[TV] HBO Game of Thrones - Page 1680

On August 23 2017 05:55 Jockmcplop wrote:
I can see why people who have read all the books and then switched to watching the show would be a little pissed with the direction it has taken. Its faster, for sure, but it isn't as logical and consequences no longer make much sense, which for me were two defining characteristics of the books.

Sunday’s ice lake battle was challenging enough, but Dormer had to contend with using only one eye, since Beric had lost an eye during one of his many deaths.

“Whenever I’m playing the character, I basically walk around with my right eye closed the whole time because there’s no depth perception with just one eye,” he said. “If you close one eye and imagine a bright light constantly in front of the other eye, your vision is compromised. You can only see about 30 percent of what you should be able to see.

“That’s pretty scary when you’ve got a sword. But the thing is, we rehearsed so diligently. We were there I think it was three hours a day, five days a week for three weeks before we even shot anything. I was there a lot because I had to know the steps, I wouldn’t be able to see much so it was up to the stunt guy to do a lot of the work [around me]. I was going to hit them at a certain place. They had to make sure that they were at that place and not another place; otherwise they’d get hurt. They made it look effortless, like a dance. It looks ugly, but it was very choreographed, the entire thing.”

When the action moved even higher as the wights surrounded the group, Dormer found himself in an incredibly precarious position for any person, much less one with diminished eyesight.

“My worry was that near the end of the fight we get pushed further and further back,” he said. “If you notice, from the top shot I’m standing right at the edge of a 30-foot drop. That was scary. That was the scariest thing I’ve ever done … I was the one closest to the cliff edge.”

Although no one got hurt, Dormer had one other handicap that the others didn’t: a flaming sword.

“Every time I moved it in front of my face, one, it would blind me, and secondly, it takes away all oxygen because fires eats up [oxygen],” he said. “So my fear was not collapsing. I didn’t want to black out and look like a wuss in front of the other boys. It was scary. We were boiling hot in the skins, but our heads were freezing cold. There wasn’t enough oxygen for me and I couldn’t see anything.”

On August 23 2017 06:06 Plansix wrote:

I’ve made it pretty clear I was pissed at the books way back in 2005. A move toward the end of all of all of this is what I am looking for. And some pay off for the characters that we followed across 4 books.

On August 23 2017 04:59 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Richard Dormer MVP:



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It’s funny...I did see one review where he just could not get past the airspeed velocity of a raven. If the show was struggling, if it wasn’t finding an audience, I would be up in arms about that and trying to press back, but it actually just made me laugh,” says Taylor.

“You’ve got a [dragon] that’s bigger than a [Boeing] 747 [plane] with seven people riding on its back, and you’re worried about the speed of a raven being believable. OK, obviously, we’re not doing our jobs correctly for you, but it seems to be working for a lot of other people.

On August 23 2017 00:42 Hyperbola wrote:
Notice how in their interviews they don't even try to defend the leaps of logic and simply fall back on either "Who cares it's fantasy, lol" or "Well I don't care about your opinion because we're successful without you."