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    Cliff hanger endings are overrated. They ended the season on a nice note. to set up the utter madness that should be the next season. It was all about reunions. Arya gets to see Rob, Jon makes it back home, Jaime meets Cersei. the cult of Daenerys gets some new members. Good things all around. Plus Yara is headed to the north and it seems Stannis is headed there as well and there are plenty of able bodied leaderless men in the north, now that Rob is dead.

    Every single time I see that opening I am reminded of Age of Empires, ha.

    Quote Originally Posted by Death BOO Z View Post
    nope.
    I mean, while Daeny is gathering troops to invade Europe, she is taking apart all the significant cities in Africa - the city with the wizards, the city with the slaves (unsullied?), and now the other city. all of those places were small dictatorships in the dessert, but had enough military to repel the dothraki clans from attacking them.
    the dothraki had to go after relatively small agriculture and herding villages. but now that Daeny took the military forces from those cities, there is nothing stopping the dothraki from raiding them.

    I should get the books.. I hate not knowing stuff.
    Yes she is destabilizing an entire continent in order to prepare herself to go attack another but she is a dragon, they destroy things. It is kind of hard to believe that someone isn't just following behind her swooping up her leftovers or that she isn't royally pissing people off. Rob left Winterfell and looked what happened there. He won a few battles which gained him a lot of notoriety and he married someone not a Frey which ultimately got him killed. Yet Daenerys is running around sacking cities, destroying evil power hungry cultist and freeing slaves not to mention the threat of dragons. It is hard to believe that she isn't turning everyone against her. The people on that side of the outside can't be that different particularly if they are used to fighting off Dothraki.

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    My favourite part about all this is how the greatest forces at work are the one's mostly ignored by the kings and their war of thrones. They're so busy with they tiny internal strife they don't see armies of enemies literally surrounding them from every direction, immortals and dragons growing more powerful by the day.

    Also Arya is so far my favourite character, followed closely by Tyrion. Here's hoping karma finds some way to get to them eventually.
    Yes it is awesome. By the time the wights and the Others(white walkers) get around to attacking Westeros, they will have mostly killed each other off from their infighting and there won't be much of them left and the Others can just swoop in while they are licking their words. The number of humans is only going to decrease and the number of wights is only going to increase since they are essentially just zombies.

    Arya and Tyrion are insanely likable though. I actually like Cersei but that is mostly because Lena Headey is awesome. If I had to pick a fave it would be probably be Jon Show since he is one of the few characters in the know. Daenerys is kinda annoying and Stannis is too rigid.
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    I hope the Starks never have to fight Daenerys, although it would be sweet to see Bran take control of some dragons.

    assertnfailure (7:40:03 PM): dude....your posts are a bunch of nonsense

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    i hope the lannisters kill rickon in front of arya, then after her training for the special people, it is revealed she is the lord of light, and as she becomes enraged by rickon's lifeless body, she starts unleashing her fury on all the evil freys, lannisters, and boltons. and littlefinger too.

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    that's really far away...

    also, really lots of dead guys.

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    Here's a new poster for season 4:

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    S04E01 came out this weekend. It was pretty good. Good to see the characters again, especially Arya.
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    I love the contrasts between the Hound and Arya's killing, one's a bulldozer and the other one is quick and clean.

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    Go Aria!

    I wonder if the dragons are able to actually hurt and kill Daenerys.
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    If anyone has read the books, can you say what seasons corresponds with which books? I'm almost done with season 1 and episodes I've glimpsed from season 2 look like they're still from the first book. Or will each book be it's own multi-season series?


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    Season 1: A Game of Thrones
    Season 2: A Clash of Kings
    Season 3: A Storm of Swords part 1
    Season 4: A Storm of Swords part 2 / maybe some of A Feast for Crows

    Any spillover is made up pretty quickly.

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    Disclaimer: I don't read the books. It's pretty obvious.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax View Post
    If anyone has read the books, can you say what seasons corresponds with which books? I'm almost done with season 1 and episodes I've glimpsed from season 2 look like they're still from the first book. Or will each book be it's own multi-season series?
    I would answer this question but it's a spoiler.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Archangel View Post
    I love the contrasts between the Hound and Arya's killing, one's a bulldozer and the other one is quick and clean.
    I kind of found Arya's killings more disturbing. When the Hound is doing it, it is quick and heavy slashes; almost cartoon like. When Arya does it it, it is extremely slow when she sticks the sword in and it honestly made me a little uncomfortable. Good job by the actress and the director to make it look that way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu View Post
    Season 1: A Game of Thrones
    Season 2: A Clash of Kings
    Season 3: A Storm of Swords part 1
    Season 4: A Storm of Swords part 2 / maybe some of A Feast for Crows

    Any spillover is made up pretty quickly.

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    Disclaimer: I don't read the books. It's pretty obvious.
    This is correct, I read the books. On a side note, Im kind of pissed on a few things that they've changed from the books that really weren't at all necessary. Can't say I really like how season 3 was handled, probably will be the same case for 4.

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    A lot of people I know actually say that the TV series is the better story.

    I've never been a source fanatic. I do believe that there are a lot of adaptations out there that are better than the source material. I cannot comment on GoT because I have not read the books though.

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    I started reading the books midway through the third season of the TV show. I was kind of surprised how there wasn't much of a difference between the source material and the actual show (upto the end of the second season). In fact, I found most of the dialogue that I enjoyed in the show to be straight out of the book, word for word (made me redirect some of the misplaced respect I had for the show's writers towards George RR Martin). Of course, I didn't really get past reading the second book so I am not aware of how much things diverge afterwards (I stopped reading mainly because the first 2 books weren't all that different from the show).

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    That's the thing, the first two seasons were very consistent with the source material and so probably better than the books. But season 3 they started making changes that will impact some of the heaviest drama in this season. I'll comment on the differences after the season ends.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu View Post
    Season 1: A Game of Thrones
    Season 2: A Clash of Kings
    Season 3: A Storm of Swords part 1
    Season 4: A Storm of Swords part 2 / maybe some of A Feast for Crows

    Any spillover is made up pretty quickly.

    edit:
    Disclaimer: I don't read the books. It's pretty obvious.
    You should read them, if you're a fantasy novel reader and have the time. It's been a long time since I read them, but I remember [spoiler]Ned died in the first book[/spoiler], but I see him in episodes of season 2. Maybe I remember the timeline of events wrong?

    Thanks to all for answering.


    For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?

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    It's nearly unavoidable really, with a different medium. There are people to manage, since many of actors for the secondary or tertiary characters don't want to stay (or vice versa). There's the HBO slant that seems to fit in at least one extra sex scene per season. There's budget too, so the TV series can't match the book scene for scene. Plus you can't exactly do internal monologues.

    Overall though, I think the adaptation is quite good. The changes they make aren't worth fussing over and haven't changed any major plot points. S04E01 was pretty enjoyable. We dove right in instead of the usual slow build-up / recap that the other first episodes had.

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    Having the writer of the books as an executive producer helps the adaptation stay true to the books.


    For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?

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