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IIRC Brienne died in the books. It's been a couple of years since I read them, though.
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Godholio posted:IIRC Brienne died in the books. It's been a couple of years since I read them, though. nope
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Apr 25, 2016 21:45
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Godholio posted:IIRC Brienne died in the books. It's been a couple of years since I read them, though. That's my recollection, too- although I recall it being a bit open-ended and there's some doubt cast in one of Jaime's chapters Jesus christ, didn't the books leave Jaimie seemingly walking into the same doom? I kinda forgot all about that. In any case, it's just another thread of the constant Riverlands-Be-hosed stuff that the show didn't dive into aside from a few sights and scenes shown during Arya and the Hounds' adventures. Gendry? Stoneheart? Brotherhood without Banners? Edmure Tully? ...Who are they?
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Apr 25, 2016 21:53
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Victor Vermis posted:Brotherhood without Banners Oh hey.. That was an interesting 5 minutes in season 3.
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Apr 25, 2016 21:57
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When Theon came up with his master plan to distract a bunch of hounds that tracked them countless miles through the snow by moving slightly to the right of Sansa, I genuinely rolled my eyes and fully expected a full season's worth of warmed-up torture porn in that arc. Out-of-nowhere Brienne & Pod was pretty cool then. Do we really need spoiler tags for book-stuff that is now impossible plot-wise due to the progression of the show? On the one hand, I get that some folks might have not read the last two books, but on the other hand, you'd save them reading the last two books.
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Apr 25, 2016 22:26
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I did genuinely expect that they were gonna get dragged back, it's pretty out of character for GoT to have a last minute rescue like that.
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Apr 25, 2016 22:34
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Duzzy Funlop posted:When Theon came up with his master plan to distract a bunch of hounds that tracked them countless miles through the snow by moving slightly to the right of Sansa, I genuinely rolled my eyes and fully expected a full season's worth of warmed-up torture porn in that arc. gently caress if I know. But there's nothing to keep Brienne from dying in some slightly different location, so I don't know what you think is impossible.
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Apr 26, 2016 00:28
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I thought pretty much the only thread left to pull from the books was The Ironborn storyline from here on in, the show spoils the books baby
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Apr 26, 2016 00:33
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Well hopefully this thread stays better than the one in TVIV. I swear 90% of the fuckers in the spoilers thread are just pissed off because the books aren't caught up or the show isn't doing exactly what the books said...they're just mad to be mad. I didn't even mind season 5, but don't bring that thought into the thread...holy poo poo get a loving life. Oh wait, goons.
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Apr 26, 2016 00:36
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Godholio posted:IIRC Brienne died in the books. It's been a couple of years since I read them, though. Yes. She was hung by the undead bitch of the north for failing her daughters
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Apr 26, 2016 00:45
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ded posted:Yes. She was hung by the undead bitch of the north for failing her daughters So that random goons username was correct then. That's okay...just leave Jorah alone...please.
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Apr 26, 2016 01:13
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ded posted:Yes. She was hung by the undead bitch of the north for failing her daughters Not necessarily, considering she said a word and then the chapter ended before anything was done
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Apr 26, 2016 01:14
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Yeah and considering she shows up alive in the next book I'm pretty sure she didn't die.
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Apr 26, 2016 01:15
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SMDFTB posted:Well hopefully this thread stays better than the one in TVIV. lol yup i tried reading it for a laugh and walked out convinced that got is the single worst thing ever to happen to humanity
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Apr 26, 2016 01:18
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so cateline stark is a zombie in the book? pretty glad they left something that retarded out of the show
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Apr 26, 2016 02:19
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:so cateline stark is a zombie in the book? pretty glad they left something that retarded out of the show The show runners do this work sifting out the fat bastard's bullshit pretty well
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Apr 26, 2016 02:23
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:so cateline stark is a zombie in the book? pretty glad they left something that retarded out of the show Yeah because nobody else has come back from the dead.
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Apr 26, 2016 03:49
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Godholio posted:Yeah because nobody else has come back from the dead. the white walkers are probably the weakest part of the whole thing so im glad they dont spend too much time on that poo poo. that said, theyre not as stupid as having a major protagonist die then show back up as a evil zombie witch queen or whatever
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Apr 26, 2016 04:04
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Smiling Jack posted:Yeah and considering she shows up alive in the next book I'm pretty sure she didn't die. Wait what? You sure you're not confusing something there? I don't exactly remember the details, but wasn't that hearsay of people claiming to have seen her, even though it was hinted at that they were mistaking her or somesuch?
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Apr 26, 2016 04:32
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No, she shows up alive at the end of book 5 iirc.
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Apr 26, 2016 04:35
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:the white walkers are probably the weakest part of the whole thing so im glad they dont spend too much time on that poo poo. that said, theyre not as stupid as having a major protagonist die then show back up as a evil zombie witch queen or whatever Beric Dondarrion, repeatedly revived by the red priest. That's how Catelyn would've been revived. My point was that it wouldn't be unique. And she basically goes batshit crazy as a zombie anyway.
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Apr 26, 2016 06:09
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Godholio posted:Beric Dondarrion, repeatedly revived by the red priest. That's how Catelyn would've been revived. My point was that it wouldn't be unique. And she basically goes batshit crazy as a zombie anyway. Ya she goes nuts due to all her kids getting murdered and the red wedding and the fact that she was not brought back from being dead till after she was sitting in a river dead for 3 days and all hosed up.
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Apr 26, 2016 06:20
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Booblord Zagats posted:The show runners do this work sifting out the fat bastard's bullshit pretty well Yeah its why every time I want to get into the books, even the audiobook version of them I'm so hesitant. I mean we've all heard the pink mast audio file, and Lord knows that's hardly the only piece of bad writing that's in the book. For all the faults of the show they really do a great job taking GRMM excellent world building and stripping out the awful poo poo. Granted the visual nature of the adaption means of lot of bad descriptions are handled better since it's now simply visual vs narration (like gross eating descriptions).
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Apr 26, 2016 12:21
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So far the series is almost 4x the length of Lord of the Rings. There's bound to be some chaff in the wheat. I think GRRM gets a lot of poo poo for a relatively small amount of crap in a book series that's almost two million words long.
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Apr 26, 2016 16:01
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The first 3 books are absolutely worth reading even with all the weird food sperg bullshit and a whole lot more creepy sex/rape. Don't read books 4 and 5 because they just boring and lovely. It took HBO 2 seasons to just do Book 3, they plowed through book 4 and 5 in 9 episodes so 
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Apr 26, 2016 18:41
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Bolow posted:The first 3 books are absolutely worth reading even with all the weird food sperg bullshit and a whole lot more creepy sex/rape. Don't read books 4 and 5 because they just boring and lovely. It took HBO 2 seasons to just do Book 3, they plowed through book 4 and 5 in 9 episodes so I agree with this. The pacing and plot was tight and focused in the first three. Then the last couple became meandering dogshit.
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Apr 26, 2016 18:46
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Bolow posted:The first 3 books are absolutely worth reading even with all the weird food sperg bullshit and a whole lot more creepy sex/rape. Don't read books 4 and 5 because they just boring and lovely. It took HBO 2 seasons to just do Book 3, they plowed through book 4 and 5 in 9 episodes so I don't find the bulk of books 4 and 5 to be any less interesting than most of book 1. And HBO stayed pretty true to book 1 in the first season. I didn't even like the show the first time I tried watching it. I thought it was too boring for a show that wasn't trying terribly hard to be "smart". So the show has gotten progressively dumber, offering up as many big payoff moments as possible with minimal downtime between them. New characters, cultures, and locales get fewer fun downtime exposition moments. ..But I suppose it comes down to not being able to pay another 10 new featured characters each season while the actors whose characters are still alive are now being paid outrageously regardless of whether they're in an episode for 1 minute or 20.
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The Rat posted:I agree with this. The pacing and plot was tight and focused in the first three. Then the last couple became meandering dogshit. The problem is that gurm just kept creating a larger and more complex world filled with more characters. I don't really think its possible to finish the series anytime soon unless he works with other authors.
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Apr 26, 2016 20:14
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hbo should make a conan series based on the re howard books
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Reverand maynard posted:The problem is that gurm just kept creating a larger and more complex world filled with more characters. I don't really think its possible to finish the series anytime soon unless he works with other authors. it took robert jordan dying to finish the wheel of time so there is some truth to this
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:hbo should make a conan series based on the re howard books I would watch this so loving hard. Hell, the comics from the early 2000s based on them were amazing
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Apr 26, 2016 21:41
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How is the Conan movie with Khal Drogo anyway?
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Apr 26, 2016 21:51
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Syncopated posted:How is the Conan movie with Khal Drogo anyway? Incredibly forgettable
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Apr 26, 2016 22:05
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The Rat posted:I agree with this. The pacing and plot was tight and focused in the first three. Then the last couple became meandering dogshit. Hmm well I have free audible credit so I guess I can give it a try. Booblord Zagats posted:Incredibly forgettable Yeah they didn't let Conan have any humor or personality beyond brief glimpses that showed that Moma could made the role and the movie a lot more enjoyable. Look I get wanting to be "faithful" to the books, but the Arnold and Milius version and style and approach shouldn't have been wholly tossed out. I mean Basil Poldarius being dead and the score being totally forgettable sure as hell didn't help either. Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Jun 21, 2016 |
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Apr 26, 2016 22:20
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You could tell deep down Moma really wanted to ham it up ala Milus, too. He seemed so sad in the press tours
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Apr 26, 2016 22:27
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Syncopated posted:How is the Conan movie with Khal Drogo anyway? I enjoyed it. It struck me as getting the tone from Howard's short stories right. A lot of the reviews I've read said that it was too full of fantasy cliches, but poo poo, if you're going off of the source material, of course it's going to have that. Conan is one of the big reasons for so many of today's fantasy cliches. The soundtrack wasn't as good as the Arnold Conan, but you can't have everything. Side note, go download the Prometheus version of the original Conan soundtrack, it's pretty great. The Rat fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Apr 27, 2016 |
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Booblord Zagats posted:You could tell deep down Moma really wanted to ham it up ala Milus, too. He seemed so sad in the press tours The Rat posted:
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7716/.f quote:At last! Complete soundtrack by Basil Poledouris to John Milius epic with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan, James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom, Sandahl Bergman as Valeria. Legendary music needs little introduction but long journey to 3-CD set warrants spotlight. Thought missing for decades, even by composer, Universal vaults reveal recently discovered 2" 24-track & 1/2" 3-track stereo session masters in mint condition for entire project, right down to rehearsal takes! (Assorted extra tracks on earlier Varese Sarabande release were made from composer's own incomplete 1/4" two-track copy.) Having complete multi-track session elements allows Intrada to newly mix and master everything, finding cool extras in the process! All of them are here! Poledouris originally scores main title with high trumpets joining horns on primary theme plus dynamic horn counter-melody playing in mid-section. Only one raw take is made before re-writes on podium create familiar final version. Other previously unreleased cues include rich version of "The Awakening" with lengthy never-before-heard woodwind bridge section dropped from final film version plus haunting early versions of "Orphans Of Doom", one scored for orchestra plus solo mezzo-soprano, one scored for chorus with harp alone. Three versions of opening prologue, alternate version of "Battle Of The Mounds Part II" add more fun! Original Poledouris music for snake sequence, savage "Pit Fights" are more highlights. Poledouris didn't write music for kitchen battle sequence as scene was scored editorially from other cues. For Conan purists, we have recreated entire sequence (including awkward edits) for this segment as well as for closing "End Credits", also created editorially in picture itself. Many of composer's unique percussion sequences were created through experimentation right at sessions, including size and pitch of tunable drums, volume of tam tams, density of rhythmic figures, so forth. It's all here! Poledouris was fond of his own 48-minute distillation of highlights from massive score so we have licensed that original 1982 MCA album from UMG as well, newly mastered from original album tapes. Two final extras: opening prologue with Mako narration plus actual mono tape master for film version of snake sequence preferred by director Milius. Fascinating, personalized notes by Nick Redman plus musical coverage by Douglass Fake give listener something to read, exciting graphic design by Joe Sikoryak featuring Schwarzenegger and other cast give listener something to look at. Primal intensity and crisp, vibrant details of original performances are without equal. Basil Poledouris conducts. MAF series 3-disc release! Sorry I'm a total  for the score.
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Apr 27, 2016 01:18
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Syncopated posted:How is the Conan movie with Khal Drogo anyway? its poo poo
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Can someone explain Darkstar and why the spoiler thread keeps using him as a punchline to everything?
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Not sure why he's used as a punchline besides a few corny lines in the books, but he was an ally of the Sand Snakes in their plot to capture Myrcella. Not sure what he's going to do in the show (apparently he's been cast) since that part of the story was glossed over by Jaime and Bronn doing it (and Myrcella dying). Edit: He's a knight who's brother or cousin or something is a dead kingsguard.
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