(April 25, 2016 at 3:23 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: Well, I liked Firefly.

Me too.

Firefly was actually the worst of his works.

(April 25, 2016 at 3:32 am)Maelstrom Wrote: Firefly was actually the worst of his works.

Feel free to recommend to us philistines. What's some other works you'd recommend?

(April 25, 2016 at 3:14 am)Goosebump Wrote:

(April 25, 2016 at 3:04 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: ^^ Lol.

I think Prince Doran's death was foreshadowed pretty well in AFFC. He locked the Sand Snakes in a tower at Sunspear, he had Areo Hotah foil Arianne Martell's plan to kidnap Myrcella with the help of Arys Oakheart, he was not well liked among the fiery people of Dorne.

I was shocked to see Areo Hotah die, though. Ermygherd. I like him, but he was ancillary as hell.

Exactly, very obvious, undramatic and kinda... pointless. If perhaps he had maneuvered the Snakes, the Lanisters. Been involved with Stanis, even the Boltons with news of Sansa, something intriguing. Instead of creating a situation where rebellion and war with Dorn was so bloody obvious, you know played some games worthy of the title of the show? I dunno seemed like the writers killed off somebody they could write for.

Not that I didn't enjoy the show, the final scene was very interesting, especially since how the show and the books have differed on what some servants to the "red god" have done.

I think it's a little too early to call it pointless. Dorne will go to war with the Lannisters now. Doran had to die in order for that to happen the way the Snakes want it to. I assume Highgarden will side with the Martells. In the books "Young Griff" lands at Storm's End right about now, maybe we'll see the Blackfyre Targaryen (although I doubt it).

All of the shit Cersei has stirred is about to fall in her lap. She is about to go to war with the Faith's Militant. She has meddled and fucked with the Queen of Thorns, and the Tyrells are about to boil over. The Lannisters and Cersei have fucked over the Martells and they are about to march through the Boneway and pick up the Tyrells on the way to Kings Landing. She has murdered enough Starks to start a war in the North, and now Sansa has escaped and probably will go to the Wall or Deepwood Motte if she's smart, where she'll hopefully take the North and bring the shit from the North as well.

Prince Doran's death will probably not be unnecessary.

(April 25, 2016 at 3:40 am)Goosebump Wrote: Feel free to recommend to us philistines. What's some other works you'd recommend?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was his best work.

Just watched it.
And I think I agree with SC's view of what's to come from Dorne, from King's Landing, the Tyrells...

Not sure what that thing with Melisandre was, but maybe we'll find out, eventually.... also BOOOyeah! toldya Jon would remain dead! (now, just to prove me wrong, they'll bring him back to life... of course!)

Brienne rescuing Sansa was a nice touch... and Podrick did better than most squires would!

Arya sucks at being blind!
Not sure how they're going to make her meet Sam... if they are....

Sam... didn't see him... maybe next time.

Danny will be a far way from home by the time Jorah and Daario find that Khalasar.... and then what'll happen to them? Maybe they'll get there soon enough, before she's "dispatched" to Vaes Dothrak and all hell will break loose.... (get it? all hell? Drogon )

Whitewalkers and Bran remain to be seen...

And yes, it is known that GRR Martin has provided guidelines to the show's producers, so the book and show stories should coalesce back at some point.

(April 25, 2016 at 6:16 am)pocaracas Wrote: [...]
Brienne rescuing Sansa was a nice touch... and Podrick did better than most squires would!
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Yeah - that was not very believable, in my opinion. All of a sudden Podrick - who's not a swordsman and a pretty feeble rider - is able fence on horseback against trained soldiers? Not to mention that the way they were fighting (banging sword against sword) was pretty lame, even by TV standards. 

Also - what the f*ck happened to the hounds, the moment Brienne showed up? I imagine they'd put up quite a fight - in fact, if they were released they'd probably have torn Sansa and Theon to pieces, considering the way Ramsey "trained" them. But they just disappeared about halfway through.  What happened? Did the guy holding them just go home, or something? Or is it that the producers thought the viewers couldn't handle the dogs being killed?
 
Seriously - if a fight against dogs was too difficult to stage - which it might have been - then why have them there in the first place (especially that they looked like they really wanted to lick Sophie Turner's face - and who can blame them)? Just have Brienne show up a bit later, once the group split up - one or 2 soldiers could walk home with the hounds, while the rest escorted the prisoners on horseback - problem solved....

Well spotted.... the dogs... I guess they buggered off at the sight of Valyrian steel

The Romanian forum I'm frequenting is also talking about the damn dogs.


If this many people noticed it, I'm having trouble believing they didn't think it through and just made a mistake. I'm thinking they just overthought the plausible explanation for it.

I guess the scene got edited out due to being too gross for dog-lovers...

Also, Melisandre reactions! LOL
http://mashable.com/2016/04/24/melisandr...reactions/

"Melisandre has been using a really strong Instagram filter "
"Whatever she paid for that necklace on @QVC, it was worth it."
"That's the first time a woman has ever been naked on #GameOfThrones and I've thought, "I have a better body.""
"Melisandre's got mad accessorizing skills, you have to give her that."