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A Thread of A Series of Books of A Song of Ice and Fire (BOOK AND TV SPOILERS HERE)
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Then again... if she learns to see through her victim's eyes, that would be an interesting trick.
*mad cackle*
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This makes me really happy, because it reminded me that Bran will be meeting up with Sam and Coldhands soon. Maybe not until next season (early), but he's creeping that way.
Oh god that made me crack up but then I forgot all about it due to the awesomeness of Iwan Rheon. I'm starting to go back on my assessment that he's not too attractive to play Ramsay though. He is a bit off and creepy-looking but he's also not unattractive enough. I don't want to like Ramsay Bolton, but... I kinda do. Damn it. He is killing it though. So good.
Unrelated best bit, though: the hand-acting during the Jaime/Brienne/Roose scene. Amazing.
He's called the Many-Faced God, after all...
We know Jaquen was good at killing people, and presume he could handle himself in a fight, but we never actually see him fight fair. Information and deceit (and little poison) seem to be his preferred tools.
Nah, I think this is another thing like her hiding the sword. She's learning from the Faceless Men, but she's not becoming one.
That, plus how often would fighting totally blind really come up (unless she orchestrated it, but I can't imagine even the Faceless Men prefer it) . Warging would be much more handy. Can still always practice blind fighting, too.
They seem to realize it too. The old man keeps telling her shes a liar when she says sh's no one
In Game of Thrones/Fire and Ice it's best to be prepared for anything.
I think the fact that someone could guess so far off the mark goes to show how well this show is written. People are going to be guessing right up until the RW, I think 8->
Not because I want to lurk there or anything...but for...um...science.
I think there's a non-book SA thread like ours, but not sure.
I laughed really hard at his Episode 9 predictions. Oh boy is he going to be upset.
SA has two threads just like here, and the AV Club actually has two reviews for each episode. One for "newbies" and one for "experts". It's fun to read the comments on the newbies one.
avclub - newbie and expert reviews
televisionwithoutpity - reviews (less so now, because their recaps / reviews don't seem to show up in a reasonable amount of time)
hitfix - alan sepinwall is show-only and that makes him fascinating
this thread
the tv thread
se++ thread
westeros.org - review / book to screen analysis. They generally whine about the changes while (in the same breath!) praising the show for getting such a large audience. They don't seem to understand that the one almost certainly helped the other.
Isn't he suppose to be flayed by now? I'm pretty sure I didn't read anything about him being torture like this in the books.
It was never directly said what happened to him. It's basically implied that we underwent horrific torture (including castration) and lost his identity (and much of his usable body parts). GRRM didn't describe it in detail (would have taken away too many pages from describing food, whores, and Daario's magnificent blue--bluuurgh)
I think that the best part about this season with regards to the unspoiled is Tywin's letters. Some people are like "man, he just keeps writing letters. Every time you see him, a letter." And some people don't think anything of it. And some people think it's just to establish that he's not a garden-wandering type, nor is he the type to just stare at a throne, and that he doesn't really have friends he chats with - he's all business. And that group is starting to say "We get it, we get it, he's working hard to keep the realm in order." And some people are like "LOL, if he wants to win the war he should stop writing letters and actually do something."
And a very small portion of those who've noticed that Tywin is writing letters all the time wonder what's in the letters? Those people are the best.
Ha, love it.
Because
Food is good to talk about, whores I don't remember much mention of beyond Tyrion's catchphrase, the blue beard OK, I know that unfloats your boat.
But why would you want to replace those things with graphic torture descriptions?
Of course, we never will have a Varys or Littlefinger POV until they reveal their Cunning Plans.
And the absolute best part is that they've been explicitly told that "the contents of a man's letters are often worth far more than the contents of his purse." And Tywin has a big fuckin' purse.
im surprised not everyone's gotten that it's house bolton, the flayed man, and the flaying post is on their sigil
I was wondering this too! He is basically not even Tormund in the show, outside of his appearance. He's so gruff and never really makes jokes or anything. Not sure what the point of rolling them together is if they're not going to preserve his personality.
Heh, I hate spoilers but I also cannot help myself from flipping through each book to see who's getting POV chapters before I begin them. When I first flipped through and saw "Reek" I was like what the fuck, are you serious, that guy, etc. Little did I know...
You are talking on the internet about ASOIAF with others and haven't yet gotten used to the fact that a bunch of people are just silly, whingy geese?
I get tired of the extreme level of pessimism some people have - "it could pay off, but I'm just going to assume it's not, so this plot line sucks". I feel like the show has earned at least some benefit of the doubt.
And ultimately, if you're the type of person whose enjoyment about what is currently happening is crippled by the idea that the payoff could possibly not be fulfilling to you and/or take a while to get there, it seems like you're just going to be perpetually miserable about the show. That element of the show is what it is, and it's not going to change.
Wasn't that a from a Pratchett book regarding the partician? I'm 99% sure it was.
But ye, Tywin is busy making diplomacy.