So who's fucking hyped for Game of Thrones season 5? April 12th is the date it comes back.
Also, Jon Snow featured in this amusing skit:
Also, Jon Snow featured in this amusing skit:
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/apr/12/game-of-thrones-fifth-season-episodes-leaked-onlineA spokesperson for HBO told Mashable: “Sadly, it seems the leaked four episodes of the upcoming season of Game of Thrones originated from within a group approved by HBO to receive them. We’re actively assessing how this breach occurred.”
That fucking video is the best one yet! Key and Peele are amazing.If we're posting comedy videos about Game of Thrones
Spoilers (Season 5 Episode 1 &2) :
Also, oh man, Daenerys failing to rule a country. I'm trying to understand why people love her. Also, everything happening with Arya is great.
Seriously this is a question I ask all the time, and always just assume it must be the books that really make her a likable character. I'm sure in the books it's more acceptable to have a character have no affect on the rest of the story for an extended period of time while still talking about her, but in the show she just eats airtime and offers very little of interest. I hope this is the season she actually gets involved with the main plot, and based on the first 4 episodes it looks like she will. (I'll leave it at that, no spoilers)Also, oh man, Daenerys failing to rule a country. I'm trying to understand why people love her.
There's some reason to believe she is the main story, that being the one with the white walkers and the prophesied savior and what not. It's either that, or her adventures in Essos are meant as a journey-over-destination sort of thing to show how she learned, somehow exclusively through massive fuckupery, to competently rule over a conflicted nation before coming to Westeros. But that's even less sensible. Some would (and do) also say that Jon Snow's story on the Wall is irrelevant to the main story, and is only there so fangirls can watch him brood, but that's ridiculous. It's much easier to argue that the War of Five Kings...Seriously this is a question I ask all the time, and always just assume it must be the books that really make her a likable character. I'm sure in the books it's more acceptable to have a character have no affect on the rest of the story for an extended period of time while still talking about her, but in the show she just eats airtime and offers very little of interest. I hope this is the season she actually gets involved with the main plot, and based on the first 4 episodes it looks like she will. (I'll leave it at that, no spoilers)
Oh also it pisses me off that it looks like they spend 90% of the effects budget on her scenes, and that's not even talking about the dragons.
It was described as being pretty underwhelming in the books, too.As for the first episode, anyone think that the whole burning Mace Rayder scene was terrible? First the fire chick gives a speech a 6 year old could have wrote (It was so bad). Then they try to play up how bad being burned to death is but the actor playing Mace couldn't do it (no disrespect towards him as an actor since that's gotta be hard to do) so he just kind of groans and fidgets. Here's where some of that effects budget could have been used better, show his skin blistering, show his face melting or something to tell me he's getting burned to fucking death before JS shoots him and puts him out of his misery. Just a weak scene that was supposed to be meaningful.
The only explanation that I've heard that excuses her as a character is that she's currently undergoing the "Targayen Madness."Mind you, I thought she was pretty cool myself at first. Almost right up until she interfered with Drogo's subjugation of the Lhazareen, in fact. She's never lacked for courage or tenacity, one has to grant, but since then her mouth has been running further and further ahead of her track record and I have no patience for it.
Yeah, Stannis the Mannis' party is pretty great between the Onion Knight and Miss Burnsalot. After the loss of my favorite character in the finale of Season 4, I've been enjoying their portion.I guess I might just have low standards, but I thought the Mance Rayder scene was done well. Fire Lady's speech was simplistic because she deals in absolutes; you're either with the Lord of Light (who is good), or you're against him (and therefore evil). There is no room for nuance. Ser Davos' role is to try to show Stannis the complexities of each situation, where Milesandra tries to make him see things as black and white. Kinda like an angel/demon sitting on his shoulder type of situation. As for Mance, I thought the fidgeting and groaning was him trying his best to not look scared or appear weak as he died in front of his people. JS ending it before it got too gruesome was appropriate in my opinion.
May I remind you that we're talking about a feudal society grounded in hereditary lineage.People who are fucking dumb shouldn't be in positions of authority
You'd be mistaken to try, as we're talking about a person who is not the legal heir to the throne in any case. I'd just come back with "People who are fucking dumb and also have no claim to positions of authority should double not have them," or something similar.May I remind you that we're talking about a feudal society grounded in hereditary lineage.
Believe me, most of the people on the A Song of Ice and Fire subreddit absolutely hate Dany because her POVs are fucking awful in the 5th book. They're filled with forgettable long-named characters who all blend together until you can practically make up your own characters like such:Seriously this is a question I ask all the time, and always just assume it must be the books that really make her a likable character. I'm sure in the books it's more acceptable to have a character have no affect on the rest of the story for an extended period of time while still talking about her, but in the show she just eats airtime and offers very little of interest. I hope this is the season she actually gets involved with the main plot, and based on the first 4 episodes it looks like she will. (I'll leave it at that, no spoilers)