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I liked the premiere. Jamie and Arya are my favorite characters to watch, and they both had strong scenes in this episode.

 

Daenarys is becoming incredibly annoying to watch though. She's moving on to free yet another city of slaves. I realize the show is following the books, but come on. She was doing this throughout the entire last season. It's getting really old at this point.

 

Anyone know why Daario was re-cast?

I liked the premiere. Jamie and Arya are my favorite characters to watch, and they both had strong scenes in this episode.

 

Daenarys is becoming incredibly annoying to watch though. She's moving on to free yet another city of slaves. I realize the show is following the books, but come on. She was doing this throughout the entire last season. It's getting really old at this point.

 

Anyone know why Daario was re-cast?

Supposedly something to do with the next Transporter movie since the previous actor is in that.

I liked the premiere. Jamie and Arya are my favorite characters to watch, and they both had strong scenes in this episode.

 

Daenarys is becoming incredibly annoying to watch though. She's moving on to free yet another city of slaves. I realize the show is following the books, but come on. She was doing this throughout the entire last season. It's getting really old at this point.

 

Anyone know why Daario was re-cast?

 

I suspect lots of people will have the same reaction to Daenerys' storyline just because she takes a detour, both figuratively and literally. Which is too bad, because it's not all uninteresting and lot of it builds her character. Look at it from a positive perspective, at least you didn't wait 11 years to see what she does like the people who waited on the last book :D The show will most likely catch up to her book storyline next year either way.

 

And yeah, regarding Daario, Ed Skrein is the new Transporter and most likely gave up on the show to work on that.

 

Now regarding the episode, I think this was the strongest season opener of the past three seasons. Lots to do with Arya and The Hound's bit, 10 quality minutes to end the episode with.

Awesome news. Hopefully more people watching = HBO gives them more money to work with = they include more visually challenging stuff. I mean, we're starting to see the aftermath of the war, and while it lasted we pretty much saw only one battle.

This episode was a great opening to the season. I will say that

The reforging of Ice right before the intro was very sad to me. I'm glad the Lannister's are going to get what's coming to them, hopefully as soon as next week! Also, holy crap Drogon is big!

Yes, it was.

 

But regarding the intro, nevermind, it's the same. I compared the "shadow" from previous intros of the 3rd season, and it's also there. It's just the shadow from those "ring things" around the Sun. Just wishful thinking, I guess. Those previews put that image in my head, hehehe.

Are the TV producers going to start making stuff up now? Martin is taking is sweet time finishing the books. Pretty soon the TV show is going to run out material.

 

Although, I wouldn't be surprised if Martin is holding out on finishing the books so that HBO pays him big money. The TV show is extremely popular, I doubt HBO would let the show fizzle out for a few years waiting for Martin to get off his ass; and he probably knows this.

Are the TV producers going to start making stuff up now? Martin is taking is sweet time finishing the books. Pretty soon the TV show is going to run out material.

 

Although, I wouldn't be surprised if Martin is holding out on finishing the books so that HBO pays him big money. The TV show is extremely popular, I doubt HBO would let the show fizzle out for a few years waiting for Martin to get off his ass; and he probably knows this.

 

They've got this season, and next season at the very least before they catch up to whats currently written. Could be more. The Winds of Winter will be out before next season (hopefully) so that adds at least one season, if not two. So he has 4 years to finish tWoW and write A Dream of Spring.

I heard on the radio this morning on my way to work (don't know the source they used) that the producers are going to start changing things to "keep it interesting". Anyone hear anything about that?

 

They've been saying it (and kinda doing it) for a while now, it's just that the people reporting it blow it out of proportion. There are details that get changed, less important characters get trimmed or merged, there are timelines that get moved around, some storylines get expanded and some get shortened, but so far they have kept each and every one of the important moments from the books practically intact. I remember actors saying last year that the season was going to be full of shocking surprises for the book readers, but I honestly don't remember a single change that would have a lasting effect on the story.

They've been saying it (and kinda doing it) for a while now, it's just that the people reporting it blow it out of proportion. There are details that get changed, less important characters get trimmed or merged, there are timelines that get moved around, some storylines get expanded and some get shortened, but so far they have kept each and every one of the important moments from the books practically intact. I remember actors saying last year that the season was going to be full of shocking surprises for the book readers, but I honestly don't remember a single change that would have a lasting effect on the story.

Yeah I know they have been doing that. For some reason, I interpreted the announcement on the radio that they will be doing something more radical. Just curious if my immediate reaction had any truth to it.

 

I, for one, am getting tired of waiting for Daenerys to return to Westeros. So my immediate thought/hope was the producers are going to hurry and make that happen sooner than it does in the books.

 

It doesn't happen at all in book 3, so it's not supposed to happen in season 4. So that means we'll need to wait another year (at least) to see that happen if they stick close to the book. (lame) I wonder if the producers are worried about having too many story lines take too long, and losing live viewers in the process.

Yeah I know they have been doing that. For some reason, I interpreted the announcement on the radio that they will be doing something more radical. Just curious if my immediate reaction had any truth to it.

 

I, for one, am getting tired of waiting for Daenerys to return to Westeros. So my immediate thought/hope was the producers are going to hurry and make that happen sooner than it does in the books.

 

It doesn't happen at all in book 3, so it's not supposed to happen in season 4. So that means we'll need to wait another year (at least) to see that happen if they stick close to the book. (lame) I wonder if the producers are worried about having too many story lines take too long, and losing live viewers in the process.

 

Again, I don't see any major changes coming, because major changes like Daenerys arriving sooner than in the books would change the entire story so much they'd probably have to write everything from scratch.

 

Regarding Daenerys, it's not that bad, really

 

This is the season she decides to stay in Meereen so I see a lot of people bitching about it, but as soon as next year it's going to pick up interest again because of a certain someone heading her way. Not to mention the end to season 5 and her arc has the potential to put her back on the badass side. And let's be fair, it was obvious from the get-go she'd take her sweet time, considering the dragons actually have to grow up before she lands in Westeros (ideally).

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