HBO's "Game of Thrones"

#2,929
#2,929
UTCVol said:
We actually have a pretty good idea of what Bran can do (and hints that he could go beyond what Bloodraven says is possible). His plotline is super interesting, though. He's our window into the past and can possibly influence the present through sending dreams to people, just as Bloodraven did to him. We also have no idea which side the children of the forest (and also Bloodraven) are on - I doubt it's as simple as "stop the white walkers" considering they were almost wiped out by men. There's also the ethical question of his warging of Hodor.
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We know what he could do before. Now he's had an entire season of off screen training with a character who is hundreds of years old and was, at the least, married to a very powerful magical entity and has some now himself apparently. Can Bran warg into multiple creatures now? Can he do Dragons? Can he do them across the world or dimensions even? We don't know. That's what's so great about it.

And if the Children of the Forest still hold grudges against man, or don't fear white walkers, or even helped them get back into power (or started them in the first place thousands of years before), then Bran may end up fighting against his masters or his family.
 
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#2,930
Cdywolfe said:
Pretty much... Daenerys is basically a spoiled little girl who's been handed just about everything she has and seems to keep avoiding the consequences of her monumental list of bad decisions due to the fact that just about everyone worships her (wants to bang her).

The condescending nature in how she speaks to people who have ten times more knowledge and experience about how the world works then she does, like Jorah and even Tyrian when he first showed up, is ridiculous.

She lost me she she abandoned Jorah. The guy didn't betray her. He actually betrayed Robert in order to save her life. She's just too stupid to see it. He was with her when she was nothing and his support never wavered.
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Not sure this is accurate at all when we consider her entire family was murdered except her bat**** insane brother, she was sold into a marriage with one of the more barbaric people in the world, technically raped the first few times they had sex, suffered from severe stockholm syndrome only to have her captive husband and unborn child killed and she was ready to kill herself in response to it.

She's come a pretty long ways from there, regardless of how boring she is/isn't now.

And we can't really say she isn't cunning. She told nobody about her plans to get the unsullied, even that she spoke valyrian, and essentially destroyed that entire city, and got her empire, on one extremely ballsy ploy.
 
#2,931
#2,931
I've held out as long as I could. I finally binge watched the first season Sunday to see what all the fuss is about and man was I hooked. Probably will watch season 2 tomorrow on my day off.
 
#2,932
#2,932
Burhead said:
I've held out as long as I could. I finally binge watched the first season Sunday to see what all the fuss is about and man was I hooked. Probably will watch season 2 tomorrow on my day off.
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Ha ha...good luck getting sleep.
 
#2,933
#2,933
Burhead said:
I've held out as long as I could. I finally binge watched the first season Sunday to see what all the fuss is about and man was I hooked. Probably will watch season 2 tomorrow on my day off.
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Took me a few weeks but yeah, I was hooked pretty early. I've moved on to The Wire now.
 
#2,942
#2,942
MontereyVol said:
She is incompetent in the books more so. I remember when her chapters came up thinking, she cant be burned but those damn things can eat her.
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As frustrating as her character was in ADwD she actually did manage to broker peace by playing the situation well. It's mostly her departure from Meereen on Drogon and Barristan's inability to play politics that results in the upcoming battle. The show doesn't have enough time to set all of that up, though; there's the one big set piece (the fighting pit) and everything else was pretty inconsequential.

I still think those chapters are pretty boring but think they have value in setting up her character for the inevitable arrival in Westeros. Her decision to stay in Meereen is supposed to be criticized.
 
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#2,944
Daloth said:
I feel like outside of "Drama" they're both so different it's hard to compare honestly.
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Aside from the setting difference, they're pretty similar in tone. Enormous cast of characters, considered to be "realistic" and "gritty", amazingly well-acted, etc.

The difference is that The Wire is the most socially resonant TV show ever created, and is several times more complex than GoT. David Simon never compromised the integrity of the show to make it more accessible. It's one of the few shows that have legitimately changed my outlook on certain aspects of society.
 
#2,945
#2,945
chatt-townVOL said:
Interesting.

I'll just leave this here:

'Game of Thrones' whacks 'The Sopranos' to become HBO's most popular show ever | EW.com
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HBO is a much bigger deal now then it was back then, and the rise of social media has also contributed to Game of Thrones' success. It wouldn't have had this kind of success a decade ago.

The Wire was structured so that you absolutely have to pay attention in order to fully understand and enjoy it. Game of Thrones definitely takes on a new life when you do those things, but there are plenty of people who enjoy it and only know like 10 of the characters' names. It's pretty incredible that a fantasy series has become a cultural phenomenon, though, and hopefully it opens the doors for a lot more of this kind of experimental stuff in the future.
 
#2,948
#2,948
I have it on exceptional authority that the actor that plays Jon Snow is signed up for another season. Let's just say I have my sources, no BS.
 
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