The books have that foreshadowing but like times a thousand
they basically walk across a scene that might as well have a wooden sign that says THIS IS AN OMEN
It's not even really so much a "Hey readers, look an omen!" sign as it is one that the hunting party all notice themselves
Especially once you know the history of Starks Heading South, which you don't yet at that point in the story
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
The Greyjoys and the Boltons are already squabbling over the ashes and the real bad stuff hasn't even made it over the Wall yet.
I mean, I'm sure everyone at King's Landing is in for a nasty surprise at some point, but for that nasty surprise to be a physical threat, it still needs to traipse a couple of thousand miles south. By which time everyone from The Twins to the Wall is going to be dead in a ditch or worse (probably worse).
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
A review described the scene with reek and Ramsey hunting the girl as "Exploitative" and implied it was a typical example of the shows exploitations. Of what I don't know. What the hell was exploitative about it?
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Theon doesn't look Reek enough for me in the show but that doesn't surprise me. They did the same thing with Tyrion's injury.
I think the double whammy of the well-done psychological games Ramsey played in the show (the fake escape and theons confessions were pretty heartbreaking for me) and the penis stuff has conveyed his transformation pretty well without a lot of missing skin.
Also people were saying there's not as much sex in the books. That may be true but I feel like the sex was far more explicit in content (and confronting in context) in the books than in the show. Like very very little is left to the imagination in the books, and male characters in particular, even the good ones, are pretty damn, ah, rowdy? Like inappropriately so.
A review described the scene with reek and Ramsey hunting the girl as "Exploitative" and implied it was a typical example of the shows explorations. Of what I don't know. What the hell was exploitative about it?
i mean, it's capitalizing off people's desire to vicariously experience horror and disgust through the medium of television
A review described the scene with reek and Ramsey hunting the girl as "Exploitative" and implied it was a typical example of the shows exploitations. Of what I don't know. What the hell was exploitative about it?
Probably the person writing the review missed the point that it wasn't just about Ramsey being a psychopath and hunting a girl just for shits and giggles, but also that his female acquaintance was also pushing the hunt because she felt Ramsey thought the other girl was prettier than she was. Basically it was a romantic outing for two nutjobs who are smitten with each other, that happened to involved hunting a human being with hounds and a mentally crippled eunuch.
"Exploitative" in the sense of "This scene contributes absolutely nothing to the plot other than reminding you that Ramsay is kind of crazy, which we already got way too much of last season, so all that's left is an attractive woman running and screaming and being eaten by dogs for basically no discernible reason"
i feel like she was in the books but i don't remember her name
Not a character from the books, but she had been on the show before, as one of the two girls Ramsay brought in to get all sexy and tease Theon as part of his torture.
A review described the scene with reek and Ramsey hunting the girl as "Exploitative" and implied it was a typical example of the shows exploitations. Of what I don't know. What the hell was exploitative about it?
Probably the person writing the review missed the point that it wasn't just about Ramsey being a psychopath and hunting a girl just for shits and giggles, but also that his female acquaintance was also pushing the hunt because she felt Ramsey thought the other girl was prettier than she was. Basically it was a romantic outing for two nutjobs who are smitten with each other, that happened to involved hunting a human being with hounds and a mentally crippled eunuch.
I also gathered from that scene that if I were brunette girl, I'd be actively planning an escape before Ramsey grew tired of me and decided Dangerous Game, Part 2 was on the to-do list. I mean, really.
"Exploitative" in the sense of "This scene contributes absolutely nothing to the plot other than reminding you that Ramsay is kind of crazy, which we already got way too much of last season, so all that's left is an attractive woman running and screaming and being eaten by dogs for basically no discernible reason"
Is that what you got from it?
Cuz my takeaway was that it was showing just how thoroughly Theon had been beaten into submission. Here he is, out in the open, nobody's looking at him, he could try and make a run for it himself at any point. Instead, he's shown as an utterly broken, obedient dog. They just picked an incredibly brutal and disturbing way to get that across, which is pretty much par for the course.
My girlfriend remember Natalie Dormer as Anna Boelyn and "that hussie from Captain America" so whenever she shows up in GoT she just calls her "Queen Boobs" and blames her for everything.
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A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
oh my god i have just read the perfect encapsulation of this series
It's every Led Zeppelin song come to life
I know a lot of Led Zeppelin is inspired by Lord of the Rings, but Game of Thrones takes that rock n' roll/proto-metal edge to it that LOTR is missing
Lord of the Rings is fairly chaste and sexless and 'clean', whereas Game of Thrones is more than happy to pick up that slack and dive right into the muck
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It's not even really so much a "Hey readers, look an omen!" sign as it is one that the hunting party all notice themselves
Especially once you know the history of Starks Heading South, which you don't yet at that point in the story
time for the wayback machine!
Also people were saying there's not as much sex in the books. That may be true but I feel like the sex was far more explicit in content (and confronting in context) in the books than in the show. Like very very little is left to the imagination in the books, and male characters in particular, even the good ones, are pretty damn, ah, rowdy? Like inappropriately so.
i mean, it's capitalizing off people's desire to vicariously experience horror and disgust through the medium of television
that's the premise of the show, yes
i feel like she was in the books but i don't remember her name
Probably the person writing the review missed the point that it wasn't just about Ramsey being a psychopath and hunting a girl just for shits and giggles, but also that his female acquaintance was also pushing the hunt because she felt Ramsey thought the other girl was prettier than she was. Basically it was a romantic outing for two nutjobs who are smitten with each other, that happened to involved hunting a human being with hounds and a mentally crippled eunuch.
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Not a character from the books, but she had been on the show before, as one of the two girls Ramsay brought in to get all sexy and tease Theon as part of his torture.
The girl they were hunting was the other one.
I also gathered from that scene that if I were brunette girl, I'd be actively planning an escape before Ramsey grew tired of me and decided Dangerous Game, Part 2 was on the to-do list. I mean, really.
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In the book that's what they call Ramsay's dogs.
sigh ;_;
ohhhh yeah, forgot about that.
I had thought there was a group of women who followed him though.
Maybe I'm mixing him up with
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You're probably thinking of The Bastard's Boys, the group of vile hanger-ons who accompany him on his hunts.
There, there, Dongs. Look on the bright side, you still have the Boltons and Walder Frey.
Someone draw this now.
Is that what you got from it?
Cuz my takeaway was that it was showing just how thoroughly Theon had been beaten into submission. Here he is, out in the open, nobody's looking at him, he could try and make a run for it himself at any point. Instead, he's shown as an utterly broken, obedient dog. They just picked an incredibly brutal and disturbing way to get that across, which is pretty much par for the course.
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boy something tells me some bad stuff is about to go down in this one
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so I guess you're right
Sorry I just had to get that joke off my chest.
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You have to wear unnecessarily low-cut dresses everywhere and marry a sociopath, first. Having crossbows and/or named swords would also help.
It's every Led Zeppelin song come to life
I know a lot of Led Zeppelin is inspired by Lord of the Rings, but Game of Thrones takes that rock n' roll/proto-metal edge to it that LOTR is missing
Lord of the Rings is fairly chaste and sexless and 'clean', whereas Game of Thrones is more than happy to pick up that slack and dive right into the muck