they had imo, and it's the only realistic way the novels were ever going to be portrayed on screen. As far as adaptations go they've been doing allright. And by allright I mean critical and popular acclaim. 
Like a lot of people I read the book years ago so all the little changes and additions seem like superfluous bullshit. I grudgingly agree with Xant that it's mostly a "hipster" type thing though. A completely undeserved sense of ownership over some piece of culture just because you've known about it for longer. The fat fuck himself greenlighted the show and wrote a few episodes, and editorializes the rest. There might be separate "canon" between the tv show and the book, but that's also due to the nature of the medium. A TV show is a collaborative process, the actors alone can add a whole facet to a character, not to mention the other producers and writers all having their own styles with strengths and weaknesses. And of course the physical and budgetary limitations. 

TL;DR: just accept it's not a perfect adaptation of the books and enjoy it for what it is.
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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]
« Reply #1526 on: June 02, 2014, 01:59:06 pm »
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I never read the books Oberyn, my issues with it have been writing/production/editing etc etc Purely from the angle of it as a piece of episodic television.

Some of it is done brilliantly. It gains plaudits and crazy levels of praise and often deserves some or most of it. It isn't however perfect and has had episodes that fall flat on their arse. That's just my subjective opinion, doesn't make it a fact. At the end of the day productions turn out as well as the can, their are so many moving parts and so many things that can go wrong. It's a small miracle any time anything this big even gets half finished.


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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]
« Reply #1527 on: June 02, 2014, 02:04:23 pm »
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Agiwhore spear spammer died by 2h mastergorillarace str clutcher.
Nothing surprising but I was expecting a longer and more intense fight, not very satisfied though tbh.
All my GoT experience can be summed as "not very satisfied tho tbh" anyway  :lol:


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« Reply #1528 on: June 02, 2014, 02:22:20 pm »
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Another good character dies.

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]
« Reply #1529 on: June 02, 2014, 02:46:02 pm »
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Another good character dies.

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More to come! ALWAYS MORE TO COME!

One of the things I thought was going to happen didn't. The bastard had such a smug look on his face and I just thought "YOU'RE GUNNA GET JACK ASS HAHAHHAHAA... Oh wait, that's the credits... poop."
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