It appears that our spoiler tags have gone the way of the dodo after the forum software was changed. I tried to find them for a post in the thread re The Americans and they’re gone.
Warning
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No spoiler tags on Tapatalk! Damn you Tapatalk!
Wait, so there’s no button? You have to type in the code yourself? Sheesh.
No, it doesn’t hide anything within spoiler tags. Telefrog has just totally spoiled the thread for me.
Good to know, but I actually was referring to the regular non-mobile styles and their not having an easy spoiler button.
I didn’t make the third thread. If nothing else, it’s not reasonable to expect people who haven’t read the books to all just start going into what they will recall has always been a spoiler thread. It’s not reasonable to expect people who have been posting spoilers in a certain thread for 100+ pages to all know they aren’t allowed to anymore. However you might feel about having 3 threads, there are good reasons why this particular one can’t be a non-spoiler thread.
Well, this week was one of the best episodes of the show. Like the book, I think part of the awesome was limited amounts of Jon and Dany. So much happened. It’s like the anti-Walking Dead.
olaf
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Yeah I liked tonight’s a whole lot too. I think S3 is shaping up to be better than S2. I can’t wait for Sundays. This show helps me a lot to deal with my seasonal depression caused by no football.
Otherwise known as the couple of months when GRRM might actually write something.
I enjoyed this week’s episode as well. Lots happening, and much of it streamlined and/or completely different than the books, but nothing in a bad way. Jojen and Meera finally showed up. Looks like Thoros of Mir is a combination of his book character and Lem Lemoncloak. The travel scenes with Brienne and Jaime had me lol’ing, such great exchanges. Finally, Theon’s fate is way less stomach-churning thus far than in the books. Not sure how I feel about that to this point, as it’s kind of an important facet of his character development for later. All-in-all though, brilliant episode and I’m still loving the series as a whole. Sunday night at 9:00pm is even better than it was the past 3 months.
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I was trying to figure out which one was Lem. The Thoros actor was good, but I pictured him being more burly.
Speaking of nothing we were speaking about, was I wrong or did the survivor from Harrenhal last week introduce himself as Qyburn?
Originally Posted by olaf
depression caused by no football.
If you were a hockey fan instead, your season would be nearly 9 months long, with 4 times as many home games, and ten times as many playoff games. Of all the major sports, the NHL’s Stanley Cup Tournament is by far the most exciting playoffs – and the most difficult to win. And with no perrenial repeat champion, every new season can be “the year”.
I know, you two are in the South and it’s a different cultural thing. I get it. Still, you might want to give it a try. Just sayin.
Now, back to Westeros.
rowe33
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Hockey is my sport as well but this is definitely not the season to be bragging about it!
So many characters now that it feels many events are just going to be moved off screen in order to cram everyone in. Or more of this ‘appear in every other episode’ thing.
olaf
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Hockey has always struck me as something I would fucking love had I grown up in a place where it was played, and where I played it. That said. I just can not get into it.
Yeah, hockey seems to be a sport that only people who grew up with it - like the Northmen or the Wildlings - can really enjoy. I suspect that the Lannisters would be more into lacrosse.
Pro Sports in Westeros:
Wildlings - X-Games. Extreme, marginalized sports for an extreme, marginalized people.
The North - Hockey
Iron Isles - UFC and MMA
Riverrun - NASCAR - it goes with hunting and fishing :)
The Eyrie - Alpine Skiing
Lannisport & The Westerlands: Baseball. A Lannister prefers a sport where money can decide the outcome!
Highgarden and the Reach: Polo. Because they are snobs and better than everybody else.
The Stormlands: Football. With all that rain and mud it must be football.
Dorne: Tennis.
The Summer Isles: Basketball, because it needs to go somewhere and…yeah, because of that, too.
The Free Cities: Soccer. Those crazy people across the Water play that game everybody else over there plays.
I grew up playing Lacrosse, I can see that.
When I lived in Boston I kept track of the Bruins, but I could never compete with the locals. They lived and breathed hockey in a way I never could. As Olaf said, you need to play a sport to truly understand it.
