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Blind Sally posted:I was one of those chumps last season. The HBO viewer's guide had enough hints in it for me to come up with the idea that Jon Snow was Rhaegar's son with Eddard's sister, and I thought I was the cleverest bastard for coming up with it. I was probated for my speculation, and was pretty bummed out because I figured I had been spoiled because of it.
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General Battuta posted:Genuinely terrible. Normally I don't mind the show's, uh, deviations but that one just felt like some kind of committee effort to sound gurmulent. Alright, which of you Wild Cards is getting consulting fees from HBO?
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IRQ posted:That whole exchange was the stupidest loving thing. Like almost as bad as the Littlefinger lesbian sexposition dump scene in the first season. At least that one provided us with the gem "Play with her rear end."
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Azure_Horizon posted:Oh JOY, another person who hates the last two novels. How exciting. Literally everyone but you hates them.
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FuriousxGeorge posted:Oh no, if GRRM fans can't handle a few new characters in a prologue just imagine what Malazan stuff would do to them. I think the Malazan series is great until I put down a book and realize I have no loving idea what happened or who half the characters were. Any Malazan show would just be random people running on and off the screen while CGI "magic" explosions and randomly too-huge swords go flying at your face as everyone, ever dies. And then there's some more people. Who die. And possibly explode. Or shrivel into corpses who stagger around until they die again. Actually I would totally watch that show. At least it wouldn't have Shae the funny whore.
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IRQ posted:Literally everyone but you hates them. Eh, A Feast for Crows wasn't so bad. Maybe I'm just saying that in light of ADWD, but still.
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empty sea posted:Actually I would totally watch that show. At least it wouldn't have Shae the funny whore. That's Shae the funny whore who may be from an important house or dorne according to the retarded thread!
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Feast had the potential to be redeemed by Dance, if the characters he didn't include had done cool stuff or whatever. Instead we got Tyrion riding a pig.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Speculation that Gendry does anything of interest is pretty sad in general.
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So I was just browsing the SoIaF wiki and how did it slip past me that Robert and Aerys were second(?) cousins? Goddamn everyone really is a secret Targ.
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The Slippery Nipple posted:So I was just browsing the SoIaF wiki and how did it slip past me that Robert and Aerys were second(?) cousins? Goddamn everyone really is a secret Targ. Baratheons were Targ bastards legitimized and given the stormlands after the storm lords were purged for rebelling too many times. Edit: So not so secret Targs
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crazypeltast52 posted:That's Shae the funny whore who may be from an important house or dorne according to the retarded thread!
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Dendra posted:Feast had the potential to be redeemed by Dance, if the characters he didn't include had done cool stuff or whatever. That was one of the better parts of the book.
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savinhill posted:Ros and the TV version of Shae has made me start agreeing with Tywin's attitude towards whores. I guess we will actually learn where whores go. Also, do remember that Tywin used Shae too.
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I picture Melisandre as being young and attractive, not middle-aged and slightly tired. I don't like who they cast as Stannis, but maybe his acting will make up for it. Hey guys no tits in this episode yet let's throw in a scene with a whore loving a guy. Yeah gently caress that guy. It's not that it's fun to spoil people, it's that they take it way too seriously. Mods and admins here seem to agree with that sentiment but punish because they don't want to deal with the whining. Even if that's not the case I'll stay out of the thread so I don't hurt anyone's feelings. Rurik posted:Haven't gotten to seeing S2E1 yet (I'm in Finland), but was anyone else bothered by how Jaime's name was pronounced in season 1? You're from Finland, Jaime is a common English name and it's pronounced jay-mee.
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crazypeltast52 posted:Baratheons were Targ bastards legitimized and given the stormlands after the storm lords were purged for rebelling too many times. Ahh I see, was this in the main novels or the novellas? I tend to miss details like that anyway.
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The Slippery Nipple posted:Ahh I see, was this in the main novels or the novellas? I tend to miss details like that anyway. It was a throwaway paragraph in one of the main books, this series is written for sperglords to sperg over, so spergs aside, we've all missed details like that.
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According to the wiki, it was revealed in one of Sam's chapters in AFFC. I suppose that explains why it was overlooked. And from the Appendix for AGOT:AGOT Appendix posted:The youngest of the Great Houses, born during the Wars of Conquest. Its founder Orys Baratheon, was rumored to be Aegon the Dragon's bastard brother. Orys rose through the ranks to beomce one of Aegon's firecest commanders. When he defeated and slew Argilac the Arrogant, the last Storm King, Aegon rewarded him with Argilac's castle, lands, and daughter. Orys took the girl to bride, and adopted the banner, honors, and words of her line. The Baratheon sigil is a crowned stage, black, on a golden field. Their words are Ours is the Fury. Urdnot Fire fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Apr 3, 2012 |
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IRQ posted:Literally everyone but you hates them. That's completely wrong, of course.
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Blind Sally posted:Then I started reading the Bad Thread, and everything made sense again. Now I look at the people in the TVIV No-Spoiler thread, and am filled with happiness and sorrow. Happiness, because I am no longer a part of that mess, and sorrow, because I read their speculation and anticipate their utter disappointment. Maytag posted:You're from Finland, Jaime is a common English name and it's pronounced jay-mee. AFFC/ADWD talk: at least Crows had Cersei plotting and getting herself in jail, so that's something. The book just felt lame after the epicness of ASOS. ADWD was underwhelming, but I still somewhat liked it because "oh finally a new book!"
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Rurik posted:Huh, never heard it before. I really thought it was just a name GURM made up.
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IRQ posted:Literally everyone but you hates them. ...I don't hate them
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Azure_Horizon posted:Oh JOY, another person who hates the last two novels. How exciting. Eh, I don't hate them (never said I did), I just feel like they were a waste of my time and money. Given some of my previous posts I don't think it's at all surprising I came to that conclusion.
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Reading the TV IV thread gives me such a weird feeling of power, like watching mere mortals live out their lives in doubt and uncertainty, while I know exactly how everything will play out. I don't interfere in it, I just watch as their hopes wither away slowly. Is this what being God feels like?
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IRQ posted:Literally everyone but you hates them. No, the vast majority fall somewhere between your over-the-top hatred and Azure_horizon's utterly bewildering love for them. Sometimes I think you're both the same person trolling us.
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Junkenstein posted:No, the vast majority fall somewhere between your over-the-top hatred and Azure_horizon's utterly bewildering love for them. Yeah, I mean AFfC is actually a pretty decent book and ADwD has its moments despite the unsatisfying ending.
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The only way Feast is a decent book is if you don't compare it to the first 3 though. Incidentally, in the leaked episode 2, HBO cuts from sex scene (Theon and salt wife) -> random brothel scene -> Littlefinger wiping cum off a whore's face and sending her to another customer This show is awesome. Dendra fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Apr 3, 2012 |
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Is the Warriors anthology worth getting for all the other stories? I just found out the third Dunk and Egg story is only available in the collection and not as a stand-alone.
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I get that its Cat-lyn otherwise her nickname doesn't work well but in my head its always Cait-lyn. I also mentally pronounce the tildes in ~daario~
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Ehhh, I've known one or two girls who've gone by Cat when they probably should have gone with Kate instead. It's less a "this sounds like that" than a "this has the same letters as that" diminutive. Some nicknames don't make a lot of sense, like Jack, Bill, or Hank. (Or Ned.)
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:(Or Ned.) 
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I can't remember literally a single thing that happened in AFFC. ADWD at least had a very large number of deaths (K. Lannister, that dude who spent the whole book trying to get to Dany) and fakedeaths (John, Stannis).
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Dendra posted:The only way Feast is a decent book is if you don't compare it to the first 3 though. At first I thought HBO would be the first to show the wider masses what snowballing is.
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geeves posted:At first I thought HBO would be the first to show the wider masses what snowballing is. Clerks covered that ground quite a while back, though.
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Arnold of Soissons posted:Clerks covered that ground quite a while back, though. Unfortunately only the mental 13 year olds 90's indie dorks noticed.
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Dendra posted:The only way Feast is a decent book is if you don't compare it to the first 3 though. Nonsense, Feast is great. Dance is a horrible mess, though.
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Dendra posted:The only way Feast is a decent book is if you don't compare it to the first 3 though. Oh no, spoilers from the show that aren't on the books... time to close the thread until... until... i don't know... until someone pony posts?
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