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LukoLuko Posts: 2,003 ✭✭
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Anyone watching the new HBO series? I like it. I heard it described as medieval Sopranos, which so far seems about right.
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  • denniskingdennisking Posts: 3,703 ✭✭✭
    my friend read all the books and says it's pretty good to watch as well. i would like to watch it.
  • docbp87docbp87 Posts: 3,521 ✭
    Yeah, the series is pretty good so far. Great books too.
  • Russ55Russ55 Posts: 2,765 ✭✭
    Haven't watched it yet, but I've heard it's fairly faithful to the books. I've read the first two, and they're ok. I might buy the third one.
  • mfotismfotis Posts: 720 ✭✭
    I watched one episode, looked pretty good but it on like at 0100 in the morning here so probably wont catch another one.
  • NYHCx516xNYHCx516x Posts: 728 ✭
    My girl has read all the books, and watched all the episodes out so far. ive caught the first and shes recording the others for me. damn good stuff.
  • lilwing88lilwing88 Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭
    I'm liking the show. Very good so far.....
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  • TheedgeTheedge Posts: 316 ✭
    A co-worker of mine is big into that. Apparently the charcters eat an an Inn? He is cooking the meals from the Inn and has decorated his dining room in that sort of motif. Like I said.....the guy is into it....
  • phobicsquirrelphobicsquirrel Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭
    I'm digging it so far. There's a lot of good shows on the big networks this year, borgias, and camelot as well.
  • edelrionycedelrionyc Posts: 361 ✭✭✭
    Love it.....
  • doromathdoromath Posts: 576
    Love the series (can't wait for A Dance with Dragons in July!) and caught a few episodes of the series on the road. Very faithful to the text, and reminded me of why I love the series.

    For those that haven't read the books: stay tuned. This story is incredible and will hammer you between the eyes with awesomeness...
  • raisindotraisindot Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭
    Bumping this because of the recent series. BUT:


    AVAST, YE SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!!

    Warning'!

    Details about the plots a'comin

    Not big ones, though. 

    Still, you be warned....



    In this season, the producers seem to have finally decided that Martin's "book plots" are most undramatizable. The plotlines for Tyrion, Danaeys, Sansa, Jaime and Jon Snow have totally deviated from the events of the fifth book. 

    And, as far as I'm concerned, it's all for the better. If the series had followed the books it would have been nearly unwatchable. And certain characters wouldn't have even appeared this season. 

    My guess is that the producers, realizing that the series is moving faster than Martin's capability of writing books, leaned to him to come up with a different "timeline" for the series to make it more commercially viable. But that leaves Martin in a literary hole. There's really no way that he can reconcile the events of the series with the plotlines in the books at this point. Whether he intends to keep on writing the books as separate entity from the series or give up on ithe books entirely is the real question. 



  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,415 ✭✭✭✭✭
    He is trying to release the 6th book before next season. 
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  • SecretSquirrelSecretSquirrel Posts: 864 ✭✭✭✭
    I hear the books are way better, just like everything else, but I thoroughly enjoy the series. probably wont read the books until the series is over
  • jimmyv723jimmyv723 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭
    I haven't read the books but some of the people that have crack me up. They get so pissed when something doesn't follow the books exactly but what is the point of that in a Series because then you would know exactly what is going to happen. I would rather have some stuff changed up here and there to keep it interesting and be surprised by some things. Some of them are just snobby about it though and try and spoil things for people who haven't read the books yet. 

    To me it's like Walking Dead. I had never read the Comics and didn't even know the show was based off of a Comic until after the First Season. Following the first few Seasons I got the Compendium Volume One and it was cool reading it and seeing how there was a lot similar but certain things and when or how they took place may have been different. 
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  • raisindotraisindot Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭
    jimmyv723 said:
    I haven't read the books but some of the people that have crack me up. They get so pissed when something doesn't follow the books exactly but what is the point of that in a Series because then you would know exactly what is going to happen. I would rather have some stuff changed up here and there to keep it interesting and be surprised by some things. Some of them are just snobby about it though and try and spoil things for people who haven't read the books yet. 

    KINDA SPOILER



    I hope you're not putting me in this category. I did say SPOILER at the top of my post, and put plenty of line spaces so people could could avoid them. :)

    Anyway,  i actually like the changes the show has made. The first couple seasons followed the books pretty closely, but wisely began dramatically deviating when they reached the fourth book, which was terriblel. And the show's producers seem to be picking and choosing stuff from the fifth book, which was sometimes great and sometimes just awful,  keeping some plotlines the same and inventing new plotlines, most of which are for the best.

    If Martin does release the sixth book before the start of next season it will be interesting to see if he tries to reconcile the events of the show and the books. I hope he doesn't. He's created a narrative, for better or worse, with some incredibly difficult plot holes that need to be resolved. I'd be far more interested in seeing him resolve these than try to jerry rig the books to reflect the series. 
      
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  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The books may be fine and all; but the series has naked boobies.
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  • raisindotraisindot Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭
    webmost said:
    The books may be fine and all; but the series has naked boobies.
    The books have lots of naked boobies and other parts as well. You just have to use your 'magination.  :)
  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    raisindot said:
    webmost said:
    The books may be fine and all; but the series has naked boobies.
    The books have lots of naked boobies and other parts as well. You just have to use your 'magination.  :)

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  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,415 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bump, new season starts tonight
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  • GuitardedGuitarded Posts: 4,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 2016
    Seriously? I have not seen one ad for the new season. 
    Just checked HBO and it airs the 24th.
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  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,415 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well dang it, my son said tonight
    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • WaterNerdWaterNerd Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 2016
    I Need to make sure my DVR recording is set  :)
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  • CigarFanaticCigarFanatic Posts: 225 ✭✭✭
    Here is a link to the first trailer. HBO seems to have taken it down.

    Some say it was taken down because of copy right infringement of the first song.

    or

    People thought is was John Snow riding a Horse @ 1:17

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGKbmVlJJ4c
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  • raisindotraisindot Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭
    Can't wait! This will be the first season that's not at least partially based on one of the books--since book six hasn't been written yet. I wonder how much Martin is still involved in having a say over the narrative, since the last few seasons have deviated from the book plots in major ways--all of them an improvement, as far as I'm concerned.

    On a side note, any pinball fans out there? There's a Game of Thrones pinball now out that is a huge amount of fun to play, even if it doesn't integrate all that well with the theme. 
  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,415 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From my understanding book six is done or almost there. He also has told the producers how he wanted it to finish. But I agree, not knowing what's gonna happen makes me more anxious 
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    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • GuitardedGuitarded Posts: 4,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have heard that every time he gets asked when the last book is coming out he kills another Stark! 
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  • brianetz1brianetz1 Posts: 4,134 ✭✭✭
    i can't wait to see what Snow comes back as.......anyone got any predictions?

    I've seen everything from the most popular theory on his parentage and how Mel will bring him back, his oath to the Black no longer applies and he becomes the warden of the north.  Also saw his parentage is R+L=J so when they try to burn him he doesn't burn and he becomes a white walker and replaces the night's king.
  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,415 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dammit it went to fast. I want MORE!
    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    DVR'd, but not yet watched. Ample boobage?
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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