Game of Thrones Season Six! April 24th 2016!!!

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But, at least, they had a kind of Eric idle 'nudge-nudge, wink-wink' guy talking dirty about Cerci!

 

Watermelon head.

 

this. i'm fairly certain it wasn't the red woman who actually resurrected him.

 

Ok, I'm out. Sorry.

 

why is that?

 

I don't want to ruin anything for anyone else. I'll remove myself from the conversation.

No offense.

 

Basically yes, the books and show end up different animals, I'm not sure it's Blade Runner vs. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep different -but different.
I want to read the books and probably will when they are complete, as you suggest.
The thing I was noticing from digging into some events from the book, was that the show has created tweaks and forks in the road that allow some things that would have happened in the book already to either be postponed for later or maybe won't happen, or will happen differently.
I mention the Philip Dick story that was made into the film Blade Runner because they are radically different stories really, yet both are excellent.
I think it's clear at this point that the show is a stand alone piece that will not end up radically different than the books, but just a different way or path to the writers intended end.

In other news: The spoiler thing is just silly, I went to that other thread and popped some open and maybe got a little insight, but it made me wonder why I don't care that any thing gets 'spoiled' for me, so some people somehow think watching is spoiled if they understand more of what's going on? This show just seems to trigger the desire to dig into what the books have in them because it enriches the experience of watching -for me.
I do get that putting on the blinders and just gleaning all the info via the episodes can be a good experience, but with all the convolutions of the grand epoch soap opera and ridiculous number of characters and family trees, cheat sheeting from what's in the books seems helpful to get a handle on it all and get into the story more firmly.

 

He was just holding out for a good sponge bath.

 

Since the TV series has effectively moved beyond the books, I can't see that book spoiling now has any relevance.

If you're worried about the bools being spoiled, the last book came out five years ago. That's more than enough time to have read ALL the books if you're really that concerned. And I say this as one who has't nearly read all the books.

 

My favourite is another one from Tyrion:
"That's what I do. I drink and I know things."

(another great one was when he freed the dragons and walked back to Varys, something like "Next time I have such an idea, please punch me in the face." )

 

Don't know how exactly to say this. So I'll just be forward. Id rather you not remove yourself. You are a major contributor to this conversion. I'm going to ask you to reconsider.

 

I agree.

It's simple, as Michael has repeatedly suggested, to use the SPOILER tags around any information that is coming from the books that hasn't been on the show.

To me, that's a win-win for everyone.

 

Working on his accent, hopefully

 

What, too Irish?

 

Thanks, and I will continue to contribute. I'll just try and be more careful if I think I'm revealing stuff from the books. Mostly, though, I'm just going off conjecture & speculation of how the plot moves forward. I had another idea, but I forgot it now!

If I can remember, I'll use the spoiler tag.

 

OK, gotcha...

 

welcome back!

 

my wife made a final comment at the end of Sunday's show...

Spoiler

THEY ALL LIED! pertaining to Jon Snow!

 

So...does Jon's oath to the Night's Watch end with his death? It sort of seems like it would.

 

Well my wife and I just watched it and we're like, "This show cannot be any perfect". so many unanswered questions but we know we'll have them all answered. We actually look forward to Sunday all week for this show. It's the highlight of our week.

 

We still haven't heard from Samwell Tarly yet this year.

 

That's what I thought before, but now that the traitors have been rounded up maybe there's still a future for Jon with the Crows. IF he's functioning at 100%...