Yea, but non-book readers had no idea who Oberyn was or why he was so worked up about some bitch the Mountain killed. A lot of these plots on the show don't make the same kind of sense to non-book readers because they don't have the background. Oberyn could have just been "a guy" and probably really was just "a guy" to show-only people. It was probably explained tangentially once why he's upset and then not addressed again.
Probably not to the same detail, but pretty sure most people knew why Oberyn was pissed...before and during the fight. People were pissed when he died (show watchers I mean), yet another in the long line of people that were set up to finally give the Lannister's their due.
Its the directors fault. like, you can script that. But then you have consider how it is told. Music playing. Slow motion, vs fast. etc, etc.
It makes sense to do this for plot lines and characters that matter, which Dorne and Doran/Hotah clearly do not (in the show at least, although given what changes they are making based on knowing the end game, one could assume they likely amount to little in the book as well). For instance, the Red Wedding had these effects with Catelyn hearing "The Rains of Castamere", and noting that Roose had armor on under his finery. But Rob/Catelyn and the Starks actually mattered and had been focal characters. Whether we like it or not, Doran and Hotah are not in the show.
All of them are still alive, fear not.But they have some of the hottest actresses to get naked
I think they just moved it forward by about 2-3 books... the Dorn "master plan" could have been "shown" from s1 or s2 and followed on and off throughout the years... and it was mentioned in passing and by events such as sending the princess off etc.. but it just was not in scope...
Not to mention that he was fighting to determine the fate of the one of if not the most beloved character in the whole series. There was plenty to get the audience invested in that fight.
He explains it a lot in many differing conversations and it was re-explained albeit shortly when Dr. Bashir got shanked. The mountain by order of lannisters raped and killed his sister and even niece... the lannisters and everyone knows what the sick fuk the mountain is so sending "him" you cannot just "well I didn't know he would do that!" like Tywin tries to do.
Good point. Also for all the hate on the "combat" in the show, Oberyn v. the Mountain was one of the bright spots.
Clearly the book canon is the correct one. I was going to lose sleep if you sided with the TV canon. The whole show is shit anyway. I mean, maybe if every episode was a shot for shot remake of the book and each season was 100 episodes long and cost half a billion dollars to fund, then maybe we could have a discussion on the TV canon. And I mean exactly like the books, so each episode was thirty hours long or so, and for this season, which has moved ahead of the books that Martin will never finish, maybe if they brought Shakespeare back from the dead to write it, then maybe it would be passable for what the most devout fans of the books would consider to be satisfactory.
Rumors had Rory McCann(the hound) being in Ireland while they were shooting this season. He's not credited yet, though.
Except in the book there's no reason to betray Doran because it's a bit more obvious that he's involved with actively scheming against the Lannisters. I think that ultimately the Dorne plotlines will end up in the same place in both media, but Doran doesn't have to die in the book for that to happen.
Yeah I know. It was very well established by the time the fight happens. One of the times he states it explicitly is in his monologue when he tells Tyrion he'll be his champion should be in the running for best lines of the series.
Really because it looked to me he almost got owned by 1 dude 1v1 while what's her name killed the rest... and that fight was actually quite well done, it felt real to me... no one looked like a super soldier slaughtering peons dynasty warrior style.