Game of Thrones begins....

[Admiral Yi]

Have to set up a cliffhanger / new plotlines for next season.

Blond chick sailing towards Westeros with her jannissaries and dragons.

[Josephus]

i now watched this episode three times, and I can't stop crying at the end every single time. Richard Madden and Michelle Fairley are amazing in that last scene. And the fact that the credits roll in total silence is a master stroke.

Ditto. That whole episode was well done, right down to the silent credits. Not sure why they chose not to end the season with that.

You can't end the season on the Red Wedding.  What a downer, looks like it is all over.  Have to set up a cliffhanger / new plotlines for next season.

Season One ended on a downer. I like big, talk-about endings. Next week might be rather tame by comparison. Everyone will still be talking about the Red wedding.

[spoiler]Unless they do Joffrey's wedding...but I don't think that's happening now.[/spoiler]

[Eddie Teach]

Have to set up a cliffhanger / new plotlines for next season.

Blond chick sailing towards Westeros with her jannissaries and dragons.

She's still on the other continent at the end of book 5.

[The Larch]

i now watched this episode three times, and I can't stop crying at the end every single time. Richard Madden and Michelle Fairley are amazing in that last scene. And the fact that the credits roll in total silence is a master stroke.

Ditto. That whole episode was well done, right down to the silent credits. Not sure why they chose not to end the season with that.

You can't end the season on the Red Wedding.  What a downer, looks like it is all over.  Have to set up a cliffhanger / new plotlines for next season.

Season One ended on a downer. I like big, talk-about endings. Next week might be rather tame by comparison. Everyone will still be talking about the Red wedding.

[spoiler]Unless they do Joffrey's wedding...but I don't think that's happening now.[/spoiler]

That's for the next season.

[Admiral Yi]

She's still on the other continent at the end of book 5.

Broads. 

[Siege]

Man, I really hate Dany in Meerin.
I got almost as angry with her blunders as I got with the Red Wedding the first time i read it.

[Grallon]

I'm constantly amazed at how well they subsume the books into the show.  The look on Cathlyn's face when 'the Rains of Castamere' begins ...  The look on Ygritte's face when she realizes John is abandoning her...  The look on Arya's face when she sees Rob's direwolf murdered...

Perhaps the ease with which those books translate onto the screen is due to Martin's very graphic prose?  Still episodes like this prove TV can sometimes enhance literature.


G.

[Siege]

I'm constantly amazed at how well they subsume the books into the show.  The look on Cathlyn's face when 'the Rains of Castamere' begins ...  The look on Ygritte's face when she realizes John is abandoning her...  The look on Arya's face when she sees Rob's direwolf murdered...

Perhaps the ease with which those books translate onto the screen is due to Martin's very graphic prose?  Still episodes like this prove TV can sometimes enhance literature.


G.

Only because you already read the books so all these facial expressions had meaning for you.

[Eddie Teach]

Only because you already read the books so all these facial expressions had meaning for you.

Uh, they were pretty clear expressions and easily understood just from what had already happened on the show.

[Habbaku]

Perhaps the ease with which those books translate onto the screen is due to Martin's very graphic prose?  Still episodes like this prove TV can sometimes enhance literature.

That and his background in television.  I suspect he writes a lot of chapters while trying to imagine what it'd look like on the screen.

[garbon]

Perhaps the ease with which those books translate onto the screen is due to Martin's very graphic prose?  Still episodes like this prove TV can sometimes enhance literature.

That and his background in television.  I suspect he writes a lot of chapters while trying to imagine what it'd look like on the screen.

Which might explain why he gets so bogged down in his details.

[Habbaku]

  It's a double-edged sword.

[Admiral Yi]

Just watched.

Didn't quite live up to the Languish hype.

[garbon]

Just watched.

Didn't quite live up to the Languish hype.

I've not watched season 3 but book-wise it was pretty good/bad.

[Martinus]

Season One ended on a downer.

The fuck it didn't. It ended with "King in the North", the Night's Watch expedition setting off and, most importantly of all, the birth of dragons, probably the most uplifting/elating scene in the entire show.