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GAME OF THRONES is a TTT show/book series
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:33 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988515) |
Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:36 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma it is ridiculously overrated, but really high production values and a few very strong performances make it fairly compelling television (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988526) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:37 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal It's the best fantasy series ever written and the best fantasy TV show ever made. If you don't like it you probably don't like fantasy. I think the HBO show is Top 5. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988530) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:38 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma i'm not sure it's even a T10 fantasy series (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988540) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:39 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal give me some comparables, genuinely love the genre and would love your thoughts (though i'm skeptical since you are wrong about GOT)
and if you say LOTR you're discredited. i don't know anybody who actually read those books who liked them. awesome world-building, OF COURSE, but fuck who needs to read four pages of a poem, over and over and over. |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:41 PM Author: Arousing sepia menage tcr LOTR created a formula that has been improved on significantly, particularly in the last 25 years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988550) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:43 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal Hard to even call GOT fantasy. Maybe "soft fantasy." Sure, there are dragons but they haven't really played a major role just yet. And the things beyond the wall also haven't come into play too much in either the books or the movies. It's more of a War of the Roses political/soft fantasy hybrid. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988556) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:44 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma this is hardly a point in its favor as a GOAT fantasy series (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988560) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:46 PM Author: Arousing sepia menage yeah, but only because it just so happens that the POV characters are primarily concerned with political jostling. There is magic in the world, it's just that WesterosBros don't fuck with it, for some reason. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988573) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:55 PM Author: Obsidian temple elastic band Its very derivative of the Wars of the Roses with Stark = York and Lannister = Lancaster but that's not necessarily a bad thing because the Wars of the Roses are very interesting.
PS: Aside from the dragons GoT is a pretty low-magic realm. It wasn't even clear for a long time whether there was any actual magic or it was just superstition. |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:58 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma derivative is per se bad when you're making art (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988637) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:41 PM Author: Jade lodge (fucks u with a rusty spork while quoting shakesfaggot) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988903) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:42 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988908) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:58 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal oh i don't think it's a bad thing at all. i love the fucking series and whatever he's doing is working IMO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988640) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:44 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma i agree about LOTR but i still think it's better than SoIaF which is way overrated. i'd put SoIaF slightly ahead of Wheel of Time, which is your classic too-length too-many-characters bullshit genre tripe. in my very humble view, SoIaF is not as good as, say, The Dark is Rising, the Belgariad, Dalemark, Prydain, Earthsea, the L'Engle books if you're counting them, or even Harry Potter. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988558) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:47 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal OK cool recs, will check out. But have you read all the SOIAF? I will grant that the last two books have been pretty bad, but the first three books were so outstanding that it hasn't soured me from the series. I'm hopeful that George Martin lets the showrunners work some magic on the final two books. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988575) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:47 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma i found the first three mind-numbing enough that i never got to 4 and 5 tbh. sorry :( (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988579) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:48 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal wow couldn't disagree more. different strokes i suppose (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988582) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:49 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma yea, different strokes :) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988589) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:51 PM Author: Arousing sepia menage wow, seriously? ok well that's just a matter of taste, I think 1-3 are all T14 fantasy novels. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988598) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:52 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma haha. well, i knew you and i had different tastes. :) you could make an argument for GoT, but definitely not the other two. how much fantasy have you read? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988605) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:55 PM Author: Arousing sepia menage a fair amount. WoT, Malazan, Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn and Stormlight Archive), Kingkiller Chronicles (loving this one so far), some Robin Hobb (also a favorite), Scott Lynch, Tad Williams, Prydain, some Pratchett, a few other randoms by Piers Anthony. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988623) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:57 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma oh most of that is not good imo. WoT and sanderson in particular are really bad. i've never read pratchett, everyone says i should. but in general i like smaller, more delicate works with compelling characters and with some mystery to them, i don't get off on huge armies being thrown at each other. for example, i think Redemption of Althalus is way better than anything else by Eddings (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988632) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:59 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal what's your single favorite fantasy book/series (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988644) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:00 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma for a series Dark is Rising comes close. maybe Dalemark. for a book... idk, it'd be something by DWJ i'm almost sure. i think she's head and shoulders better than the others when it comes to single works.
one thing that many people think improves GoT over other fantasy is that the characters are older. but they all retain adolescent mindsets, for one reason or another. so this doesn't really change much. |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:03 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal Dark is Rising looks to be written for "children/young adults." I can't do that again. Should I try anyway? Harry Potter was a slog if you read them as an adult, especially juxtaposed against the grit of GOT, and the Wheel of Time series reminded me of junior high. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988672) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:05 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma WoT is shit. the "grit" of GoT is just masturbatory imo. i feel the same way about cormac mccarthy. i haven't read Dark is Rising in years, so i can't speak to it. if you want some faux "grit" in your fantasy where a lot of people get raped and murdered and it feels really epic, i mean, idk, that's just not what i know and it's just not what i do, so i don't know where to find it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988682) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:06 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal So Cormac McCarthy is "faux grit," GOT is "faux grit." What is "real grit" then friend? We are talking fiction after all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988689) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:09 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma idk if i believe in real grit as something worth writing towards. just seems like a silly and useless goal, orthogonal to aesthetic questions. it ALL seems faux to me unless it's crucial to advancing a story which is independently worthwhile (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988711) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:07 PM Author: Arousing sepia menage WoT can't be appreciated for the first time as an adult. It's not mature enough, you need to read it as a teenager. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988696) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:44 PM Author: Jade lodge what? who on earth praises GoT for having older characters? robb and dany claimed their thrones before they could fuckin drive. arya is the world's most mentally complex 11 year old. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988917) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:02 PM Author: Arousing sepia menage I'm kind of a sucker for big epic scenes, dramatic showdowns, that kind of stuff, which tends to inform my preferences, particularly as far as fantasy goes. (e.g. the battle at the end of Lord of Chaos might be my GOAT fantasy chapter). But I'll add Redemption of Althalus to my reading list. Any other 180 recommendations? |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:03 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma yeah i know you are :) i prefer emotions and clever puzzles.
something small: try Hexwood. |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:05 PM Author: Arousing sepia menage ty man I'll add that too. Who is this btw? |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:06 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma probably the first person you would guess (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988686) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:07 PM Author: Arousing sepia menage got it! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988700) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:12 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma i'm gonna email you a link edit: if i find it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988725) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:14 PM Author: Arousing sepia menage ok (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988742) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 9:06 PM Author: charismatic irate hell double fault edit: nvm lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26989004) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:45 PM Author: charismatic irate hell double fault curious to know why you don't like Sanderson (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988921) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:51 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma actually i was thinking of someone else. i only know sanderson as the WoT replacement (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988942) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 9:18 PM Author: mind-boggling stag film dog poop Ok I started WoT as a teenager and the same with Belgariad. WoT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Belgariad so I really can't take what you are saying seriously. I mean, different strokes and all that, but really, Belgariad beats WoT and GoT? Next you'll be telling me Dragonlance was the best fantasy series (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26989058) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:45 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal Also tell me this scene isn't awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUWR8wvqQw8 |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:46 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma it's ok yea (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988570) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:49 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal Find me a fantasy clip that's even close to that level of awesome. Better not involve smiegel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988587) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:51 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma don't get me wrong, i think it's great there's a solid fantasy show on tv in the first place (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988601) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:14 PM Author: House-broken crotch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988741) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:22 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988788) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:44 PM Author: 180 house sneaky criminal you obviously never grew up with the likes of Fantasy Island or Too Many Cooks. by comparison, GoT is must watch tv
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:45 PM Author: nofapping travel guidebook EVERYONE IS WRONG! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988563) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:49 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988592) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:46 PM Author: Blue electric people who are hurt mad cow disease (ned stark) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988568) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:49 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988590) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:52 PM Author: Arousing sepia menage needlenose ned, ned the head (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988607) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:54 PM Author: Obsidian temple elastic band An issue with GoT is that its hard to give the five existing books one single rating or ranking because the first three are really good while four and especially five suck.
Something like LotR is much more consistent across the volumes. |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:54 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal Yes, LOTR was consistent - consistently shitty.
Agree with you on books four and five. |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:57 PM Author: Obsidian temple elastic band If you think LotR is shitty we aren't going to agree on anything. I'm not a LotR fanatic and it certainly has its faults but to say its shitty is silly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988631) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:01 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal To me it's really bad, almost unreadable. Credit to the guy for basically starting a genre but he went overboard with the languages and the history and all that. Oh look! A poem, stretching for four pages. And another in the next chapter. Tell the truth - you skipped those. At bottom, he just couldn't tell a story especially wrt pacing. Maybe it'd be different were I born in the 30s or 40s. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988658) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:06 PM Author: Obsidian temple elastic band I've read the books several times but I admit the songs and poems only got read once, if that. But they make up what, 1-2% of the book? That's hardly a reason to dismiss the books.
I like the languages and the history and the sense that the events in the book are occurring against a backdrop of thousands of years of history.
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:09 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal It's not the songs and the poems per se; it's that they're a good illustration of how masturbatory the books were for the author. He could not edit. He could not pace. He did build a cool world that lots of other authors have basically copied to tell an actual, good story. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988710) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:00 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988652) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:04 PM Author: Obsidian temple elastic band Pretty much. Not all of books 4 and 5 suck but the decision to separate them by geography was lunacy and they are far far too long with loads of extra characters nobody cares about being introduced which just dilutes the enjoyable parts with the characters you do care about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988679) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:08 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988702) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:23 PM Author: purple immigrant police squad ?
littlefinger didn't die though...? i don't even remember a scene in which it was implied that he might have |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:25 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988807) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:25 PM Author: Obsidian temple elastic band Same here. Last thing I remember he had manipulated the Vale nobles into making him a sort of Protector. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988808) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:25 PM Author: Appetizing green friendly grandma BUT OMG WHAT'S HIS ENDGAME? THE CHESSMOVES ARE FASCINATING (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988816) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:27 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988829) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:56 PM Author: fiercely-loyal vivacious digit ratio dopamine (prole faggot who watches the tv show first) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988626) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 7:59 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988645) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:04 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988676) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:11 PM Author: exhilarant theater stage very glad i have still dodged this cultural bullet. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988718) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:13 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988735) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:42 PM Author: Haunting Spruce Meetinghouse The first three books/seasons are amazing, and it seems u don't even have a firm grasp of what characters are still alive etc. go back to fucklaw threading lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988909) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:43 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988915) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:48 PM Author: Haunting Spruce Meetinghouse "First three seasons are really good but don't watch them because I don't like the fourth"
Am I missing something here or ? |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:55 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988957) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:57 PM Author: razzle-dazzle point It doesnt matter what GRRM says or does. The HBO guys have carte blanche to finish this show and David Benioff is one of the best screenwriters alive. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988964) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:57 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988967) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 9:00 PM Author: razzle-dazzle point He controls the books. HBO can do whatever it wants. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988975) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 9:05 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988999) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:46 PM Author: Jade lodge I thought season 4 of the TV show was quite good. Oberyn is a great TV character whereas he doesn't make as much of an impression in the books (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988922) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:50 PM Author: Obsidian temple elastic band I think a large part of that was because the actor who played him was so good. He was definitely better as a TV character than a book character. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988937) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:39 PM Author: Pearly frum telephone son of senegal Why? Because 2 or 3 xo poasters couldn't resist the urge to be contrarian? You're missing out bigtime. There are people on this board who think Breaking Bad was SPS too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988899) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:43 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988913) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:45 PM Author: Haunting Spruce Meetinghouse This logic is found wanting yo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988920) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:47 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988927) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:53 PM Author: Haunting Spruce Meetinghouse Do u tell people not to watch the matrix because the third one sucks? Just a retarded position imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988952) |
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Date: December 23rd, 2014 8:57 PM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26988966) |
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Date: December 24th, 2014 3:47 AM Author: Dull Flirting Range Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2765171&forum_id=2#26990776) |