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Gianthogweed posted:From http://www.iswintercoming.com/when-will-the-show-officially-pass-the-books-t1896.html They left out Pod getting it on with Brienne. First he gets her attention talking about spearing people and then she's letting him help her with her armor? Pretty heavy foreshadowing methinks.
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visceril posted:I'm almost completely sure nobody from Stannis' group has gone north of the wall. I think "Mance" was burned at the foot of the wall at Castle Black. Can't imagine Jon making a noble house of cannibals.
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May 11, 2014 00:47
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you totally forgot the important plot point coming to head at the battle of meere....nah
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May 11, 2014 04:07
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nooneofconsequence posted:The married the Thenns into House Karstark so they must be pretty chill in the book. House Thenn Their words: "We Do Not Go Well With Creme Fraiche" Their sigil: A flayed man in a pot of vegetable stock
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:House Thenn Vegetables are for Southerners. All Southerners.
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Gianthogweed posted:From http://www.iswintercoming.com/when-will-the-show-officially-pass-the-books-t1896.html pretty sure there is malware on that page... I got a fake java update and some redirects... Edit: is Pod dead in the books? kcroy fucked around with this message at 08:59 on May 11, 2014 |
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May 11, 2014 08:57
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If he's not dead, I don't think he'll be very healthy. I doubt hanging for a bit is very good for you.
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Gianthogweed posted:From http://www.iswintercoming.com/when-will-the-show-officially-pass-the-books-t1896.html The girl who plays Sansa is 18 and the girl who plays Arya is almost 18. HBO is going to get creepy as gently caress with them and it makes me sad. 
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May 11, 2014 18:39
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Sansa is still fourteen in the show.
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May 11, 2014 18:42
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A couple episodes ago, Littlefinger was talking to Sansa about how Joffrey had tormented her "for years", so I'm not sure what the timeline is for the show right now.
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May 11, 2014 18:44
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Trast posted:The girl who plays Sansa is 18 and the girl who plays Arya is almost 18. HBO is going to get creepy as gently caress with them and it makes me sad. Tommen's 9 or 10 iirc and they had Margaery ready to pounce on him Urdnot Fire posted:A couple episodes ago, Littlefinger was talking to Sansa about how Joffrey had tormented her "for years", so I'm not sure what the timeline is for the show right now. She was in King's Landing for a couple of years, much as she was in the books.
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May 11, 2014 18:44
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:Tommen's 9 or 10 iirc and they had Margaery ready to pounce on him Tommen's actor is 17. Sooooon.
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May 11, 2014 19:04
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HAPPY mOther's day!
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Urdnot Fire posted:A couple episodes ago, Littlefinger was talking to Sansa about how Joffrey had tormented her "for years", so I'm not sure what the timeline is for the show right now. Last episode it was stated that Cerseis daughter was already two years in Dorne. So I'm guessing they're going with a one season means about one year approach. To compare, in Clash retarted Lolly got pregnant by being gang raped by an peasant mob (classic GRRM) after Myrcella was shipped away and gave birth in Feast. So a big chunk of Clash, all of Storm and at least a couple of chapters of Feast and Dance all take place in nine months. I Love Loosies fucked around with this message at 20:02 on May 11, 2014 |
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May 11, 2014 19:59
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General Bort posted:retarted Lolly
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May 11, 2014 20:02
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maybe babies gestate longer in westeros becasue they clearly have different gravity if someone can shoot a arrow 700 feet directly up with a wooden bow.
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May 11, 2014 20:03
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Maybe Westerosi feet are smaller, it's not like el Gurmó has seen his in years.
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The show timeline is different from the book timeline. http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline
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kcroy posted:pretty sure there is malware on that page... I got a fake java update and some redirects... Sure, but where else am I going to meet Christian Singles in my area (Jessica is only 3.5 miles away)? Is the book out yet?
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jsoh posted:maybe babies gestate longer in westeros becasue they clearly have different gravity if someone can shoot a arrow 700 feet directly up with a wooden bow.  But yeah, different gravity would explain a dwarf doing stuff like doing backwards somersaults down stairs. AtAt-de-fay posted:Is the book out yet?
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May 12, 2014 02:54
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We need a :gurmsay:
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eh, can't make a beard under apparently... edit \\\\\\\\\\\ Solice Kirsk fucked around with this message at 03:09 on May 12, 2014 |
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May 12, 2014 03:05
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Shoehead posted:We need a :gurmsay: Breaking tables is a no-no, right?
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AtAt-de-fay posted:Breaking tables is a no-no, right? If anything, GRRM's more likely to break a chair.
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AtAt-de-fay posted:Sure, but where else am I going to meet Christian Singles in my area (Jessica is only 3.5 miles away)? No way Jessica is just 3.5 miles away from me too! Except I Read she just wants sex with no strings attached if I message her right now  I don't know what to believe any more...So.. about that TV show. I thought Tyrion's speech was good, but a little too tryhard. GF loved it though, so who knows. The Iron Bank is interesting - they had to be a bit more heavy handed with it I think, than they are in the book. The bank is clearly going to play a giant role in how things play out. Thought Asha / Theon scene was a bit unnecessary.. and what kind of lovely warrior just stands there while he slowly..slowly...wait for it while I get the key out.. ok I'm unlocking the kennels now!!!!
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May 12, 2014 09:38
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I'm just glad that Tyrion was pardoned and made Master of Cats. Happy endings abound!
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I don't know, the show is progressing much faster and drifting farther from the books than I would've expected. I think this pretty much confirms the TV authors have no faith in Gurm getting WoW out before march 2015.
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kcroy posted:No way Jessica is just 3.5 miles away from me too! Except I Read she just wants sex with no strings attached if I message her right now The Asha part was weird to me. First it was pointless: give me the fastest boat to save Theon (6 episodes later...) get rear end kicked by a knock off Vamp from metal gear after giving awesome heroic speech. Then stare as the guy slowly opens kennels. Even though she seemingly threw an axe into a guy's skull moments before she forgets that cool trick. What a waste of screen time. I guess she isn't going to feel pity for him like in the books. Also did Davos have all of his fingers cut off? I swear only two were in the book. I caught only a glimpse of the hand in the show but it looked like he was missing them all.
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Hunky Joe posted:Also did Davos have all of his fingers cut off? I swear only two were in the book. I caught only a glimpse of the hand in the show but it looked like he was missing them all. He's missing the first knuckles of all of one hand's fingers in the books.
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Elman posted:Tonight I had a dream that Winds of Winter came out. All I remember is that nothing really happened in it either, and the last scene was Dany still sitting in loving Mereen writing a big rear end book about her experiences. I had a dream last night where I saw a bunch of news articles that the GURM died and this thread was going nuts about it.
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quote:all he can do is whine about how it will be different in his fanfic. Bit harsh. I'd hardly call what the man who's been chosen to write the Officially Licensed Novelisation is doing as 'fanfic'.
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He's not doing anything, fanfic is several notches above GRRM's paygrade.
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You know, I am in this really weird position right now, in relation to George R. R. Martin's ASoIaF. Here's the deal: I got interested in the series around the time the first season of the TV show came out, which I suppose makes me something of a bangwagoner. But I grew up on fantasy sort of, primarily Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin. When I was young, Middle Earth and Earthsea were both, like, huge parts of my consciousness. No surprise I also like Final Fantasy games and Magic Cards and just tended to always gravitate towards fantasy-oriented stuff. Real history is fantasy, but made-up history is just really fun. So anyway! I got into GRRM around 2011 along with a fuckton of other bandwagoners, no doubt. Which makes me feel like I will never *really* be a true fan, but who really cares. I was fairly into the books and the show and the mythology of it all, but not in a big way. I found the books rather dense and overly full of tons of characters with all these unfamiliar names, and so was rather overwhelmed with them initially. Over the course of a couple months, I did a bit of a surface read of the first 3 books. By a surface read I mean I was going rather fast and not spending much time with the books, skating through some of the chapters and bits I found rather tedious and focusing on the main thrust of the story rather than spending time to notice the details - I am sure many an important name/reference to one historical Westerosi location or person or another totally slipped right by me. Partly I think this was how compelling the plotline is through those first three books; it just keeps topping itself and upping the stakes and it's all like a bit of a rollercoaster. Which is fun. But by the end of the book I was feeling burned out on it all, and felt impatient about having to read through a book that I was told was full of Cersei (whom I felt I wasn't interested in) when it was Dany and Tyrion and such that I wanted to hear from. So I lost momentum for quite a while, got sidetracked by other literary things, but kept interest in the show and kept meaning to come back to the last two books. In a way, I thought it was a good thing I was waiting a few years, because everyone else waited tons of years for these books, and I knew I was going to have to wait tons of years for Winds of Winter... So I thought why not wait till I really *WANTED* them and felt like I needed more Westeros. Which I did. Recently, from watching the excellent blu-ray extras and then doing lots of reading online, I have basically done a ton of studying on the "history and lore", so to speak, of the show. Now I know who all of Aegon IV's great bastards were and what happened in the Blackfyre Rebellion, I've read about the line of Targaryen kings and what we know of old Valyria and their origins, I know about the various battles in Robert's Rebellion; who died where, which houses and regions sided with who... Characters like Arthur Dayne (Sword of Morning!) who would have been utterly badass had they still been alive for the series. But anyway, the cool thing is I am actually only 300 pages into A Feast for Crows right now. And while I have been spoiled for most of all the major plot points I think, I don't much care since it really isn't the reason why you read books. It's the journey, not the destination, as they say. And I think it's very cool that I am in the position of knowing a ton about the history and background for the books now. It has made Feast of Crows REALLY enjoyable so far, especially the stuff on the Iron Islands and in Dorne. And the funny thing is that those were the chapters I was feeling very uninterested in before, but now I'm really fascinated to learn more about their culture and see how it is illustrated in the books. Ditto basically all of the Free Cities, and I hope we get more of them in ADwD with Tyrion and such. Anyway uh, I have rambled on long enough and I am sorry for the loving insane WALL OF TEXT; blame my logorrhea on the excessive GRRM reading, if you will. I just wanted to earnestly talk about my current experience with the books, and being in the weird place of both reading it and watching the show while certain parts of the show are totally independent from the books, certain parts are slightly different, certain parts are the same but because the show seems not to be splitting up the characters and messing with the chronology I am far ahead in certain places and behind in others, but... it matters less and less as the show is becoming more of a separate entity, it seems.
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kaworu posted:It's the journey, not the destination, as they say. That's a good philosophy to have when you're on a journey that ends with a 16 years old making GBS threads in a field.
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please go back and reread all of the descriptions of food, it's worth it and provides a reward for the careful reader if you had ever posted in this thread before I wouldn't have believed that was real so good job I guess
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My current experience with the books is that they'll be sitting on my bookshelf for the next 50 years until my grandson finds them, reads them, and then realizes the horrible truth.
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Please tell me you at least read the Dunk & Egg stories, that would somewhat explain the optimism (even though we'll still never get the one where they hang out at Winterfell ). v That scene was indeed great. And be fair, he does more killing in a few episodes, then nothing interesting after that. Urdnot Fire fucked around with this message at 16:40 on May 12, 2014 |
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Hahaha wow some loving babies on my facebook were complaining about spoilers and all I said was Peter Dinklage was killing it in his trial scene. I didn't even say poo poo about how it's the last time he'll do anything interesting at all. P.S. Peter Dinklage loving KILLED his trial scene.
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returnh posted:My current experience with the books is that they'll be sitting on my bookshelf for the next 50 years until my grandson finds them, reads them, and then realizes the horrible truth. grandpa how did the story end? you link to youtube video
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Killing Shae and Tywin is pretty interesting. Although I'm slightly scared he won't kill Shae in the show.
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