Game of Thrones

[Van Buren Supernova]

20 Season 6 Pictures

Stumbled to this. Could be spoiler.

[J.P.]

I'm about to see the end of S5 today night.

But I also saw the trailer for S6 - and it makes me a bit... nervous.

https://twitter.com/GameOfThrones/status/699050313945260032

On the bright side - they wouldn't spoil their own show by that.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Oh didn't know some trailers are out.

Well at this point the show has caught up with the book, so no one knows what will happen. I just hope they don't mess it up too much and create a bad butterfly effects.

 

On your link

I don't know anything, spoiler box is just for those who don't want to see the trailer. I suppose it's just some kind of character listing. I guess it's Daenerys on his left and Arya below. Can't see more because my connection sucks for now.

 

[J.P.]

 

The faces is the gallery in the temple of the God of Many Faces (sorry don't have the original English name) where Aria works. They are apparently dead people, that's why Joffrey, Ned and Catelyn are there. But the two heads at the end are John Snow and ... Tyrion. :o

Why everybody tries to kill my favorite characters in my favorite shows?!

 

 

 

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

Yah, that's what I meant. I strongly believe it's just fancy character listing, not part of story.

I don't completely rule that out, but I don't think so.

 

There are other familiar faces around, it's just that beside the two I mentioned, I didn't pay attention to the rest as my connection is very slow now.

 

Enjoy the rest of you S5 watch.. Hardhome is awesome.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Or... everyone dies at the end. :P

[Van Buren Supernova]

I used to be excited but now I think I have little love left for this show.

Wasn't even sure the premier date until two days before.

 

Decent premier though but

I eefing hate Dorne show version. Just...stupid.

 

[J.P.]

It's what happens when there are too many episodes. :D

[Van Buren Supernova]

It's what happens when there are too many episodes. :D

You have a point.. I really like Sherlock 1.5 x 3 format per season, but..but we could use less waiting time between seasons!

 

There are many workable many episode one-hour format as well, and GoT is fine with that format. I am not a book purist, but more and more I question the story telling, it's getting lazier and lazier. I think George R.R deserves it though. Well, it's his right to take his own sweet time, but he has ONE job!

[Van Buren Supernova]

I actually quite like episode 2, but unlike all of internet, not because of the ending.

 

Don't be spoiled. Don't click, it really spoils. Also from last book World of Ice and Fire.

 

 

Yes, I don't give rat a** about Jon Snow actually. I think he has charisma of a cardbox. Seen it coming since the book, yes, he is back. Yawn. That room must be stinky.

 

What is awesome is Tyrion vs the dragon. Maybe, like those theories, he is a Targ afterall. The timeline and event from the last book WoIaF actually matches with this theory.

 

And Stark flashback. Apparently next week is Tower of Joy. We will see if R+L=J, which is most probably true.

 

I will miss Roose, at least he is belivable and probably have more charm that 90% of the characters.

 

[Detective]

 

 

I actually quite like episode 2, but unlike all of internet, not because of the ending.

 

Don't be spoiled. Don't click, it really spoils. Also from last book World of Ice and Fire.

 

 

Yes, I don't give rat a** about Jon Snow actually. I think he has charisma of a cardbox. Seen it coming since the book, yes, he is back. Yawn. That room must be stinky.

 

What is awesome is Tyrion vs the dragon. Maybe, like those theories, he is a Targ afterall. The timeline and event from the last book WoIaF actually matches with this theory.

 

And Stark flashback. Apparently next week is Tower of Joy. We will see if R+L=J, which is most probably true.

 

I will miss Roose, at least he is belivable and probably have more charm that 90% of the characters.

 

 

Dude it was obvious that John would come back. Somehow he would come back, a white walker or as whatever, but he would return somehow. I hope that they won't mess up the John Snow storyarc, but I like the fact that he's back. (And I'm not a girl) ;)

 

[Caya]

"I am here to help. Don't eat the help." :lol: That was brilliant (and not a spoiler without any context, I hope).

 

No longer watching the series, but following the spoilers since this seems about the only way us book readers are ever going to get at least some kind of closure -_- (and watching highlights like the above on YouTube ;)).

[Arcadia]

Heck, I haven't read anything past the first two books, and never seen even a minute of the show

and even I knew Jon Snow was coming back. :d

 

[Detective]

 

 

No longer watching the series, but following the spoilers

Why? Is there a specific reason you stopped watching GoT?

[Detective]

 

 

Heck, I haven't read anything past the first two books, and never seen even a minute of the show

Why? You're missing some freaking crazy stuff and one of the best TV shows.

[Detective]

Seriously.

[Caya]

To keep this short and not turn it into a rant, I didn't like some of the changes. Mostly concerning female characters, and what they did to Sansa was the proverbial straw. Happy for you if you're having such a blast with the show, though .

[Arcadia]

For me, it's mostly because I don't get HBO and don't want to spend extra to get it ... and then I started hearing what it was like, and decided it's not something I'd enjoy much anyway. Sounds far too violent for my delicate sensibilities.

 

The reason I stopped reading the books is because I didn't want to get involved in something that, as yet, had no ending. Looks like I made the right call there too.

[Detective]

Well if you don't like violence, or if violence isn't something you could see, GoT is indeed nothing for you.

[Detective]

With "if you don't like violence" I of course mean violence in TV or whatever media, not real violence.

[Arcadia]

Of course. No worries.

[Caya]

The reason I stopped reading the books is because I didn't want to get involved in something that, as yet, had no ending. Looks like I made the right call there too.

 

Yes and no. There's a certain scene in the third book that I'm not going to spoil that is ... intense is really the only way to describe it. While the books are far from being uniformly great imho, I can still say that this is the most intense reading experience I have had in my life. I swear I could hear that damn song playing in the background, and that was many years before the series was made and gave a tune to it .

 

Btw, have you seen this? Game of Thrones if it had been an 80s show, complete with VHS tape static, synth soundtrack and all :lol:.

 

 

(link to youtube)

[Arcadia]

I liked first two books, I thought I might pick them up again when he got around to finishing the story. Still waiting.........

 

Funnily enough, I can read about all kinds of mayhem ... it's just the older I get, the more stressful it is to see it. Becoming increasingly aware of my own mortality, perhaps.

[Van Buren Supernova]

The reason I stopped reading the books is because I didn't want to get involved in something that, as yet, had no ending. Looks like I made the right call there too.

Aren't you lucky. I didn't know anything when I picked up the book. It was before the start of season one, I thought it looks promising but didn't want to get spoiled so I got the book thinking it's a finished story. When it's not, I thought he publishes once a year. I was a (not) sweet summer child.

 

I liked first two books, I thought I might pick them up again when he got around to finishing the story. Still waiting.........

3 & 4th book is the best, although many like book 4 the least.

 

 

Funnily enough, I can read about all kinds of mayhem ... it's just the older I get, the more stressful it is to see it. Becoming increasingly aware of my own mortality, perhaps.

Funny too, for me it's the other way around. The older I get, I prefer more realism. Apparently GoT is not as f-up as reality. Don't have time to dig the link now. Interesting but horrible read.

 

But I have to say, straying away from the books, the dialogues and characters suffer a lot. These two episodes have ridiculous dialogue level.

For story line

Sansa actually bothers me less than JamienCersei, because maybe, Sansa has similar path everywhere she goes at that time realistically, while JamienCersei is f-up interpretation. And Dorne, ah, freaking Dorne, that is D level storytelling.

 

[T.o.b.y]

I don't get Game of Thrones. No, that's not right. I get it - it just doesn't work for me.

 

Some very dear friends of mine love it and they showed me the first series. I then went and read the first book. After that, I remained interested enough to follow the story through the magic of the internet, but for me, it's like reading the news - I learn stuff I feel I should know, but most of it I had rather not known and it brings me no joy.

 

No joy... that's my problem with Game of Thrones. I concede that it's very well made. The first book was very well written (and I have every reason to assume the other ones are too) and the series is very well acted and directed. I would be the first person to acknowledge that in the realm of fantasy fiction, there isn't much that can rival Game of Thrones for quality. Unfortunately, that quality is (in my eyes) wasted on basically a fictional history lesson. I see no significant difference between reading one of my factual books about the Tudors or watching a documentary on the Wars of the Roses and dealing with Game of Thrones. Sure, the latter has dragons and magic and undead people. But the appeal of fantasy (for me) had very little to do with any of these (although I f***ing love dragons). Fantasy is supposed to be better than reality. Fantasy is where I go to find relief when reality is hurting me. Sure, there's usually bad guys and there's trouble, but only because you need darkness to show off the light - and it's the light I am there for. I don't love Lord of the Rings for Mordor and Isengard. I love it for The Shire and Sam and Frodo and Galadriel and Gandalf and for the certainty that in their world, at least, everything will be well in the end, even if you have to die and go The West to make it so. (And don't underestimate a good death - the only kind of happy end any of us will ever get, seeing as "and they lived happily ever after" is simply not possible. I didn't mind that Ned Stark got killed, but I hated how he had to die. Game of Thrones seems to manage to strip every single character of their dignity and it is that above all else that I cannot stand to watch).

 

I just don't understand why people bother to create if the result is just exactly as f***ed up as the reality we already have to deal with every goddamn day - and frankly, my personal reality is a lot better actually than anything in Game of Thrones.

 

I really wonder how it will end, though. How do you write an ending for something like that? How can there be a real ending? It's painfully realistic and reality has no end. I guess they could have everybody kill everybody else and the dragons burn the corpses to ash, then turn to the audience and breathe fire at the camera. That could work. :lol:

 

Not meaning to criticize anybody who loves this show! Like I said, some of the nearest and dearest people in my life are fans. I just feel so alone sometimes because it seems as if I am the only person on the planet who does not like Game of Thrones (or Harry Potter either, for that matter). :P