All men must die

[Cruel2BKind]

I must say, Game of Thrones is still forty days away but they are really pushing the heart-pounding exciting trailers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZY43QSx3Fk

Trailer number one, sets the tone, song is 'Feral Love' by Chelsea Wolfe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5iS3tULXMQ

Fifteen minute featurette. Has a small clip of the dragons at their current size, plus an evil laugh from the actor who plays Brienne.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ZNaLQD60Y

Trailer #2, nother glimpse at the dragon, but this time it's an even shorter clip. Arya being a reliable little badass, and a clip of a possible Coldhands at the end.


I am so excited. It's a little early to start a Game of Thrones thread, but I just don't know what I'm going to do with myself.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I'm not watching any media in preparation for the next season. I am just going to watch the episodes when they come out. then I might go back and have a look at the featurette.

 

[Catchalot]

I'll record them all, and then I'll sit back at the end of the season and watch them all back to back like I do all my favorite shows

 

[Dyslexicea]

I read your "All men must die", and all I could think was how soon, like yesterday wouldn't have been soon enough!

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I read your "All men must die", and all I could think was how soon, like yesterday wouldn't have been soon enough!

You'll like the response of the call-and-response then.

Valar Morghulis

Valar Dohaeris

All men must die

All men must serve

 

[jomar]

I am currently reading Feast of Crows. Can't wait for the series to start.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I am currently reading Feast of Crows. Can't wait for the series to start.

You might want to speed up, depending on your reading speed.

From the trailers, it's pretty obvious that they are taking some story lines to places in the fourth and fifth books. Such as Theon/Reek, Bran, and Dany.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'll record them all, and then I'll sit back at the end of the season and watch them all back to back like I do all my favorite shows

Yup, I'll do the same that's how I watched the first three seasons

 

[lovecraft68]

With the name of this thread I wonder how long before LJ reloaded shows up?

 

[jomar]

You might want to speed up, depending on your reading speed.

From the trailers, it's pretty obvious that they are taking some story lines to places in the fourth and fifth books. Such as Theon/Reek, Bran, and Dany.

I read that somewhere. But I started the books after watching the series, so... But yeah, there's been some shockers.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

With the name of this thread I wonder how long before LJ reloaded shows up?

Whatever his flaws, bro can read. He'll probably just skulk off and use his pent up rage on an MRA site, telling them to get rid of child porn laws.

 

[lovecraft68]

Whatever his flaws, bro can read. He'll probably just skulk off and use his pent up rage on an MRA site, telling them to get rid of child porn laws.

Hmm, that sounds like a pretty good diversion for him.

 

[jomar]

Starting Dragons now so I'll be up to speed.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Starting Dragons now so I'll be up to speed.

Impressed!

Dance is my favorite, hope you like the end...

 

[jomar]

Impressed!

Dance is my favorite, hope you like the end...

Ha! I'll try not to peek!

 

[SecondCircle]

Been watching my first season GoT on bluray. To this day it is still just as good, and I always catch something I didn't see the first go around. I never even caught the part where Dany gets into the bath in the very first episode and it was scalding hot. I mean I remember from the books and the show about her grabbing the hot eggs and walking into the fire, but that little piece snuck by me. Now I'm like "ohhh."

Other things are cool when revisited. When I read through and watched Game of Thrones (first season) they do such a good job with the details of who is who and all that it keeps you busy piecing it all together in your mind. Yeah, Jon Snow is Ned's bastard, and Cat can't stand him. Yeah Dany is immune to fire because she has the true blood of the dragon. Yeah Robert sought vengeance for the love of his life and Ned's sister. All this is old news. We know that stuff.

But going back and reading, or watching the interactions in the show, back in the time where we were still piecing it all together, I love picking up on tidbits that I may have once wondered about. That hateful look that Cat gives Jon when we first meet the family. Dany stepping into those scalding hot bath waters while the servants yell to caution her. Robert ignoring Cersei rudely when she tries to persuade him not to visit his old love's tomb. (That last one happens in like a blink, but I caught it.)

Those tiny moments were kinda WTF once upon a time when we didn't know these people. Now its kinda cool to have some little "ohhh yeah!" moments.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Been watching my first season GoT on bluray. To this day it is still just as good, and I always catch something I didn't see the first go around. I never even caught the part where Dany gets into the bath in the very first episode and it was scalding hot. I mean I remember from the books and the show about her grabbing the hot eggs and walking into the fire, but that little piece snuck by me. Now I'm like "ohhh."

Other things are cool when revisited. When I read through and watched Game of Thrones (first season) they do such a good job with the details of who is who and all that it keeps you busy piecing it all together in your mind. Yeah, Jon Snow is Ned's bastard, and Cat can't stand him. Yeah Dany is immune to fire because she has the true blood of the dragon. Yeah Robert sought vengeance for the love of his life and Ned's sister. All this is old news. We know that stuff.

But going back and reading, or watching the interactions in the show, back in the time where we were still piecing it all together, I love picking up on tidbits that I may have once wondered about. That hateful look that Cat gives Jon when we first meet the family. Dany stepping into those scalding hot bath waters while the servants yell to caution her. Robert ignoring Cersei rudely when she tries to persuade him not to visit his old love's tomb. (That last one happens in like a blink, but I caught it.)

Those tiny moments were kinda WTF once upon a time when we didn't know these people. Now its kinda cool to have some little "ohhh yeah!" moments.

That's what it feels like watching the show after reading the books, too. Because then there is even MORE of that stuff.

In the first episode, what I can think of.

-The jerky ranger from the prologue has a cape made of very fine sable fur cloak. In the book they established that he was a noble who had come to the wall of his own free will, he had only been there 6 months, but he was put in charge because he already had combat experience. So he ended up in a position of power because of physical ability alone, both his ranger mates were older and more experienced than him. They didn't go into that in the show, but he still had his swanky sable cape.

-The statues of all the lords in the crypts, you can see them while they walk by, but the camera doesn't linger.

-You know that Theon isn't a stark. The first time I watched the show, I was all confused because 'wat, you said there were five starks, but there are seven of you... Wait, one's a bastard, wait, one's a hostage, etc.

-The symbolism of the Dire Wolf being brought down by the dead stag (antler in gut)

-Knowing who those freaky nuns with the 7-starred backpacks were


And here's one that even I didn't know.

Apparently in real life history as well as GoT history, the bastards can wear their family sigul, but with the colors reversed. The Stark colors are a grey dire wolf on a white field, but when Jon Snuu wears it, he wears a WHITE dire wolf on a grey field.

Ghost!