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Sounds awesome!!!! Just over an hour away! I've been watching recaps/previews, features with cast etc. all day today. HBO on demand had some 10-minute features on season three. I'm pumped!
Quick question, metaldude--
I'm pretty sure you've stated you read the books. I have a non-spoilerish question mainly on how the books are told. We don't see any flashbacks in the show and the history is explained in minor detail. The show kind of just sticks with the "current". Sometimes you'll hear characters reference the Mad King and other famous figures and sometimes they'll tell you how stuff happened (like how they've mentioned Jamie killing the Mad King, Robert's Rebellion, Regehr murdering Lyanna etc.). However, you don't experience it as if it were "current", the show just tells you that stuff happened. Regarding the books, are there flashbacks that actually put you in the past? And not just as far back as Robert's Rebellion, but even further. For example, when Aegon the Conqueror and his dragons took the kingdoms, or how the First Men defeated the White Walkers during the Long Night (I've read about these events in the Inside HBO's Game of Thrones, and I'd really like to learn more on them as well as everything else). Learning about the stuff that happened prior to the start of HBO's adaptation is one of the major reasons I'd like to read the books.
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Yeah, I like to pick up little tidbits like that that can help inform my experience but there's no way I'll dive into the books before the show finishes because all of my experiences with going from screen to page is that you can only go one direction. Page to screen just doesn't work.
Completely agree. As much as I want to read the books, I think I'm going to wait. I was going to start the books in the summer, but only read up to the third book and never read beyond what is being aired. Now that I've thought about it, better off just waiting. I don't want to mess with the experience. It's the tv series itself that made me love Game of Thrones. The books will be a bonus for when the series ends.
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Exactly. One of my girlfriends who I watch the show with is reading the books while also watching and luckily she's behind in the story so she doesn't have much of a chance for spoilers but it's cool because she can still inform on certain topics that require more background. For instance basically all of the characters we are rooting for are supposed to be way younger in the books so like Jon Snow and such are actually teenagers. But you teenagers don't make for as great of theatre when dealing with such topics as GoT does so they've aged them up, which is why it can characters like Snow and Daenarys can seem rather childish at times when in reality it's just because those characters are supposed to be younger.
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Now time for some episode 301 talk!
Great opening episode! They basically touched on the storylines that concluded season 2, but they didn't get to them all yet as expected. We have a great season on hand!
Some Thoughts:
Mance Rayder seems like a cool dude, but Jon's play on the wildlings is interesting. I get the feeling he isn't really in it for the Watch. They basically fast-forwarded through the White Walkers battle, but I'm sure there are many more to come. Dany's dragons grew up pretty fast. I'm not liking the priestess that hangs around Stannis. I wonder what her long term play is. We didn't see much of Robb in that episode, but he did say how the Lannister's kept retreating in war. We didn't see any of the Arya group or the Bran group or any of Jamie. It also seemed like Joffrey has had some change of heart ever since the Tyrell girl was promised to him. He was pretty cool headed in the episode especially at the dinner table.
I liked the Tyrion/Tywin scene a lot. You can tell just how much Tywin hates his son. The last scene was awesome as well. I guess that little girl was a warlock that seemed to be hunting for Dany? And Barriston joined Dany! That's not too surprising as he was basically kicked out by Joffrey, having someone from Kings Landing join with her will be interesting.
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Im glad they spent more time on each character and even showed a few of them more than once. Much better than trying to fit an update on every character into the premiere episode like they did last season. It still felt like a recap episode....but much less than it would have had they added Arya, Brienne/Jaime and Bran to the mix.
Good start to what I expect will be the best season yet.
LOVED the scene with Tywin and Tyrion. Charles Dance and Peter Dinklage are both world class actors. Easily the best scene of the episode for me.
The scene where the dragon got the fish, fried it, and ate it was cool. The special effects are awesome and it's pretty a apparent that HBO is tossing fistfuls of money at this thing.
Rylant
Peter Dinklage is DA MAN! No cooler character has graced the screens in recent memory.
For me, the episode was way too short. I shouted at the tv "hell no, that can't be it."
I also felt like I shoulda watched the last episode of the last season again. I couldn't remember shit of what happened before. I was constantly asking the wife "who's that?" and "why's he so pissed?"
What I did understand, I enjoyed. I think I'll watch the last episode of the last season before next week tho.
This will be better for you...and is about 40 mins shorter than an episode.
Season 2 recap in 15 minutes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpZnb0q24mk