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1-800-DOCTORB posted:All hope seems lost for our heroes as the White Walkers have crossed the last line of defense within King's Landing. Jon Snow lays on the ground dying of a mortal wound as the Night's King approaches. "It's time to end this" he says chillingly as he is about to deliver the final blow when suddenly a fully greyscaled Jorah bursts through the wall yelling, "NO, IT'S CLOBBERIN TIME". And out pours an army of stone men, for Jorah has become King of the Stone Men, and brought them to Dany's aid. Or you know, something touchy feely like that.
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Jorah accidentally infects Dany who slowly succumbs to the infection. In one of her final moments she laments how the disease has changed her and then looks directly into the camera and states "for I am now Lady Stoneheart".
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lifts cats over head posted:Jorah accidentally infects Dany who slowly succumbs to the infection. In one of her final moments she laments how the disease has changed her and then looks directly into the camera and states "for I am now Lady Stoneheart". Then winks at the camera
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hitchensgoespop posted:Then
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Aug 5, 2016 20:42
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Are there even Lemoncloaks in Braavos.
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hitchensgoespop posted:Then
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I started actually reading the books. I'm like 75 pages in. Do the chapters stay this short the whole way through? It bounced around characters every 5 pages.
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drunken officeparty posted:I started actually reading the books. I'm like 75 pages in. Do the chapters stay this short the whole way through? It bounced around characters every 5 pages. It goes up to 15-20 pages on average around the third or fourth book, but I rather like the setup.
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Aug 8, 2016 00:28
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I thought the first three books were very well-paced.
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Aug 8, 2016 06:47
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4 and 5 would have potentially been good if there was a time skip like he planned. But he thought that we needed to read about Tyrion wondering about where whores go and Dany day dreaming about Daario for 1100 pages. The show is like 100% better than the books at this point.
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Solice Kirsk posted:The show is like 100% better than the books at this point. Please don't troll.
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regulargonzalez posted:Please don't troll. ,but he's right.
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Aug 9, 2016 17:42
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Something is better than nothing I guess.
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Aug 9, 2016 18:12
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I dunno I read the first three books and some of the fourth and I kind of like the show more, even in its slow spots it gets rid of the extra garbage GRRM adds to the narrative.
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Invalid Validation posted:I dunno I read the first three books and some of the fourth and I kind of like the show more, even in its slow spots it gets rid of the extra garbage GRRM adds to the narrative. I'm literally shaking right now, I can't even speak
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Aug 9, 2016 19:04
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I actually liked book 4, but it felt like it came from a different series entirely.
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Aug 9, 2016 21:46
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Reminder that the show doesn't have Strong Belwas.
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Aug 9, 2016 21:49
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It's not the reminder we asked for, but the one we deserved 
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Super Ninja Fish posted:Reminder that the show doesn't have Strong Belwas. This is still the cut that stings.
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Aug 9, 2016 22:06
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There were characters with more on-page presence and plot importance that got cut than Strong Belwas imo. I, for one, wouldn't have minded seeing Victarion Greyjoy, Gemma Lannister, the Shavepate or Jon Connington. Or, gently caress it, Arianne Martell, a perfectly serviceable character they wasted on grafting it onto Ellaria Sand
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the jizz taxi posted:There were characters with more on-page presence and plot importance that got cut than Strong Belwas imo. I, for one, wouldn't have minded seeing Victarion Greyjoy, Gemma Lannister, the Shavepate or Jon Connington. Or, gently caress it, Arianne Martell, a perfectly serviceable character they wasted on grafting it onto Ellaria Sand And they passed on the chance to show all kinds of boobs and sex-related shenanigans with Arianne, but I guess they fused it into that one sand snake whose name escapes me. Let's call her Boob Snake.
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Aug 9, 2016 22:30
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But does no one miss Penny? 
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Aug 9, 2016 22:41
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A reminder that GRRM doesn't kill main characters in half a scene (Roose Bolton, among others) or 50 in one fell swoop just because he's too dumb to know what to do with the pacing (Cersei's Great Sept Adventure)
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Aug 9, 2016 23:03
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Grrm doesn't kill main characters because he doesn't write.
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Though regardless, there wasn't a single main character in the Sept explosion, of course.
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Lycus posted:Though regardless, there wasn't a single main character in the Sept explosion, of course. Tommen died pretty soon after.
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Aug 10, 2016 02:11
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The show will have an ending in our and GRRM's lifetimes. Automatically better than the books
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computer parts posted:Tommen died pretty soon after. Middle tier, I'd say. High middle, but middle nonetheless.
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Aug 10, 2016 02:17
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The high sparrow got tons of screen time the past two seasons. Margaery and Loras have been on the show since forever.
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emanresu tnuocca posted:The high sparrow got tons of screen time the past two seasons. Margaery and Loras have been on the show since forever. One middle tier and two minor characters. No way am I gonna think of every character with a name as a "main character". Lycus fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Aug 10, 2016 |
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Marge is a main character, and I suspect the fat man had something else in mind for her. What it is, we'll never know.
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she was not a main character, she was never going to have an effect on the outcome of the endgame. Main characters are Jon Bran Cersei Tyrion Dany possibly Jaime Sansa Theon
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TommyGun85 posted:she was not a main character, she was never going to have an effect on the outcome of the endgame. So, okay- Robb, Joffrey, Tywin, Robert, Ned, Catelyn, Stannis. Were any of those deaths "Main"?
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Ned and Catelyn were main characters until they died. Tywin, Joffrey, Robert and Stannis are important secondary characters. Stannis is a character who has more importance in the world of the story than in the actual narrative.
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Undead Hippo posted:So, okay- Robb, Joffrey, Tywin, Robert, Ned, Catelyn, Stannis. Were any of those deaths "Main"? I don't think so. They're important for telling other people's stories and moving pieces into place but I wouldn't consider them tier 1 main characters.
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Ned was absolutely the main character of season 1.
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Lloyd Boner posted:Ned was absolutely the main character of season 1. I can't see how anyone could even argue against that. No later season had a single main character, but he was it that season.
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Hey we can argue about a lot of things in the offseason but nobody wins when we argue about who is or isn't a main character in this show or the book series. Anyone with more than a single pov chapter is a main-ish character in the books. In the show who loving knows, it's like, point to a region, and who do you see the most there? Jon in the north, Cersei in the south, Dany Those are your mainest characters in the show. Pretty much everyone else's arc is playing off whatever jon's doing or cersei is doing or what dany is doing, or whoever arya is killing.
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hemophilia posted:Anyone with more than a single pov chapter is a main-ish character in the books. Quentyn: the mainest of main characters
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TommyGun85 posted:Quentyn: the mainest of main characters The thing that sucks about the way these books are done is it's pretty hard to iron out main characters. If you get their POV, that usually implies some level of importance, but it doesn't always go that way in asoiaf. They were a big enough deal that the fat motherfucker that makes us care said, yeah, this needs to be written, this guy needs to tell this part of the story, for these 30 pages, this book is about Gary Exposition, he lives and dies like he matters.
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