I think you have a point that reading the show thread should go along with the fact that we will be discussing the latest episode. I mean special treatment of leaked or previewed episodes should be taken. After it has aired on the air date talking about the episode should be fair game. Beyond that maybe spoiler tag only book spoilers, or better yet, no book spoilers period for the show thread.
That's pretty much it for the other show threads, I don't see why it should differ here. How about if you've seen it in advance of the actual official airing you have to spoiler it, but after Sunday night, just talk. Book spoilers should be done in the book thread anyway, I think now this thread is for the TV show only. Speaking of which, is Bronn going to fuck people's shit up again soon? I am jonesing for some action and it's just been scheming, and scheming, and scheming. Let's face it: this has been a BORING season with much ado about great dialogue. The Night's Watch hasn't even gone passed the first cottage they've come across!
It has been a tad slow. Like you said the nights watch hasn't done much. Girl and her dragons have done even less.
Oh they are terrible, but at the end of the day, they are disgustingly selfish and self entitled. Joffrey has such a fucked up desire to hurt other people explicitly. Sansa was supposedly his great love and yet he enjoys fucking her up to a disturbing extent.
I really don't see it ending to well for old Joff. I mean, killing babies, torturing people daly at court, all leads to a bad reputation and unhappy subjects. By the time armies are marching at his gates he might have well lost the sympathy of his people. I am also holding out hope for the timely return of Arya's dire wolf. They always seemed to leap throat ripping death at the most opportune moments last season. Fingers crossed that randomly on their travels it picks up her sent and barrels in to kill someone just before she is harmed, thus blowing her cover.
We all want to to meet a grisly end, and that's why I have a bad feeling he WON'T die that way. On Spartacus they would kill him in the worst, most gruesome way possible. On this utterly unpredictable show, a loose brick will probably fall of the castle wall and kill him or he'll get thrown from a horse. Something quiet, I predict.
If I had to guess, I would put money on it not being her Direwolf that saves her, but the mild spoken guy in the cage that she freed that was on fire. And as much as I love Charles Dance as Tywin Lannister, every time he comes on screen I hear Eddie Murphy in my head saying "My dear sweet brother Numsy!"
Tyrion and Bronn are the best thing about this season, like they're one character. They remind me of Master Blaster from Beyond Thunderdome. One is the brains, and the other is the....Bronn. Bronn on Joeffrey: "There's no cure for being a cunt." ...best line of the season (so far)
Agreed. Another gem: Spoiler And Charles Dance is a fucking boss at playing Tywin Lannister. But still, I think this is his best role:
I see a lot of foreshadowing with Tyrion's mention of the Mad King and Joffrey's own behavior. Both were products of incest, and from what we know, the Mad King had Ned's brother and father tortured in the middle of the throne room while the whole court looked on, and here is Joffrey doing the same to Sansa. I'll be honest, I thought to myself while watching this episode, "Damn, if I met the actor who plays Joffrey I would shake his fucking hand." Because he knows how to play sociopathic to a goddamn T. My next thought was that the whore was supposed to fuck the other one with that stag staff, not just beat her with it. Silly morbid brain.
And I saw a couple interviews with that kid, and he seems so upbeat and polite, always smiling and never interrupting. Says something towards his talent. I love this line that he said:
That's what I thought, too. If the show is just, Arya will kill Joffrey in an absolutely brutal way. However, I think his character will be even more detestable if he dies in a pleasant, ungruesome way.
This show makes me like Tywin way more than the books did, as in the books he's told soley from "Daddy doesn't love me" view of Tyrion. The guy is just badass. The HBO team is killing compressing the story down to the most essential parts and just doing things that make so much more sense. But if they beat me over the head with the fact "RENLY IS GAY! DID YOU HEAR? HE FUCKS LORAS!" one more time, I'm going to be pissed. It's only thing the show is doing that's annoying.
I was waiting to see how they would handle Melissandre's shadow beast birth, and it was tamer than what the book described. I thought they were going to end the episode with what the beast was birthed to do. I do like how this show doesn't keep all of the major plot points for the end of the episode for cliff hanger endings. Davos hasn't gotten alot of love on this board, and he is a quiet but extremely likable character in the books. His onion knight story is great too. They have done a spectacular job of portraying him as the man with the least education but the most common sense in all of the 7 kingdoms. I'm caught in a limbo where I want to talk about things yet to come, but I don't want to go to the book thread because I'm not yet through the last book. Melissandre has a boob showing streak of 2. It doesn't look good to continue next week.
They keep calling this "The War of 5 Kings" but there are only 4 that I can think of; Joffrey, Stannis, Renley, and Rob. Who am I missing, or is that character yet to be revealed?
Heavily implied by not outright stated yet spoiler: Spoiler Balon Greyjoy plans to pay the iron price for his crown, he's the 5th king.
You will see later in the series why this actually matters. The show does bring this out a little more than the books did, but it does matter.