The outrage that gbaji was expecting about 'possible @#%^philia' however makes the age difference irrelevant.
Fun to hate on gbaji and all, but he wasn't expecting any outrage, he was being purposefully obtuse, mocking the article that the last page or two had been discussing, and by extension, Dig.
Didn't even think it was that obtuse. Including the name of the woman who wrote the "outrage over rape that isn't being called rape" article should have been a total giveaway.
The outrage that gbaji was expecting about 'possible @#%^philia' however makes the age difference irrelevant.
Fun to hate on gbaji and all, but he wasn't expecting any outrage, he was being purposefully obtuse, mocking the article that the last page or two had been discussing, and by extension, Dig.
Didn't even think it was that obtuse. Including the name of the woman who wrote the "outrage over rape that isn't being called rape" article should have been a total giveaway.
Eh, outrage was your word not mine....
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I'm waiting for the outrage over how in the real world "it's our little secret" is commonly used by child molesters to convince their victims not to tell anyone about what's happening. Where's Laura Hudson when we really need her!
Sure you don't. You just complete ignored the obviously mocking nature of the post based on the last two pages of gbaji disagreeing with the way the article and Dig were interpreting the old interview, because gbaji was just so good at pretending to be serious.
Sure you don't. You just complete ignored the obviously mocking nature of the post based on the last two pages of gbaji disagreeing with the way the article and Dig were interpreting the old interview, because gbaji was just so good at pretending to be serious.
gbaji made a comment, I responded.
Maybe I don't know gbaji as well as you - or maybe you're just feeling sorry for the boy after a he got rated down to whatever. Not by my hand btw. Maybe this is your issue and not mine. Imo, his 'mocking' nature is almost always of the same severity as it was in this post and therefore it's what I always respond to. There's truth in jest.
Sansa's aunt is batsh*t insane, obviously, but I think I remember calling that out (to myself) back in one of the other seasons due to the weird mother-son thing going on in that place. She's probably not going to last long, either, now that Baelish is married to her.
Biggest wtf moment was when that new Night's Watch guy turned out to be not so nice, and then Hodor just straight up broke his head off. What the hell was the point of that character? Wasn't he introduced just one or two episodes ago? Damn shame, too, because I really liked him before he turned out to be another conniving *******.
The show is in dire need a mature male lead that I can root for. Show would have been much better if Ned Stark had been exiled to the Night's Watch and had taken Jon Snow's story arc instead of the mess they've got going on right now. I want to root for Jon, but he's just so... bland. He completely lacks everything I loved about Sean Bean's character. And that dialect, holy sh*t. I get that the English dialect is supposed to reflect their social status or something, but whenever Jon opens his mouth, I am reminded of every EastEnders episode ever.
Right now, my favorite character is Grandma Tyrell, because she's got a little bit of that "I know how this game is played, so don't @#%^ with me" attitude. And Tyrion, of course, but I'm sure they're going to ruin that soon. Every other character is either so psychotic, whiny, or bland, that I cannot grow attached to them. Even the little Stark girl is getting up there on the crazy scale.
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Biggest wtf moment was when that new Night's Watch guy turned out to be not so nice, and then Hodor just straight up broke his head off. What the hell was the point of that character? Wasn't he introduced just one or two episodes ago? Damn shame, too, because I really liked him before he turned out to be another conniving *******.[/spoiler]
Edited, May 5th 2014 7:24pm by Mazra
Apparently you missed all the previous episodes where he cut off Jaimes hand and Roose Bolton ordered him to go find the young Stark boys and to perhaps murder Jon Snow if he got the chance.
Which wasn't in the books, but made for good tv filler I guess.
Apparently you missed all the previous episodes where he cut off Jaimes hand and Roose Bolton ordered him to go find the young Stark boys and to perhaps murder Jon Snow if he got the chance.
Apparently you missed all the previous episodes where he cut off Jaimes hand and Roose Bolton ordered him to go find the young Stark boys and to perhaps murder Jon Snow if he got the chance.
I didn't realize they were the same person.
He is pretty distinctive appearance-wise, so it's strange that you missed it. Events involving him did overlap the season break though, so that could explain it. I think that character existed in the TV show solely to help lead the audience into the Bolton's betrayal of the Starks. Through him, we learn that the Boltons are more on the fence regarding the conflict than we believed earlier. He ultimately arranges to trade Jamie back to the Lannisters rather than return him to the Starks. This kinda sets up the Red Wedding. Honestly though, I actually missed that said character was from the same Banner Lord as the guy who was wearing the armor under his clothes in the wedding until the second time I watched the season, so even with him there, it wasn't super clear. The connections with these characters were just enough to go "oh! That's why/where/who <something that happened that was confusing at the time>". Similarly, don't know if anyone else noticed, but they refrained from showing the Dreadfort (the Bolton's stronghold) until the credits in season 4, presumably to help hide the whole "training" of Theon. Lots of little details that do work, but you often don't catch until after the fact.
What I found amazing was the reveal about Littlefinger and the implication that he's been manipulating stuff for a lot longer than we thought (or at least I thought). Also kinda explains (a bit), the overly complex poison plot to kill Joffrey. Establishes a pattern of him instigating/providing means for others to kill people that maybe he gains from being dead as well. Still think it's overly complex and dangerous, but it at least goes a bit towards explaining the motivation for the method.
Pretty embarrassing episode for Jon Snow, beaten by a peasant with a couple of knives when he had a sword, conveniently forgetting how to thrust or cut low in the process.
Well in Jons defense, the guy (what was his name anyways?) was legendary...legendary! At least in his own words anyways. I found it odd that his daggers were not orange in colour then though....
Pretty embarrassing episode for Jon Snow, beaten by a peasant with a couple of knives when he had a sword, conveniently forgetting how to thrust or cut low in the process.
I'd call it embarrassing for HBO and/or Kit Harrington. It almost looks like they accidentally aired the practice fight scene they had recorded. BLOOPER!
Pretty embarrassing episode for Jon Snow, beaten by a peasant with a couple of knives when he had a sword, conveniently forgetting how to thrust or cut low in the process.
I'd call it embarrassing for HBO and/or Kit Harrington. It almost looks like they accidentally aired the practice fight scene they had recorded. BLOOPER!
Yeah. It was a pretty bad fight scene. Several times you could see them like "Ok. I'll put my sword here, you stand like this, and then... Oh wait. Up a bit higher. Make sure both blades are where they'll hit my sword. There. That looks good...". Didn't flow very well. To be fair though, that's a toughish type of fight to choreograph well. Mainly because as a general rule, the guy with the full sized sword wins by keeping the other guy outside his range. He looses (usually quickly) if the guy with the short blades gets inside his range. But the law of movie sword fights requires that they must clutch close together with their blades crossed so they can get some face to face time. Which is *really* hard to realistically justify with the weapon combinations they were using.
Honestly though, anyone who's actually fought using various types of swords just learns to ignore how "wrong" most sword fights are. But yeah, this one was worse than most.
Apparently you missed all the previous episodes where he cut off Jaimes hand and Roose Bolton ordered him to go find the young Stark boys and to perhaps murder Jon Snow if he got the chance.
I didn't realize they were the same person.
This. After a season break, I don't know who half the people are, but at least now that character makes sense.
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In the book the text basically goes along the lines of Cersei saying "No, Not here you idiot, the churchpeople will walk in and see us, but oh, hey, since you already started anyways you may as well keep going and it might make you more liekely to go murder a certain short person so what the hell, why not enjoy the ride."
Honestly, maybe I was paying more attention than most (or not as much?), but this is exactly the sense I got from the scene. I got far more of a "not right here and now" than "no, I don't want to". Dunno. I definitely got this being more of a power thing than just sex, but a whole lot of that was about the incredible inappropriateness of the location they were in, and not the act itself.
I guess I just don't make any attempt to equate their relationship and actions with anything remotely near "normal", so it didn't bother me so much. I mean, there were so so many things wrong with that damn scene already...
I thought the trial scenes played rather well. Dinklage was on the edge of overdoing it, but I think considering the circumstances of the trial that it was appropriate. The fellow playing Martell has been getting better each episode, it's too bad...
Haha, I totally yelled out loud "trial by combat!" 2/3 of the way through his speech.
I'm interested in seeing who will be participants. Obviously he could pick Jaime like he wanted to last time, but Jaime's half the swordsman now. And then Cersei could pick Bronn because she's found out they've been sparring and Bronn knows how to beat him. Or he could pick Bronn and Jaime would be compelled to fight for Cersei, even though he doesn't want to. Oberyn Martell an obvious potential candidate for either side as well. Maybe Tywin calls in the Mountain to fight for Cersei's side. Or all my ideas could go out the window and Tywin could implement some crazy cunning scheme he cooks up.
Haha, I totally yelled out loud "trial by combat!" 2/3 of the way through his speech.
I'm interested in seeing who will be participants. Obviously he could pick Jaime like he wanted to last time, but Jaime's half the swordsman now. And then Cersei could pick Bronn because she's found out they've been sparring and Bronn knows how to beat him. Or he could pick Bronn and Jaime would be compelled to fight for Cersei, even though he doesn't want to. Oberyn Martell an obvious potential candidate for either side as well. Maybe Tywin calls in the Mountain to fight for Cersei's side. Or all my ideas could go out the window and Tywin could implement some crazy cunning scheme he cooks up.
Edited, May 14th 2014 7:14pm by trickybeck
Hopefully the trail-by-combat will stay true to the books. It was good.
Last night was pretty actionless until Lysa went flying. Even the Dany <3 Daario command and conquer sex scene was left up to the imagination.
The stories of childhood sibling abuse were pretty touching though. Oberyn's story of disappointment to Tyrion and the Hound's irrational fear of fire origins told to Arya.
