Game Of Thrones: The Sopranos with swords or Dynasty in chainmail?
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thought that was Aaron Mcgruder making his acting debut
shit, that 50% is 100% to me!!!
when he said that, im like awwwwwwwwwww!!!
One final piece of Game of Thrones season 4 casting has fallen into place: The key role of Hizdahr zo Loraq has been filled by young British actor Joel Fry (10,000 BC).
Hizdahr is described as the “young scion of an ancient Meereenese family who crosses paths with Daenerys Targaryen.”
Meereen the largest of the three great Slaver Cities of Slaver’s Bay. The others are Astapor (where Dany acquired her slave army) and Yunkai (which Dany’s army liberated in the season 3 finale). Hizdahr is introduced in George R.R. Martin’s fifth “A Song of Ice and Fire” novel A Dance with Dragons.
Previous additions to season four include Homeland actor Pedro Pascal as Prince Oberyn Martell, Rome actress Indira Varma as the prince’s paramour Ellaria Sand, Sherlock actor Mark Gattis as a Braavosi banker and Icelandic indie band Sigur Ros in an as-yet-undescribed role.
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Hizdahr is described as the “young scion of an ancient Meereenese family who crosses paths with Daenerys Targaryen.”
Meereen the largest of the three great Slaver Cities of Slaver’s Bay. The others are Astapor (where Dany acquired her slave army) and Yunkai (which Dany’s army liberated in the season 3 finale). Hizdahr is introduced in George R.R. Martin’s fifth “A Song of Ice and Fire” novel A Dance with Dragons.
Previous additions to season four include Homeland actor Pedro Pascal as Prince Oberyn Martell, Rome actress Indira Varma as the prince’s paramour Ellaria Sand, Sherlock actor Mark Gattis as a Braavosi banker and Icelandic indie band Sigur Ros in an as-yet-undescribed role.
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I love the wire. And rewatching the clip of it anytime somebody posted just delights me.
Stretchwallz is wrong for saying that Jack Gleeson did more acting in this episode then finale has done her whole career. I hope is being sarcastic because I just watched episode 2 & 3 and there can be no worse acting than Hayden Christensen laid in those two movies. after that I read that George Lucas picked Hayden Christensen over Leonardo DiCaprio? Seriously. Leo would have killed those two movies and made them much better. sometimes, you're getting your own way trying to catch lightning in a bottle twice
i remember dude from that show Plebs. he played a goofy ass roman with an std.
The Breaker of chains Season 4 Episode 3 was somewhat of a letdown to me after the Purple wedding last week and Jofferey's antics....but here are my stretched out observations
- Whatever Jofferey smoked on the 4/20 has him fucked up, in and out this world in mom’s arms
- Sansa and the Pork Chop Knight escape through Flea Bottom
- Dontos saves a bitch, gets a bolt to the face …simps never win
- Margaery realizes her vagina is a haunted house…no one stays alive after they possess it. Up next? Can Tommen's peter pan looking ass tame that Tyrell Flower?
- Margaery is the Evelyn Lozada of Westeros ...she just want to marry a King and get that title.
- Anakin and Senator Palpatine stand over Joffery’s grave, as Cersei is the ONLY person mourning in the 7 kingdoms
- Jack Gleeson did more acting in this episode than Saana Lathan has done her entire career
- Jamie and Cersei had at least 15 layers of clothes on…during the Rape of Thrones
- I was hoping that Jofferey's body would roll off the table and onto mom and dad when rapecest occurred…Easter family celebration
- They ate that rabbit stew like Rick Ross at Braavosi Wild Wings on dollar wing night
- Sam kills white walkers can't kill white trailer trash pussy? 100 men want to fuck, why don't you? Gilly asked
- A quick survey of the Night's Watch, there are a lot of rapists up there. Somebody is taking more than the black at night on the Wall
- Molestown reminded me of Gary Indiana, was that Lindsey Lohan sizing up Gilly?
- Stannis: “I AM the history! I AM THE ONE WHO REWRITES!”
- Poor Shireen her room is way in the back like Eddie Long spiritual counseling chamber
- “Well if you’re a famous smuggler, you’re doing it wrong.” – Ser Davos advice for all criminals
- Phonics with Shireen "You won't be a very good Hand if you see the word 'knight' and say 'kuh-niggut" Monty Python
- Davos almost got his head chopped off by Syrio Forell ? He said the 1st sword of Braavos
- He's an expert at poisoning? Yeah poisoning minds with that cupcake lifestyle...I'm content with 50% of the pleasure in life Oberyn
- Tywin sets up meeting with Oberyn and the Mountain and brings Dorne back to the 7 kingdoms in one sentence…he’s a political master
- Podrick had a piece of pie from the wedding and some bagels hidden but he misallocated them like Lakers fans playoff hopes.
- Ygritte is surgical with that bow and arrow; she let Jon live so she could brutalize everyone else
- When Tormund is raiding a village people take more shots to the head than Kim Kardshian at NBA all star weekend
- The Engineer said he’s gonna eat your mama and papa…but did he realize they had fresh potatoes for a side?
- Danaerys Conqueror of Slave theme music is haunting and why is Missandei still translating?
- New Daario thumbs down…but I respect his seduction of Danaerys with the wink and the kiss of the knife, condensation under that blue dress.
- Daario a.k.a Indiana Jones with knife and beheading, fight smarter not harder. Young Obama was not pleased when he revealed his true dagger to the city
- Whodafuc is this guy and why do they keep showing Afro Al B Sure ?
Priceless.
I think you need to re-read what Stretchwallz wrote.
Sean's Bean reaction to the Purple Wedding....
http://www.accesshollywood.com/game...eacts-to-purple-wedding-shocker_article_93187
http://www.accesshollywood.com/game...eacts-to-purple-wedding-shocker_article_93187
Last night's episode of Game of Thrones featured plenty of disturbing scenes, but one stood head-and-shoulders above the rest: Jaime and Cersei. In the crypt. With a corpse (or at least next to one).
Readers who knew what was going to happen and viewers who didn't were both incredibly disturbed by what was unmistakably incestuous funeral-rape. But the episode's director, Alex Graves, actually believed shooting the scene was "one of the greatest days I've ever had filming," as he told The Hollywood Reporter. That's not to say he wasn't apprehensive about it. When he saw the script, he said, "That was like — you read the scene and go, 'Wait, who's directing this?'"
The scene in question takes place after the Purple Wedding, in the crypt where the late King Joffrey's body is lying in state. After Charles Dance totally kills it as Tywin and takes the new King Tommen out of the room and under his wing, incestuous twins Jaime and Cersei are left alone. Alone with, and I can't stress this enough, the remains of their dead son (upon whose eyes someone has put creepy stones painted with more eyes).
At this point, it wasn't a surprise when they started to get it on, because we've unfortunately grown to expect that kind of thing from such a dysfunctional family. What no one, even book readers, expected was that the encounter would shift into a rape. "I'm never that excited about going to film forced sex," Graves told the Reporter. "But the whole thing for me was about dead Joffrey lying there, watching the whole thing."
Yep. There's no artistic challenge quite like keeping the focus on a dead teenager's body during a rape scene. Although Graves might not even consider it rape. In an interview with HitFix, he explained his take on the scene, saying that "it becomes consensual by the end, because anything for them ultimately results in a turn-on, especially a power struggle."
So rape isn't rape so long as it seems consensual at some point? Whatever helps you sleep at night, buddy.
http://defamer.gawker.com/game-of-t..._source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Readers who knew what was going to happen and viewers who didn't were both incredibly disturbed by what was unmistakably incestuous funeral-rape. But the episode's director, Alex Graves, actually believed shooting the scene was "one of the greatest days I've ever had filming," as he told The Hollywood Reporter. That's not to say he wasn't apprehensive about it. When he saw the script, he said, "That was like — you read the scene and go, 'Wait, who's directing this?'"
The scene in question takes place after the Purple Wedding, in the crypt where the late King Joffrey's body is lying in state. After Charles Dance totally kills it as Tywin and takes the new King Tommen out of the room and under his wing, incestuous twins Jaime and Cersei are left alone. Alone with, and I can't stress this enough, the remains of their dead son (upon whose eyes someone has put creepy stones painted with more eyes).
At this point, it wasn't a surprise when they started to get it on, because we've unfortunately grown to expect that kind of thing from such a dysfunctional family. What no one, even book readers, expected was that the encounter would shift into a rape. "I'm never that excited about going to film forced sex," Graves told the Reporter. "But the whole thing for me was about dead Joffrey lying there, watching the whole thing."
Yep. There's no artistic challenge quite like keeping the focus on a dead teenager's body during a rape scene. Although Graves might not even consider it rape. In an interview with HitFix, he explained his take on the scene, saying that "it becomes consensual by the end, because anything for them ultimately results in a turn-on, especially a power struggle."
So rape isn't rape so long as it seems consensual at some point? Whatever helps you sleep at night, buddy.
http://defamer.gawker.com/game-of-t..._source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
So kids getting killed or getting thrown off a castle is fine
Having a man losing his dick is fine..
Getting your head chopped off is okay
Holding a person hostage is fine
But a brother raping his sister...people want to stop watching the show...
Having a man losing his dick is fine..
Getting your head chopped off is okay
Holding a person hostage is fine
But a brother raping his sister...people want to stop watching the show...
So kids getting killed or getting thrown off a castle is fine
Having a man losing his dick is fine..
Getting your head chopped off is okay
Holding a person hostage is fine
But a brother raping his sister...people want to stop watching the show...
Theon was raped and mutilated by a man...no outrage!
So kids getting killed or getting thrown off a castle is fine
Having a man losing his dick is fine..
Getting your head chopped off is okay
Holding a person hostage is fine
But a brother raping his sister...people want to stop watching the show...
The funny thing is that would be a uproar if it was Arya or Sansa. Besides, Khlessi was also also raped on the show. Where's Det. Benson when you need her.
lol 1 person makes an article about it and now it's outrage? It made us squeamish. It was scarey and gross. But no one i know and nothing i've read has stated OUTRAGE.
You're being dramatic
You're being dramatic
So kids getting killed or getting thrown off a castle is fine
Having a man losing his dick is fine..
Getting your head chopped off is okay
Holding a person hostage is fine
But a brother raping his sister...people want to stop watching the show...
i didnt even see it as rape. that bitch wanted him too. she the one that kissed him in the first place lol.
I don't even see that as outrage.
"I wonder, then, if the rape was on some level a misguided attempt to give Cersei even more pathos, a la the convenient backstory rapes that have become depressingly common on prestige TV (and Scandal)…I wonder if TV Thrones‘s writers just have a tendency to change problematic book sex scenes into clear scenes of unconsensual sex.” - Hillary Busis, Entertainment Weekly
Outrage? not in my book.
“Game of Thrones has a rape problem.” - Kevin Spak, Newser
Outrage?
Maybe we have different ideas of what outrage is, is all. I don't consider them being outraged.
I really didn't like the scene. I really really didn't like it. I don't understand why anyone would be ok with it. But theres sickos out there who enjoy hurting women.
But i'm not OUTRAGED. That statement isn't me showing outrage.
“Game of Thrones” has never shied away from rape scenes. The first season was filled with Dothraki rapes and pillaging. Daenerys Targaryen was raped by her husband, Khal Drogo, then fell in love with him à la Luke and Laura. And while many of those rape scenes have been gratuitous, there have been plenty of tragically meaningful rape scenes and even more disturbing almost-rape scenes — like Brienne of Tarth at the hands of Bolton’s men, until Jaime Lannister sacrificed himself for her. But nothing has been more disturbing than last night’s episode, in which our newly crowned hero Jaime Lannister raped his sister/lover/soul mate/mother of his children, Cersei Lannister, next to the dead body of their son King Joffrey.
If you had to give the scene a Bechdel-esque Test for realistic rape, this one passes all of the requirements: a) victim must know the person, b) victim must trust the person, c) victim may or may not have had sexual relationship with person. But this is a more complicated spectacle. First, there’s the obvious, most disturbing element. Cersei, as much as you might hate her character — and as much as you’re reveling in the ding-dong-the-psychopathic-boy-king-is-dead element — is grieving over her dead son’s body. Secondly, the scene began as something more genuine, built out of organic love and heartache. In an overwhelming act of grief, Jaime was drawn to the physicality of the mother of his dead child. But things quickly devolve into batshit craziness once Cersei begs Jaime to murder their brother Tyrion, who she believes is responsible for Joffrey’s death.
Jaime is drawn to her vulnerability even while torn at the thought of killing his brother (the only person he can trust in King’s Landing). It’s when Cersei recoils at Jaime’s golden metal hand that Jaime’s reaction shifts from Lover, I want to comfort you, to Lover, I’m going to rape you. Jaime raped her because she rejected him, because she recoiled at his disfigurement. That’s when his demeanor changed from offering solace to seething, “Why have the gods made me love a hateful woman?” Which makes the rape scene even more heartbreaking and disturbing — this is a man who has morphed from one of the greatest villains into one of the greatest heroes in “Game of Thrones.”
I’ll go ahead and say it: Jaime Lannister has become a rape cliché. He’s the boss, like every other on-screen rapist we’ve ever seen. Because in Cersei’s case, as she knows very well after being repeatedly raped by her late husband, the former king, that the men in King’s Landing will always overpower her physically. This is just the way they show you that they rule. Though the scene is incredibly disturbing because of the way it slowly unwinds (along with the memory of the love that once existed between these two), I couldn’t help wondering if it was yet another instance of rape-as-a-plot-device.
Sure, this was the writer’s way of severing Jaime and Cersei’s relationship forever. (As I said to my husband last night: “Uh, this isn’t going to get Cersei to like him more.” To which my husband shook his head in sadness.) Alyssa Rosenberg of the Washington Post wisely points out that the rape reminds Cersei of the rapes she used to endure in her late marriage, and that Jaime rapes her to poison “their own relationship, the thing that had been Cersei’s antidote to the miseries of her marriage.”
But does rape always have to be the symbolic gesture of the severing of ties between a man and woman? I can’t help wondering if there could have been another way Jaime could crush Cersei, emotionally and physically, without having to overpower her sexually with his massive Kingsguard armor. You could argue that the rape was a sick, visceral reaction to the death of their child, to all of the torture and all of the pain from the past year, to everything they’ve suffered. But my feeling is that it was an easy way out.
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/21/game_of_thrones_and_the_too_easy_symbolism_of_tv_rape_scenes/
This person don't know what the hell they're talking about ...King Robert didn't rape Cersei on the show or in the books...
If you had to give the scene a Bechdel-esque Test for realistic rape, this one passes all of the requirements: a) victim must know the person, b) victim must trust the person, c) victim may or may not have had sexual relationship with person. But this is a more complicated spectacle. First, there’s the obvious, most disturbing element. Cersei, as much as you might hate her character — and as much as you’re reveling in the ding-dong-the-psychopathic-boy-king-is-dead element — is grieving over her dead son’s body. Secondly, the scene began as something more genuine, built out of organic love and heartache. In an overwhelming act of grief, Jaime was drawn to the physicality of the mother of his dead child. But things quickly devolve into batshit craziness once Cersei begs Jaime to murder their brother Tyrion, who she believes is responsible for Joffrey’s death.
Jaime is drawn to her vulnerability even while torn at the thought of killing his brother (the only person he can trust in King’s Landing). It’s when Cersei recoils at Jaime’s golden metal hand that Jaime’s reaction shifts from Lover, I want to comfort you, to Lover, I’m going to rape you. Jaime raped her because she rejected him, because she recoiled at his disfigurement. That’s when his demeanor changed from offering solace to seething, “Why have the gods made me love a hateful woman?” Which makes the rape scene even more heartbreaking and disturbing — this is a man who has morphed from one of the greatest villains into one of the greatest heroes in “Game of Thrones.”
I’ll go ahead and say it: Jaime Lannister has become a rape cliché. He’s the boss, like every other on-screen rapist we’ve ever seen. Because in Cersei’s case, as she knows very well after being repeatedly raped by her late husband, the former king, that the men in King’s Landing will always overpower her physically. This is just the way they show you that they rule. Though the scene is incredibly disturbing because of the way it slowly unwinds (along with the memory of the love that once existed between these two), I couldn’t help wondering if it was yet another instance of rape-as-a-plot-device.
Sure, this was the writer’s way of severing Jaime and Cersei’s relationship forever. (As I said to my husband last night: “Uh, this isn’t going to get Cersei to like him more.” To which my husband shook his head in sadness.) Alyssa Rosenberg of the Washington Post wisely points out that the rape reminds Cersei of the rapes she used to endure in her late marriage, and that Jaime rapes her to poison “their own relationship, the thing that had been Cersei’s antidote to the miseries of her marriage.”
But does rape always have to be the symbolic gesture of the severing of ties between a man and woman? I can’t help wondering if there could have been another way Jaime could crush Cersei, emotionally and physically, without having to overpower her sexually with his massive Kingsguard armor. You could argue that the rape was a sick, visceral reaction to the death of their child, to all of the torture and all of the pain from the past year, to everything they’ve suffered. But my feeling is that it was an easy way out.
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/21/game_of_thrones_and_the_too_easy_symbolism_of_tv_rape_scenes/
This person don't know what the hell they're talking about ...King Robert didn't rape Cersei on the show or in the books...
I don't understand why people keep saying Danearys and Cersei was raped in the books......
I don't understand why people keep saying Danearys and Cersei was raped in the books......
I don't know about Cersei but Danny was raped by Drogo in the beginning.
I don't understand why people keep saying Danearys and Cersei was raped in the books......
I forgot which book and who Cersei was talking to (maybe Ned), but she intimated, if not down right and said that Robert took her whether she was willing or not.
She's made mentioned of having to do things in a marriage you may not dig several times to several different people. She's never said she was outright raped, but you get the vibe.
And plus Robert doesn't seem like the type to hear a woman say "No" and he say oh ok you're right. I shouldn't do this.
Not feeling this summary at all.
The reporter has a really short attention span. And his weekly tv show "book report" (that he calls a "review") comes off real whiny & pretentious.
Dany's story is not redundant.At All.
She is building her army (which takes time) by sacking all the major cities in her path, while her dragons grow.
They are deliberately showing how powerful she is becoming. Step by step.
That's my thought exactly. She's the monster that barely no one knows is coming. We are getting a chance to see the growth that will be unleashed on the kingdoms. It's necessary to see it happening.
Not feeling this summary at all.
The reporter has a really short attention span. And his weekly tv show "book report" (that he calls a "review") comes off real whiny & pretentious.
Dany's story is not redundant.
She is building her army (which takes time) by sacking all the major cities in her path, while her dragons grow.
They are deliberately showing how powerful she is becoming. Step by step.
I've learned from reading the books that GRRM has a plan. Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of Dany's storyline, but I understand its importance from a narrative point of view and a contextual point of view.
Some of her shit is boring, but you have to remember that her ultimate goal is to take back Westeros and reclaim what is hers. This isn't an A to B narrative. Takes time. Her character needs time to develop. Her and her House has to have the proper exposition. You know when Book 6 & 7 drop, her story and the White Walkers story will be a huge part of the grand finale. You just have to have the patience to get there. And that's the biggest thing I've learned from reading, some shit seems drawn out and unnecessary only to become incredibly relevant down the road.
This episode's example of that is the appearance of the High Septon.
Shit. Ser Dontas had an appearance in what, season 2, and look at him now.
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