Game of Thrones Season 4[views:32762][posts:114]________________________________ [Jun 11,2014 6:21pm - spence ""] bennyhillifier |
| ________________________________ [Jun 11,2014 7:40pm - xmikex ""] spence said:I hate boss fights. Like everyone important is made a boss and to kill a boss, you must be another boss. Generic and predictable as fuck. I get what you're saying but would it really make your day to see a principle character go down by jacuzzi spider? There's a reason why recognizable characters kill other recognizable characters. |
| ____________________________________ [Jun 11,2014 8:42pm - MotleyGrue ""] Am I the only one doesn't watch this show sober? |
| _________________________________ [Jun 16,2014 10:05am - xmikex ""] It's a bumout to see The Hound go down especially to Brieanne who I don't think much of as a character. I'm told in the book he gets done in by some jabroni and neither The Hound or Arya ever come into contact with Brieanne. It's a punch in the face though to see The Hound die with zero satisfaction. He turns babyface and you think he's going to get some kind of revenge on his brother or the Lannisters or somebody and then he just dies out of nowhere. It was very Vince Russo of Martin. Again. I get it in the sense that Arya had to eventually get herself to Bravos, and that's an actually exciting turn of events because they've been alluding to this for a long time and Arya hooking up with (I'm assuming) a group of assassins in Bravos can only lead to something great. |
| _________________________________ [Jun 16,2014 10:11am - xmikex ""] It was also, thank god, a better season finale than last season's. I think HBO got enough shit from it's public by wasting the season finale last year that they had to do it right this time. It's not without its faults though. Does Stannis end up fighting the Wildlings in the book? If I was Stannis and the priestess all of a sudden told me "Whoops, the lord of light of all a sudden wants you to fight a different war or a different front even though I already told you that victory was a sure thing at Blackwater" I think it'd be a grumpy gus about it. And what ever happened with Stannis' mysterious trip to Bravos to get backing from the iron bank? At the time it seemed like they had just put this huge step over on the Lannisters, then we don't hear from him for weeks and then he shows up in the north. |
| _________________________________ [Jun 16,2014 10:24am - Burnsy ""] Yes, the whole Brienne/Hound thing did not happen in the book. I sorta get it, because as a show watcher, you see Brienne as pretty insignificant but she's definitely not in the books. It was a decent fight scene, though a little long in my opinion. In the books, the Hound dies very slowly after the fight in the Tavern where Arya killed Polliver. Good question about Stannis's trip to Braavos. The way I remember it in the books, he didn't actually go to Braavos. A banker from the Iron Bank meets up with them at Castle Black after defeating the wildlings. I think the show has always done a pretty lackluster job in showing how totally fuckin' badass Stannis is. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 16,2014 10:55am - Alx_Casket ""] So many questions with the finale, but the main one that's bugging me: what did Spence think of it? |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 16,2014 11:12am - posbleak ""] Burnsy said:In the books, the Hound dies very slowly after the fight in the Tavern where Arya killed Polliver. UNCONFIRMED |
| _________________________________ [Jun 16,2014 11:17am - Burnsy ""] Haha. Fair enough! |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 16,2014 12:01pm - arilliusbm ""] The Hound is alive. He has a limp and hides away. |
| ________________________________ [Jun 16,2014 1:02pm - xmikex ""] I'll bet money that Spence hated it, was rooting for the Hound's cholesterol to be what killed him, turned the channel to a Swiffer commercial and then dubbed it the best Swiffer commercial since season 1. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 16,2014 3:08pm - narkybark ""] Loved the episode, lots of things wrapped up and sets up a lot more. I had the Tywin moment spoiled for a long ago but it sounded so ridiculous that I never gave it credit for being real. I'm mildly confused about Stannis: so did the bank give him money? I assumed no. I also had no idea why he showed up at the north initially, I don't remember that being part of his plan. Also loved the running skeletons. |
| ________________________________ [Jun 16,2014 4:44pm - Burnsy ""] Yes, Stannis got the backing from the Iron Bank. He showed up in the North cuz dat crazy bitch Melisandre said so. The skeletons made we wanna load up Skyrim and Fus-Ro-Dah some draugrs. |
| _______________________________________ [Jun 16,2014 6:11pm - Love handles ""] Burnsy said: The skeletons made we wanna load up Skyrim and Fus-Ro-Dah some draugrs. BACKED |
| ______________________________ [Jun 17,2014 3:28am - fdd ""] bennyhillifier |