Dr. DVD

Disagree. I think that "13" looked like they were out of the 1980s Flash Gordon movie.

wishbone

(Spoilered because it's in the book but it pertains to the scene only)

Osiris3657

Awesome episode!


I just now realized where I first saw the actor who plays Joffrey



Batman Begins

Dr Mabuse

Great episode. Man this show kicks ass.

They keep pushing boundaries with the nudity huh?

MikahC

Completely understood, but past efforts appreciated. I think last season I just stopped reading the GoT threads. I pretty much got to that point with The Walking Dead as well. I'm not quite there with GoT S2, though I'm reached a certain bemusement with the lengths people will to go to justify posting spoilers in the episode threads -- even though there's a S2 spoiler thread available.

Bookmarked. Will you no longer be participating in the episode threads? There are two places I'd go to ask GoT questions if I had any, and this is one of them. Luckily (so far) it has mostly made sense to me. Of course I don't have any background on the giant girl who is in Renly's guard now and stuff like that, but it doesn't seem critical to following what they're showing us. And the wiki's help.

dhmac

It's risky to show them off because they are still baby dragons and not a threat to anyone, so if she showed them off to anyone, they may kill her and her people to take the baby dragons away to raise them as their own.

Once the dragons are grown, then they can be used to defeat whole armies and destroy previously impregnable fortresses.

Astrofan

starman9000

Why wouldn't they just kill her and her small band of weaklings to check the cages if they wanted to take the baby dragons away?

fumanstan

The kid had kind of a douchey role in Batman Begins too

Dave99

Nobody alive has any idea what dragons can do, other than the stories. For all they know, they are already badass fire-breathers who will leap out of the cage and clamp onto their head like a facehugger in alien. If she brought them out and they saw they are basically as dangerous as an mildly annoyed parakeet, then they would just kill her.

Josh-da-man

That's interesting.

I would have figured that Ned's order would have been canceled or voided once Joffrey took the throne. Seems like someone, either Cersei, Tywin, or one of the Lannister-friendly council members, would have had King Joff do something about that.

Ketamine

Well, since the Lannister backed men are after them, they obviously are acting against what the Lannisters want and them voiding the order is a moot point at this stage.

pinata242

I've tried very hard as a person who has not only read to the books but watched every episode 4+ times to try to shed light on what was implied based on past events or conversations shown.

Other people only seem to care about how the show and the books differ or are similar.

The two mediums compliment each other rather well. It seems to me the show-runners expect you've either read the books or are savvy enough to seek out resources (be they simple histories or tv show timelines/biographies) to fill in the gaps.

All I wanted to do was fill that without necessarily spoiling next week's episode. I tried to help by providing links to existing forum threads for book-readers to compare/contrast/bitch/moan/praise, but it fell on deaf ears. It seems people would rather let everyone know they know 6-7 days before you...

dhmac

A review of this episode:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain...nes-really-is/

creekdipper

Regarding the slimmer, less-imposing stature of The Mountain, doesn't it seem that this should be one of the easiest problems to solve? It's not like he has a lot of speaking parts (and his impact in the books is often conveyed more by terrifying reports of he & his men ravaging the countryside). Dunno...it seems fairly simple for costumers & makeup artists to bulk him up, especially since he's always in armor.

CRM114

Mordred, Tommy Ceez - Thanks for the map and the background.

CRM114

I was wondering whether those dragons were loyal to her or not. Like if someone did kill her and take them, would they turn on their captors? Also, Dany has implied magical powers. Would she really die in the desert?

The Bus

Can we please
please
please
please
please
please
get two threads of each episode of the show?

One for noobs, as in people who have never read the books.

The other for "experts" - people who have.

It's shitty to have a thread that's half-filled with spoilers or spoiler tags, or people complaining (hey! me included).

The episode threads go to 5+ pages each time, and other shows have 8-response threads. The forum will survive with both.

The Bus

Golly, I just want to punch him in his prick mouth. What a consistently fantastic performance, and pitch-perfect casting. He just looks like an asshole.

[QUOTE=pinata242;11203418]I've tried very hard as a person who has not only read to the books but watched every episode 4+ times to try to shed light on what was implied based on past events or conversations shown.

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And, here's where I show my ignorance... but where the hell did Harrenhal come in? I barely remembered it being mentioned last week.

The Bus

Here's how AV Club sets it up:


(This Game Of Thrones post is written from the point of view of someone who has not read the books the series is based on. As such, spoilers are strictly forbidden. Any spoilers in comments will be deleted on sight. If you see spoilers, please mark them as best you can and e-mail toddvdw at gmail dot com or contact Todd on Twitter at tvoti, and he'll take care of them as soon as possible. Remember: Discussions of things that were different in the books or confirmations of things that won't happen count as spoilers, too. Have you read the books and want to discuss what's coming? That's what our experts reviews are for.)

The reviewer they have has also never read the books.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/garde...newbies,72597/

superfro

I promise you it would not matter.

JohnSlider

I like Alan Sepinwall's approach where he literally deletes any comment on his blogs that discusses anything other than the footage that is show between the credits. No book talk, no next-week-previews talk, nothing other than speculation and what has actually been shown between the credits. We need a mod in here who will lay down the law and start deleting posts.

superfro

And that's the key. The shit really shouldn't be up for debate. (Which is what half of these threads turn into.)

The Bus

superfro

Way to ruin it Bus. The entirety of GoT is really just an elaborate Patrick Bateman origin story.