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Just finished watching the latest Game of Thrones episode. Motherfucker. What a place to leave it. The series has diverged enough from the books now that I don't feel I have any real foreknowledge of the fates of any given characters, so when people I like are in trouble it's actually tense again.

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  On 5/6/2015 at 1:05 PM, Gwardinen said:

Just finished watching the latest Game of Thrones episode. Motherfucker. What a place to leave it. The series has diverged enough from the books now that I don't feel I have any real foreknowledge of the fates of any given characters, so when people I like are in trouble it's actually tense again.

 

Agreed. I'm really glad the show has taken this turn over the past couple seasons, far more interesting that way.

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I'm not sure how spoilery this is but all of the fight scenes in that episode struck me as too artificial.

 

Also it was weird to have Keisha Castle Hughs' character introduction to be a character defining monologue given to close family members who likely all know her and are familiar with the events from decades ago.

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  On 5/6/2015 at 1:44 PM, moddy said:

I'm not sure how spoilery this is but all of the fight scenes in that episode struck me as too artificial.

 

Also it was weird to have Keisha Castle Hughs' character introduction to be a character defining monologue given to close family members who likely all know her and are familiar with the events from decades ago.

 

It was a little strange that you have two Named Plot-Relevant Characters just wrecking shit while around them everyone else dies in pretty human ways. GoT is usually a bit more egalitarian about that - season one spoilers for a moment:

 

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That said, the characters in question are defined in huge part by their fighting ability, so it's not as egregious as it could be.

 

What WAS a bummer was the artificiality of the other scene you mentioned. You could maybe get away with that monologue being previously unknown, as it's a relatively personal event, but what threw me was how they go out of their way to have weapon specific moments like they're enemies being introduced in a game cutscene.

 

I'm doing my best to write that off as just a particular style of Dornish melodramatic tendencies, though. We've seen one "sensible" member, but everyone else in this particular family has been overly theatrical from the get go, so I'm just sort of going along with it.

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  On 5/6/2015 at 6:12 PM, Gwardinen said:

I'm doing my best to write that off as just a particular style of Dornish melodramatic tendencies, though. We've seen one "sensible" member, but everyone else in this particular family has been overly theatrical from the get go, so I'm just sort of going along with it.

 

Even in the books, theatrics do seem to be one of the chief Dorn personality traits, in the same way that stoicism is a chief trait of the North.

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  On 5/6/2015 at 6:12 PM, Gwardinen said:

It was a little strange that you have two Named Plot-Relevant Characters just wrecking shit while around them everyone else dies in pretty human ways. GoT is usually a bit more egalitarian about that - season one spoilers for a moment:

 

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I'm doing my best to write that off as just a particular style of Dornish melodramatic tendencies, though. We've seen one "sensible" member, but everyone else in this particular family has been overly theatrical from the get go, so I'm just sort of going along with it.

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As to that fight from first season I rather liked it. Although seeing them square off properly definitely would have been a great fight. I think youth might have prevailed in that case though.

 

More than an end to GoT I'd be keen to read about the mythical figures like the Sword of the Morning and the Smiling Knight. To go off tangent I can't explain why I like reading about larger than life prequel characters while feeling drawn to write stories with much more diminished 'present day' characters.

 

With the Dorne thing, yeah I'll try to see it like that more. It still feels like an odd, mostly for the audience way of going about it. I'm keen to see more of Dorne since the characters there were some of my favourites in ADwD.

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  On 5/7/2015 at 9:54 AM, moddy said:

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The whole time, I was just wondering why they didn't draw their swords.

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I was actually disappointed with that finale. The choreography was good, but either the editor or the director didn't believe in it, so they kept cutting around it like they were trying to cheat it, even though they weren't really, as far as I could tell.

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I'd had a real revival on Game of Thrones with the fourth season, but I miss last week's episode of the fifth season just in time to be totally dissuaded from any desire to see it.

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I love A Song of Ice and Fire, despite its many failings, and I thought I loved Game of Thrones, but in fact I'm so goddamn sick of this gross show, which is too much in love with its own lack of accountability, being the face of medieval history, modern fantasy, and geek TV to the world. I'm ready for something to knock it over like it knocked over The Walking Dead.

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RIght, right, sorry, I got confused by this bit:

 

  On 5/19/2015 at 4:11 PM, Patrick R said:

It's overcranked and then it goes into slow motion and then it's regular speed and then it's overcranked.

 

Also: can we PLEASE spoiler tag Game Of Thrones discussion? I'm behind and haven't got onto season 5 yet, but I'll be catching up this week and I don't think it's unreasonable to want tags while the season's still going.

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I was joking in reference to another thread, nevermind.

 

I don't watch the show, so from what I know I'm surprised Game of Thrones hasn't had a rape per episode actually.

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Also, this GOT "recap" is pretty hilarious (spoilers I guess) - http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/119331006022/chrys-watches-got-season-5-episode-6

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  On 5/21/2015 at 7:50 AM, Ben X said:

I don't think it's unreasonable to want tags while the season's still going.

Twenty seconds is the cut-off, sorry.

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Man almost nothing happened in the finale for so long.

 

a friend of mine who DOESN'T EVEN WATCH THE SHOW thought it would be a good idea to spoil the fact that

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out of nowhere, just a complete non sequitur

 

Normally, I don't really care all that much about spoilers, but like it was three days away at the time, it was a leak on some stupid shitty website she reads, and I was looking forward to the episode and SHE DOESN'T EVEN WATCH THE SHOW. WHYYYY.

 

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  On 6/15/2015 at 1:53 PM, JonCole said:
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GoT spoilers.

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Spoilers suck real bad but on the plus side the show is up to date with the books and even beyond on some arcs. It's I guess a tiny bit behind on some but nothing huge so now there's not really anything else that can be spoiled. As long as you watch the episodes as they come out of course, depending on when the next book comes out of course.

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I'm not as down on the show as the rest of you, but I also binged all of seasons four and five last weekend, and then watched this last episode last night. I can see where you're all coming from, but I am still invested.

 

I have my complaints about the way the show handles a lot of things (most notably and unsurprisingly the sexual violence), but I still want to see where it goes. Although I'm beginning to wonder whether I shouldn't just go back to reading the books instead? Bah, I dunno. I dunno!

 

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  On 6/15/2015 at 3:52 PM, Reyturner said:

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I've read the books, but have not watched the most recent season.  Specifically with stuff about what's happening on the Wall and Snow:

 

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  On 6/15/2015 at 4:39 PM, Bjorn said:

I've read the books, but have not watched the most recent season. Specifically with stuff about what's happening on the Wall and Snow:

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GoT:

 

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Potential out of show, book/casting related spoilers:

 

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