Game Of Thrones Season 2 [Spoilers]

[bigcracker]

Game of Thrones - Season 2 - New Trailer - YouTube

Games of thrones season 2 next week anyone else in a nerdgasm as me?After season 1 I had to go out and buy all the book and read them,April 1st can't get here quick enough.

[NewSith]

m0ar corps3z!

[CutterJohn]

squeeeeee!


:bananasex:


I had already read the books before season 1, but their adaptation succeeded beyond my wildest expectations.

[Hamma]

I love this series I cannot WAIT for it to get started again. :D

[Graywolves]

I'm halfway through the 2nd book right now, been furiously reading it in anticipation.

Loved the series, especially loved the books.



I want to watch this almost as much as I want to play Planetside2

[Captain1nsaneo]

Used audio books to get through all of them while playing killing floor. That game is surprisingly good for passing time. Enjoyed the series but I don't recommend marathoning them though as it begins to wear on ya.
Also, need more time with Arya, she's made of badass.

[Warborn]

I read all the books a few years ago (and the latest one shortly after it was published) but I'm still looking forward to the series. I don't know about reading the books now if you haven't already, though. Probably better to wait for the series to go through the rest of the books, as you'll be waiting around that long for the final two books at least (assuming JRRM doesn't die before he finishes them).

[Dragonien]

Great series and not long now for 2, 1st of April bring it on : )

[Lorgarn]

Woooooosh, I can't wait! *Screaming like a little girl*

[Crator]

Great series! Can't wait!

[MasterCalaelen]

Never read (or even heard of) the books until I came across the show. Enjoyed Season 1 a lot and looking forward to Season 2.

[Warborn]

Ohh snap, Rose Leslie as Ygritte. One of the best parts of this series is going to be the dramatic increase in the number of sexy red-heads.

Just going back over what happened in this book as opposed to the next one, and this season is seriously going to be amazing. There is so much crazy stuff that happens this time around...

[Graywolves]

For anyone who doesn't read the books, the 1st season/book is really only setting everything up.

It's all just getting started.

[Hamma]

Game Of Thrones Season 2: "Seven Devils" - YouTube

:drools:

[Warborn]

What do you guys think of Daenerys, anyway? This is for the people who've seen season 1 and who've read all the books. I fucking hate Daenerys as she is in the first book/season, but like her quite a lot as the story progresses. I watched some interviews with GRRM on YouTube and the people who were fawning over Dany and Drogo was kind of obscene. Drogo was a brutal, murdering warlord who massacred civilians, raped a 13-year-old girl repeatedly (Dany's age is changed to 17 in the show), and gloated over the idea of going to Westeros to rape and burn and kill there.

And Dany loved it. She was all about it. She showed a tiny bit of mercy for Mirri Maz Duur, the maegi in the first season, but she still strolled casually down the road of the maegi's town with women being raped around her, men having their heads chopped off and thrown in a pile, and people being herded away to be sold as slaves. And she was eager to visit this upon Westeros, too.

Crazy bullshit. Dany was a cunt and Drogo a piece of shit. How did they win the heart of any viewers?

Also:
http://i.imgur.com/TIC5l.jpg

They did a bang-up job on Brienne.

[Hamma]

I've seen Season one but I haven't read the books. She was one of my favorite chars in the first season I loved watching the character grow.

[Warborn]

The growth is great. One of the benefits of her being so young and having known nothing but abuse and exploitation is that it really let her bloom once she gained control over her life. But I was rooting for the maegi all the way once she revealed that she'd been screwing them the entire time. I'm glad Drogo died, I'm glad Rhaego was still-born, and although I wish Mirri Maz Duur had lived, I suspect at that point -- after the Dothraki had taken everything from her -- she probably no longer wanted to.

[Higby]

Having read the books, Dany is one of my favorite characters by far - she goes through the most character growth in a series full of characters that evolve in incredible ways. I mean, in the books you actually start to like Jamie and even Cerci to some degree becomes a sympathetic character - that's some incredible character growth from the start of the series.

Still a Jon Snow and Arya Stark fan above all else though, but Dany and Tyrion are real close.

[CutterJohn]

Having reread the books last summer, I realized something.. I don't like almost all of the main characters. Sure they may be interesting, but they are bad people who cause an untold amount of suffering for very selfish reasons.

The Hound was the only decent one of the bunch. Sure he was a monster, but at least he suffered no illusions about what he was. Almost all of the rest think their actions are right and just purely because they are royalty. Throw away ten thousand commoners lives over a personal grudge? Sure, whats the problem?

[BigBossMonkey]

I hate most of what happens with Dany in book 5, though her last few chapters were interesting.

All about Arya and Tyrion, favorite characters BY FAR.

[Warborn]

Tyrion and Arya are great because they're both characters who succeed in spite of a world which is prejudiced against them. That and Tyrion is very entertaining. Once Dany finds her purpose she becomes a great character too, for similar reasons, although in the last book her girlish weaknesses were annoying. I guess that's GRRM reminding us that she's still just a 14 year old girl at that point, though.

[Machine]

They did a bang-up job on Brienne.

They forgot her wallet chain.
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Higby I prefer Tyrion first for comedy then Arya and Jon Snow. I did like the desert Scorpion though

"You know nothing Jon Snow." =)

[Shanesan]

I'm afraid to read the majority of this - too many spoiler opportunities!

Anyway, back to Season 2....

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/17567170.jpg

[Graywolves]

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/17567170.jpg

That needs to be used more.

[Graywolves]

All the first episode did was make me want the next episode even more :mad:

[SKYeXile]

downloading it right meow.

[Hamma]

All the first episode did was make me want the next episode even more :mad:

Indeed :lol:

Epic Setup

[Jennyboo]

By far one of the best Series I have ever read and I'm not done book 4 yet :) looking forward to the rest of the season and seeing how true they stuck to the story.

[Warborn]

A Feast for Crows was difficult to get through. I'm hoping that the series actually ditches the book format after the second season. A Dance with Dragons tells the story from the perspective of other characters and happens concurrent with Feast. So with any luck, season 3 will actually be a mix between Dance and Feast and not force people to endure a season where few of their favorite characters are involved.

[Ruwyn]

A Feast for Crows was difficult to get through. I'm hoping that the series actually ditches the book format after the second season. A Dance with Dragons tells the story from the perspective of other characters and happens concurrent with Feast. So with any luck, season 3 will actually be a mix between Dance and Feast and not force people to endure a season where few of their favorite characters are involved.

Feast for Crows is book 4 and Dance with Dragons is book 5. You are forgetting A Storm of Swords, which is book 3.

So season 4 and 5 may be mixed to show it chronologically concurrent.

[Higby]

Feast for Crows is book 4 and Dance with Dragons is book 5. You are forgetting A Storm of Swords, which is book 3.

So season 4 and 5 may be mixed to show it chronologically concurrent.

No matter how they do it, you're almost certain to have seasons 4 / 5 completed before the next damn book is done. *fist shake*

[Warborn]

I think having the show going ahead at full speed will make him write faster. He took two years to write Storm and Clash, each, so clearly he's capable of producing some great work without taking forever.

[Higby]

We'll see, I love the books and I hate rushing artists... BUT, as a fan I was definitely harshed at how long the process for A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons took.

[CutterJohn]

We'll see, I love the books and I hate rushing artists... BUT, as a fan I was definitely harshed at how long the process for A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons took.

Have to agree there. I read the first three when I was still on the Enterprise, ffs, which was forever ago.

Hopefully the series with HBO lights a fire under his ass. :D

[SurgeonX]

Have to agree there. I read the first three when I was still on the Enterprise, ffs, which was forever ago.

Hopefully the series with HBO lights a fire under his ass. :D

If he's not careful, he'll be writing them on set with Peter Dinklage kicking his shins to get a move on. (assuming he hasn't been killed off - i'm still on A Feast For Crows)

[deltase]

Interesting i've never seen this before. I might give it a look after the lectures.
I know this is not proper place but...
Do you guy enjoy sci-fi books? And if you do could you tell me what you find interesting about them and what makes you excited?
I'm writing a sci-fi, so your opinions would help me write better book. And sorry i know this is not the place for this questions!

[TheSHiFT]

No matter how they do it, you're almost certain to have seasons 4 / 5 completed before the next damn book is done. *fist shake*

Im fairly sure the plan is to split Storm into two seasons of 10 episodes each. Which is a good idea given the length, though they may have to mess with the timeline a bit in order to make season 3 more compelling. Then combine Feast and Dance time-lines for seasons 5 and 6. At one season per year, this would put seasons six in 2016. I can see Winds of Winter being done. A Dream of Spring by 2016/7 (for production)... not so much.

[TheSHiFT]

And Dany loved it. She was all about it. She showed a tiny bit of mercy for Mirri Maz Duur, the maegi in the first season, but she still strolled casually down the road of the maegi's town with women being raped around her, men having their heads chopped off and thrown in a pile, and people being herded away to be sold as slaves. And she was eager to visit this upon Westeros, too.


She showed mercy to several people not just MMD. She claimed several women hers, most of which either fled or were raped and killed when Drogo died. She wasnt raped on her wedding night (like the show implies). War is war, rape and slaves are a part of that in Essos.

BTW, is there a spoilers tag?

[Hamma]

There is not. I suppose I could create one.. never had a need for it.

I have tagged the thread for now.

[xSquirtle]

First episode was so-so in my opinion, it definitely was not a huge eye catcher like the first episode of season 1. But I know exactly what lays ahead, and I cannot wait for it.

[Warborn]

She showed mercy to several people not just MMD. She claimed several women hers, most of which either fled or were raped and killed when Drogo died. She wasnt raped on her wedding night (like the show implies). War is war, rape and slaves are a part of that in Essos.

BTW, is there a spoilers tag?

She stopped some of the Dothraki from raping some of the women. They were still enslaved.

Any person who gleefully looks forward to their child being the stallion who mounts the world, meaning rapes and burns and pillages and tramples cities into dust, is a crazy person. Dany's upbringing was crazy though, and it did indeed warp her into the creature which so easily embraced the Dothraki culture of killing and destroying everything it encounters, but that doesn't excuse her from being a crazy bitch initially.

Now, of course, that changes, and eventually she becomes a very solid character who does good deeds, but initially, I despised her.

[TheSHiFT]

I never got that impression. She starts the series as an insecure, sheltered, 13 y/o girl who wants to go to a home she has never been. When confronted with the rapes ect. such as the razing of the Lamb-men village, she is disgusted by what she sees. She has to be told that it is the Dothroki way. I wounldnt call her a crazy bitch, but an ignorant child.

[TheSHiFT]

Spoilers for episode 12!
It is out there if you look
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What I liked:
Every Tyrion scene. Especially Varys and Slynt.
Arya's scenes. Though she doesnt much look like a boy.
Theon's scenes. Balon had great casting.

Dany's scene. Changed from the book, Rahkaro hasn't died yet. This will probably mean Doraeh lives.

Nightswatch scenes. The last one was different from the book, good to see an Other get some minor screen time. Great way to end the episode.

Meh:
Ghost's CGI.
Davos and Saan.

Disliked:
Stannis and Mel fucking on the painted table. Seemed so out of character for Stannis.
Littlefinger and Ros. Not as bad as their season one scene though.
Mathos





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[Warborn]

I never got that impression. She starts the series as an insecure, sheltered, 13 y/o girl who wants to go to a home she has never been. When confronted with the rapes ect. such as the razing of the Lamb-men village, she is disgusted by what she sees. She has to be told that it is the Dothroki way. I wounldnt call her a crazy bitch, but an ignorant child.

I always interpreted it as something like Stockholm syndrome compounded by how abusive her life had been up to that point.

[Warborn]

Good episode. I thought the CGI stuff looked fine, myself. Stannis is like Detective Van Alden from Boardwalk Empire. Him betraying his wife by nailing Melisandre in a singular moment of cutting loose and letting his emotions break through his fanaticism is fine. Actually, a pretty common trope.

And I always loved House Greyjoy/the ironmen in general. Their portrayal in the show is off to a great start.

[bigcracker]

It was everything I thought it would be but wish the sword of fire was like the book.

and the direwolfs look amazing
http://winteriscoming.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/531088051.jpg

[Warborn]

And what's the deal with Asha Greyjoy, anyway? Why'd they change her name to Yara?

[TheSHiFT]

Supposedly, because Asha sounds like Osha. Even though Yara sounds like Arya. They also changed Cleos Frey to Alton Lannister, presumably because it is easier to casual viewers to follow, which I can understand.