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I must be missing something...
Disney needs to figure this out
who did it better?
Well this is going to be unpopular...
Just read the book
Entertaining but...
Could Tommen have been the ruler Varys and Tyrion should have wanted?
Jamie and Cersei *Spoilers*
That was the worst battle plan I have ever seen...
Why are they trying to retroactively fix Sansa?
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Someone regrets their decision to come back? A loved one is tragically hurt and a main character starts having flash backs of the game? The current world is still a simulation of the real world?
Just a few guesses. I'm actually with some other people on not doing a 3rd season. Its rare to get a pretty solid ending anymore.
I've enjoyed it, but I am worried how long a show that refuses to give me a likable character can keep my attention. I have enjoyed the story and the acting for the most part. Its a far cry from the first couple of season of Game of Thrones, but I just needed it to not be a disaster like the last 2 seasons of Game of Thrones. From that perspective the show has been a complete success.
Not attempting to pick a fight or anything, but did you feel this way about Joffery in Game of Thrones?
In one case you have a hand of the King putting fourth a sladerous accusation. In the other you have a Queen of the King saying he confided to her on his death bed that he wanted to change his heir.
Now we of course have the inside information to all of the details cause we are wathcing the show, but to a few lords spread across the continent these 2 situations would look very similar I would suspect.
I don't know about directly jumping in as a King's Guard. With the way Westeros politics play out the person you draw a weapon on might end up on the throne(or at least the immediate offspring of who you draw the sword on). That is a lose lose situation for the King's guard. Better to be ready to respond to whatever the King determines is the correct action, until then, frozen and indecisive sadly seems like the King's Guards best move.
I vaguely remember feeling the same way on first watch. The explanation and story behind her makes it a little less out of place. Later on she (and many of the other characters) does become a bit too good at killing zombies. It is a little weird, since they are still running into outside groups that show next to no survival skills, but the whole main cast are blowing through entire hordes of zombies indivdually.
On a side note, I don't think I have ever seen anyone talk about it, but is it possible that when a Targaryan bonds with the dragon they somehow transfer some of their personalities? It would explain the somewhat strange change we see in Aemond. It also might be how the madness enters their blood lines so easily.
Anyway, just a thought when I was thinking about our discussion.
Its a sticky situation without knowing what proper protocol/tradition would have been. The girls believed they had someone steal something that belonged to their mother, on the day they buried her. There was no hint at the girls having anything to do with the pig, so I think we can easily assume they were innocent of that.
I agree with the OP that until this point I thought he was to be the better child of the spoiled brats we have seen.
The problem with this story isn't that all of the character's are grey, its that the worst instinct is unchecked by any moral compass. For a large amount of the characters its ambition, and only ambition that drives their actions. For the children it appears to be cruelty without a glimpse of remorse.
Daemon seemed to at least outgrow his ambition, but there are signs that the fire has been re-lit in him. I'm enjoying the telling of the story, but I suspect this show will lack the re-watchability of the original. I also think it has a short shelf life with this model of story telling. I doubt this style can keep interest past 2 seasons at best.
It feels like they are trying to tell this from a purely historic point of view. Only things that would stand out in history are discussed or really shown. If that is the model they are going through (and I'm only guessing that it is). It's an interesting choice. It forgoes the normal character development, and frankly paints each character in a much harsher light.
I give it some credit though, I can't remember a show I stuck with this long where I literally hated every character on the screen. To be clear, I don't hate any of the actors, just the charcters they play.
I have seen some people say it is due to the gray characters that none of the charcters are likable, but I don't believe that. Some of the best loved charcters in movies and books are gray characters.
Yep thats pretty much how I feel about it to. If 2nd episode can deliver I will probably start to get a bit of that rising expectation going. Always the optimist I guess.
I was entertained, but it hasn't grabbed me yet. I'm waiting for either the moment it feels like GOT is reborn, or the down turn of quality that plagued the final couple of season.
There is always the possibility that it is just good enough to stand on its own without reaching the highs of the original or the lows of the final seasons.
Honestly none of the characters stand out to me yet. They have time to build them out as long as the rest of the story is good, but I suspected I would have an early favorite by the end of the 1st episode.
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