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| Shocks and Surprises | |
| By: JDubya Date: June 9, 2014, 1:41 am | |
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| After watching Game of Thrones for 4 dedicated seasons, I'm most | |
| shocked at the new Sansa presented during Episode 8: The | |
| Mountain and The Viper. She is much more savvy when it comes | |
| controlling her environment, and how people react towards her. | |
| She is also less naive about other people's intentions as they | |
| include her in their plots. They are now forced to plot with | |
| her and not around her. This is such a stark contrast to the | |
| book (no pun intended). | |
| The spoiler episode with the White Walker baby was pretty | |
| awesome, too! | |
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| Re: Shocks and Surprises | |
| By: Aelfred Date: June 10, 2014, 7:13 pm | |
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| It's funny what shocks and what doesn't. I wasn't expecting | |
| Ygritte's demise but somehow it didn't affect me much, even | |
| though I really liked her character. Whereas with Oberyn | |
| Martell, I had a sneaking suspicion that he'd lose the fight, | |
| yet his actual death was nevertheless quite upsetting. The | |
| crazy-�ber-mega-ultra-violence may have had something to do with | |
| that. | |
| :o | |
| #Post#: 143-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Shocks and Surprises | |
| By: JDubya Date: June 10, 2014, 7:38 pm | |
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| I wasn't that upset about the Red Wedding. But it was very weird | |
| the next episode not seeing Robb or Catelyn. I think I was more | |
| upset about them killing his direwolf. Oberyn's death really | |
| sucked because he was such an awesome character who added to the | |
| dynamics. It was like, finally, someone who isn't afraid to bust | |
| some Lannister balls. | |
| #Post#: 162-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Shocks and Surprises | |
| By: kepfalcon Date: June 11, 2014, 7:38 am | |
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| I have only read snippets from the books. And, i wasn't even | |
| aware of them until I started watching GoT. And, even then, | |
| didn't see the first two seasons until I binged watched them | |
| right before the third. | |
| I was truly shocked by the Red Wedding. I knew something dire | |
| was going to happen when they closed and bolted the doors. I had | |
| no idea how bad it was going to get. The worst was watching Grey | |
| Wind's demise. On the flip side, I started to really like the | |
| Hound when he clocked Arya and got the heck out of there. | |
| Oberyn's death didn't shock me. I kind of saw that coming. Pride | |
| goeth before a fall thing. But, the skull implosion affected me | |
| as deeply as the Red Wedding. | |
| My favorite characters are Arya and the Hound, Tyrion, Dany, | |
| Bronn, and Maester Aemon. Bronn was dead on right when he | |
| declined to be Tyrion's champion. Just one mistake against the | |
| Mountain would get you killed. | |
| Nothing can be taken for granted with this story, and that is | |
| what has addicted me to it. | |
| #Post#: 179-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Shocks and Surprises | |
| By: Aelfred Date: June 11, 2014, 4:13 pm | |
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| It's a tricky balancing act. Rarely or never kill your lead | |
| characters and the story loses its edge. But if the leads are | |
| dropping like flies the audience becomes numb. That may be why | |
| Ygritte's death didn't bother me as much as it should; after the | |
| previous week's squicky ending a mere arrow in the heart didn't | |
| seem so bad. | |
| #Post#: 184-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Shocks and Surprises | |
| By: JDubya Date: June 11, 2014, 5:23 pm | |
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| It's funny that you say that because my aunt has been getting | |
| more and more annoyed with the fact the Stark kids keep missing | |
| each other or dying, and Catelyn didn't get to see her family | |
| united before she was killed. | |
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