Game of Thrones TV extravaganza

Gary Sax wrote: Horseshit episodes. A lot of good posts here. I'll absolutely buy the core twist on Dany, but the work here is completely hamfisted and bizarrely 2 episodes long and incoherent.

What an ugly, shitty end to what may be the only end I see to my favorite book series.

Gary Sax wrote: Jeb, I agree, I don't think the show (ANY show, not just this one) has the time to lay the groundwork the books laid about just how much people preferred having fairly arbitrary, drunk Baratheon on the throne from a day to day perspective to the mad king years. It changes how you feel about some key characters, too---the Kingslayer or his turncloak father vs. "good" loyalists like Ser Barristan.

There are several scenes, the most powerful of which is Jaime iirc, describing having to stand in the court and watch the mad king burn people alive. Or how he is covered with scabs from his like 10 inch long fingermails and the cuts from the iron throne. I think holding all that in the back of your mind here is useful.

jeb wrote: HAND: "Your Grace, the people are starving, perhaps we could open the gran--"
BRAN: "There was a starving. A great one. Only crows were sated." /stares
HAND: "Uhhh. Yes. Anyway, we have stored some grain, should we r--"
BRAN: "I am not hungry. I no longer eat. I will go now" /eyes roll back
HAND: "Fucking hell..."
BRAN: "I heard that, I hear everyth--"
HAND: "I KNOW."