Theodore Flooseveltproud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelodorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered Userregular
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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?
I know it's been read, I don't know if it was ever put online cause I kind of intentionally avoid that stuff.
my brother-in-law marathoned through the first season yesterday and the day before. he finished the 9th episode last night, slowly turned to me, and said, "What. the fuck?"
it was delicious.
he was apparently mostly watching for the usual non-book reasons, and was disheartened, asking if the second season was even worth it. i told him i certainly thought so -- the characters all get a lot more interesting, but he should watch the 10th episode and decide. ...apparently, the second season is on order.
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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?
I know it's been read, I don't know if it was ever put online cause I kind of intentionally avoid that stuff.
gonna find it, read it, and spoil it for bale
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I have been reading these while in the hospital for the past month.
Fucking feast of fuckall happens.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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
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
Spoiling is the sweetest thing there is. What do you think reading the books is for? You think it’s all condescending to show watchers and laughing at their ignorance? Book readers are for spoiling.
go back and read the description of Jaqen H'ghar's new face in AGOT and the description of the guy who kills Pate
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Watching the latest episode reminded me of a recurring thing throughout the series that really annoys me. Double-spoiler below.
"I'm going to gather a mighty army comprised of the most seasoned warriors, storm my enemy's castle and take revenge for the terrible deeds they have wrought upon my family and homeland! Prepare for a mighty battle that will determine the fate of all Westeros!"
I've only watched a few episodes of the series, but it really bugs me that they changed the wedding night scene for daenerys so that the message of it was essentially the opposite of the book. There was no point to it and it set up some really weird implications.
I've only watched a few episodes of the series, but it really bugs me that they changed the wedding night scene for daenerys so that the message of it was essentially the opposite of the book. There was no point to it and it set up some really weird implications.
It definitely plays out differently in the book, and that's actually how they initially tried to film it, but basically both the director and the actors felt like it wasn't really working. In the books he's fairly nice to her the first time, and then just kind of treats her like a piece of meat afterwards until she's really able to get him to see her as an individual, but that kind of complex relationship arc is damned hard to fit into the limited screen time of a TV series. So instead they rejiggered it so that it was very, very rapey in the beginning, to communicate Dany's fear and terror (and that she's basically just been sold off in exchange for soldiers) and then it's an ongoing strengthening relationship between them afterwards.
It's still a sort of Stockholm Syndrome-y relationship, but then that IS sort of what their relationship was like.
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that scene with dany and the warlock in season two though?
where she
is warlocked into the tent with drogo and her kid
that shit makes me cry every time man
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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.
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.
see
i think she says
Arya
or
Sansa
GRRM confirmed it was Sword
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NogsCrap, crap, mega crap.Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered Userregular
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.
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.
see
i think she says
Arya
or
Sansa
She tries those words earlier in the scene. There's only one thing Stoneheart really cares about it and it's not that.
Watching the latest episode reminded me of a recurring thing throughout the series that really annoys me. Double-spoiler below.
"I'm going to gather a mighty army comprised of the most seasoned warriors, storm my enemy's castle and take revenge for the terrible deeds they have wrought upon my family and homeland! Prepare for a mighty battle that will determine the fate of all Westeros!"
"lol nope"
you may not have noticed but kind of the point of the series is to subvert those sorts of fantasy tropes
Watching the latest episode reminded me of a recurring thing throughout the series that really annoys me. Double-spoiler below.
"I'm going to gather a mighty army comprised of the most seasoned warriors, storm my enemy's castle and take revenge for the terrible deeds they have wrought upon my family and homeland! Prepare for a mighty battle that will determine the fate of all Westeros!"
"lol nope"
you may not have noticed but kind of the point of the series is to subvert those sorts of fantasy tropes
I know that, but...
it's the same trap used over and over and over.
It would be nice to have an actual old fashioned battle once in a while.
Stannis' raid on King's Landing was great and didn't end in a bullshit way.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I can't wait to see
tyrion's combat trial
in the show.
Since
the mountain
hasn't been at the forefront as much as I'd expect.
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did that answer your question well enough?
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okay very good then, very good
I know it's been read, I don't know if it was ever put online cause I kind of intentionally avoid that stuff.
it was delicious.
gonna find it, read it, and spoil it for bale
Fucking feast of fuckall happens.
but they let me order it from their website in-store and then gave me free shipping so that was really neat
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Spoiling is the sweetest thing there is. What do you think reading the books is for? You think it’s all condescending to show watchers and laughing at their ignorance? Book readers are for spoiling.
I didn't notice it was the same name, because it was like a week later and I didn't know I was suppose to remember him.
in AGOT? or ACOK?
it is like the single thing I picked up on while reading the books instead of way later
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It definitely plays out differently in the book, and that's actually how they initially tried to film it, but basically both the director and the actors felt like it wasn't really working. In the books he's fairly nice to her the first time, and then just kind of treats her like a piece of meat afterwards until she's really able to get him to see her as an individual, but that kind of complex relationship arc is damned hard to fit into the limited screen time of a TV series. So instead they rejiggered it so that it was very, very rapey in the beginning, to communicate Dany's fear and terror (and that she's basically just been sold off in exchange for soldiers) and then it's an ongoing strengthening relationship between them afterwards.
It's still a sort of Stockholm Syndrome-y relationship, but then that IS sort of what their relationship was like.
where she
that shit makes me cry every time man
see
i think she says
or
Sansa
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She tries those words earlier in the scene. There's only one thing Stoneheart really cares about it and it's not that.
you may not have noticed but kind of the point of the series is to subvert those sorts of fantasy tropes
I know that, but...
It would be nice to have an actual old fashioned battle once in a while.
Stannis' raid on King's Landing was great and didn't end in a bullshit way.
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Since
I KILLED HER SCREAMING WHELP
THEN I RAPED HER
THEN I SMASHED HER FUCKING HEAD IN
(Book spoilers)
what has happened to me
except it ain't pointless, the Ironborn stuff especially.
I do, though. Give me more Dorne plz.
ironborn, though, that's where its at
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Dorne and the Ironborn are your new main characters! We're starting from basically scratch here..
man, i guess
i cannot see brienne actually going through with that though
I'm just hoping that they can get Patrick Stewart to play the Kindly Man.
More like "We do not bow"
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