sj4iy
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No, because if it sucked now, they wouldn't KEEP watching it every week, and the internet wouldn't be teeming with reaction videos, parodies, reviews, recaps, etc. This season has been absolutely amazing, in terms of quality and reception. The first season had great moments, but we don't really get into the 'game' until Ned is killed.
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Honestly, a simultaneous attack makes more sense than one at a time. Castle Black is weak from the South, strong to the North. Divide up the Night's Watch and you make them weaker than if you just attack one at a time where they can devote their full resources to it. Strategically, what happens in the books doesn't make as much sense as what happens in the show.
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Considering your avatar, I find this statement incredibly ironic.
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"Stop liking what I don't like", right?
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Nah, they are already here XD
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Dunno how you get all of that into one season and still have room for all of the other people that needed to be in there, too.
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The thing is, he knows they are coming and he knows they are vulnerable, but he also knows there's absolutely nothing at all he can do to stop the Wildlings other than try to kill Mance. There's literally no other viable option left. If he stays and leads them, they will all die within a few days as the Wildlings continue their attack. This is his one opportunity to try to save everyone, even though it has a low probability of succeeding and will cost him his life (and it would be assured that they would torture him before killing him). He's doing the best thing a leader could do in that situation, by taking the only real opportunity he has to stop the Wildlings.
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I'm all for giving Tormund more screen time in the show. He's an awesome character in the books, and I would love to get to know him better in the show.
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Then why is it more popular now than it was in Season 1?
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I did like how he said "She's more real to me than you are"...that was really poignant.
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Nope, I saw it, too. Looks like Jon is about to get his throat cut...wonder if they'll have Stannis come in at just that moment. I have a feeling it will be very, very tense.
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^This. And if Thorne does die (which I'm doubting will happen at this point), he won't die offscreen, that's for certain.
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...and Time Warner, HBO, D&D and GRRM are laughing all the way to the bank for it.
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Nah, I don't think anyone really cares what the non-book readers think...they just use them as a device to voice their own opinions and make them seem more 'important'.
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That was awesome...I've gone back and rewatched that scene twice already just because I liked it so much XD Jon definitely puts Tormund in his place, which I imagine will be very important later on.
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...or even that he was happy to see her one last time and that she would be the one killing him. Really, it's a very emotionally complex scene for having no words that it can be read in different ways depending on your view of it.
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I read it more as resignation to the fact that she would kill him, and he was fine with that. Didn't seem off to me.
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Me, too. They pretty much did it straight from the book (her dying in his arms).
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I talked with my mil afterwards, and she thought the deaths (other than Ygritte's) we're pretty shocking and sad. And she's not even that good with names.
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I think he's also utterly devastated emotionally by what happened to Ygritte that he is pretty dead inside already, so why not try to save people's lives by giving his own?
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I'm not even anti-Stannis XD I just think that the episode worked better without him, and focused more on the story it was trying to tell rather than cram in something from the books that it wasn't. I can't wait to see Stannis' glorious entrance, but the Night's Watch deserved to have this episode all alone.
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Don't agree. The viewers have had all of these characters since season 1...they care about them as much as the book readers do.
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Ha ha ha, you're funny :p
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No, they're being criticized because a character they wanted to see didn't show up and save the day. I read through this forum all week long and it was crazy just how many people said "I can't wait to see Stannis!" in an episode very clearly focusing on the Night's Watch and Jon Snow. Now, despite the fact that the episode works better without Stannis, they are upset because they think that Stannis will get 'overlooked' next week by other story lines, even though they clearly were doing the same with the Night's Watch storyline themselves.
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*Straight face* There's nothing wrong with Stannis' treatment on the show.
