game of thrones 3x03 - the walk of punishment

[janie_tangerine]

(yay I'm doing good at this yes)

Under the cut: book spoilers (also for ADWD) and endless Tully fangirling. Also: if you like Talisa, don't like Jaime and don't like Theon don't bother, thanks so very much. Also: I'm discussing non consensual sexual situations related matters so thread carefully.

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[goldenusagi]

I so want to read your review, but, book spoilers, so I won't. lol

[janie_tangerine]

lol last year I tried to spoiler-cut the spoilers but this year I realized I can't keep the book spoilers away so I didn't even try /o\ that said the only spoiler-heavy point is 12, but half of the stuff I'm talking about in the others is still book-comparison I think ):

[falafel_musings]

Theon's endless torment is starting to remind me of the girl in the 'White Bear' episode of 'Black Mirror'. Whatever crimes Theon has committed the senseless inhuman cruelty is so horrible and unjustifiable. The psychological torture is maybe even worse than the physical torture. I kinda wish Robb would just arrive and cut off Theon's head because it would seem more merciful. :(

Also, nooo! I didn't want to say goodbye to Hotpie!

[janie_tangerine]

DDDDD: the thing is... be braced. From now on it's going to get worse. In the sense that what we've seen until now will be like tap water in comparison to the rest. D: I thought I was ready for it since I've had two years to wrap my head around it, but.. I think I'm nowhere near ready, oops. And yeah, the psychological is so much worse DDDDDD: and yeah, word. At that point Robb doing that would have been a lot more merciful, but we aren't going to be that lucky. (And Theon won't either. D:)

ME NEITHER. HOT PIE IS AWESOME. D:

[janie_tangerine]

♥ ikrrr let's not forget that he wanted to *** with YOU KNOW WHO sorry don't mind me

[janie_tangerine]

Actually Arya/Hot Pie was an excellent ship. I could totally get behind it too if it ever was a thing. ;) (right now I'm also on the 'let's just put Hot Pie and Sam in charge' ship too, but that's another thing entirely) ... THEY MEET AGAIN AND HOT PIE GOES TO WORK IN THE KITCHENS AT A REBUILT WINTERFELL IT IS KNOWN. I don't accept anything else.

Look them up on youtube, I'm pretty sure someone will put the scenes there soon. They *were* perfect! Or well, as close to perfect as they could be with the previous changes, but they're pretty much the one thing other than the Blackfish that I'm 100% down with watching forever right now.

[kel_reiley]

2. OMG YES.

3. OMG YES. Like, I'm not a Stannis fan, but they are ruining him.
'he does it because it's the only way he has of gaining power/whatever it is that sleeping with Mel makes him gain' - it's not just you, that is totally how I read it as well. I'm really disappointed that they completely wrote out his daughter with the grey... disease (can't remember what they called it) and her fool, too.

4. No one in ASOIAF is that perfect ffs. Right? That was why I loved it so much - all of the characters had shades of gray, nothing was black and white, and the ones who saw it in black and white (Ned! biggest of all) didn't last long

[janie_tangerine]

2. IKR? I mean okay naked people, I get it, BUT CAN SOME MAN OTHER THAN ALFIE GET NAKED POOR BABY KEEPS ON TAKING ONE FOR THE TEAM! Right, probably NCW will have to get naked shortly for the bath scene, but that won't be gratuitous naked man bits so it doesn't count.

3. I *like* Stannis in the sense that while he's not my favorite I do appreciate the character and tbh he's the only one of the people in the run right now that I'd like to see winning, but I'm nowhere near a patented PR - but seriously WHAT THE FUCK. Also I've seen some picture of his daughter so she's apparently showing up at some point but like MENTIONING HER BEFORE - idek, I need to find some Stannis fan to ask them to put it in more sensed terms, but I really don't feel the changes.

4. Me too tbh :/ what the fuck is with that Mary Sue, please give me back Jeyne Westerliiinggg ;____;

6. IKR BLACKFISH LOVE OF MY LIFE LIGHT OF THIS WORLD THAT IS DARK AND FULL OF TERRORS ♥

8. I KNOWWW <333 *DRAWS HEARTS FOREVER

[kel_reiley]

3. Huh. I had thought at one point in the show they said Stannis had no children, but maybe they just meant no sons.

12. Theon/Ramsay? EW EW EW NO. And there's no Jeyne Poole either, so WTF? They cannot possibly think people are going to mistake Ros for Arya. That's stupid.

[janie_tangerine]

3. They said no sons. But there's definitely a still floating around so Shireen is showing up at some point..

12. Yep. It's a thing. Well, it was a thing also after ADWD but it was people shipping it for the dirtybadwrong, now it's crawling with people who didn't read the book and don't know that Ramsay is *Ramsay*, so... haha. I can't. I couldn't even when it was just people shipping it for the dirtybadwrong, so.... aaand no idea. I mean, I thought that they might have Ros there as some gift LF sends Ramsay because YAY ALLIANCES so they'd scrap the part where she's supposed to marry him, but they still need Ramsay to marry SOMEONE WHO PASSES FOR ARYA otherwise Jon doesn't make the NW revolt and that has to happen, not to mention that if there's not the Arya-who-isn't-Arya thing you lose all the identity business going on with her and Theon, so.. no clue. I still hope they manage to make Jeyne or SOMEONE ELSE AT RANDOM show out of the blue. Possibly not being Ros, since she makes no sense. :/

[the_crazy_freak]

Yay, I finally found time to read your review! :) And I have a few things to say again (mostly to agree with you

[the_crazy_freak]

6) Remember how I said that I didn't care about the Tyrells in the books, but the show made me love them and how I feel the same may happen with the Tullys? Well, IT'S ALREADY FREAKING HAPPENED. Omg, they're awesome! :DDD I think I need to go reread the chapters they're in. I think I'm in love with Edmure and the Blackfish is freaking amazing! :D x3

[the_crazy_freak]

12) I pretty much agree with everything you said here. =/ I don't think I've ever been so conflicted about any character/storyline ever. Like, I don't think I'd able to survive if Theon was just missing from the show for two seasons (I want to see him on my screen), but this is actually even worse because seeing him suffer like this and knowing much worse things are on the way is making me sick. As in, I do want to see it, but I don't. DDD: Like you said, though, everything that's happening to him is totally plausible (because in the books we don't know everything in detail). And yes, Ramsay pulling something like this is totally in character for him. I wonder what next episode's conversation between them will be like. =/ I mean, from the spoilers we read, we know that Theon will tell him everything that's happened in Winterfell and stuff, but we don't know in what way he's going to do that. Like, I'm afraid it's going to be emotional. As in, Theon kind of pouring his heart out (possibly along with voicing his doubts and regrets about

[janie_tangerine]

Me too :/ I think that having him disappear would have been a stupid move because that stuff doesn't work on TV and especially for a character that 80% of the audience doesn't like, so they had to keep him in, but ffjkhgkdj I don't want to see him suffer, also because I suspect that what we've seen until now was nothing in comparison to what's in store DDDD: and from what we know it doesn't seem to me that they're going overboard - shit I doubt they *could* go overboard since just seeing the result of the torturing in the book was beyond gross, anything goes by this point. Ew. And yeah I totally share the same worries about that conversation - like, obviously Theon trusts him by now and he's like the *only* supposed friend he has at the moment not to mention that he's in some seriously bad emotional state. So he'll probably go spill everything very emotionally and Ramsay is TOTALLY going to use that against him later (.... ;__;) and considering that from what I gathered we find out that Ramsay is Ramsay next episode HE'S ALSO GOING TO