The Glade 4.0

Aegnor:

Wow. Same feeling I had when I read the book.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Man... so good.

I really am beginning to wonder if the purpose of the TV series is to kill my curiousity to read future books, though. This episode added two more deviations from the book that obviate currently (as of the end of book 5) dangling plot threads or promising theories.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Or maybe they're just showing you that what you thought were important points are no more than fodder, and you were on the wrong track.

Book Spoiler

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Raell Kromwell

This is the day I have been waiting for Looooooool
https://twitter.com/redweddingtears

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48H34ukFe8g

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Book 4 (?) Spoiler


Book 5 Spoiler

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

The rage on the internets today is glorious.

My own stems not from the RW, but that it seems they're writing out (or very much delaying the intro of) a character I was really looking forward to :/

That character is probably not needed until next season (making assumptions about how far they can get with one more episode).

OMG BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Yes, tears of unfathomable sadness indeed

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Holy shitsnacks!

My biggest gripe is just that they could have replaced Sam's stupid scene with Gilly, explaining how he magically knew about the black gate (reading... like a wizard!), instead of having someone show it to them. Meeting him would have been an interesting way to end Sam's part of the episode.

Someone has already made a reaction video compilation.. the tears are delicious

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

I think maybe TV show viewers understand now how it is in the books.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I was coming back here to post that very thing.

Awesome. I think girl on the floor in the blanket is my favorite.

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Holy shitsnacks!

I laughed @ spoilered video.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Kaffis, I think that theory was dead anyway. I remember reading a quote from GRRM that it was simply a mistake. The thing that is lost (which is too bad) is

I had the red wedding spoilered for me pretty early on. When I found out, I was ready to break from the story completely. I had to ask a few folks if there was really any protagonist that doesn't get whacked to make it worth continuing to read. A couple have assure me that's the case. I'm nearing the end of book 2 at the moment.

My attitude is this: My free time, up until last month, has been very little. I have a short break for a while, but I'll be grinding through other things very soon and my free time will drop again. I want entertainment to be entertaining and not depressing. When I lose sleep like I did last night, I don't like it. Some can consider it a testimony to how good the books/shows are and I'd agree to some extent. This, however, isn't the kind of "good" I want. If there's never a payoff, I'd rather stop wasting my time. There are other things I have queued up that I know won't give this kind of disappointment.

Am I wasting my time?

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The Dude abides.

That's a good question.

Three of my favorite characters are still alive at the end of the most recent book (though apparently one of them becomes much less cool after this season.)

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Well George himself has said that the ending is going to be bittersweet. If you're looking for the Starks to get super powers and end up uniting the world against the Others for a glorious epic finale you might be barking up the wrong tree.

On a side note, where the **** is Ghost?

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Raell Kromwell

Ghost isn't seen for a while in the book either.

https://vine.co/v/b3XZMHmxzxh/embed

So. Much. Win. Also, spoilers. I guess. Whatever

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Holy shitsnacks!