Game of Thrones

Yeah whatever she's got dragons. that makes her automatically not boring by default

Finished season 3.
I know its about honor and all but I dont see why Dany should leave the lands she's in now. The people there pretty much think of her as a god.

I really need to get off my ass and watch the last 3 episodes of this season....well.....maybe I should more "get on my ass" and watch.  whatever.

Yes... yes you should.

Me wrote:

Finished season 3.
I know its about honor and all but I dont see why Dany should leave the lands she's in now. The people there pretty much think of her as a god.

You'd be thinking very differently if you had read the books.

Would you guys recommend the books? i can dl all of them on my phobe for under forty bucks... should i get it?

Yes, grab that shit. The show is generally really good, but the books give you a lot of information the show just can't. Basically it's because they give you an insight into what characters are thinking due to it being written from various perspectives.

yep, definitely get the books.

although, I have to say from my own experience. if you've seen it in the show, reading it in the books is somewhat dull. a Book is all about imagination in the end, and having already seen it, there's not much room left for that..

that said, there is quite some stuff in the books that isn't in the series or is different than in the series, so that really makes it worth it + you've got quite some books that haven't been told on the show yet, and they're also pretty hard to put down, so there's always at least that.

Alriighy imma get em

My coworker loves the books and always points out the differences. He swears by the books. I don't think I could read them given the amount of characters and jumping around the story does. I just wouldn't be able to follow it well as I have trouble keeping names straight with large casts of characters.

That being said....I am pissed they didn't include the royal wedding in this season. THAT would have been the logical conclusion point for season 3. With all the build up about it, HBO really should have put it in. 2 more episodes and no prob.

Hmm this says i can get the entire first book as a free preview..so imma get that and see if i like it in conparison to the series... i doubt ill quit reading after this first book but ill usr it as astepping one sort of thing.

Rman wrote:

That being said....I am pissed they didn't include the royal wedding in this season.  THAT would have been the logical conclusion point for season 3.  With all the build up about it, HBO really should have put it in.  2 more episodes and no prob.

no, as you know, shit happens at the wedding, and they need one of these big moments in their next season, as book 3 is gonna be 2 seasons just like there were 2 books. and if they don't put the wedding in the second season, there's not much else left. as far as book 3 goes, the red wedding and the royal wedding are the 2 major plot points I believe... and they need one in the next season I think.


yeah, there's some other shit that still has to happen too in book 3, but I don't think it has so much of an impact as the royal wedding has. so they need that wedding as sort of the high point of the next season, otherwise it would be quite an uneventful one I think.

Holy moly you could not be more wrong. The latter half of ASOS is the most eventful part of the series (thus far).

yeah, eventful, but not with as much impact. or at least not for me, I'll put it that way. so uneventful might've been a poor choice of words.


but sure, lots of things happened, not one as interesting or "shocking" as what happened at the wedding and close after it though imo. and I read the books like a month ago, so it's still fresh in my mind.



EDIT: anyways, the point was, out of all the things to still happen, the royal wedding is a big part of the book, which causes all these other interesting things to happen. and I was just saying that, while all these other things are interesting, if the royal wedding was in this season and not in the next, the next season wouldn't really have "something (i consider) major" happening in it.

Spoiler:

but that's not something that would really be a buzz or have a major impact on people (like the red wedding did) after the season has ended I think. which reverts me back to my point as to why I think the royal wedding should be in the next season and not in this one. there has to be one moment that really grabs your attention in a season, and that has to be the royal wedding and maybe revealing Stoneheart.




tl;dr as far as my reply to you goes Casa, I wasn't trying to say nothing happened, just that it doesn't compare to what happens at the royal wedding in my opinion.

As if the first thing you listed in the spoiler isn't a moment like what you're describing.

I thought it was a good moment, and I wasn't happy with it for a minute but it doesn't have the same impact as what happens at the royal wedding.

Spoiler:

Well there's been nothing in the series I'd compare to the Red Wedding, so I'm certainly not going to compare that. But I'd say it was pretty similar to the Royal Wedding for me.

yeah, well, I guess it's a bit hard to compare since one thing made me really sad and the other really happy. but I'd say as far as making an impression goes, the royal wedding was close to the red wedding for me personally.

The Royal Wedding is easily the most anticlimactic and unsatisfying death of a major character in the entire series.

The Royal Wedding is...

Spoiler:

It's supposed to be anticlimatic. People build it up to be this ultimate moment of catharsis but you are denied any satisfaction because the victory is completely hollow. It's too late to save those who've died and it just makes things worse for the characters you love.

I just went really flaccid at that spoiler.

There are bigger fishes to frey fry.