coogar:

jupiter's cöck!

SIR cum a lot:
Thought the kingslayer was supposed to be one of the best swordsman around brienne just owned him on the bridge.I do hope jofferey get some soon this his cruelty may be a fall out from his obvious case of blueballs.it is hard to discuss GOT without revealing spoilers.

stillwater: O..K I finally started watching Season 3, I couldn't resist. Can't wait to watch it tomorrow.

Darthmaul: Dem don mess Kingslayer up oooo.
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Darthmaul: Opening scene, quite funny. See as the guy enter with confidence like say him na d best archer in d land.

Seun: In the books, Jaime was incredibly ferocious during the fight. He tried to overwhelm Brienne with a rain of furious sword blows in every direction, and she spent most of the fight blocking and dodging his intense attacks and backing away. After a very long time - Jaime lost his sense of time during the attack - he finally got tired and she gained the upper hand. He was shocked and attributed his loss to his weakness as a result of his long imprisonment.

Compared to that, the TV fight was boring. It was choreographed as just another Hollywood sword-fight, which suggests that the choreographers didn't read the books. TV Jaime is as funny - or even funnier than book Jaime. But he needs more fighting lessons. He is not terrifying with the sword; just cocky. He stood no chance against TV Brienne since they were equally matched in the fight but she was in armour. The details they got wrong completely ruined the fight for me.

4llerbuntu: having read the book. i cannot bring myself to watch the tv series. i saw some episodes of season 1 and i couldnt stand the let down....

Samunosuke:

My GoT interaction goes like this:
Watched season 1------Read all available books(1-5)----------Watched season 1 again--------Watched episodes 1 & 2 of Season 2-------Gave up watching and I'm patiently waiting for d next book.

I'm my opinion, season 1 really follows the book almost word for word but from season 2, I started seeing deviations which turned me off. But you should be able to comfortably watch season 1. Might force myself to watch season 2 due to extreme boredom.

Darthmaul: Dem don mess Kingslayer up oooo.
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django1: Damn!!! Someone just lost a hand!
Sorry folks, am just watching the episode 3 of season 3

PhysicsQED: After reading Seun's advice to another poster on this thread, I decided to watch the show rather than read the rest of the books in the series before watching the show. I'm almost done with season 1 and I have to say that so far it's a very good show.

But one thing that I can't help wondering is whether or not Africans will someday be able to make an African equivalent of GOT or a product which surpasses GOT. The backdrop for a Game of Thrones type of story with an African basis would basically be a semi-historical fantasy world based on African feudal and non-feudal history and on the mythologies and cultures of various African groups. The actual historical, cultural and mythological basis for such a story is definitely there, but the fictional work based on such material and information seems to be lacking or completely absent.

I don't think that anyone with a decent/good/great artistic talent or literary ability and a good knowledge of precolonial African history has attempted anything like what I'm talking about. All of the "high level" (i.e., not amateurish) historical fiction I've come across from African writers has been only "culture clash" (clashes between Western/white culture and African/black culture, following colonization) art or post-colonial historical fiction, which are both necessarily limited in scope and overall effect and can't really evoke the adventurous, politically complex, heroic, mystical, or magical world of the kings, queens, warriors, etc. of Africa's past.

And not only is the source material (the written fictional work) for such a show or movie lacking or absent in African fictional writing, I don't think there's currently an African television or movie production company that could bring any written fictional work to television or the big screen and do it justice in terms of quality (acting, directing, costumes, set design, etc.). Maybe someday when the continent is more developed, an African media/entertainment company with a lot of money will arise and Africans will be able to create a movie or television show that is based on or influenced by precolonial African history and which has high production values, skilled directors, and very talented actors, actresses and writers. But for now I think the money isn't there.

The Chinese have already had Romance of the Three Kingdoms for hundreds of years, and Europeans have had J.R.R. Tolkien (and now George R.R. Martin) and numerous other writers in the 20th century, but I don't think Africans have even one fictional or semi-fictional epic saga (not to talk of a TV or movie adaption of that saga) based purely on the precolonial states of Africa that is really a high level work (not amateurish) and is creative, thoughtful and entertaining.

kingsilly: watching episode 3

ekt_bear: kat.ph is where I download stuff from.