Game of Thrones (Season 3)

[Barty]

Let's enjoy the beautiful song shall we?

[number8]

Especially since the writers of the show made it so that Ned Stark may have died twice. Bastards.

Speaking of which, I find fans who think that additions on the show are some kind of affront are weird. George RR Martin picked the people on the production and is everyone's boss. I am pretty sure they consult every deviations with him first.

[number8]

sad robb stark

From his Rolling Stones interview:

But the journey of that character and the fondness that we all have for each other as a cast and a crew and as characters playing the story . . . It was really moving, and not very nice, and I left set and got straight to the airport and got on a plane because I didn't want to be there anymore. It was very difficult.

It was really hard shooting the end of it. It's still very difficult for me to process that I'm not going back, that it is completely gone. It's funny, because I'm still very close with all the crew, and I've been talking to the hair department and the other actors who are all gearing up and going back into it. That's really strange to me. Just now, we're gearing up into summer, and I should be starting back on the show, but I'm not.

:sad:

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/n...dgame-20130602

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It's also funny how his episode was the worst of the season.

[Henry Gale]

By the way, I'm loving the producers' weird choices to get popular indie bands to do the songs. Picking The National do the Lannister song was great, and this season they hired The Hold Steady to do a drinking song and got the guy from Snow Patrol to sing it in the episode.

Not to mention the bald drummer in the newest episode was Will Champion from Coldplay.

I definitely didn't recognize the song from hearing it briefly in the scene, but it didn't really make a difference, since at that point I'd already assumed what was bound to happen and was spending that time mentally bracing myself for it.

But honestly, most of the music played within the show is dressed up so similarly that aside from when characters sing stories along with it, it kinda registers as sounding the same to me. If Matt Berninger from The National had stepped out with the wedding band, maybe it would've brought things a little closer to figuring out the motives to it all before the dialogue revealed it.

[Kurosawa Fan]

One omission from the books that is troubling to me... [book spoiler, obv.]

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Why did they not mention that before his death Robb "willed," for lack of a better word, Winterfell to Jon Snow in the wake of the news that Bran and Rickon had been murdered by Theon? I feel like the show either dropped the ball, or revealed that Martin decided to do nothing with that major development in future books.

]

Anyone else bothered by that, or would reading further reveal the reason for the omission?

[number8]

Not to mention the bald drummer in the newest episode was Will Champion from Coldplay.

I'm seeing a pattern here. They're hiring Brooklyn bands to write and record the songs, but get UK musicians to cameo on the show playing them. Tsk tsk.

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Martin is on Conan tonight. Headey was on last night.

[number8]

Good interview too.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Welp, time for me to write Cersei/Swanson fanfic.

[Fezzik]

Spoilers if you haven't seen the latest episode yet, but otherwise... :lol:

[number8]

This entire tumblr is amazing.

[Acapelli]

This entire tumblr is amazing.

i love this

[Kurosawa Fan]

Best one is "And that's why you always leave a note." :lol:

[number8]

Making Daario Naharis Gene Parmesan remains my favorite.

[Thirdmango]

Just to chime in, I recognized that they were playing a song I had already heard somewhere on the show, and I assumed it was the song that the title of the episode was (since I watched it on hbogo and knew the title), but beyond that I didn't actually know what the song was. I didn't recognize it from the last time it was mentioned.

Also Qrazy is right, he was raping all of us newborns. I'm sure that talk of scene structure will be able to be spoken about after us newborns get over our shock and can watch it a second time knowing it's coming. But for us newborns it's still a, "oh what are they OH GOD."

[Henry Gale]

Moving past the shock value it concentrated to last week's episode, this finale managed to reconnect the rawer, more effusive nerves of its ensemble's wide range of motives and emotions in honestly incredible ways. Hard to believe it was the longest-ever episode because it played so tightly and brazenly.

Even scenes as seemingly straight-forward as that one between Stannis, Melisandre and Davos are designed with such beautiful reversals in the writing and performances, all within simply stunningly decorated images. I don't know if that sunset was real or fabricated, but I almost don't care it gave the scene such a perfect flourish.

As Breaking Bad wraps in a couple of months, I can't help but feel that this is the best drama on television going forward.

[Sxottlan]

I was just surprised to hear someone say they didn't know it, since it's hard for me to imagine. Anyone I asked had the same reaction. I'm just amused by this, nothing more.

Maybe I'm just dense, but I don't recall ever hearing the song earlier in the season. All I noticed was that they switched up to a song in a minor chord. Seemed pretty obvious then. My co-worker had spoiled that there was something coming up called [

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the Red Wedding, but I had hoped it would have been Joffrey's wedding. The way they teased Tyrell aiming that crossbow into the mirror back at Joffrey seemed like foreshadowing.

] Still, it was shocking and a little nauseating.

[Irish]

Loved every scene with Tyrion.

Disappointed we didn't get more than 10 seconds of Jaime.

[number8]

Blonde hair blue eyed white person being worshipped by a crowd of brown slaves makes me uncomfortable.

[number8]

Anyway, Arya's scene was probably my favorite in that finale.

"Is this the first man you've ever killed?"
"...The first man. Yes."

The Hound don't even know, man.

[Lucky]

Blonde hair blue eyed white person being worshipped by a crowd of brown slaves makes me uncomfortable.

I couldn't shake the offputting feeling either. It was an awkward end for me.

[Lucky]

I think BOOK SPOILER [

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Joffrey's dead body

] would have been a much more effective season closer. Especially after Tyrion and Cersei's exchange which will probably be forgotten by next year.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Blonde hair blue eyed white person being worshipped by a crowd of brown slaves makes me uncomfortable.

Absolutely. Disappointing finale.

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Only if you really want to read it into the scene. The context is clear. Great finale in my book, except for the whole waiting one more year thing.