Game of Thrones SPOILERS

[mook]

Also, this kind of gets back to the earlier issue about Martin writing about 13 year olds doing all this crazy shit. Some stuff works well in print and doesn't make for great television when you actually have to see it laid out there. Dinklage is the star of the show and he already stands out in contrast to the conventionally handsome actors throughout the show. They didn't really need to mangle his face to drive home the point.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Peter Dinklage is a handsome man, full stop.

 

[PapaG]

Dinklage just won himself another Emmy with the 'Blackwater' episode, IMO. He was fucking awesome in it, and the authority that he relayed as Tyrion during the wildfire and battlement was just incredible acting.

 

[speeds]

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Dinklage just won himself another Emmy with the 'Blackwater' episode, IMO. He was fucking awesome in it, and the authority that he relayed as Tyrion during the wildfire and battlement was just incredible acting.

He'll be up for a Lead Actor Emmy this year (he won for Supporting last year). That'd be awesome.

 

[PapaG]

He'll be up for a Lead Actor Emmy this year (he won for Supporting last year). That'd be awesome.

I watched his "Let's Go Kill Them" speech 3 times. It was on the same level as what I saw from Russell Crowe in Gladiator, or Mel Gibson in Braveheart. Just very cool to see an actor I've long admired get his due. If only the books turned out differently for him, but that wouldn't be GRRM, would it? Even the aftermath of this battle just sucks for him, because without Tyrion's wildfire, they'd have lost King's Landing long before Tywin could have done anything about it.

 

[speeds]

Well, that was ten or so hours of damn good television.

Sucks how long we'll have to wait for another season.

As good as the battle was last week it meant we had to spend the season finale catching up on everything. Scatter-shot episode but still enjoyable.

The White Walkers looked cool in a kind of World of Warcraft cutscene way, which is to say fake as hell. We've been doing zombies with masks and makeup for decades, hasn't it worked so far?

Jaqen did this.

And now we have Breaking Bad and a whole lot of nothing until the fall. Ugh.

 

[Run BJM]

Can't wait for season 3. After reading the third book it made me realize how little ultimately went on in the 2nd book.

Mad Men went out with a bang last night too. Stoked for Breaking Bad. I'm going to get into The Wire and Oz this summer I think so hopefully that holds me over.

Workaholics just started at least...

 

[Ed O]

I watched his "Let's Go Kill Them" speech 3 times. It was on the same level as what I saw from Russell Crowe in Gladiator, or Mel Gibson in Braveheart. Just very cool to see an actor I've long admired get his due. If only the books turned out differently for him, but that wouldn't be GRRM, would it? Even the aftermath of this battle just sucks for him, because without Tyrion's wildfire, they'd have lost King's Landing long before Tywin could have done anything about it.

I think the books will turn out just fine. I wouldn't be shocked if he, John Snow and Daenerys Targaryen are the three riding dragons north of the wall before it is all said and done

Ed O.

 

[Ed O]

Speaking of my hypothesizing: anyone else think John Snow is a Targaryen?

Haha. I just googled it and someone else came up with the idea years ago, too. That means it's fact, right?

Ed O.

 

[santeesioux]

Can't wait for season 3. After reading the third book it made me realize how little ultimately went on in the 2nd book.

Mad Men went out with a bang last night too. Stoked for Breaking Bad. I'm going to get into The Wire and Oz this summer I think so hopefully that holds me over.

Workaholics just started at least...

I have about a month to cram through Breaking Bad i think to be caught up in time.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I have about a month to cram through Breaking Bad i think to be caught up in time.

Get some meth!

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Get some meth!

Ooh a theme party!

 

[Run BJM]

Speaking of my hypothesizing: anyone else think John Snow is a Targaryen?

Haha. I just googled it and someone else came up with the idea years ago, too. That means it's fact, right?

Ed O.

lol this thread always scares me because I think I might run into a major spoiler. Starting the fourth book once I'm done with finals next week...

But at this point I think Stannis is going to get the throne and then die somehow, leaving Davos as the acting king of the realm (since hes Stannis' hand)!

 

[speeds]

Breaking Bad is the shit. The final season should be bananas. Sucks that they are splitting it up South Park-style but it will be great anyway.

GOT is the most exciting and richest show on television but Breaking Bad is the best crafted and most intense.

 

[Ed O]

lol this thread always scares me because I think I might run into a major spoiler. Starting the fourth book once I'm done with finals next week...

Well, if my theory is correct (and I think that it is), there are hints (especially in the first book or so) but nothing definitive.

Ed O.

 

[Blaze01]

You guys are weird. You can wonder about alternative courses of action a character might've chosen but I think the point is to understand the reasons for their actions and find truth in them. Stannis' hubris is the point. His righteousness. Saying what he ought to have done goes against who he is and what he stands for, and you said as much. You can try and learn from his mistakes, as with Oedipus or Narcissus or whoever. I think the point of non-fiction is to build on the platform of knowledge of the human existence. The purpose of fiction is to understand that process and the reasons for it and how it affects us.

Like saying Icarus shouldn't have flown so close to the sun, or Daedalus should've made the wings out of something that wouldn't melt. I think the point has been missed.

and yet up to this point in the books Stannis is one of the few left standing....

 

[Blaze01]

So few good characters I like left.....

Hopefully more of the Blackfish in the next book...and Jon Snow?

Also, I wonder if Rickon starts to become a more important figure in the book?

 

[crowTrobot]

...and Jon Snow?

future zombie

 

[Sedatedfork]

HBO Apologizes

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/...ead-in-game-of-thrones-20120614?stop_mobi=yes

 

[santeesioux]

Pussies.

 

[Haakzilla]

 

[mobes23]

Dang it. The picture isn't coming up.

Just about done with the fifth book -- is there any announcement about when the 6th one is coming out?

 

[speeds]

Click here if you want to have a look at Mance Rayder, as portrayed by Ciaran Hinds (click-drag to reveal actor name)

 

[Eastoff]

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[Eastoff]

Click here if you want to have a look at Mance Rayder, as portrayed by Ciaran Hinds (click-drag to reveal actor name)

I picture Mance being younger.

 

[Eastoff]

Just finished the 5th book. SUnday, sunday, SUNDAY!

 

[speeds]

No, we say record TWD and watch GOT. Good night of television.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

The Walking Dead is the one really popular show I'm not a fan of at all. I just don't get the appeal, but I've never seen anything involving zombies I liked.

Game of Thrones though... CAN'T. FUCKING. WAIT.

 

[santeesioux]

The Walking Dead is the one really popular show I'm not a fan of at all. I just don't get the appeal, but I've never seen anything involving zombies I liked.

Game of Thrones though... CAN'T. FUCKING. WAIT.

Patrick Klepek of Giantbomb said it best, it seems like it should be a lot better than it really is.