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SimBen
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Teaser!
Click here!
And here!
Production design preview
HBO has officially picked up the series! It's really happening!
A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of fantasy novels written by this pimp:
Basically what you do is you get those books and then fuck Lord of the Rings forever. Their deal is that it takes place in a mostly realistic medieval fantasy land and deal with wars between various aristocratic families because everyone thinks they deserve to sit on the throne. That's right, no sissy elves or bearded dwarves all up in here. Also there's undead guys and dragons and shit but they're peripheral enough that by the time they show up you've totally forgotten that this is a fantasy world and you're like holy shit because you just read like 300 pages of people fucking their sisters and drinking heroin as their only form of medicine and prepubescent royalty. It has some of the least bullshitty fantasy dialogue and writing out there in literature and doesn't make up too many words to describe things that already exist in the real world.
Did I mention that guys fuck their sisters in there? Shit, you should be reading it right now, what the hell is wrong with you?
The first four books are out by now and the fifth one has been imminent for like 2 years (but Martin promises it's really almost finished now, for realsies, cross his heart and hope to die). There are 7 books planned in total so we should keep on being cockteased for an extra 17 years or so at this rate. Each book is a massive doorstop, clocking in at around a thousand pages each. And no bullshit big-ass Harry Potter font in there, that's a thousand small-print, dialogue-heavy, no-teen-angst pages.
Then it turns out they made other things based on this series:
A collectible card game!
A board game! (as it turns out, the CCG didn't sell as much as they'd hoped and they had a surplus of cards, so they put them in a big box and made a board game out of them)
A pen and paper RPG!
Now you're starting to think oh shit this stuff is bigger than I thought, why the hell haven't I heard of it up until now? You're a silly goose, that's why, because they're also currently making other things based on it:
An RTS videogame! (Wikipedia doesn't have a page for THAT one because I guess they suck terrible amounts of dick)
An HBO TV series!
Yes. They're making a TV series on cable, which means all the titties and cussing will remain intact. They've only made a pilot up until now, and HBO is supposed to make its final decision over whether to pick up the series or not sometime in the next few weeks. The plan is to make each single book into a season, which means that shit, Martin better get writing or we'll have the longest hiatus in any TV series ever on our hands.
The series stars:
Boromir as Lord Eddard Stark!
Eddard, the Lord of Winterfell, is called upon early in the series to become the Hand of the King after the previous Hand died in mysterious circumstances. He starts poking his nose around and what happens is what always happens in those situations: he uncovers A Sinister Plot(tm).
Sean Bean is fuckawesome.
The best guy as Tyrion Lannister!
Tyrion is the greatest character in the history of literature. That's all you really need to know about him.
Fred Flintstone only not John Goodman as King Robert Baratheon!
That guy is a fatass straight pimp. He's basically what you would be if you were king. Sitting around, constantly wasted, and fucking bitches right and left. Has more illegitimate children than Elvis. He's also Eddard's best buddy in the world. His wife is a stone-cold bitch, which explains the massive amounts of adultery. Speaking of which...
Sarah Connor as Queen Cersei Baratheon!
Stone-cold bitch, and Tyrion's sister. She's from the Obviously Evil Lannister family, which means that's she's up to no good. Hobbies include Sinister Plotting(tm), baby-eating and brother-fucking. Not Tyrion though. Her other brother.
Some Danish Guy as Ser Jaime Lannister!
This brother. He's basically this world's Superman, only imagine if Superman was evil and aryan. And boned his twin sister. He killed the previous king in the War of the Backstory, which let Robert become king, which is why Robert married Cersei because killing the king means now the Lannisters get to have someone in the royal family. It makes sense in context.
Hermione's mom as Lady Catelyn Stark!
Eddard's wife. She's just kind of there in the books, she doesn't do much except tag along with other characters and be a point of view character to tell what happens to those. So I guess she's sort of the Dr. Watson of this series. When she's not worrying about her husband, she's worrying about her kids. That makes her a pretty cool mom.
Ronon Dex as Khal Drogo!
He's the king of the Dothraki, a tribe of horse riders from the grasslands across the ocean. Mostly they just ride around, kill things, eat things and fuck a whole lot. Notable because Daenerys marries him early on in a convoluted plot by her brother to get them an army to take back Westeros. Drogo doesn't really give a shit, he just likes fucking a whole lot.
A Bunch of Kids as Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, Robb Stark, Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, Theon Greyjoy, Viserys Targaryen, Prince Joffrey Baratheon and Bran Stark (played by Isaac Hempstead, who apparently doesn't get an IMDB page for some reason).
These kids are all important in their own way. Notably, Jon Snow is Eddard's bastard son, who gets sent up to the Wall to protect the kingdom against the incoming undead invasion. The Targaryens are the surviving children of the former king, who fled across the ocean when their dynasty fell - Viserys plans to marry Daenerys off to Khal Drogo in order to get his throne back. Joffrey's a little shit, and Arya's pretty cool.
So yeah, not much we can do now but hope the series gets picked up. Enjoy posting here and stuff.
Oh yeah, watch those spoilers. Not all of us have read all the books, and some people will only start watching the series if and when it starts airing.
Links:
George R.R. Martin's Livejournal
Winter is Coming, the blog dedicated to frothing at the mouth in anticipation for the TV series
The series' production blog, where new updates will undoubtedly go first.
Click here!
And here!
Production design preview
HBO has officially picked up the series! It's really happening!
A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of fantasy novels written by this pimp:
Basically what you do is you get those books and then fuck Lord of the Rings forever. Their deal is that it takes place in a mostly realistic medieval fantasy land and deal with wars between various aristocratic families because everyone thinks they deserve to sit on the throne. That's right, no sissy elves or bearded dwarves all up in here. Also there's undead guys and dragons and shit but they're peripheral enough that by the time they show up you've totally forgotten that this is a fantasy world and you're like holy shit because you just read like 300 pages of people fucking their sisters and drinking heroin as their only form of medicine and prepubescent royalty. It has some of the least bullshitty fantasy dialogue and writing out there in literature and doesn't make up too many words to describe things that already exist in the real world.
Did I mention that guys fuck their sisters in there? Shit, you should be reading it right now, what the hell is wrong with you?
The first four books are out by now and the fifth one has been imminent for like 2 years (but Martin promises it's really almost finished now, for realsies, cross his heart and hope to die). There are 7 books planned in total so we should keep on being cockteased for an extra 17 years or so at this rate. Each book is a massive doorstop, clocking in at around a thousand pages each. And no bullshit big-ass Harry Potter font in there, that's a thousand small-print, dialogue-heavy, no-teen-angst pages.
Then it turns out they made other things based on this series:
A collectible card game!
A board game! (as it turns out, the CCG didn't sell as much as they'd hoped and they had a surplus of cards, so they put them in a big box and made a board game out of them)
A pen and paper RPG!
Now you're starting to think oh shit this stuff is bigger than I thought, why the hell haven't I heard of it up until now? You're a silly goose, that's why, because they're also currently making other things based on it:
An RTS videogame! (Wikipedia doesn't have a page for THAT one because I guess they suck terrible amounts of dick)
An HBO TV series!
Yes. They're making a TV series on cable, which means all the titties and cussing will remain intact. They've only made a pilot up until now, and HBO is supposed to make its final decision over whether to pick up the series or not sometime in the next few weeks. The plan is to make each single book into a season, which means that shit, Martin better get writing or we'll have the longest hiatus in any TV series ever on our hands.
The series stars:
Boromir as Lord Eddard Stark!
Eddard, the Lord of Winterfell, is called upon early in the series to become the Hand of the King after the previous Hand died in mysterious circumstances. He starts poking his nose around and what happens is what always happens in those situations: he uncovers A Sinister Plot(tm).
Sean Bean is fuckawesome.
The best guy as Tyrion Lannister!
Tyrion is the greatest character in the history of literature. That's all you really need to know about him.
Fred Flintstone only not John Goodman as King Robert Baratheon!
That guy is a fatass straight pimp. He's basically what you would be if you were king. Sitting around, constantly wasted, and fucking bitches right and left. Has more illegitimate children than Elvis. He's also Eddard's best buddy in the world. His wife is a stone-cold bitch, which explains the massive amounts of adultery. Speaking of which...
Sarah Connor as Queen Cersei Baratheon!
Stone-cold bitch, and Tyrion's sister. She's from the Obviously Evil Lannister family, which means that's she's up to no good. Hobbies include Sinister Plotting(tm), baby-eating and brother-fucking. Not Tyrion though. Her other brother.
Some Danish Guy as Ser Jaime Lannister!
This brother. He's basically this world's Superman, only imagine if Superman was evil and aryan. And boned his twin sister. He killed the previous king in the War of the Backstory, which let Robert become king, which is why Robert married Cersei because killing the king means now the Lannisters get to have someone in the royal family. It makes sense in context.
Hermione's mom as Lady Catelyn Stark!
Eddard's wife. She's just kind of there in the books, she doesn't do much except tag along with other characters and be a point of view character to tell what happens to those. So I guess she's sort of the Dr. Watson of this series. When she's not worrying about her husband, she's worrying about her kids. That makes her a pretty cool mom.
Ronon Dex as Khal Drogo!
He's the king of the Dothraki, a tribe of horse riders from the grasslands across the ocean. Mostly they just ride around, kill things, eat things and fuck a whole lot. Notable because Daenerys marries him early on in a convoluted plot by her brother to get them an army to take back Westeros. Drogo doesn't really give a shit, he just likes fucking a whole lot.
A Bunch of Kids as Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, Robb Stark, Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, Theon Greyjoy, Viserys Targaryen, Prince Joffrey Baratheon and Bran Stark (played by Isaac Hempstead, who apparently doesn't get an IMDB page for some reason).
These kids are all important in their own way. Notably, Jon Snow is Eddard's bastard son, who gets sent up to the Wall to protect the kingdom against the incoming undead invasion. The Targaryens are the surviving children of the former king, who fled across the ocean when their dynasty fell - Viserys plans to marry Daenerys off to Khal Drogo in order to get his throne back. Joffrey's a little shit, and Arya's pretty cool.
So yeah, not much we can do now but hope the series gets picked up. Enjoy posting here and stuff.
Oh yeah, watch those spoilers. Not all of us have read all the books, and some people will only start watching the series if and when it starts airing.
Links:
George R.R. Martin's Livejournal
Winter is Coming, the blog dedicated to frothing at the mouth in anticipation for the TV series
The series' production blog, where new updates will undoubtedly go first.
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this forum makes them sound pretty great
i should pick them up before that hbo series makes them even more famous. that way i can feel like one of the cool kids.
The fact that GRR has a livejournal makes me laugh. Book 5 is never coming out is it?
I always just thought of it as really dirty blonde hair, almost brown.
Currently rereading these, midway through CoK.
bad things. it's always bad things that happen.
Best scene in the books so far?
Might as well while I wait for Dresden and Temeraire books to come out.
Mission accomplished.
second, even though you're only on Clash you can't deny Catelyn does stuff in the series
Patrick Stewart as Mormont.
Well, you're right. I guess she's sort of a puppetmaster in her own way. It just seems that her chapters are more about other people doing stuff than they're about her doing stuff.
Also I never saw your thread... sorry. :S
The script for the pilot was pretty much perfect, there is no way the show won't be awesome.
I just hope it dosent get too expensive to keep going lime Rome was.
Steam
Ser Jorah's already been cast: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322513/
can we just put "spoilers" in the thread title or something, fuuuuuuck
He was great in Elf though!
XBox LIVE: Bogestrom | Destiny
PSN: Bogestrom
Gross oversight.
No I meant the commander of the Nights Watch. I can't remember his first name - is it ever mentioned o_O
who are you
Everyone just calls him Old Bear anyway.
Oh yeah, Jeor. Yeah, Patrick Stewart would make a kick-ass him.
Fantasycastinglol etc etc