cronos
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It was tasteless and disgusting. But for this particular show it's par for the course, so I'm not complaining.
It was tasteless and disgusting. But for this particular show it's par for the course, so I'm not complaining.
cronos
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Ok I got curious so I ended up reading some comments on one of the reviews out there of the episode and can't help but to laugh.
There is a reason why you and I and most others in this thread aren't feeling the rage, and believe me, it's an absolutely satisfying reason
Phoenix86
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Eug
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The sort-of-rape scene seemed superfluous, but yeah, par for the course for this show. But at the same time it felt out-of-place in a way, and I thought it didn't add anything to the show this time around. That said, I was surprised to hear that there was a bit of a kerfuffle about it.
In contrast I felt the final Khaleesi scene was awesome.
In contrast I felt the final Khaleesi scene was awesome.
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Ok I got curious so I ended up reading some comments on one of the reviews out there of the episode and can't help but to laugh.
There is a reason why you and I and most others in this thread aren't feeling the rage, and believe me, it's an absolutely satisfying reason
Haha 'nuff said.
KT
People seriously got upset about that scene, calling it rape? Jesus people get offended by anything anymore. I want to throat punch so many people these days.
Eug
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irishScott
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The rape scene IMO shows Jaime's development as a character. He mentioned in the last episode how he did and endured all of those horrible things (losing his hand no less) and such to get back to Cersei, and she just says "you took too long, so fuck you."; then she goes begging for his support. The rape was his way of lashing out and showing Cersei that she was no longer in charge of him.
I thought the final scene was awesome as well, but haters gonna hate. ATOT is worse than youtube comments for hating anything popular.
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Drako
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I think the whole scene from the beginning with Tywin just shows Cersei's role in the Lannister family spiraling down the drain. She has seemingly lost all influence of Tommen to her father, and she has no control over Jaime. She is now completely alone.
Newbian
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He could as that is often done with dwarves at birth as Tyrion said but Tywin kept him alive because he is a lannister with his speech he does and why picking him as killing joffrey would make no sense really.
GoT involves a lot of moral ambiguity. There are a lot of people who cannot stand any kind of moral ambiguity if it involves "rape".
But hey, pushing kids out windows and cannibalism is fine
irishScott
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Everyone's entitled to their opinion, I'm just saying ATOT has a natural tradition of severely nitpicking anything that reaches a certain level of popularity. I suppose the comment was speaking more in general. A couple here (can't remember who exactly) have complained about Dany's storyline, others about Sam, Jon Snow, etc. IMO all of the various plotlines are excellent, hell I think Bran's is by far the weakest but I still enjoy it.
There's just so much happening plot-wise that you can't expect to see every plot substantially advance during every episode or even every other episode; the time slot simply isn't big enough. There's no "filler" that I can see, nor do any plotlines flounder, they're simply rotated into and out of the limelight as appropriate and necessary. The plots on the back burner usually get a few minutes of update (the most recent final scene could be summed up as "meanwhile, in Eros...") or nothing at all; which is fine. Given the quality and depth of the show, can't really ask for much more.
Newbian
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The problem with the final part was it makes it look like the city will fall from a slave riot or they will be sent out like in the previous city and we want to see a battle not something boring like that.
zinfamous
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But Joffrey is "a Baratheon" in name. Tywin will do anything for a Lannister, not a Baratheon. Further, consider what it means to actually admit that Joffrey is/was a pure Lannister. that would never happen.
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The city may fall from a slave riot. That would involve some violence. I don't see why it's a problem. There's almost certainly going to be a battle at the wall. Isn't one big battle in a season enough?
manimal
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If Tywin is involved is because he saw first hand what happens when a mad king falls. In his first scene on the show he had the long monologue about family being the most important thing and the idea of sacrificing Joffrey before he gets the entire family killed becomes possible.
irishScott
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So the scene where Dany acquired the Unsullied was boring? Because that's exactly what you just described. Slave revolt from inside a city.
Honestly it seems realistic to me. Dany wants to keep her army intact and they didn't seem to have much choice. Even if they had the numbers they appear to have brought minimal siege equipment, certainly nothing that looked capable of cracking the city's walls; and the dragons aren't fully grown yet.
It's not boring at all! All she has to do is approach a city and she has conquered it! That's pretty damn amazing
Printer Bandit
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this show needs another ned stark type character that we can all get behind.
need to fire up the snoozefest.
need to fire up the snoozefest.
irishScott
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Lol, I smell a troll.
But no the show doesn't need another Ned. It spent all of season 1 establishing that Westeros is a rather shitty place where naive, inflexible men like Ned Stark are quickly killed off once exposed. Last thing we want is for GoT to turn into some generic epic-hero fantasy. You'll take your realistic moral ambiguity and love it! :awe:
Printer Bandit
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Tell me, what has that fat crow sam done that's been interesting?
Do you want me to contine with other "main" characters?
Printer Bandit
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The Boston Dangler
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tywin did betray areys. he sacked king's landing and raped and slaughtered every targaryen except danerys and viscerys, who were hiding on dragonstone at the time.
Anubis
No Lifer
actually i suggest you go look it up as im not sure what about that was said in the show
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