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The finale was fantastic. The only thing I didn't like about it was the inclusion of those random non-sequitur scenes with the small council near the end (Pycelle, Littlefinger, Varys). What was the point of those scenes, exactly?

But they really managed to nail all the setups for the next book/season. Jon heading beyond the wall, Tyrion becoming Hand of the King, Robb being declared King in the North, Arya travelling North with Yoren, Sansa stuck in the castle with Joffrey... and of course the Daenerys storyline. Good times.

The only thing I'm wondering now -- and this is looking way ahead -- is what they're going to do if they decide to pick up all the five books, and then Martin isn't done with the sixth and seventh (supposedly final) books. What would they do? Just drop it? Make up their own ending? Put the last two seasons on hold and hope to be able to re-hire the actors when Martin's done? Remember that it took him five years between books three and four, and six years between books four and five. Hmm...
 
What a refreshing series this was. Pure entertainment and intrigue. Even though I spoiled everything for myself through the first 4 books on wikipedia and other corners of the world wide internet following episode 2, so as not to have a heart attack in anticipation of what will happen next, I am going to go pick up books 2, 3, 4 and 5 and try to read them to pass the time until season 2 on HBO. Normally I'd buy them on my Nook, but I don't want to burn my retinas out by staring at that thing for so long because then I'd be blind and couldn't watch the remaining seasons on TV.

Question for the book readers - I know they are long, but is it easy reading? Or is it dense?
 
chitownjazz said:
Question for the book readers - I know they are long, but is it easy reading? Or is it dense?
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I find them pretty compulsively readable, and not "dense" in terms of being hard going. I don't imagine Martin would have been as successful as he is if the books were inaccessible. I think you'll find the pages fly.

I can tell you that I know three people personally who have started reading the books as a result of the show: my brother, my roommate, and a roommate's friend. One of them finished all four books in about two or three weeks... the second took longer but still finished them in quick order. My brother is still reading book one... I'd been trying to get him to read these for years. You'd think he'd have listened to me after I recommended Robin Hobb and he loved her stuff! In any case, all three really like the books.

Great time to be picking them up, too. Book four was disappointing because it was basically half a book. It had gotten so big that he split it in two by removing half the POV characters (including the three characters whom most would take to be the main protagonists at the end of book three... I won't name names, since I wouldn't want to spoil who lives and dies). But book five will finally re-unite us with some characters we haven't read about in 11 friggin' years... book three was published in 2000!

prodigy said:
Excellent finale, I think i'm going to re-watch the season again it was that good.
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Yeah, I actually prefer to marathon these things myself. I was so anxious for it that of course I watched them all the night they came out... but I think I'd enjoy watching them all again one after the other.

I think my favorite scene is still the Robert-Cersei scene at the end of episode five, starting around minute 42. That scene was just magic. I also liked how they did the end of Dany's storyline for the book, especially the Mirri Maz Duur stuff. That woman really brought that character to life in a way I hadn't imagined just from reading the books.
 
Just finished the last episode

For some odd reason I didn't really like the final episode. I think it was because of the Pycelle scene and the talk about Varys' "gash" seemed sidetracking. However, I'm pretty excited about Jon's adventure beyond the wall and I'm very curious how the Targaryens situation with the dragons play out. I'm somewhat pissed that the season didn't end with a battle of the Starks kicking some *** and that's probably another reason why I didn't really like the episode. Overall the entire season was epic and Tyrion's quotes are classic :).


I was still very surprised of Ned's sudden death :S and the fact that Jeoffry is still alive, but this gif. is really awesome!!!
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fallenchicken said:
I like the scenes between littlefinger and Varys. I'm not quite sure I understood the Pycelle scene. Why was that added?
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I guess IGN.com understood it, "Pycelle basically is faking being a doddering old man"....uh OK, but I guess those scenes were added to show even more deception of the council and who Tyrion will have to weed out as the new hand of the king.
 
Yes it is. And it's a relief that (something we didn't know with Lost) that the source material for seasons 2 & 3 are just as good if not better (I know the third book is generally the consensus best book of the series). So this show is only going up.

- Craig
 
Craig K. Manscill said:
Yes it is. And it's a relief that (something we didn't know with Lost) that the source material for seasons 2 & 3 are just as good if not better (I know the third book is generally the consensus best book of the series). So this show is only going up.

- Craig
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And we can hope that they'll be able to splice in the Book 5 story with the somewhat-disappointing Book 4 so the whole thing doesn't lose a step. I get the feeling that they could cut out basically all of Dorne and most of the Iron Islands in the Book 4 storyline and not really lose all that much.
 
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