Originally Posted by Chiefspants (Post 16552660)

Fully agreed.

I gotta say, I was skeptical coming into this season due to Condal's background, and the time jumps they had to make in order to finish this season (Reminder: Aemond wasn't BORN yet by Episode 5, halfway through this season).

But hot damn did they still make this compelling. Not only that, they made this season off of... 70 pages of source material? Another concern I had was a problem The Hobbit movies ran into, a lot of characters, but not a lot to actually adapt from. But hot damn, did the actors (shoutout especially to Paddy Considine) ever rise to the occasion to bring life to their counterparts in the source material - and the writers, under the guidance of GRRM, really brought what was originally written as a history textbook to life.

And the thing is... this was all exposition to the good stuff.

Originally Posted by Sorter (Post 16552650)

On second thought, it will probably be Otto.


Going to be wild seeing them meld stuff into S2 as there are few big battles/events and I'm sure they're going to end S2 with .

Originally Posted by raybec 4 (Post 16552366)

The "It wasn't my fault" angle won't play. He has to own it or it would be totally out of character for how they've painted him. If they try to go the other way it will be disappointing.

Originally Posted by Chiefspants (Post 16552474)

What I love is that the books, overall, are third hand accounts.

Really, the show is setting the canon - as long as GRRM is involved like he is.

Originally Posted by Bowser (Post 16543746)

Haha, no shit? That's bad ass.

Here's another for you - Ser Westerling was the Saint of Killers on Preacher.

Originally Posted by Chiefspants (Post 16552660)

Fully agreed.

I gotta say, I was skeptical coming into this season due to Condal's background, and the time jumps they had to make in order to finish this season (Reminder: Aemond wasn't BORN yet by Episode 5, halfway through this season).

But hot damn did they still make this compelling. Not only that, they made this season off of... 70 pages of source material? Another concern I had was a problem The Hobbit movies ran into, a lot of characters, but not a lot to actually adapt from. But did the actors (shoutout especially to Paddy Considine) ever rise to the occasion to bring life to their counterparts in Fire and Blood - and the writers, under the guidance of GRRM, really brought what was originally written as a history textbook to life.

And the thing is... this was all exposition to the good stuff.

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins (Post 16563371)

People didn't know that about Ifans?

As soon as I saw him I wanted to tell a story that will shrink your balls to the size of raisins.

Originally Posted by Bowser (Post 16563917)

His face rang a bell in the back of my head, but I never would have put two and two together there. Dude has range (/obv).

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins (Post 16564699)

Every power play he's made this season either the wife or I say, "he's wiry."

Originally Posted by A Salt Weapon (Post 16578927)

Just binge watched the whole season and holy ****.
What a show.

Originally Posted by Why Not? (Post 16622063)

Took me awhile to get through all the episodes because after SNF I would generally fall asleep and had to get caught up which generally had me a few weeks behind. But I was sick last week prior to a vacation and got to finish the season. Thought it was brilliant! Can't wait for season 2.