I don't think we're going to see the Iron Isles Kingsmoot, much of anymore Northern giants, the whalebone sled-dog people from the further North Beyond the Wall and any of the other myriad cool shit, but hey, a book ain't a screenplay and I enjoy both books and TV show. Let's see how we pan out.
Yes, that was fucking awesome. They talked about budget constraints that kept the dire wolves relatively small so I was concerned they wouldn't be able to properly do the dragons as they began to grow, but thus far it seems it isn't an issue.
Well the direwolves are based on real-world dire wolves, and people kept thinking they're draft-horse sized monsters. They're like little pony sized. So like a 100 to 200 pound wolf built like a brick shit-house.
Why the fuck wouldn't Theon just kill that sick fuck? Sure he'd be dead but at least he wouldn't be Reek anymore, and he'd have time to tell Sansa that her brothers are still alive. What a pussy.
That's literally the point of Ramsay's conditioning program, to keep someone from ever betraying him even if they can. Now, maybe he'll eventually break the conditioning, but after all of that torture, amputation, castration, and mind games, it'll be a seriously heroic feat for Theon to break free.
So much awesome in this episode. I hate seeing another rape scene and hearing all the fallout about having a rape scene, as 3 of the female leads have been raped. But this definitely leads me to believe more about the theory going around about Sansa's story. Not going to spoil it here, but you can find it. It's interesting watching this storyline, because it's so off book. I don't even know what beats they need to hit, I'm just along for the ride. Also, what the fuck is Littlefinger up to? The BEST part of this TV show, better than anything else, is watching Littlefinger. That man just gives it his all every single scene.
The last scene was brutal. Of coarse you are screaming in your head "fucking kill him THEON don't be a BITCH!!!!" But you know that isn't happening. Sansa has been gradually becoming more realistic about how her world works, I think will be the last straw for her. I just hope she is able to not turn into Cersai. I hate dat bitch. If Arya's story was anything like the 4th book so far I am not looking forward to reading it. So far her sitting around washing bodies has been more boring than her criss crossing the riverlands endlessly from the third book. It's what kills me about GRRM, he can turn the most interesting character's into the dullest from book to book. This felt like a middle season episode bad. Mostly setting up the season's endgame. Edit: Ramsey is the new Joffery.
For the show I didn't really think that scene was all that brutal. Maybe because I just can't feel too bad for Sansa at this point. In the books I felt a little sorry for her. In the show she's just so fucking clueless I hope she gets her head bashed in by the end of the season. All in all that episode wasn't that great. The storyline I"m finding most interesting right now is the one with Jaime. The Arya storyline may well turn out to be awesome, but it looks like it's going to take awhile to really get moving. I guess I'm alone in hating Little Finger. I hate the way he talks, his stupid grin, his constant arrogance. Here's hoping for a very violent end. With any luck Stannis will burn him alive. He's every bit the psychopath Joffrey was, but he's not nearly as stupid or weak.
In a lot of ways, Games of Thrones is the story of Littlefinger vs. Varys with everyone else as their resources and playing pieces while the world gears up for the apocalypse. So I always love to watch those two make their moves. Like, this latest one, where you can easily imagine the Lannisters taking back Winterfell after Stannis or Roose win their conflict and suddenly, hey, here's Littlefinger being rewarded as the loyalist with a marriage to Sansa... and now he's got the best claim to two of the 7 Kingdoms.
Sansa was much more naive and clueless in the books (up to Storm at least). She's is played by characters rather easily and has a tendency to fall for a fairytales when it comes to the outcome of events even while being subjected to pretty horrible stuff at Kings Landing. Theyve made her a little more cunning so far but she still hasn't totally been broken. Im not sure if Littlefinger actually has a pedo thing for her or if she is just another pawn in his game. True he had a long standing Jorah Mormont thing with Catlyn but from this episode it feels like he's just using her as another power play than any real caring. I don't like his character either Im with you on letting Stannis put him to the torch. Outside of Bronn being Bronn the whole Dorne thing doesn't actually interest me. Jaime has to rescue his daughter or risk a political incident in a far off country when the capital is basically in upheaval in other matters with a shitbird for a ruler, Cersai, at the helm. If something befell Tommon then the last vestige of power the Lannister's have would be gone. Making Dorne a moot point.
I liked the episode, I just think the whole religious-fantatics-in-robes thing is weak and played out. Explain how these sack-wearing teenage fags took over the whole city and push everyone around so fast, often led by the twitchy blonde 100-lb. weakling from season 1 and 2. It's a very weak point for a show that shows such little weaknesses.
I mean they are Cersai's big play so you know that it's a stupid gambit in the long run. She's never had a good long game. Arresting the queen and her brother, alienating a powerful house when she's on rocky shores with another (Dorne) and Stannis the Mannis still threatening. Spoiler
The way that Sanza was playing with her sleeves I thought she was hiding something and going to kill Asshole and blame it on Reek/Theon.
I like how people are somehow drawing the line on watching this show because of the last scene, when I guess having a pregnant woman get stabbed in the belly, having a brother rape his sister, having a man get his genitals mutilated(and physically and mentally abused) and having an entire army of eunuchs was really ok. But they boycott the show because of another rape scene? Get the fuck out.
Just because it bugs me how many people misinterpreted that scene. It wasn't a rape. The writers have confirmed...
I have refrained, thus far, from commenting on the book/show divide. I've read them, I watched it. I enjoy both a great deal. I surely would like old F. F. Fatass to finish the goddamned series before he dies, but you know what? If the TV show is the way it ends, I think we will all be ok. Our lives will not end. As far as recent differences from the source material... http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Differences_between_books_and_TV_series_-_Season_5 That's a pretty definitive list. And I'm ok with the new shit. V.I. Might have a tantrum to base on that link...
The only misinterpretation going on is yours. It was a rape scene. Yes, I know, you keep saying 'but the writers said...' You know what it means when pretty much all critics and the audience 'misinterpret' a scene like that? It's called shitty writing. If they were going to write a consensual sex scene (which this show has had numerous times) they could have done that, or I don't know, follow the book. They meant it to be a rape scene, got an incredible amount of backlash, then came up with this cockamamie 'well, it 'became' consensual as denoted by Cersei putting her leg over Jaime' or some such nonsense. Bullshit. The stuff in your link is not even remotely tantrum worthy, and a lot of it is pretty non consequential. And I don't know why people think I'm having tantrums at all. I stopped watching a show because I felt the writing had become inferior compared to prior seasons. And while those prior seasons did follow the books much more closely, there have been changes all along. I had no problem with the early ones because they all made sense, and to the degree they altered stories, the writers did a good job of keeping the characters consistent to themselves. That changed last season and appears to be continuing (Littlefinger arranging a marriage to Ramsay? Really? Placing his eggs in the Bolton basket - retarded. Given how smart Littlefinger is, and knowing how brilliant his plans were for Sansa in the book, there's just no way I can watch that version of Littlefinger because the writers were asking me to believe that Littlefinger would act in such a way). I've stopped watching a lot of shows in my life if I feel the writing doesn't so anything for me. 'For me' being the key phrase. Anyway, enough about that. I'm glad you folks are enjoying the show.