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Post by
Gone
Bring forth the 3rd Season!
Can't.....wait
After watching the 2nd season, I've decided to ban watching Game of Thrones. They take too much liberties in making it, Ygritte runs away, leading Jon Snow to the Wildlings? That never happened. Jaime Lannister killed his cousin to escape in the middle of an enemy encampment? Not even close to what happened. Tywin Lannister chooses Arya as his cupbearer? Arya told her assassin to kill Tywin? WTF.
... and lastly, Joffrey was sent two prostitutes and had one of them beaten? I gotta say HBO, you really did a good job on screwing up the connection between the show and the books, there is a list of things not even closely resembling the true events. I think I'm going to stick with the books, much more entertaining.
Meh its not like GRRM dosnt do a well enough job of #$%^ing up his own series. I mean, did you read AFFC? At least HBO didnt take 6 years to make a season.
Post by
Patty
The books are better but the show is still excellent overall. Adaptations are just that. Adaptations. They change things. Look at Lord of the Rings, for example. The films stripped the books bare but still made one of the greatest and most successful film series of all time.
I don't like Littlefinger's TARDIS skills, Catelyn's characterisation is off although Michelle Fairley does a fantastic job of playing her, Robb's #YOLO mentality bugs me and I despise Ros as a character, but taking everything else into consideration, it is still great. Did you not
see
Blackwater?
Post by
Gone
Plus the show has Peter Dinklage, honestly he is better than the book version, with the excpetion of a few scenes. Especially his back and foreth with Bronn. Although so far the TV version of the Mountain is very dissapointing.
The books are better, but honestly a lot of it also just pisses me off as a fan. I feel like GRRM is good at making storys, but kind of a bad writer, is that makes any sense.
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301983
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Post by
Levarus
He's good at stories but he's bad at stories.
WTF?
Post by
Gone
He's good at stories but he's bad at stories.
WTF?
Thats not what I said. What I mean by him being good at making up storys, but still (IMO) being a bad writer is that he came up with a good fantasy world, with good themes and great characters. But when it comes to putting it down on paper I feel like he falls short.
He drowns his storys in so many POV characters at this point that time has slowed to a crawl, and he has to split his books up because he winds up otherwise with one massivly long story. theres also too many instances where he writes a scene that comes off as really unclear, where its almost like he hints at something happening without actually stating it. So many people say there lost about what happened in some scenes untill they go on the forums later and read about it.
Theres also this really nihilistic style he has, that comes almost to the point of mundane it repeats so much. I mean character deaths are one of the most powerful tools an author has, but he overuses it so much that at this point everybody expects half of the characters to die off, and greet it with an eyeroll rather than the true shock and devistation that fans reached way back in AGOT when Ned Stark was beheaded.
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301983
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Post by
Gone
I just heard recently on the radio that Season 3 and 4 will be aired both on 2013, the first one on the spring and the second one on autumn, if that's true then the 3rd book will be finished in one year even being split on two seasons. I hope they do the same from now on with the rest of the seasons, a fan can not simply wait too much for a new season.
Yea but if they catch up with the current books we may have to go an enitire year or two without it while they wait for GRRM to finish.
Post by
Patty
GRRM has already told them what is likely to happen in rough enough terms (eg who dies, who wins thrones, you know) in case he dies apparently, so I imagine the show could actually overtake the books if it needed to.
Post by
Levarus
Patty I must ask; why is your icon always depicting Hermione from Harry Potter?
Post by
Patty
Because Emma Watson has been pretty much my biggest role model (through Hermione, really) since I was seven years old and she remains a flawless human being out of character as well as in character.
Post by
Levarus
Because Emma Watson has been pretty much my biggest role model (through Hermione, really) since I was seven years old and she remains a flawless human being out of character as well as in character.
So she's kind of like me, basically?
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301983
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Post by
Gone
Lol wtf Joffery was in Batman Begins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ9aIqk4Aaw
Post by
Gone
Hahaha this had to be shared
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYrfs6fCfl4
Post by
Gone
So GRRM is going to be writing the seventh episode of season 3, wonder which one its going to be. Based on what the directors have said were probably going to see the Red Wedding, but their probably going to save that for the finale.
God that pissed me off so much in the books, I may throw something at my screen lol, Robb Stark is such a %^&*ing dumbass...
Post by
Haxzor
SPOILERS BRO.
Isn't Storm of Swords being broken up into 2 seasons?
Post by
Gone
SPOILERS BRO.
Isn't Storm of Swords being broken up into 2 seasons?
Hey hey I didnt say anything. Just that Robb Stark is a dumbass who thinks with his johnson, already established. And theres a wedding that pisses me off Xp
Its no like I mentioned how Tyrion died after Illyrio sat on him in Pentos or anything...
Anyway yea ASOS is broken up into two parts.
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240140
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Post by
Patty
So GRRM is going to be writing the seventh episode of season 3, wonder which one its going to be. Based on what the directors have said were probably going to see the Red Wedding, but their probably going to save that for the finale.
God that pissed me off so much in the books, I may throw something at my screen lol, Robb Stark is such a %^&*ing dumbass...
No he's not, it's not his fault that certain towerpeople are #$%^ing insane.
Mhm. In the books, Robb's story is all about a boy trying to do a man's job. I don't think that makes him an idiot, I think it's good that he is making responsible decisions and trying to do the best that he can in the most honourable way that he can. Unfortunately the show derailed that arc, but nevertheless to imply that the Starks
deserved
the RW is just ludicrous.
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