You know, when I read Storm of Swords again recently
Book 3:
I completely forgot about Stannis rocking up at the Wall. I remembered Jon getting elected and I remember the wildling attack but I completely forgot about Stannis. You'd think I'd remember something as important as the location of one of the kings.
Yeah it's a pretty big thing that happens how can you forget this. It's like forgetting that Han saves Luke at the end of Star Wars.
You know, when I read Storm of Swords again recently
Book 3:
I completely forgot about Stannis rocking up at the Wall. I remembered Jon getting elected and I remember the wildling attack but I completely forgot about Stannis. You'd think I'd remember something as important as the location of one of the kings.
Yeah it's a pretty big thing that happens how can you forget this. It's like forgetting that Han saves Luke at the end of Star Wars.
I remembered EVERYTHING else about that book. Every tiny little detail. But I forgot that. I have a strange mind.
I have the books visualized well enough in my head that I can usually tell when the show is deviating from the books.
The biggest cuts/changes so far have been to dream sequences and direwolf scenes, which makes sense for production reasons.
also added scenes featuring non-POV characters
and obviously a lot of the character depth/motivations provided by inner monologues get lost in translation sometimes.
I have to say, if I had only seen the show, I wouldn't have as much sympathy for the Starks. TV Ned, Jon and Bran just don't have the same depth without being able to hear what they're thinking.
Yeah Ned really suffers from it. In the books he's a man haunted by grief, the death of his sister and the tangential but yet very much related deaths of Rheagar's wife and children (especially how the latter died) hangs over him from page 1. He's still so horrified at the sack of King's Landing 15 years earlier that it's pretty much entirely what drives him when he refuses to consent to Dany's assassination, and again it's the reason he gives Cersei a chance to run - because he dosen't want the deaths of her children on his hands.
That's just one of GRRM's inspirations. He pulls from all over the medieval spectrum, both early and late. For example, the fight at King's Landing is pretty much the Norse siege of Constantinople in 941.
Littlefinger's conversation with his whores not only describes almost perfectly how he's manipulating Ned, it also applies massively (and more literally) to Tyrion and Tysha, and then much later with Shae. Who's probably showing up next week-end. Pretty neat.
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Is Rolo going to send an assassin after Balefuego to keep him from regaining the Game of Thrones thread?
I'm just curious.
rolo's father already did
I will send an assassin after
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that crippled stark boy
Remind me, why did he do that?
Did he know what Bran saw?
He overheard Robert saying something to the effect that it would be more merciful to give him a clean death than to have him live as a cripple. He wanted to impress daddy.
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Is Rolo going to send an assassin after Balefuego to keep him from regaining the Game of Thrones thread?
I'm just curious.
rolo's father already did
I will send an assassin after
book 1-3 spoilers
that crippled stark boy
Remind me, why did he do that?
Did he know what Bran saw?
He overheard
Robert talking about how it would be a kindness if Bran were to die rather than live as a cripple, and decided that he'd finish Bran off because he wasn't a huge Stark fan to begin with.
So Joffrey's sense of mercy is to have some random simpleton stab you.
Also, framing his uncle in the process, 'cause hey, why not.
Yup, pretty much.
Remember this was all planned immediately following Tyrion bitch-slapping him.
Wait, no, that was completely accidental. He didn't know who the dagger belonged to, he just spotted it among the party's luggage and thought it looked cool.
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Also, I wonder who Martin considers to be his version of
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick: The Kingmaker.
Well there was (History of Westeros spoilers)
Ser Criston Cole, Lord Commander of Viserys I's Kingsguar. He placed Viserys' young son Aegon II on the throne despite the fact the Viserys has designated his eldest daughter Rhaenyra as his heir. This led to the first Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons.
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well I've also read all the books multiple times since then
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The biggest cuts/changes so far have been to dream sequences and direwolf scenes, which makes sense for production reasons.
Yeah it's a pretty big thing that happens how can you forget this. It's like forgetting that Han saves Luke at the end of Star Wars.
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I remembered EVERYTHING else about that book. Every tiny little detail. But I forgot that. I have a strange mind.
also added scenes featuring non-POV characters
and obviously a lot of the character depth/motivations provided by inner monologues get lost in translation sometimes.
I have to say, if I had only seen the show, I wouldn't have as much sympathy for the Starks. TV Ned, Jon and Bran just don't have the same depth without being able to hear what they're thinking.
Although Sansa and Arya are pretty much the same.
Something like Arctic Wolf dog or something like that
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
I'm just curious.
So fuck it! I'll do it now!
Rolo the Usurper
They was sleepin' an' now they ain't sleepin' no more.
rolo's father already did
(end of book 3 spoilers)
I will send an assassin after
book 1-3 spoilers
Did he know what Bran saw?
toosh?
buttssss
He overheard
Robert talking about how it would be a kindness if Bran were to die rather than live as a cripple, and decided that he'd finish Bran off because he wasn't a huge Stark fan to begin with.
Also, framing his uncle in the process, 'cause hey, why not.
Yup, pretty much.
Wait, no, that was completely accidental. He didn't know who the dagger belonged to, he just spotted it among the party's luggage and thought it looked cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXs8OS6EdAE
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"If this is where the monarchy's headed, count me out"
Are you...are you sure that's what happened?
I heard a little girl disarmed him.
Well there was (History of Westeros spoilers)
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