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  1. And in the lesbian sexposition scene from Season 1.
  2. Holy God I did not see the Reynes of Castamere coming in the credits!!!!!!!!!!!!!GEEKS OUT!! I think it happens during the day, but the did it at night because it would be cheaper, and look more real. Win win
  3. I, too, am a bit nonplussed by people saying the chain's implausible. Hell, the United States used a chain boom in its Revolution! It was stretched out across the Hudson where the U.S. Military Academy at West Point stands today. They only fell out of efficacy when, you know, metal ships driven by something other than oars and wind took over naval tactics.
  4. Someone else already said this, but I'm going to repeat it because it's a lot of the root of this feeling: the heart of the problem is the expansion of the narrative. ACOK has much more going in terms of locations and subplots that AGOT, and not only that, but the TV show is also bound by the rules of television, which is: you don't sign actors to not do anything. Thus you have time spent with Robb that was never spent in the actual book, for example.
  5. Well, I don't know about this........but I will say there are a lot of great actors out there who never get their due.
  6. Lol actually if I'm not mistaken, I think he says YOUR red woman--more like he's gently mocking Davos than anything.
  7. Pardon my relative ignorance of taxonomy, but aren't crows and ravens pretty much the same thing?
  8. I don't want to give the impression that I'm a film/CGI expert, but from everything I've heard or read, good CGI is still very expensive. Now, here's the key. Is good CGI expensive for a 2 hour movie with a 100 million dollar budget? Perhaps not. Is good CGI expensive for a 10 hour television show witha 40 million dollar budget that already has a large portion earmarked for a huge battle sequence? I would say it's a bit more of a sacrifice. And while you are correct that the price has come down, it's not an all across the board decrease. Like any product, there are levels of quality. Sure, CGI is cheaper if you are throwing people in front of a fake looking greenscreen and are okay with hideous Syfy channel original movie SFX. But if you want seamless, realistic CGI? You're still going to have to fork over the cash. It's no different than any other product really. Take cars. Sure, cars have become ubiquitous and we've basically perfected the means of producing them. Yet there are still junkers that cost 1000 dollars and fall to pieces in two years, and name brands that cost 100,000 dollars and look nicer and have all the other accoutrements. Same thing with CGI--I think D&D would rather limit the dragons' exposure than to have a bunch of episodes fill with some terrible generic CGI piece of crap.
  9. Not to make it all about money here, but CGI is very expensive (unless you want it to look like something off the Syfy channel), and we've already heard that they devoted a large amount of the show's budget to Blackwater--so I would say that accounts for some of the absence of the dragons, and even the direwolves.
  10. I'm almost as positive of this as I can be without being intimately involved in the show, and I'm surprised that people haven't caught onto the fact that this is where the narrative is heading; the writer's have managed to get Littlefinger to Bitterbridge while allowing LF to deliver Ned's bones and have a scene with Cat--masterful writing, TBH. Gave this one a ten. Best of this season, loved everything about it. A little surprise to me was the final scene in Qarth where Jorah's love becomes more apparent and Dany finally catches onto his feelings for her...but then again I'm a sap for romance so...
  11. But that's the whole point, LOC. She is a blubbering, desperate fool. Qarth has no reason to admit her. She's starved, decrepit, delirious, and entirely in their power. She has no strength to back her up. Her situation in the scene is completely understandable, as are the 13's reactions. I don't mind how it went in the book either--I think both scenes would make sense in their own contexts. I don't think she was a silent sister. And are we sure she wasn't Jeyne? I kind of got the impression she was...dunno why. But even if she isn't, does it matter if she isn't Jeyne and becomes Robb's love interest? The catalyst for the RW is not, as you say, Robb and Jeyne, the catalyst is more Robb and lower-class girl he married in violation of pact with Freys.
  12. Doesn't mean she doesn't mispronounced words. For an anecdotal example, my sister has this friend call Brittany. She pronounces it Britt-A-knee, not Britt-knee. She introduced herself to me as Britt-A-knee. The first time I called her by her name, I said Britt-knee, and she was in the awkward position of correcting me. There are standard tropes and expectations of language, and considering this is a city Dany had never glimpsed or understood before, it simply doesn't surprise me she would make that mistake. Likewise, while I agree that Kwarth seen made her look a little foolish, I think you're more supposed to feel sympathy for her than anything. Of course she looks foolish. She is weak. She's hungry. She's blistered by the sun. Her mind is not at 100% by any means. She's approaching a great and powerful city with a "horde" composed of forty people and a horse (and three dragons). The Qartheen have absolute power over her at that moment. Anyone is going to look like a fool and a child in that situation, especially one that is half-starved, delirious and profoundly desperate.
  13. I honestly think that was an in-joke, because of the English language's phoneme "qu", which is pretty much the only form of "Q" in English--that is, whenever you see a q, with very, very, very, very, very, rare exception, it has a "u" after it, making that "kwa" sound. So I can just see half the actors and set workers on GOT mistakenly pronouncing it KWARTH, simply because that's what English has taught them to do, and then D&D adding that line in for clarification and a nudge at the crew. And speaking of that scene, I'm a little surprised at the widespread negative reaction to it. I thought it was one of the best in the show, especially showcasing Dany's desperate situation and the weakness of her position. Emilia Clarke's acting in this scene was spot on. The poor girl has been wandering the desert with little food and less relief for weaks, it doesn't surprise me one bit that she wouldn't be at the top of her game in dealing with a city's ruling class.
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