My friend who has read them all promises this is going to get intense. So far it's just felt like a premier episode and two fillers as not much has really moved at all AND there is fifteen more characters to remember to boot. Ill let it play out before judging, though that guy saving Theon and saying the Starks words had me scratching my head. Also if daenerys gives over a fucking dragon and not burn the place to the ground and take everything I'll be severely let down.
I'm also having trouble following everything thats going on in this show. But I continue to notice that the people who cast the show like using people from Rome. I know I've mentioned this before about Ciaran Hinds who played Julius Caesar, but now I saw the guy who played Brutus.
Does anyone have a good "Here are all the characters and how they're related" graph? I read the books so i'm quite familiar, but I'm a bit tired of explaining everything to my girlfriend every episode.
Credit to whoever posted it a few pages back. Spoiler Interesting that it has Spoiler Rhaegar killing Brandon and Lyanna
Don't click the spoiler if you haven't read the books. Theon: Spoiler They had to alter things to keep him in the show. If they didn't we don't see him again until S5. Hence the Ramsey switcheroo. Instead of Reek to Ramsay they're doing helpful random guy to Ramsay. Dude w/ arrow in his chest wasn't calling him a bastard fo no reason after all. This way we still get to fuck with Theon's head and it's a good lead in for the final Ramsay reveal and an info dump about his unsavory hobbies. Doing it the book way would have been much more expensive last season because you'd have to do Rodrik's death differently and show more army stuff outside Winterfell. This will work out fine I imagine. For anyone who torrented it and had the song run over the last few lines before the chop, that's not how it went in the show. Something goofy happened with your stream. The song kicked in right after the chop, as the credits started. Supposedly the first few torrents out there were messed up hence the misalignment of dialog and song.
The good part comes when he tries to find out who he is if he's not this incredible prodigy swordsman. That's when Jaime Lannister becomes a person. Although I think he was showing shades of being a real live human being by saving Brienne from being raped. As many of us have said, that twosome is maybe the strangest/best twosome in the show. Jamie vs Brienne (lightsabers)
Many of us haven't read, so please stop tellng us ANYTHING that's going to happen in ANY book. Thank you.
I finally watched the episode and so many things in this episode they are doing perfectly with looks and actions. They are killing it. This episode was great, especially everything regarding Dany. Khaleesi is on point and I could not be happier with the casting with Missandrei. She is sexy as shit. Also, the scene with Podrick is awesome. I looked it up in Wikipedia and Podrick is just Westerosi for Parker. Truth.
MOTHER OF FUCK!!! Could you have asked for a better episode ending than that? Fuck. Yes. That was awesome. I was waiting for Dani to do that this entire series, it almost seemed like something you would close a season with. Amazing. What things to come.... That was a GREAT episode all around, shit went nuts and I think the best episode yet this season. Tywin got to be awesome again for one scene, and I absolutely love Marjorie and even more her acid-tongued grandmother. She may my favourite character this season. I hope they will use both of them as much as possible.
Yeah, the first two episodes kept teasing me with whether they'd show the scene or not then or make us wait another week. Really well executed and I loved the music in the background, her line delivery, the looks she gives, the various surprised reactions, all of it. (kept somewhat vague for those who missed the first airing two hours ago)
That was possibly the best Daenerys scene of this entire series. Spoiler It was beautifully acted, too. When she gingerly took the golden whip, handling it with just enough distaste mixed in with her obvious awe at the sudden power she'd gained. The way she addressed the Unsullied, uncertain of herself but achieving supreme confidence when she realized that they were hers to command. Ser Jorah Mormont's face of almost fatherly pride at her emerging badassery...in fact, I think he almost cried at Khaleesi's instantaneous evolution from tattered princess to queenly commander-in-chief. This is why I watch this show. Other than that, though? Margaery Tyrell is almost my second favorite character. Arya hasn't had much screen time, really, so I'm not moving her down in my rankings just yet. But damn, Anne Boleyn is a masterful manipulator. I love it. Also, poor Theon. Poor, poor Theon.
Just finished watching it and to reiterate the other comments, holy snapping duckshit batman but that was fucking awesome. Loved the whole episode, Margaery playing with Joffery and getting under Cersei's skin, Arya showing absolutely no fear towards The Dog, The Spider doing his thing and of course the dragon roasting the slave master.