Game of Thrones - Book Readers' Thread - - - Part 20

[Drz]

I just hope next season has a better flow, does anyone else think this season has been incredibly slow? I mean I understand they're on a budget, but did we really need Stannis just marching and marching? Of course we don't know his end game with the tv show, but it was a bit of an shame he didn't unite any Northener clans.

 

[dude stannis]

Probably because they cut every iconinc and cathartic moment from AFFC and ADWD.

 

[Reek]

....stannis hasnt really marched at all this season... so ...?

It is a slow season, but for book readers, a lot of it is very much HIT... or miss... Winterfell is pretty awesome at times... Stannis and Jon have been awesome all season besides... you know...

the rest, yea.. **** that noise. Other then the Drogon music kicking in when he bites the dude in half.

But winterfell really needed my user title as well as a bit more darkness and snow... the sudden fright the Bolton and Freys etc feel when **** starts going down eventually ending up with the BOOM DOOM is missing. which is sad really because it could make for slow, but brillaint scenes.

 

[Reek]

 

[Roose Bolton]

I don't have faith in them in this aspect, but if they do have the scene of Theon walking the Godswood and breaking down before the Old Gods, confessing that he should have died with Robb at the Red Wedding, and the whole epiphany of the Old Gods remembering his name, then I'd be pretty pleased with it.

I've always felt that scene, along with Ygritte's death, were the most emotional moments of the entire series.

 

[dude stannis]

....stannis hasnt really marched at all this season... so ...?

It is a slow season, but for book readers, a lot of it is very much HIT... or miss... Winterfell is pretty awesome at times... Stannis and Jon have been awesome all season besides... you know...

the rest, yea.. **** that noise. Other then the Drogon music kicking in when he bites the dude in half.

But winterfell really needed my user title as well as a bit more darkness and snow... the sudden fright the Bolton and Freys etc feel when **** starts going down eventually ending up with the BOOM DOOM is missing. which is sad really because it could make for slow, but brillaint scenes.

They're not really giving the fact that the North Remembers it's due. It's just an old hand maiden. The idea there is that the Bolton rule of the North is shaky at best and only because they've got the Freys helping them. That tension is gone from the show. Then you've got a serial killer wasting Boltons and Freys left and right in Winterfell, plus another one in the Riverlands.

You feel the machinations for the North's revenge happening, but in the show there's nothing like that.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I don't have faith in them in this aspect, but if they do have the scene of Theon walking the Godswood and breaking down before the Old Gods, confessing that he should have died with Robb at the Red Wedding, and the whole epiphany of the Old Gods remembering his name, then I'd be pretty pleased with it.

I've always felt that scene, along with Ygritte's death, were the most emotional moments of the entire series.

Maybe they will suprise us with the finale. I thought the season started off well, but come midseason it just became a whole lot of bad, outside of Jon and Arya.

 

[Reek]

oh i forgot you Aussies didnt know... ep 10 is extended to 89 minutes...39 are apparently winterfell,

 

[Reek]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

God, she is hot.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Maybe they will suprise us with the finale. I thought the season started off well, but come midseason it just became a whole lot of bad, outside of Jon and Arya.

Yeah, Jon has been a really saving grace this season. It'll make his absence for part of season 6 all the worse

 

[Reek]

Don't worry... Dorne will make up for it

 

[Reek]

God, she is hot.

the hottest one of the entire cast.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Don't worry... Dorne will make up for it

There was one saving grace in Dorne. Well two.

And Bronn. Bronn is always awesome.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Don't worry... Dorne will make up for it

 

[DarthDorranceBane]

I'm not sure Jon will warg in the finale, but I can see Varamyr being used to plant the idea of Jon warging into Ghost in Jon's and the viewer's heads. That way the viewers aren't left without any hope at all.

Spoiler

There were leaked screenshots of Jon Snow lying in a pool of blood with a warg-ing effect on his eyes.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Those were potentially photoshopped, liked the supposed Lady Stoneheart and Kevan pics

 

[Marvolo]

Spoiler

There were leaked screenshots of Jon Snow lying in a pool of blood with a warg-ing effect on his eyes.

I've seen it. Some are claiming the shot of him warging is just photoshoped by some fan. Obviously the shot of him lying on the ground is real, but whether we see his eyes go white is hard to say. That could indeed have been done in Photoshop by a fan.

 

[Marvolo]

oh i forgot you Aussies didnt know... ep 10 is extended to 89 minutes...39 are apparently winterfell,

Its 63 minutes.

 

[Reek]

Yes, Marv. Thank you for clarifying it isn't 89 minutes long

 

[TheFuture]

Those were potentially photoshopped, liked the supposed Lady Stoneheart and Kevan pics

Spoiler

I'm not asking for an image but I'd be curious to know how convincing the Stoneheart image looked? I've always found most manips of her way too clean and not near gruesome enough. George painted an absolutely sickening picture of her.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Well it kind of looked a little too...drawn. I mean,

Spoiler

the picture is blurry as all hell, and there's a lot of snow to match her skin, but yeah it was too clean. It was Cat with white skin and scratches down her cheeks (which she obviously she shouldn't have in the show version). It seemed too much like a manip.

 

[YodaOfTheNorth]

There are rumors that BenJen is alive maybe the show is gonna make him dead but make benJen into Coldhands who maybe helps save Jon. rather have cold hand help then Mel get her meet hooks into Jon awing her a romp or something. We all know what Mel wants from Jon. Something Stannis was too lacking in and something Gendry was also unable to too please her with.

 

[Drz]

....stannis hasnt really marched at all this season... so ...?

Yeah but you know in the books he did more, heck even in Castle Black he did more. Luckily those scenes like the hug and "fewer" rocked my socks off alongside his confrontation with Tarly.

It is a slow season

Yeah, which is bad. Things should be happening, not just building up for episodes 9 and 10.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

There was one saving grace in Dorne. Well two.

And Bronn. Bronn is always awesome.

Both such Hottie's, and yeah, Bronn is great.