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thathonkey posted:Hate to break it to y'all but my donation created the Oberyn character and GRRM even let me pick his exact grisly death for an extra 5k.  I think GRRM's giving more than just broad strokes to the screen writers. Else the show and books would diverge way too heavily down the line. Vehementi fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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Vehementi posted:I think GRRM's giving more than just broad strokes to the screen writers. Else the show and books would diverge way too heavily down the line. They already have in a lot of plotlines.
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Jun 6, 2014 21:18
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We should donate the money to get our own fizfashizzle on the show.
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Jun 6, 2014 21:25
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Pablo got cast as one of the leads in Neflix's new drug war series so that's good 
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Jun 6, 2014 22:09
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zoux posted:Pablo got cast as one of the leads in Neflix's new drug war series so that's good Preferably in something PG-13 so we're absolutely sure he won't have a death like that again 
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Vehementi posted:
I can't find the interview where they say that any more, but I totally did read it okay e: Found it! quote:“The lucky part is that George works with us and he’s a producer on the show,” Benioff says. “Last year we went out to Santa Fe for a week to sit down with him and just talk through where things are going, because we don’t know if we are going to catch up and where exactly that would be. If you know the ending, then you can lay the groundwork for it. And so we want to know how everything ends. We want to be able to set things up. So we just sat down with him and literally went through every character.” CapnAndy fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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Jun 6, 2014 22:16
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Doltos posted:Really if you go on the internet at all chances are you're going to be spoiled, usually in some place that has nothing to do with what you're getting spoiled with too. Nobody watched season 1 live who also didn't read the books, so you're incorrect that you got spoiled. Why would you lie about being spoiled?
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Jun 6, 2014 22:44
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anne frank fanfic posted:Nobody watched season 1 live who also didn't read the books Huh? I have been watching the show live since e01 and never read more than 20 pages of the books.
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Jun 6, 2014 22:53
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anne frank fanfic posted:Nobody watched season 1 live who also didn't read the books, so you're incorrect that you got spoiled. Why would you lie about being spoiled? Yeah this is pretty wrong I know many people who started reading the books after watching season 1. In fact personally I don't think I knew anyone who had read them before season 1.
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Jun 7, 2014 01:37
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Nearly all my friends had no idea what this was or read the books and all started on episode 1. It's a new HBO show, don't ignore what that means.
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Jun 7, 2014 01:47
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thathonkey posted:Hate to break it to y'all but my donation created the Oberyn character and GRRM even let me pick his exact grisly death for an extra 5k. Joffrey? Is that you?
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anne frank fanfic posted:Nobody watched season 1 live who also didn't read the books, so you're incorrect that you got spoiled. Why would you lie about being spoiled? Myself and the people I know who started watching day one started because it's an immense marquee HBO show. I wonder how few people would legit even know GRRMs name had HBO not done this.
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Yeah until the show the only people who ever mentioned ASOIAF before the show to me were on forums, and much worse forums than SA for that matter.
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Jun 7, 2014 04:09
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Fight Club Sandwich posted:I will do this and tell GRRM my name is Barack Obama A foreign usurper from Kinaya in the Summer Isles, Baricko B'a ma.
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Frostwerks posted:A foreign usurper from Kinaya in the Summer Isles, Baricko B'a ma. Whose true name is Baron So'thero, a secret worshipper and disciple of the darkness
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Frostwerks posted:A foreign usurper from Kinaya in the Summer Isles, Baricko B'a ma. He tries to give the peasants access to meisters, but is strung up by an angry mob that were convinced he was the source of all their problems instead. Cingulate posted:I want to see him in space, or swashbucklin' it up elsewhere. He could do an awesome Han Solo-like character. I'm telling you, Dr. Strange. They haven't cast it yet, and you could not do better. Blazing Ownager fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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Jun 7, 2014 05:50
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I haven't been able to watch this episode until now as my cable's been out all week. I know I'm way late but RIP Oberyn, you were just too drat handsome for this world. Also probably RIP Tyrion. I'm pretty sad to be losing the only two characters I still really like
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Frostwerks posted:A foreign usurper from Kinaya in the Summer Isles, Baricko B'a ma. GRRM doesn't end up killing him, just has all other characters constantly ask for proof of his birthright.
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Where's your house's ancestral Valyrian sword, B'ama?
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sforzacio posted:GRRM doesn't end up killing him, just has all other characters constantly ask for proof of his birthright. It's a miracle Baricko B'a ma wasn't already killed yet, come to think of it.
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I talk poo poo about the guy all the time but to his credit it does seem that he doesn't have a shitload of characters with apostrophes and dashes in their names so that counts for something. E: Gurm I mean. Frostwerks fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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Fight Club Sandwich posted:I will do this and tell GRRM my name is Barack Obama Ser Berrect of Vemma.
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Frostwerks posted:Launches dragon attacks against the Brotherhood without banners. Surprisingly, people are perfectly fine with this. The westerosi sheeple are too occupied with waterdancing with the stars or 16 and pregnant (with a shadowbaby) to care about B'amas pervasive spy network
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Blazing Ownager posted:I'm telling you, Dr. Strange. They haven't cast it yet, and you could not do better. He's already got his next role on lock. It's not Dr. Strange (I agree, that'd kick rear end), but I'm interested. C-Euro posted:Also probably RIP Tyrion. I'm pretty sad to be losing the only two characters I still really like They aren't killing the guy who's had top billing for this long.
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:They aren't killing the guy who's had top billing for this long. Yes, if there's one thing that this programme being adapted from 15 year old books has, it's an aversion to killing important or well-liked characters. If Tyrion doesn't die the popularity of the character will have had absolutely nothing to do with it.
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Reminder to all you showwatchers who think the Dink has plot armour this book was written in 2000 and book Tyrion was a much more unpleasant character.
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Yeah I almost think Tyrion is too delightful. The way they had Sansa and Shae speak of him at their respective recent trials (and how the general public reacts to him) was as if he was significantly more repugnant than he is. You're supposed to accept that even the nobles think of "the Imp" with revulsion, but it feels really disjointed, because Tyrion loving rules.
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thecolorpurple posted:Reminder to all you showwatchers who think the Dink has plot armour this book was written in 2000 and book Tyrion was a much more unpleasant character. Yeah, but this is Game of Thrones. Being unpleasant only strengthens plot armor. The more unpleasant you are, the more powerful you become.
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Bobo the Red posted:Yeah I almost think Tyrion is too delightful. The way they had Sansa and Shae speak of him at their respective recent trials (and how the general public reacts to him) was as if he was significantly more repugnant than he is. You're supposed to accept that even the nobles think of "the Imp" with revulsion, but it feels really disjointed, because Tyrion loving rules. I think the general ignorance and dislike people in that universe have towards dwarves/anyone different, as well as the fact that Tyrion often refuses to play by everyone else's rules and etiquette, gives people enough excuse to assume the worst of him. The rich hate him for not reflecting and conforming to their oval office lifestyles, and the poor hate him because they're uneducated enough to believe that he's monstrous based on rumour and reputation alone. His actual personality doesn't come into it. It's not like he's that different in the books. He's basically a lot more deformed and sometimes swaps charm for bitterness. A lot of his dialogue is word for word though (moreso than most characters anyway).
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:They aren't killing the guy who's had top billing for this long. Sean Bean had top billing all of season 1 and was a name people recognized, and he didn't even last an entire season. I would love for Tyrion to stay in the show because he's consistently been one of the best characters, but I don't think Dinklage having top billing will save him. Especially considering we're still in book territory that was set up before the show took off, like others have said. VV He lived in Percy Jackson & The Olympians! The first one, at least. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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yes, but Sean Bean. He is typecast as the guy who dies.
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Bobo the Red posted:Yeah I almost think Tyrion is too delightful. The way they had Sansa and Shae speak of him at their respective recent trials (and how the general public reacts to him) was as if he was significantly more repugnant than he is. You're supposed to accept that even the nobles think of "the Imp" with revulsion, but it feels really disjointed, because Tyrion loving rules. Their revulsion has nothing to do with his personality and everything to do with his deformity.
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anne frank fanfic posted:Nobody watched season 1 live who also didn't read the books, so you're incorrect that you got spoiled. Why would you lie about being spoiled? My wife watched them and hadn't read the books. She will still randomly mourn Ned to this day.
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Irish Joe posted:Yeah, but this is Game of Thrones. Being unpleasant only strengthens plot armor. The more unpleasant you are, the more powerful you become. Yeah, that Joffrey douchebag ain't gonna die anytime soon.
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rydiafan posted:Their revulsion has nothing to do with his personality and everything to do with his deformity. I was about to say this... I think people really underestimate how such a condition was viewed in most of humanity's history. There is a reason why children were usually killed if they were deformed and those that weren't were viewed as punishment by the god('s) or believed to be daemons (literally). Without his family name he wouldn't even be considered a full human being (and in some way it is interesting that Tywin didn't just kill him directly after his birth, by middle age standards that's extremly humane).
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DoctorStrangelove posted:Yeah, that Joffrey douchebag ain't gonna die anytime soon. Well it certainly took long enough. Unrelated but I wish they'd just have cut Daenyrys entire story from the show. It is boring as poo poo and completely separate from the rest of the action (with no end in sight). At least the White Walkers non-role in the story thus far has been limited to like 3 teaser scenes where we are reminded that they exist and are ostensibly a threat to everyone else in the world. The HBO adaptation should have just been focused on the events of Westeros power struggle. Could have much better pacing, be less muddled, and have more time to explore that part of the world and build up those characters. Instead we just get half-assed versions of all the many, many, many, MANY story lines. They might be just as half-assed in the books for all I know (some of the more critical readers have suggested as much). thathonkey fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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Boy will your face be red when Dany arrives in Westeros in season
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thathonkey posted:Well it certainly took long enough. So you'd be in favour of cutting Dany, Jon, Bran, Arya and pretty much everyone other than the dead Starks, the Lannisters, the Baratheons and the Greyjoys? That would have been shite, sir.
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Steve2911 posted:So you'd be in favour of cutting Dany, Jon, Bran, Arya and pretty much everyone other than the dead Starks, the Lannisters, the Baratheons and the Greyjoys? That would have been shite, sir. No sorry just meant Dany and the Wildlings, really. Actually Jon's parts are all pretty boring too. So are Bran's. But if they cut out the whole Dany part maybe they could have spent more time on Jon/Bran and made their scenes more interesting (I think the characters are fine as is, but the way they're used on the show is quite tedious). White Walkers can stay I guess as the overall background threat against Westeros that presumably will become a factor at some point maybe if GRRM doesn't die. Irish Joe posted:Boy will your face be red when Dany arrives in Westeros in season Yeah I keep hoping that it will all be worth it at some point in the next like 3 years. It would be loving hilarious if she dies at sea somehow on the way to Westeros. That would be entirely fitting with how the story is completely cool with killing off its best characters just for a shocking/impactful scene which are becoming increasingly trite. thathonkey fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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