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Aug 2022
7:26pm, 23 Aug 2022
3,816 posts
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Cheg
Well that was a success wasn’t it? Hadn’t read the book but thoroughly enjoyed the episode after a slightly slow start.
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Aug 2022
9:01pm, 23 Aug 2022
36,410 posts
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Hills of Death (HOD)
Lots of Shagging, violence and dragons
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Aug 2022
10:04pm, 23 Aug 2022
39,675 posts
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Nellers
Only just got round to watching it. I’ve been busy. Thought it was excellent. I’ve read the book it’s based on so know the general outline of what goes on but the details and the twists and turns of plotting and conspiring are long forgotten. Can’t wait for next week now.
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Aug 2022
10:10pm, 23 Aug 2022
22,914 posts
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Meglet
Just watched. Thought it set up the rest of the series very nicely. Had the scale and feel of GOT with the familiar settings and music (and gore and nudity), but with brand new characters, albeit with some familiar houses. Also loved that Viserys passed the ‘secret’ on, which obviously failed to get passed on by the Mad King (or someone earlier…), thereby allowing the events of Ice and Fire to occur.
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Aug 2022
10:11pm, 23 Aug 2022
22,915 posts
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Meglet
Quite glad I’d seen some of the preview stuff as there were a lot of new characters, having had the introductions to them helped a lot.
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Aug 2022
10:29pm, 23 Aug 2022
3,817 posts
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Cheg
Yeah it was nice to have those familiar echos of Game of Thrones. A sex scene within 5 mins and plenty of gore. The birth scene was a little much for me.
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Aug 2022
6:25am, 24 Aug 2022
39,676 posts
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Nellers
I loved that secret being passed down, Meglet. It's a show invention (the book is written as an "in unierse history" written by maestors and septons so it clearly wouldn't include the great secret only passed down to the heir. It is a show invention in a show that GRR has a lot of involvement with so it's either his idea or an idea he approves of.
I'd assumed that the secret died with Rhaegar though, Meglet.
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Aug 2022
6:57am, 24 Aug 2022
22,916 posts
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Meglet
Ah yes, I need to revise my Targaryen family tree!
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Aug 2022
9:28am, 24 Aug 2022
39,677 posts
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Nellers
I do wonder if one of the things Bran will learn in the books (if they ever get finished! COME ON GEORGE! We’re all still waiting!) is about this prophetic dream that inspired the Targs to conquer Westeros?
At the stage we’re at in the books, and adding in what we might have learned in the show, no-one alive knows but Bran can see back to all sorts of things (eg the Tower of Joy).
I’m also guessing that this prophecy will make Jon Snow’s actual parentage far more relevant in the books than it became in the show.
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Aug 2022
5:37pm, 24 Aug 2022
39,678 posts
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Nellers
Apparently George has confirmed that Aegon’s Dream was his idea.
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