Agreed, Hugin. I think her cry of anguish was good enough. People need to remember that she just watched her last son die and she just committed a pointless murder because her bluff failed. Her only release is death.
I’m over the whole direwolf thing. You guys need to get used to the idea that they’ll never be as awesome as they are in the books. The show has the budget for one set of badass CG animals and the dragons are it.
My only complaint is with the kids and Hodor being in a small tower right there on land next to the raiders, and no one goes up there to investigate. Really? No one takes the time to go up there? Not even to check for supplies? In the book, they’re out in the middle of a lake with a hidden path leading to the tower which makes it a lot more believable that no one goes out there. Pretty lame.
My wife wasn’t feeling too hot last night and when I suggested watching GoT she begged off, saying that she would fall asleep in the middle. So being a loving dude, I agreed to to watch it tonight instead… bummed that I would have to wait a day for the biggest episode of the season.
Well annoyingly, she woke up in the middle of the night sneezing and grabbed her iPad to read some news articles until she could fall asleep again. As fate would have it, she saw an enticing headline about the show and unwisely clicked and read.
Now she is furious. With me.
Not because I turned her on to the show, but because when we’re out on our nightly walks she sometimes asks me about background from the books that doesn’t make it into the show. I’m always very careful not to reveal any spoilers about main characters, so I may have sort of semi-accidentally led her to believe that Robb lived at least through the fifth book. I’m looking forward to watching the episode, but it’s going to be even tougher to watch with my wife dreading the final scene. And she might divorce me for lying to her, which would be a bummer.
That would be The Red Divorce.
Love the redweddingtears Twitter feed, so awesome. It brought a huge smile to my face this morning.
That was a difficult episode to watch, even as an avid reader. Watching with my wife, a non-reader, made it all the more challenging. She KNEW something was up early on, and kept asking me “it’s a trick isn’t it?”, “They’re going to ambush Robb aren’t they?”, “Are they going to capture Robb and give him to the Lannisters?”. I could not say anything. Then, when the fateful scene came, I was as astounded as anyone when it started off with the belly stabbing. My wife immediately freaked, gasping out “oh my god!”, then Robb and Catelyn died and she’s crying, then the icing on the cake was Grey Wind, I think my wife thought Arya was going to get him out of the cage and ride off on him or something, so when the crossbows came she was all “No! Oh no!!”. When it was all over she asked me the exaxt same question I asked myself over a dozen years ago when I first read the chapters of the Red Wedding : “What is the point of going on with this now?”. I just smiled and said, “there is so much more to come, you’ll want to see it all unfold, TRUST ME.”
I have to say, the producers and writers did a fantastic job with tonights episode. A couple of things were perhaps a little too telegraphed, but overall it was an excellent episode with very good acting, direction, pacing and a metric fuckton of emotional impact. I LOVED it.
Same here. Was dreading that scene, but the quick neck slice was disappointing.
I don’t follow Twitter so I am not sure, but half of the #redweddingtear posts seem to be trolls or made up?
Jon definitely inherited Stupid Stark Syndrome.
As a bonus, Frey is looking for a Stark heir (grandson/daughter) to secure a claim to the North?
I assume the reason the face clawing and eye gouging was cut was
SPOILER ALERT
so that when Thoros brings her back they don’t have to spend a lot of time or money on prosthetics and/or CGI to alter the actresses face. Same deal as Tyrion only having a scar vesus losing his entire nose.
Yup. last nights episode was a shocker for sure!
Two quick questions about things I am lost on;
Why is the wildling raiding party so small, where are they going and why?
The crippled boy seems to be going north of the wall - why??
Its a scouting trip to check the defenses of Castle Black for when the Wildling army comes south and invades
Because that is where the three eyed crow indicated he should go in the Reed kid’s dreams
Robb gets practically ripped apart by a mob of soldiers in front of her eyes in the book, so it fits. (She was trying to claw her eyes out)
Some forward thinking GoT fans decided to film their friends while watching the episode. My fav:
Dude, have some sympathy! That’s a major spoiler for those who haven’t read the book.
The guy in the middle (let’s call him Zod) seems to be one cool customer. Maybe he already read the books and knows what’s coming. :)
You realize even if he fixes his post with a spoiler tag you have quoted it, right? So you are now just as culpable? :)
Hitler, to save you some searching.
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I’m sure all of it fits in the books. I’m saying trying to film it would have been lurid to the point of silliness. Books and TV are different things. Not everything should be translated as-is.
Sorry, I was thinking spoilers were OK in this thread. It’s difficult to keep the threads straight, especially since each of them seems to have regular arguements over whether they should contain spoilers or not. I have edited my original post and apologize to anyone who was needlessly spoiled by my lack of caution. Seriously, that’s not snark, I really do apologize, it was an honest mistake.
I hearby decree that The Interwebs shall now hence be powered by Downfall Hitler, to join pr0n and cats. This meme never gets old.
Spoilers are OK in this thread.
