Raserys posted:

Tyrion as a secret Targaryen? Are you loving with me?

Solice Kirsk posted:

That wouldn't be so bad. Before Jon died I figured they were setting up Arya getting a contract to kill him. Maybe they will have her get a contract to kill Sansa now. vv

Raserys posted:

Dany burning Astapor and the RW are two things I desperately want to see in live action. Oh yeah, and Joffrey's wedding too.

Also, reading the reactions in the TV IV thread

Iggles posted:

In fairness I also think Jon is actually dead so I may not be the best judge

OR AM I

Quantify! posted:

If you want to talk sexual violence towards men, Jaime losing his sword hand is a symbolic castration!

kcroy posted:

awesome thanks. was that in the main series? or do I need to get off my rear end and read the Egg and Dunk books or w/e?

edit: and would that make this title a reference to the various Targs going to war against each other as they compete for the crown!

Azure_Horizon posted:

I am always totally surprised when someone doesn't like Theon's chapters. They were some of the best in the entire series.

Mills posted:

I just finished reading all of the books after starting maybe six weeks ago.

Did anything ever happen after that prologue in one of the middle books about some retard apprentice maester in Oldtown who gave some mysterious stranger something and then died?

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"The Sphinx looks slight, but there’s strength in those slim arms, he reflected,"

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"The memory made Arianne smile. He caught some vipers and showed Tyene the safest way to milk them for their venom. Sarella turned over rocks, brushed sand off the mosaics, and wanted to know everything there was to know about the people who had lived here."

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"The princess had never been close to her brothers; Quentyn was off at Yronwood, and Trystane was too young. No, it had always been her and Tyene, with Garin and Drey and Spotted Sylva. Nym would sometimes join them in their sport, and Sarella was forever pushing in where she didn’t belong, but for the most part they had been a company of five."

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"“What of Sarella? She is a woman grown, almost twenty.” “Unless she returns to Dorne, there’s naught I can do about Sarella save pray that she shows more sense than her sisters. Leave her to her... game. Gather up the others. I shall not sleep until I know that they are safe and under guard.”

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The Sphinx was always smiling, as if he knew some secret jape. It gave him a wicked look that went well with his pointed chin, widow's peak, and dense mat of close-cropped jet-black curls.

Alleras would make a maester. He had only been at the Citadel for a year, yet already he had forged three links of his maester's chain.

Junkenstein posted:

Yup. I like Jaime and all, so it was nice having a little bonus chapter in a way, but it was completely pointless.

Affi posted:

so has anyone tried the game? is it as horrible as I think it is?

Fog Tripper posted:

Tyrion was cool just the way he was.

savinhill posted:

So Gurm isn't gonna start writing till after football season, he'll be doing publicity and traveling for the second season's premier in April, he's gotta go to all his conventions during the summer, and then you have a few weeks after that that won't be consumed by football or the holidays. We'll be lucky if he writes 100 pages of WoW in 2012. Jesus, this next book is gonna make the 6-year wait for DwD seem like brevity itself.

Intel&Sebastian posted:

What's everyones thoughts on what Victarion Greyjoy is going to end up doing?

Intel&Sebastian posted:

Yeah I never quite understood why exactly Moqorro in Tyrions chapters mentioned seeing a sign about the Kraken and how bad they are and then when he shows up with them he's all for helping them out. I assumed they were sailing into trouble but I guess I won't know until I'm an old man with a salt and pepper beard, mostly salt.

whowhatwhere posted:

Yeah, who the gently caress is this?

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whowhatwhere posted:

No, Joffrey's the smug poo poo between Jaime/the Hound/Tywin/Cersei/Tommen/Myrcela.

bigmcgaffney posted:

Dany was always stupid, don't kid yourself.

Doesn't Darkstar have black and white hair?

Ross posted:

I think it was her period, foreshadowing the return of Zombie Khal Drogo.

Factor_VIII posted:

When she went "welp, I hear Targs are immune to disease so it should be totally fine if I handle all these infected corpses" I thought she was setting herself up to get seriously ill and infect her court and city due to her naivety and arrogance. After all, this sounded like the sort of propaganda a royal house would come up with to try and separate itself from the masses and justify its ruling position. But then again Danny is also fireproof, so maybe Targs are supposed to be supernaturally resistant to stu

Tony Danza Claus posted:

The bitter tears when Joffrey is alive and well in the season 2 finale will be a fine lube for their crysturbation.

Octy posted:

Anyway, Dany is going to run out of gold soon enough and Tyrion will be there to provide the funds necessary in exchange for a few services.

Tony Danza Claus posted:

Assuming Storm becomes 2 seasons, winds of winter needs to start filming roughly 4 years from today. Which means 5 for dream of spring. Pre-production deduct maybe six months.

Octy posted:

I'm betting on Rickon Stark ruling the Seven Kingdoms at the end. He's got a whole storyline missing from ADwD that GRRM wants us to think is irrelevant, but isn't. Besides, everyone else with a claim to the throne is dead/will be dead soon enough.

Joramun posted:

He who controls the lemon cakes controls the universe.

DarkCrawler posted:

I bet he's actually Maelys the Monstrous's twin brother who survived the war of Ninepenny Kings.
I expect this to be revealed in yet another Dragon roast moment.

mind the walrus posted:

I just can't wait until he finds out that Tyrion's big performance in the entirely of 2000 pages is to ride a loving pig whilst people throw coins at him. Yeah, that will really feel dignified no matter how many layers of irony and "the whole point is..." you throw on top of it.

thornghost posted:

In case there was some small, secret part of you that still had an inkling of hope that the absolute fucker might finish the series, here's some news that will crush that:

GRRM signs a 2 year deal with HBO to do different projects!

I'm hoping for a Tuf Voyaging miniseries myself! Imaging the drama of a fat man sitting in space making psychic cats! Oh, or perhaps we'll see a retelling of The Pear Shaped Man!

Intel&Sebastian posted:

They are soooooooo going to catch up, I can't wait.

Baldbeard posted:

Yeah that definitely seems like the banner, the explanation has to do with time though. I thought for sure there was a story about people hiding in the hills from dragons and making them pissed off cause they couldn't find anyone to burn/consume.

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"I can attest to that." Ser Daemon took a sip of wine and said, "House Toland has a dragon on its banners."
"A dragon eating its own tail, aye," Valena said. "From the days of Aegon’s Conquest. He did not conquer here. Elsewhere he burned his foes, him and his sisters, but here we melted away before them, leaving only stone and sand for them to burn. And round and round the dragons went, snapping at their tails for want of any other food, till they were tied in knots."

Hunky Joe posted:

I was under the impression that Faceless Men couldn't kill people whose names they knew?

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Is this just my bad memory or did I read something and interpret it wrong. I thought it was why everyone on the boat to Braavos told Arya their names when she showed them the coin. Or is it that Mercy doesn't know the names of the guys as that doesn't count? That is seriously the dumbest loophole ever.

bathroom sounds posted:

You mean Dan Aires is Kelly C?!?

Joramun posted:

I just got this recommended to me on Amazon. Apparently Dozois and the Gurm are releasing another collection of short stories this June, featuring a new ASoIaF tale "chronicling one of the biggest rogues in the entire history of Ice and Fire". That can only be Ser Pounce.

Blade_of_tyshalle posted:

See, guys? He totally is working on the series, it's just all these little short stories you need to buy three times in different collections because he publishes slightly different versions in each one. Stop hating.

CPFortest posted:

Even if Tywin had been more interested in clearing Tyrion's name, Cersei was on such a huge warpath that nothing was going to stop her.

kcroy posted:

That doesn't seem rapey at all, but maybe I'm a Raper at heart.

Joramun posted:

You can't know that for sure, it was never confirmed if and when Sheepstealer died. So 100 years could just be hearsay or folklore.

Blind Sally posted:

Don't they have to kill off Lame Lothar and Black Walder first? I kind of forget the order of events for that part of the book because it's such a dull slog.