Game of Thrones discussion thread

[mrtourette]

I can understand it, felt like that at the end of the last series. Maybe absence has made me forget how tedious it was watching Daenerys, Arya and Bran very slowly make their way from A to B, if it's still like that in several weeks then I can imagine feeling the same again.

[bunique]

I can understand that too, although I feel like a little emotional attachment to lots of stories makes up for a lack of emotional attachment to one big plot line. That's why Walking Dead bores me shitless most of the time because I don't really care about any of them!

[Ed209]

Ah, ok. its not just me then.

Yes! Can Arya and the hound actually get somewhere interesting? Can Danaerys stop pissing about and lay the smack down with her dragons? I don't think even Bran remembers where he's supposed to be going any more and where the fuck is this winter everyone said was coming 3 series ago!?

[russycarps]

Bran is piss poor it has to be said. It's amazing that such a cool power can be made to seem so shit and dull.

[gary1979666]

They are really dragging out bits - in Book 3 there's ONE chapter for Dany in Yunkai (where she meets Daario etc) - takes 3 or 4 weeks on the telly.

[mrtourette]

And what's happened with the White Walkers? Wasn't Sam cowering from them as they marched South at the end of the last series, and yet he's made it back to Castle Black and fannied around for a couple of episodes and they're nowhere to be seen.

Edited April 24, 2014 by mrtourette

[cwaite123]

Ah, ok. its not just me then.

Yes! Can Arya and the hound actually get somewhere interesting? Can Danaerys stop pissing about and lay the smack down with her dragons? I don't think even Bran remembers where he's supposed to be going any more and where the fuck is this winter everyone said was coming 3 series ago!?

I'm sure I have read somewhere that said its going to take them like 7/8 seasons to do the whole thing, as the story by George RR Martin wants to be told (as he's told the TV creators what the ending is). So we're only like half way through the TV series, got to give characters time!

[ThomThomDrum]

And what's happened with the White Walkers?

Exactly! One was very much under the impression at the end of the last series that the While Walker shit was going to hit the fan imminently and now nothing. In fact the crows are talking of heading north again to take care of the break aways, as they fear the wildlings. Obviously no one listens to Sam, not even the sage old blind man who "knows it all"

[LondonTom]

And what's happened with the White Walkers? Wasn't Sam cowering from them as they marched South at the end of the last series, and yet he's made it back to Castle Black and fannied around for a couple of episodes and they're nowhere to be seen.

I imagine Jon Snow will meet them next week when he goes back to Craster's Keep (It was only the one White Walker that found Sam wasn't it?).

I think it needs something to indicate the passage of time for each location. Some seem to be moving quicker than others

Edited April 24, 2014 by LondonTom

[russycarps]

I think someone said in this thread that the white walkers are much further north, so still marching.

Which still doesnt really make a lot of sense considering that fat lad got back pretty swiftly

[Ed209]

I'm sure I have read somewhere that said its going to take them like 7/8 seasons to do the whole thing, as the story by George RR Martin wants to be told (as he's told the TV creators what the ending is). So we're only like half way through the TV series, got to give characters time!

i realise this, but we're 33 hours into it now. That's quite a lot of time.

What has Daenerys done it that time? Got some dragons and some buddies and walked around a lot

Edited April 24, 2014 by Ed209

[cwaite123]

i realise this, but we're 33 hours into it now. That's quite a lot of time

But when you think about how far characters have come, Arya was in Kings Landing, was a servant, tried to meet up with her mum at a wedding and is now trying to get to her aunt. That's quite a lot in three and a bit seasons. Also when you have a look at the interactive map and see how much distance Dany has traveled, looking for ships and an army, it seems to make sense why its taken her this long to actually get her army in a bit of shape.

Plus there are a lot of stories to tell, we don't see every character in every episode. So you have to allow time for things to develop

[philipsteak]

The books aren't that great. Readable, and they go along at a fair old clip, but he's really a good storyteller, bad writer. Don't get me wrong, he's not Dan Brown bad, but still, not great.

[bunique]

"Not Dan Brown bad" High praise indeed!

[Ed209]

But when you think about how far characters have come, Arya was in Kings Landing, was a servant, tried to meet up with her mum at a wedding and is now trying to get to her aunt. That's quite a lot in three and a bit seasons. Also when you have a look at the interactive map and see how much distance Dany has traveled, looking for ships and an army, it seems to make sense why its taken her this long to actually get her army in a bit of shape.

Plus there are a lot of stories to tell, we don't see every character in every episode. So you have to allow time for things to develop

They shouldn't be projecting the concept of huge time-scales and distances onto the viewer by literally making them sit through it. That's just dull.

Anyway, my point is, after 33 episodes there's barely a character or story line that I care about and with the exception of what is happening in King's Landing, the other plots are drifting along aimlessly and tediously. If its accurate to the books then either the books are dull, or they've attached too much screen time to each book, or - as I suspect - its a combination of the two.

[mrtourette]

I imagine Jon Snow will meet them next week when he goes back to Craster's Keep (It was only the one White Walker that found Sam wasn't it?).

I think it needs something to indicate the passage of time for each location. Some seem to be moving quicker than others

I think the scene were he killed one there was only one, I'm thinking of the scene that I thought was in the last series (but I think was actually at the end of the second) where a fleet of them are marching towards something and Sam is cowering behind a rock, and one of them turns and looks at him. Found it odd that they should be in the same place but then Sam makes it back to the Wall and the White Walkers are nowhere to be seen, but I guess maybe they're just randomly wandering around North of the wall and aren't actually heading South. Maybe they're still just milling around up there, another group aimlessly wandering.

Edited April 25, 2014 by mrtourette

[bunique]

I don't get the feeling the other stories are heading nowhere, they're just very much moving at their own pace. Like with Arya and the Hound - I'm quite enjoying their journey and wondering where they'll end up, I'm not desperate for them to get there yet

[LondonTom]

I think the scene were he killed one there was only one, I'm thinking of the scene that I thought was in the last series (but I think was actually at the end of the second) where a fleet of them are marching towards something and Sam is cowering behind a rock, and one of them turns and looks at him. Found it odd that they should be in the same place but then Sam makes it back to the Wall and the White Walkers are nowhere to be seen, but I guess maybe they're just randomly wandering around North of the wall and aren't actually heading South. Maybe they're still just milling around up there, another group aimlessly wandering.

Ah yes, I know which scene you mean now.

Yeah they seemed to have taken a breather, maybe they are working out how to get past the wall?

[ThomThomDrum]

11.5 million views! And only slightly amusing at times

[bunique]

The Jon Snow meets Jon Snuuuuuuuhhh pic on twitter has really tickled me

[windy_miller]

This Bad Lip Reading is much better

[ThomThomDrum]

The Jon Snow meets Jon Snuuuuuuuhhh pic on twitter has really tickled me

So much so you thought you would share?

[ThomThomDrum]

This Bad Lip Reading is much better

Yes it is and the first NFL one even more so!

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Edited April 25, 2014 by ThomThomDrum

[bunique]

So much so you thought you would share?

Yep - I'm surrounded at work who think Benidorm is the height of televisual entertainment, I've no one to share my tittering with!

[ThomThomDrum]

Yep - I'm surrounded at work who think Benidorm is the height of televisual entertainment, I've no one to share my tittering with!

Yes but would you not like to share that twitter pic here is what I was really getting at?