I hope Joff gets slapped every episode this season.

>>32480
And maybe next season, seeing as he won't die until at least then.

>>32481
They've stated that book 3 is too long to be in one season so they are going to end season 3 at the RW

>>32483
So what they really mean is Martin writes too damn slow and needs more buffer time to get the series finished before the TV show catches up?

>>32486
They're combining books 4 and 5 into one season so it kind of evens out.

>>32494
That too yes.

Even knowing how vicious they can be I still want my own direwolf.

Did they change Asha's name to Yara for this? If that's her I'm not too crazy with the casting choice.

Yes, they thought Asha and Osha had too similar names.

>>32496

u jelly?

>>32533

I thought that was on purpose. Mind you it DID confuse me a bit listening to the audiobooks, but it only makes sense to have people who inhabit the same world having similar if not exactly the same names.

>>32533
Doesn't Theon acknowledge that too? I think he did.

>>32534
'ts ZA PUUPPEEH

So are they going to have more Renly/Loras stuff in the show, or is this as good as it's going to get?

>>32596
Probably, seeing as he dies next episode. Damn homophobes, sure they'll cram in unnecessary lesbian sex for pure no titillation value but they won't even do more than imply a blowjob between two men who are actually gay in the books.

What the fuck was that?
Lord of Light my ass.

Joffrey is my new trigger word.

>>32685
Light births shadow.

>>32700
Yeah, but only if something obstructs the lig- oh.

>>32700
Well, technically, that's not true.
Shadow is just the absence of light. It is nonexistence.
Light merely births the concept of shadows.

>>32702
Darkness is the absence of light. A shadow is specifically a dark spot created by an established light source being obscured, but the light is still visible so the shadow can take form.

>>32705
To elaborate on the idea, yes.

Holy crap, I am loving the Arya sideplot. It's one of the better liberties to the book this season's been taking. But on the flipside I think the Talisa subplot is one of the weakest additions. The romance feels extremely forced and out-of-place, not to mention it's full of OOC bits like Robb helping treat a Lannister footman like that.

Oh God, that new episode was so great! Especially that scene with Arya and Sir Creepy McAlsoKindOfAttractive where she begs him to kill that dude.

>>32913
In the book Arya actually kills the Tickler and some other folks herself, but apparently the show writers thought showing Maisie Williams killing people on screen would make the viewers lose sympathy for her. Boo...

>>32917
But... that's kind of important. If she doesn't start killing people now, it's going to seem less plausible that she'd give up her identity to become an assassin...

>>32908
Worst thing about the Talisa subplot is that it makes Robb come off as even more idiotic compared to what happened with Jeyne, especially since everyone is a lot older. Now when the Red Wedding happens it's going to feel a lot more like he had it coming than it did in the novels.

>>32921
I don't see the big deal though. I mean, it's stupid, but they haven't dedicated a lot of time to it.

>>32930
Comments from the producers about giving Robb a bigger role and such means it's probably going to get a lot more prominence in teh future, although I think I heard Tywin mention the Red Wedding already being planned this episode. I'm more bothered by the lack of Riverrun and the Tully family, since without them it just seems like Robb is wandering around aimlessly from battle to battle.

>>33026
Those burnt corpses looked terrible, and you can't even recognize they're even supposed to be Bran and Rickon anyway.

So people are sure whatever the Wall is guarding isn't Icepeak's influence from Ralph Bakashi's Fire and Ice right? Because I'm still having trouble not getting them mixed up or thinking they are somehow connected.

So I started watching the series last night and now I'm on episode 8. THIS FUCKING SHOW. HOLY SHIT. SO GOOD.

Tyrian is the best fucking character ever. He almost makes up for the rest of his shithead family, but not really, because the rest of them are horrible assholes.

I feel bad for Ned; he's a genuinely good, noble guy, but it looks like he just waltzed into what'll be his death. I'm trying my best to guess which of the Starks will live and which will die. I'm guessing most are in the "gonna die" category. Hopefully Ayria lives, because she's easily the best of the Stark kids.

Drogo's pretty boss, too. He's fucking crazy, but that's part of what makes him awesome. Again, I feel bad that he's probably gonna die so Daenerys can come back and take what's probably rightfully hers. Because she really doesn't seem to appreciate the fact that Drogo's people seemed to have a really sweet thing going on, which she would then have going on.

>>33265
>Arya is the best Stark.
So true it hurts.

Have been thinking of getting into Game of Thrones.

Not much experience with High Fantasy, to be honest, but Sean Bean and Arya being badass have gotten my attention.

>>33283
It has the broadest appeal of any show on Television. I honestly don't know a single person that doesn't like it.

>>33283
It isn't really high fantasy. It's low fantasy.
It's gritty as all fuck.

Sorry, just semantics I had to argue.

>>33289
Seriously. The only really fantastic things I've seen so far are Ye Olde Zombies and Dragon bones. Otherwise there really isn't anything unbelievable about this show. Just politics, fucking, and the occasional sword fight.

>>33289
>>33290
You guys don't seem to understand that Winter is Coming.

>>33291
I have only watched one episode of the second season because I have come to the realization, after A Dance with Dragons, that the only ending to the series that would fit the series to date would be Winter Coming... and then never leaving because everyone else is fucking dead.

>>33292
>All the Starks are dead.
>Jon and Stannis die fighting off the Whitewalkers.
>All the Lannisters and Baratheons are murdered in a coup.
>Littlefinger becomes the king, after years of deceit and treachery.

>Dany comes out of nowhere, kills the characters that are still alive, takes the Iron throne, and rules over Westeros as an undefeatable tyrant.

>Salladhor Saan never gets pussy.

>GRRM Dies with a smile on his face, having pulled off a prank two decades in the making.

>>33265
just wait for Season 3 man, Jaime becomes a super bro after losing his hand
and the whole Robb/Talisa storyline is pants on head retarded, even worse than I expected

>>33349
I'm not gonna lie; his time as a prisoner and traveling with Lady Knight have made me warm to Jaime a little. He's still a dick, but he's at least a kinda charming dick.

>>33298
>GRRM dies before finishing the books
>Later reveals in his will that he had no ending planned at all and was just seeing how long he could bullshit everyone into believing there would be one

This is my worst fear.

>>33383
So you're suggesting GRRM is just Robert Jordan in disguise?

Dammit, why I'm so slow with this show?
I have both two seasons, and I haven't passed from episode 4.
Still, this show.
THIS FUCKING SHOW

Why hasn't anyone posted this here yet?

Game Of Thrones Season 3: Tease

>>33288
the first time i saw the Hand's pin i though "yep, someones going to get stabbed with that thing"

and then someone got strangled with the Hand's chain so it looks like its going to happen

Just finished watching first two seasons.

Tyrion is a fucking god, Arya's cool, and Dary's whole plotline seems almost entirely unrelated, Jon's story is boring, and FUCK JOFFERY.

Don't know anything about the books, and I don't want to.

>>36647
Jon's story was set up.

Also tried recalling any music from the series but the only song filling my brain is this.

West of the wall - Toni Fisher

>>36647
>Dary's whole plotline seems almost entirely unrelated

It isn't. Dany is an extremely long term plan of Varys's, which you learned in the first season while Arya was hanging out in the catacombs.

>>36652
He and that one guy from... Not-Italy I guess were on board with the brother's plan. I know that Dany's current plotline is obviously going to become relevant at some point but it doesn't seem like that's going to happen anytime soon.

Anyway TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/8325565/Game_of_Thrones_S03E01_HDTV_x264-2HD%5Bettv%5D

The sucess of game of thrones fills me with hope.

...one day....one day it'll happen.

ladies and gentlemen, the battle of the fist of the first men

>>36713
DAMN YOU BUDGET!

>>36711
I'm hoping for the adaptions of Preacher, Hero, and Middlesex that HBO promised us, too.

Grandma Tyrell is awesome.

The second episode was definitely better than the premiere.

So I have heard tell that the TV show entirely eliminated Strong Belwas as a character.

This makes me feel better about having dropped the show in season 2.

>>36778
Lady Ollena is AWESOME.
Which makes later events all the better.

Dear HBO,

Please cancel Game of Thrones and replace it with the Tyrion, Bran, and Pod Comedy Variety Hour.

-Signed Rodyle

>>36825
Or, as someone else dubbed it,
>Two and a Half Man

All right, since one of my friends is getting annoyed by the fact that I'm slow at watching this kind of series, he made a dare with me: if I finish the second season before this friday he'll get me a 1/4 pound burger from a home-made food restaurant we know.
Right now I'm at episode five and I think I'll gonna made it.
Also, THIS FUCKING SHOW.

>>36825
>Bran

You mean Bronn right?

>>36882
Oh yes, my mistake.

>s3e4
>that entire last sequence

Saw it coming a mile away, but god it was still great. Less predictably, can't say I imagined a total mutiny amongst the crows.

Joffrey as Lemongrab

I'm really liking Lady Olenna Tyrell. Old people saying things how they are is one of my favorite things on earth.

But >>36899 this too. It was obviously going to happen that way, but what a BAMF nonetheless.

>>36902
>I'm really liking Lady Olenna Tyrell. Old people saying things how they are is one of my favorite things on earth.
Yeah she's pretty much come out of nowhere and is rapidly becoming a Tyrion and Arya tier character

>>36902
>>36903
Lady Olenna goes hard as diamond.

>Tyrone unites Circe and Tyrion against him
>while also trying to screw over the Tyrells, and thus an old lady who can run circles around fucking Tyrion
boooooooooooned

>>36954
>tyrone

>>36955
That'll teach me to post while sleep deprived!

Seriously though, Tywin's fucked.

>>36956
>Shit Tywin! Get it together!

>>36956
>Seriously though, Tywin's fucked.

You really think so? Because Tywin sort of strikes me as probably the most dangerous man in Westeros and someone who is not easily fucked with. No matter the opponent.

>>36958
I hope it's a little different from the books though. But not the part where he kills his old man but the part where he's on the run for it.

You know, I know not everyone's into it, but I'm actually enjoying the deviations from the books, if only because it provides something different, but just as good, to observe.

I also especially like that Little Finger is much more open about being a power hungry scumbag.

Game Of Thrones Season 3: Episode #7 Preview

>littlefinger

this fucking show

I don't mind the departures from the books, it's an entirely different method of storytelling. Can't give less shits about this Talisa thing and the Robb and Cat story is kind of dragging. but fuckin peter dinklage, man. arya, jon snow, theon. Joffrey is so perfectly cast I feel bad for the actor because his entire face just screams pure blond shoot-me-now evil. Every Sunday night I'm dying.

i fucking live for this show

>>36958
and then tyrion shoots him with a crossbow while he's on the shitter after everyone thinks he killed joffrey, gets jailed, then released by jaime, it's p great

well we got at least a "heh" out of Tormund so we're on the right track

but Melly

Melly what the fuck are you doing

>>37080
How the writers are dealing with the Dragonstone plot is my biggest concern.

Particularly whether or not the do the characters justice.

>>37082
I feel a lot of Dany's story is being rushed over ):

>>37083
Given how long the whole Slaver's Bay story is in the books: Good.

>>37084
Daenrerys' parts of the books were the ones I most wanted to skim through, and I'll probably do that when the next book comes out twenty years from now.

OH MY GOD THE WARG GUY WITH THE WILDLINGS IS SO FUCKING JELLY I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING

Okay I'm buying the damn books just so I can browse the internet without being terrified once again.

GODDAMN IT SAM GO BACK AND GET THAT KNIFE

>>37143
Orell was fucking awesome in the books.

Not really a spoiler for show watchers, but He was one of the dudes the Night's Watch killed when they caught Ygritte. He warged into his bird and spent the next two books attacking Jon Snow at random.

The scene where Ygritte was all "You know nothing- JON SNOW!!!!!" and the bird attacks Jon out of nowhere had me like

Funniest Reaction to Scarlet …

Well that's one wedding down.

Let's see how many more they can fit in before the season ends.

So since all book readers seem to have their butts clenched firmly in fear of the next episode, allow me to make my prediction:

Winter is Coming

>>37409
You mistake fear for anticipation, good sir.

Shit is about to go down.

Well.

That was a thing.

>>37433
It most certainly was.

;_;

>>37438

>>37438