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Alot of differences in episode 2 as compared to the book.  Some good.... glad they are not using the Jester guy in Stannis's kingdom.

Jon Snow following Craster in the North was a big change of story line.  Understand that HBO has to cram alot of storylines into 10 episodes.  So some literary license is used.

Asha was ok, but have a different vision of her.   Hope they stay away form the Damphair storyline, great for extra chapters in the book but nothing gain for a tv series.

i thought that was a really bad change - Jon following craster and then craster bonking him on the head as he sees the Other carry the baby away?  Dont understand why they did that.

 

I was confused by this as well but I will wait to see what they do next week before I condemn it.



2012-04-10 10:24 AM
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Big Appa - 2012-04-09 2:43 PM
jsklarz - 2012-04-09 11:01 AM
BellinghamSpence - 2012-04-09 10:45 AM

Alot of differences in episode 2 as compared to the book.  Some good.... glad they are not using the Jester guy in Stannis's kingdom.

Jon Snow following Craster in the North was a big change of story line.  Understand that HBO has to cram alot of storylines into 10 episodes.  So some literary license is used.

Asha was ok, but have a different vision of her.   Hope they stay away form the Damphair storyline, great for extra chapters in the book but nothing gain for a tv series.

i thought that was a really bad change - Jon following craster and then craster bonking him on the head as he sees the Other carry the baby away?  Dont understand why they did that.

 

I was confused by this as well but I will wait to see what they do next week before I condemn it.

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2012-04-10 11:48 AM
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i thought it was a little strange as well, and for a second i thought i had just forgotten about it. they could be planning to combine some events into 1 specific scene or timeframe though.
2012-04-16 11:05 AM
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Thoughts on ep 3? Brienne is enormous, the whole tyrell/renley love triangle is just weird. And for a knight, they sure got a scrawny little fella to play the knight of flowers. I didn't expect a Clegane, but I thought he would be a bit bigger.
2012-04-16 11:23 AM
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They seem to be changing more this season but I hope it's just to have the ending come together more fluidly.

I agree that the  love triangle is odd and way different than the book.

2012-04-16 11:42 AM
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Since none of those characters had their own chapter in the books, you never got any in depth detail about them. Just heresay from Cersei mostly. Margery may be a power hungry wanna be queen though.


2012-04-16 1:59 PM
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Also don't remember Shae being a handmaiden to Sansa?  (Although it's hard to remember details).

Brienne was interesting, seems that HBO is really working hard on  the Love triangle of Loras, Renly and Margery.   

Still find the show interesting and entertaining.   Arya is till my favorite.

2012-04-16 2:05 PM
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BellinghamSpence - 2012-04-16 11:59 AM

Also don't remember Shae being a handmaiden to Sansa?  (Although it's hard to remember details).

Brienne was interesting, seems that HBO is really working hard on  the Love triangle of Loras, Renly and Margery.   

Still find the show interesting and entertaining.   Arya is till my favorite.

I think this is for later on in the series. In the books the illude to things but never directly talked about them.

Shae was a handmaiden but one of a few so she blended in if I remember correctly.

They changed up the battle with Arya but I can see why they did.

2012-04-16 2:14 PM
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TriathletePT - 2012-04-16 9:42 AM Since none of those characters had their own chapter in the books, you never got any in depth detail about them. Just heresay from Cersei mostly. Margery may be a power hungry wanna be queen though.

Isn't that the guy that was shaving Renly's chest in season 1 and then. well, you know.... ?  The series is really playing up the Renly homosexual aspect that was only really hinted at in the books.

2012-04-16 2:16 PM
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Big Appa - 2012-04-16 12:05 PM
BellinghamSpence - 2012-04-16 11:59 AM

Also don't remember Shae being a handmaiden to Sansa?  (Although it's hard to remember details).

Brienne was interesting, seems that HBO is really working hard on  the Love triangle of Loras, Renly and Margery.   

Still find the show interesting and entertaining.   Arya is till my favorite.

I think this is for later on in the series. In the books the illude to things but never directly talked about them.

Shae was a handmaiden but one of a few so she blended in if I remember correctly.

They changed up the battle with Arya but I can see why they did.

They cut out a bunch or Arya's journey.  But they do only have 10 episodes for the season.  And the boy who got the bolt to the leg was almost exactly as I pictured him.  Same with the "I yield" boy, which seemed more like a wink to book readers, as nothing about that kid or his yielding and parlaying was shown.

2012-04-16 3:27 PM
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Also, the chubby boy with Arya's group is Hot Pie.  Did alot of talking in the book, but the series just shows him as an actor with very few lines if any.



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TriathletePT - 2012-04-16 9:42 AM Since none of those characters had their own chapter in the books, you never got any in depth detail about them. Just heresay from Cersei mostly. Margery may be a power hungry wanna be queen though.

Isn't that the guy that was shaving Renly's chest in season 1 and then. well, you know.... ?  The series is really playing up the Renly homosexual aspect that was only really hinted at in the books.



I believe thats right. I didnt start reading the books until about halfway through season 1. So, I was pretty confused about a great deal of stuff until I got in to the books. I didn't think much about it during season 1 bc I had no idea who those characters were or what they had in store. I think not knowing what I know from the books would make the series incredibly hard to follow.
2012-04-16 4:17 PM
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I thought episode 3 was really good... i really liked the Margery/Loras interactions with Renly.  
2012-04-16 4:19 PM
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BellinghamSpence - 2012-04-16 2:59 PM

Also don't remember Shae being a handmaiden to Sansa?  (Although it's hard to remember details).

Brienne was interesting, seems that HBO is really working hard on  the Love triangle of Loras, Renly and Margery.   

Still find the show interesting and entertaining.   Arya is till my favorite.

She was but not until much later.  The Shae character is very weak so far.  Shae is great int eh book, not so in teh show.

2012-04-16 4:20 PM
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Also don't remember Shae being a handmaiden to Sansa?  (Although it's hard to remember details).

Brienne was interesting, seems that HBO is really working hard on  the Love triangle of Loras, Renly and Margery.   

Still find the show interesting and entertaining.   Arya is till my favorite.

I think this is for later on in the series. In the books the illude to things but never directly talked about them.

Shae was a handmaiden but one of a few so she blended in if I remember correctly.

They changed up the battle with Arya but I can see why they did.

They cut out a bunch or Arya's journey.  But they do only have 10 episodes for the season.  And the boy who got the bolt to the leg was almost exactly as I pictured him.  Same with the "I yield" boy, which seemed more like a wink to book readers, as nothing about that kid or his yielding and parlaying was shown.

Yeah, they only have so much time, but i really wanted Hot Pie to do his "Hot Pie" war cry.  that was classic in the  book... i am also glad they kept the Tyrion/Pycel scense as written with Tyrion telling Shagga to "cut off his manhood and feed it to the goats".  Another GRRM classic line.

2012-04-16 4:38 PM
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check out the video from SNL on Gawker 

If you didn't see it, the premise is that the show has two main artistic consultants: the author of the book, and a 13-year-old boy.



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The series is OK but I lost interest when GRRM lost interest in writing/finishing this story.  Yes, I am bitter.
2012-04-23 10:59 AM
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Good episode. The birthing of the shadow was a little intense. I felt like I was watching something i definitely shouldnt be watching.
2012-04-23 11:18 AM
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I don't remember King Joffery having two hookers in his bedroom from the books..  Gratuitous violence.  We already know that he is a twisted punk.

Really like Tyrion Lannister, every scene is stolen by Peter Drinkage.

And we slowly move onto episode 5.........



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2012-04-23 11:28 AM
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At least we now know where the smoke monster from LOST came from.  :-)
2012-04-23 11:42 AM
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anyone else find it odd that she didn't pass out from the smell of her husbands rotting corps when she opened the trunk????


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BellinghamSpence - 2012-04-23 9:18 AM

I don't remember King Joffery having two hookers in his bedroom from the books..  Gratuitous violence.  We already know that he is a twisted punk.

Really like Tyrion Lannister, every scene is stolen by Peter Drinkage.

And we slowly move onto episode 5.........

I thought it was a weird way to visually show how evil and depraved he is but for the people who haven’t read the books it accurately shows who he is as a person.

2012-04-23 11:47 AM
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jgaither - 2012-04-23 9:42 AM anyone else find it odd that she didn't pass out from the smell of her husbands rotting corps when she opened the trunk????

 The silent sisters cleaned and prepped the bones before they delivered them.  

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jgaither - 2012-04-23 12:42 PM

anyone else find it odd that she didn't pass out from the smell of her husbands rotting corps when she opened the trunk????


It should just be his bones. They just sent the bones back and not the whole body. Thats what the Silent Sister's job was, to clean the bones, either by beetles or boiling. I just learned that in A Dance with Dragons.
2012-04-23 12:18 PM
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So they can show a decapitated head being hammered down a pike but they can't show a chest of cleaned bones?  That's messed up.

 

Good to know anyway.

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