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Old 04-25-2011, 03:51 PM  
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Game of Thrones (spoiler-free zone)

A few have suggested it, might as well test the waters. The idea is to give people who haven't read the books a safe place to talk about the show.

A few quick ground rules:
  • No Spoilers!!!!! for upcoming episodes.
  • Larger Song of Ice and Fire discussion should be limited to the other thread although I think a tiny bit of book delving to fill in holes should be okay (example of this would be talking about Catelyn and her treatment of the wolves in the novel, which was alluded to on TV but never really made clear...)
  • Everything that happened that week is fair game once an episode airs. So if you don't watch on Sunday night, I'd stay outta here until you do...
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Old 03-23-2015, 11:56 AM   #2671
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Show runners have confirmed they'll finish before the books

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Old 03-23-2015, 03:02 PM   #2672
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http://www.kdramastars.com/articles/...lease-date.htm

According to that, this upcoming season will spoil the events of Winds of Winter.

I'm not sure how it could, considering how much they'd need to get through, but I guess we're going to find out!
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Old 03-23-2015, 04:20 PM   #2673
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Old 03-23-2015, 06:24 PM   #2674
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well played. I had to go back to see what I was referencing
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Old 03-23-2015, 07:43 PM   #2675
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Old 03-24-2015, 11:18 AM   #2676
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http://www.kdramastars.com/articles/...lease-date.htm

According to that, this upcoming season will spoil the events of Winds of Winter.

I'm not sure how it could, considering how much they'd need to get through, but I guess we're going to find out!
Yeah, that's poorly written. I expect they'll trim the fat from 4 & 5 and still introduce new things. But the article is vague.
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Old 03-30-2015, 10:59 AM   #2677
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A friend told me to watch this and to pretend it was the Lannister children in happier times. I did, and I'm a better man for it.

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Old 03-30-2015, 12:32 PM   #2678
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That is pretty hilarious and quite the perfect coincidence.
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Old 03-30-2015, 02:32 PM   #2679
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A friend told me to watch this and to pretend it was the Lannister children in happier times. I did, and I'm a better man for it.

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Old 03-30-2015, 04:19 PM   #2680
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Old 04-07-2015, 11:48 AM   #2682
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Old 04-07-2015, 02:15 PM   #2683
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Sesame Street manages the impossible, and pulls off a toddler's version of Game of Thrones, and it's actually got a few good zings in there.

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Old 04-09-2015, 09:03 AM   #2684
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This article from salon.com is interesting. I didn't realize just how far they were going to stray from the books:
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/09/%E2%...aves_the_show/
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But if the show has its low points, the book has whole Sloughs of Despond. After the first three installments—solid bricks of paper and glue, printed densely with flights of wonderful fancy—Martin noticeably ran out of steam. “A Feast For Crows,” when it did finally show up, was a much shorter and slimmer volume; “A Dance With Dragons” didn’t publish until the first season of “Thrones” had already concluded, 15 years after the first installment came out in 1996.

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Not only have the books been coming more slowly; but in my decidedly subjective opinion, they’ve been coming worse, too. “A Storm Of Swords,” the third installment, was the series pinnacle—a book packed with the Red Wedding, Purple Wedding, and Tyrion’s confrontation with his father Tywin, which the show took two lengthy seasons to get through. A Feast For Crows,” a set of vignettes about several new characters, failed to move the story along in a satisfying way, and had the downside of being far too short to say anything interesting. And “A Dance With Dragons,” in 2011, was a disappointingly mediocre read—one whose plot twists felt unearned, after reliving the glory of the first book with the first season of the HBO show. It read like a book whose writer had been rushed; it read like a book whose author was out of inspiration. “A Dance With Dragons” has just as many macguffins and easter eggs and avenues of riddled exploration to pick apart—but it lacks the passion of the first three books, and therefore, instead of breadcrumbs leading to a finale, it reads like a volume chock full of red herrings. (It does not help that the climactic ending scene turns out to have been written as a result of a bet about football between Martin and a friend.)

Which is why, without seeing the episodes, I had my concerns about the fifth season of “Game Of Thrones.” Not only did the show seem to be losing its touch, but the books weren’t going to be able to help, either. The series, in this crucial moment where the books had not yet charted out the plot and the show had run out of textual material, looked doomed to flounder.

The exact opposite has happened. “Game Of Thrones” has responded to the mediocre quality of the later books—and its own difficulty adapting them well, in the fourth season—by throwing the books out. In 2014, in my previous position, I made a list with a few coworkers of the major differences between the books and the show. The first few episodes of season five would double that list. Characters that never crossed paths in the books confront each other in crowded pubs. One Stark sister is swapped out for another. A certain half-man’s path is remapped and rewritten entirely, cutting a whole cadre of minor characters along the way. There are subtler changes, too—a foregrounding of certain characters, certain conflicts, that otherwise would not have taken up much space; a focus, too, on friendships that sparked in the show’s storyboarding and then became an integral part of the scenery.

Some fans, I imagine, will be jarred by these changes. Weiss and Benioff’s interpretation of the books isn’t what everyone gets out of them, and there will be bitterly discussed creative choices in the trenches of subreddits and tumblr reblogs. But what’s clear is that if the showrunners had not taken matters into their own hand, “Game Of Thrones” would have petered out aimlessly. This is the first time that the show will be able to decisively write Westerosi history; even if it’s different from what Martin will eventually write, for most fans, the show’s interpretation is going to get there first. Instead of a fanboy’s biased retelling of the series, the fifth season reads like the edited manuscript of a messy first draft. Sacrifices had to be made (Arianne Martell’s absence stings this particular fan), but the result is a story that runs smoother than ever, with no trace of middle-aged stumbling that can plague book series and TV series alike.

Most importantly, in the fifth season’s bold, nimble storytelling, it’s made the hype around “Game Of Thrones” seem reasonable again. This is a show worth championing, because it is a show that does incredible things. In the fifth season, the story has been distilled to just the moments of pathos and characterization and gorgeous direction that make the story work. The story has become, once again, about what it means to be a person in a world gone mad, whether that is by endlessly long winters, or war, or dragons flying in from the east. It’s a human story, and it’s one that “Game Of Thrones” is, once again, telling very well.
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Old 04-09-2015, 09:06 AM   #2685
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It takes so long between books that I end up forgetting half of what I read anyways so I guess I don't mind the show straying from the books.
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