OT: Game of Thrones (official thread) (warning: some spoilers) - Page 8 - The Orange Mane

lostknight · 06-18-2011, 06:54 AM

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Originally Posted by McDman

Him, Tyrion, and Arya were cast perfectly and coincidentally they are the most interesting chapters in all of the books as well. And maybe Jon Snow.

Bronn is very well done as well, and frankly more interesting to me then he was in the book. Jon Snow is kinda Luke Skywalker mopyish right now. Syraiano was much better then I recalled him being in the books.

Looking forward to Stannis and the Onion Knight next year.

ZONA · 06-18-2011, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by RhymesayersDU

Uh, who is he exactly? Seriously, after reading this I feel a bit dumb (save your jokes!) because I have no idea who this guy is, nor did I know he was any kind of major actor.

You might have heard of some of these movies.........lol

He has mostly played supporting roles or lead support

Patriot Games
Golden Eye (007)
Ronin
National Treasure
The Island
Lord Of the Rings Trilogy
Troy
The Big Empty
Equilibrium

McDman · 06-18-2011, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by lostknight

Bronn is very well done as well, and frankly more interesting to me then he was in the book. Jon Snow is kinda Luke Skywalker mopyish right now. Syraiano was much better then I recalled him being in the books.

Looking forward to Stannis and the Onion Knight next year.

Yeah, Bronn is pretty good. Id have to say Arya is my favorite character in the books but she's barely in the fourth.

Bronco Yoda · 06-18-2011, 03:32 PM

Long live Tyrion Lannister. The most interesting character so far.

(ok, don't get any funny ideas and post any spoilers here)

RhymesayersDU · 06-18-2011, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ZONA

You might have heard of some of these movies.........lol

He has mostly played supporting roles or lead support

Patriot Games
Golden Eye (007)
Ronin
National Treasure
The Island
Lord Of the Rings Trilogy
Troy
The Big Empty
Equilibrium

I recall him as the villain in Golden Eye now that you mention it, don't remember him in National Treasure, and haven't seen any of the others.

UberBroncoMan · 06-18-2011, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by RhymesayersDU

I recall him as the villain in Golden Eye now that you mention it, don't remember him in National Treasure, and haven't seen any of the others.

The ****. You've never seen Lord of the Rings?!

He was the main villain in the first National Treasure btw.

Dude's a baller.

His career was truly formed largely on the BBC Sharpe series before feature films. Golden Eye is what thrust him into the spotlight over here though. He remains one of my favorite Bond villains of all time...then again it's probably my favorite Bond film. The N64 game helped with that.

BroncsRule · 06-18-2011, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by McDman

Yeah, Bronn is pretty good. Id have to say Arya is my favorite character in the books but she's barely in the fourth.

GRRM has said that he's focusing on Aria in "Dance with Dragons", to the tune of 300+ pages.

RhymesayersDU · 06-18-2011, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by UberBroncoMan

The ****. You've never seen Lord of the Rings?!

He was the main villain in the first National Treasure btw.

Dude's a baller.

His career was truly formed largely on the BBC Sharpe series before feature films. Golden Eye is what thrust him into the spotlight over here though. He remains one of my favorite Bond villains of all time...then again it's probably my favorite Bond film. The N64 game helped with that.

No, I never saw LOTR, never read the books either. Actually, freshman year of college a buddy lent me the first LOTR and I fell asleep like 20 minutes in, and I never gave it another shot. Maybe I'll go back and try watching it.

sirhcyennek81 · 06-18-2011, 04:25 PM

My favorite characters thus far:

Denaryus (sp), Arya, Jon Snow, Tyrrion.

Honorable mention: Ned, Robert.

Hate: Jeoffrey, Cierse (sp), Sansa (book 1 and the show she is a twit.) Littlefinger (devious ****)

Dislike: Catelyn (just stay in Winterfell...for the love of God...), Jaime, Denaryus' brother.

Im going to start book three soon. Book two gave me a headache. How does this guy write this stuff?

myMind · 06-18-2011, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by sirhcyennek81

Im going to start book three soon. Book two gave me a headache. How does this guy write this stuff?

Storm of Swords is the longest and by far the best of the series so far. Enjoy!

Im loving the show, but am a bit peeved at how they are portraying Jon Snow. In the books he seems a lot more solemn and honorable, like Ned Stark.
Im not sure why the character seems off in the show, but he just doesnt seem to be quite as much of a badass...it's probably because they have downplayed the importance of the direwolves. The wolves are supposed to be extensions of they're masters personality. Jon's wolf Ghost is supposed to be mute and eerily calm. Im not sure why they just didnt edit out the sound for Ghost in the show so we couldnt hear him...Oh well.

McDman · 06-18-2011, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by BroncsRule

GRRM has said that he's focusing on Aria in "Dance with Dragons", to the tune of 300+ pages.

It definitely won't surprise me if she ends up being the main character in the last three books.

TheReverend · 06-19-2011, 07:08 PM

:/

I think last weeks ending was substantially superior to the finale. Shouldve ended the book there imo. This was kinda... Obvious

sirhcyennek81 · 06-19-2011, 07:16 PM

I want a dragon.

McDman · 06-19-2011, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by TheReverend

:/

I think last weeks ending was substantially superior to the finale. Shouldve ended the book there imo. This was kinda... Obvious

You should write Martin and tell him you disapprove.

TheReverend · 06-19-2011, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by McDman

You should write Martin and tell him you disapprove.

Not sure I get the point of this post...

Do you:

1. Disagree and think it was a solid finale

2. Disagree because the ending for the book comes across very differently

3. Have no ****ing point whatsoever

sirhcyennek81 · 06-19-2011, 08:05 PM

I liked the finale. True, I knew what was coming, but I thought it was nifty how they pulled it off.

And I still really hate Jeoffrey.

Fedaykin · 06-19-2011, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by McDman

Yeah, Bronn is pretty good. Id have to say Arya is my favorite character in the books but she's barely in the fourth.

Books 4 and 5 split the characters in half instead of telling half the story (time wise) each.

Book 5 will be pretty much all Snow, Arya, Dany and the other major characters that were mostly excluded in Book 4.

It'll be interesting to see how they reorganize that in the series if they get that far. I doubt they'd drop half the characters for an entire season.

TheReverend · 06-19-2011, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by sirhcyennek81

I liked the finale. True, I knew what was coming, but I thought it was nifty how they pulled it off.

And I still really hate Jeoffrey.

It seemed like an hour long epilogue to me...

sirhcyennek81 · 06-19-2011, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by TheReverend

It seemed like an hour long epilogue to me...

I started reading the first book halfway through the tv series. So I knew what to expect and wondered how they would do it. Not badly done. I try to view it like someone who has not or will not read the books, and from what HBO presented they did a good job. Makes me wish season 2 started this fall rather than next spring though.

Fedaykin · 06-19-2011, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by sirhcyennek81

My favorite characters thus far:

Denaryus (sp), Arya, Jon Snow, Tyrrion.

Honorable mention: Ned, Robert.

Hate: Jeoffrey, Cierse (sp), Sansa (book 1 and the show she is a twit.) Littlefinger (devious ****)

Dislike: Catelyn (just stay in Winterfell...for the love of God...), Jaime, Denaryus' brother.

Im going to start book three soon. Book two gave me a headache. How does this guy write this stuff?

As GRRM is wont to do with his focus on character development, you'll probably end up liking most of your "dislikes" before the end. Just see how much Dany changes in one book/season.

This, of course, excludes the little b****, er, Viserys. (err, and from your hate list Joffrey pretty much stays loathing worthy. In fact, you'll grow to hate him even more profoundly that you do after EP10 =)

RhymesayersDU · 06-19-2011, 08:23 PM

I thought the finale was pretty neat, but I haven't read the books so I didn't know what was coming. The last scene with the dragons was pretty sweet.

sirhcyennek81 · 06-19-2011, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Fedaykin

As GRRM is wont to do with his focus on character development, you'll probably end up liking most of your "dislikes" before the end. Just see how much Dany changes in one book/season.
This, of course, excludes the little b****, er, Viserys.

Dany is a completely different character from the beginning of book one to the end of book one. Same girl in the beginning would never **spoiler** walk through fire to hatch dragon eggs Her and Arya both, even Sansa is growing on me a little.

TheReverend · 06-19-2011, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by sirhcyennek81

I started reading the first book halfway through the tv series. So I knew what to expect and wondered how they would do it. Not badly done. I try to view it like someone who has not or will not read the books, and from what HBO presented they did a good job. Makes me wish season 2 started this fall rather than next spring though.

I purposely didn't read any because I've loved the series so much but I was pretty let down here. I remember checking my clock and being pissed it was over halfway over because nothing had happened. Literally NOTHING happened until the last 2 minutes and that was pretty obvious from the wedding in episode one.

Fedaykin · 06-19-2011, 08:29 PM

Edit: all hidden in case anyone is silly enough to visit forums before watching an episode.

{ The end with Danerys was, stylistically much different from the end of the book. In the book it's made clear that she didn't intend to walk into the pyre but was compelled to do so - also in the book she emerges from the flames with the dragons rather than just kinda hangin' out till the next day when the fire burns out. It was actually fairly disappointing but understandable due to the complexity/expense to do that in a TV series.

Also: In the book there's some serious squick factor as the dragons are nursing from her post-pardum breasts as she emerges. She later referred to as the "Mother Of Dragons" more or less specially because of that. As to why the hell dragons are nursing.. go figure }

TheReverend · 06-19-2011, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Fedaykin

Edit: all hidden in case anyone is silly enough to visit forums before watching an episode.

{ The end with Danerys was, stylistically much different from the end of the book. In the book it's made clear that she didn't intend to walk into the pyre but was compelled to do so - also in the book she emerges from the flames with the dragons rather than just kinda hangin' out till the next day when the fire burns out. It was actually fairly disappointing but understandable due to the complexity/expense to do that in a TV series.

Also: In the book there's some serious squick factor as the dragons are nursing from her post-pardum breasts as she emerges. She later referred to as the "Mother Of Dragons" more or less specially because of that. As to why the hell dragons are nursing.. go figure }

Meh, I don't have a problem with that portion of the finale... more the lack of... well... anything else?

What else happened? (also spoiler protecting here) :

Jon left and came back immediately
Arya got a haircut
Geoffrey is still Geoffrey
Cat smacked Jaime

Color me disappointed.

Huge fan of the series now and will have all the books read by season two, but still really disappointed with this finale.

06-19-2011, 08:29 PM	#199
Fedaykin Ring of Famer Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 3,814 Adopt-a-Bronco: None	Edit: all hidden in case anyone is silly enough to visit forums before watching an episode. { The end with Danerys was, stylistically much different from the end of the book. In the book it's made clear that she didn't intend to walk into the pyre but was compelled to do so - also in the book she emerges from the flames with the dragons rather than just kinda hangin' out till the next day when the fire burns out. It was actually fairly disappointing but understandable due to the complexity/expense to do that in a TV series. Also: In the book there's some serious squick factor as the dragons are nursing from her post-pardum breasts as she emerges. She later referred to as the "Mother Of Dragons" more or less specially because of that. As to why the hell dragons are nursing.. go figure } Last edited by Fedaykin; 06-19-2011 at 08:32 PM..

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06-18-2011, 03:32 PM	#179
Bronco Yoda Stokley once... ...saved me from a beating Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,244	Long live Tyrion Lannister. The most interesting character so far. (ok, don't get any funny ideas and post any spoilers here)

06-18-2011, 04:25 PM	#184
sirhcyennek81 Yes...swooping is bad... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Florence, Colorado Posts: 20,673 Adopt-a-Bronco: All of them.	My favorite characters thus far: Denaryus (sp), Arya, Jon Snow, Tyrrion. Honorable mention: Ned, Robert. Hate: Jeoffrey, Cierse (sp), Sansa (book 1 and the show she is a twit.) Littlefinger (devious ****) Dislike: Catelyn (just stay in Winterfell...for the love of God...), Jaime, Denaryus' brother. Im going to start book three soon. Book two gave me a headache. How does this guy write this stuff?

06-19-2011, 07:08 PM	#187
TheReverend www.PatrickTurley.org ^ buy this... twice Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Jacksonville, FL Posts: 32,987 Adopt-a-Bronco: Mike Shanahan	:/ I think last weeks ending was substantially superior to the finale. Shouldve ended the book there imo. This was kinda... Obvious

06-19-2011, 07:16 PM	#188
sirhcyennek81 Yes...swooping is bad... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Florence, Colorado Posts: 20,673 Adopt-a-Bronco: All of them.	I want a dragon.

06-19-2011, 08:05 PM	#191
sirhcyennek81 Yes...swooping is bad... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Florence, Colorado Posts: 20,673 Adopt-a-Bronco: All of them.	I liked the finale. True, I knew what was coming, but I thought it was nifty how they pulled it off. And I still really hate Jeoffrey.

06-19-2011, 08:23 PM	#196
RhymesayersDU Go Broncos, Nuggets, Rox GANGNAM STYLE Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Back In The 303! Posts: 14,812 Adopt-a-Bronco: Ty Lawson	I thought the finale was pretty neat, but I haven't read the books so I didn't know what was coming. The last scene with the dragons was pretty sweet.