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Game of Thrones - Season 4: Who Is Jon Snow?

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Finally watched last weeks episode, we always seem to be a couple days behind. Maybe next Sunday we'll watch it real-time.

Agreed that it was a pretty uneventful episode, but it did advance the story on a few fronts, and it was good in that way. Even still, this show has a way to make the uneventful episodes interesting. I liked seeing Littlefinger re-emerge, I figured it was only a matter of time before we saw him again. Also, I was glad to see more of the Arya/Hound story moving along. I really liked the scene with Tywin asking Tommen about what makes a good king, it was well done.
 
bigblue_dl said:
Finally watched last weeks episode, we always seem to be a couple days behind. Maybe next Sunday we'll watch it real-time.

Agreed that it was a pretty uneventful episode, but it did advance the story on a few fronts, and it was good in that way. Even still, this show has a way to make the uneventful episodes interesting. I liked seeing Littlefinger re-emerge, I figured it was only a matter of time before we saw him again. Also, I was glad to see more of the Arya/Hound story moving along. I really liked the scene with Tywin asking Tommen about what makes a good king, it was well done.
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I saw someone on Twitter suggest a spinoff with Arya and the Hound. They could go from town to town having adventures.

That Daenerys Targaryen is such a badass. Speaking directly to their slaves, in their own language, then showering the city in collars....
 
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So the big question I have coming out of this episode is around the baby taken to the White Walker King. What are we to expect of that baby? Will it stay that same size now that it's been turned? Is that just the whitewalker pre-basting ritual for the feast?

Overall, I'm a little disappointed with this episode as I wanted to see dragons roast a city.
 
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I'm really enjoying some of the changes from the book, especially north of the wall.

I suppose I'm starting to feel a bit like the show is not going to do much to show an impact from the rape of Cersei, beyond her starting to flat out hate Jaime, but I suppose it could be worse. I'm still in the camp of thinking that what we see is still fairly consistent with what we know about the characters, especially Jaime.

Edited to Add: By the way, I think we might be able to say that the show has officially passed the books in one storyline already, with the last scene. I think it was already pretty heavily implied that the Others were actually doing something with the children that were offered by Craster, but to finally get a glimpse of it (especially with so much yet to be addressed/resolved north of the wall in the books) was pretty cool.
 
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St. Clown said:
Did he say that he was 13 in the show? I know he's young still, but it seems like they aged up many of the characters a few years.
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He's certainly older than in the books (he's what... 7 in the books? Maybe 9 by the time we get to the end of ADWD?).

When you think about some of the issues faced by the younger characters in the books (especially Dany), they really had no choice but to make them older in the show.
 
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St. Clown said:
So the big question I have coming out of this episode is around the baby taken to the White Walker King. What are we to expect of that baby? Will it stay that same size now that it's been turned? Is that just the whitewalker pre-basting ritual for the feast?

Overall, I'm a little disappointed with this episode as I wanted to see dragons roast a city.
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I was satisfied the ceremony took place within a circle of stones. Had that rich, comfortable ring of sci-fi/fantasy/ritualism cliche :rolleyes:.

Fascinating that Brienne has served a Baratheon, a Stark and now a Lannister.

Also, that was one pretty suit of armor.
 
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There's a worry going around the internet now that HBO released a book spoiler into the TV show pertaining to the Whitewalkers, but only with certainty if you had gone to the show's official website prior to someone changing the text. I have a feeling only the most careful or dedicated of GRR Martin's fans would have caught it, but someone did since it's the internet.
 
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I'm slowly making my way through the first book (mild dyslexia is a blessing at times), and I'll steer clear of the website.
 
Re: Game of Thrones - Season 4: Who Is Jon Snow?

St. Clown said:
There's a worry going around the internet now that HBO released a book spoiler into the TV show pertaining to the Whitewalkers, but only with certainty if you had gone to the show's official website prior to someone changing the text. I have a feeling only the most careful or dedicated of GRR Martin's fans would have caught it, but someone did since it's the internet.
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I think it's more of a big deal because it's now the first official thing where we've sort of passed the books up.

FWIW, I don't know that's really a spoiler as much as a confirmation of something that was briefly but quite heavily implied by the books. It's not like we should have been assuming that the Others/White Walkers were going to be a LOST-esque dangling thread that gets forgotten about.
 
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You probably have people appearing older in the series than in the books because it would be incredibly distasteful to American audiences to see Margaery seduce a 9-year old boy or a 14-year old Daenerys giving birth.
 
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