Watched episode 9 (from Sunday 6-12) yesterday. OMFG!

I'm watching it tonight!

So sad that it's nearly over. GoT and Camelot have just been joyful for me.

DO NOT MISS THE END! PAY ATTENTION....
No bathroom breaks or twistin a fatty till AFTER...
;)

I knew what was coming, and it still hurt a bit.

Oh goodness...this sounds like it's going to be harrowing:p

Oh my God. I can't believe it. I was so sure it would go a different way. I'm stunned. Really choked up.

I haven't read the books, and have been avoiding spoilery reviews {made that mistake with Camelot's finale) so this was just a complete shock.

I don't even know what to say.

How the fucking fuck am I supposed to sleep after that?

Yeah.

GRRM does not pull his punches.

Dana that was exactly how I felt after I read the first book. I wanted to hate it, but I liked it so much I burned through the rest of the books.

Was that the season finale?

No, it was not. One episode left. Wait until you see what's coming ...

This is the funniest thing I've seen in some time.

The link is to a youtube video, but I didn't use the youtube tags because the title of the video includes a wacking great spoiler for Episode 9. DO NOT WATCH THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN EPISODE 9!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and the fellow uses naughty words.

If your kids are old enough to watch the show, they will probably not be emotionally crippled by the video, but I wanted to be courteous about it.

Amazing. It doesn't tell you a single darn thing about the episode but still makes it look really compelling.

Is everybody done watching who is going to watch? I want to talk about it, but I don't want to ruin it for anyone.

Just white out the text and place a spoiler warning, it should be fine.

Holy frikkin A .... Did anyone else see last nights episode?

I cannot say anything more without ruining it for those that didn't see it. I have not been this compelled to watch a series in a decade or more. It was fantastic!

Possible Spoiler Alert .....
 

[Spoiler alert: If you haven't watched the Season 1 finale of "Game of Thrones," DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK]
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Damn it... the season's over.

Imma watch it agian

Staying up to watch it on OnDemand tonight!

Oh dear heavens. I have to wait until April of next year?

yeah, yeah, I read all the books. Jim made me. I know what happens.

I do have to pre-order the next book.

Damn Wolf ... I remained intentionally ignorant of it all and have seen nothing but the actual shows. We're watching from two totally different perspectives.

Lovin' this! I'll be able to re-watch them via On-Demand till then.

I really haven't enjoyed a tv series this much since Band of Brothers.

It is really great. We have watched all the episodes twice or more. I like to see what I notice after the first time I watch. Just saw the finale. Actually, I was kind of disappointed. I Imagined it very differently when I read the book. But it was still really good. I will probably watch it again tonight.

I've been watching them multiple times as well. I'm still putting some things together that I probably would have if reading the book.

Yeah, I really can't imagine how I could get the whole story if I hadn't read the books, but I really am not all that smart, so most people probably could do better than I do. Still, the visual images, alone are enough to make me want to watch them a few times over.

NOW I can read the book!! :D

HA - I'm with Stormie

It was inevitable.

Hahahahah fucking awesome.

Just watched the finale. Been putting it off. Previous one was just too fecking traumatic :p

Fuck a doodle doo. What a finish. Cannot wait for the next season.

Anybody read a Dance with Dragons yet? I finished it a couple of weeks ago. More dead people that I didn't want dead yet.

I read it. An enjoyable read, but I really felt a lack of plot advancement. Perhaps due to its unusual history of being half a book extended.

But when I look at the synopsis on Wikipedia, quite a lot happened and quite a lot was set up to pay off in upcoming books.

Odd.

I read all 5 in the course of a month or two. In book 3 he hit the trough that all of these long-running fantasy series run into. He sort-of started climbing out of it in book 5, but he still has a ways to go.

The deus ex machina starts to really grind. I don't know how to develop this character, I'll kill them. I don't know how to get this character out of this situation because there's no reasonable course of action that isn't waiting, so I'll have that character act completely contrary to character.

Hopefully the next one gets out of this rut.

oh, fucking NICE!

Roy Dotrice is back as the narrator! I just got the audiobook... just now!

yay!!!!1!!!1...

gonna download it stat!

Library lending has come to Kindle. I am on the Library's waiting list for ADWD. Last time I checked I was fourth in line.

omg.

talk about culture clash.

You are waiting in line to borrow a copy of an e-book for your Kindle?


Just... kill me now.

I will send you my copy, wolf, if you don't mind a regular book. And it is a huge book.

pm me if you want it, okay?

Generally I don't mind a regular book ... but I am quite spoiled by the Kindle, especially when it comes to budgie-killing books. I may accept your offer if I can't finish the book during the check-out period, though.

Library ebook lending is kind of freaky. Each book is limited both to the number of copies the library can have, as well as the number of times the book can be checked out, supposedly to simulate the wear and tear on a physical book, at which point it is either discarded or replaced ... replaced means that the library has to pay for another license.

This is, of course, bullshit. The electrons don't wear out, and the real physical books last longer than the specified number of loans for an ebook ... but the publishers are all kinds of cranky over the new means of content provision and are trying to suck every penny out of it that they can.

I guess Roy didn't re-listen to his own work before recording the new book. He's using the Lord Varys' accent for Illirio the fat merchant, and Dany sounds like the Wildling that Bran and Rob captured.... forget her name.... but...still... He's the fucken best.

I am now third in line.

I have it, I have it! I got my email this morning saying ADWD was available for checkout.

So much for my doing anything productive today. Or tomorrow. Or probably for at least the next week.

My box set of the books should be here any day now.

I've been playing "A Game of Thrones: Genesis". It is definitely a unique take on real time strategy (RTS) gaming. It doesn't completely gel, but I give them points for trying something new.

It really plays up political intrique. The beginning of the game is all about sending out envoys, spies, and other diplomatic or underhanded units to build up as much support from the local lords as you can before war breaks out. At that point, you have to quickly raise armies, and it becomes a regular RTS.

Unfortunately, both phases are a bit slow, and not very polished. And the Westeros-history bookends around the missions can make it seem futile. You win a decisive victory, and then a blurb pops up saying that despite that victory your rebellion was quickly quashed.

Luddite.

It's here. Well, it's at home.

It's just the modern-day equivalent of, "I'm sorry, but the princess is in another castle!"

*chokes on coffee*

God's teeth, that takes me back.

I read up to Dances with Dragons (2-3 years ago). Got burned out with the story line, how everyone gets killed and the story just creeps forward. I've walked away and not too sure I will go back.

He'll probably pull a Robert Jordan anyway.

I never made it through to the end of Jordan's stuff. I lost the will to live quite early on.

This though, I dunno. I had the audiobooks and couldn't gel with them. I think I'd probably have liked the reader more had I not seen the tv series first.

I intend to get them in paperback. The high death count doesn't really put me off. I made it through the first two chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. I have stamina :p

The death count isn't an issue other than all the main characters are being axed. Quite the opposite, the higher the better (Joe Abercrombie). I have not thought about Thomas Covenant in a very long time... I read only the first book, back in the mid 1980s.

Love Abercrombie. The First Law Trilogy was one hell of a debut.

I have struggled my way to 39% of ADWD. It's rough going, nothing happens. I mean stuff happens, but its happened already, I'm just getting filler. I hear that at some point I'm going to exceed the timeline of the last book.

Yeah, it was pretty slow for a while. I got bored with the Sunspear prince story line and found myself skipping a page here and there..."get on with it, already."

T- 2 months... I'm knee deep in rewatching season 1 reruns.

Dammit, when will Season 1 be released on DVD and thus be available on Netflix?? I mean I've read the books, I know what happens, but I want to see it. [/whine]

The Game Of Thrones Begins On DVD March 6th
Here's the rundown: Link

Thanks, classic!

I am going to either need to come over to someone's house every week, or, if someone with HBO is willing to trust me with their passwords to HBOgo, I'll watch online.

Hiya wolf - remember me? :)