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I09 Posts its 100 favorite Tweets about Last Sunday's Game of Thrones
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Folks watching #gameofthrones who didn't read the books: remember when your really nerdy friend was super sad 13 years ago? This is why.
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My mom is watching game of thrones and has been yelling no at the tv for 5 minutes
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I see they finally revealed that Darth Vader is Luke's father on Game of Thrones...
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Why doesn't George R.R. Martin use twitter? Because he killed all 140 characters. #gameofthrones
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Game of Thrones just collected every mic on the planet and dropped them. Good god.
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Game of Thrones should be renamed "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck"
And found on Winteriscoming.net...

A sampling:
Hello everyone just arriving at the Game of Thrones despair meeting. We've been waiting for you...
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Folks watching #gameofthrones who didn't read the books: remember when your really nerdy friend was super sad 13 years ago? This is why.
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Always hire union minstrels.#GameOfThrones
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My mom is watching game of thrones and has been yelling no at the tv for 5 minutes
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Game of Thrones can go fuck itself 20 times in the face with a fork.
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I see they finally revealed that Darth Vader is Luke's father on Game of Thrones...
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If something AWFUL...I mean WRETCHED..doesn't happen to a Lannister next week (NOT Tyrion!) I'm done.
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Why doesn't George R.R. Martin use twitter? Because he killed all 140 characters. #gameofthrones
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I LOVE THIS SHOW AND I LOVE THE BOOKS BUT I HATE THEM TOO AND I WANT TO BURN THEM AND PUKE ON THEIR ASHES. #GameOfThrones
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Game of Thrones just collected every mic on the planet and dropped them. Good god.
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I'm now emotionally eating thanks to #gameofthrones . Thanks for the lovehandles, George R.R. Martin.
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Game of Thrones should be renamed "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck"
And found on Winteriscoming.net...

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Date: 2013-06-06 04:20 pm (UTC)I need this on an icon. Need.
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Date: 2013-06-06 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 05:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 05:11 pm (UTC)Add that to their general cluelessness and willful "noble" stupidity, plus the fact that everyone around them hates them, and it's a recipe for impending disaster and certain death. Good grief. Ned had his head chopped off, for God's sake. Wasn't that a little hint about the fate of most of the Starks?
Yeah, I cringed during the Red Wedding, but I wasn't sad about it at all. Robb was a willful idiot, Talisa was annoying, and Catelyn...well.
I still like Roose Bolton AND Tywin Lannister much more than all Starks except Arya and Bran.
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Date: 2013-06-06 06:32 pm (UTC)As Martin himself said in EW, the most natural expected fit for 'hero' after Ned died was his oldest son. In the book, there was at least the fact that Robb was NEVER a POV character (which sort of sidelined him quite a bit). In the show this isn't quite as obvious and he does fit the traditional mould...
People are rather well-trained by tropes and hero protagonist privilege, so even though all the clues are THERE, there's a tendency to wilfully ignore them.
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Date: 2013-06-06 08:05 pm (UTC)This is very true. It is nice for there to be consequences for being dumb for once.
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Date: 2013-06-07 12:24 am (UTC)In the first episode of Game of Thrones, S1, Ned Stark, oh-so-nobly chops off a terrified man's head. The man's crime is he ran from The Wall, screaming about how they are doomed. Instead of listening to him - Ned executes him - in front of his sons. Ned also considers killing the Direwolf pups that they find, with the dead direwolf mare (again not really questioning why the Direwolf is so far South below the Wall), but Robb and Jon Snow talk him out of it.
It's interesting that all three sons that he takes with him to witness the execution - are hurt in some way. Also, later, Robb decides to chop off/execute Lord Karstark for killing the two Lannister boys (son's of Kevin Lannister). Karstark had killed the boys, because Jamie had killed his son in battle.
There's a pattern emerging. No one is pristine in this war or noble. But we want people to be noble and heroic in War, we don't want to think that no one is. In GRRM's books - no one is noble in WAR, or heroic. WAR is WAR.
There is no happy ending. Which is uncommon for most fantasy novels.
Later...when Robb's death is discussed. It is pointed out all things he did wrong - he slighted the Frey's, not once but twice, and his family had before him (Walder Frey is reluctant to take Catelynne's deal because he'd been slighted before by the Starks and by Catelynne's family in this regard, but she talks him into it, only to have Robb go off and marry Tailsa.)
He is fighting a War, trying to be King, but he doesn't think like a King or take the responsibilities of one. He doesn't keep his promises - to his supporters or allies.
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Date: 2013-06-07 12:35 am (UTC)And yeah, Robb so did not take responsibility like a king.
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Date: 2013-06-06 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-07 02:49 pm (UTC)http://www.happyplace.com/24297/game-of-thrones-facebook-recap-season-3-episode-9
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Date: 2013-06-06 05:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-07 12:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-07 02:50 pm (UTC)http://www.happyplace.com/24297/game-of-thrones-facebook-recap-season-3-episode-9
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Date: 2013-06-06 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 07:11 pm (UTC)They took out 3 major characters (and most of their army) in one bloody ambush.
Which, honestly, they should be grateful that it didn't play like it did in the novel where they faked out the reader to think the massacre most probably included a 4th character who is a huge fan favorite. (That situation still strikes me as one of the most cruel twists ever played on a character. It's brutal. No wonder she goes a bit psycho after that).
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Date: 2013-06-07 12:10 am (UTC)That was only reason I found it upsetting in the books and series, as did a lot of other people I know.
Also...keep in mind this poor character had to go through this ordeal more than once, actually quite a few times...she wasn't exactly playing with a full deck when this happened.
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Date: 2013-06-07 02:52 pm (UTC)Poor Arya. That's just brutal.
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Date: 2013-06-07 02:51 pm (UTC)Episode Summary "If it had happened on Facebook..."
http://www.happyplace.com/24297/game-of-thrones-facebook-recap-season-3-episode-9
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Date: 2013-06-07 12:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-07 02:58 pm (UTC)She was far from perfect, but she had a shitload of crap fall on her from the moment Ned decided to take Robert's job offer. Having her eldest murdered was more than she could take.
Robb... I honestly never much cared. In the show he was very handsome. In the book (because he's never a POV character) he's a cipher. Still, he was just a naive kid (in the books).
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Date: 2013-06-07 11:47 pm (UTC)You can write nice and morally upstanding characters and make them interesting...not grating to the point that you want to spork them with a fork. Granted you might feel guilty about wanting to spork them...
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Date: 2013-06-10 04:17 am (UTC)Davos in particular works incredibly well alongside Stannis and Melisandre in the TV series, whereas I was bored by him in the books. Of course, it helps that the actor who plays him is incredibly charismatic. Same for Ser Jorah (not as a POV character, but in how a charismatic actor changes the dynamic so that I actually ~want to ship Dany/Jorah a bit).
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Date: 2013-06-11 12:33 am (UTC)Davos in particular, but this is also true - of Melisandra, definitely of Stannis, Bran (and everyone with him - the guy playing Hodor is amazing, as are Jojen and Mereen), Theon (okay maybe not - that character just isn't salvagable nor is Ramsey Snow or Daario for that matter - no matter who they cast), Margery (Natalie Dormier), Sansa, Little Finger (the great Aiden - who was in The Wire), and Jorah Mormount..
I agree, I am shipping Jorah/Dany, and I did not ship them in the books at all.
Whoever is casting this thing deserves an award. Best Cast Series Ever.