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the incomparable podcast number for the
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eight delight well here and
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we're back on the uncomfortable podcast
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and we hope you like our recent two-part
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epic about Star Wars will try to get to
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the empire strikes back soon
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we promise but now we're going to talk
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about the just-concluded HBO series Game
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of Thrones based on the series of books
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by george RR martin and before we blow
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the spoiler horn what we're going to say
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is we're going to talk about the first
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season of Game of Thrones on HBO the
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first 10 episodes and we're going to
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related talk about that first novel a
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game of thrones by george RR martin
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we're not going to talk about what
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happens after that first book after the
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first season of the show so if you're
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riding along with the show or the first
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book and you don't want to know what
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happens
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this should be a safe zone for you were
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not come and try to spoil you
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I'm Jason Snelling hosted the
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incomparable joining me today are a
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great large collection of people who
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want to talk about Game of Thrones let's
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start with the the sniper of podcast
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comedy himself Scott McNulty hi Scott
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hello good to have you here Dan more'n
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also joins us because he's on every
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incomparable podcast I damn Ned Stark
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forever
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hi hi hi you're not already called will
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also joins us from the good city of San
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Francisco hi Winterfell Winterfell hello
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hello hello John syracuse joins us from
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the wilds of Massachusetts I John
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greetings everybody and special guest
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making his first appearance on the
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incomparable Monty Ashley who recapped
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game of thrones for the website
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television without pity and also a
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college friend of mine haimanti hello
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welcome those two twins which to the
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twins the twist
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no they're not they're not every with
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that would have been awkward
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they would be though they did horrible
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things that women should not do to
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another that would be what we can't have
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spoiled the future episode when it's
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revealed no they're twins so so i think
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that the one of the pressing questions
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about this show from the beginning from
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when we heard it was going to come on
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was how would you adapt
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this novel this kind of sweeping in some
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ways intentionally unfilmable novel it
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and turn it into a TV show now they had
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10 hours to do it instead of a two-hour
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movie but still there's a lot of stuff
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packed into that book there are a lot of
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a lot of backstory there so many
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characters so I you know first off I'd
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say what do you guys think about how
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they first first actually let's take a
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survey here how many of you have you all
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read the book
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indeed razor has yes my hands I have not
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read the book
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ok to John Syracuse's our control
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control subjects such as I could be
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alright so so for those of you who have
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read the books i'm curious what you
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think about how the show handled at
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adapting the book and if it did a good
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job or if perhaps even surpassed the
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book in some way let's start with Monty
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I thought the show was actually better
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than the books and that I didn't like
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the books at all the books I felt were
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long and rambly i felt i had read 3,000
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pages and I was not invested in anything
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that was happening and I didn't care who
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died next whereas on the show even
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though i'd read the first book I
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couldn't wait for the next episode to
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see what was going to happen and I think
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part of that is because it
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the show is a lot less vague and you can
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actually see what's happening with
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different characters when you did the
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spoiler horn right
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yes the songs for has been fired when
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they died we actually have to see there
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huawei descended not Ned Stark a
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different net head flavors when Ned
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Flanders know what
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well the simpsons now when they died
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you can see how everyone reacted there's
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no vagueness about whether Cersei wanted
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this to happen
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you saw her freak out and tell Joffrey
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to knock it off and that sort of thing I
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gave me a much better feel for what was
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happening on the show actually that what
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is a wren Dan Scott what do you guys
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think definitely well I mean you get the
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the picture very clearly that I Joffrey
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is basically going off his rocker and
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being like I'm going to just do
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as and screw whatever my mother is a
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range and you get that in an instant
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which is bigger haha yeah and the camera
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angle or great
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well I I mean I think you know button by
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necessity they have to cut a lot of
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stuff down right and they sort of
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trimmed it and and honed it to a point i
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think which works great i mean like
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television you know movies and books are
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obviously very distinct genres are
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things you can do in either that you
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can't do in the other but i think that
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they you know they took what would make
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a good you know a good television show
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out of the book and as such because you
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know it is still a huge investment
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obviously time it's 10 hours but it
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feels in some ways less of a time sink
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than reading a multi-hundred page looks
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as if this is someone who likes the
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books and thinks that the books did a
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good job for four books that they were
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in that you know this is sort of an epic
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fantasy series and as someone who enjoys
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reading those I thought it did an
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excellent job with that but also you
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know it's hard to walk that path of of
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adapting such well-known source material
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and I think they did they did a quite
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adept job at it for a variety of reasons
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got well i think you know the the kind
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of people who read giant fantasy books
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are the kind of people who want to revel
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in the details and you know know about
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all the history of the houses and all
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that crap and the kind of people who I
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say crap and lovingly and so when you're
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developing a show that you just have to
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cut to the bare bones right and and just
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boil it down to the central plot points
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and if it's on HBO and naked people and
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you're done and I think they did that is
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accomplished
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well i think in reading one of the
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interviews with george RR martin he
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talks about how in some ways this was I
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think I mentioned this in our podcast
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about the books in some ways this was
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his take on something like a historical
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event like the war of the roses and and
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it within watching the TV show I almost
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felt like what we were seeing was the
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source material was like a history book
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that had lots of detail and that then
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the people come in and say well that's
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the story that was the history of how do
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we tell a TV show based on this and and
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so did get simplified and in clarified
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in some ways and and I do think that was
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successful and it's the same
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the way that you know you take something
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like like lord of the rings right which
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is again has this incredibly you know
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deep rich history behind it but have you
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know history doesn't always make a super
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interesting movie or TV show you say
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that now we just wait until Peter
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Jackson does the silmarillion okay man
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I'm right on the edge of my seat maybe
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I'll finally finished reading that book
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and finish my eighth grade book report
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but I you know there's something to you
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gotta change it it's got to be a little
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more cohesive that the narrative
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structure has to change a little bit
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because you're building for these axons
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individual episodes but you know overall
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again I think they did a great job with
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it and I you know I i want to tip you
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know a large part of my hat to the
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casting which is just an HBO is shown
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themselves to be just awesome where
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they're casting directors are they just
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they are great across-the-board because
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they do such a fantastic job of picking
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the right people for the part and there
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were so many cases in this where you
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know having read the book and picture to
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character a certain way even if it
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wasn't like exactly a hundred percent
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right you can you look at the characters
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and be like yep
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yeah that's basically what that guy
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looks like all right we'll get back to
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the casting because I do want to talk
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about the the actors in this but first i
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want to go to our control group john
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siracusa who did not read the book my
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wife also didn't read the book and it
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was fascinating to watch her and
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occasionally I would explain something
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but generally you know she got it she
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you know it like watching the wire or
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something like that you know not to
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compare it to the wire John easy easy
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but it's like that innocence that the
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first few episodes they're getting
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ripped up and it's a little bit slower
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and there's a lot to digest
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by the end she was really satisfied with
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it's not John you know how about you how
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was your take on it not having read the
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books you know just because you didn't
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read the book doesn't mean you can't
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tell if it's a good adaptation or not I
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have just thinking about this was
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watching it you may be uniquely able to
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tell us because you didn't have to deal
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with about it all here here are i'll
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give you a system this two ways you can
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do a time elapsing in the story you can
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do the big jump or you show that the
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little kid and he has some trauma
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experienced me as a child and then you
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jump forward and he's like a young man
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right that's the big jump dissolved to
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Israel a teenager
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yes or you can do the small series of
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steps with logical connections between
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bad adaptations happen when they there
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in that middle ground where they have to
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cut stuff out of the book it's not long
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enough to be a dissolved change scenery
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now he's a man type of thing but it's
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not short enough for you to be able to
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connect the dots of like what I just saw
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that guy and he was like cowardly and me
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and he was when he was talking to this
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person they had this relationship and
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now three scenes later they seem to have
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a totally different relationship and
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then they try to stick in lines of
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dialogue do remember you know two years
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ago I got over my fear of you and we had
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a battle that was not included in this
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out you know it seems disjointed an
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example i would give even though it
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doesn't have the character development
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problems probably because that much
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character development is the the recent
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series of harry potter movies I I always
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felt like there were gaps taken out and
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they weren't long enough where was a big
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transition period of the people's lives
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but they weren't short enough it from
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one thing to the next would be like all
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wait a second what are we supposed to be
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concerned about something like you would
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on camera or whatever so the stuff they
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you needed it and what exposition there
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was was done while people were naked
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yeah I remember that never hurts like
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except for that old dude
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although that was really funny right
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because it seems like a random scene but
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then you realize that what they're
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really showing is that it's all it's all
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put on and he actually is spryer than
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than that but yes make it explanation is
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that is an actor is great too i bet
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that's probably the best thing he's ever
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done in his entire acting career and he
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was in Indiana Jones and the Last
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Crusade and Empire I know but was he was
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he doing naked squats with it with a
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negative actress in the room no they did
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not ask general veers to do that now
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they showed he was physically spryer
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than you thought
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but he's also the only person actually
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supporting Joffrey at the whole
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heartedly at this point I think right is
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he or is he saying that because he knows
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that the girl is a spy for I don't know
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which one varistor Littlefinger I don't
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know who can tell i would not be
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the game of thrones all the whores work
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for Tommy Carcetti that's right they see
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more wire rozell some more
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that's amazing uh it is the HBO HBO
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Actors Guild they all get parts in
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various HBO rules and John otherwise as
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a as a novice to the game of thrones
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series just going in cold as a as a
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viewer to hold together too long you
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know make sense
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see we you know we satisfied by this
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thing is a complete blank slate
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yeah i mean you could see that they had
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to do they opened the Series with sort
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of the overarching mythos of winter and
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those white riders and stuff like that
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and then a great quickly move away from
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that to get you settled into the world
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that is threatened by that thing I guess
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it's kind of a season one thing where
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you have to establish what I assume is
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going to be the larger arc story and
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then quickly go inside well here's the
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world is threatened and let me get you
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involved in that world so that when it
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becomes threatened lay there or you know
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you'll be more invested in it so that
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was a little bit awkward transitioning
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from is this a series about the wall
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nothing straightening the wall or is
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this is serious about people fighting
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over is going to be king of the other
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parts in which senses it's actually a
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very faithful representation of the book
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because that's basically exactly how the
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book but it is interesting it is the
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message there is that the you know you
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you're seeing this fantasy series in the
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first scene has got something
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supernatural limit and then you forget
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in many ways that that you saw that and
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it's all there's not a lot of magic in
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especially in this first season there's
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really very little magic until you get
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to the last couple of episodes and I
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feel like that first scene is there to
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tell you yes yes that there are magical
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things that are going to happen just not
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for a while yet and that's how george RR
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martin has structured the whole story
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right because he starts off at the wall
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and it's very it's a big imposing thing
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and you think oh my god this is
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important and these people are doing
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important work keeping the Seven
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Kingdoms safe and then you find out that
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they send the dregs of humanity up there
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and they just don't want to think about
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it and behind that wall is you know
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magical things and all kinds of nasty
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things that no one wants to think about
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so they just think about this little
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game of thrones that they are playing
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while the whole time you know
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who knows what's gathered i think i
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think Hogwarts is above the wall right
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yes yeah listen already at land of
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eternal winter up there right
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that's good now i want to thank you
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light that they ever address why things
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can't walk around the wall it's really
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big that sits along and no around and
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not over it just go to the end and then
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walk its its end-to-end isn't it I mean
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goes from ocean to ocean yeah ocean to
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ocean right by the ocean is like three
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feet deep at the short walk up to your
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I don't think so i think it goes further
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than that there's this geography haven't
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you didn't watch the opening credits
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every day but they have but they have
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boat started there there there John John
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they're White Walkers not wait swimmers
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ok just like the Dothraki are afraid of
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swimming so our way Walker's that's
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right it has made me realize their major
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political implications white floaties
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let's talk a little bit about the actors
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in the casting dan mentioned it earlier
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you know III it really is tough to try
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him and cast of characters an adaptation
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especially when the when the books have
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such fans but i have to say i think in
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general they did a really good job in
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fact nailed it and come on
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I i have a couple equivalent but they're
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they're so offset by the positives that
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you know I mean let's start
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I mean yeah everybody can throw out a
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favorite if they if they've got it made
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everybody is waiting so Peter Dinklage
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let's talk about that that's the best
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character in the books
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it's he does a great job although I will
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say his accent is atrocious all gets
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better but it starts out it's really
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really bad but he's still got but he's
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got the manor down oh yeah completely
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great character and he does he nails it
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he does other than the accent which I
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feel like even by the end of the series
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I felt like he was better with the
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accent that he had to struggle with that
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a little bit but such a great character
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and perfect casting right when i heard
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that he was cast I thought well that's
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it and Tyrion Lannister is just a you
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know that's just a fantastic character
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so that was that was yeah that's like in
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a great his speech in the Eyrie
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especially his entire yeah i'm going to
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confess to
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like crimes and just the way through
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that out and played it so specifically
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was fantastic
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it's like a weird Perry Mason episode
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where except the judge would have to be
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nursing a nine-year-old gotta venture
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something that was that was creepy
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I saw that episode of Perry Mason meant
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as weird as creepier than I then I
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thought creepier than I thought the the
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the the Lord of the Aerie nursing on
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this mom creepier than the books ever
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made it out to be yeah there's a house
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that was pretty creepy in the books
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yeah but you didn't get this see how old
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he was yeah yeah there's that whatever
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is the picture in your mind you can't
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really picture and eight-year-old
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suckling at his mother's breasts until
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you see it on the screen and then its
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just oh in in HD so in terms of the the
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the headliners i'm sean bean no stranger
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to fantasy from Lord of the Rings they
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bring him in as the essentially the lead
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character except those supposed to read
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the book knew what was coming and it was
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going to be a one-season gig for him but
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I thought he did a really good job
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ya know he's very solid he's the one
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honest man right like that's the moment
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that supply and in that sense you know
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kind of the opposite of his of his
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warlords and Kings character that you
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and I was watching it with my wife when
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she could bear to watch it because she
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cannot handle tense violent shows so she
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was half most like five minutes when she
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was watching the show she kept saying
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why is he so stupid
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he's not stupid he is just honest he's
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the only one right exactly
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I love I can I just say one thing that i
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absolutely love about the last episode
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with Ned and with the whole you know
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getting his head getting beheaded and
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all that fun stuff for is when he looks
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and sees Aria on the on the mountain he
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looks and he sees her and there's it's
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obvious it's not a detailed it's in the
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books because it's from Mario's
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perspective as i remember not not for
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meds but he looks and he sees her and
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it's the last thing he sees before he
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gets beheaded as he looks and he doesn't
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see her on the on the platform anymore
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on the mountain anymore and that's like
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I know that that moment specifically
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just grabbed me
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it's a moment of
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hope which is not really you know big in
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the books no there's no I'm still alive
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and and he set the message that where
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she is so that they can go getter and
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hopefully spirit her away right that
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certain last his last gasp you know give
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them props to for the the kid the
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children actors for the most part I
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think you re especially who is one of
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another one of my favorite characters
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from the books are you think they had a
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they had a very nice
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they did a great job with her too she
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was great she's got all those scenes
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with the the fencing master with Syria
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florell are excellent that's a good
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little minor character who was well
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welcome
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he's so while cast the attitude i love
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area but they keep having seen four
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people say she looks like a boy and the
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actress doesn't look like a boy
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yeah that's tough because I mean that is
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a necessity in in the books right like
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the end there you started like they're
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basically making her pass for a boy
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unfortunately she's not she's not the
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most boyish of actresses yea big steak
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cut her hair and makeup yeah they gotta
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like put mud on her face or something
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and yeah they're hoping that the bigger
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eyebrows we're going let's just put
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extra eyebrow pencil and that will
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totally make her not look feminine
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although that that's um that's a scene
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from the beginning of the second book i
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believe i think they actually did push a
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few scenes from the second book into the
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last episode resolved certain storylines
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are you know it's it's structured again
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I'm gonna go back to the wire one of the
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things that I really liked about the
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wire is that the every all the big
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events happen to need an ultimate
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episode of the season
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that's where the bloodbath happened in
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Game of Thrones that's when Ned gets his
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head chopped off and then the last
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episode is like the fallout and day
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tomorrow and I i really like that and I
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like that about the wire and I like that
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I i think it was probably consciously
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model that way by the producers a game
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next season and it's funny that they
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actually pulled a couple of scenes from
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the second book forward but it's great
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because it gets Aria out of the town you
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see that she got out that she's on this
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new journey that's going to be
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presumably perilous and you know I
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thought that was good and the actor who
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plays Arya's fantastic even though she
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is is not boyish really just probably
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wonder the actress who plays sands
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it's actually quite do so let's talk
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about Sansa is an annoying character in
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the book and she says no and character
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in the TV show although my wife was just
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telling me before we started recording
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this that the last couple episodes you
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see that the actress will play Santa has
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some skills and they give her some
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things to do in and she does a good job
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but she's playing such an unsympathetic
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character up to that point she's playing
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I'm unsympathetic character but at the
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same time I mean she's playing it so
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well and so to the point where it's like
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you you just especially in the scene
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with Joffrey and like what is it episode
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seven or eight when he comes to
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apologize to her that hole where she's
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being just could complete bitch to the
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to the septa that that combination of
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scenes just shows you know her range
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when she gets some growth in at the end
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to write that brief moment in that live
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in the last episode I was very last
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scene where she's completely pale while
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the one where she the when will Joffrey
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takes her to cnet's hello and you get
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that brief moment of the I mean
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basically contemplate like throwing them
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off the bridge right yeah I can grab and
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makeup off and we were both be dead
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right and like you I mean that's it
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that's a big moment for her right
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because you know she's been very she's
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been very complicit up until that point
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and so it was a nice moment and it shows
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the range and I I'd really actually like
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the interaction with her in the house
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there too at the edges
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well he's saving her or is he condemning
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her right it's a little bit of both and
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is he doing it for her for the king
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it's all kind of you know who knows
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what's going on there in a way senses
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basic flaws the same as Ned's is that
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she's too naive
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she seems to me to have totally bought
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into the idea that you'll just become a
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princess and marry the king and then be
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Queen Sansa and everything will be
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ponies and unicorns forever
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yeah yeah yeah especially Caesar
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traditional fantasy character in many
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ways right and look what Kepler naive
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yet knew the rules of the game he just
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refused to play it so he knew he was
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more or less doomed he knew how things
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were I mean he knew when he got the
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offer come be the hand of the king he
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knew like this sucks basically and this
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will not end well
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probably for me but he does it out of a
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sense of honor and everything he does
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when he's there he doesn't have a sense
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of honor even though he knows full well
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how badly is gonna go where sonza really
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has no idea
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the world actually works there's a great
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line where she says too seriously that
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she's going to be a queen like her and
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it's like oh honey you're not going to
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be a queen like her I think she just
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doesn't know what property she's in on
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on Sansa and the casting not having read
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the book interesting thing about the
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casting was that very early on in the
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the episodes i was trying to determine
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which one of these characters are
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suppose I am I supposed to be
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sympathizing with like which are the
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good guys and bad guys more or less
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United mean I and a lot of it had to do
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with the actor so for example Tyrion now
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Terry and I was immediately attracted to
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Tyrion but the things they had him do
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were not very good so it's like well it
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is this character in the book proposed
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to be evil but this actor is just
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charming the pants off me because he's
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such a good actor right or is like is
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that the character and the same goes for
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everybody else like Sansa is she really
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supposed to be this annoying am I
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supposed to hate her or suggest the
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performance you know so I'm trying to
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gauge by like how much do I like the
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actor is does that mean that this
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character is going to be a good guy in
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the stories and that was a fascinating
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thing it shows that the characters
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aren't cut and dry like you couldn't say
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good guy bad guy got everybody has their
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own problems and i think i carried
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through the whole season even towards
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the end of it I'm like I still don't
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know what the characterization of these
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people in this book series is but i
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decided i like tyrion no matter what I
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think I think you actually that shows
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that you got the desired effect because
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the books are very similar and one that
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may perhaps my favorite thing about the
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books and I've read the football
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whatever four books of them is is that
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every time you think that you've got a
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character and you've got them in a hole
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like I'm rooting for them I'm not
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rooting for them you realize oh no they
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did something terrible or they did
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something good and Tyrion is the best
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example right he's a Lannister he does
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these you know he does these awful
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things but at the same time he's funny
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he's smart
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you get the sense that he's sort of
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doing terrible things out of family
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obligations to like like net in some
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ways and I think that's the strongest
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thing about these these characters in
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this story is that is that it's hard to
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pigeonhole them as good guys and bad
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guys and although in the first season
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and the way they're portrayed it is a
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lot harder to find any sympathy for
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seriously and and and Jaime Lannister or
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job and I mean that
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you are Jeffrey but I mean that again
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you're speaking to speaking to the
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actors Joffrey doesn't look like it's me
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again note perfect right you're supposed
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to load him he is like just a terrible
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loathsome individual and I can be draco
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malfoy smart right that's so smart me
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about it and like I think you've totally
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get that I think that guy you know the
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performance there was excellent in that
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it's like he just brought out every
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thing that you hate about that character
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he could he could not be he cannot be
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drinking mouthwash i want to point this
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out that even the characters that you
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hate that's why I brought up seconds
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like sands are even Joffrey those
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characters all have sympathetic moments
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as opposed to drag the left Ruiz is just
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a cartoon right because we gotta you
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know you feel for Joffrey when he tries
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to when he gets you know choose hand
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Troodon because he was trying to be the
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big man he so clearly isn't these fit is
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basically failing to impress a girl
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that's a sympathetic thing it's not
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doesn't excuse his later behavior but
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you understand why is why is he like
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this why is he so angry and mean it's
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because he's had you know he's not
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successful at becoming a man on high-end
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on his own terms
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same thing with Santa who would like is
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naive and you're like well I'm kinda
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disgusted with our vacations naive but
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she's mostly just an innocent you feel
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for when she sees her father's head get
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cut off and you know later has to look
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at the head on a pike and consider
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throwing yourself off the bridge
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everybody is sympathetic in ways that
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for example draco malfoy is mostly not
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in the movies anyway I don't know about
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the books and that's why I like you for
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example i wouldn't be shocked if someone
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said well you know sounds is actually
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the hero of the third book because she
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grows into this great Queen you know
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about like you can foresee any possible
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future for all the people involved and
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some of them had that are controversies
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and like what's-her-name generis
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obviously over she starts off in the
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season where she ends a very different
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feel like I can see that arc for anybody
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pick any character and if you told me
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that like some in some distant future
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they are very important and a good guy
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be rooting for I would believe it a
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hundred percent
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ok let's go across the Narrow Sea then
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and talk about the Daenerys Targaryen
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story which is was shot i think
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completely separately in in the
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Mediterranean most of the series was
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shot in Northern Ireland but some of it
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a shot and the Mediterranean to get that
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kind of desert you feel you know there
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are a couple crossovers that happen but
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it's basically
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the self-contained story and and to
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John's point such a great journey
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because when you meet her first off you
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don't know whether she is the focus
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because there's this horselord hurt her
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brother right Harry Lloyd place her
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brother and you think well he's the he's
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the dragon he's gonna come back and she
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and she gets sold to the horse Lord and
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she basically gets raped on her wedding
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night your it was what the hell is this
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and by the end she has basically kicked
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everybody's ass and and I I think it's a
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great i think that was great casting she
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was actually recast they were somebody
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else in the pilot may they replaced her
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and in the end I think that was a great
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character but I you know i'm i'm curious
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what you guys thought about that whole
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really kind of separate story thread
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that was going on throughout you know I
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was really skeptical about her at first
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the actress in the first and the first
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episode I was kind of like yeah I mean
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she doesn't she's really get to say much
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and but as the as the entire season
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progressed I mean I would say the
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actress crew as much as the character
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and it was really kind of astonishing to
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watch like you really believe that she
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was transitioning from this naive
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awkward girl into basically a queen what
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you needed to be maybe she was just that
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good i don't know but it's definitely
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felt that progression
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yeah i just never I was never sure if I
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like to her not as a character in the
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books and I still I feel very similarly
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with John saying I feel very ambivalent
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about her in many ways her whole
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storyline is my least favorite part of
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the books whenever whenever i'm reading
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about her and just impatient to get back
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to all this other stuff right right went
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back to court and so injury so but money
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so what you feel about it in the TV show
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how did you feel less of that
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yeah because watching somebody do it I
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can't skip over it it in the book is
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kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy
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I read the first page to go oh this is
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another dairy section so I've got 20
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again remember the fun stuff but what I
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want to sit down and watch it then it's
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more fun
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yeah there were some nice you know the
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the horse people are again I'm calling
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the horse people they're not half-man
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half-horse they just ride horses but the
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horse people and call Drogo which you
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know another piece of good cast yeah
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good casting
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it's gonna be great as Conan don't you
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think yeah it's very cold in and he
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doesn't even get to speak a word from
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what like two words of English on that i
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was going on
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well this right here they they hired a
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linguist to invent the whole Dothraki
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language so it is it like click on it is
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this invented artificial variable intake
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on bridge now it's not like going on
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no well it means like Leon and in the
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sense that they actually bought out the
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whole grammar in the EMA and the dialect
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and everything and didn't just sort of
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like makeup wacky words to have them say
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but that's the internet some interesting
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playing on has a long and storied
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history but this will see yes we'll see
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if people are speaking to raqi and
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whatever that's right i don't think
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anyone should be going to dose rocky
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camp in 20 years
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no we'll see about that Scott we'll see
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about that
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any other thoughts about that storyline
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i think that the you know I John were
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you surprised at how that ended because
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you know she was being set up to have
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the baby without i thought i was telling
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some of those eggs appeared and like
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episode who you're kinda like the ball
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you can see where this is your only with
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the eggs yet the only thing that
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surprised me is that I was surprised
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that the Drogo dropped out as soon as he
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did I you always knew that she would
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grow it to be the queen and your stupid
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eggs are gonna hatch instead of just
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sitting there and every episode and you
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knew that she would come into her power
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or whatever when she's doing that
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putting the egg and on the fire and
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stuff like that but I thought Drogo
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would be there alongside her because why
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not i mean she could be a powerful Queen
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alongside him and you know they could be
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equals and rule together but it turns
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out the horselords are not the
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antibiotic Lord's and He ya somethin
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nicely brutal about that that whole
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section across the sea you were saying
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that they started the Mediterranean I I
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thought that the sets and the settings
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who didn't look as impressive maybe it's
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because they're harder to do it didn't
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look as impressive as for example
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Winterfell I guess maybe it's easier to
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do stone castles and snow that it is to
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do desert sand Sun in the Mediterranean
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but it the cast felt the weaker there
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weren't as many strong characters over
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there across the sea that was like three
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or four when you have like dozens on the
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other side right and the settings looks
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more kind of TV at but maybe they did
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some stuff indoors
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they should have done outdoors I don't
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know what it was but that that threw me
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off a little bit i did feel a little
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like oh we're going across the sea well
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that's not being that interesting but
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one stroke or really started to become a
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character and that interaction between
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them started and you got the whiny
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blonde dude out of the way with this
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horrible dyed hair then across the same
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stuff started to kyle and you know and
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and it's i did like the fact that it was
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this other it was like that was taking
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place at the wall this other thing
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that's an existential threat to the
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games that are going on between the the
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people who are fighting it out in their
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little circle so you've got the wall
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which we don't talk about much we have
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head as he's doing across the sea and
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there the outside threat that you have
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to worry about the only people talking
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about them is the what's-his-name the
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ball dude and Kings Landing he's the
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only one who seems even remotely
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concerned that these guys are going to
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come across the sea and and kill them
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all right I think that's one of the nice
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things about the setup right is this
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multipolar world it's not as if they're
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too cool you know that the the people of
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Westeros are gonna clash with the people
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across the sea because then there's the
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wall and then they're fighting each
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other and like I what's gonna happen Who
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am I supposed to even pull for here it's
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running to the Dragons it go your team
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dragon go dragons I'm dragon alright and
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a nice word about the court in general
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which i think you know
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marikar city as little finger and
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whoever they got to play various i think
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also also very apt casting and anytime
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that I love that little guys together uh
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yeah that always the last episode of
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them that's cop was significant schemers
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with the power behind the throne right
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the people who know everybody and got
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have everybody planted everywhere and
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you know in the book I felt that that
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was seeing that especially various but
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seeing those two guys screaming like
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that on on the screen felt more tangible
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to me in some ways that like you know
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because you can sort of see them hanging
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back there at the edge of the scene you
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know that they're up to something i
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really like that I thought that was and
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which one do you trust you
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neither no no way now what about various
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came across much more in much more
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sympathetic to me in some ways I mean
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despite the fact that you know they is
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clearly you're still playing his own
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you know what you know we don't get
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quite the moment of like gasps betrayal
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that we get from little finger right so
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let's talk about the Lannisters before
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we move move north seriously and Jay
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me who don't four important characters
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like Jaime Lannister doesn't have as
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much screen time as I think that I
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expected although I guess he just isn't
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in the first book as much we see more of
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him later no spoilers just you know
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he'll be back more than through other
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people's eyes right it rise the King's
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lair whatever the good good good casting
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on those I thought those the actors were
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both perfectly reasonable quite as our
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cost Sarah Connor did a great job but
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you can tell from Jaime Lannister's hair
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what character he is instantly like
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everybody else is many evil and most of
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the guys have like sean bean doesn't
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change how people can't shave it's just
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that manly the stubble is just cannot be
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destroyed but Jaime Lannister walks in
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his hair is perfect he's got gleaming
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armor he's a pretty boy pretty boy with
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a good sort and yeah yeah he's he's he's
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a sharp one
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so but that yeah and he was what she
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Sarah Connor and he was New Amsterdam
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write the answer in fox fox actors from
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cancelled fox series now welcome to HBO
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stepping and the little bit of Tywin
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that we get we don't get much of him but
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that only was my favorite
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here's my favorite Lannister because his
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introduction scene where he's cleaning
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an animal there are ya
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oh isn't it you know it's like here's a
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new character and you're gonna have
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you're gonna have to watch him yelling
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at his son
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well i think was the son wherever he was
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used yelling at while he cleans animal
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he was skimming a stag because it's
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symbolic sigh symbolic of Robert I just
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thought it was a good that was a good
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intro to the world because it you know
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present viewer they're assuming that
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you're going to be put off by the fact
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is clean this animal but you're also
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supposed to understand to the characters
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in the world this is this is about as
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dramatic is talking to someone with a
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sip a cup of coffee because this is just
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what you do in this world you know no
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one no one else in that scene was upset
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by him clean animal except you're like
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the rich he's the richest guy in the
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Seven Kingdoms like he could have
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someone do that for him right
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like it means something that he does it
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himself matter of principle here you
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want it done right
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he's like that kind of guy echoes Ned
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coming off the head of the deserter
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right i mean it's not like I'm gonna do
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this myself
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this is my business so uh we should also
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talk a moment about
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mark addy as King Robert who again meets
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an untimely end killed by a pig but in
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in the scenes that he has damn Cubs I
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Westeros pd I I thought about the wire I
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thought mark addy was was really good I
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liked him as the kind of you know king
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who maybe he's got regrets he has a few
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but then again he's fat and happy and
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drunk and has a you know beautiful wife
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who hates them and whatever go to esa
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see a word about that scene the scene
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with him in searcy where they talk about
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the fact that their marriages hold right
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which is not in the book
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no but it was such an awesome to see man
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let me leave that brief view of man if
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things had been different right like
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maybe this wouldn't have been so unhappy
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and maybe next week a lot of terrible
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things wouldn't happen but that was the
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way that it was meant to be and that's
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how it happened that made Cersei more
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sympathetic to the other scene where you
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see that he's not a pure evil caricature
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you know the only thing that keeps
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bringing me back to Jamie and seriously
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being evils of the incest think it's
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hard to look at last throwing the kid
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out the window
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well that's understandable that kid was
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annoying let's face it yet that was
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protect that was part of that was part
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of the incest thing where you know
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they're trying to protect their secrets
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just like that taint install their
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characters the Lannisters what a great
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family the right you get tie when you
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got teary and you got Jamie ah i have to
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say a short thing about I about Tyrians
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entourage in the later episodes because
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LeBron this onward on Iran is a greater
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Braun is very well cast and Shey but it
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was completely different want to how I
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pictured her in the books completely
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different personality completely
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different look completely different type
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so i was very kind of taken aback the
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first time isn't she more of just kind
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of along for the ride Tyrion is is fond
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of a of a horror and that's how I read
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in the books and the in the TV show she
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is super sharp
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uh-huh well i mean i think you get to
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some extent that she's a little bit
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sharp in the books but she seems foolish
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in a way where it's more she she read to
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me in the books is more of like a
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California valley girl horse right or
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she's just like I want pretty things i
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want to be you know etcetera and in
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more like a college professor of course
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yeah exactly I'm not know but I
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sometimes I think there's some depth at
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that you that the characters in the TV
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in the in the book series they grow over
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time and you that you have these
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unexplored depths but seeing them on
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make the decision to show some of that
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make sense later as soon as they grow
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the depth so they're like we're going to
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show that she has depth up front because
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we can't do it later we gotta do right
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by it and you get the idea that she
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needs to be a little least somewhat
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sharp in order to why would he bring her
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Syrians yet to catch Syrians fancy the
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way that's his i right
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yeah because he's a super sharp guy
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himself so far on the show I'm not even
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convinced Shae is a whore she hasn't
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said she was she denied everything
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Tyrion said about her and all we know is
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that Braun took her from someone else in
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the camp
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oh right ok that's true she heard she's
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sort of mysterious the network she said
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she's an independent business she is
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right she
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hey she's just she's out there stand
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alive right
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the tough world out there in Westeros
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that scene where they're like that let's
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play the truth and the truth game where
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I where I determine things about your
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past that's not a scene from the books
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as i recall and that's fantastic
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ya know they as as the series got going
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to you felt that they got more confident
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in taking some liberties that actually
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serve the story better
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yeah i mean like that whole scene with
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Renly in the night flowers i think that
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was haha you know that there's whole
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pages on the on the on the game of
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thrones wiki about speculating about the
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sexuality of Renly and the knight of
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flowers and and the event in the wow so
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it is not that one down so it's like
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well actually we can confirm that
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with Sally defect but they don't have
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half the sweetly they don't hey sorry
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I'm sorry he's coming next summer watch
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out rapid sweetling is gonna be in there
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yeah so let's move north let's go to
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Winterfell virtually of course because
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Winterfell is made up with like the rest
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of these books but let's just let's
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shift the scene and talk about the start
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kids and we'll talk about catlin to any
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thoughts about how the Winterfell stuff
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played out for brand is broken I easy is
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pretty good too i kind of have these
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dreams though know there's a three-eyed
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crow at least brands on the show how do
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you think Rick and feels about all this
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he gets a couple scenes he's in his
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wandering around in the tombs
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yeah my wife said my wife said is that
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is that the other kid I said yes that's
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finally the other kid he's he's shown
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very early on but not yet he does not
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get a lot of he doesn't get a lot of
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time in the book either know he's the
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baby right like he's kind of build you
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know the book has a few more scene for
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he's mentioned though like Kaitlyn is
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sitting by brand side Rob comes to her
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and says you have to do something
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Rick and is down there with the wolves
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and he's going crazy and they just cut
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that completely out
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let him go in the book in the book you
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know you introduce yourself to the to
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the stark family and you can sit there
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and all right
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ok so there's many kids and these are
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the names right got it got it where the
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TV show you know they'd be the first
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episode of there like all these kids and
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the percentage everywhere and then there
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and there's the ward and the bastard and
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you're like who were they and which one
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is he again and so by the time you get
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to the end you like o.o is there another
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one all right I know it's a little boy
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is the only one is he the only one in
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the book that we don't get up POV from I
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think they're out of the kids what do we
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get Rob I can't remember i feel like we
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often brother no I don't think we get
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rather actually but all the rest of them
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you know Sansa area
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John brand we get we get we see through
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their eyes
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well let's talk about Rob Rob in the
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book is younger and HTM up because a lot
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of this stuff sort of you know showing
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14 year olds going off to war isthmus as
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a it i think it's a good decision and I
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thought that Rob actually came across
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being a much more interesting and like s
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character in the in the in the show
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right he's very bland in the books right
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mhm i agree i think I I felt much more
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sympathy for him as portrayed on screen
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than I did when the books where it comes
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across more if they well my dad's not
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here I guess I got to be the man of the
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house you know he didn't he felt very
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bland especially when you put him up
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against John who is considered you know
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who has considerably more depth to him
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or at least more x well when they only
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when they begin chanting the king of the
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north the king of the north right you
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actually can come see how he's won this
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victory and he and he very clearly had
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the good idea and why all these guys who
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are his father's Bannerman would pledge
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they're basically allegiance to
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following the Civil War it it feels that
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much more realistic than I I sort of
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felt in the book where I thought the
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scene Matthew where you and I don't
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remember if this is in the book enough
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of the scene where he deals to with the
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his father's death where Caitlin goes
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out and finds him
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oh yeah you know whacking on the tree
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with that sword I don't know that it
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like I thought that was actually an
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affecting seen I thought catlin didn't
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get as many scenes as I expected her to
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get in the first season of of the TV
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shows that you know III she's such a
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memorable character for me and and yet
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you know she doesn't have a lot she goes
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to the area her sister's crazy you know
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she takes Jamie hostage
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she goes you know she goes back to see
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her son yeah you know I thought the
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actress was good but it was kind of
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disappointing that you just have more to
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she came unanchored once Ned separated
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from her if I like in races the two of
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them together you saw how they worked as
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a unit and then they got separated and
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she did a little bit of crazy initiative
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thing stealing Tyrion on her own but
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then after that she was kind of on more
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than just floating around and then she
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reconnected with her son and that kind
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of they joined back together as a unit
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but on her own
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I cheap as a free agent in this series
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she seemed like she was kinda rattling
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yes she's mostly an observer the only
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time I remember her really being the
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active protagonist of a subplot is with
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Tyrion and that got shortened a lot for
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the series i was thinking about earlier
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we need to be talked a little bit in
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there in our book podcast about this but
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I still speaking as only read the book I
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anytime you knew what was going to
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because anytime somebody was like don't
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worry we'll talk about this next time i
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see you and you're just like oh god no
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you're never gonna see them again so
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there's that painful scene where Ned
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talk to Jon Snow and he says I'll
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explain about your mother when we next
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I laughed out loud at sea not gonna
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happen felt really bad though and they
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help them together with a dozen Benjamin
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say that before rides off beyond the
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yeah yeah we'll talk about this later
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we'll talk about this later
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that's usually a bad sign yeah he's not
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coming back so and so let's talk about
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the wall right so the wall
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first off I thought the way they
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portrayed it was really you know they
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showed the wall right which is this part
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concept in the book its enormous and
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it's kind of an impossible thing and how
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could you ever show it and and you know
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by golly there's a gigantic wall there
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it is a great wall that's a great ice
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it's alright alright I seem better about
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such a such a unique set i like i like
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the elevator
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I like the elevator that they go up in
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the tunnel the way they portray the
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tunnel going through it
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I don't know it's it feels it feels
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realistic although maybe a little bit
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like like he walks built it that
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elevator is operated by one guy pushing
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a stick
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they can't put a donkey on the head or
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something it's called mechanical
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advantage of cold air discovered it in
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this world monkeys it reminded me of the
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the elevator from the wise man's fear
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speaking of the book and they had a big
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walleye get going up and down with the
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universe car and stuff like that
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alright similarly not impractical
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elevator technology that just
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miraculously works
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apparently they have they have steps but
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you know take they don't some people are
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likely i like the I think they did a
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great job with characterizing the other
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inhabitants of the other members of the
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Night Watch especially John's circle of
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friends though they don't get a lot of
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time they get you get an idea of how
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important they are especially in that
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last episode where he wants to write off
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and go join Rob and they're the ones who
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drawn drawn back
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i I really I kind of enjoyed them and I
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enjoyed the old bear who i think it was
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again well cast as the as the Lord
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Commander and you kind of that whole
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relationship there right it's very it's
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a very interesting because he's very you
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he's kind of set apart from the rest of
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them because even though he's a bastard
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he's you know the son of Lord you know
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they've got that all that that that
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tension between him and the guy was like
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the arms training even though like John
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clearly knows what he's doing and I
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don't know I I enjoyed the scenes at the
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wall and a weight given that they're
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disconnected like like that money was
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saying about you know the across the sea
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stuff being like I I guess get through
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that I mean I feel confident you know
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separately even though this is also sort
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of removed from the main intrigue it
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plays in a little more and it still held
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my interest in a way that the narrow
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across the Narrow Sea stuff did not the
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whole concept of the Nights Watch is the
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place where as we said earlier the dregs
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of the of the culture get get dropped i
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think it's interesting to be you have
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these younger characters who gets it
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there for various things that are you
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know they're not hardened criminals they
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they are bastards or unwanted war damn
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yeah and Sam Carly Carly is totally
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different
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Samwell in that Samwise said yeah maybe
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possibly right and so they're the ones
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who they're the ones who we come to like
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because they they're not the the dregs
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of the culture they're just down there
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lock or made a bad choice and and now
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here they are and Sam's a great
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character so great they you know took
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him from Tolkien and ran random
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read/write back in Jon Snow is my
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favorite I think character in the books
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and so I thought I thought he was I
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thought that he was handled pretty well
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and sort of appropriately not getting it
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at several points like when he's made
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named the steward for the Lord Commander
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and is all upset about it before his
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friend says dude you're being groomed
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right you you know that right
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no he's not that smart little people on
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the show can do with some grooming haha
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yeah comb anyone either he's still too
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he still a little bit too too pretty
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his hairs all it's still human Rob both
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a little bit to get too pretty
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it's the windswept North it makes their
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their hair their just naturally curly ok
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also so John did you get that the
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commander of the night's watch at the
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wall is the father of terraces night who
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helps her out and prevents her from
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being poisoned
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I not get that from the show what I was
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going to mention those speaking of the
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the guys in the armor basically the big
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man armor you've got Jamie you've got
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the captain of the Kingsguard who fails
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to protect the king from the boar you've
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got the guy at the the the Nights Watch
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the head of the Nights Watch guy all
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those actors and whoever designed the
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armor did such a good job because those
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guys look like old-timey regimented
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military men who are completely
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comfortable in the armor and look larger
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than life and 32 entirely different sets
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of armor three entirely different
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characters but I thought that the design
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of those people those are possibly the
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best traditional-looking nights I've
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ever seen I didn't look like a bunch of
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people wearing awkward night armor and
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they all look bigger than life maybe
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because they are bigger than I don't
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know how big these guys actually are but
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they look big on the screen you know
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they're like giant some and everyone
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else look like boys especially you know
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the other the stark boys and everything
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will probably are big men in their own
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when next to these other men looks like
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boys you know that was a great bit of
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casting great but have set design and
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those characters like they've never had
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probably need to say anything that is
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needed to just walk onto into the room
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and have a graph expression sir
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peristeri like saturday i love i love
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his last scene when they when they make
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him retire
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it's just like yeah you know what screw
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you yeah
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oh you're gonna get a castle no I was
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hoping he would kill all those guys in
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the room haha instead of just say it you
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know that but I was like sure he's going
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to go out swinging out I kill all these
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guys he lives to fight another day
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instead mr. baston understand the bolt
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okay well so we would take our little
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virtual tour of north of the wall there
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like nothing i'm sure there's nothing
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interesting north of the wall probably
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not notice the wildlings or whatever
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they call them you get that one who
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becomes a character you have a couple of
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wildlings yeah the chick from harry
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potter with the same haircut
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yeah they make a real effort to have her
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look at scraggly as possible to cheek
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and she came around a little bit fast
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for me in terms of they like your you
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made me a prisoner whatever and then
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like I don't know I felt like there was
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a little more time in the books
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developing the relationship between her
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and brand before we go
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like your body tried to kill me too i'm
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gonna carry you around my shoulders like
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they're gonna trust this written this
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girl just survivor though that's what I
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got from our character and the thing was
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that that that red fine to me because
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her whole like the whole existence is a
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struggle for survival and she finds
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herself a new situation she's not gonna
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stubbornly cling to the way she used to
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live just like well my buddies are dead
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his where i am now going to make the
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best of it she's a survivor social
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immediately she has no particular
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allegiance to anything except for the
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ability to keep herself alive otherwise
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she wouldn't have been a lot of the
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other side of the wall you know
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well however was in the book I had no
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problem following yeah we get that
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impression from her to from and we get a
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couple mentions although very little
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about Mance Rayder who become you know
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was another character who comes in later
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but like he meant he mentioned a couple
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times as a throwaway one of the things
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that i noticed beyond who is the ward /
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hostage of dead but he's sort of like
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been raised as one of the brothers he
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goes to the village outside Winterfell
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at two to do some explanatory dialogue
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with a whore because that's what you
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doing with zeros
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yes as you do and and then there's
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dialogue about the horror and he talked
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to Jon Snow about her because she's a
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redhead right and then and then she
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declares that still see on she's bailing
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out and she's going south and then like
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she keeps she keeps showing up
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it's like a running gag it's like there
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are really only eight whores in Westeros
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they have to move around
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yeah you never you never seeing the a
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towards West it's an old drinking some I
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felt bad for her cause she was
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apparently the very best horror in
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Winterfell but as soon as she got down
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to King's Landing she has to get fake
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orgasm training
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yeah she's yeah i'm going to university
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though she's going to choose its
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advanced techniques
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she's she's coming called up from the
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minors it shows how backward those North
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men are they really just clueless about
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did dad people feel about I mean it's an
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HBO show right now I mean how people
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feel about the let the the sex position
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or the sex in general don't watch this
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show on a plane
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you and I had that one I want that one
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episode where we're little fingers is
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teaching and coaching them in and
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expounding on his old history and why
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he's so great in everything sitting on a
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planet like I like putting that window
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behind a bunch of other windows so i can
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still listen to the dialogue me like
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right isn't over yet but i really want
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to watch the show
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yeah this is not that kind of show
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whatever it was it's it's strange as
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somebody trained with you know current
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standard commercial TV you get to those
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scenes and you're like all right okay
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but i mean it's it's it's it's you know
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the book is not does not shy away from
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the dome doesn't obviously United the
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books are pretty graphic but they did
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use those scenes for other things right
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that the scenes generally will inform us
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about character or explain something
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about the world
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yeah i was gonna have the scenes were
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not very erotic they were all because
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they were talking or doing some sort of
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plot point or it was like a rape scene
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or something like that they weren't love
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scenes you know so even though there was
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lots of nudity was mostly it was about
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is off-putting as the violence you know
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and matched up with that more or less
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people being X people having their
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bodies exploited people being attacked
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with swords all kind of a piece
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alright it was likely the only love
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seeing that is like maybe Ned and his
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wife in bed before he was going off to
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King's Landing and all the only actual
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relationship where there was any
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affection mutual affection you know I
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know they did it just lay there drug
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engineers had a really emotional sex
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scene at one point I guess so but it's
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kind of like their relationship is
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founded on i'm not i'm not a solid
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foundation lets her on her being sold
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yeah you can see it and I assume that
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you know she figures out how to be a
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wife to this strange mostly evil guy and
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I'm assuming she's flour into a strange
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somewhat Evil Queen dragon woman things
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so she's not what I wasn't really yeah
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that's the name of the second book to
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the acclaimed director moment thing
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yeah the best one really you don't want
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to read the one after that because like
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Marty said halfway through really how
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long is this book I think that'll be two
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seasons if they get to that I think
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they've already confirmed that there
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will be two seasons me and will be two
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seasons but then i'm a little worried
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about her
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all these kids are gonna be once they
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get to where the books are now like are
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you can't keep passing as a boy i'm a
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little worried that george RR martin if
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you take six years to write every book
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this material may just stop reading the
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books and just write the last season
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himself and that adapt it
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there we go what about the Dragons at
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the and John talked about it a little
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bit how did that conform that's the big
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moment at the end of the book and it's
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the big moment at the end of the season
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so how did that how did that work for
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you guys there were some CGI dragons you
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know when it wasn't as weird as it was
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in the book but they're not nursing on
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her right
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yes that was the one that was the weird
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but I was surprised you wanted it to be
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as weird as it wasn't above this way
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they got to cover up certain parts of
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her body barely know the strategically
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placed dragon I would just hold this
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dragon in front of my crotch no reason
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you have you have the scene in the book
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were basically she supposed to be
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stepping out of the flames with the
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flames still going high with the Dragons
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nursing at her breasts and I'm like well
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you could have flames cover things are
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fully and I mean it just the scene in
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the movie in the in a television show
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just wasn't as powerful to me where it
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was just kind of like a walk up and no
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she's alive day after and its light out
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maybe it and we have yeah that was that
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was a weird choice they really SAT and
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waited for her to burn all evening like
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they didn't question when she didn't
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walk out so someone should go and get
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her not me that I'm not touching that
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you you know i think they went like some
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saw a movie or something had some drinks
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came back after yeah exactly
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we went to Westeros to watch beheading
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and then we came back after a few hours
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you got to figure those people got tired
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of just watching the flames and took a
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well i think that's that's what happened
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there's something moving over there come
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know why they chose to do it that way i
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don't know it didn't really add well
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anything you gotta have dragged there
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are no no real depth dragons are
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available right so no i mean like you
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know that know that the fire at the fire
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that's changing it from the book was a
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higher well the cgi dragons are very
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expensive so you do have fire or CGI
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dragons and they pick the Dragons you
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should hear the Dragons demands in their
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trailers when I picture the scene in the
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books in my head it felt a lot like a
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the flames and then she walked for sleep
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brand ready-to-wear destroy another one
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it's up now is like a look we forgot you
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were here hey you're naked you have
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dragon in some ways it makes her more
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powerful system or something but make
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sure it it makes me feel like she's
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softer in some way like it she's because
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she you know rather than walking out of
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the fires they kind of pull a schizo so
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this is how all the Turk Arians make
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have the have that beautiful healthy
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skin is they just fire
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it's a great day that makes you a tan it
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gives you let me tell you and then you
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rub a dragon on you and your friend and
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she looked more vulnerable when they
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found it was kind of like she was in the
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speaking of Terminator like a terminator
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one with the naked dude in the Crouch
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after the lightning you know kind of
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your vulnerable when you come through is
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a even the Terminator machine looks
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vulnerable they just crunched up in a
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little ball no clothes or anything and
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not knowing what the book scene was I
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thought doing it in the early morning
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light was just kind of dirty and and
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comes up from the dirt with with no
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clothes on looking kind of vulnerable
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even though she's got these little sea
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dragons flitting around her
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I thought it worked fine mean it the
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main message you're trying to get across
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was that you had to what you had to do
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in terms of the TV show was a show that
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she had been transformed and more
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importantly show why should anyone ever
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follower because up until then they were
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just following her because she was
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Drogo's life and after that she really
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had nothing and everyone just left and
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the only way you're thinking like well
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this character is going to be out of the
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series because her big strong guys left
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impressive enough to make anyone ever
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follower but going into a giant fire and
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then coming out alive a dragon your
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shoulder gonna get up doing grace
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yeah I will sign up for that whatever
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you do in right you're up and doesn't
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have to be out of the actual flames to
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say we saw her burn and then she came
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out with dragon so we're working
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all this lady a good idea everytime
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everytime she starts cooking things
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people are like dragons
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yeah there could be more direct way off
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now and extra dragons on that place
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now and extra dragons on that place
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right i'd like two eggs sunny-side up
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and a drag to go side so I'm let's in
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wrapping up with just look back at the
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at this first season as a whole and well
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I just want to ask how you feel
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we will be satisfied we are happy was it
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a was a good experience you get the big
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old thumbs up
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let's start with Monty who had to
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laborious Lee recap every episode of
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Game of Thrones I liked it a lot
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turns out it's a hard shoulder recap
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because it's harder to make fun of good
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shows no true blood will tell you that
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uh-huh enough John what about you
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I give it a big thumbs up i think is
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probably my favorite new series of of
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this season and and actually my favorite
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HBO series than watching a few other HBO
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I it met my expectations when they
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exceeded my expectations are exceeded
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them in some ways but I had high
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expectations for the show at but the
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other thing as I knew the the books I
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knew I probably would never read them
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because i have kind of a middling
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tolerance for big honking fantasy novels
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at this point in my life and I probably
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never read that but I said they're gonna
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make an HBO series i trust these guys
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and the actors look great and actually
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like don't make it into something
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compelling and they did you know some
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things are better than I thought there
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would be other things we were you know a
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little bit below the level of excitement
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I I thought they would be
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I don't know why I thought that's what i
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thought they would be slightly less
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political intrigue and slightly more
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battling with swords but overall very
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happy big thumbs-up can wait as a lot of
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sort battling especially big battle
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scenes they have some opportunities and
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made it instead they hit Tyrion in the
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head with a hammer saves money
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this is true what they had to CGI dragon
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to pay for read what about you i loved
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it i was very satisfied of the i think i
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was hooked pretty much by the second
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episode and I'm very curious to see
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where they go with the second book and
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see if they can kind of keep this
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ramping because I definitely like in
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terms of books i think i started liking
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the series a lot more after I got
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through the first book so I wonder if
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this trend will continue on television
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and if they will be able to keep up the
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budget and keep up the quality
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especially if things get crazy that some
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encouraging signs for those who haven't
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read the books that you actually think
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it gets better as it goes so well I've
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set the second book gets better
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yeah i'm not talking about the third and
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fourth I like I I actually like the
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third book but I didn't realize at some
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point that it was a billion pages long
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and care about you what's your verdict
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and I feel maybe a little hungry smack
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no I I you know I I've been waiting for
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the show to come out for a really long
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time a good friend of mine from college
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is not unit doesn't keep as much tabs on
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the television seen as say i do but he
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loves these books and so when I told
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them that they were making the short of
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it he would like bug me like every six
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months the house game of thrones going
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in like literally it's been like four
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years in the making or something so I
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remember you know really every time I
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see a news thing across my desk at like
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send it to a book they're getting closer
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and so to actually get here it feels
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like you know you're worried that it's
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got hyped up too much and so I think I
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went into the first episode feeling a
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little bit like man maybe my
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expectations are too high and and you
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know I i don't think i was necessarily
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hooked from the get-go but yet
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definitely by the by a couple episodes
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in I was fully caught up in the store
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again even knowing you know what's going
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to happen you know it's been awhile
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since i've read the books and so it took
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some time for me to remember certain
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scenes but like when you would get that
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I flash about man i know it's coming but
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still to see it played out in front of
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you and brought to life and such a great
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fashion with such high production values
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great cast all that really you know it
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i'd give it a thumbs up i think it was
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it was well done and I agree with John
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one of my favorite series of all right
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and Scott what do you think
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but i have mentioned before on this
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podcast that I when I read books I
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almost immediately completely forget
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everything about them so i read the game
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of thrones a long time ago and watching
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this show i really had very little idea
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what was going on because i'm a moron
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apparently I XO it was I enjoyed getting
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reintroduced to the characters which is
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useful because the new book is coming
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out and I had no idea that the show was
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coming out at all until so I think
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someone email that about our
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the the podcast mailing list so i had no
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expectations
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given that i had no expectations that I
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didn't remember anything about the book
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i thought the show was very good
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you sound surprised almost well you
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never know AJ fantasy shows generally
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are not very good i think I'm safe in
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saying yes so I was I was prepared for
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it to suck and it was actually very good
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so i was i was surprised anyone was
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going to do it justice
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it was HBO right that like you know you
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could not do this on network television
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but this community was it would be more
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11 figures actually I kind of said we
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didn't get to see a low-budget sci-fi
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channel original movie out of it though
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first game of thrones me Ned Stark story
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they'll do the the knockoffs have you
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seen the knockoffs they have on like
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Netflix whenever there's a popular movie
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coming out they do like the low budget
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for it like like trans trans morphers
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like it's really it's like s it's like
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SEO for movies this there's a great
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industry built up on that so you like
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the game a charity from chairs you know
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Scott mentioned up not knowing what's
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going to happen because if you got the
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hook-up one thing and one thing I want
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everyone to want to bring up before we
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move on as the the net dying so much for
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someone who didn't read the book and I
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was watching it along with other people
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who haven't read the book and when he
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got killed in that episode III add on
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tivo and they had watched it before me
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and iris a lot of people saying oh
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you're not going to believe what happens
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next episode is unbelievable this
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episode was blown is a real-time and
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who like it's just unbelievable this is
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the greatest show ever
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not I not that I'm against that move but
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i would have been disappointed if that
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wasn't his character arc because then it
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would be like oh this is like every
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other show where that is the hero and
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despite whatever you know despite the
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reality he's going to get out of this
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through some stupid thing that would
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never actually happened because he's the
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main character must be protected at all
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costs that would have been upsetting to
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me and surprising when he got his head
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chopped off
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I wasn't shocked because that was the
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natural evolution of his story and
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anything different would have required
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some sort of significant could you could
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have gotten out of it like saying he had
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to die but would have required a
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significant plot event to save him from
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versus just someone leaves up from the
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stage and grabs them and they run off
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any safe that's the clever the
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cleverness of having this other option
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right which is that they're going to
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send into the wall and that's all series
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plot in the yeah I know but once he was
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up on that stage and he's giving that
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speech I know this is dead
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you didn't think he was gonna come to
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recover way through the crowd and no I
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mean I thought she was I thought she was
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likely to die too because i have had
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personal he's dead because Joffrey's not
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gonna buy this like you could see it I
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just that was that ominous thing was in
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there I was kind of you know you're
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hoping like I'm rooting for negatory
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like somebody did like his character but
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you're like now because that if they did
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that that would be a cheat and in
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reality drop is going to the second
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she's running the stage and like all
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they're gonna kill her too because she
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is no way in heck she's going to say
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because i had enough faith in the show
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do not say they are he's gonna go save
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him but imagine if she had saved unload
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this would have been a horrible show you
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know she gets into energy pokes people
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it'll stick and runs off and they're
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saved know that then ever i would've
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been screaming but i don't know what all
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the people who were shocked that he died
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were expecting what do you want to have
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the book goes so that's purpose of the
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book you need to ensure ya get my
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aforementioned friend from college who
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is the one who introduced me to these
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books like that's how he sold it to me
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the first time like you described is
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like so be you know this is one of these
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books but it's not like fantasy books
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where people get into these impossible
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situations and then that you know they
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they get out of it death-defying ways
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now in this one they actually died and i
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was like huh that's interesting
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yeah yeah you haven't seen you haven't
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seen the end of that yeah people
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continue to die
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it's good just like real ones good
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alright so that wraps up our
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conversation about a game of thrones
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comes back next year looking forward to
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in the meantime mirror tens of thousands
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of pages of books if you want to read
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ahead so you might be able to be
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finished by the time the second season
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premieres but only if you're a fast
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reader anyway until then I want to thank
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my guests for joining me to talk about
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it on on the incomparable I enjoyed the
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season 2 by the way I thought it was I
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thought it was great so I'm glad that
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you guys thought so too
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who asked you Scott McNulty thank you
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again for sharing your your strange
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power of reader amnesia with us we I do
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what I can
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who are you
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no one of consequence the morin thank
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you for being here
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pleasure rent thank you for for being
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here and and discussing these books
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which you've read multiple times right
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yes well the first two and then i just
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finished rereading the purse too and
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finishing the ladder to the first time
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right before the show started
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so all right so you could remember it
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unlike Scott who's a babe in the woods
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is a little worried John siracusa thank
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you for for providing our control group
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is the person who hadn't read these
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crazy books before seeing the show thank
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not spoiling it too badly that's we try
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not that's what the horn is for that's
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what the Hornets foolish if I remember
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to tell them to round out the spoiler i
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know that you would yeah he would
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that was a jury I was a goddess Scott is
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evil and a special thanks to our special
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gas money Ashley I'm so glad that you
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could be on the podcast with us
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thanks it was fun are you going to recap
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this series again next time I hope to
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all right well look for that at
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television without pity calm right
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yes indeed we're going to recap this
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podcast jason said some stuff and then I
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tuned out and I might have said some
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stuff and there were some other people
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that's like that uh that's like there
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are one-star review haha I to some
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people of a certain age that some stuff
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for those for those of a certain age
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well who forget books for example right
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Scott result is 90 years old that's why
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he forgets everything he reads you look
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great on paper snappers it's true
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teenagers are alright until next time
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thanks to everybody for listening thanks
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to my panelists I'm Jason's don't be
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uncomfortable podcast see you later
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[Music]
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what's the deal with the throne
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that's right who were the ad Wizards who
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came up with this throne
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y-you know I want to I want a little
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padding back there you know Robert I
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guess he's got enough padding that he
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wouldn't even feel it
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what kind of a stupid throne is that out
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I know it's been a horrible at all but i
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gotta sit on this thing
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at what point did they decided they
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wanted to make that throw
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did they have a whole bunch of swords in
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a back room extra sword they
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accidentally got like a dragon you know
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the armory know like crap what are we
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gonna do the latter sword too close to
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the directive I know chair
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my theory is that there was a blacksmith
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who had a public a application for a
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public arts grant and the king said you
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know I got these swords that I took away
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from my enemies they're not doing any
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good sure I mean so they think it was
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before they realize the Mad King was mad
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be just like throughout sup like I want
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to throw up sold her to me like I guess
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we better make one you need to be king
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and all it has a drag race
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yeah when he asked for a throne of cats
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they're like that's not actually would
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be a great seat without throwing cats
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