Game Of Thrones - Season 3 ***Warning SPOILERS***

[Guest John Hancock]

The Lady death was bad enough, but there's dogs getting rocks thrown at them, puppies getting their Mum eaten alive, dogs being abandoned in the woods, dogs just generally having a shitty time all over the show!

 

In much, much nicer news, the real Sansa owns the real Lady. They met on the show.

 

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/28100000/Sophie-Turner-and-Zunni-Lady-game-of-thrones-28113359-480-640.jpg

 

D'aww :')

[Maxximus 353]

The Lady death was bad enough, but there's dogs getting rocks thrown at them, puppies getting their Mum eaten alive, dogs being abandoned in the woods, dogs just generally having a shitty time all over the show!

 

I think that's it for the dog abuse so at least you got that out of the way.

 

 

In much, much nicer news, the real Sansa owns the real Lady. They met on the show.

 

http://i.imgur.com/KaEhYK4.jpg

 

D'aww :')

 

I just made a little *squee* sound and did an arm waving thing that had anyone seen they would have assumed I was a homosex.

 

**** y'all. I'm 100% gay for Game of Thrones.

[Maxximus 353]

Um, so... this is Bron before working for Tyrion.

 

 

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Maybe Dany would love Ser Jorah if he sang this to her

 

 

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Ramsay's got a good voice for a psychopath

 

 

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And Daario's a chav

 

 

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I'm obsessed.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Game of F***ing Thrones, can this series get any better?

 

The wedding scene has to be one of the best ever on TV. Can I wait another year?......oh yes, yes, yes

[Guest John Hancock]

So, I've hit a bit of a wall and come into my first problem with this show; I don't like anyone.

 

There's LOTS of characters I don't like (in a good way), but none of the good guys are screaming out at me to care for them. I quite like Littlefinger, because he's sort of aloof and out for himself, and I don't want bad things to happen to Sam because I feel sorry for him, but no one's, like, "YES! SO AND SO'S HERE!". The closest I've come to that sort of feeling is the dire wolves when they kept biting everyone, but they seem to have all gone now.

 

It's the one thing stopping the show from moving from 9/10 to 10/10. Maybe I just need to watch for longer, but no one has come forward as a stand out pure-entertainment character. I'm talking, like, Omar in The Wire, or Arnold Rothstein in Boardwalk Empire, those kind of scene stealing character that'll make you put up with a slow episode just to see their one scene.

[Kam 243]

Game of F***ing Thrones, can this series get any better?

 

The wedding scene has to be one of the best ever on TV. Can I wait another year?......oh yes, yes, yes

Just checking, you do know that there was another episode after the Red Wedding one? Only reason I ask is I've noticed a few people who assumed that was the finale of the season.

 

And for those who are watching the previous seasons, you might be interested in the below threads:

 

Game of Thrones

 

Game Of Thrones - Season 2 *UK Pace*

[DC 536]

I'd never watched a single episode of this show until today. I'd always meant to get around to it, but never did, so after nagging from Becky to give it a try, episode one is in the books... and it was great.

[Guest Jimmy Redman]

So, I've hit a bit of a wall and come into my first problem with this show; I don't like anyone.

 

There's LOTS of characters I don't like (in a good way), but none of the good guys are screaming out at me to care for them. I quite like Littlefinger, because he's sort of aloof and out for himself, and I don't want bad things to happen to Sam because I feel sorry for him, but no one's, like, "YES! SO AND SO'S HERE!". The closest I've come to that sort of feeling is the dire wolves when they kept biting everyone, but they seem to have all gone now.

 

It's the one thing stopping the show from moving from 9/10 to 10/10. Maybe I just need to watch for longer, but no one has come forward as a stand out pure-entertainment character. I'm talking, like, Omar in The Wire, or Arnold Rothstein in Boardwalk Empire, those kind of scene stealing character that'll make you put up with a slow episode just to see their one scene.

 

I'm unsure as to whether this means you want more out-and-out babyfaces to cheer for, or whether you want more entertaining characters to cheer for. They aren't nearly the same thing, of course.

 

The answer for the former is that it is something you just have to deal with. There are few, if any, out-and-out babyfaces in GOT. Those that are usually end up dead or something in quick time, because being a baby is for sissies in this world. Nor is there any obvious protagonist, or the person who you are supposed to be rooting for to win everything in the end. Everyone is just...being. And usually come with good and suspect behaviour, to us.

 

The answer to the latter is that, more than anything, you just have to keep at it. I can't remember specifically feeling much of "Woah THIS GUY" in Season 1 (apart from Tyrion. And Khal Drogo.), but you definitely get much more of it in subsequent seasons. Not giving anything away, but I came in at the beginning of S2 hating Dany, and now she's my favourite person in the entire world. And Season 3 has pretty much been nothing BUT a constant barrage of The Awesomely Entertaining People laying the smackdown in showcase scenes.

 

Keep at it and be rewarded.

 

(At dpddpdpddave, yes I went back and watched S1. It helped me understand Dany a lot more coming from my position, even though I'd already turned around on her by the end of S2. Plus Khal Drogo and stuff.)

 

On the finale, and on my point above to Rock about entertainment, TYWIN SQUASHING THE SHIZZ OUT OF JOFFREY. It was a shame that both of those detestable f*ckers survived the end of the season with their heads attached, but it was kind of worth it to see Tywin powerbombing that f*ck on his head like that. After steamrolling through a bunch of jobbers, Cersei and Tyrion with ease, and then going on to win his main event with Old Nanna Tyrell, God damn JOFFREY was no match for him. When that little f*ck was stupid enough to diss Tywin I was literally rolling in anticipation of the slaughter. Put him to bed indeed.

 

What the Jesus f*ck did Jon Snow expect would happen after he abandoned the ranga sheila in cold blood? "I have to go home now." "Oh, OK, no worries. I fell in love with you, we saved each others lives multiple times, I vouched for you with my own people under penalty of certain death, we made it all the way to the North, and I have little hesitation in drawing my bow and shooting the sh*t out of people when I'm angry, least of all you, so...you ditch me the first chance you get to go back to the Night's Watch? Cool bro, have a nice life, send me a raven sometime." Like...God, what a dumb f*ck he is.

 

It wasn't an action-heavy episode, and it was naturally a comedown after THE RED WEDDING, but they did set up a LOT of stuff to ponder and look forward to. Jon finding his way back. Arya pulling the trigger and becoming a psycho killer. JAMIE COMING HOME with Brienne while Cersei is engaged to Loras. Tyrion and Sansa learning to coexist. Dany amassing a giant army of freed peoples. The Whitewalkers actually, possibly, maybe coming down next season, and Stannis turning his attention towards them. The inevitable Joffrey vs Tywin power struggle. Theon's Sister on a rescue mission. Roose Bolton as Warden of the North. Whatever the f*ck it is Bran is doing. And so on. Waiting a year is going to be torture.

[Guest dpddave]

I know I keep banging the drum about the books but seriously anyone that hasn't read them should give them a go. Even a chapter a day would probably bring you up nicely to the start of the new season of the tv show. There's so much more back story and character development that the show obviously doesn't have time to fit in.

[Maxximus 353]

The books(from what I've read) are really really good. I have all five on audio book and a hard copy of the first one, but I'm going to buy the rest soon. They're so many awesome characters that are skipped or replaced and worth checking out. Not that the show's bad or anything, it's actually pretty faithful with a few exceptions.

[Guest John Hancock]

I'm unsure as to whether this means you want more out-and-out babyfaces to cheer for, or whether you want more entertaining characters to cheer for. They aren't nearly the same thing, of course.

 

The answer for the former is that it is something you just have to deal with. There are few, if any, out-and-out babyfaces in GOT. Those that are usually end up dead or something in quick time, because being a baby is for sissies in this world. Nor is there any obvious protagonist, or the person who you are supposed to be rooting for to win everything in the end. Everyone is just...being. And usually come with good and suspect behaviour, to us.

 

The answer to the latter is that, more than anything, you just have to keep at it. I can't remember specifically feeling much of "Woah THIS GUY" in Season 1 (apart from Tyrion. And Khal Drogo.), but you definitely get much more of it in subsequent seasons. Not giving anything away, but I came in at the beginning of S2 hating Dany, and now she's my favourite person in the entire world. And Season 3 has pretty much been nothing BUT a constant barrage of The Awesomely Entertaining People laying the smackdown in showcase scenes.

 

Oh I'm entertained, don't get me wrong. The bad guys are perfect, really genuinely f*cking hatable. I want a two hour special of awful things happening to Joffrey, his Mum needs a f*cking slap, pedophilia is a pretty effective way to make a bad guy, and most of the people in the Night Watch can dick straight off too.

 

It's, as you said, the baby face. Maybe not the amount of them, just the style of them. Like, there's too many John Cena's and not enough Steven Austins, all the good guys are a little bit annoying, and none of them are just smashing people in the d*ck. It might be a first season problem, I've barely started the second season, but I think it might also have something to do with the fact that the good guys never, ever, ever seem to win, and the bad guys never get killed. I know it's all building to something, but it's a very unsatisfying build that the good guys never get even the tiniest victory. Even the situations where they win, like Rob Stark winning some battles, you never get to actually see them. The only violence you get to see is heel on face violence, all the face on heel violence is either off screen, so someone people tortured to death in a really unfair situation, like the witch being burned, on Captain Gay getting melted gold poured on his head, which makes it unsatisfying. I'd like at least one scene of Rob chopping some random's arms off, just to show they aren't all complete pussies, in between of the scenes of the bad guys, in detail, killing absolutely everyone.

 

As I said, the two examples from other shows I can think of are Arnold Rothstein in Boardwalk Empire, who's hardly ever in it, so he can afford to be an impossibly cool, super-genius, bad-ass, New York mega-Jew. He can be this;

 

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And make phone calls like this;

 

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("Why is that even occurring?" died)

 

I guess Tyrion (is that his name? The dwarf) is the closest to that sort of character, and I do like him, but my big problem with his is a writing problem; he isn't actually THAT clever, his schemes are pretty obvious, and he succeeds because of his family's power, not because of anything he does himself. Hopefully, that will change.

 

The other character I mentioned in Omar in The Wire, just this super-feared good guy. Sort of part babyface The Hound, part old-school Kane, just a character to isn't a main guy, but occasionally turns up to ruin shit for the bad guys and then just leaves.

 

I haven't read the books, and, other than the Red Wedding, I know no spoilers, so I'm banking on a Hound face-turn, because they seem to be teasing one, and that would be awesome. I was also banking on Arabic-Mongol-Topless Man from the desert, but he got pussy-whipped to death for not keeping his woman in line, and ruined it.

Edited June 17, 2013 by John Hancock

[Guest Jimmy Redman]

I'm not sure how much you want to have given to you before you see it, so (completely vague spoilers):

 

Watch for Dany. I think she is the best fit to your description: an actual babyface who is a cool ass mofo and just f*cks sh*t up.

 

 

Pretty much anyone else who is a badass character I wouldn't exactly call a babyface in the sense of their morals. Although it's not like Omar was really either. With these kind of shows you have to kind of accept that about them, that there aren't many genuinely good people, and they don't usually get very far. In this show, exponentially so. Everyone is out for their own selves, all that varies is the manner and methods used to get there.

[Guest John Hancock]

I'm going to become one of those "turn Cena heel to solve every problem on Earth" guys, but with The Hound turning face. Early into the second series, my emotional heart of the show is Sam and Cassie from Skins, they're lovely, I want them to have a thousand awkward babies. I'm starting to like Tyrion more too, he's becoming less the smart-ass and more the ignored voice of reason, which I think it's good to have.

 

EDIT: As the show progresses, Jon Snow and random blacksmith guy are starting to take that empty place I was talking about. This show keeps getting better.

 

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:sad5: <3

Edited June 17, 2013 by John Hancock

[Guest John Hancock]

Torture scenes are over-done and stupid. I'm skipping past every Theon Grayjoy scene and deducting five points.

[Maxximus 353]

But you need to watch 'em for how awesome Ramsay Bolton is!

 

Also, IS THIS REAL LIFE?!

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/KGY2OEY.jpg

[Guest Jimmy Redman]

Yeah I found the torture scenes tedious by the end. They don't go anywhere. It took an entire season to find out who the guy even is. I get it, you're torturing him. I got it far before the 50th torture scene.

[Guest John Hancock]

I felt the exact same. It was a bit strong from the beginning, and I think, sometimes, the show is too graphic for it's own good (the nudity is starting to get childish), but then the length of the damn thing pushed me over the edge, I mean, Jesus, there has to be at least half an hour of torture if you cut all the scenes together. We go the entire first two series, with an entire continent at war, and we only see one battle out of the entire thing, but God forbid we miss one second of really surreally brutal things happening to Theon for, quite literally, no reason at all. It's like the actor who plays Theon has one of those contracts that the Seinfeld cast had, where he has to be in every episode, so, to punish him, the writers put him in every episode having something awful happening to him, just to make him look like a dick.

 

[video=youtube;4509yj6y3L4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4509yj6y3L4

Edited June 19, 2013 by John Hancock

[Maxximus 353]

The torture is building to something kind huge though as I'm sure you can imagine. I do think it's excessive. Nowhere near as bad as the books thankfully, but I agree it is pretty bad. The pay off will hopefully be worth it.

[Guest John Hancock]

There's actually a rumour going around that some of the female cast have had a bit of a protest about how absolutely retarded the nudity's getting, and are refusing to do nude scenes anymore. The girl who plays Daenerys is apparently the most vocal. I complete agree with them, about half way the second series, the nudity gets absolutely ridiculous in his gratuity and pointlessness, it's saying absolutely nothing, has nothing to do with anything, and is, 90% of the time, naked, attractive women, which makes it pretty obvious what the artistic merit is.

 

I watch Game of Thrones on my laptop, with an internet connection, if I wanted to see cosplay porn, I'd find videos with actual penetration thank you very much.

Edited June 19, 2013 by John Hancock

[Maxximus 353]

Yeah the girl that played Ros who wasn't even a character in the book was one of the girls that didn't want to do any more nude scenes so they just killed her character off. Emilia Clarke who plays Dany is another one. Kind of a bummer since the second half of the third book will be season 4 and there's some lesbian stuff going on.

 

For the record I like the nudity. Did you see the size of Hordor's pecker? Man, that thing is massive! :lol