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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    buttes

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  • LordSolarMachariusLordSolarMacharius Red wine with fish Registered User regular
    Balefuego wrote: »
    I thought the nouveau thinking on Coldhands was that he was Bloodraven or whatever.

    Naw, all the cool kids these days think he's the original Night's King.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Coldhands is clearly my wife.

  • JustTeeJustTee Registered User regular
    Coldhands is clearly my wife.

    Your avatar and this post both make me smile.

    Diagnosed with AML on 6/1/12. Read about it: www.effleukemia.com
  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt proud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelo dorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered User regular
    JustTee wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    Having finished and knowing what to expect from it, I didn't mind Feast too much once I stopped expecting something to happen. It's a book full of character moments rather than full of plot. If I'd read it when it came out, knowing that there'd be three years until the next one, I'd probably have hated it. As it is, knowing I can read the next one whenever I want, it's not too bad.

    There's not a lot of character development though. Cersei's plot in particular takes a lot of time to tell us that Cersei would be a bad queen and is a pretty unpleasant person. The scales falling from Jaime's eyes seems like the most important thing that happened in her plot. Brienne's character is still Honourable And Good At Fighting. I enjoyed Arya's plot a lot, but found the end point frustrating. Presumably it's going to be two books until we find out what the fuck happened there, ditto Brienne's almost literal cliffhanger
    Actually, Arya shows up in Dance.

    I believe she is the only character who got face time in both books.

    =_= Just in case you don't care to know anything about Goddamned anything in Dance with Dragons.

    the spoiling isn't so much for the person who's about to read Dance, it's for the people who don't know how the time between where we currently are in the show and where dance starts goes

    talking about major characters pretty much confirms they're still alive (which is a bit of a spoiler in this series)

    Listen man. They have a thread, where it is VERY CLEAR that there are NO BOOKS. And if they don't want ANY SPOILERS, that is their safe haven, and that is where they should stay. Sure, mentioning a character confirms they're alive, but spoilers abound in the internets, and if you stray outside of the designated SHOW ONLY zone, well, guess what. Shit has been out for 3, 7, and 13+ years.

    this isn't D&D, we use this one thread for all ASOIAF/GOT stuff and it generally works pretty well
    Houk wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    Having finished and knowing what to expect from it, I didn't mind Feast too much once I stopped expecting something to happen. It's a book full of character moments rather than full of plot. If I'd read it when it came out, knowing that there'd be three years until the next one, I'd probably have hated it. As it is, knowing I can read the next one whenever I want, it's not too bad.

    There's not a lot of character development though. Cersei's plot in particular takes a lot of time to tell us that Cersei would be a bad queen and is a pretty unpleasant person. The scales falling from Jaime's eyes seems like the most important thing that happened in her plot. Brienne's character is still Honourable And Good At Fighting. I enjoyed Arya's plot a lot, but found the end point frustrating. Presumably it's going to be two books until we find out what the fuck happened there, ditto Brienne's almost literal cliffhanger
    Actually, Arya shows up in Dance.

    I believe she is the only character who got face time in both books.

    =_= Just in case you don't care to know anything about Goddamned anything in Dance with Dragons.

    the spoiling isn't so much for the person who's about to read Dance, it's for the people who don't know how the time between where we currently are in the show and where dance starts goes

    talking about major characters pretty much confirms they're still alive (which is a bit of a spoiler in this series)

    this has been happening like every other post for the past two pages

    well yeah and I'd rather it hadn't, but you can only obnoxiously remind people about this so often

    and I know it's an easy thing to slip about cause it seems like such a small detail

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  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    has anyone read the dunk and egg novellas

    i just went back and looked at them recently

    bloodraven is in them, being all bloodravenny

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Houk wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    Having finished and knowing what to expect from it, I didn't mind Feast too much once I stopped expecting something to happen. It's a book full of character moments rather than full of plot. If I'd read it when it came out, knowing that there'd be three years until the next one, I'd probably have hated it. As it is, knowing I can read the next one whenever I want, it's not too bad.

    There's not a lot of character development though. Cersei's plot in particular takes a lot of time to tell us that Cersei would be a bad queen and is a pretty unpleasant person. The scales falling from Jaime's eyes seems like the most important thing that happened in her plot. Brienne's character is still Honourable And Good At Fighting. I enjoyed Arya's plot a lot, but found the end point frustrating. Presumably it's going to be two books until we find out what the fuck happened there, ditto Brienne's almost literal cliffhanger
    Actually, Arya shows up in Dance.

    I believe she is the only character who got face time in both books.

    =_= Just in case you don't care to know anything about Goddamned anything in Dance with Dragons.

    the spoiling isn't so much for the person who's about to read Dance, it's for the people who don't know how the time between where we currently are in the show and where dance starts goes

    talking about major characters pretty much confirms they're still alive (which is a bit of a spoiler in this series)

    this has been happening like every other post for the past two pages

    It's fine. Even if people who watch the show and haven't read the books are fucking plebes and [elitism-elitism-elitism]
    JustTee wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    Having finished and knowing what to expect from it, I didn't mind Feast too much once I stopped expecting something to happen. It's a book full of character moments rather than full of plot. If I'd read it when it came out, knowing that there'd be three years until the next one, I'd probably have hated it. As it is, knowing I can read the next one whenever I want, it's not too bad.

    There's not a lot of character development though. Cersei's plot in particular takes a lot of time to tell us that Cersei would be a bad queen and is a pretty unpleasant person. The scales falling from Jaime's eyes seems like the most important thing that happened in her plot. Brienne's character is still Honourable And Good At Fighting. I enjoyed Arya's plot a lot, but found the end point frustrating. Presumably it's going to be two books until we find out what the fuck happened there, ditto Brienne's almost literal cliffhanger
    Actually, Arya shows up in Dance.

    I believe she is the only character who got face time in both books.

    =_= Just in case you don't care to know anything about Goddamned anything in Dance with Dragons.

    the spoiling isn't so much for the person who's about to read Dance, it's for the people who don't know how the time between where we currently are in the show and where dance starts goes

    talking about major characters pretty much confirms they're still alive (which is a bit of a spoiler in this series)

    Listen man. They have a thread, where it is VERY CLEAR that there are NO BOOKS. And if they don't want ANY SPOILERS, that is their safe haven, and that is where they should stay. Sure, mentioning a character confirms they're alive, but spoilers abound in the internets, and if you stray outside of the designated SHOW ONLY zone, well, guess what. Shit has been out for 3, 7, and 13+ years.

    this isn't D&D, we use this one thread for all ASOIAF/GOT stuff and it generally works pretty well
    Houk wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    Having finished and knowing what to expect from it, I didn't mind Feast too much once I stopped expecting something to happen. It's a book full of character moments rather than full of plot. If I'd read it when it came out, knowing that there'd be three years until the next one, I'd probably have hated it. As it is, knowing I can read the next one whenever I want, it's not too bad.

    There's not a lot of character development though. Cersei's plot in particular takes a lot of time to tell us that Cersei would be a bad queen and is a pretty unpleasant person. The scales falling from Jaime's eyes seems like the most important thing that happened in her plot. Brienne's character is still Honourable And Good At Fighting. I enjoyed Arya's plot a lot, but found the end point frustrating. Presumably it's going to be two books until we find out what the fuck happened there, ditto Brienne's almost literal cliffhanger
    Actually, Arya shows up in Dance.

    I believe she is the only character who got face time in both books.

    =_= Just in case you don't care to know anything about Goddamned anything in Dance with Dragons.

    the spoiling isn't so much for the person who's about to read Dance, it's for the people who don't know how the time between where we currently are in the show and where dance starts goes

    talking about major characters pretty much confirms they're still alive (which is a bit of a spoiler in this series)

    this has been happening like every other post for the past two pages

    well yeah and I'd rather it hadn't, but you can only obnoxiously remind people about this so often

    and I know it's an easy thing to slip about cause it seems like such a small detail

    You're right, you're right, that's why I spoilered it

    even if I couldn't resist giving you a little of that monkey sass.

  • Dongs GaloreDongs Galore Registered User regular
    is it possible to get those novellas without buying them in a collection of unrelated stories?

  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    is it possible to get those novellas without buying them in a collection of unrelated stories?

    get them on your kindle

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    The fuck is Bloodraven

  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    you'd know that if you'd read the dunk and egg books

  • Dongs GaloreDongs Galore Registered User regular
    Darkstar

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    you'd know that if you'd read the dunk and egg books

    Shan't!

  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    it's funny how some characters have cool paladin names like the Sword of the Morning and some are just nineties comic book characters

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Bloodshrike

    Ravenskein

    Krissblade







    Vanderbooben

  • Dongs GaloreDongs Galore Registered User regular
    edited June 2013
    I just got done rereading Dance (or the good parts, anyway)

    I forgot how much of a dickless shitwagon Varys is
    I have children. I have a wife. Oh, Dorna...

    ;_;7 RIP Ser Kevan Lannister, the hero Westeros deserved

    Dongs Galore on
  • I Win SwordfightsI Win Swordfights all the traits of greatness starlight at my feetRegistered User regular
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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    AFfC is worth it just for Septon Maribold's discourse on war.

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  • Inquisitor77Inquisitor77 2 x Penny Arcade Fight Club Champion A fixed point in space and timeRegistered User regular
    Coldhands = best porn star name

  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    septon maribold is far and away the best thing in ffc

  • Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    AFfC is worth it just for Septon Maribold's discourse on war.
    I have to admit, I'm a little afraid that if anything gets cut from the TV adaption of AFFC, it'll probably be Brienne riding around the swamplands with Pod, Hunt and Meribald.

    I really hope it doesn't happen, because it's some of the best character writing GRRM's done in the entire series, but it's one of those things that I don't see necessarily translating to the screen well.

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  • Dongs GaloreDongs Galore Registered User regular
    AFfC is worth it just for Septon Maribold's discourse on war.
    I have to admit, I'm a little afraid that if anything gets cut from the TV adaption of AFFC, it'll probably be Brienne riding around the swamplands with Pod, Hunt and Meribald.

    I really hope it doesn't happen, because it's some of the best character writing GRRM's done in the entire series, but it's one of those things that I don't see necessarily translating to the screen well.

    You're probably right
    at the very least Hunt will probably be cut, or have his role reduced to one episode

    Maribold will probably also be a one-episode guy who they just cross paths with rather than travel with

    Podrick has actually had more highly visible role this season than in the book, though, so I would imagine they'd be willing to keep him in the show

  • NeoTomaNeoToma Registered User regular
    I really want the "When men see my ships, They Pray" and the Ten Penny War monolouges in there

    Those were my favorite parts of the slog that was fftc

  • Dongs GaloreDongs Galore Registered User regular
    too bad there's no Damphair
    might not even be a Kingsmoot if Asha's fucked off to the Dreadfort

  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    too bad there's no Damphair
    might not even be a Kingsmoot if Asha's fucked off to the Dreadfort
    how on earth could anyone think to cut the damphair and the kingsmoot

  • IvarIvar Oslo, NorwayRegistered User regular
    too bad there's no Damphair
    might not even be a Kingsmoot if Asha's fucked off to the Dreadfort
    What are you talking about? He was totally in that one episode when he poured seawater on Theon

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Question: is what happened to
    Brienne
    established in dance of dragons? To at least some degree? Because if I read that whole fucking brick and they don't resolve that cliffhanger I'm going to flip a fucking table.

  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    Question: is what happened to
    Brienne
    established in dance of dragons? To at least some degree? Because if I read that whole fucking brick and they don't resolve that cliffhanger I'm going to flip a fucking table.

    yes

    but it immediately sets up a worse cliffhanger

  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    It's possible to deduce what happens just from the information given to you in Feast

    but yes that cliffhanger does get somewhat resolved.

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    YaYa wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    Question: is what happened to
    Brienne
    established in dance of dragons? To at least some degree? Because if I read that whole fucking brick and they don't resolve that cliffhanger I'm going to flip a fucking table.

    yes

    but it immediately sets up a worse cliffhanger

    Yeah, it was pretty unsatisfying.

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  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    Balefuego wrote: »
    It's possible to deduce what happens just from the information given to you in Feast

    but yes that cliffhanger does get somewhat resolved.

    wait, is it?

    what happens

  • ArangArang HUEY LEWISRegistered User regular
    Balefuego wrote: »
    It's possible to deduce what happens just from the information given to you in Feast

    but yes that cliffhanger does get somewhat resolved.

    wait, is it?

    what happens
    Brienne is asked to choose between the sword (going to kill Jaime as revenge for Robb's death) or the noose (dying in his place), and then as they're about to hang her she "shouts the one word that could save her" or something to that tune

    which of course is "sword"

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Arang wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    It's possible to deduce what happens just from the information given to you in Feast

    but yes that cliffhanger does get somewhat resolved.

    wait, is it?

    what happens
    Brienne is asked to choose between the sword (going to kill Jaime as revenge for Robb's death) or the noose (dying in his place), and then as they're about to hang her she "shouts the one word that could save her" or something to that tune

    which of course is "sword"
    well it's not quite as overt as spelling out that it's the one word that could save her, it just says that she calls out a word. The context that's important is that she's looking at Hyle and Pod as she does it, because we know Brienne would die for Jaime, but she would not let others die for him.

    So yes, she calls for the sword.

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  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt proud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelo dorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered User regular
    sarukun wrote: »
    Houk wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    Having finished and knowing what to expect from it, I didn't mind Feast too much once I stopped expecting something to happen. It's a book full of character moments rather than full of plot. If I'd read it when it came out, knowing that there'd be three years until the next one, I'd probably have hated it. As it is, knowing I can read the next one whenever I want, it's not too bad.

    There's not a lot of character development though. Cersei's plot in particular takes a lot of time to tell us that Cersei would be a bad queen and is a pretty unpleasant person. The scales falling from Jaime's eyes seems like the most important thing that happened in her plot. Brienne's character is still Honourable And Good At Fighting. I enjoyed Arya's plot a lot, but found the end point frustrating. Presumably it's going to be two books until we find out what the fuck happened there, ditto Brienne's almost literal cliffhanger
    Actually, Arya shows up in Dance.

    I believe she is the only character who got face time in both books.

    =_= Just in case you don't care to know anything about Goddamned anything in Dance with Dragons.

    the spoiling isn't so much for the person who's about to read Dance, it's for the people who don't know how the time between where we currently are in the show and where dance starts goes

    talking about major characters pretty much confirms they're still alive (which is a bit of a spoiler in this series)

    this has been happening like every other post for the past two pages

    It's fine. Even if people who watch the show and haven't read the books are fucking plebes and [elitism-elitism-elitism]
    JustTee wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    Having finished and knowing what to expect from it, I didn't mind Feast too much once I stopped expecting something to happen. It's a book full of character moments rather than full of plot. If I'd read it when it came out, knowing that there'd be three years until the next one, I'd probably have hated it. As it is, knowing I can read the next one whenever I want, it's not too bad.

    There's not a lot of character development though. Cersei's plot in particular takes a lot of time to tell us that Cersei would be a bad queen and is a pretty unpleasant person. The scales falling from Jaime's eyes seems like the most important thing that happened in her plot. Brienne's character is still Honourable And Good At Fighting. I enjoyed Arya's plot a lot, but found the end point frustrating. Presumably it's going to be two books until we find out what the fuck happened there, ditto Brienne's almost literal cliffhanger
    Actually, Arya shows up in Dance.

    I believe she is the only character who got face time in both books.

    =_= Just in case you don't care to know anything about Goddamned anything in Dance with Dragons.

    the spoiling isn't so much for the person who's about to read Dance, it's for the people who don't know how the time between where we currently are in the show and where dance starts goes

    talking about major characters pretty much confirms they're still alive (which is a bit of a spoiler in this series)

    Listen man. They have a thread, where it is VERY CLEAR that there are NO BOOKS. And if they don't want ANY SPOILERS, that is their safe haven, and that is where they should stay. Sure, mentioning a character confirms they're alive, but spoilers abound in the internets, and if you stray outside of the designated SHOW ONLY zone, well, guess what. Shit has been out for 3, 7, and 13+ years.

    this isn't D&D, we use this one thread for all ASOIAF/GOT stuff and it generally works pretty well
    Houk wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    Having finished and knowing what to expect from it, I didn't mind Feast too much once I stopped expecting something to happen. It's a book full of character moments rather than full of plot. If I'd read it when it came out, knowing that there'd be three years until the next one, I'd probably have hated it. As it is, knowing I can read the next one whenever I want, it's not too bad.

    There's not a lot of character development though. Cersei's plot in particular takes a lot of time to tell us that Cersei would be a bad queen and is a pretty unpleasant person. The scales falling from Jaime's eyes seems like the most important thing that happened in her plot. Brienne's character is still Honourable And Good At Fighting. I enjoyed Arya's plot a lot, but found the end point frustrating. Presumably it's going to be two books until we find out what the fuck happened there, ditto Brienne's almost literal cliffhanger
    Actually, Arya shows up in Dance.

    I believe she is the only character who got face time in both books.

    =_= Just in case you don't care to know anything about Goddamned anything in Dance with Dragons.

    the spoiling isn't so much for the person who's about to read Dance, it's for the people who don't know how the time between where we currently are in the show and where dance starts goes

    talking about major characters pretty much confirms they're still alive (which is a bit of a spoiler in this series)

    this has been happening like every other post for the past two pages

    well yeah and I'd rather it hadn't, but you can only obnoxiously remind people about this so often

    and I know it's an easy thing to slip about cause it seems like such a small detail

    You're right, you're right, that's why I spoilered it

    even if I couldn't resist giving you a little of that monkey sass.

    you're good, sarukun

    I would never begrudge ya a lil monkey sass

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  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt proud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelo dorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered User regular
    Ivar wrote: »
    too bad there's no Damphair
    might not even be a Kingsmoot if Asha's fucked off to the Dreadfort
    What are you talking about? He was totally in that one episode when he poured seawater on Theon

    Eh, there wasn't any indication of who he was at the moment, so it doesn't really make anything a certainty

    it'd assuredly be a different actor when the time came, anyway

    but yeah
    I don't really see how you cut Damphair. Or I guess I can see how, but not why. Someone else could do his plot-moving parts, but the show would be missing out on a whole nother side of Iron Islander culture that you don't really get elsewhere.

    I guess I'm also assuming he's going to show back up with some modicum of importance in WoW

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Ivar wrote: »
    too bad there's no Damphair
    might not even be a Kingsmoot if Asha's fucked off to the Dreadfort
    What are you talking about? He was totally in that one episode when he poured seawater on Theon

    Eh, there wasn't any indication of who he was at the moment, so it doesn't really make anything a certainty

    it'd assuredly be a different actor when the time came, anyway

    but yeah
    I don't really see how you cut Damphair. Or I guess I can see how, but not why. Someone else could do his plot-moving parts, but the show would be missing out on a whole nother side of Iron Islander culture that you don't really get elsewhere.

    I guess I'm also assuming he's going to show back up with some modicum of importance in WoW

    He has at least one POV chapter in Winds of Winter.

    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt proud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelo dorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered User regular
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Ivar wrote: »
    too bad there's no Damphair
    might not even be a Kingsmoot if Asha's fucked off to the Dreadfort
    What are you talking about? He was totally in that one episode when he poured seawater on Theon

    Eh, there wasn't any indication of who he was at the moment, so it doesn't really make anything a certainty

    it'd assuredly be a different actor when the time came, anyway

    but yeah
    I don't really see how you cut Damphair. Or I guess I can see how, but not why. Someone else could do his plot-moving parts, but the show would be missing out on a whole nother side of Iron Islander culture that you don't really get elsewhere.

    I guess I'm also assuming he's going to show back up with some modicum of importance in WoW

    He has at least one POV chapter in Winds of Winter.

    Is it online, or has it just been confirmed/read?

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  • The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    Okay, I just finished FFC, can someone answer me a quick question
    Should I know Pate? I looked in the appendix and it lists a Pate as Tommen's whipping boy which i do recall, but that doesn't sound right unless time travel??

    i'm so bad at characters

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  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt proud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelo dorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered User regular
    The Betman wrote: »
    Okay, I just finished FFC, can someone answer me a quick question
    Should I know Pate? I looked in the appendix and it lists a Pate as Tommen's whipping boy which i do recall, but that doesn't sound right unless time travel??

    i'm so bad at characters

    pretty sure
    pate is the maester-in-training at old town, right? Who was also featured in the prologue chapter of AFFC?

    so think about the prologue chapter and how that ends

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