[darthYENIK]

QUOTE (GTAvanja @ Sunday, Apr 1 2012, 09:53)

Am I the only one hoping for more sex scenes with Daenerys this season? Look at this cute face:

I'm halfway through a Clash of Kings and I wouldn't count on this.

Although who knows. In the show they added a few "love scenes" and took a couple out as well.

[vertical limit]

QUOTE (GTAvanja @ Sunday, Apr 1 2012, 13:53)

QUOTE (vertical limit @ Sunday, Apr 1 2012, 15:28) My watched it and said it is like Sopranos but with swords. I'm gonna guess you meant to say your family watched it. In which case, your family is not all that bright.

Oh FML. My family doesn't enjoy foreign TV Shows.

It is my friend btw.

[kamuran]

I have a legit link in HD of the first episode. Is it okay if I send this out to people mods? How could I so I do not get in trouble?

[darthYENIK]

Kind of disappointed with the premiere.

It feels like they took out a lot of the story from the book. I mean, what happened with the Tullys? Riverrun is nowhere to be found. Tyrion is supposed to keep Shae in hiding. The abandoned villages in the haunted forest north of the wall. The Walder Freys in Winterfell. No Vaes Tolorro. And Osha didn't go skinny dipping giving Bran his first glimpse of a naked woman. Not to say this stuff won't be in episodes yet to come. But it feels like they omitted scenes so they could put in new scenes. Like why does the whore from Winterfell that's only mentioned in third person once in the book by Theon, a reoccurring character? Not that I don't appreciate her sweet boobage.

Maybe I'm over thinking it.

Oh, and Ser Dontos didn't seem drunk enough to attempt pantsless jousting.

[El_Diablo]

I've never read the books so tonight's episode was pretty enjoyable for me

the one thing I was confused about is why the desert people with the dragon girl are suddenly lost.
isn't that their land? where those people were born and raised? obviously white girl and her guardian dude aren't familiar with the area.

but I don't know why she had to send people out to discover what was around them.

[darthYENIK]

QUOTE (El_Diablo @ Sunday, Apr 1 2012, 21:19)

I've never read the books so tonight's episode was pretty enjoyable for me the one thing I was confused about is why the desert people with the dragon girl are suddenly lost. isn't that their land? where those people were born and raised? obviously white girl and her guardian dude aren't familiar with the area. but I don't know why she had to send people out to discover what was around them.

At the end of last season the tribe they were in disbanded. Taking the thousands of warriors and strong with them. This left Daenarys with a few slaves and weak people. The knight kind of explains it, if they go back to the lands of the Dothraki, the warriors that split from the tribe will probably find them and as is their way, kill them because they're weak, and then take the Dragons. So they move east to find someplace safe. The problem is the desert is east. And since they don't know where they're going they get lost. In the book they wander until they're all practically dead, and then find an abandoned city(Vaes Tolorro), where they find water and some food. This is when she sends the riders out to find civilization.

And it's not that I didn't find it enjoyable. Disappointed was probably too harsh a word. I just don't understand why SOME of the changes are made.

[Otter]

Very well done, over all. Was a little disappointed we didn't open with the attempted assassination but it was rather neat. I loved how she knew what was going down already. That was attitude.

Needed more Patchface. And the tracking shot with the star in the sky? Should have just cut that out.

Glad to see a bit more of the wolves, finally!

[darthYENIK]

QUOTE (Otter @ Sunday, Apr 1 2012, 22:01)

Very well done, over all.  Was a little disappointed we didn't open with the attempted assassination but it was rather neat.  I loved how she knew what was going down already. That was attitude. Needed more Patchface.  And the tracking shot with the star in the sky?  Should have just cut that out. Glad to see a bit more of the wolves, finally!

YES!!! I really want to see if they make him look close to how I imagine him.

[methods]

Good opener, book 2 opens up so many more story paths so good luck to them if they even manage to craft a comprehensible season considering they'll need to cut so many parts out.

[El_Diablo]

QUOTE (darthYENIK @ Sunday, Apr 1 2012, 22:36)

At the end of last season the tribe they were in disbanded.  Taking the thousands of warriors and strong with them.  This left Daenarys with a few slaves and weak people.  The knight kind of explains it, if they go back to the lands of the Dothraki, the warriors that split from the tribe will probably find them and as is their way, kill them because they're weak, and then take the Dragons.  So they move east to find someplace safe.  The problem is the desert is east.  And since they don't know where they're going they get lost.

I can't tell if you answered my question or not lol....

see I know all that. I understand why they have to travel the route they've started on.
but I thought (without having read the books) that the sand people were from that part of the world, like they had lived there for thousands of years or whatever - while across the ocean is the continent with the empires and kings and "The North" - and they were each pretty familiar with their part of the world.

it just struck me as odd (having not read the books ) that these people were suddenly lost.
are you saying that their people just never explored this desert area?

is it like one of the few uncharted places in their world?

[darthYENIK]

They're nomads. They have no real home. The only place they can really call home is the vast grassy plain which is where dozens of rival tribes roam. It's so vast that it would take weeks to cross, and the only safe haven is the one city, Vaes Dothrak, somewhere in the middle. Before Khal Drogo (the chief) died, they were heading southeast to find and plunder the cities in the south and east, and then sail to the seven kingdoms (where the rest of the show takes place), and claim the throne. The land they were traveling in when he died, was foreign to them, so when the tribe disbanded, most of the strong people, and probably those that had any idea where they were going, left them to die. So when we saw them in this episode they were in a land they've never been in, and only traveling in the direction they believed was the way to take them to these cities in the south and east, not knowing for sure where they were, or when they would reach these cities.

EDIT: The thing about this world is that it's much larger than the show lets on. For some reason in the show, they show one scene where they are in Winterfell, where the Starks are from, and then the next scene they are in King's Landing. What they don't show you is the journey. It took days to get from one place to the other.

This post has been edited by darthYENIK on Monday, Apr 2 2012, 14:33

[Voodoo]

QUOTE (darthYENIK @ Monday, Apr 2 2012, 09:24)

EDIT: The thing about this world is that it's much larger than the show lets on. For some reason in the show, they show one scene where they are in Winterfell, where the Starks are from, and then the next scene they are in King's Landing. What they don't show you is the journey. It took days to get from one place to the other.

Another thing to consider is that while these areas may seem small to us, societies without mechanized transportation are much more localized. Average people would live out their entire lives within an area of a few square miles. It's totally understandable that they would be unfamiliar with areas beyond that scope. It can be a difficult concept to grasp for someone living in our connected world.

[Otter]

Well, yeah, the simple explanation is that they were between a rock and a hard place, and chose to cross a desert thought by the Dothraki to be impassable - therefore, the whole crew, even the blood riders, are completely in the dark.

[Sauron]

One thing that really bugged me was Jaime cowering from the Dire wolf, dude's supposed to be f*cking fearless.

[El_Diablo]

QUOTE (Sauron @ Monday, Apr 2 2012, 16:20)

One thing that really bugged me was Jaime cowering from the Dire wolf, dude's supposed to be f*cking fearless.

so I guess you wouldn't even flinch if a huge wolf was lunging towards you with its mouth open while you're tied to a pole.

you're quite the bad ass

[Otter]

Diablo burn.

I'm with him though. That f*cking wolf is huge. I never took Jaime to be fearless, just arrogant and not willing to let any man make him cower. This is the start of his redemption, of sorts, after all.

[TommyAngelo]

This has to be the best show I've seen in quite sometime.

The guy that marries his daughters to make more daughters, I hope something dreadful happens to him.

[Marlowe.]

QUOTE (darthYENIK @ Monday, Apr 2 2012, 14:31)

And Osha didn't go skinny dipping giving Bran his first glimpse of a naked woman.

Dang. I would have been happy to have seen that, Natalia Tena is quite the looker.

I'm content with the slow show opener, giving each story it's fair share of the pie, signals events are only going to get more chaotic as the season rolls along and I reckon subsequent episode will place heavier focus on individual arcs in each episode.

[Straznicy]

As was said earlier, the second book introduces so many more characters and stories into the fold. It's going to be interesting to see which ones they focus on, cos there's absolutely no way they'll be able to include everything.

Was pleased with the opener, but I'm now deciding whether to wait til the whole season plays and watch the episodes back-to-back, or follow as normal. Boardwalk Empire's second season was far too slow to watch on TV once a week; the opening episode of the second season here was indicative of that as well.

[Marlowe.]

Episode two has leaked, if any impatient viewers want to take a look. I know have.

I'll try smiling with my lips closed for the time being.