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Game of Thrones Season 5 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
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I love the R+L theory.
On a completely and totally unrelated note...Rhaegar Targaryen is such a great character, even though you don't learn much about him. Anyone else love Jaqen H'ghar? 
Yes, I like Jaqen, he is so mysterious and interesting. I like this storyline for Arya
A lot of the Essos characters interest me actually, I find them more exotic and interesting than the pseudo-Europe Westeros storyline. Also Syrio Forel is Italian. I don't care if Italy doesn't exist in this world, he is still Italian.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie 
Right now, the Jaqen H'ghar/Arya story is my favorite going in the shows (and it's own version in the books as well). I love Maisie Williams, great little actress!
Also, I love Brianne, far more in the books, but the show is starting to do her justice with her recent change of attitude towards Pod, and her backstory revealed a bit. It finally made me feel that connection to her I felt in the books. And I also love the actress playing her (Gwendolyn Christie), I can hardly imagine any other face for Brianne now! And Tyrion of course. And Cerce. And Prince Doran. Damn, I guess I just love the characters period, lol, and the casting for the TV show so far has been nothing short of brilliant. Littlefinger? BRILLIANT actor for that part. Sorry, going all fangirl. ha.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
I don't blame you Aroura. The show is actually quite incredible. Even though the books and the show have their differences, both are definitely remarkable in their own right.
On a sidenote: I don't know if anyone here has read the Wheel of Time series. But Aroura, when you mentioned Gwendolyn Christie, I could not help but bring up that I picture her for a character in that book series by the name of Birgitte. Quite interesting, really. 
As much as I love Gwendoline Christie as Brienne, when they first introduced her I was a bit disappointed. I expected her to be much uglier. I think she's breathtakingly beautiful, even the way they style her on the show.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
Brienne's storyline took a weird jag with her meeting Arya and Sansa and fighting the Hound. I do love the way Christie plays her. We got to see a little of the pain of her backstory in this last episode. I would have liked to have heard the story of Ser Hyle Hunt and the knights of Renly's camp to really drive it home, why she doesn't trust anyone. Also, one of my favorite scenes was at the Whispers with Nimble Dick when Pod nails Shagga with a rock. I wish we could see that, but it would just be too much story for the show.
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PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<--- (April 27, 2015 at 9:36 pm)Jericho Wrote: I don't blame you Aroura. The show is actually quite incredible. Even though the books and the show have their differences, both are definitely remarkable in their own right. Squeeee! Sorry, I'm in a funny mood. I <3 WoT too! Jordon did suffer the same problem as Martin, as well. Great first few books, but starts to meander into too many side stories as he progressed. Not to mention the issue with not finishing their own work, letting someone else do it for them. Of course poor Jordon died so I'm thrilled he was able to pass on the work to be finished at all, but Martin has no such excuse....yet. Yes, I think Christie would make a great Birgette. I'm excited even to see her in the new Star Wars when it comes out. And I agree, she is beautiful! But that makes it even more tragic in the show in a way, because it's her SIZE alone that makes her ugly to most men/guys, not her face. Plus she's doing a great job looking like she feels ugly, great acting for that, know what I mean? I know in the books she's uglier, but so is Tyrion. I'm still happy with the casting for both, though. Sorry, I'm a woman over 40 now, but sometimes I get so into books (and their respective other outlets like this TV show), that I feel giddy as a teenage girl, lol
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Thank you, A, for helping me see that aspect. GC is a fabulous actress, and she absolutely nails the psychological ugliness she feels. I hadn't thought of it that way. I felt the same about the casting of Peter Dinklage, as I find him quite handsome, but he's such a great actor that you see him from the inside out. I haven't been disappointed in either of them past my hearing of their casting, but now I realize why. Thank you again
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
 RE: Game of Thrones Season 5 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
April 27, 2015 at 11:12 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2015 at 11:12 pm by SteelCurtain.)
Through two layers of spoiler warnings?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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