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  • Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!

    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
    That is gorgeous. I just wanted to steer clear of any spoilers. I was annoyed at myself when I spoiled S1 by seeing Rob's death on a "path" map, and I have avoided them ever since.
    Ditto. I had a spoiler, though not as big as yours, through a path map. But when I saw something like "spoiler protection" in google's preview blurb of that site, I couldn't click fast enough. Then I saw they had episode AND book spoiler protection and it became my go to.

    I love that they have links to the ASOFI wiki as well.
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    • Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!

      So, yes. Dorne is definitely on the way from Meereen.

      But, Jaime explains it a bit in episode 1. Dragonstone's ports have the capability of holding the entire fleet.
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      • Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!

        The handling of Dorne in the series, and specifically the Sand Snakes has been terrible since the start. But, they were in tough spot. They couldn't get rid of Dorne, there was way too much plot and history involving them. They would have had to devote more time to develop the Dorne plots in order to make them better (and hire a competent writer to write Sand Snakes' lines), which would mean some other storyline would have to be cut, since they're already at the maximum amount of episodes and budget per season, they just didn't have time. So, we're left with a half-assed, poorly done Dorne plot, that is already about as stripped down as it could be. The Ironborn plot suffers from several of the same issues. I consider both to be casualties of having to translate novels to the screen.
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          As for not going to Dorne on the way to Dragonstone, I see why they didn't. At the time Dani was crossing the narrow sea, she still had never personally met Olenna Tyrell, or Elaria Sand, and therefore had never had a "small council" meeting with all of her advisors. The plan for the upcoming war was not set, and I doubt that at that point the army in Dorne was mobilized. Plus, I'm sure they didn't have the ships to also drag along the Dornish army. They needed all of the ships they could find just to get the Unsullied and Dothraki across the sea.
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          • Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!

            Originally posted by bigblue_dl View Post
            The handling of Dorne in the series, and specifically the Sand Snakes has been terrible since the start. But, they were in tough spot. They couldn't get rid of Dorne, there was way too much plot and history involving them. They would have had to devote more time to develop the Dorne plots in order to make them better (and hire a competent writer to write Sand Snakes' lines), which would mean some other storyline would have to be cut, since they're already at the maximum amount of episodes and budget per season, they just didn't have time. So, we're left with a half-assed, poorly done Dorne plot, that is already about as stripped down as it could be. The Ironborn plot suffers from several of the same issues. I consider both to be casualties of having to translate novels to the screen.
            The five episodes they're short to round out 8 seasons would have been plenty of time for Dorne.
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            • Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!

              Originally posted by bigblue_dl View Post
              The handling of Dorne in the series, and specifically the Sand Snakes has been terrible since the start. But, they were in tough spot. They couldn't get rid of Dorne, there was way too much plot and history involving them. They would have had to devote more time to develop the Dorne plots in order to make them better (and hire a competent writer to write Sand Snakes' lines), which would mean some other storyline would have to be cut, since they're already at the maximum amount of episodes and budget per season, they just didn't have time. So, we're left with a half-assed, poorly done Dorne plot, that is already about as stripped down as it could be.
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              • Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!

                Originally posted by Shirtless Guy View Post
                The five episodes they're short to round out 8 seasons would have been plenty of time for Dorne.
                The explanation for the shortened last 2 seasons is that they're packing 10 episodes of budget and production value into 7 and 6 episodes. How true that is, who knows.
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                • Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!

                  Originally posted by bigblue_dl View Post
                  The explanation for the shortened last 2 seasons is that they're packing 10 episodes of budget and production value into 7 and 6 episodes. How true that is, who knows.
                  HBO is on the record as requesting the GoT producers to make season 8's episodes "feature length." People think that means 80-90 minutes per episode.
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                  • Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!

                    Originally posted by bigblue_dl View Post
                    The explanation for the shortened last 2 seasons is that they're packing 10 episodes of budget and production value into 7 and 6 episodes. How true that is, who knows.
                    Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                    HBO is on the record as requesting the GoT producers to make season 8's episodes "feature length." People think that means 80-90 minutes per episode.
                    That is not the original explanation...the original was that they were not going to create more episodes than they thought was required.
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                    • Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!

                      Originally posted by Shirtless Guy View Post
                      That is not the original explanation...the original was that they were not going to create more episodes than they thought was required.
                      Yes, I knew that. However, HBO wants each episode to be longer in response to the GoT's producers making their announcement, likely because they want to say that they provided their subscribers with X new hours of original content, not 0.6X hours of original content.
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                      • Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!

                        Originally posted by Shirtless Guy View Post
                        That is not the original explanation...the original was that they were not going to create more episodes than they thought was required.
                        Right, that is true, but stuff that they have said since makes it seem like they won't have time to make more episodes, like what Clown is saying, that all of the last 6 episodes are going to be more than an hour and a half long.
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                        • Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!

                          Fantastic episode. It was a showcase of the acting and writing as opposed to the special effects. John Snow and Dany need more screen time together.

                          A better end to the Tyrells could have been written. And Cersei was beautiful in her wickedness.

                          I really enjoyed this episode.
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                          • Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                            Fantastic episode. It was a showcase of the acting and writing as opposed to the special effects. John Snow and Dany need more screen time together.

                            A better end to the Tyrells could have been written. And Cersei was beautiful in her wickedness.

                            I really enjoyed this episode.
                            It was good. Classic GOT thriller. Does Jamie give up on Cersei at some
                            Point? Or does Euron kill him in a duel?
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                              Cersei just took a 3-1 lead.
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                              • Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!

                                Yeah, but she's still down 3-0 against the Night King
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