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    This post contains spoilers for A Storm of Swords. EDIT by Shlup: In regards to a moderately important difference between the Red Wedding in the book and in the show; there are no future spoilers.

    Quote Originally Posted by Cuchulainn View Post
    (SPOILER)As far as I remeber in the books it says Catelyn was not supposed to be killed but ended up dead as she killed a Frey (someone can correct me if I'm wrong). So right until her dying breath she smurfed up.
    (SPOILER)Yes, I believe they intended to keep her as a hostage as they did with Edmure, but Catelyn executed Jinglebell and then began clawing at her face, laughing hysterically, until someone in the room says, "She's lost her wits," and another, "Make an end," and then she is killed.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Adequate View Post
    I'm really not sure attempting to save your remaining son's life after you've also had a crossbow quarrel through the shoulder as well is smurfing up.
    (SPOILER)Yes, the television show handled this better as she was able to take Lady Frey hostage. That makes much more sense to stay a massacre if a lord's wife is taken hostage rather than a lackwit grandson. In A Storm of Swords, Jinglebell was the only one that Catelyn was able to access that was helpless. It really made the situation seem that much more desperate, that she would execute such a helpless individual. The hostage in the TV show makes it seem more calculated and intelligent to me.
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    I'm interested to see if the guy who got up to go piss on a tree is still alive as I imagine he'll be the new leader, and also interested to see how the Stark army respond. I can see it being rather obvious how Arya responds, at the very least.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
    Horror, the literary genre of storytelling, which GRRM is a grandmaster of, is all about the suspense and build-up, and the eery paranoia, the sense that something is off, was completely missed by the showrunners with this scene. Of course they can't have the subtlety of a book, but to use that as an excuse to justify the complete lack of subtlety is insane (not talking about anyone in particular here).
    I guess as someone who read the books you are at a disadvantage here. As someone who hadn't read the books the build up was perfect and exactly as you described it wasn't. From Catelyn telling Robb earlier on to show them how it feels, to the moment she realises something is amiss when the bedding ceremony begins. Her general unease throughout all of it coupled with Walder's shiftyness perfectly set the stage and built the tension and that something was off. Catelyn pretty much carried that entire scene.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
    Well, it's pretty obvious why book readers hated Talisa (no, Sam's not the only one), she added nothing to the plot and it says something about your show's productions when some foreign characters don't have foreign accents while others do. I'm also still a little disturbed at why the show runners want to use the material to tell their own stories. If they were great storytellers, they'd be producing their own show, not adapting George RR Martin's books. But like Ros, I came to deal with her and liked her for what she was, intrigued at how they were going to use her.
    I think it's funny that the primary impact of the two characters created for the show was their deaths.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tifa's Boobs View Post
    I didn't say anything about that. I just said that it's messed up stabbing a pregnant woman in her uterus.
    As a pregnant woman, I appreciated that they wanted to throw in something new to really shock the book readers. We thought we were prepared... we were not.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tifa's Boobs View Post
    If they Book 3 make the season end with the revelation of UnCat, which would be smurfing awesome it would end the show at the exact place of the book ending.
    I don't know at what point they'll do that, but I would be really surprised if they did that in the next episode.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shlup View Post

    Quote Originally Posted by Tifa's Boobs View Post
    I didn't say anything about that. I just said that it's messed up stabbing a pregnant woman in her uterus.
    As a pregnant woman, I appreciated that they wanted to throw in something new to really shock the book readers. We thought we were prepared... we were not.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tifa's Boobs View Post
    If they Book 3 make the season end with the revelation of UnCat, which would be smurfing awesome it would end the show at the exact place of the book ending.
    I don't know at what point they'll do that, but I would be really surprised if they did that in the next episode.
    I was actually very curious how you felt about Talisa being stabbed in the uterus, but I know some pregnant women get really sensitive and stuff, so I didn't want to ask you and potentially upset you.

    Also, future/book spoiler As much as I want UnCat next episode, it'd be an amazing surprised halfway through next season, or something.
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    Jinx you are absolutely smurfing insane. Never change.

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    By the way, all you non-book readers better be voting for Shlup as Best Admin in the Ciddies. She's the one who cleans up this thread for you.
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    Jinx you are absolutely smurfing insane. Never change.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tifa's Boobs View Post
    By the way, all you non-book readers better be voting for Shlup as Best Admin in the Ciddies. She's the one who cleans up this thread for you.
    Yes but BoB is the one who griped about it enough in the staff forum that one of us finally had to go do it

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