Game of Thrones begins....

[Josephus]

Survivor

[Jaron]

I didn't care for the board game. It's cool in concept, but the gameplay was pretty unsatisfying. I think for me I just didn't like the lack of any random chance in battles. It seemed to be who has more men? Okay, you win. I think you could influence this with card plays a bit, but I love me some dice rolls.

[Tamas]

I didn't care for the board game. It's cool in concept, but the gameplay was pretty unsatisfying. I think for me I just didn't like the lack of any random chance in battles. It seemed to be who has more men? Okay, you win. I think you could influence this with card plays a bit, but I love me some dice rolls.

its about diplomacy. Divide and conquer and that kind of stuff.

[KRonn]

Good episode. I liked Dany's taking of Yunkai by the slave soldiers changing allegiances. She had planted that seed at the first meeting with the Yunkai noble by telling him (with his slaves present) how she would free the slaves, just as she had done before.

I was waiting for the Red Wedding and expected a lot of shock over that. People are looking for the good guys to win kind of thing but this story is so much larger and expansive. Soon enough things will turn even more, as readers of the book know.

I usually encourage people to read the books as that will help to understand the story better. But the show does a good job of telling the story and all the cast of characters and personalities involved.

[frunk]

I didn't care for the board game. It's cool in concept, but the gameplay was pretty unsatisfying. I think for me I just didn't like the lack of any random chance in battles. It seemed to be who has more men? Okay, you win. I think you could influence this with card plays a bit, but I love me some dice rolls.

I think there's plenty of surprises and unexpected wins or losses with the simultaneous action choice and card play that dice rolls would make a potentially unpredictable game even less certain.  Definitely play with at least the first expansion for the ports.

[The Brain]

The (major) board game is great.

[Berkut]

I think Bolton should have said "Tywin Lannister sends his regards" instead of "The Lannisters send their regards".

Would have been so much more personal and infuriating, I think.

[Valmy]

I think Bolton should have said "Tywin Lannister sends his regards" instead of "The Lannisters send their regards".

Would have been so much more personal and infuriating, I think.

In the book he said 'Jaime Lannister sends his regards' which I think is going to set up Jaime getting it.

[Legbiter]

[garbon]

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[garbon]

Oh.

[crazy canuck]

If the Red Wedding came as a shock to the TV viewer then the books did not translate well.  By that time in the Books the reader realizes that everything that can go terribly wrong will go terribly wrong with the exception of a few characters.  The Red Wedding was foreshadowed to death for at least four long chapters before it happened.  Readers who were caught be suprise just werent paying attention.

The sad thing is that the Fat Man keeps trying to "shock" the reader even up to book 5 but by that point even the most dim reader comes to expect it.

[garbon]

If the Red Wedding came as a shock to the TV viewer then the books did not translate well.  By that time in the Books the reader realizes that everything that can go terribly wrong will go terribly wrong with the exception of a few characters.  The Red Wedding was foreshadowed to death for at least four long chapters before it happened.  Readers who were caught be suprise just werent paying attention.

The sad thing is that the Fat Man keeps trying to "shock" the reader even up to book 5 but by that point even the most dim reader comes to expect it.

I'm pretty sure I disagree with most of this.

[Liep]

Speaking of the Fat Man, any rumours about his next book? When it'll be out, etc.

[Viking]

Speaking of the Fat Man, any rumours about his next book? When it'll be out, etc.

He's stopped making predictions of when he'll be finished...

I sort of get the image that he is like Willy Messerschmidt sitting on the floor of his factory in late 1944 surrounded by partially finished aircraft crying because he can't get those widgets for those thingamybobs he needs to finish them.