HBO's "Game of Thrones"

#4,701
#4,701
GreveHaller said:
the wife and I are binge watching this. We're a couple of episodes into season 3 right now. I'm trying to following the seasons in this thread but its getting a bit difficult now.

A few observations (that have probably been said somewhere in the past 156 pages)

* if you want a part time job, be an actor on GOT. You'll be killed off eventually.

* back in the 80s this show would have been a part of Skinomax (aka Cineamax). I wonder if the writers sit around and say "just how close can we get to being porn without being porn?". Gotta have the finger on the stop button when kids are near.

* it took me a bit but the imp is just a small version of House. Without the vicodin of course
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The use of sex deceases substantially. It's pretty clear they started including less when they realized the show was popular enough without resorting to that.
 
#4,702
#4,702
Got my younger sister hooked this past week. Watched the first two and last two episodes of Season 1 with her.

Going into Baelor(Episode 9), I asked her if she had any favorites yet. Poor thing said Ned :eek:lol: She definitely wasn't too happy at the end of that episode.
 
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#4,703
#4,703
GreveHaller said:
the wife and I are binge watching this. We're a couple of episodes into season 3 right now. I'm trying to following the seasons in this thread but its getting a bit difficult now.

A few observations (that have probably been said somewhere in the past 156 pages)

* if you want a part time job, be an actor on GOT. You'll be killed off eventually.

* back in the 80s this show would have been a part of Skinomax (aka Cineamax). I wonder if the writers sit around and say "just how close can we get to being porn without being porn?". Gotta have the finger on the stop button when kids are near.

* it took me a bit but the imp is just a small version of House. Without the vicodin of course
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The porn quotient ratchets down quite a bit in later seasons...damn acting.
 
#4,704
#4,704
Looks like season 7 was delayed so that more snow could fall. Also there looks to be in a play a Bran flashback to the Tournament at Harrenhal.
 
#4,709
#4,709
chatt-townVOL said:
Is that the one Rhaegar fought in?
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Yes its when Rhaegar defeated Barristan Selmy to win the Tourney. Rhaegar rode past his own wife, Elia Martell, and crowned Lyanna Stark in front of Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon the Queen of beauty which set everything in motion.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
I don't know if that would be the reason.
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I'm not even sure what the reason would be. It would have made a lot more sense if they had done those scenes this season to actually introduce Rhaegar and Lyanna as characters. I mean, some people thought Jon was Ned's child with his own sister. That's really poor plotting.

Maybe there's an unknown reveal about the tourney coming in TWoW and they were trying to delay as long as possible for GRRM to get it out? Could be the Knight of the Laughing Tree, could be something else.
 
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UTCVol said:
I'm not even sure what the reason would be. It would have made a lot more sense if they had done those scenes this season to actually introduce Rhaegar and Lyanna as characters. I mean, some people thought Jon was Ned's child with his own sister. That's really poor plotting.

Maybe there's an unknown reveal about the tourney coming in TWoW and they were trying to delay as long as possible for GRRM to get it out? Could be the Knight of the Laughing Tree, could be something else.
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Maybe to reveal more information about the true nature of Lyanna and Rhaegars relation both to Bran and the audience? But I don't really know why either. On another note, while it is not totally shocking that some people are so dense that they somehow got the idea Ned was Jons father, but dang how stupid do you have to be? Are people really so dumb that they never get the hints that RT did not kidnap Lyanna, any more than Paris kidnapped Helen...I mean jeez. SMH.
 
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UTCVol said:
I'm not even sure what the reason would be. It would have made a lot more sense if they had done those scenes this season to actually introduce Rhaegar and Lyanna as characters. I mean, some people thought Jon was Ned's child with his own sister. That's really poor plotting.
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There were going to be people who had trouble with it unless Lyanna specifically said something like, "His father is Rhaegar Targaryen, older brother of Viserys and the soon to be born Daenerys Targaryen. Heir to the Iron Throne now that Rhaegar's other children have been murdered." I do think Rhaegar's name should have been mentioned.
 
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UTCVol said:
I'm not even sure what the reason would be. It would have made a lot more sense if they had done those scenes this season to actually introduce Rhaegar and Lyanna as characters. I mean, some people thought Jon was Ned's child with his own sister. That's really poor plotting.

Maybe there's an unknown reveal about the tourney coming in TWoW and they were trying to delay as long as possible for GRRM to get it out? Could be the Knight of the Laughing Tree, could be something else.
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The sad thing is it was a reasonable assumption based on the scene of you didn't already know the popular fan theory. I wasn't a fan of the fact that the non-bookreading audience had to rely on outside gossip and social media to understand what was happening.
 
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Godfatha said:
Bummer. Guess it has to end sometime.

Got to say I can't really point to a season that was a bad season as can often be said for many other long running shows.
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Don't see many shows or movie franchises go out on top. It's sucks and I'll miss it like hell but that's pretty cool.
 
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