Game of Thrones Season 2 discussion (spoilers), for those that have read the books / seen latest US episodes Options

[martyr]

Phew! Finally watched the last ep.

Liked the last 2 eps of the season the most. Very much liked the White Walkers at the end, can't wait til season 3 (haven't read the books either).

[Gir]

They could at least make Rhaego have white/silver hair :\

Dominant genes bitches.

Let the commoner reign supreme!!

[Genders]

SPOILERS & QUESTIONS

Last two episodes were great. I've not read the books, but as a TV series - I've enjoyed it so far. The second series was a bit dull in the middle, though it's picked up to the end.

Jaqen H'ghar was / is a bad ass. I'd like to see more of him. Reckon he comes back in the third season?

JWho burnt Winter Fell? Was it the retreating Iron Born troops or did Ramsay Snow burn it down? If is was Ramsay Snow, is he acting on orders of his father? Breaking away from House Stark?

Why the hell hasn't Sansa left Kings Landing with Sandor Clegane? Has he left now and become an outlaw after telling Joffrey to go fuck himself?

I'm assuming Benjen Stark is Mance Rayder? Well, that's my guess at it. He's been gone since the first series and "disappeared" after a patrol beyond the wall?

From the North are we more in fear of the White Walkers or the King Beyond the Wall? Mance seems to have a pretty big settlement, though when the White Walkers turned up at the end of the episode there were a lot of Wildings wearing the white cloaks. Saw some Nights Watch as well

The Stark children wandering around all over Westeros looking for each other is starting to getting annoying / frustrating...hurray up and find each other...

I'm supporting Daenerys Targaryen, Danny, I'm looking forward to her coming into more power in the third series. I really want to see her fucking shit up with her dragons

[Periander]

The Stark children wandering around all over Westeros looking for each other is starting to getting annoying / frustrating...hurray up and find each other...

*Ambiguous Double Spoiler*
South Park ski instructor...
*/Ambiguous Double Spoiler*

This post has been edited by Periander: Jun 12 2012, 08:32 AM

[BeDLaM#29]

SPOILERS & QUESTIONS

Last two episodes were great. I've not read the books, but as a TV series - I've enjoyed it so far. The second series was a bit dull in the middle, though it's picked up to the end.

Jaqen H'ghar was / is a bad ass. I'd like to see more of him. Reckon he comes back in the third season?
If they follow the books, only very briefly. We do get more of the faceless men but probably not for another season or two

JWho burnt Winter Fell? Was it the retreating Iron Born troops or did Ramsay Snow burn it down? If is was Ramsay Snow, is he acting on orders of his father? Breaking away from House Stark?
You got it at the latter. The Bolton's have long bickered with the Starks

Why the hell hasn't Sansa left Kings Landing with Sandor Clegane? Because she is shit scared of the Hound
Has he left now and become an outlaw after telling Joffrey to go fuck himself? Yes

I'm assuming Benjen Stark is Mance Rayder? Well, that's my guess at it. He's been gone since the first series and "disappeared" after a patrol beyond the wall?
He did dissapear didn't he

From the North are we more in fear of the White Walkers or the King Beyond the Wall? Mance seems to have a pretty big settlement, though when the White Walkers turned up at the end of the episode there were a lot of Wildings wearing the white cloaks. Saw some Nights Watch as well
I'll take on a thousand wildlings led by ten Kings beyond the Wall before I'd go up against a single White Walker

The Stark children wandering around all over Westeros looking for each other is starting to getting annoying / frustrating...hurray up and find each other...
It is going to get alot more frustrating yet

I'm supporting Daenerys Targaryen, Danny, I'm looking forward to her coming into more power in the third series. I really want to see her fucking shit up with her dragons
Don't hold your breath

[Director]

Ahhhaahah haaaa haaaaaaaaaaa aha ha hah hyaahahahhhahh - wheeezzeee- hahahahahahahahahahahahaa!!!!

Looks like the show is copping some flak for doing what about a billion people want to do in real life but know wont happen cos of 'special privileges'.

Link

The medieval-fantasy television drama Game Of Thrones has long drawn flack for its violence, nudity, language and the countless taboo themes they explore, but now the show is really under fire - for cutting off the head of a US president and mounting it on a pike. Without giving away too much, the finale of season one features a scene where one of the major characters meets a grisly end, with their head lopped off and offered up for all to see.

And when it is seen, there alongside is the head of former president George Bush, dripping blood as it sits atop a spear, pictured.

A pic is at the link....best easter egg ever.

'It's despicable,'' said the chairman of the Brooklyn Republican Party, Craig Eaton. ''Americans of all political persuasions should stand up and demand that things like this should not continue. They should boycott watching this particular show.''

Further proving that politicians are so far removed from the minds of the electorate that they might as well be living on Mars.

[@~thehung]

[@~thehung]

i have to say Daenerys was a major let down this season :/

the horse-heart-eating emerging badass from last season just stagnated. her character arc felt more like a cul-de-sac. "My dragons" *wimper* "I'm important!" *sniff* "My dragons" *cry* ...rinse and repeat.

is the actress struggling to deliver a certain gravitas and majesty because a) she is miscast, b) its just not in the script, or c) her character is actually that insipid and tiresome in the book?

[Harmonic Cacopho...]

Also, is it just me or did she rock up with about 20 tribesmen, all but a few got slaughtered in the dragon theft, then there were about 20 of them again looting the place at the end? And no one much seemed to care that all their remaining people got killed.

[i_am_banned2]

She probably just got more from the Temp agency.

[Director]

Also, is it just me or did she rock up with about 20 tribesmen, all but a few got slaughtered in the dragon theft, then there were about 20 of them again looting the place at the end? And no one much seemed to care that all their remaining people got killed.

Glad someone else noticed that...

[ArcaneMagik]

Mitosis
Dothraki procreate through mitosis.

[Gir]

i have to say Daenerys was a major let down this season :/

the horse-heart-eating emerging badass from last season just stagnated. her character arc felt more like a cul-de-sac. "My dragons" *wimper* "I'm important!" *sniff* "My dragons" *cry* ...rinse and repeat.

is the actress struggling to deliver a certain gravitas and majesty because a) she is miscast, b) its just not in the script, or c) her character is actually that insipid and tiresome in the book?

Though she was annoying, I thought the point was to show her weaknesses getting the better of her right before she gets fucked over, says 'fuck that noise, thanks for the lesson' and goes hardcore-Queen-of-the-Dragons-bitch.

Mind you I haven't read beyond the second book, so I'm yet to know if that's the case but I'm fairly certain it's her destined path.

But if I were her I would hit Ser Jorah so hard. I would hit several characters like an angry White Walker.

This post has been edited by Gir: Jun 16 2012, 02:39 PM

[Nich...]

is the actress struggling to deliver a certain gravitas and majesty because a) she is miscast, b) its just not in the script, or c) her character is actually that insipid and tiresome in the book?

I don't think it's the actress, but the source material. The character shows a lot of promise and potential and does SFA with it for a looooong time. I'm unsure on whether this is GRRM's attempt to show that she really is just a young teenage girl, or poor writing.

[BeDLaM#29]

Dany is a little whingy bitch. I liked her in book 1, she bored me in book 2, liked her again in book 3, but in book 5 I actually began to actively dislike her. Couldn't help but think it was deliberate.

I seriously think George is gonna flip it and make her a mad Targaryen like her father, she'll sit the iron throne and throw Westeros into even more of a tizzy than it is in, with Others attacking from the north, it'll be someone else (Jon Snow and the Starks?) who saves the seven kingdoms.

[plebsmacker]

Dany is a little whingy bitch. I liked her in book 1, she bored me in book 2, liked her again in book 3, but in book 5 I actually began to actively dislike her. Couldn't help but think it was deliberate.

I seriously think George is gonna flip it and make her a mad Targaryen like her father, she'll sit the iron throne and throw Westeros into even more of a tizzy than it is in, with Others attacking from the north, it'll be someone else (Jon Snow and the Starks?) who saves the seven kingdoms.

Jon Snow is dead

[MrFriendly]

Dany is a little whingy bitch. I liked her in book 1, she bored me in book 2, liked her again in book 3, but in book 5 I actually began to actively dislike her. Couldn't help but think it was deliberate.

I seriously think George is gonna flip it and make her a mad Targaryen like her father, she'll sit the iron throne and throw Westeros into even more of a tizzy than it is in, with Others attacking from the north, it'll be someone else (Jon Snow and the Starks?) who saves the seven kingdoms.

Jon Snow is dead

Which made me a sad panda, he was one of my favorite characters towards the end.

[BeDLaM#29]

Dany is a little whingy bitch. I liked her in book 1, she bored me in book 2, liked her again in book 3, but in book 5 I actually began to actively dislike her. Couldn't help but think it was deliberate.

I seriously think George is gonna flip it and make her a mad Targaryen like her father, she'll sit the iron throne and throw Westeros into even more of a tizzy than it is in, with Others attacking from the north, it'll be someone else (Jon Snow and the Starks?) who saves the seven kingdoms.

Jon Snow is dead

Which made me a sad panda, he was one of my favorite characters towards the end.

Jon Snow will warg into Ghost and then Melisandre will re-animate his body.

The whole Thoros / Dondarrion / Catlyn told us that a Red Priest can raise a dead man (not to mention R'hllor / Victarion). The Six Skins intro showed us a warg could live on through death by warging into the skin of an animal.

According to the prophecy recounted by Melisandre, after a long summer, Azor Ahai will be reborn amidst smoke and salt wielding the flaming sword Lightbringer to defend the world from R'hllor's nemesis, the Other. Bowen Marsh's tears provide the salt and Jon Snow's wounds smoke. Milessandre will rebirth him, no longer tied to the Night's Watch as his watch ends with his death, and he'll march to Winterfell with his Wildling host, claim Lightbringer from Ramsay and crown himself king in the north.

Ofcourse it all fits so well that it is almost definitely wrong

[ArcaneMagik]

Fits better than the other choices for the prophecy, assuming the prophecy will come true.

[Nich...]

Assumed the prophecy was about Dany, TBH, and kind of liked the spin of her hooking up with Jon if he is indeed a darky Targaryen.