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mmm... everynametaken Send a noteboard - 16/05/2011 05:52:37 AM
I'm all for changing some things from the books so it translates to television, but what the FUCK is the point of making Renley and Loras gay?! That only complicates their story lines down the road.

What a stupid fucking decision. I mean it's not even that they're gay. That would have been fine if it was part of the original story. But it's not, and now I've lost a lot of faith in how well this show will go.

That said, I can eat my words when I'm wrong, and the Mountain looked just as imposing as I pictured him in the books.


As Tim said, they are gay in the books but it is a lot more subtle. I had read through the four books and never really caught it until someone on Wotmania said something about it. Then it was like the light bulb went on. Their closeness and Renly's never having consummated the marriage made a lot more sense in that vein. Although Loras in the TV series is what I pictured him looking like at all. I imagined a much more masculine guy and not so effeminate.
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Game of Thrones 1.05 everynametaken - 16/05/2011 05:08:32 AM 1402 Views
What the fuck. Dragonsoul - 16/05/2011 05:24:18 AM 848 Views
Re: What the fuck. Timthetrolloc - 16/05/2011 05:41:03 AM 940 Views
I guess I'm eating those words too. Haha I don't know how I missed it on my 3 rereads. Dragonsoul - 16/05/2011 05:50:04 AM 865 Views
I know the feeling. lol... *NM* everynametaken - 16/05/2011 05:53:53 AM 277 Views
The most embarrassing part to miss is Renly's "Rainbow Guard". Legolas - 16/05/2011 10:28:21 PM 691 Views
I just read that part today. Darth_Katie - 17/05/2011 04:51:01 AM 618 Views
Haha, God! Dragonsoul - 17/05/2011 05:25:03 PM 644 Views
Margaery, and yes, she is. *NM* Legolas - 16/05/2011 10:25:47 PM 251 Views
mmm... everynametaken - 16/05/2011 05:52:37 AM 803 Views
I completely agree. Dragonsoul - 16/05/2011 05:54:58 AM 755 Views
You aren't the first person I have had to break this news to. *NM* Beqi - 16/05/2011 06:21:45 PM 278 Views
Looking back on it I don't know how I didn't see it. Dragonsoul - 16/05/2011 07:44:05 PM 598 Views
Yeah that pissed me off big time, too ironclad - 16/05/2011 09:35:57 PM 714 Views
Definitely gay in the books scalius - 16/05/2011 10:06:19 PM 833 Views
Re: Definitely gay in the books DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 17/05/2011 03:51:00 PM 740 Views
Alright, it's decided. But... ironclad - 17/05/2011 04:02:50 PM 627 Views
Thank you! Dragonsoul - 17/05/2011 05:17:15 PM 575 Views
Do the other sex scenes bother you too? Or just the gay ones? Beqi - 17/05/2011 10:36:05 PM 617 Views
They didn't before this episode ironclad - 18/05/2011 08:00:30 AM 638 Views
Re: Game of Thrones 1.05 DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 16/05/2011 12:19:18 PM 937 Views
Ned survived the battle at the Tower of Joy Dark Knight - 16/05/2011 01:56:37 PM 657 Views
We don't know anything about ToJ DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 16/05/2011 03:39:37 PM 792 Views
I think my favorite so far scalius - 16/05/2011 03:53:41 PM 782 Views
Re: I think my favorite so far everynametaken - 17/05/2011 02:57:54 AM 676 Views
Awesome episode if I ignore the mess I mentioned above *future spoiler* ironclad - 16/05/2011 09:47:07 PM 700 Views
Re: Awesome episode if I ignore the mess I mentioned above *future spoiler* scalius - 16/05/2011 10:00:50 PM 610 Views
Re: Awesome episode if I ignore the mess I mentioned above *future spoiler* dacole - 16/05/2011 11:02:22 PM 682 Views
Re: Game of Thrones 1.05 dacole - 16/05/2011 11:06:47 PM 717 Views
Re: Game of Thrones 1.05 everynametaken - 17/05/2011 01:39:26 AM 649 Views
Re: Game of Thrones 1.05 scalius - 17/05/2011 07:39:34 PM 681 Views
Re: Game of Thrones 1.05 dacole - 17/05/2011 08:01:49 PM 606 Views
Re: Game of Thrones 1.05 scalius - 17/05/2011 07:43:24 PM 668 Views
Re: Game of Thrones 1.05 dacole - 17/05/2011 08:05:25 PM 607 Views
I think ... Nate - 17/05/2011 09:30:54 PM 611 Views
Yup scalius - 18/05/2011 06:09:08 PM 562 Views
Loras is not good looking enough MikeyMikeyMikey - 17/05/2011 05:01:46 PM 649 Views
Beauty is subjective, as Varys so rightly noted Dark Knight - 17/05/2011 05:09:31 PM 591 Views
I'm glad Darth_Katie - 17/05/2011 06:06:18 PM 627 Views
Re: I'm glad dacole - 17/05/2011 08:08:12 PM 728 Views
Umm...they didn't go back through the whole line... Kotagg - 17/05/2011 09:18:48 PM 654 Views
On that note Darth_Katie - 17/05/2011 10:16:34 PM 600 Views
Re: On that note scalius - 18/05/2011 06:16:17 PM 656 Views
I guess you do get to do whatever you want when you have huge ferocious beasts at your beck and call *NM* Darth_Katie - 18/05/2011 10:20:38 PM 267 Views
What he finds in the book, iirc... Legolas - 17/05/2011 11:28:26 PM 626 Views
It's the blood and violence that gets to me. Beqi - 17/05/2011 10:52:15 PM 609 Views
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