The Fiberglass Throne doesn’t really sound quite as impressive.
Fantastic, fantastic ending to a fantastic season. Particularly when you add in Blackwater.
I’m going to quit the internet until season 3 comes around, I don’t want to spoil my enjoyment of the series.
The major threads that are lingering with me.
The foundations for Jon and Ygritte have been laid, so even with the fairly major plot changes to his story, the base is there. I’m satisfied.
Arya and Jacquen, and Tywin and Tyrion and Bronn . . . absolutely stole this year.
I am in agreement that Shae and Tyrion was more touching than I thought it would be.
Dany’s story was as good as I expected. I liked Drogo - that truly showed a hard, hard temptation for her.
I hope they open with the battle of the Fist of the First men.
Just well done all around, I can’t think of a single actor not up to the challenge of the character, or a story line they didn’t give a good attempt to do justice.
Still don’t know if Oona Chaplin is playing Jeyne Westerling or not. Presumably we finish this up next year.
Keep in mind that the fire that comes from dragons isn’t normal fire either, it’s dragonfire and is hotter than even wildfire according to the lore.
Apparently it’s $1,800 shipping.
I can’t imagine we’d see this. I think the third season may open with Sam, Edd and… the other guy whose name escapes me… running from the Walker advance just like in the first Sam chapter of aSoS.
I thought that’s pretty obvious the wizard will not be able to survive as well. Tywin and Arya conversation about Harrenhall being burnt down with dragon fire immediately came back when the little dragon belched smoke.
After the boss fight, it’ll just be a plain waste of budget to show them freeing the thousands of slaves and storming the council when the simple bedroom scene conveys total victory just as well.
Wow, there is a bullshit controversy going on that HBO and D&D have had to apologize for. And it’s really indicative at how fucking terrible the blogosphere/media is.
So on the commentary for the Season 1 DVDs that were released back in March, D&D casually mention that among the heads on the wall alongside Ned Stark’s was George W. Bush’s. They explicitly say it was non-political, simply that it was a matter of the prop department only had so many heads, and W’s was one of them. It’s a fun, random tidbit about television production. They don’t even show the head full on; it’s looking away from the camera and has a shaggy wig on it. It’s on the edge of the screen.
Some idiot finally listened to the commentary and blogged about it, and next thing you know, the mainstream media JUMPED ALL OVER IT. It’s a front-page story on MSNBC. HBO and D&D have issued apologies and HBO says it’s going to remove that commentary from future DVD runs.
Tim_N
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Here’s a link to the article on MSNBC: http://theclicker.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/13/12207546-game-of-thrones-put-george-w-bushs-head-on-a-stake?lite
Some people are too sensitive, although I imagine if it was Obama’s head on the stake and Game of Thrones was instead about how great power and greed is there’d be sensitive people on the other side.
I frankly think that most Republicans don’t care, because the DVDs have been out for three months, and I gotta imagine that plenty of Republicans learned that months ago, and we got absoltuely 'nadda until we get a slow news day.
It’s just as silly as it gets. And they could put Obama’s head up there and he’d probably love it, the uber nerd that he is. First president to have a Spider Man collection and all.
olaf
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Republican here. I listened to all of the commentary on the DVDs, sometime this year, before Season 2 began. When I heard that, I was not at all surprised because it just seemed like liberal Hollywood taking a shot. I was not offended in the least though and the fact that they are having to apologize is stupid.
Have to say though, no way in hell would they ever stick Obama’s head up there but if they had the uproar would be 10 fold.
Well, there are two things to say here about “what if they’d put Obama’s head up there, the uproar would be much greater.”
First, have we seen any black men at all in Westeros? This would make including an Obama head likeness on the spike a much more obviously deliberate act.
Second, given the historical context of the treatment of black people in the US by the white majority until very recently (less than 50 years ago there was legal segregation and the odd lynching in the old South, and “redlining” pretty much all over the country), a greater uproar would be understandable.
For all those reasons and more, a more reasonable choice for liberal/conservative juxtaposition would be Bill Clinton.
Nesrie
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Obama’s head would be odd and out of place. GW, well most people didn’t even notice until it was pointed out, even then, some blog shill wanted a few minutes of fame… and got it.
Dave47
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At the risk of making this even more “P&R” why did you assume that the explanation given in the commentary was a lie?
olaf
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Didn’t think it was a lie. Just didn’t think they would have done it if it had been an Obama (or Clinton) mask.
A wild Republican appears!
Oh man, I totally caught the GWB head before, but just assumed I was seeing things. That’s hilarious.
I don’t suppose Jaqen comes back, does he? He was cool. I hope zombies don’t get too much play, though; I have enough of them in my media.
Because it was a lie, you don’t use a former, hated by most in entertainment, presidents head like that and not have politics enter into the decision. They meant it as their own little political statement.
Wow. Talk about seeing everyting through a polarized lens…
Seems to me that a “head” that isn’t even recognizable on screen and would have passed without comment if it had not been flagged in the commentary speaks most to the issue.
Moreover, the PR from this is simply likely to drive people to buy up the rest of the First Season Boxed set before any reprint. There are, in reality, very few instances of real publicity that is actually “bad” publicity.
