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It's very funny to me that he could be working hours every day on the book or doing absolutely nothing and we'll likely never know which is true
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Dirac Fourier posted:I don't think we're ever getting another ASOIAF book out of GRRM, but I still check for a status update about once a year. I found this timeline which is depressing: Working hard thank you
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Aug 16, 2023 22:21
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Well, keep in mind in 2010 those Winds chapters he says he has finished are, more than likely, chapters that were cut from Dance. They're "finished" in the sense that they were written for book 5 but got moved to book 6.
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Aug 16, 2023 22:45
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Bright Bart posted:You know her inner monologue doesn't sound drunk. But it could well be the inner monlogue of someone constantly under the influence. You have many alcoholics who drink all that to a BAC that would make others fall over themselves while still appearing to function. Doesn't mean their judgement isn't impaired. her pov thinks about how shes gaining weight from drinking so much wine lol. shes definitely a problem drinker edit: actualyl she might think about how her servants are modifying her clothes to make her think shes getting fatter because shes also paranoid since joff died
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Aug 16, 2023 22:51
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She’s not gaining weight though. There’s a Tyrell conspiracy among the washerwomen to shrink her clothes.
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Aug 16, 2023 22:53
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oh ya its that. thats another bit of grrm not understanding what hes writing about because the actual dresses and stuff would likely never be washed only the underclothes that actually interact with your body. underwear was used to make it so you didnt have to wash your insanely expensive and dyed out clothes and lose the dye
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Aug 16, 2023 22:56
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Platystemon posted:She’s not gaining weight though. This reminds me of an  I committed when I first read Game of Thrones many, many years ago. Robert learns he's too fat for his armor and sends some lackey off to get a "breastplate stretcher" and I was baffled by this because I know such a thing couldn't possibly work. Much later I realized he was deliberately sending the dude on a wild goose chase.
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Aug 16, 2023 23:01
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Dirac Fourier posted:I don't think we're ever getting another ASOIAF book out of GRRM, but I still check for a status update about once a year. I found this timeline which is depressing: Congratulations on having written more about Martin writing TWoW than Martin has written of TWoW.
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Aug 16, 2023 23:13
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Kylaer posted:This reminds me of an it's done alot better in the show tbf, tone helps alot
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Aug 16, 2023 23:14
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nine-gear crow posted:Working hard thank you Maybe he should have just created more books to keep publishing, instead of hoarding all those pages for himself. We could have had Winds of Late Autumn, Winds of Early Winter and Storms of Deep Winter by now. Then he'd already been writing A Very Late Winter Breeze by now, and by next year he'd have started work on Extremely Early, But Slightly Muddy Spring but no, he knew better than all of us, and now he has over nine thousand pages and no book
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Aug 16, 2023 23:22
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It's only been 12 years give the man a break
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Aug 16, 2023 23:41
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He wrote and released the first four books in less time than it’s taken to write and release winds of winter.
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Aug 16, 2023 23:56
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A Storm of Swords is the last book that was unanimously liked, and was published 23 years ago. If he'd just rushed to the conclusion we wouldn't even have time to figure out the ending
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Aug 17, 2023 00:10
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ruddiger posted:He wrote and released the first four books in less time than it’s taken to write and release winds of winter. He wrote and released the first three books in less time than it took to write and release A Feast for Crows
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Aug 17, 2023 00:23
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He should release both Winds and Spring at the same time. I would be so trolled.
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Aug 17, 2023 00:29
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He’s going to break it up and release winds of winter parts 1 and 2
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winds o and f winter
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ItohRespectArmy posted:it's done alot better in the show tbf, tone helps alot And if I wasn’t a long time fan of Mark Addy, you could totally convince me he was concocted in a jar in Yorkshire, the product of a decades long project to engineer the perfect actor to play Robert Baratheon. Dude is perfectly cast and he delivers the absolute balls off every line. I still hate that show but they nailed most of the initial cast.
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Xiahou Dun posted:And if I wasn’t a long time fan of Mark Addy, you could totally convince me he was concocted in a jar in Yorkshire, the product of a decades long project to engineer the perfect actor to play Robert Baratheon. rewarching the show fairly recently took alot of the shine off but i think the one thing most agree on is that the first season is really stunning, they pretty much nail everything
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Aug 17, 2023 03:20
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Platystemon posted:He should release both Winds and Spring at the same time. To be fair, he is. Both books are coming out at the same time; never.
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Aug 17, 2023 04:09
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Xiahou Dun posted:And if I wasn’t a long time fan of Mark Addy, you could totally convince me he was concocted in a jar in Yorkshire, the product of a decades long project to engineer the perfect actor to play Robert Baratheon. I remember when they recast The Mountain the first time and no one recognized him
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Aug 17, 2023 05:17
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bobjr posted:I remember when they recast The Mountain the first time and no one recognized him the first mountain guy left to go film the hobbit lol
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Aug 17, 2023 05:17
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ItohRespectArmy posted:the first mountain guy left to go film the hobbit lol To be fair, at the time bouncing on a show that hadn't premiered yet and seemed like a giant risky gamble that might not find an audience to go work for Peter Jackson on another Tolkien movie trilogy sounded like a smart career move. And then Hey at least we got Hafthor Bjornsson out of it eventually.
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Aug 17, 2023 06:31
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bobjr posted:I remember when they recast The Mountain the first time and no one recognized him lol yeah, i didn't get that he was supposed to be the new mountain
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Aug 17, 2023 08:31
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the middle mountain was a pure "he's in one scene this year just get a tall guy" thing
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Aug 17, 2023 08:44
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Season two Mountain was Ian Whyte, who is significantly taller than Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (7′ 1″ to 6′ 9″), but Hafþór is like an entire man heavier.
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Aug 17, 2023 08:57
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ItohRespectArmy posted:rewarching the show fairly recently took alot of the shine off but i think the one thing most agree on is that the first season is really stunning, they pretty much nail everything the play with her arse scene is sublime
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Elman posted:the play with her arse scene is sublime he didn't say that it was good, he said that they nail everything
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Aug 17, 2023 09:32
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I remember Stephen King once saying he couldn't leave his desk until he'd written at least a thousand words every day, no matter how bad they were. If GRRM could have done half of that he'd have finished years ago.
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Aug 17, 2023 13:10
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Platystemon posted:She’s not gaining weight though. She's so stupid, I love her so much.
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Aug 17, 2023 13:12
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Platystemon posted:He should release both Winds and Spring at the same time. Release Spring but not Winds and make the nerds go mad trying to figure out what happened.
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No. Release Winds, in a few more years. Then a year after that when someone asks how Spring is going GRRM needs to say "Oh I've got some initial ideas floating around. I really rushed the last book and it really took a toll on me. Going to take it slow with this one.".
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Just copy the phrases "words are wind" and "nipples on a breastplate", write a couple descriptions of feasts and have someone break their fast on roast capon, and you're like 15% there. Add that terrible Mercy chapter that's already written and you're basically done.
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bone emulator posted:Just copy the phrases "words are wind" and "nipples on a breastplate", write a couple descriptions of feasts and have someone break their fast on roast capon, and you're like 15% there. No lemoncakes?!??!?!
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No neeps? No snarks and grumkins? No sweet summer child? No asking where the whores go? No sapphires?
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Mad Hamish posted:No neeps? No snarks and grumkins? No sweet summer child? No asking where the whores go? No sapphires? I'm a little disappointed they never said "snarks and grumpkins" on the TV show.
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They did in s1
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nine-gear crow posted:Hey at least we got Hafthor Bjornsson out of it eventually. He was good, but he was in no way believable as the OLDER brother of the Hound.
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nine-gear crow posted:I'm a little disappointed they never said "snarks and grumpkins" on the TV show. Cersei says it when she's making fun of Tyrion(?) for believing in The Others
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The thing that stood out about the first season on my rewatch is that the writing is (mostly) very good, but visually it's not that great. There's the occasional nice shot but more distracting camera movement and awkward cuts than you might think. You can tell they're still developing the style, and obviously don't have the massive budget of the later seasons.
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