Game of thrones opening credits - did you notice it changed every week?

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Game of thrones opening credits - did you notice they changed every week?

I was not aware of that!
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11%
I was not aware because I skipped the credits every time.
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7%
I was aware, but skipped them because they went on forever so didn't see the changes.
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25%
I knew this and watched the credits each time
25
57%
 
Total votes: 44
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PostRe: Game of thrones opening credits - did you notice it changed every week?
by kazanova_Frankenstein » Thu Jan 05, 2023 12:51 pm

Nope, that completely escaped me.

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by Octoroc » Thu Jan 05, 2023 12:58 pm

Never seen it.

There is no option for me in the poll.

No option for me. :(

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by Igor » Thu Jan 05, 2023 1:11 pm

I didn't notice this, despite watching the credits every time. This might be because, without fail, my partner and I would break into an air cello duet as soon as the strings dropped. Sometimes I'd switch it up with a violin, I don't really know strings that well.

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by kazanova_Frankenstein » Thu Jan 05, 2023 3:13 pm

If you play the cello AND the violin you are being far too modest.

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PostRe: Game of thrones opening credits - did you notice it changed every week?
by Herdanos » Thu Jan 05, 2023 9:57 pm

The credits would also sometimes be quite spoilery as they'd give the names of the actors about to feature in that episode...

When the Hound was brought back they instead went with a cold open for that very reason.

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PostRe: Game of thrones opening credits - did you notice it changed every week?
by Victor Mildew » Thu Jan 05, 2023 10:44 pm

I don't remember him coming back at all!

Watched the first episode of season 5 tonight.

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PostRe: Game of thrones opening credits - did you notice it changed every week?
by Robbo-92 » Fri Jan 06, 2023 4:13 am

Want to say it’s episode 6 of series 5 that he comes back into it. Great episode in my opinion in a slightly lacklustre 5th series.

Edit, was a series too early, it’s back end of series 6 he comes back into it.

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by Jenuall » Fri Jan 06, 2023 8:37 am

Imagine watching Game of Thrones! :lol:

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by Hypes » Fri Jan 06, 2023 9:36 am

Robbo-92 wrote:Want to say it’s episode 6 of series 5 that he comes back into it. Great episode in my opinion in a slightly lacklustre 5th series.

Edit, was a series too early, it’s back end of series 6 he comes back into it.

He comes back with Lovejoy doesn't he?

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by Victor Mildew » Fri Jan 06, 2023 10:10 am

I forgot lovejoy was in it too.

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PostRe: Game of thrones opening credits - did you notice it changed every week?
by Octoroc » Fri Jan 06, 2023 10:32 am

I've seen Lovejoy.

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PostRe: Game of thrones opening credits - did you notice it changed every week?
by Return_of_the_STAR » Fri Jan 06, 2023 11:18 am

Yes, I too thought most people knew this but it’s likely most casual viewers don’t. It was a clever way to encourage people to watch the into rather than skip.

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PostRe: Game of thrones opening credits - did you notice it changed every week?
by kazanova_Frankenstein » Mon Jan 09, 2023 12:48 pm

The poll should be updated to include not noticing / remembering Lovejoy was in it.

Maybe he was in the opening credits each week.

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PostRe: Game of thrones opening credits - did you notice it changed every week?
by Victor Mildew » Tue Jan 24, 2023 9:15 am

We watched hardhome last night, which was great and all that, but watching the whole series so quickly really brings the shift in tone to the front. It's becoming far more up front with story telling now with things starting and being resolved in a single scene, whereas they might have played out over a few episodes before. I definitely prefer the early tone of dialogue heavy extended scenes to fighting.

The long scenes with Tyrion and Tywin were a joy.

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by Herdanos » Tue Jan 24, 2023 1:26 pm

Agreed. Hardhome was arguably the last highlight, and came during an otherwise bleak season. S6 had its highs but was strangely predictable. Can't top seasons two through four IMO

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by Robbo-92 » Tue Jan 24, 2023 6:25 pm

Series 6 is slightly better overall that series 5 in my opinion, series 5 really only had Hardhome as the notable bit of it, alongside the ending scene too (well I think it’s one of the last scenes). It absolutely butchered the Dorne plot which is shaping up to be one of the most interesting ones in the books, series 6 wasn’t great but better overall than series 5, The Broken Man is a great episode, Winds of Winter is also very good, despite knowing what’s going to happen, the opening portion of that episode is very good, borderline fantastic compared to the majority of series 5/6. Battle of the Bastards was merely ok, very predictable but still enjoyable.

Even with GRRM apparently assisting on the main story beats throughout, series 1 to 4 seem a world away from series 5 to 8.

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by Imrahil » Tue Jan 24, 2023 6:36 pm

I always felt books 1-3 were vastly superior to everything that came after, so the show sort of marries up to that. The show-writers did well to make S4 as good as they did, the book was largely dull by comparison. So I give the show some brownie points for that.

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PostRe: Game of thrones opening credits - did you notice it changed every week?
by Vermilion » Tue Jan 24, 2023 7:18 pm

The best bit of GoT will always be the moment when Tyrion shot his father with an arrow when he was on the toilet.

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by Victor Mildew » Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:31 pm

Bumping this to say we watched the penultimate episode the other night (the destruction of kings landing).

What a complete load of nonsense it was. Even worse than I remember from when it first aired. Watching the whole thing back to bag really shows just how bad the final two series actually are, with this last one just being flat out awful. It's like someone just made a generic high budget dragon attack show and slapped game of thrones characters in there. Cersi just stands at a window for the whole thing and then goes ON NO and runs to a cellar.

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PostRe: Game of thrones opening credits - did you notice it changed every week?
by Robbo-92 » Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:42 pm

It was downhill from series 5 anyway, it just went off the edge as soon as they thought going north of the wall was a good plan partway through series 7.

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