Yes, it's the third different actor. Conan Stevens was reportedly not easy to work with so they didn't ask him back. The second guy they got is nearly as tall but is a beanpole and couldn't do the fight scenes this season required. This time they got a strongest man regular that's 400 lbs but still several inches shorter than Stevens. Not that anyone could come near the 8ft stature claimed in the books.
He also landed a role as Bolg on The Hobbit Trilogy, so that might have been part of it as well.
you can find decent streams for free the next day as well. Just do that unless theres enough other stuff on HBO to justify the price point.
I'd rather take the legal route. I was looking at other HBO shows I was interested in but it only includes True Blood and maybe True Detectives. I couldn't find a concrete answer but after a bit of Googling, it seems the VODs won't be available outside of HBO (GO) until the blu ray release. I may as well just wait till next Feb to watch S4.
Do you have any friends or family, aka Framily, that have hbo? If so, see if they will share their account info with you and you can get hbo go for free essentially. I have shared my account info with a few people (its fairly safe, nothing they can really do to your account other than pay your bill for you hahaha) and they use it for espn and hbo since they cut the cord and only have internet.
I would suggest picking up the HBO for 6 months, since you'll be able to go back and watch episodes of S4 via HBO Go. It's available on HBO Go as soon as the episode releases, so you could watch it that way if you wanted to.
The president of HBO has said that they know when you're sharing out your HBO Go information and they can remove your access for TOS violations, though they're choosing not to do that at this time. I'd be wary of doing it since they could yank access because account sharing is a TOS violation.
Unfortunately I don't have any framily (lol, what a weird word) that have HBO.
If I do pick up HBO, I don't know if I want to pick it up before the start of S4 or wait it out till it ends so I can marathon it, like I did S1 through 3.
Yeah, I realize I'd be waiting a while but I'm used to waiting for price drops on games so I might be okay.
I've watched the first 3 seasons (well I'm only a few into season 3) on Bluray. I've read the books so it's not like I'm dying to know what happens next.
FWIW, I just called Comcast to complain that my bill had gone up, and the rep discounted my monthly payment by $40 and tossed in free HBO for the next two years. It never hurts to be a squeaky wheel!
I used to complain and threaten to cancel when they raised the prices, it worked for awhile. Eventually they started calling my bluff.
Why? There's some good stuff with Theon in ADWD that we probably won't see for a while on the show.
My only exposure to the books is what my fiancee tells me. Personally, I've not enjoyed a single moment of Theon's screen time in the series. I don't doubt something cool could be in the cards, I've just got no clue about it.
Depending on how they try to do events from AFFC and ADWD into upcoming seasons, you may not see it until S5 or S6. It's worth a read of the books, as I had more enjoyment of re-watching the series to see what changed from the books.
I guess that should carry us well into the second half of the timeline of AFFC and ADWD if we have 29 more episodes to go from now. Hopefully HBO will break out some additional episodes into S5 and S6 now that they're not doing True Blood after this upcoming season and may have some "spare" money available.
No, it doesn't. I liked
I've no doubt. It's definitely on my to-do list. It's at least one way to defeat the spoiler alert that is my pre-wife squirming right before something crazy happens in the show.
But that Theon character development doe.
What's a pre-wife?
YEAH!
