Game of Thrones : Othor Games

» Fri Aug 06, 2010 7:39 pm

Also, again, where in the seven hells are the wolves!?!? I was looking forward to the scene where

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the wildling thieves that attack Bran get their butts chewed off by Summer and Grey Wind.

I mislike this lupine exclusion very much. The writers must needs represent them in the story or I shall be quite wroth with them indeed.

I wonder if they'd skip that

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Tywin Lannister does not [censored] gold

part.

» Fri Aug 06, 2010 10:25 am

I'm actually not missing the wolves at all ..., they aren't all that important to the story imo.

Hrm...I think Ghost is a pretty significant part of the Jon Snow character as well. I also quite like the

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dreams that Bran, Jon, and Arya have from the PoV of their wolves. It's like they're somehow still unconsciously connected, whether it's supernatural or not.

Non-spoiler version: I think the wolves, particularly Summer and Ghost, really add something to the story. To each their own, though.

» Fri Aug 06, 2010 11:34 am

haha, the hunting scene was hilarious. 4 dudes tramping through the woods, two with boar spears, one in full plate and one carrying a small stopper of wine. The king popped Cersei a good one, though.

» Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:15 pm

I'm actually not missing the wolves at all :shrug: It would have been nice to see them more, but at this point I wold be just as happy not having seen them to begin with. Other than the whole

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warging thing with Bran

, they aren't all that important to the story imo. But I'd be happy ditching the fantasy elements completely and having it be pseudo-historical fiction.

The thing is, all of the Stark children

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(the ones that survive with their wolves, anyway) do the warging thing at some point, to one degree or another. And the re-emergence of subtle magical/fantastical elements is one of the things they can hardly leave out - Daenerys' dragons being both the trigger for, and one of the major examples of that.

They're fitting a lot of material into relatively short episodes, so I'm inclined to think certain things (like the direwolves) will just be given more or less attention from episode to episode anyway. I wonder if the scene in the Wolfswood would simply have been too difficult to shoot, what with two direwolves and half a dozen actors in an action scene all at once.

haha, the hunting scene was hilarious. 4 dudes tramping through the woods, two with boar spears, one in full plate and one carrying a small stopper of wine.

Heh, that scene was mildly ridiculous. I'm nonplussed as to what they're trying to do with Renly in this series...

Does someone want to make a new thread?

» Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:57 pm

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Did anyone else feel really sorry for Viserys? As much of a monster as he was, seeing him reduced to pleading like that at the end... that got to me. If they can make me feel emotional over the death of a person like that, I wonder how I'm going to feel at the end of next week's episode (assuming it ends the way I suspect it will).

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I think it was quite a fitting end for the little bastard. Plus it just goes to show his rush for power was baseless given that he wasnt even a "dragon." Good story devlopment.

» Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:48 pm

The wolves are very important to the Stark families. Each wolf connects its fate to its master in some way. A Stark without a direwolf are completely lost, left to the instrument of the powerplayers in King's Landing. Their quote "Winter is Coming" foretells the arrival of fantastic creatures and powers.

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A petty magician in Qarth could conjure mighty telekinetic power since the birth of the dragons. The whitewalkers moved in numbers, dead people rising from their grave through magical means.

Making it pseudo-historical would only derail the story from its theme.

Our regular fantasy ends the reign of magic with rise of science, Song of Ice and Fire do it the other way around.

» Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:56 pm

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