It's a Nice Day for A Red Wedding

[Angnor]

Great strip guys. I love it.

 

[AkatsukiLeader13]

Am i the only one who hated both Robb and Catelyn?

I mean Robb was a spoiled brat who basically abandoned the war he started for a nice piece of ass, and Catelyn always seemed like a ... well, not a very pleasant lady.

If you thought she isn't a pleasant lady just wait.

Oh and this just came out recently in response to the Red Wedding outcry.


Personally I'm getting huge kick out of seeing all TV show only watchers seeing the Red Wedding and freaking out. Read A Storm of Swords for the first time years ago but had no one to talk about it with and my friends couldn't understand why I was freaking out over something in some fantasy novel. Now I can sit back and watch them freak out over the show.

 

[l3o2828]

I really dislike Game of Thrones. I think it's a good show, probably even a great one, but it never clicked with me.

Now, this comic really reminded me of a couple years ago:

Kinda like this.

 

[search_rip]

I feel bad for taking such joy in the reactions of those who haven't read the books. But I've known, I've always known. I've known it's coming and had to sit through all the idealistic hopeful wishes of those who didn't know. All I could think was "You poor soul, you have no idea what is about to happen."

nah, don't feel bad is a joy us readers or people that foreshadowed it can only express like "mwa ha ha"

 

[Comando96]

I don't watch the show nor have I read the books so this doesn't mean much to me, but that face in the last panel is truly terrifying.

Imagine that Harry Potter died.
Someone who read the books vs someone who hadn't.

Game of Thrones specifically have a particular habit of culling off some of their most popular characters though. While at other times, people should have expected bad shit to happen... the most recent one really came out of fucking nowhere, and there was only about 1 min warning

Spoiler

Because Rob Starks mother, Catelyn is a fucking bad ass who should be Queen of the north, not the kings mother. She cottoned on to the fact the doors had been locked and Two songs had been played:

Firstly "The Queen Took Off Her Sandal, the King Took Off His Crown" - self explantory.

And Secondly "The Rains of Castamere". To anyone who watched the show and wondered why Catelyn looked up in horror when the band started playing, this song was created in memory of the Tywin Lannister putting down a Rebelion against his vassel of House Reyne. He destroyed their entire house. Given that Rob, self proclaimed the King of the North was Rebelling aganst Joffrey, a Lannister in all but name... this song had a significant meaning: Don't fuck with Tyrin Lannister

This spoiler... really means spoiler.
Only click if you have watched it, or don't care(which you should, eventually)

 

[mysecondlife]

Haven't been keeping up on it. But I might just to see what the big deal is for the latest episode.

 

[thetoddo]

Honestly probably the best episode of the series so far. As a non reader I saw most of the other major events, or at least wasn't particularly shocked by them but this one got me.

Really? I thought this was pretty well foreshadowed.

Neither my partner or I read any of the books, but Robb's death seemed guaranteed the moment he broke his oath to Frey. He never seemed to have much of a shot at winning the conflict, but having to go crawling back to Frey seemed doomed to failure.

I was a bit surprised it was done as it was though. I was expecting them to just be lured into an ambush, but I guess since Game of Thrones is less about battle and more about drama and politics, I should've anticipated it sooner.

The books do a better job of showing that Robb was actually winning the war, or at least was going to be able to hold off the Lannisters long enough to force peace on his terms.

 

[Vareoth]

It was quite an eventful wedding. I heard the music was to die for!

Yea, I'll just leave now...

 

[Darth_Payn]

That face, it is the stuff of nightmares! It's like an extra-creepy Trollface! Who delights in watching that kind of misery and suffering?

 

[Clankenbeard]

I honsetly watch almost no TV so I don't have a good feel for the quality of shows on TV right now. Everybody raves about Game of Thrones. I guess that's how I got into it. So, without being snarky (I'm honestly not), what would you recommend as a well-written series with deep characters? Perhaps not as many characters.

The first time I saw Game of Thrones, I immediately started to draw comparisons to the Starz Spartacus series. They're both set in a more fantastic setting, they both aren't coy about showing blood, gore and sex and they both aim to be about politics and battle. The difference is that Spartacus succeeded where GoT failed.

Honestly, when they killed off Ned Stark, I wept only because he was the only interesting character next to Tyrion. The rest is just so bland and boring. Or a complete and utter tool like the rest of the Lannisters. Whereas Spartacus is packed to the rafters with great and memorable characters.

Okay. I have watched all of Blood and Sand. And I liked the characters enough to come back for Gods of the Arena. I think I only found out about this series because Sami Raimi was involved as a producer or something. I don't watch Starz and I don't think they mass marketed this one--could be wrong here. The first series was one I dragged my wife into and she watched it with me. Something about oiled-up gladiators going the Full Monty was enough to get her in. But she was not willing to commit for a second season--even with the male nudity, sex and political backstabbing. (Batiatus was amazing.)

So now I see there is a "War of the Damned" and I find myself not really that interested in seeing it. I guess you will have to count me among the sheep. I have to say that I prefer Game of Thrones to Spartacus. I dug Batiatus and Lucrecia (sp?), but I'm coming up empty for too many other names. To be fair, I just saw Game of Thrones days ago, so recency plays a role. In 4 years, will I remember Sansa Stark? Only if the show is still on TV.

 

[LetalisK]

I don't watch the show nor have I read the books so this doesn't mean much to me, but that face in the last panel is truly terrifying.

The latest episode has a very unexpected plot moment, one that practically nobody could see coming.

Unless you read the book or someone who read the book told you about it. XD

Seriously, how did this scene not get completely spoiled? I'm surprised by people's restraint to not just blurt out "HEY GUESS WHAT HAPPENS LATER LAWL!"

 

[Imre Csete]

That red wedding. It sure caught me by surprise when I read it.

But then, the end of the last book was even more surprising.

For the Watch!

I really hope GRRM finishes the books, unlike Robert Jordan.

 

[DementedSheep]

Hehehe yeah that was pretty much reaction as my cousin was watching it.
Although I don't know why so many didn't see it coming at all.

Spoiler

Granted the books have ques the show doesn't, like the fact that Robb does not have chapters telling the story from his veiwpoint but even still he pissed of Frey who characterized as being vengeful and holding grudges and he was doing far too well. You just know when a characters are doing that well shit is going to hit the fan.

 

[Combustion Kevin]

+1, the more a story insists everything will be fixed and everyone will be happy, the more I expect shit to hit the fan; it's like having suddenly plenty of health packs and chest-high walls in a FPS.

or, you know, a lack of either if the game designer is a bit of a sadistic bastard. ^^

 

[Artemis923]

As a long time fan of the books, and a Lannister fan at that, I've been looking forward to this for SO LONG.

The scene was perfectly done.

 

[Talvrae]

Yeah i had read the book and that was pretty much me too