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[ASoIaF/Game of Thrones] TV Series and SPOILERED Game/Clash/Storm/Feast Discussion.

Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of ForksRegistered User regular
edited July 2011 in Social Entropy++
So Game of Thrones Season One is over!

Let's recap what's happened...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxLOXUGmRKI&NR=1

Then some other stuff happened, which you probably know about.

And since you know about that stuff, here's a video to make it all better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giSLLG02Ex0&feature=related

Now, the TV series is over until next Spring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KG_uQ5R7cM

But the original books are still out there!
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And the newest one in the series comes out in less than a month!

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And we will probably be talking about it, and yelling at people who mess up their spoiler tags while talking about it.

It'll be a fun time for all.

Now here's one last video for the road.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYNeT2nzEgA

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  • Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    And while I am sure you do not need reminding, here is a reminder.

    MARK ALL SPOILERS BY BOOK/EPISODE, AND SPOILER ALL DETAILS, REGARDLESS OF HOW MINUTE THE SPOILERS ARE.

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    this thread title is the most accurate thing ever

    my mother was whining about having to wait nine whole months for more show

    I just looked at her and said "the fourth book came out in 2005."

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  • TurambarTurambar Independent Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Good article: http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/06/19/game-of-thrones-season-finale/

    The executive producers talk about the two last episode and their thoughts on battles, dragons and direwolves in season 2

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  • Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    In the interest of full honesty, somebody else inspired the thread title in the last thread, by making the same exact statement.

    Can't remember who.

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  • GalyGaly Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I was thinking about making an OP titled "Day 2073 without a new [ASOIAF] book. The wait continues."

    But this one is pretty good too.

    Oh and 2073 days is an exact calculation. Fuck.

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  • Saint_DipsetSaint_Dipset Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    The siege of Leningrad only lasted 900 days.

    I think we have it WAY worse than them.

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  • UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    which house has the best words?

    http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Mottoes/

    i vote for House Plumm - "Come at me, bro"
    "Come Try Me"

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  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Ubik wrote: »
    which house has the best words?

    http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/Mottoes/

    i vote for House Plumm - "Come at me, bro"
    "Come Try Me"

    drogocomeatme.gif

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  • Alucard6986Alucard6986 xbox: Ubeltanzer swtor: UbelRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Greyjoy "We do not give a fuck."

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  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    It will be a crime against humanity if we don't get to see Ser Gregor solo kill 20 guys at once next season.

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  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    this is a good show

    i think i'm going to read game of thrones between seasons but not move on to book two. having started off with the show, i kind of want to keep that as my primary document.

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  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    This show is so good. I might have to read the books this summer. Does it get more fantasyish from here on out? I like that there is a little but I'm going to be bummed if it gets all epic elves and dragons all over the place.

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Doodmann wrote: »
    This show is so good. I might have to read the books this summer. Does it get more fantasyish from here on out? I like that there is a little but I'm going to be bummed if it gets all epic elves and dragons all over the place.

    barely

    very mild vague spoilers
    there's a bit more magic, but that's really the biggest extent of it

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  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    In my opinion it does not get all epic elves and dragons all over the place.


    You are going to love the elves I promise

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2011
    It is slowly building towards a little more magic as we go along.

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  • Mad IronMad Iron Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    The fantasy element is about as foreign to most of the characters as it would be to us. That's one thing I love about this series.

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  • Mad IronMad Iron Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Another thing would be the tits.

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  • Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Good god I cannot wait for the 5th book to come out.

    Like, I'm considering taking a vacation day off work for it.

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  • ShadowenShadowen Snores in the morning LoserdomRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Let's try to actually post The Picture once a page this thread. We came close last time, but a few were missed.

    Also, those house words are fun... House Codd--"Though All Men Do Despise Us".

    Basically, "Haters gonna hate." With a dash of "They see me rollin'..."

    Actually, that could be a fun game. Take the words of houses and put them in modern parlance.

    House Lonmouth--"The Choice Is Yours". "We can do this the easy way, or the hard way."

    House Merryweather of Longtable--"Behold Our Bounty". "I make it rain, bitches."

    House Grandison of Grandview--"Rouse Me Not". With those words, and that name, how could this not be "Don't make me come over there!"

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  • Yakumo FujiiYakumo Fujii Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Romanian My Escutcheon, Doxy wrote: »
    In the interest of full honesty, somebody else inspired the thread title in the last thread, by making the same exact statement.

    Can't remember who.

    Me! Though I must admit I stole it from elsewhere on the interwebs.

    "People complaining about a 1 year wait? Oh my sweet summer child. What do you know of waiting? Waiting is for the long night, when GRRM hides for years and children are born and live and die all before the next book comes out."

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    What was she like?
    "Ordinary. The kind of dangerous, beautiful ordinary that you just can't leave alone. Like an angel from the underworld or maybe a devil from paradise."

    "It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation."
  • Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Is it weird that I'm looking forward to reading articles on Tower of the Hand about ADwD just as much as the actual book itself?

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  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Shadowen wrote: »
    Also, those house words are fun... House Codd--"Though All Men Do Despise Us".

    Basically, "Haters gonna hate." With a dash of "They see me rollin'..."

    More like, "please sirs, don't fuck our butts too much".

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    less than 3 weeks until Dance


    ahhhhh

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Halfway through SoS

    Catelyn is such an idiot

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    yup

    but it's ok because
    her stupidity is the reason we get Jaime and Brienne's excellent adventures

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Balefuego wrote: »
    yup

    but it's ok because
    her stupidity is the reason we get Jaime and Brienne's excellent adventures
    I think Brienne and Arya are my favorite ladies so far, the rest are at best marginally useful and at worst are Cersei

    And I can't help but really really like Brienne though I'm sure that'll be mixed with more pity as I get to her backstory

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Usagi is this your first readthrough

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    there are other awesome ladies


    like Olenna and Asha

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Yep, I had tried to read the first book ages ago but was terribly put off by GRRM's essential wordyness

    This time I happened to shove the first two books in my carry on during some work trips and have been sucked in, not so much by the quality of the prose but by the fact that I frustratingly need to know what happens next

    Sort of like why I read all seven books of Dark Tower

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    alright well slog through Storm of Swords, not all that much happens after the first half

    all book spoilers don't read this Usagi
    teeheeheeheehee

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    See the problem here is that I don't give an eff about spoilers so I've basically read everything in this and the last thread

    Have managed to stay away from clips of the show though, want to keep that intact until I can rent/buy it and watch straight through season 1

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Martin's not the greatest at the prose, but he's far from the worst, especially on the sci-fi/fantasy shelves. Just pick up any book within five feet of his at the bookstore and read a random page. Some of that stuff is so bad I can't fathom how it gets published.

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Captain K wrote: »
    Martin's not the greatest at the prose, but he's far from the worst, especially on the sci-fi/fantasy shelves. Just pick up any book within five feet of his at the bookstore and read a random page. Some of that stuff is so bad I can't fathom how it gets published.

    Oh my goodness yes

    Teenage girl on the plane back from New Orleans asked me what I was reading, when I answered Game of Thrones she went "Eeewwwww" and went back to her Twilight ripoff

    Got durn kids these days

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  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I very much enjoy the picture of two people side by side, one reading aSoIaF and the other Twilight, each eyeing the other's book with disdain.

    Seriously on
  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I'm so spoiled by guys like Stephenson and Mieville that it's scary to venture out into the wild and try to discover new sci-fi of any kind.

    Like I was just telling a bud via IM, I was initially turned off of Joe Abercrombie's "First Law" books, which I read only a few months ago, because his prose is so mundane. It's not that it's bad, I'm just spoiled, as I say. And his characters and plot are so great that I finished that trilogy really quickly, with voracious interest.

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  • Mad IronMad Iron Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Usagi wrote: »
    Captain K wrote: »
    Martin's not the greatest at the prose, but he's far from the worst, especially on the sci-fi/fantasy shelves. Just pick up any book within five feet of his at the bookstore and read a random page. Some of that stuff is so bad I can't fathom how it gets published.

    Oh my goodness yes

    Teenage girl on the plane back from New Orleans asked me what I was reading, when I answered Game of Thrones she went "Eeewwwww" and went back to her Twilight ripoff

    Got durn kids these days

    Walking through Barnes and Noble the other day, I saw a section called "New Teen Paranormal Romance."

    I hate the world.

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I, too, was recently chagrined to discover the existence of Paranormal Romance as an acknowledged genre.

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  • MulysaSemproniusMulysaSempronius but also susie nyRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    One of my pet peeves is the phrase "from whence."
    Whence already means "from where."
    GRRM uses the phrase too much.

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    If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
  • NechriahNechriah Chookity!Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    All the bookstores I've been in have just lumped Twilight and Vampire Diaries and stuff of that nature under "Vampires"

    Even one of my lady friends who likes Twilight thinks that's pretty bad (can't wait to see her face when I tell her about "Teen Paranormal Romance.") She says that at best, vampires is a sub-genre that should be filed under either cooking or lifestyle.

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  • ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Captain K wrote: »
    I'm so spoiled by guys like Stephenson and Mieville that it's scary to venture out into the wild and try to discover new sci-fi of any kind.

    Like I was just telling a bud via IM, I was initially turned off of Joe Abercrombie's "First Law" books, which I read only a few months ago, because his prose is so mundane. It's not that it's bad, I'm just spoiled, as I say. And his characters and plot are so great that I finished that trilogy really quickly, with voracious interest.

    I have this weird thing going on with Mieville, like any time I read one of his books I spend half the time exclaiming in annoyance at one thing or another, I can probably find something irritating on every page.

    Then I buy his next book.

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