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The king who cared.. about grammar.

(Dillaine is amazing though. He just is Stannis.)

bungobaggins wrote:I am slowly getting caught up. Watched episode 2 today. Thought it was good, liked it a lot more than the first episode.

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Nice post count Bungo!

Square.

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If Stannis the Mannis captures Winterfell, Sansa has a lot of explaining to do.

Bluebottle wrote:Interesting to hear your thoughts, Bungo. I think we all found episode one a bit of a let down. I'll be interested to hear what you make of the rest of the series. Keep us updated.

I think what I didn't like about the second episode was how quickly Arya was let into the house of B&W. I love the stuff with Pod and Brienne, more of that, please.

I hope the plot in Dorne gets good, because the characters there seem kind of dull. "Oh let's walk around and look at stuff in this garden, we're so in love, but will we ever be anything more than tertiary characters?"

Fun to get your perspective. I had a slightly less positive view of the first two episodes. I could link you my reviews, but.. while they're not spoilery, they're pretty negative. So, I can perfectly understand you not wanting to let that cloud your own more positive outlook.

A familiar face is apparently returning.

Spoiler:

Some nice pictures form the upcoming episode.

http://watchersonthewall.com/photos-released-from-game-of-thrones-season-5-episode-6-unbowed-unbent-unbroken/

glad to hear she is returning.

Yeah, I feel a bit more hopeful knowing she's returning.

I'm a bit hesitant, worried, even affraid of seeing yesterdays episode considering the pre-broadcast rumours. (I've managed to avoid post-broadcast spoilers.) But I'm going to give it a go.

Wish me luck.

That Vikings series is pretty darn good!

GOT S5E6

so empowerment

much feminism

Well, I did manage to get caught up to episode 5.

Spoiler:

Maybe it's the negativity here, but season 5 seems tired to me now.

So, is this how the books go? What book are they on now?

Books four and five have their issues (the fourth one was such a drop off from the peak of book three that I didn't read the fifth book until three years after it was published), but they're so far ahead of season five that it's not even funny.  And they do have a lot of depth that shows through on more careful re-reads.

Anyway, the structure of the story so far is as follows:

Book 1 = Season 1
Book 2 = Season 2 (mostly)
Book 3 = Seasons 3 and 4
Books 4 and 5 = take place concurrently, have been combined for season 5, but the story is moving so far from the books that it's hard to compare the two anymore

I'm curious for your take on episode six as someone who hasn't read the books, bungo. Blue and I were both pretty disgusted by it but there's always the danger of the echo chamber leading to criticisms getting out of hand. But from where I am right now ... I think it was really bad.

I'm reading reactions to this episode on another forum and this one person is arguing at length and rather eloquently that the Winterfell plotline in S5 exists to show how Sansa has changed since her time in King's Landing.  I'm really trying to be open-minded about this and actually to be honest I could see the writers having intended for the plotline to work this way.  But the Sansa marriage plot makes no fucking sense at all ... there's no plausible endgame in it for anyone.  And if the preview for next week is any indication, Sansa is still the victim (as if that wasn't fucking obvious enough from this episode).  I mean, does anyone doubt that

Spoiler:

Other than one-liners like her quip to Myranda in episode six, where is the empowerment Sansa was supposed to have received?  She was manipulating Littlefinger at the end of season four, but in this season, she goes along with his Winterfell plan with a minimum of resistance despite the fact that it offers nothing for her.  She just buys into his paper-thin justification and keeps going along even after Brienne and the geriatric conspiracy offer her an out.  That's something Sansa from S2 would do, sure, but she's supposed to have grown and changed since then.

Edit: and don't forget that Littlefinger definitely didn't know about Ramsay's fucked-up-ness, according to the writer of this episode.  Because that makes sense, right?  Oh, and you gotta love that

Spoiler:

Eldorion wrote:I'm curious for your take on episode six as someone who hasn't read the books, bungo.  Blue and I were both pretty disgusted by it but there's always the danger of the echo chamber leading to criticisms getting out of hand.  But from where I am right now ... I think it was really bad.

Well, I watched it.

There were good moments in the previous episodes, like Tyrion seeing the Drogon, Tyrion and Varys traveling in the "box". There were no moments like that in this episode. This episode felt like a chore: wasn't fun to watch, but felt obligated to do it.

Spoiler:

I kind of feel like going on awikioficeandfire and reading all the spoilers. I mean, I don't feel as attached to this as I do to something like The Dark Tower series.

eh...

A brief recap of me watching episode 6:

reading spoilerz

I'm 3 episodes behind. And now I'm dreading what's coming.

The people on other forums arguing "wait and see how they handle the fallout" reminds me of people saying the same thing after the Cersei/Jaime scene last year. Shame that the writers have given us very little reason to think they're able or interested in depicting that, or that they even realize the scope of their own changes half the time.

got is boring now... i just see everyone fucking up everything. except Arya, her storyline is awesome. i like Sansa but i feel so bad for her, she always ends up with psycopaths. i'm just waiting for her to take charge of her life and kill off Ramsay.

I think even book purists would cheer if Sansa kills Ramsey.

i recommend you all start watching vikings, ok i've only seen that one episode, but it's fjordia and awesome costumes and it seems exiting  some historical flaws, but you need some artistic freedom (althoguh it has gotten many aspects correctly)  it's an awesome series.