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POLL : What did you think of Game of Thrones - You Win or You Die?

30 May 2011

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  1. darq30 May 2011 at 03:01

    AWESOME episode! So many great scenes. 

    The Valyrian Steel:
    Loved the new scene to the series meeting Tywin Lannister as he field dresses a stag. I'm not entirely sure Lord Lannister would do that himself, but I loved the symbolism! How bad ass was Jaime's armor? I thought the King's Guard had incredible armor, but the Kingslayer's personal armor was sick.  How hard would it be to be Tywin's son? He doesn't ask..nay demand much does he? Just that you do your part to make the family name live forever.....
    Jason Momoa was awesome as Drogo this week! That speech was intense! In the books it was more low key with no gesturing and stomping around. I think that speech (and his sheer size of course) was the reason he was hired for the role. It was mentioned in one of the promotional videos going into casting Jason did his Haka dance and the intensity of it floored the casting director and creative team. I can see why! Powerful is the word that comes to mindThis week I loved a Theon scene... shocking! Watching him being outwit by someone he looks down so far upon amused me to know end! Osha was hilarious... and sharp! And then to have Maester Luwin walk in and belittle Theon again by saying "Are the two of them  [guest and prisoner] mutually exclusive in your experience?" I love Luwin's rapier sharp wit... when he gets a scene he often steals it!A cut above:Ned just cannot stop himself from stepping into trouble can he? It's like he sees a steaming pile of fresh trouble on the road and steps in it just so no one else has to. Honor has its place,but seriously!Nice to see Ghost again and by the looks of it.... he was excited to be on screen too! Did you see the way he pranced in the tunnel... all proud to be on camera again and showing off to the PTB hoping for more face time in future episodes! Good luck Ghost... you deserve more scenes!!!It was a brilliant touch to have Joffrey Lannister, (who is no part Baratheon in name, spirit or blood), wearing the Baratheon Stag antler cape pin in an attempt to show his direct connection to Robert and therefore the Throne.Sam's cloak was HUGE! I'm guessing Bear Island has some big ass black bears...either that or the Night's Watch stewards certainly know how to hide a seem. A cut below:Didn't see the need for yet another Ros scene. We know Littlefinger's back story and motivations by now and the "training" lesson just seemed gratuitous to me. It went against the book in saying Catelyn Tully/Stark wasn't very beautiful. In the books she is very beautiful. It's another example of the series showing that Baelish has an agenda against the Starks and more heavy-handed foreshadowing.I swear as Daenarys has been Dothraki longer and gotten more tan her eyebrows have gotten thicker and darker! Don't they have a good eyebrow technician in the khalasar? In it looked odd to me when Rakharo took down the wine merchant. It looked to me more like he used bolos and threw them around the runner's ankles, but then when they cut to the merchant being held down Rakharo was recoiling his whip.... Probably just the jump from CGI to reality.A little time reference from the book not included in the series. Benjen Stark had been gone "close on half a year" when the trainees took their oaths to become brothers of The Night's Watch. So it's been 6 months from mid-episode 3 to mid-episode 7.... Tempus fugit!

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  2. MSWeimer30 May 2011 at 03:44

    Another great assessment of the show!

    To me, this episode really emphasizes the turning point in the book as well.  People begin to show their true natures once Robert dies. 

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  3. darq30 May 2011 at 04:03

    Agreed! 
    Everything we have seen so far was basically preamble to the real story arc of the saga... it was all set up for what is to come. Up to this point so much was done in secret, but now every move is magnified. Everyone is exposed by the moves they make.

    Now the game of thrones begins on Game of Thrones!

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  4. darq30 May 2011 at 05:02

    On second viewing I noticed something new.....WTF!!!>??!! 
    Did Ghost just bark as he ran out of the elevator?? He is silent and never makes noise in the books. I wish they would have edited those barks out! Not that difficult a job to do at all and those very small things can make a difference. It irks me.

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  5. Cliff30 May 2011 at 19:31

    Another awesome episode, I can't enough of this series :D

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  6. Nurita Abu Tahir30 May 2011 at 23:16

    The Kal Drogo speech delivered by Jason Momoa was absolutely brilliant. It really did sound like a real language spoken by a native speaker, like he's spoken it all his life. It seemed to roll off his tongue so effortlessly. IMHO Jason Momoa deserve an Emmy for that speech. It was just so darn believable.

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  7. Cadence31 May 2011 at 15:11

    Agreed completely, especially with regards to what I've heard other people call "sexposition". It's been awkward at times, but this was REALLY the first time that I had to wonder if I was watching GoT, or some high class porn. Not to mention the fact that I was watching with friends/their parents. That was weird... It also completely overshadowed the point of the scene. I mean, sure, we get a feel for how creepy Littlefinger is, but the whole Ned/Catelyn/Brandon backstory was kind of lost on us. Even when Theon was banging Ros, it served to elucidate his loneliness.

    My favourite moment of the episode was the excellent shot for the cliffhanger. The closeup of Ned realising how hard he just failed with Littlefinger smiling gleefully as he held the knife to Ned's throat was brilliant.

    I also loved, earlier in the episode, watching Ned and Ser Barristan struggle with Varys' suggestion that Lancel was purposely trying to get King Robert drunk so he would fail and die. It really brought how clever these men are to the foreground. Littlefinger and Varys are intelligent and cunning manipulators. Ser Barristan and Ned are, undoubtedly, good military leaders, but are not suited for political maneuvering at all.

    I was a bit sad that Robert died off-screen, but that's how it happened in the book, and that was probably more realistic anyway. Maybe seeing the boar fight would have been fun, but that would likely have cost way too much.

    Also, I'm really glad to see my greatest worry (Jason Mamoa) do such a wonderful job. Looking forward to more of Dany's story.

    Finally, Sam has wormed his way into my heart as one of my favourite characters on the show. He and Jon have such a ridiculously amusing bromance, it's pretty heartwarming.

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  8. darq31 May 2011 at 18:51

    I saw Momoa giving that speech in the featurtte 'Creating the Dothraki Language' and I knew he would KILL IT! Just sooooo powerful. 

    Yeah it was oddly fun to see Barristan the Bold and Lord Eddard Stark struggle to grasp that Lancel poisoned Robert!  I could see smoke coming from Ser Barristan's ears! Ned's gears were rusty too... Ha! It's not that they aren't smart  like you said, they just don,t think in manipulative ways and politics is beyond their ken.

    I hoped for the boar hunting scene too, but when I saw the four hunters on foot, with onme boar spear... I knew that was all we were getting. No dogs, no horses no group of a dozen people like in the book... but at least they did show Lancel offering more wine to King Robert. I could have done without the Renly v Robert brotherly spat though...

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  9. chestal31 May 2011 at 18:54

    totally agree!!

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  10. chestal31 May 2011 at 18:55

    I think I agree in all of what you said! Specially Littlefinger's scene with the girls...it's a nonsense scene... :( because of that, I gave the episode a great, not an awesome!! :)

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