GOT - there will be spoilers
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@Crucial said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
Might need to start a new thread but thought I would resurrect this one for fun.
So. Whaddya think of this prequel stuff?
Decent baddie, titties, plenty of violence, dragons......
Boxes all ticked. Sit baack and see if they can stuff it up I guess.Good enough, the initial few minutes were awful.
Smash the patriarchy voice over
Girl flying dragon, but nothing wow (although some good views of KL)
Silly banter, with K Guard, not realistic gritty like start of GoT
Then pregnancy is the real battle, real heroes bit (Producer said in interview 50% survival rate for childbirthing mothers in mediaeval era FFS what a moron, humans would've died out!)
Then King is all OK with his daughter turning up late, more bantery shit.But after that it improved, so if you can put aside the core message of smashing the patriachy and how Valyrians (like elves) are now black, it should be good. Especially as Corlys is an excellent actor! I'm already rooting for Daemon as Hightower is a complete fluffybunny. Rhaenyra is a spoiled brat. Daemon has some personality, even if he's a nutjob
EDIT: Might as well leave it in this thread, I mean the Star Wars one is from Ep 7!
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@Machpants said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
I've read the book, and I think it is supposed to keep pretty close to it. So I know what happens, pretty much. If you've not read the book, I'd be interesting to see what people think
- who goes on what side?
- who marries who?
So this is based on a book with an end? That's promising.
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@Crucial said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
@Machpants said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
I've read the book, and I think it is supposed to keep pretty close to it. So I know what happens, pretty much. If you've not read the book, I'd be interesting to see what people think
- who goes on what side?
- who marries who?
So this is based on a book with an end? That's promising.
Yeah, and Martin is being a tighter with what he allows, compared to the shit show that was post book GoT. Fire and Blood, in world written for latter Valyrian kings by a Maester as a history. Has two different main contributors in it, a maester and a dwarf Jester called Mushroom. Their interpretation of events is very different! ASoI&F is imperfect narrator cos it is each PoV characters chapter, how they see it. Fire & Blood is written to fluff up of history for a then current King, I can't remember who but he wrote prior to Robert's rebellion (and was still alive when that happened). It will be interesting to see which PoV the show runners take, or they could take a different view - as the history is imperfect. Admitedly it is a while since I read it so the details are fuzzy
There is supposed to be a follow up Blood and Fire. I just wish Martin would get on with WInds of Winter!
From Wiki:
"Heirs of the Dragon": Being about 17,000 words long, it focuses on the reign of Jaehaerys I Targaryen and the succession crisis following the deaths of his sons. An abridged version, The Rogue Prince, previously published in the anthology Rogues in 2014, uses the majority of this text.[12]
"The Dying of the Dragons": Being about 60,000 words in length,[12][N 1] it focuses on the great civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons, the Targaryen civil war between Rhaenyra Targaryen and her half-brother Aegon for the throne. An abridged version of 30,000 words was included in The Princess and the Queen,[14] which was published in the anthology Dangerous Women in 2013.
"Aftermath — The Boy King and His Regents": Covering the first few years of the reign of Rhaenyra's young son Aegon III, when the realm was ruled by Aegon's regents. According to GarcÃa, it is "almost as long" as The Dying of the Dragons in total word count.[12][9] -
OMG I watched this with my pregnant wife last night and she was horrified at the birthing scene. Far out, I think I have scarred her slightly and we are only 1 month away from having our first born. YIKES.
Full on episode, I thoroughly enjoyed it nevertheless.
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@Canes4life said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
OMG I watched this with my pregnant wife last night and she was horrified at the birthing scene. Far out, I think I have scarred her slightly and we are only 1 month away from having our first born. YIKES.
Full on episode, I thoroughly enjoyed it nevertheless.
Full warning, in the interview where the director made his claim that mediaeval childbirth was a fifty fifty survival rate for mother's, he mentioned that there was a lot of it in the series, each birth with a different 'theme'. So, maybe wait a bit too watch 😆
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@Machpants said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
@Canes4life said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
OMG I watched this with my pregnant wife last night and she was horrified at the birthing scene. Far out, I think I have scarred her slightly and we are only 1 month away from having our first born. YIKES.
Full on episode, I thoroughly enjoyed it nevertheless.
Full warning, in the interview where the director made his claim that mediaeval childbirth was a fifty fifty survival rate for mother's, he mentioned that there was a lot of it in the series, each birth with a different 'theme'. So, maybe wait a bit too watch 😆
Lol far out, she's already told me she doesn't think she will watch another episode for some time. Guess I'll be going it alone for this season haha.
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@Canes4life at least you can enjoy the titties without any side-eye 😉
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@Bovidae said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
The fact that Miguel Sapochnik is heavily involved should be a positive.
A lot of new characters to remember though.
Totally, and the names are all so similar. In GoT they changed a few to make it easier to remember (an there is eaily less than half the characters than in the books). But George refused in this series
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@MN5 said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
I can’t watch this til we finish the original ( second time for me, first for the girl ).
Have heard good things. Hope this is the case.
Dying need to watch the original for this.
But yeah GoT is amazing...
... Until the writers ran out of books
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@Machpants
I was hoping the Night King would have lasted longer, but he gets taken out by a teenage girl with good skills. -
@Frank said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
@Machpants
I was hoping the Night King would have lasted longer, but he gets taken out by a teenage girl with good skills.Did he? I didn’t (couldn’t) see it.
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@Nepia said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
I know the dragon watch is much higher than early seasons of GOT (big negative for me) but whats the nudity watch like in comparison?
First, accidental, actual arsehole on US TV in the Whore House orgy scene. Nudity is up there
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I assume that the producers expect that as we are watching a show where people ride dragons we can also suspend belief and accept that in 10 years a woman with a very unusual look will completely change her features to be quite ordinary looking and unrecognisable from the previous episode.
