Author Topic: Game of Thrones  (Read 68133 times)

Chris S

Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #400 on: 27 June, 2016, 09:19:32 pm »
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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #401 on: 27 June, 2016, 10:02:25 pm »
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"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #402 on: 28 June, 2016, 02:48:00 am »
That episode was made of win.
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Dibdib

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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #403 on: 28 June, 2016, 11:22:40 am »
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*gigglesnort*

Ruthie

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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #404 on: 10 August, 2016, 08:12:03 pm »
When you think about it, Cersei's children all being dead is a kind of karmic mirroring of Kaitlyn Stark.
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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #405 on: 10 August, 2016, 11:01:07 pm »
For anyone that wants an amusing way to catch up on most of the fuss.

(somewhat NSFW, but it is GOT)

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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #406 on: 10 December, 2016, 03:31:38 pm »
This household has finally got around to watching season 6.

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Andrij

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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #407 on: 24 December, 2016, 10:15:32 pm »
I've just finished binge-watching seasons 1-6 (started a few days ago). 

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Now I can join the others in waiting impatiently for season 7.  Haven't read the books yet, but will in due course.
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

red marley

Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #408 on: 25 December, 2016, 08:04:12 am »
I've just finished binge-watching seasons 1-6 (started a few days ago).

Blimey, that's over 50 hours of watching. Can you still feel your legs?

Happy Christmas!

*enjoying a relaxing bath before the chaos that is a family Christmas with under tens gets fully underway.*

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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #409 on: 25 December, 2016, 10:07:23 am »
And don't forget to buy a copy of "Winter Is Coming1" by, er, Carolyne Larrington plug plug.

1: Soon to be available in some variety of Chinese!
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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #410 on: 25 December, 2016, 10:59:29 am »
Having waded through 1000 or so hard back pages of A Dance with Dragons, suffering concussion occasionally as I read it in bed, I now find the next one is not published yet. Strewth.
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caerau

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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #411 on: 25 December, 2016, 01:02:42 pm »
Having waded through 1000 or so hard back pages of A Dance with Dragons, suffering concussion occasionally as I read it in bed, I now find the next one is not published yet. Strewth.


Welcome to my world.  I've been reading it since 1996!


I had the same problem with Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time.  He took so long over that he managed to die before he finished it.  I hold the same fears for Ice and Fire frankly.
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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #412 on: 26 December, 2016, 12:05:51 am »
Is what happened with the Dune saga as well, sigh. (His son did not compare).
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #413 on: 26 December, 2016, 09:34:10 am »
I've got the same worry about Doug Nye's history of BRM.  His co-conspirator Tony Rudd died in between volumes 2 and 3.  And volume 4 will have the H-16 in it.
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Wascally Weasel

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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #414 on: 26 December, 2016, 10:46:55 am »
Is what happened with the Dune saga as well, sigh. (His son did not compare).

And the prequels, dear God the prequels.

red marley

Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #415 on: 26 December, 2016, 01:41:11 pm »
Still, it could be worse. Stephen Donaldson managed to get to the end of his 10 Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

caerau

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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #416 on: 26 December, 2016, 09:13:43 pm »
Is what happened with the Dune saga as well, sigh. (His son did not compare).

And the prequels, dear God the prequels.


To be fair - even Frank Herbert couldn't write them very well after God Emperor ;)
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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #417 on: 28 December, 2016, 05:51:42 pm »
Is what happened with the Dune saga as well, sigh. (His son did not compare).

And the prequels, dear God the prequels.


To be fair - even Frank Herbert couldn't write them very well after God Emperor ;)

It's all relative because the first books set the bar very high. Even so, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse Dune are miles ahead of the dreck that Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson saw fit to inflict on the Dune fandom.

I happen to quite like Chapterhouse Dune.  :demon:
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

caerau

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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #418 on: 29 December, 2016, 01:04:30 pm »
Oh undoubtedly, for me they kind of disappeared up their own backside of pretension from Book 4 onwards really.  I lost interest in what on earth was going on from Heretics onwards. God Emperor remained OK but the first three (and particularly Dune itself) are amongst the best books I've ever read, so indeed, the bar was almost unobtainably reached  after them.


I tried reading a few paragraphs of one of the prequels once.  God no! :facepalm:
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Chris S

Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #419 on: 17 July, 2017, 08:20:34 pm »
S07E01

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fuzzy

Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #420 on: 21 July, 2017, 10:54:05 pm »
"Shall we begin?"

Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #421 on: 25 July, 2017, 03:14:58 am »
The writing and direction has taken a serious turn for the worse. I'm gonna struggle to justify spending time on it this season.
The war council at Daeneris new home was some of the worst acting I've seen in a long time.

hulver

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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #422 on: 25 July, 2017, 09:21:32 am »
The writing and direction has taken a serious turn for the worse. I'm gonna struggle to justify spending time on it this season.
The war council at Daeneris new home was some of the worst acting I've seen in a long time.

Yes, I'm fairly unimpressed so far.
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Just watching it to get to the end now, but I hope it improves.

citoyen

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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #423 on: 25 July, 2017, 09:34:26 am »
Just watching it to get to the end now, but I hope it improves.

Exactly this. I've invested too much time in it to walk out so close to the end, but I'm watching it more out of habit than because I want to. There were some proper cringingly bad moments in last night's episode.

The Greyjoys are supposed to be comedy characters, right? You certainly can't take them seriously as military leaders.
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citoyen

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Re: Game of Thrones
« Reply #424 on: 08 August, 2017, 11:50:20 am »
So, is he dead?
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