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http://www.grantland.com/blog/holly...series-of-books If you don't want to go into a frothing murderous rage with contempt for all TV watching slugs, don't click. (Do it anyway).
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Shoehead posted:
My lupine top is all that Stark brain, wolf hat I know you want a piece of that But I just wanna dance
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I don't even want to raise my blood pressure. I actually see it as both, they creating a synthesized whole in my mind that gives more life to the story (books ideally should be read first though). Except the scale of everything is hosed in both; too small in the show, too big in the books. For content: neeps
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Joramun posted:My lupine top is all that  Bravo sir.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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mythicknight posted:http://www.grantland.com/blog/holly...series-of-books I made it about a fifth of the way through. I'll wait for the TV adaptation.
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The Wall was weeping. Despite the onset of winter the cloudless sky allowed the morning sunlight to pour down on Castle Black making the weather somewhat tolerable. One might even call it pleasant. One hundred leagues to the south snow had buried all the lands from Winterfell to the Bay of Ice. And Stannis Baratheon's army along with it, Jon thought, mouth agape. But Jon pushed that thought from his mind. The watch takes no part he remembered. Besides, today at least was not a time for morose brooding but for celebration. Not only had Jon been resurrected from the dead, declared to be Azor Ahai reborn - savior of the human race, and learned he was the son of Rhaegar Targaryan and thus rightful heir to the Iron Throne; but Thormund Giantsbane had finally returned from Hardhome with the remnants of Mother Mole's wildling refugees. There was to a feast in the Shield Hall in honor of the returning heroes. Three Finger Hobb was serving triple-glazed capons stuffed with leeks drenched in honey garlic lemon butter. Speaking of leeks, thought Jon, I have to piss like a tourney destrier... This was the beginning of a chapter where Jon Snow meets an injured giant (a refugee from Hardhome) and, while tending to his injuries, proceeds to suck the giant's dick. Afterwards Jon asks the giant's name (in the Old Tongue) and the giant grunts, "Jora-Ya-Muhn." Jon has a moment of realization just before the Wall begins to collapse (that he has blown the Horn of Joramun). Just wanted to get this fantastic idea out there before the thread ends 
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^^^ hahahaha
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ShaqDiesel posted:Not only had Jon been resurrected from the dead, declared to be Azor Ahai reborn - savior of the human race, and learned he was the son of Rhaegar Targaryan and thus rightful heir to the Iron Throne Even as an out-and-proud Targ he is still baseborn though, so his highborn little brother (Aegon) and even his aunt (Dany) would go before him as far as the Targaryen line of succession goes. And besides, their claim to the Iron Throne is spotty at best anyway, since the actual rightful heir is currently Stannis.
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Joramun posted:Even as an out-and-proud Targ he is still baseborn though, so his highborn little brother (Aegon) and even his aunt (Dany) would go before him as far as the Targaryen line of succession goes. And besides, their claim to the Iron Throne is spotty at best anyway, since the actual rightful heir is currently Stannis. You forget that that R+L were married. Also they were mermaids.
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rypakal posted:You forget that that R+L were married. Also they were mermaids. Exactly, thank you.
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Joramun posted:the actual rightful heir is currently Stannis. Hell yeah it is. Stannis the motherfuckin' Mannis. 
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Jun 12, 2013 23:17
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 We should get this shirt but with the -ny replaced with -nis.
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Honestly I just assume everyone is a mermaid until explicitly stated otherwise
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Does anyone have the link for the "fat pink mast" scene set to porno music?
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Brienne was looking for a mermaid of three and ten, right?nooneofconsequence posted:Does anyone have the link for the "fat pink mast" scene set to porno music?
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You sure found that quickly.
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nooneofconsequence posted:You sure found that quickly. It makes a great ringtone.
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I like how it's marked 'Spiritual.' That's a nice little touch. Anyone have the odds that the GRRM has it bookmarked?
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So how is Gurm pronounced? Jerm?
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elmer fud posted:So how is Gurm pronounced? Jerm? I go with Gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm
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elmer fud posted:So how is Gurm pronounced? Jerm? Gurm, Gurm, it rhymes with worm. You have to remember your name!
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I always go with the hard G, like in Getter Robo or Gundam Double-Zeta. That gutteral start helps me spit the word out, full of bile and hatred.
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Ser Gurm of Jeersea, fattest of his name Makes perfect sense, you never go rear end to mouth \/\/\/\/ Oberst fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Jun 13, 2013 |
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So I'm pretty certain Dany is immune to regular disease and sicknesses, and the reason she is ill at the end of ADWD is Daario. Daario had her every way a man can have a women. Dany is sick because Daario went rear end to mouth. I'm just like the guy who figured out Tywin being poisoned.
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GRRM. A terrible name for a terrible man.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Gurm, Gurm, it rhymes with worm.
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Oh show watchers, why do you look down on us. They should fear us if anything.
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So the telly thread is going on about character names and I just noticed something (that I can't post there because books) interesting while watching Quite Interesting. So there was this bloke named Dampier who was quite the accomplished sea captain and a bit of a brute and the way Stephen Fry says it his name could easily be mistaken for Damphair by the American Tolkien. On reflection he seems more like Euron but I think I'm on to something.  
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Apparently there's a whole bunch of people who think 'Damphair' is pronounced Damfair cause they're stupid.
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rypakal posted:You forget that that R+L were married. Also they were mermaids. That reminds me. When is the Disney-animated adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire coming out?
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Contra Calculus posted:That reminds me. When is the Disney-animated adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire coming out? Before book six for a certainty.
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syscall girl posted:So the telly thread is going on about character names and I just noticed something (that I can't post there because books) interesting while watching Quite Interesting. Sea captain you say?  This is the one true sea captain.
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Contra Calculus posted:That reminds me. When is the Disney-animated adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire coming out? After the TV show is done, can't have people comparing the two things!
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Now that the show is over I think I'll re-read the last two again. I never thought I'd want to but I realised that I can skip all of the Dany stuff so that's a bonus. Next, this is probably an old, old topic, but the book is written in English, so it seems a bit pointless that GRRM has 'translated' every other word perfectly into English except for 'ser'. Has anyone read a non-English version of the books, and was it similarly changed slightly from whatever the equivalent is? The only logical reason I can see is that the characters are somehow actually speaking English and almost everything is the same except for this word, and it will become clear when Hodor stumbles over the head of the Statue of Liberty. 'Southron' might be the same, but I can't remember if people in certain regions use 'southern', which would make it OK because in that case he'd just be showing some minor language differences within the world. 'Frak' didn't bother me because I presumed they were just trying to depict swearing but still get past the censors. I can't see any reason for 'ser'.
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I didn't understand the use of neeps and turnips in the same book. Leal, serjeant, and raper (I think he switched to rapist for one of the books?) stuck out as well. Edit: Well this is unsettling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6HhKaBq_Ho Urdnot Fire fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Jun 13, 2013 |
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Urdnot Fire posted:I didn't understand the use of neeps and turnips in the same book. Leal, serjeant, and raper (I think he switched to rapist for one of the books?) stuck out as well. I love how they get a CG dragon to look natural flying around, but Emilia Clark sitting at a table was way too much. run DNC posted:So I'm pretty certain Dany is immune to regular disease and sicknesses, and the reason she is ill at the end of ADWD is Daario. Daario had her every way a man can have a women. Dany is sick because Daario went rear end to mouth. There was some stuff floating around online about her possibly being downstream of the plague camp, drinking infected poo poo water. I'm not sure which would be funnier, her dying of the plague or having an STD.
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Shoehead posted:I love how they get a CG dragon to look natural flying around, but Emilia Clark sitting at a table was way too much. It's because we don't know what a dragon really would look like flying around, so it looks natural to us, but we've seen Dany sit around not doing poo poo, so when we see an obviously pasted in version of her we can tell her apart from the dragons we've never really seen before 
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run DNC posted:So I'm pretty certain Dany is immune to regular disease and sicknesses, and the reason she is ill at the end of ADWD is Daario. Daario had her every way a man can have a women. Dany is sick because Daario went rear end to mouth. What's this about Tywin having been poisoned? Is that why he's on the shitter when Tyrion comes and murders him with a crossbow? How is this known?
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Ogmius815 posted:What's this about Tywin having been poisoned? Is that why he's on the shitter when Tyrion comes and murders him with a crossbow? How is this known? Oberyn makes a cryptic comment about Tywin not living forever. Oberyn is known to love poisons and uses them against Gregor. Oberyn knows that Tywin was the one who gave Gregor his orders to kill Elia and the kids. Oberyn has a clear motive to kill Tywin and the means via poison to get it done. Other clues include Tywin being on the shitter when Tyrion shoots him and George Raymond Richard Martin going on about Tywin's corpse giving off a nasty rear end stench when it's being viewed at his funeral.
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