Game of Thrones
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bvanderberg
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I'm looking forward more to seeing how Arya kills Cersei, but yeah - best thing on or off TV.
Gallowbraid
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Sansa marries the Night King and finally gets to be the pretty pretty princess she's always wanted to be. They go on to have lots of white walker babies.
That's my guess anyway.
I hope Sansa dies in the first episode.
@Dave if you like Game of Thrones make sure you check out The Last Kingdom on Netflix. I like to think it's the story of @Haggis in his youth. Basically Game of Thrones with Vikings.
That's my guess anyway.
I hope Sansa dies in the first episode.
@Dave if you like Game of Thrones make sure you check out The Last Kingdom on Netflix. I like to think it's the story of @Haggis in his youth. Basically Game of Thrones with Vikings.
offcamber
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I'm embarrassed to admit that my wife and I haven't been watching Game of Thrones...at least not until 2 and half weeks ago. We grudgingly watched the first couple of episodes and got hooked. Now we are already halfway through Season 3! I swear we are still going to work and feeding our children.
That’s on my list for sure when I get time. I loved Vikings until they killed off Ragnar and then the whole Ivar the Boneless story kinda lost my attention.
Everyone keeps telling me about this show. I am half way through season 1. I like it so far, but there is too much gratuitous/violent sex. Those fans might like pornhub better. Just give me straight violence. They are also foreshadowing "dragons". There was a wedding gift of dragon eggs. If they introduce a live dragon, I'm out.
Everyone keeps telling me about this show. I am half way through season 1. I like it so far, but there is too much gratuitous/violent sex. Those fans might like pornhub better. Just give me straight violence. They are also foreshadowing "dragons". There was a wedding gift of dragon eggs. If they introduce a live dragon, I'm out.
The gratuitous stuff becomes less and less as the show goes on. Season one (character development) was pretty spicy...
Herbie
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As someone who first read a dog-eared copy of A Game of Thrones like almost 20 years ago, it's hard to even guess what it's going to feel like to finally have an end to this story. (Even if it deviates in some form from Martin's written ending, should he ever actually finish the series...)
If you stuck it out through more than just the first book, good job grinding it out.
Same.
Or.
Not for those catching up
The Night King wins allowing Martin to accomplish his goal of killing everyone's favorite character.
Optimistic Paranoid
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I stumbled across various excerpt videos on Youtube. I don't have HBO, nor do I ever intend to spend money on getting it, so I decided to hold off until the series was finished, buy all the DVDs, and binge watch it then.
Everyone keeps telling me about this show. I am half way through season 1. I like it so far, but there is too much gratuitous/violent sex. Those fans might like pornhub better. Just give me straight violence. They are also foreshadowing "dragons". There was a wedding gift of dragon eggs. If they introduce a live dragon, I'm out.
What Dave said. The first season was overly gratuitous but I think they learned as the seasons went on and there is almost none now, comparatively. My wife stopped watching for a while but came back to it in later seasons.
Herbie
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I've read all the mainline books, the Dunc & Egg tales, and now I'm slogging through Blood and Fire.
Unless you're really into the GoT stuff and want all the backstory, I don't recommend B&F. It is not written as a narrative, it's written as a "caricature" of one of the dry, scholarly histories that Martin pokes fun at in the main books. Except that the caricature is dead accurate - it actually reads like a history book about a long-dead dynasty. The putative author compares different "source material" when recounting each event, as a 21st century author might do when trying to cobble together the most accurate-as-possible review of 17th century history.
If you would be unhappy reading about the entire lineage, achievements, and internecine conflicts of one of the families of old-world Europe or Asia, then B&F isn't going to be much better. That said, I read about 40 books a year, so I'm using this one to keep the Westerosi fires burning until the show comes back.
Herbie
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To be more accurate: They've really toned down the sex/nudity. Early seasons had what came to be called "sexposition", where critical expository history/info was dumped during sex scenes. They've moved away from that. There is still a LOT of violence through a good portion of the show's run, though, and some of it is pretty graphic.
You're a trooper. Reading a paragraph about a long dead ancestor that played no real benefit to the main story or development of a character became annoying to me. It turned reading into a chore instead of entertainment, so I turned away in favor of just enjoying it on screen... of which, I've been a fan since the first episode aired. Can't wait to see how this saga will reach its end.
For those that might not understand my complaint about the books... here's the character listing: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/List_of_characters
