yeah it's a cool song. Can imagine the soldiers singing it a bit more robustly though. Ep 9 was the real finale.

Speaking of songs this one goes alright:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBcXe2B97TQ

God I love this show!

The thing that annoys me the most about the show is the way it changes your perception of the characters from the books. The Kingslayer is the one that really sticks out. In the books I was enjoying his mellowing after pushing Bran off the ledge, but then he goes and murders his cousin/former squire in the TV show so he can temporarily escape. I don't know whether my regard for the TV character will ever recover from that. The book did it much better and I'm not entirely sure why the show departed from it, except maybe to show that Brienne is badass, which was pretty clear anyway.

Loved the season. Loved every minute of it.

Thread necro - I don't care.

I completely agree with you. None of the other plot departures bothered me because I felt like the characters were fairly represented. Jaime is completely different.

All I can hope is that they plan to really turn him around in Season 3 rather than 'start' the turnaround in Season 2.

Also, how freaking long am I going to have to wait to have this on Blu Ray? They whinge and whinge about piracy and yet decide its a great idea to make us wait 6+ months before releasing on Blu Ray. FFRraoisriasrl

Just watch the torrent and then buy the blu-ray when it comes out. That's what I do with shows I love, so I'm not stuck waiting. Torrented every episode of Breaking Bad, then bought all four seasons on DVD.

This is why I think the stats of "Piracy costing billions" are a load of ****. A lot of people pirate things and then buy them. I bet they don't calculate those stats.

Season 3 of this is going to be intense. Well I hope so. It's lined up to be great.

I think industry "studies" look at the loss of revenue on specific products and attribute that to a correlative effect with rates of piracy, whilst ignoring other variables. Basically it's complete ****.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201111 ... nows.shtml

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/ ... -kill-you/

The hit the music and film industries have taken isn't because of piracy, it's because of convenience and quality. With iTunes and digital distribution making things more convenient, the industry is better off than it should be, given that people should not have to wait months for overpriced blu-rays and CDs, just because industries would rather pass ridiculous legislation (like SOPA) than adapt, and make content and products of a better quality, and more convenient to access.

People will buy quality products. I and a lot of people I know still like to have legit copies of things, so if we torrent a movie or show that ends up really appealing to us, we'll buy it. In that respect, a product that I might not have had access to before, was given exposure through piracy, and ended up benefiting from it. A couple of examples of this: at least a couple of dozen CDs I own, I had listened to on youtube already, and liked enough to buy them. I would have never had discovered some of that stuff if not for the full albums being on youtube. There was also a movie that I torrented, a French movie called Un prophète - I challenge you to try and find that movie in a video store, or even on Amazon with a copy for the Aus region. I torrented it, and loved it so much that I ended up finding some specialist DVD importer in brisbane, who said that they still had a copy in stock despite it having been taken off the catalogue. So I bought a movie that I otherwise would have had no way of watching without having found a torrent.

tl;dr the war on piracy is complete and utter ****. The industry needs to adjust and up the quality, and support solid creative works, because people aren't going to pay for **** products, but they will pay for something they love.

copyleft being the more friendly way of saying "piracy"

Piracy is a panic word - its intentionally used by big media corp to make mom and pop voters connect sharing with for rape and murder and theft when the reality is copyleft is just access to materials and sharing what u have.

Of course netpeople adopt piracy as a cool way to give the ups to big business: "you label us as pirate and we embrace the term because your the fat merchants screwing over the little guy" but i still prefer copyleft

go back 50 years and all those exc's at big music/ movie corp trying to push copyright were in a schoolyard swapping/ sharing mixed cassette tapes with their mates - just because its digital doesnt mean we should not be able to share music etc

Many people are getting sick of copyright and its associated bullying ala DRM etc its interesting that Bruce Willis of Die Hard fame is in court now trying to find out why he cant legally will his digital music collection to his kids in the event of his death because atm most legal digital music you can purchase you cant "own". You just purchase a limited license to use the media you bought and when u die that license is not transferable - same with books same with movies

that is a joke. if u bought a physical book or CD you could give that to your kids but because its digital its panic stations

Time for copyright to be exposed to all for the BS that it is

Good to see I'm not the only person who sees it this way. I remember being too young to afford music, so I pirated it.

Now I'm working I can afford to buy it so I do and a lot of the music I pirated when I was younger I ended up purchasing the albums later.