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Oh, OK. I mostly follow the threads I've posted in so I didn't realise.

guys you do know you dont get notifications if you're quoted in a thread you are following...

I've made some changes to the backend to hopefully alleviate a little stress. We'll see what happens; I'm stuck at work, so I'm keeping only half an eye on things, and it will probably take about 15 minutes-ish from this to settle down after the changes I made. We'll see if it improves anything.

Yo, Sparks, thanks for all your work!! Sending you heaps of patience for the onslaught when the new season starts.

see the announcements thread here

mine works.

mind you, most of the people I ignore end up banned anyway

I've reported the latest one

Heh my ad is for wedding planners!!! :rofl: :lol:

As a wild thought, maybe that's because you knew it was going to happen? Almost every professional critic has said what a wonderful job they did of creating suspense.

I've read the scene in the books many times, and the suspense and tension is still as strong and haunting as ever.

The thing is, with many scenes, one viewing of the TV version is enough to override the picture in my head of that scene, derived from my reading. "Dracarys" especially springs to mind, as does "stick it with the pointy end" and Bran's fall.

BUT not the red wedding, and it should have.

poor child is so traumatized she cant spell

I don't see how it could have the same emotional punch since you already knew what was going to happen. I personally loved the episode, 10/10.

I've read the scene in the books many times, and the suspense and tension is still as strong and haunting as ever.

The thing is, with many scenes, one viewing of the TV version is enough to override the picture in my head of that scene, derived from my reading. "Dracarys" especially springs to mind, as does "stick it with the pointy end" and Bran's fall.

BUT not the red wedding, and it should have.

I had to think on this for a day, at first i wasnt so entirely sure what i thought of the episode, and the adaptation of the red wedding.

However in retrospect, I can;t lie to myself the episode was simply decent-to-good, I rate it an 8. It might seem liek im beign a bit harsh considering the restraints of tv but some of the changes seemed like really poor choices, not to discredit the things the did well.

The depiction of the red wedding in particular just wasn't what it could been. It wasn't bad by any means, hell i dont watch much tv but it wouldn't be hard to imagine that something like this is unprecedented on television. It's just considering that this was THE moment that made D&D want to write the show, the event the they wanted to adapt to tv the most, it is dissapointing. I expected better, sadly what i got was conformation that the tv adaptation would continue to merely be decent.

I agree

I gave it an 8.

Ran explained my disappointment over atmosphere better than i can!!

I have reread the books several times, and that chapter never fails to be haunting and heartwrenching.

With all the extra sources of drama, it just didnt live up to the promise.