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Did you guys know this is based on novels? Are they any good? Has anyone even read them?
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@SkitchP wrote:Did you guys know this is based on novels? Are they any good? Has anyone even read them?
I liked book three (Return of the King) better than the other two.
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@SkitchP wrote:Did you guys know this is based on novels? Are they any good? Has anyone even read them?
I liked book three (Return of the King) better than the other two.

Did you know it was originally called Revenge of the King?
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@SkitchP wrote:Did you guys know this is based on novels? Are they any good? Has anyone even read them?
novelizations of TV shows are always crappy cash-ins. Don't bother.
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BurtReynolds wrote:
@SkitchP wrote:Did you guys know this is based on novels? Are they any good? Has anyone even read them?
novelizations of TV shows are always crappy cash-ins. Don't bother.
Probably ghost written by Alan Dean Foster.
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Monkey_Driven wrote:Watched the Blackwater episode last night. I know it got a lot of love when it aired, but the big fights in the latter seasons are much better/more epic.
not knowing the ending made that a very suspenseful episode for me, especially because i didnt know that was loras tyrell in renly's armor
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Mecca wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:Watched the Blackwater episode last night. I know it got a lot of love when it aired, but the big fights in the latter seasons are much better/more epic.
not knowing the ending made that a very suspenseful episode for me, especially because i didnt know that was loras tyrell in renly's armor
I don't think it is a bad episode by any means. It just doesn't hold up as well after the large battles in later episodes.
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Monkey_Driven wrote:
Mecca wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:Watched the Blackwater episode last night. I know it got a lot of love when it aired, but the big fights in the latter seasons are much better/more epic.
not knowing the ending made that a very suspenseful episode for me, especially because i didnt know that was loras tyrell in renly's armor
I don't think it is a bad episode by any means. It just doesn't hold up as well after the large battles in later episodes.
My wife didn't think it held up in real time. She was pretty underwhelmed by that episode when it first aired. We should do a rewatch and see if likes it more/less/the same.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:
Mecca wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:Watched the Blackwater episode last night. I know it got a lot of love when it aired, but the big fights in the latter seasons are much better/more epic.
not knowing the ending made that a very suspenseful episode for me, especially because i didnt know that was loras tyrell in renly's armor
I don't think it is a bad episode by any means. It just doesn't hold up as well after the large battles in later episodes.
My wife didn't think it held up in real time. She was pretty underwhelmed by that episode when it first aired. We should do a rewatch and see if likes it more/less/the same.
I was expecting so much more going into it having just read the book.
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Monkey_Driven wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:
Mecca wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:Watched the Blackwater episode last night. I know it got a lot of love when it aired, but the big fights in the latter seasons are much better/more epic.
not knowing the ending made that a very suspenseful episode for me, especially because i didnt know that was loras tyrell in renly's armor
I don't think it is a bad episode by any means. It just doesn't hold up as well after the large battles in later episodes.
My wife didn't think it held up in real time. She was pretty underwhelmed by that episode when it first aired. We should do a rewatch and see if likes it more/less/the same.
I was expecting so much more going into it having just read the book.
Same. There is a lot I like about the show. But that scene in the book was so much better, I thought.
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https://www.inverse.com/article/33750-g ... um=inverse

Maybe this was already talked about. If so, "classic B".
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:https://www.inverse.com/article/33750-game-of-thrones-ned-stark-alive-lives-season-7-jaqen-arya?utm_campaign=organic&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=inverse

Maybe this was already talked about. If so, "classic B".
I got pretty annoyed when the article referred to The Red Keep as a dungeon.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:https://www.inverse.com/article/33750-game-of-thrones-ned-stark-alive-lives-season-7-jaqen-arya?utm_campaign=organic&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=inverse

Maybe this was already talked about. If so, "classic B".
I'm not sure if we ever talked about it on RM but I've definitely seen that theory (or one very like it) floating around. It's interesting but I really hope Ned is finished. I think I'd feel pretty cheated if they brought him back.
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yeah that would be awful if it were true
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Can you imagine the uproar if it happens? Especially if it is like the last scene of the whole series.
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The show MIGHT be able to come close to the neighborhood of pulling it off only because of... certain other things that they've omitted. Maybe. Probably not, but MAYBE. The books, no chance.

But reading the reactions on the internet the next day would be priceless.
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That theory is really dumb.
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About as dumb as murdering Oberyn's family to avenge his death.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:About as dumb as murdering Oberyn's family to avenge his death.
Yup.
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Just finished up season 5 with the wife last night. Getting to watch Hardhome all over again was still nothing short of spectacular.
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