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Originally Posted by BigRichard:
Like I said before... they are using large battles as their shiny object. Look over here so you don't see the shitty story telling we are doing.
Look outside of Arya I think the story telling has been fine? [Reply]
Originally Posted by BleedingRed:
They didn't train her in the dark.... She got blinded as a punishment...........................Are we watching the same show?
Hmm, in the books her blindness has nothing to do with a punishment and seems to be a part of her training. Perhaps I confused the two. [Reply]
Originally Posted by MagicHef:
Hmm, in the books her blindness has nothing to do with a punishment and seems to be a part of her training. Perhaps I confused the two.
Understandable, but I'm pretty sure it was in the show tho [Reply]
Originally Posted by MagicHef:
Hmm, in the books her blindness has nothing to do with a punishment and seems to be a part of her training. Perhaps I confused the two.
I thought she was being punished in the books. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BleedingRed:
Look outside of Arya I think the story telling has been fine?
They have made Cerci not so hateable, they have made Jaime not so likable, they ****ed up Dorne, they have ****ed up the warging and the Direwolves. I am also curious to see if GRRM makes Jon such a pussy after his death. Those are just a few things that pisses me off. [Reply]
Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO:
I thought she was being punished in the books.
She does lose her sight after killing Daeron, but there's no explicit connection. She receives her sight back after she proves that she's able to fight while blind, so it seems that it's being used for training. [Reply]
They've totally screwed up Jamie on the show. They just went to shit with him after season 2. None of the redemptive arc from the books. He's just a pretty face pining for his sister now, aside from a couple good scenes with brienne Sunday. Totally pointless. It's sad to watch. He's arguably my favorite book character by the end of feast for crows.
They've completely fucked up both twins, with Lena Heady being such a champion of Cersei as victim. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRichard:
They have made Cerci not so hateable, they have made Jaime not so likable, they ****ed up Dorne, they have ****ed up the warging and the Direwolves. I am also curious to see if GRRM makes Jon such a pussy after his death. Those are just a few things that pisses me off.
Originally Posted by keg in kc:
They've totally screwed up Jamie on the show. They just went to shit with him after season 2. None of the redemptive arc from the books. He's just a pretty face pining for his sister now, aside from a couple good scenes with brienne Sunday. Totally pointless. It's sad to watch. He's arguably my favorite book character by the end of feast for crows.
They've completely ****ed up both twins, with Lena Heady being such a champion of Cersei as victim.
Originally Posted by keg in kc:
They've totally screwed up Jamie on the show. They just went to shit with him after season 2. None of the redemptive arc from the books. He's just a pretty face pining for his sister now, aside from a couple good scenes with brienne Sunday. Totally pointless. It's sad to watch. He's arguably my favorite book character by the end of feast for crows.
They've completely ****ed up both twins, with Lena Heady being such a champion of Cersei as victim.
When he made the comment about killing everyone just to get back to his sister, I wanted the scene to be over. In the books he became one of the most likable characters and in the show he is Cersei's bitch. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
"No one speaks for the Many-Faced God.
The kindly man is someone.
The waif is someone.
No one is no one.
A sweet girl has shown mercy.
A debt must be paid.
One life shall be taken.
Which life matters not.
A life is a life.
It is all the same to the Many-Faced God.
A smart girl knows she cannot beat the waif in simple combat.
A clever girl must deceive the waif.
A girl must play the game.
A girl knows an actress.
An actress knows the art of lying.
A lost girl has trained in the art of lying for two years.
An actress has given a sweet girl what she needs.
A girl has all the rest.
"You have very expressive eyes, wonderful eyebrows. Do you like pretending to be other people?"
A hunted girl must attract the attention of someone.
A hunted girl must stand openly where escape is easy.
The waif is someone.
The waif has desires.
An experienced girl knows the waif will want her to suffer.
A clever girl knows where the waif will stab her.
A lying girl must become a wounded girl.
A lying girl must act wounded when no one is watching.
For no one is watching.
A wounded girl must lead the waif into the darkness.
A girl has trained in complete darkness before.
The waif has not.
The waif is unprepared.
The waif has been tricked by a girl.
The waif believes she is after a wounded girl.
A girl is not a wounded girl.
A girl will deliver a life to the Many-Faced God.
A life is a life and the debt is paid.
A girl is not no one.
A girl will never be no one.
A girl is Arya Stark
and Arya Stark has many faces."
I got this from a comment chain on Facebook. Take it for what it's worth.
According to the director, getting stabbed and going to Lady Crane weren't part of Arya's plan. The oranges weren't blood oranges, they were only there because he liked how they looked against the grey stone steps.
Originally Posted by Swanman:
When he made the comment about killing everyone just to get back to his sister, I wanted the scene to be over. In the books he became one of the most likable characters and in the show he is Cersei's bitch.
Yup.
They took probably the coolest speech in the book and fucked it up. In the books, at that point he was simply a machine; focused on doing the job at hand. He'd separated himself entirely from Cersei and instead was just out there kicking ass because kicking ass is what he'd done for decades.
In the show he's just a pining bitch. Just awful. [Reply]
Originally Posted by MagicHef:
According to the director, getting stabbed and going to Lady Crane weren't part of Arya's plan. The oranges weren't blood oranges, they were only there because he liked how they looked against the grey stone steps.
Please, lets come up with more summarily dispensed garbage to keep from coming to grips with the fact that D&D just really fucked that whole thing up... [Reply]
