Hope for his death then.
That blonde girl is pretty hot. But her crying before the traditional wedding night rape was bad. Also her ass/legs are huge.
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Hope for his death then.
That blonde girl is pretty hot. But her crying before the traditional wedding night rape was bad. Also her ass/legs are huge.
He looks pretty much exactly how GRRM pictured him (from illustration). Jamie's character is one of the more interesting one as the story continues.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rated E
OOps, you were talking about the prince boy, yah, he sucks.
What the fuck was that blue eyed thing at the start? I liked that douchey commander dude. Too bad he's dead.
Just seemed weird they showed this supernatural clip and all of a sudden nothing else was ever mentioned of it after the beheading.
I'd imagine it's a hook for something later.
It'll be relevant in Season 12
Some evil thing of legend that's not supposed to exist and will come around later and fuck everything up?Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbacca
I'm not sure what else you expected from it. When Ned asked that unclewhateverhisnameis whether he knew the kid that he killed, he told him he was normal and not crazy. Ned was obviously at least somewhat concerned that he was telling the truth.
Whatevs. I don't want to spoil it for myself too much. Wanting more of it is a good thing.
I predict Sean Beans character will be killed off this season. He's too big a name to sign on for multiple seasons.
His name is Hans GruberQuote:
Originally Posted by FirstBlood
It's really Benjen
I predict that Steve Buscemi will be killed off this season of Boardwalk Empire. He's just too big of a name to sign on for multiple seasons.
Oh wait.
One does not simply walk off the set to Mordor.
I predict Anna Paquin dies in the first season True Blood. There is no way an Oscar winning actress stays on a campy show about vampires.
lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
If you read at all, you should really read this series. I don't know how to phrase this to make you all realize that I'm right.
"It's finished." That would be the phrase to make you right.
As much as I hate waiting, this is one series that I would consider worth the read even if you're left hanging. This coming from a guy who never reads incomplete book series and usually waits for DVDs before getting into a TV series at all.
I'd just have to reread them all by the time the next book, let alone the last one, comes out. Might as well wait and do it the once, I don't really have the time and attention span to read 7000 pages or whatever multiple times.
Plus I already started Malazan, and it's both good and finished. Waiting for Dark Tower books to come out as a kid taught me a lesson, and King is way faster than Martin.
Martin is going to die before these books are done at the rate this is going.
He doesn't have 20 more years in him to finish up the last book.
I can't help but get all fired up every time I watch injustice, so the second episode made me hate a lot of characters. Poor Lady :( I had a German Shepherd named Lady...
Book 4 was shit. I hope Dance will make me a believer, but I don't want to wait another 6 years for the next one, and then he fucking dies after that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Proto Man
Oh stop exaggerating. It was fine, just behind the other 3.
7000 pages? Pass. I'm sure they're great books (I've been told this on many occasions) but that is a massive commitment.
Worth it. Definitely worth it.
I am not exaggerating. I can't recall even one chapter of what happened in Feast, but the first 3 were full of memorable moments. It is a big let down from Storm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Proto Man
But was book 4 better than Eragon?
My dog's runny poop is better than Eragon.
But was book 4 better than your dog's runny poop?
I know two people irl that have stopped reading ASoI&F because of book 4.
It is a toss up.
Book 4 was good, it just wasn't about the characters that have been followed before. Some people get fucking sand in their vagina over it, others cowboy up and appreciate it for what it is. I know it's fashionable to call anything you have a problem with the worst thing ever, but it's not even remotely true.
Book 4 is still better than most any fantasy book ever, if that puts it in perspective for anyone thinking about starting this series.
I didn't say it is the worst thing ever, but it was the worst out of 4 (by a large margin). The story went nowhere and a bunch of POVs that no one care about. Just because there are a metric ton of fantasy garbage doesn't mean Feast is good. I do think Dance will be much stronger but I just don't think he will live to finish it because he is spreading himself too thin.
It is similar to Crossroads of Twilight (Wheel of Time), you can literally skip that book and go right to Knife of Dreams without missing anything. You can tell Jordan admitted he fucked up in CoT and made it up in KoD. Then he died. Probably the same thing will happen to GRRM.
The movies sucked, but the Eragon books have been really good so far. I fucking loved Brisinger.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
Also this weeks episode was brutal in many ways and I think it's catching up to about as far as I got in the book.
I won't even bother until he's done. No sense reading myself in to the mythos without the climax / finish involved. If the series is wrapped up / close when that happens I won't ever bother. I like things when they're new to me. Once the cliffhangers, twists and turns have all been exhausted I have a hard time retreading old ground again.Quote:
Originally Posted by epmode
I'm kind of digging the series a bit more than the books. I liked the books just fine, but they were so very typical Fantasy novels with some awesome violence and incest thrown in for good measure. The show is a typical Fantasy type show, but it weeds out a lot of the uninteresting nonsense, which I inevitably skipped over in the books. They also made daenerys a way more interesting character, instead of just ridiculous a Mary Sue filler character.
I don't know, I'm not the hugest Fantasy fan, so I mostly watch it for the sex and violence.
I never read any of the books, but I dug the first ep, when I have an hour I'll watch the 2nd.
Also, it had a midget fucking somebody in the first ep. A+++++ Would buy from again.
I mostly watch it for the sex, violence and random BAD-ASS one-liners from the midget and Ned.
I watch fantasy shows to see narwhals getting fingerbanged.
People who have read the books, will I be disappointed?
There's more to the show than this?Quote:
Originally Posted by FirstBlood
I think there's something going on about a throne? Some sort of "game"?
I dunno, no care ever.
I'll bet it's like musical chairs, only with more sex and you get to kill whoever loses.
You should continue to watch it Charles. I'm expecting more nudity and beheadings.
Great times. I love that spartacus made it ok for sex and violence to be on cable tv.
I'm pretty sure HBO did that with having consistent successful series programming. Everyone wanted this to go to HBO before Spartacus was even a show.
You skipped parts of the books?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Satsuki
And I really don't see them as "typical fantasy novels" in any way, shape, or form. In fact, they are about as far away from "typical" as possible while still being considered "fantasy."
They seem pretty typical if the show so far is any indication. Maybe they're just well written for a change?
There's that. There's also the way that your usual fantasy elements are absent through 95% of the series. Magic, monsters and such.
Seriously though...
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1303952158
NOPE.JPG
Yeah, it opens like that in the books too. And then they're mostly forgotten for the next 800 pages.*
*minor first book spoiler, nothing too specific
A Song of Ice and Fire reads nothing like your typical fantasy drivel. You want typical? Read Eragon, or Sword of Truth, or Shannara trilogy (I will throw Wheel of Time in here as well, although it is a step above the other 3). GRRM is considerably more complex and the magical elements were pretty much subdue for the first book. No elves, dwarves, etc either.
Well...one dwarf. One AWESOME dwarf.
The best dwarf, really.
I'm skeptical show Arya will be as cute as brain Arya (especially since I think she's described as rather boyish and homely in the books; I just made her cute from her personality). I'm realizing how much I'd prefer to have finished the series before all the characters from the show replace my mind's versions, for better or worse. But I guess that's not really a viable option.
Maybe you just don't like fantasy? The original Shannara trilogy skews younger than something like ASoIaF, but it's great for what it is. Not every series needs 500 characters and infinite sub-plots. Brooks got to the point.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
This post is hilarious in how inaccurate it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Proto Man
It really is a strange opening to the series. I think it's great as a stand alone story but it's more like a short horror story than the lead in to the world you should expect. Winter is coming, life is brutal, might be the point.
Maybe he likes fantasy but hates a lot of the basic writing style. Most people that write fantasy don't actually give any thought to the world and the differences that would occur based on, say, a lot of people being able to control the elements if they wanted. They just take a generic setting (usually medieval Europe), add "People can cast spells! Whoo!" and call it a day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Compass
I remember reading War of the Flowers and loving it just because the characters acted with common sense (except for one blunder near the end that was meaningless anyway). It was like the most refreshing thing ever to have people act sensibly, which says a lot about most of the books I bothered with. Granted, it also has the shittiest sounding story ever:Sometimes I look at that synopsis and wonder how I ever managed to crack it open. ROCK STAR TRAVELS TO MAGIC BOOK WORLD! I also haven't read it in like a decade so I might be forgetting some other problems with it, but still.Quote:
Theo Vilmos is a thirty-year-old lead singer in a marginally successful rock band. Hitting an all-time low, he seeks refuge in an isolated cabin in the woods and reads an odd memoir written by a dead relative who believed he had visited the magical world of Faerie. Before Theo can disregard the account as nonsense, he too is drawn into a place beyond his wildest dreams.
Ok, it's a better than average Fantasy novel, but it's still really obvious that it is the Fantasy genre. Kings, swords, dragons, whatever. It's fairly typical of the fantasy genre to have bloated books of multiple volumes - it's pop stuff. I'm not insulting it, I read it and enjoyed it, but the drawn out plot spanning volumes is a bit tedious for me, which is why there are things in the show that I prefer. I skipped a lot of the Daeneyrs bullshit and some of the girly chapters because they were a bit redundant.
Thanks, tough guy! I'm sorry, you're right, it wasn't creepy at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
Everyone looked at your post in context to the thread. Read the post directly in front of your picture post to see where the confusion is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Proto Man
OK. The response still seems like masturbatory posturing since there is nothing of substance there to even deem "hilariously inaccurate".
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Originally Posted by epmode
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Originally Posted by Proto Man
It looks like you are disagreeing with epmode and saying only 5% fantasy??? NOT. Check out this crazy magic fantasy in the first show!!! that's about it for the season
Yeah, that's what I thought you were saying. If you were only saying that big eyed little girl is creepy as fuck - you weren't inaccurate at all
I'm not sure how that post could possibly mean anything but this.Quote:
It looks like you are disagreeing with epmode and saying only 5% fantasy??? NOT. Check out this crazy magic fantasy in the first show!!!
I get it, but NOPE is a relatively unpopular meme. I only saw it like three days ago in a Minecraft gif.
Yeah I was relying on people knowing that "NOPE.jpg" = the "fuck that" response to something creepy.
For posterity's sake:
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/6430/nope.gif
I'm pretty sure that meme has nothing to do with creepy things and everything to do with denying the statement of the post before it.
I always thought of it more like - *oh shit, something terrifying* NOPE! *turns around and runs away*
http://www.halolz.com/wp-content/upl...m-nope.avi.gif
This is the meme. That amnesia gif is an extension of it.
It's stupid.
I assumed the long necked NOPE had nothing to do with the scary NOPE. Here's another scary NOPE:
It may have another meaning but I'm positive mine is also correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by FirstBlood
That might be true.
God this is the worst discussion ever. Post the fucking gif next time. You're only allowed to do the PICTURENAME.EXTENSION thing when it's something the forum has already run into the ground goddammit.
Unfortunately, typing ____.jpg is it itself a sub-meme, rather than just laziness. I'm also lazy though.
But hey, we get less than an hour of GOT per week. Gotta talk about something!
Next episode Ned dies hahahahahahaha if you actually read that
I was gonna say "fuck you", but with the last part not being spoilered, they deserve it.
No way, that's the season finale. Maybe the episode before. (But yes, it does happen in the book. Those of you who haven't read... can you resist peeking under that spoiler tag now? :devil: )
Nah, it's cool. You still should.Quote:
Originally Posted by Uriel
Hurry up, HBO. My body is ready for the iron men.
Stop spoiling shit asshole
I tried to watch an episode with some people, but there was someone else there who was also unfamiliar with the series and the people that have been reading spent most of the time pointing out character relationships to her that weren't made clear (though I have no idea if such things were present or not at this point in the books). I really hate it when people can't wait for plot to unfold naturally so I just ended up blocking everyone out and studying for finals instead. I kind of figured the only way to enjoy this would be to watch it by myself and I'm sad that people want to prove me right.
I did really like the midget, he was pretty pimp.
Don't worry, I haven't really spoiled anything. They've already been in the TV show after all, just not pointed out.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
Wait, is the band Turisas on the show? I saw a concert video of theirs once and I found it hilariously entertaining.
Nah, but they should be!
So far he's the best thing about the show. Each episode has gotten progressively slower and less interesting. I'm going to chalk this series up to fanboyism pretty soon unless something of interest / note happens. It feels like a bit of an inside joke. Three people are laughing and when they explain the joke it's not funny. But you just "totally had to be there". I'm sure it was funny at the time, it's just not translating. The only thing interesting last episode was the shifting dynamic of the pregnant Queen and her brother (who is now pretty much a bitch). I mean really, amnesia? Terrible soap opera writing.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
Who has amnesia?
Bran, kid who dropped from the wall.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
He may be feigning amnesia because he's scared of what he saw (plus he kind of got pushed out of a window by them). If that's the case would have been nice to have some hints.
He doesn't matter anyway.
or at least until season 17.
That gets a pass. People in accidents don't remember the minutes leading up the accident all the time. That's hardly the same as amnesia as a plot device. Not like Catelyn hasn't already figured that shit out anyway
The series does get much better. We just happen to be right in the middle of one of the slower parts of the whole series. They're just setting up the characters.
This third episode is a perfect example of how to never have a boring morning moment but not just be endless tits and death. This is what I wanted The Walking Dead to pull off in a few episodes. Interesting, the whole time, without requiring action to make up for slow parts. If this show gets more epic as it goes on, well, then it's going to be a fucking great show.
Also, as random as it is, I think the ending to episode three where the Stark girl is learning how to fight with the wooden swords is my favorite scene in the show so far. The instructor was pretty rad and also like four feet tall.
Actually I had forgotten about that scene. The trainer and that little girl are really great so far. Can't wait to see her humiliate the Prince later on.
Spoilers, you fuck.
It's not even a big scene. Do I have to spoiler tag that there are a lot of horses and capes in this show for you, too?
Shut the fuck up, you know the difference between what you did and that generalized bullshit you just spouted.
If you must talk about shit that hasn't even aired yet there's a thread about the books, take that shit there.
Hasn't he not even read the books? He was just talking about something he WANTS to see happen. Which, by the way, never does happen.
So he's guessing? Why the fuck wouldn't he say that instead of "it's not even a big scene" which implies her "humiliating the prince" won't be a big deal?
Because he can see that it's pissing you off?
But how can I really ever know it's pissing him off?
It wasn't a spoiler so there was no need to put spoiler tags around it. I have not read any of these books.
For poor Opaque: There are a lot of beards in this show.
Fuck this weeks episode ended awesome.
I just want to watch the last four minutes about ten times over.
This week's ep was a huge improvement over last week's. Really digging all the bratty Viserys action. NOW YOU HAVE WOKEN THE DRAGON WAHHH
If you didn't catch it, the old bearded guy that runs The Night's Watch (the one that tells Tyrion that Bran awoke while they're watching the recruits spar) is Lord Mormont, aka Ser Jorah Mormont's father.
I only bring this up because I was reflecting on how awesome the guy playing Jorah is. He's a relic of a bygone era in film, and has more on screen presence with what little they've given him than anyone else on the show.
Also this show's title sequence gives me chills.