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Game of Thrones (Official Thread)

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Who will be the final KING of the SEVEN KINGDOMS/IRON THRONE

  • Aegon Targaryen (aka Jon Snow)

    Votes: 11 36.7%

  • Daenerys Targaryen

    Votes: 2 6.7%

  • Bran Stark

    Votes: 1 3.3%

  • Gentry Baratheon

    Votes: 3 10.0%

  • Sansa Stark

    Votes: 3 10.0%

  • Arya Stark

    Votes: 4 13.3%

  • Cersei Lannister

    Votes: 1 3.3%

  • Tyrion Lannister

    Votes: 1 3.3%

  • Euron Greyjoy

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 4 13.3%

  • Gate is closed

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    30
  • Poll closed .
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kinch said:
I watch dumb sci fi in a hearbeat, and decent stuff. Like the Expanse (which is actually great), Dark Matter, Colony, and then the really dumb CW ones.

This episode felt more like one of those shows in its writing than earlier seasons. Silly comedic stuff, advancing a story but with no sense of import, etc. It just felt. . . off.

I still have high hopes. Maybe I'll watch it again.
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It's because they are ahead of the books. They have the outline but not te text to work from.
 
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This season seems to be "ad-libbing" from the 5th book (which is the last out?). Methinks there will be several deviations from storylines abounding. The Red Lady will work her magic and Jon Snow will live! The other plots also seem to deviate (or realistically add more detail) than the books put forth. Anyway, am glad to see. The series is better than the books, but I'm too muddle headed to keep the characters straight regardless. Whoever is left standing is the King?!?! At the rate of slaughter, the birth rate has to be 20:1 just for there to be adults to hack up. Kinch, I too, read all pulp sci-fi that comes out on TV or in books. The best shows are the ones that air at 2:00am.......
 
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This season seems to be "ad-libbing" from the 5th book (which is the last out?). Methinks there will be several deviations from storylines abounding. The Red Lady will work her magic and Jon Snow will live! The other plots also seem to deviate (or realistically add more detail) than the books put forth. Anyway, am glad to see. The series is better than the books, but I'm too muddle headed to keep the characters straight regardless. Whoever is left standing is the King?!?! At the rate of slaughter, the birth rate has to be 20:1 just for there to be adults to hack up. Kinch, I too, read all pulp sci-fi that comes out on TV or in books. The best shows are the ones that air at 2:00am.......
 
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calibuck said:
This season seems to be "ad-libbing" from the 5th book (which is the last out?). Methinks there will be several deviations from storylines abounding. The Red Lady will work her magic and Jon Snow will live! The other plots also seem to deviate (or realistically add more detail) than the books put forth. Anyway, am glad to see. The series is better than the books, but I'm too muddle headed to keep the characters straight regardless. Whoever is left standing is the King?!?! At the rate of slaughter, the birth rate has to be 20:1 just for there to be adults to hack up. Kinch, I too, read all pulp sci-fi that comes out on TV or in books. The best shows are the ones that air at 2:00am.......
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I don't know that the TV series is better than the books, but it is just fine on its own as an adaptation.

The books, if faithfully translated to screen to the letter, would result in a show that would be damn near incomprehensible and wind up running for 30 years. The average fan struggles to keep up with the names of the 257 major actors credited with roles in the show. Imagine if the cast were over 1000?

In the end, recounting the entire life histories of all 997 prior Lord Commanders of the Nights Watch or every Targaryen GRRM thought to name or all five Blackfyre Rebellions just wouldn't make very compelling TV. Of course I'd watch it, but that wouldn't pay HBO's production costs. As the show stands now there are so many threads that a given episode doesn't stay with one character for more than eight to ten minutes, we haven't seen Bran since 2014, Gendry's apparently been rowing a boat in circles off the coast of Dragonstone since 2013, and last nights events in Meereen make it feel like the whole Slaver's Bay plot line will stay a dead end until Season 8.
 
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Buckeye86 said:
Why would you come into this thread on the night of the premiere if you don't want spoilers?

Additionally, I didn't really give any big spoilers because nothing happened other than the strong message the Dorne story is going to end, and that was ambiguous.
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Spy doesn't care about what thread you go in. I was keeping an eye on the Cavs thread and had to keep trying to avoid GoT. If we couldn't talk about The Force Awakens for a month I think it's fair to wait until Tuesday to not use spoiler tags here.
 
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Dryden said:
I don't know that the TV series is better than the books, but it is just fine on its own as an adaptation.

The books, if faithfully translated to screen to the letter, would result in a show that would be damn near incomprehensible and wind up running for 30 years. The average fan struggles to keep up with the names of the 257 major actors credited with roles in the show. Imagine if the cast were over 1000?

In the end, recounting the entire life histories of all 997 prior Lord Commanders of the Nights Watch or every Targaryen GRRM thought to name or all five Blackfyre Rebellions just wouldn't make very compelling TV. Of course I'd watch it, but that wouldn't pay HBO's production costs. As the show stands now there are so many threads that a given episode doesn't stay with one character for more than eight to ten minutes, we haven't seen Bran since 2014, Gendry's apparently been rowing a boat in circles off the coast of Dragonstone since 2013, and last nights events in Meereen make it feel like the whole Slaver's Bay plot line will stay a dead end until Season 8.
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And don't forget, Gilly's kid hasn't aged a day in 3 years....
 
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