Talk:Game of Thrones season 3

Casting - Shireen

http://winteriscoming.net/2012/06/shireen-cast/ Brightgalrs (/braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/)^[1] 01:52, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

It has already been added. SchrutedIt08 (talk) 01:55, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Casting and recent edit war

The edit war of yesterday started by User:Sandstein's removal of announced castings, citing WP:SPS for westeros.org and winteriscoming.net as fansites (and yes, they are WP:FANSITEs).

However, as I stated in my former restoration of (some of) these announced actors, HBO revealed them exclusively through well(!)-established fansites, and ew.com reported at least two of them, see also:

• westeros.org: Over the weekend, HBO released four names of new cast members and their roles to fan sites—we reported our pair , veteran actors Dan Hildebrand and Ramon Tikaram in the roles of Kraznys and Prendahl, last weekend, and now Winter Is Coming has added their pair of actors, both playing Eastern characters as well: MC-turned-actor Ed Skrein in the role of Daario Naharis, a skilled, untrustworthy sellsword who’ll Dany will meet along the way, and Jacob Anderson will play the role of Gray Worm, one of the eunuch slave-soldier called the Unsullied that the Ghiscari slaver, Kraznys, trades in.
• ew.com: The castings were first reported by Winter is Coming.

Now, the westeros.org owners have quite the credentials, seeing that they co-publish a book with GRRM, so I'd be surprised if anyone called them liars for claiming that HBO gave them the exclusive information, so IMO WP:SPS doesn't apply. I can see how the legitimity of winteriscoming.net is not that obvious, but ew.com (which we currently use in the article) repeats their casting announcement just the same, citing winteriscoming.net.

So you see the inconsistency that the removal creates. Either it's all just a big lie by the fansites, and we should regard ew.com (and probably others) just as unreliable and remove it; or HBO regards these two fansites in this case as well-established/trustworthy/reliable/whatever, and so should we. – sgeureka ^t•c 08:17, 31 August 2012 (UTC) — additions – sgeureka ^t•c 08:34, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Casting - Noah Taylor

Not having seen the last episode... he is clearly supposed to be playing Vargo Hoat. Is he ever identified as such or did the powers that be really changed this somewhat important character to a bland mercenary called "Locke" ?!? Ixian 100 (talk) 20:25, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

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Guest Cast

I don't think that we should keep ordering the guest cast by social importance in the zone. That's making the article in-world, and a great part of the order is original research/opinion (Why Grenn is above of Craster? Karstark above Edmure? Selmy above Kraznys?).

I think we should decide whether

• (1) sort them by their order in the closing credits or (2) by number of episodes they appear in.
• (a) grup them by region, or (b) make a single list.

I'd lean towards 1.b. Thoughts?--RR (talk) 14:08, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Since no one had anything to say, I've gone ahead and done it.--RR (talk) 10:36, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Plot section

I've noticed that this seasons article page is lacking in a Plot section. Is there a reason why this seasons page doesn't have one? I see it as a bit inconsistent for the first and second season articles to have one and the third season article to not have one. – Blue☆Stars83 21:54, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

No reason. Looks like it just hasn't been done by anyone yet. --SubSeven (talk) 23:06, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Cool. Well, does anyone wanna take up the opportunity to write up the section? I will attempt it myself if no one wants to do it. Might need some altering or whatnot when I get it done though. – Blue☆Stars83 23:12, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

I've written a plot up. I did notice a bit of an inconsistency, in that Season 1's plot section basically explains the premise and the character's positions at about the beginning of the series, but doesn't go much into the events that unfold that season. Season 2's, on the other hand is basically a very brief summary of Season 2's major events. I went with the way Season 1 did it, since it seems a bit redundant to summarize the season's events when that's basically what the episode descriptions do. However, if anyone believes it should be in the style of Season 2's plot, I would of course willingly listen to their argument as to why. FrogofDorne (talk) 02:51, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

RfC on Oathkeeper

There's an RS RfC on the Oathkeeper talk page. Participation (and fresh voices) would be welcome. Darkfrog24 (talk) 01:43, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Ratings table

My edits has been reset by a user for the ratings table which includes total viewerships, ratings for young adults 18-49 and the show's ranking compared to other cable shows that week. I believe such information is to be included on the Wikipedia page of a television season as both the viewership and ratings 18-49 is considered when a broadcasting network, such as HBO, decides if a tv show is renewed for another season. Almost every other Wikipedia pages for tv shows whom are currently airing have included the ratings for young adults 18-49 which is what ratings is measured in. As such, I would like to include a ratings table where these ratings are added, and not just total viewership. Twotimer17 (talk) 14:19, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

HBO is not a broadcast network, but premium cable and thus, not ad-supported. The 18-49 demo number is merely for ratings-obsessed junkies, and not the general reader of a Wikipedia article. We don't need a giant table that duplicates basically every piece of information that the episode table has, but just adds another ratings statistic that is essentially meaningless unless specifically explained. If someone is interested in more in-depth ratings information, then they can look at the source being used and get it; we don't have to replicate every bit of ratings statistics that TV by the Numbers posts. WP:NOTSTATS. Drovethrughosts (talk) 14:30, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

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Correct cast order

So, I have painstakingly went through each and every episode per season to make sure the cast order is correct because others have been changing it. The order is now complete. It also follows Wikipedia's cast order guidelines precisely. For a very long time, this has not been the case, as several cast members were incorrectly listed in the middle of the list when they should been included last. What do you think? I don't see any reason to change it from this point. — Branjsmith94 02:13, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

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Referring to characters

"who later sentences Sandor to trial by combat with him"

I didn't know whom this meant, and had to look it up. Is there a convention about how to refer to characters whose nicknames are more well-known than they're formal given names? Bsharvy (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:14, 12 November 2019 (UTC)