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Posted: **Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:32 pm**

Also it could be just to keep Theon in the story. Since he isn't in ASOS which is being divided into 2 seasons, he wouldn't be back until season 5.

Posted: **Tue Apr 16, 2013 1:26 pm**

Well, the events happened during the timeline of ASOS, they just weren't shown until flashbacks in ADWD, so it makes sense to show it now.

Plus, it keeps Alfie Allen on the payroll

Posted: **Tue Apr 16, 2013 1:31 pm**

I know why the show is doing it. What I'm unsure of is what exactly they're showing.

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The books involved Theon being slowly and painfully tortured in a dungeon, then being forced to participate in torture. They may have released him just to capture him again like in the show - we know Ramsey enjoys that, and Theon was made to join in. What he didn't do was release Theon and ride around the countryside with him for a book just to draw out the "surprise! I'm the bad guy!" moment.

I'm not saying what they're doing with it is bad. I'm saying I don't know where they're going with it yet.

Posted: **Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:22 pm**

Akasri wrote:Plus, it keeps Alfie Allen on the payroll

Good. Gotta see Theon get his just desserts from season 2.

Posted: **Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:16 am**

You don't think he's gotten enough just desserts already?

Posted: **Mon Apr 22, 2013 10:12 pm**

Watched the new episode. One of the best moments in the books, and they did it justice.

Posted: **Tue Apr 23, 2013 2:50 pm**

I'm Murrin wrote:Watched the new episode. One of the best moments in the books, and they did it justice.

I suppose they could have used

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All three dragons, as in the book. But maybe that was beyond their CGI budget?

Posted: **Mon Jun 03, 2013 5:22 pm**

Hee hee hee. The responses to this week's episode are hilarious.

Posted: **Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:01 pm**

I'm Murrin wrote:Hee hee hee. The responses to this week's episode are hilarious.

Well, I'm pissed. I'm tired of getting involved in these characters and story arcs only to watch them get killed off and replaced with flatter characters and less compelling story arcs. I've only read the first 2 books, and I don't think I want to read books 3-4 now.

If GRRM kills off Tyrion or Dany, tell me by PM so I won't waste any more of my time.

Posted: **Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:24 pm**

Book 3 is an amazing piece of fantasy literature. Easily one of the best books I've ever read by any author. If you liked Book 1 and 2 at all, you owe it to yourself to at least read Book 3.

Book 4 is... well, it's the book right after Book 3, that's about the best thing I can say about it

Posted: **Mon Jun 03, 2013 10:55 pm**

Good grief, if you have any presence on the Internet at all, you'll be spoiled on this episode. My wife hasn't read the books, and merely did some harmless surfing (non-GoT related) and was spoiled on the Red Wedding. Even George Takei's twitter feed has the spoiler (yes, she follows him ... he's quite a character, apparently).

Posted: **Tue Jun 04, 2013 2:29 am**

www.theonion.com/articles/oh-shit-i-tot ... ne:default

Posted: **Tue Jun 04, 2013 5:29 am**

io9.com/the-100-best-tweets-about-last-nights-game-of-thrones-511003444

"Why doesn't George R. R. Martin use Twitter? Because he killed all 144 characters."

Posted: **Tue Jun 04, 2013 12:33 pm**

Can people overreact just a bit more. Wow, characters that don't have "Charactershields[sup]TM[/sup]. What a radical concept.

Posted: **Tue Jun 04, 2013 5:49 pm**

dlbpharmd wrote:
I'm Murrin wrote:Hee hee hee. The responses to this week's episode are hilarious.
Well, I'm pissed. I'm tired of getting involved in these characters and story arcs only to watch them get killed off and replaced with flatter characters and less compelling story arcs. I've only read the first 2 books, and I don't think I want to read books 3-4 now.

If GRRM kills off Tyrion or Dany, tell me by PM so I won't waste any more of my time.

I completely agree, and this is why I stopped reading. Who do you root for? Who do you care about?

Posted: **Tue Jun 04, 2013 7:43 pm**

This is the one major lowpoint of the series. There are other dark parts, but nothing compares to this.

Posted: **Tue Jun 04, 2013 8:53 pm**

[Syl] wrote:io9.com/the-100-best-tweets-about-last-nights-game-of-thrones-511003444

"Why doesn't George R. R. Martin use Twitter? Because he killed all 144 characters."

Posted: **Tue Jun 04, 2013 8:58 pm**

I'm Murrin wrote:This is the one major lowpoint of the series. There are other dark parts, but nothing compares to this.

From what I understand, that is the case. I also think it is interesting because

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there are plenty of POV characters to root for... in fact, the RW does not seem to dispose of any main POV. Now you might say, but what about...? To which I would reply, why do you think I spoilered this block of text?

Posted: **Mon Aug 12, 2013 4:50 am**

So I finally watched this, and I gotta say I was pleasantly surprised. They stuck a lot closer to the story than I expected, and doing 1 book per season has let them keep a lot of the important stuff in. Casting was generally pretty good too.

--A

Posted: **Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:07 am**

Akasri wrote:Book 3 is an amazing piece of fantasy literature. Easily one of the best books I've ever read by any author. If you liked Book 1 and 2 at all, you owe it to yourself to at least read Book 3.

Book 4 is... well, it's the book right after Book 3, that's about the best thing I can say about it

Bingo.

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