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HBO's A Song of Ice and Fire
schimmy:
It was a pretty good episode! It irked me a little bit that despite the fact that they devoted a whole episode to the siege, they still missed out a fair amount of stuff, but I suppose short of making the episode twice as long, and a hell of a lot more expensive, there's not really much they could have done to avoid that.
There shouldn't be too much spoilering going on after this, but for those who haven't read the books, and really don't want to know at all what's coming up, I suggest not reading them.
(click to show/hide)The scene with Sansa and Joffrey was great. I don't remember it being in the book, but it's nice to see her character developing more quickly - I seem to recall it took her longer in the books to start coming out of her "But knights and kings are supposed to be chivalrous!" mindset.
I'm a little disappointed to see that Tyrion's not going to have his nose mangled from now on, but I was totally expecting them to avoid that, what with it being a huge challenge to make it look convincing. That said, I'm assuming they're still going to give him an impressive scar, so it shouldn't deviate from the books too much.
This is the point in the books where the Hound started being one of my favourite characters. I absolutely love the change from "terrifying warrior guy" to "actually deep down quite a good guy."
Jimor:
Probably time to bring this to the top of the pile again, considering that we're 3 episodes into the new season.
Forget this Game of Thrones nonsense, the Game of Chairs scene said so much without a single word of dialogue!
satsugaikaze:
Tangentially, I don't remember Brienne kicking Jaime's ass that hard in the books.
blanktom:
--- Quote from: satsugaikaze on 17 Apr 2013, 20:33 ---Tangentially, I don't remember Brienne kicking Jaime's ass that hard in the books.
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I'm pretty sure she did, but the whole thing went on for longer so it certainly took her a lot longer to get the better of him, and it was all based on her wearing him out than superior ability.
Over in Essos, I am both dissapointed but understanding of Barristan Selmy's insta-reveal. It's harder in a TV show to make him totally unregnisable for a decent run of episodes, but if they could have pulled it off it would have certainly created 'mo drama. And where is Strong Belwas? Probably not a necessary character, but a fun one, and gods know they could use something to lighten the mood over there.
How do we all feel about the casting for the new characters? I feel like they've done an amazing job. I love the Reeds, I love Thoros Of Myr, and although we haven't seen a lot of him, I quite like McKenzie Crook as Orell. I have a feeling, as he's a fairly well known actor in Britain, they might give him a bit more than they do in the books, but that's fine with me because he looks like he'll do an interesting job with him.
satsugaikaze:
Lack of Strong Belwas pisses me off because he was basically the counterpart to Barristan Selmy and he plays a huge vital role later in the series.
It's like how they fucking killed off (click to show/hide)The Tickler just because. How are they going to give Arya her crowning moment of badass later on in the series?
I love Selmy's entry though. Totally pulled some Obi-Wan Kenobi on that warlock shit.
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