In the books Tyrion is very physically unappealing/ugly. In fact in the battle he had his nose chopped off, rather than an action man scar down his face.
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We already know that though, every time the Mountain is mentioned it's because he's raped/pillaged/killed a village. I think the most likely explanation for the story was to enforce the bond between Jamie and Tyrion - if that was the intention it was a very poor piece of script writing/direction.
Oberyn's dialogue was in the previous episode. Tyrion assumed Bronn would fight for him again, he didn't know he had gotten fixed up with some rich wench.
Surely not, e.g. if two fighters go down in a double K.O. is it a draw rather than a "who hit the canvas last loses". Now if one of them gets up again before the 10 count then he's the winner, but let's see what happens to The Mountain in the next episode. Either way Tywin was way too fast to call it.
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My interpretation of said bug splatting speech:
It is human nature to seek to exert power over those weaker than ourselves. Just as the powerful (Cersei) take pleasure in trying to crush the weak (Tyrion).
In this example Tyrion recalls the obsessive behavior of his retarded cousin, compelled to crush bugs. Because even the most low and broken retard still found he could exert power over something.
Game of Thrones is annoying me now. Just small clips of each of the 2349234 story lines of which you get little to nothing until BAM, it does a "HBO" and someone dies or something. GoT deserved to be 15-20 episode a series to string it out a bit.
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Anybody up for celebratory Watermelon?
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What is all this talk about a draw? One guy crushed the other's head and then collapsed.
That's a pretty clear win even if he died from his wounds 2 seconds later (which he didn't).
That's a pretty clear win even if he died from his wounds 2 seconds later (which he didn't).
If it's a fight to the death and both people died, how is it anything other than a draw?
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Because both of them didn't die and even if The Mountain did die there, he ended the other guy first...
I'd say more, but it involves book spoilers and I wouldn't want any panties getting all twisted.
I'd say more, but it involves book spoilers and I wouldn't want any panties getting all twisted.
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As I noted, I've been really bored with Season 4 but I've just thought of a possible reason.
I found out, mid way through Season 3, an important moment that Tyrion has, with another important character in the future. So, I guess a lot of the suspense about what will happen has been thrown out the window for me.
Or...maybe it's just been a poor season regardless. But that's certainly a possible reason why I haven't been able to get into it as much.
Then again - what happened in the books may not happen in the series as they could change it up. But with what I know, it made a lot of scenes between various characters a lot less interesting.
I found out, mid way through Season 3, an important moment that Tyrion has, with another important character in the future. So, I guess a lot of the suspense about what will happen has been thrown out the window for me.
Or...maybe it's just been a poor season regardless. But that's certainly a possible reason why I haven't been able to get into it as much.
Then again - what happened in the books may not happen in the series as they could change it up. But with what I know, it made a lot of scenes between various characters a lot less interesting.
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Have just wanted the episode.
Just a decent episode up until the final scene. Wow, just wow - really took my breath away. Best scene from pretty much anything I have ever seen - loved how the credits were silent for ages too
Just a decent episode up until the final scene. Wow, just wow - really took my breath away. Best scene from pretty much anything I have ever seen - loved how the credits were silent for ages too
Yea, blitzwing I'd remove that if I were you.
not blitzwing but the post above.
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Really? People make assumptions about The Mountain being dead and I'm spoiling it by saying that he isn't?
Did you see him die or did you see him collapse?
Then again, we're dealing with people that think it was a draw...
Christ, we've even got one guy who thinks people talking about episodes that have aired is a spoiler.
Did you see him die or did you see him collapse?
Then again, we're dealing with people that think it was a draw...
Christ, we've even got one guy who thinks people talking about episodes that have aired is a spoiler.
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i found the speach very bizarre but concluded something along those lines too bet swaying more towards his recognition of the pure madness of a trial by combat thus not making his (simple pleasures) cousin so mad at all in comparison and reminded me of a quote from alien 3 ''in an insane world, a sane man must appear insane'
anyway
He's an impressive bloke. It's just a shame they didn't hire him sooner - that fight would've looked really impressive if they had more time to train Hafthor in fighting with a sword. Instead it was like Evil Hodor fights The Viper; it was a massive bloke swinging a massive sword with no real thought or skill. If The Mountain lives, I'd love to see him fight again in a year or two after Hafthor has had some more training. It could be epic, and would show why he is feared - we've seen many characters who could have beaten Monday night's Mountain.
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Well you have now....