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I haven't read Harry Potter, but I gather he's kinda the Neville of GoT. So the expected thing would be for him to make the great big motivational speech that rouses everyone's spirits when they're on the brink of defeat. Maybe takes some sort of low-atheticism action that ends up partially saving the day, so that everyone can say, "Yeah, Jon Snow killed the fire demon with his magic sword. But he wouldn't have been able to do it without Sam figuring out that human tears made him mortal."

That, or GRRM has a were-boar eviscerate him. W/e.

NO-ONE is the Jar-Jar Binks of books or TV. Jar-Jar Binks is uniquely utterly intolerable.


I loved this weeks episode, but it wasn't stupendously amazing so I'd give it an 8/10. I seem to be a lot more easily pleased than you ...lot. I DID watch an episode of Blue Bloods just before hand, which is cringingly simple, simplistic and shallow in comparison to GoT. It seems I am a very: "It's not the destination, it's the journey" viewer. Although I love explosions and action set pieces, I'm just as happy to watch Meera and Osha skinning rabbits and squabbling for seasons on end. It makes me aesthetically and psychologically pleased.

The biggest strength the show has is its biggest weakness. The complexity (size) of the story and cast. GRRM set out to write a story that specifically couldn't be done with television scripts. Other people get bored by some of the threads, and once they've decided a thread is worthless, they justifiably get upset that time is taken away from the threads they are interested in. Because time constraints pare each thread to the bare minimum. Ok, I'm not saying anything everyone doesn't already know. It's just that so far, I haven't been uninterested in any of the GoT scenes, ever. Less interested in some than others. Upset a scene has ended, grossed out, a bit upset or unsettled, but never ever uninterested in a scene. I've always taken away the expostion from even the sexposition scenes. Except for the Pod-in-the-brothel scene, where I was mostly interested in the scenery, and laughing over the "Meerenese Knot".

Edited, May 9th 2013 9:37am by Aripyanfar

Maybe I've been desensitized by Spartacus, but this season's been quite mild. While the gore may have been a bit surprising, they are few and far in between. And as far as nudity... maybe three of the episodes featured some. I think things had been toned down a bit.

Edited, May 12th 2013 8:23pm by TirithRR

Goodness gracious, enough of the Theon torture, marital whining, and emo Arya. Also, after episode 7 I'll echo Mazra's complaint; this week's T&A made up for the relative lack in the rest of the season.

Still seems like GoT is in a holding pattern right now. Can we please get to a wedding or two? The last two episodes have been pure build-up and it's not feeling like suspense: it's feeling like a slow slog. The only things I really enjoyed about episode 7 were Tywin's speech to Joffrey, and Jaime versus the Bear. The rest was pretty "meh."

Thinking about it, I did like Qyburn and Jaime talking; Dany's scene wasn't bad, but wasn't amazing either (I liked it, but again - more build-up).

Takes a genius to figure out that you have to climb a tower to get to a meeting held inside a tower. Good thing he understood that.

Yeah that was a huge thing in the media here in Germany when she had her breakthrough as an actress I think in 2004 or 2005. Someone discovered she'd had had another career as a pornactress and pretty much ruined her family life. At least for the time being. I have no idea how that turned out in recent years.

As far as I know the problem she faced was twofold. While I do believe many people here didn't give a flying **** about the whole thing, thanks to sensationalism it got blown completely out of proportion and got covered in almost every magazine. What made matters worse for her personally is her family background. Her parents are of turkish descent and were not amused. At least in the time directly after this story got released they broke of contact with her completely.

I was ranting and raving about this last night, much to the wife's chagrin.

Eske: "HE'S SUPPOSED TO HAVE A FORKED BEARD. I DIDN'T READ 18 PAGES OF EFFUSIVE PRAISE FOR HIS FORKED BEARD FOR HIM TO NOT HAVE A FORKED BEARD ON THE SHOW."

Mrs. Eske: "Shut up, beards are gross."

EDIT: More on Daario, from Greenwald:





Ditto on the Hound/Arya parts. I think I found the Tyrion/Sansa bit a little too awkward to fully enjoy, though I suppose that's largely the point.

I like how the White Walker that attacked Sam/Whatsherface was the exact same one that stared at him when they made their big entrance north of the wall at the end of last season. That guy really has a thing for Sam.

Edited, May 20th 2013 10:31am by Eske

Edited, May 20th 2013 10:42am by Eske

Haven't seen the episode yet, so I'll need to find out what this part was tonight... but regarding Gendry, Spoilerit seems like they're going to roll him and Edric Storm, Robert's other *******, into one. Edric gets saved by Davos instead of getting burned as a sacrifice, and IIRC, gets smuggled to the Free Cities. That's likely what will happen with Gendry as well.

Of course, maybe the events in the episode totally negate that guess.

Yeah. I thought that was funny, especially given her earlier statement that she only drinks when she has to. If ever there was a time...