Awesome, I enjoyed Fable 3 to a certain extent and the disc drive in my xbox broke and I've just finished all my downloaded games so now I got something new to play.
I'll definitely watch the first three but not sure if I'll make it through the Sony show. I Like watching E3 live it's fun seeing this stuff as it goes down.
@theht: And at least in the books Robb is considered a Kinslayer for executing Lord Karstark (as their families share ancestors) who himself names him kinslayer with his last words.
@pyromagnestir: @jimbo: Yeah, the theory is pretty ridiculous especially the later points although when Talisa was introduced I did think she would be revealed to be some lower Lannister sent as a spy who would change sides. But as with the books theories are some of the best part.
I may be wrong but I think Jeyne (Robb's wife in the books) isn't at the RW and there is a theory about her child as an heir I guess if the show is heading towards the same end game as the books that kid will be largely irrelevant and that theory is shot down.
There seems to be a lot of people here as well as my own friends who thought the red wedding was abrupt and out of the blue, but it had been there albeit not very clear. Tywin was writing letters he wouldn't show tyrion at the start of the season. Tywin hung around in Harrenhal for longer than everyone thought he would and Walder Frey as well as Roose Bolton had been established as bad dudes who wouldn't hesitate to do bad things.
I'm not saying it was obvious far from it but the set up was there so it wasn't just out of the blue but even then a key factor in this story is mis-information or slow information. Characters are behind or mis-informed on who is doing what or who is where constantly so a secret plan is reasonable.
This video argues in favour of a separate theory but much of the early points show the show's possible set-up of the RW.
In terms of the show at this point i can see where you'd argue the death count is unbalanced but at least in my opinion there are several new characters introduced later who are likable protagonists and at least 3 characters currently in the show I can think off of the top of my head who are developed into good likable characters later in the story. These characters are dead but thats simply the way of this story the death of important characters is nothing new and in no way ruined the show.
The story is unbalanced but thats simply more realistic if you make mistakes or bad decisions you are punished, that's arguably the point of Ned's death it shows no one is safe and Ned pays for being too honourable and trusting and it goes from there. The RW is hugely tragic and shocking but it didn't ruin the show or the books and actually moves the story in new interesting directions as it hugely changes the landscape of this world.
Only watched the first episode so far and I enjoyed it felt like a re-introduction but still good. Might go back and watch the first 3 seasons then come back as I marathoned the first three seasons last year in around a week. I'm not sure about the character per episode format I loved the concept when I heard about it but in practice I don't know, it seems more disjointed rather than interconnected but hopefully it will come into it's own in the later episodes
This leads to a question I have. Now I'm probably being an idiot but are you meant to watch all the episodes in order normally so Michael 1 then George Sr 1 then Lucille 1 etc or do you watch all Michael, all GOB etc. It's just I felt i was missing something when I was halfway through episode 2 in a new story leaving the old one cold or is the list of episodes I'm going off in the wrong order?
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