So is this thing really that good? Cause I don't watch a lot of TV, I'm a movie guy. I don't have HBO but I'll buy the box set if you tell me to. Tell me what to do, dammit!

Mugato: So is this thing really that good? Cause I don't watch a lot of TV, I'm a movie guy. I don't have HBO but I'll buy the box set if you tell me to. Tell me what to do, dammit!

You should do it. It's really great and I didn't read the books and can scarcely follow who's who and I still love it.

Reading Book 3 is the literary version of Homer's conversation with the evil Krusty doll salesman.

...that's bad...oh, that's good...that's bad, so so bad...that's good, omg finally...that's bad...that's good, I think - wait, nope, that's baaaaaaaaad.

Burninate: Grab the his & hers matching "Dinner is coming" aprons!

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Scene I'm looking forward to the most? Jon vs. the wildlings for battle for the Wall.

That's if they don't split that into season 4.

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Scene I'm looking forward to the most? Jon vs. the wildlings for battle for the Wall.

That's if they don't split that into season 4.


kinda saw that coming but i'm getting the fark outta here.

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gopher321: Scene I'm looking forward to the most? Jon vs. the wildlings for battle for the Wall.

That's if they don't split that into season 4.

That's toward the latter half of book 3, so I'd guess it would be in season 4. I'm looking forward to seasons 3 and 4 already and we're only 2 episodes into season 2.

boobs & beheadings.

Burninate: kronicfeld: Burninate: Grab the his & hers matching "Dinner is coming" aprons!

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Wow...somehow, the existence of that really irks me, but also makes me want to buy one. I am as conflicted a seasick Dothraki.

nopokerface: I think it would have been better not to read first.

I agree with this.

Watching the show and then reading, you get to find a lot of additions to the story.

Reading and then watching, you get to find a lot of subtractions from the story.

Wow...somehow, the existence of that really irks me, but also makes me want to buy one. I am as conflicted a seasick Dothraki.

This is known

Blues_X: nopokerface: I think it would have been better not to read first.

I agree with this.

Watching the show and then reading, you get to find a lot of additions to the story.

Reading and then watching, you get to find a lot of subtractions from the story.

I think the worst part of having read the books first is not being able to invest in certain characters...not naming any names here....Let's just say once you've read about some of the things, you will be careful about who you wedding yourself.

nopokerface: Ennuipoet: .Let's just say once you've read about some of the things, you will be careful about who you wedding yourself.

That had me seeing red.

God, it's fun to dangle spollers!

Contrabulous Flabtraption: You should do it. It's really great and I didn't read the books and can scarcely follow who's who and I still love it.

I read the books and can scarcely follow who's who. The author is both a genus and a madman.

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Burninate: Mugato: So is this thing really that good? Cause I don't watch a lot of TV, I'm a movie guy. I don't have HBO but I'll buy the box set if you tell me to. Tell me what to do, dammit!

DO IT.

Read the books also.

Buy the action figures!

Grab the his & hers matching "Dinner is coming" aprons!

/Not George R. R. Martin.

Ok then. I don't think I have time for the books but I'll get right on the aprons.

nopokerface: I am sort of underwhelmed. I think it would have been better not to read first.

Isn't that what everyone says about books adapted to film?

The Stealth Hippopotamus: and

best scene evar.

Okay well I don't know if you guys are HBO plants or not, I'm sold.

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I'm excited for the Battle at Blackwater later this season. That was possibly the best medieval battle I'd ever read and I read a LOT of medieval histories.

The Battle for the Wall is definitely next on my list. I'd put it higher if I weren't so afraid of the god-awful CGI they'd have to use for the the giants and mammoths.

Mugato: nopokerface: I am sort of underwhelmed. I think it would have been better not to read first.

Isn't that what everyone says about books adapted to film?

It's definitely worth reading first, if only because they're such great books. The first 3 are absolutely outstanding. 4th & 5th were supposed to be one book and, unfortunately, it shows, but the story is still really solid. Knowing the story and all the characters does take away the surprise when watching the show, but I can still just sit back and enjoy the acting. Dinklange is fantastic and goddammit, the kids they cast are farking amazing.

Friends who haven't read the books are having a little trouble following everyone because there are so many characters and EVERYBODY has an agenda. It's harder to keep track of who's who and who's doing what to whom and why, but not impossible.

brigid_fitch: I'd put it higher if I weren't so afraid of the god-awful CGI they'd have to use for the the giants and mammoths.

this. I'm really worried that it will suck.

brigid_fitch: It's definitely worth reading first

Well that's fine but even though I don't have time to read the books I'm not going to whine about plot holes that are explained in the book like I did with Lord of the Rings or The Passion of the Christ.

The Stealth Hippopotamus: brigid_fitch: I'd put it higher if I weren't so afraid of the god-awful CGI they'd have to use for the the giants and mammoths.

this. I'm really worried that it will suck.

The dragons didn't, so far at least, so there's hope

What i am looking forward to, dreading at the same time:
-The Red Wedding
-The Plaza of Pain
-Lord Beric dueling the Hound
-"You know nothing, Jon Snow"
-The Brotherhood without Banners

I reread A Storm of Swords so many times between it and A Feast for Crows, that i know it almost as well all of the other books combined.

"IS THERE GOLD IN THE VILLAGE?!"

DammitIForgotMyLogin: The Stealth Hippopotamus: brigid_fitch: I'd put it higher if I weren't so afraid of the god-awful CGI they'd have to use for the the giants and mammoths.

this. I'm really worried that it will suck.

The dragons didn't, so far at least, so there's hope

They have had, what 2 minutes of screen time over the entire life of the show?

brigid_fitch: I'm excited for the Battle at Blackwater later this season.

I'm looking forward to the look of absolute horror on Davos' face when he realizes that there's a ship filled with jars of wildfire on the water that's about get get rammed.

big_pth: They have had, what 2 minutes of screen time over the entire life of the show?

So have the wolves. And the effects are terrible.

The wolf effects aren't that bad, I'm an effects whore and I don't even cringe when they show up. They're not on the level of a feature film but they're not Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus bad either. They're more than passable imho.