Uploaded YouTube Reactions to last night's GOT

[shipperx]

Heh. The problem for the unsullied is that book walkers knew what was coming, so there were a lot of unspoiled folks being filmed as they reacted to... that.

(Other people's trauma is shamefully funny to watch).

Comments

[ww1614.livejournal.com]

I hate to say it, but that was extremely entertaining.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

What I want to know is why they were all filming themselves? And when did book readers become book walkers? You're the second person I've seen use the phrase in 24 hours.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

"The unsullied"? That's what the book fans call us? :)

This was a lot more fun than it has any right to be. Without the visuals, it's a bit like Monty Python's "The Death of Mary, Queen of Scots".

I love the dog who runs up to comfort his human.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

"The Unsullied" and "Book walkers" are the way it's labeled on TWOP and Winteriscoming.net

And I suspect that the spoiled were anticipating reactions and were taping. There was one of the reactions I saw where a guy realized half way through that his friend was taping their reactions.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I remember reading the scene and being shocked, but I suppose being confronted by it visually is much worse.

Glad I knew what was coming, although my reaction was the same: "OMG Starks are beyond stupid."

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I love the dog who runs up to comfort his human

And then gives up and runs back to the guy filming, like, "I tried. If her face were wet, I'd lick it off, but I don't know what's wrong. Fix her, human!"

[angearia.livejournal.com]

The girl hiding under the blanket was my favorite reaction, probably because that would've been me if I hadn't read the books.

The one of the group on the couch, where the two on the left are flipping out while the two on the right are just expressionless except for the tiniest smirk. The unsullied and the bookwalkers, side by side.

[angearia.livejournal.com]

"OMG Starks are beyond stupid."

Yes, this. I felt so much dread while watching and seeing all the signs, especially Walder Frey's ~glee at humiliating Robb, just made me want to reach into the television and smack Robb upside the head.

I do like how Cat's youthful trust in Walder Frey and the resulting disaster from that calls back to Robb and Theon's relationship. It's not simply being youthful which leads to these mistakes, but also the bonds forged while young which people still carry with them. Cat can recognize the mistake in sending Theon, but can't see the mistake in trusting Frey.

[kitmarlowescot2.livejournal.com]

Book walkers ? So people who actually read a book are evil to people on TWOP ? Well I rather be evil, than so stupid and lazy just to watch a screen move. Stupid is what got Robb Stark killed anyway. It will be interesting how on they will bring back Catelyn, I look forward to the day on the screen or in the future books where she freaks Littlefingers the hell out, in surprise by her resurrection and then cuts out his black heart.

[paratti.livejournal.com]

Snerk.

[shapinglight]

It was funny in a weird way.

Is it just me or was there a big difference between the way men and women reacted when watching in a group?

Or maybe all the men knew what was coming?

[silverusagi]

I knew *something* was coming, but I had no idea what, lol.

Is the Red Wedding just a fan term? Something that someone came up with to reference the event, or was it called such by some character in the books?

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

This morning Carter Bays tweeted "This is awkward. We had a very similar thing planned for Barney and Robin's wedding."

Hee.

(I'm "unsullied," but it's only because I haven't had a chance to read the books yet, because most of our books are packed in boxes in the shed, including the first few of these, and I didn't want to start with book 3...)

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

I must admit to getting more than a bit of enjoyment out of watching heads explode all over the internet. To make it even funnier, we don't have HBO so I haven't been watching the show... and had no idea they were already up to that scene until the aforementioned head explosions started showing up.

[ww1614.livejournal.com]

That Carter Bays quote was hilarious.

I kind of started with Book 2 since I'd seen the first season and had read all the spoilers. (Hey, I'm a spoiler whore, what can I say.) I glanced through Book 1, but I really wanted to know more about Book 2 and the future.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the latest comic from Dork Tower?

http://www.dorktower.com/2013/06/03/game-of-nerds-dork-tower-03-06-13/

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Well, I've MEANT to read them for years, long before the show or Book Five, I just kept putting it off...

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It's a book term. Not a fan term. In the book's it's how the other characters refer to the event - "the Red Wedding".

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Links, please. Couldn't find anything last night.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

It's mostly been the reaction of my unspoiled friends here and on Facebook... I've seen a few reviews that got linked by some of those friends, but I'm afraid I didn't save the links anywhere.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I know! It's almost embarrassing that this is so entertaining. :)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I hate to admit that I've been looking forward to this ep simply BECAUSE of the head explosions.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Too be fair to Book!Robb, he's just a teenager (and a hormonal one that caught with his dick where it shouldn't have been). Show!Robb just had a temper tantrum at his mother and got married when he knew good and darn well that he shouldn't have.

And, yeah, if anyone (other than Sansa) deserves to kill Littlefinger it is Lady Stoneheart.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Hee! Hadn't seen that.

I had seen this, though, and thought it cute.
http://winteriscoming.net/2013/06/got-laughs-welcome-to-the-club/#more-27349

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I know! The sound somehow just makes it funnier (than it ever should be). It makes it sound like it went on and on and on (when it seemed like it went by pretty quick when watching).

And the dog was adorable. Dogs are so good like that (though one day I need to record the way my dog reacts to horses on the TV screen. 90% of the time she doesn't notice the TV at all, but place a galloping horse on the screen (or a squirrel) and she just my go NUTS!

Funniest was when I watched Warhorse and there was this scene where the horse gallops off camera. Zoe ran up to the screen and when the horse ran off camera she turned and started barking at the window next to the TV screen, apparently assuming that of course the horse must have gone there!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Aren't dogs wonderful? :)

*sniffle* Poor Gray Wind...

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I think Starks were just blinded by being "the good guys". In most novels being "the good guys" come with some sort of cloak of protection and excuses for being dumb (just ask Angel...)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Definitely would have been me if I hadn't already read the book. And I saw the original youtube of the one in the with the two freaking out and one in the middle occasionally smirking and these this little pop up on the Youtube pointing to the smirking girl captioning "Book reader" :)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

:D

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I think so. Women seem to be much more openly verbal in their distress.

I actually saw the long original version of the group who were watching where the two girls on one side were openly freaking out and the girl in the middle would occasionally smirk. In the original there was this pop-up pointing to the smirking girl saying "book reader". Sitting next to the book reader was a guy, and I rather liked the way he surreptitiously began rubbing his eyes when you hear Grey Wind bit it... because of course he wasn't crying over a fictional pet ;)

And the guy sitting next to that guy became visibly twitchy and unable to sit still as things got more and more upsetting.

Still only the girls openly gasped and cried.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I don't actually remember whether it's a book or fandom term. It does seem fitting, though.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Heh. At this point HIMYM doing that might actually be an improvement.

And I understand the long delay in reading. I had the books on my shelf for years and it was only when the show was in production that I figured I had better finally get around to reading them.