2013-05-18, 20:15 | Link #741 |
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*Walks into thread about Game of Thrones, an adventure fantasy story set in the feudal/middle ages*
*Sees discussion about the U.S. CIVIL WAR. . .* *Quickly leaves thread* And not a single thing was lost on this day. |
2013-05-18, 21:10 | Link #742 | |
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2013-05-19, 22:45 | Link #744 |
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I was totally expecting him to turn around and pick it up, but guess not.
Anyways, isn't it amazing how Arya never seems to get anywhere, but news of her uncle's wedding has made it even to the ears of the Dog in the bum-**** middle of nowhere? Spoiler for Spoilers if you've never read the books:
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2013-05-19, 23:01 | Link #745 |
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Decent episode. Still in a trasitional period, with characters still moving around on the board waiting to get someplace important. Tyrion was great though. Dinkladge hasn't had much to do this season, many times just moving in place, but the entire wedding sequence and all the scenes that followed were just great. 80/100.
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2013-05-19, 23:09 | Link #746 | |
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2013-05-20, 07:05 | Link #747 |
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A lot has happen since i was away, better catch up now. BTW:
Game of Thrones will end with season 7, according to producer If your worried about the series ending, the producers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff were told how the novels would end by the author Martin himself.
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2013-05-20, 13:24 | Link #748 |
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Cersei is such a jerk to everyone, even the people who had nothing to do with her arranged marriage. I was surprised she threatened Margory like that as well. If she doesn't want Joffrey to marry her, why doesn't she direct that to the person who arranged the damn thing? The same with Loras, shes mad at him like he's the one who wanted to marry her... With all the horrible things shes done, she has the nerve to have a perpetual chip on her shoulder and treat everyone like crap. She's "the most beautiful woman in the realm", part of the richest family, and still finds a reason to be a complete bitch to everyone and stay in a foul mood.
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2013-05-20, 13:38 | Link #749 |
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^That's a little simplistic. She's a highly intelligent woman who managed to rise to the rank of Queen only by being forced into a form of perpetual servitude to a drunken buffoon who rarely had a kind word for her and never treated her well. And now, even after she has become Queen, she's still considered so unimportant that she is being sold as a brood mare once again, and this time to a gay man. Cersei, unlike Dany, has never been able to break free of the societal chains that bind her. And even now, while Queen, she still has to obey her father and whatever new husband is forced upon her.
Cersei is not a happy character, in fact she is downright evil, but she is also quite pitiful and tragic (especially the television adaptation of the character). We are never supposed to condone or forget her actions, but I doubt we are supposed to outright vilify her like Joffery, Tywin, the Mountain or dozens of other monstrous characters who not only lack humanity but were seemingly never born with it. |
2013-05-20, 13:48 | Link #750 |
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There is also the fact Cersei is finally freed of her cheating awful husband and ready for moment in the sun....then Tyrion showed up, then Tywin, then a damn 16 years old "whore" named Margery.
Also, have you also noticed how Margery took power? Sansa is doing her hair following Margery, and even Cerei, who once pretty much wear plate mail dress, suddenly decide to show her boobs Margery style @ Tyrion's wedding. Tyrions. |
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2013-05-20, 14:30 | Link #753 | |
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And that's why he managed to survive, and kill a White Walker. Perhaps because you imagine yourself more physically fit and less cowardly than Sam you can imagine yourself not spazzing out, and remembering to get that Dragonglass blade. And you probably would have. But you wouldn't have gotten the chance. Cause since you're not a cowardly little pig, you look like just enough of a threat to warrant the White Walker cutting you down or snapping you in half like a twig. You'd probably not get the chance to be merely knocked aside, and to stab it in the back. A physically strong and mentally seasoned warrior like Sandor would have recognized the value in retrieving the Dragonglass. But a warrior like Sandor would be threat enough to be killed immediately. Not to mention that a warrior like Sandor probably wouldn't do anything daft or geeky enough to collect and carry around something as useless as an obsidian knife.
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I've forgotten by now, but how did Jon defeat the White Walker in Season 1/Book 1? Was it just by using fire? Quote:
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Everything Cersei does is rooted in her lack of power or her quest for some semblance of personal power. She has little to no choice in her life, and any pleasures she does have have to be secreted away and denied in public. The only real difference between her and the whores in Littlefinger's brothel is the name she is associated with. She is a sad and bitter character that I can't help but pity (even as I wish for her death along with so many others ). |
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2013-05-20, 15:50 | Link #755 |
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Technically what Jon killed was a Wight. And yeah. He set him on fire, since stabbing him a half dozen times with a dagger, then running him through with a swrod didn't seem to do much.
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2013-05-20, 16:18 | Link #756 | |
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2013-05-20, 16:19 | Link #757 | |
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This whole political mess in westeros goes back to the fact that Ned had a sister that was too hot and Roberts obsessions.
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2013-05-20, 16:36 | Link #758 | |
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2013-05-20, 16:49 | Link #759 |
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Has Dorne been mentioned yet in the television series? Is that were Cersei's daughter was sent off to last season? I remember Dorne being of significance in the third book (for reasons that will not be mentioned until next season), but I do not recall if they have any relevance in the current television show.
Thanks for the history lesson TooPurePureBoy. Some of the details I recalled (specifically about Rhaegar), but I clearly did not remember Ned's sister that well. |
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There's actually no cited evidence that Rhaegar actually kidnapped Lyanna. It just seemed to be something that everyone assumed after the Mad King went and burned the top two men of House Stark to death when they showed up to complain about it. If Lyanna had willingly gone with Rhaegar...well it certainly would have put some shit between the Starks and the Baratheons and the crown. But it likely wouldn't have been sufficient pretext to start a general rebellion. NOBODY in the 7 kingdoms was shaking in fear of the prospect of the most powerful ascendant lord coming to romance and wed their daughters. They were terrified of the implication that Aerys could burn any lord alive for any reason he saw fit.
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