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Post Post #0 (ISO) » Wed Jun 29, 2011 2:47 pm

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I just finished watching this series in two days and I liked it a lot. I'm going to get clash of kings to pick up the story where the tv series left off.

Has anyone read the books?

I know Nikanor and Dram watched the show too.

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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Wed Jun 29, 2011 2:59 pm

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Dram does not watch Game of Thrones...

Anyway, funny you should say that -- right before I clicked on GD, I had just set the whole first season to download. I hear the first few episodes are a little confusing, but after that it gets awesome.
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Wed Jun 29, 2011 3:04 pm

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you should read the tower of joy scene online somewhere as it didn't make the tv show and it's fucking awesome.

i'd probably suggest you read book 1 too, there are some differences in stuff that happens/the way characters are portrayed, although maybe it's not *strictly* neccessary, it goes into more detail on stuff than the tv show for obvious reasons.


also 5th book is out 12th of July!
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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Wed Jun 29, 2011 3:05 pm

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me/nik/ces/mina all watched the finale at goofbash together, actually, yeah.
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Anyway, funny you should say that -- right before I clicked on GD, I had just set the whole first season to download. I hear the first few episodes are a little confusing, but after that it gets awesome.

depends, you're used to ensemble casts as you watch a fair bit of tv so I think you'll be able to manage it pretty well. first episodes are still very good.
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Wed Jun 29, 2011 3:10 pm

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SO GOOD.
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Wed Jun 29, 2011 3:13 pm

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Iecerint wrote:SO GOOD.

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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Wed Jun 29, 2011 3:14 pm

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I hadn't read the books and didn't have any trouble following it, Reck.
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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Wed Jun 29, 2011 4:35 pm

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My favorite book series. And the TV show is ridiculously good.
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There's just a LOT of characters to try to keep track of.
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Post Post #8 (ISO) » Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:23 am

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Faraday wrote:you should read the tower of joy scene online somewhere as it didn't make the tv show and it's fucking awesome.


What's the tower of joy lol?

It's amazing that they casted Sean Bean as Eddard Stark
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:32 am

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I feel sorry for anyone who didnt know about game of thrones until it became an (overrated) tv show.
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Post Post #10 (ISO) » Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:56 am

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Arya is fucking badass.

That is all.
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Post Post #11 (ISO) » Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:26 pm

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Albert B. Rampage wrote:
Faraday wrote:you should read the tower of joy scene online somewhere as it didn't make the tv show and it's fucking awesome.


What's the tower of joy lol?

It's amazing that they casted Sean Bean as Eddard Stark

It's a flashback scene when Ned is imprisoned, and shows him talking with 3 of the Kingsguard of the time before fighting them, the fight isn't shown though. It's a very good part of a chapter which for some reason wasn't shown.
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Post Post #12 (ISO) » Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:36 pm

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Thestatusquo wrote:I feel sorry for anyone who didnt know about game of thrones until it became an (overrated) tv show.

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Post Post #13 (ISO) » Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:38 pm

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Not really. I'm not saying I knew about it before everyone else. Anyone who likes good fantasy had. I am saying the books are so much better than the show that its not even close.
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Post Post #14 (ISO) » Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:40 pm

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Oh, yeah, the books are far better, it's a decent adaption though I think.
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Post Post #15 (ISO) » Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:41 pm

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Decent, yes. OMG worthy, no.
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Post Post #16 (ISO) » Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:58 pm

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I just started watching it yesterday. It's pretty cool. I liiiiiike Sean Bean.

I like him in pretty much everything. I liked him a lot in Lord of the Rings.

With my luck though, he'll get killed off in the last episode or something.
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Post Post #17 (ISO) » Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:32 pm

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ReaperCharlie wrote:I just started watching it yesterday. It's pretty cool. I liiiiiike Sean Bean.

I like him in pretty much everything. I liked him a lot in Lord of the Rings.

With my luck though, he'll get killed off in the last episode or something.



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Post Post #18 (ISO) » Thu Jun 30, 2011 2:44 pm

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I feel like a decent adaptation is OMG worthy.
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Post Post #19 (ISO) » Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:38 am

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I read the first book a while back (2 years ago?), but the fact that NONE of the loose ends in the plots are tied by the end of the book pissed me off a bit at the time.
Specially the two exiled brothers living with "the mongols", I was really digging that thread in the story, and then the book ends and they didn't interface with the main plot AT ALL
:-(

I might give the series another chance when I get some more free time for reading.
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Post Post #20 (ISO) » Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:01 am

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Discovered the series through the TV adaptation (which is excellent, and should be running away with the Emmys this year), and have now got into the books due to not being able to wait a whole year for season two (I am aware I will have to wait much longer for books six and seven, though). Just finished A Clash of Kings and will get my hands on a copy of A Storm of Swords soon.

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Post Post #21 (ISO) » Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:14 am

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Thestatusquo wrote:Decent, yes. OMG worthy, no.


I actually disagree with that. They can't compare to the books, obviously, but it's a fantastically done TV show and a really good adaption of the books. It was a bit rushed, as it had to be with the massive books, but I'm not sure how much better they could have done it.
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Post Post #22 (ISO) » Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:17 am

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Claus wrote:I read the first book a while back (2 years ago?), but the fact that NONE of the loose ends in the plots are tied by the end of the book pissed me off a bit at the time.
Specially the two exiled brothers living with "the mongols", I was really digging that thread in the story, and then the book ends and they didn't interface with the main plot AT ALL
:-(

I might give the series another chance when I get some more free time for reading.

...I've no idea what you're talkiing about with this spoiler Claus. Are you sure you're not confusing it with something else? OH, unless you mean Dany, who's a girl. And remember it's a 7 book series, so.

@ CDB: Storm is the best book, in my opinion, enjoy.
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Post Post #23 (ISO) » Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:25 am

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Faraday wrote:
...I've no idea what you're talkiing about with this spoiler Claus. Are you sure you're not confusing it with something else? OH, unless you mean Dany, who's a girl. And remember it's a 7 book series, so.


You are right, I meant brother and sister, my bad.

I know it is a 7 book series, but
I was expecting story lines within the same book to be connected in that book. To have two story lines completely in parallel, and never connect within the first book miffed me a bit at the time
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Post Post #24 (ISO) » Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:30 am

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It actually works out pretty well in future books, I mean there are sort of *3* distinct stories, the wall is pretty much seperate from the rest of the politics of westeros too for quite a while, that'll eventually all be interwoven.
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