Lordy.
Wife and I are watching season 1 of the show since she got it for Christmas. We're about halfway through.
It's well done in nearly every way, which is probably why I keep honing in on its faults--they're so few that they stand out. And mainly, they're in the script, and come as a result of trying to cram this world and its history into the visual format, because unlike something else, let's say LOTR, the background and history of all these families is essential to the present time in the story, so you can't just skip it. But surely there were better places to point out Theon Greyjoy's situation than with Tyrion being a dick to him for zero reason, especially when Theon was the only one treating him decently in that episode.
And man am I glad I've never been with a prostitute or I apparently would've divulged my life's story.
It's well done in nearly every way, which is probably why I keep honing in on its faults--they're so few that they stand out. And mainly, they're in the script, and come as a result of trying to cram this world and its history into the visual format, because unlike something else, let's say LOTR, the background and history of all these families is essential to the present time in the story, so you can't just skip it. But surely there were better places to point out Theon Greyjoy's situation than with Tyrion being a dick to him for zero reason, especially when Theon was the only one treating him decently in that episode.
And man am I glad I've never been with a prostitute or I apparently would've divulged my life's story.
I kinda take it the same way I took the Scott Pilgrim movie vs. book scenario: Both have a similar skeleton but are arranged much differently, but both are still good.
I was kinda torn on season of of GoT after the first couple episodes, but I caught up on everything after it ended and watched it all straight through in one up-til-4am sitting. Still reeeeally good.
I was kinda torn on season of of GoT after the first couple episodes, but I caught up on everything after it ended and watched it all straight through in one up-til-4am sitting. Still reeeeally good.
And the cherry on top will be when he dies before finishing the series.
GasBandit
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Word's come out he's working on a targaryen novella.
You know.
Instead of finishing the next book in the series.
Also, damn that Bran scumbag -
You know.
Instead of finishing the next book in the series.
Also, damn that Bran scumbag -
North_Ranger
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Fekkin' Bran...
Wow, a double burn, i for one would have taken another Dunk&Egg story, but no, he had to start a whole new one... Troll level: MASTER.
To be fair, in the book Stannis already knew, as he went to Gendry with Jon Arynn, and Ned's letter never made it to Dragonstone.
True but the attack on Bran led to Catelyn going to Petyr, which gave him to chance to betray Ned. Catelyn also took Tyrion into custody which caused a lot of the strife between Jaime and Ned at King's Landing.
I think his point was more that Stannis would have declared war on Jeoffry after Robert's death even without the series of actions that happened after Bran's fall. Also Petyr probably would have sided with the Lannisters regardless of whether or not Catelyn went to him. because they were the ones with the power and the money. I think very little would have really changed if Bran hadn't been thrown out of the window.
You must have missed the crazy woman's rant to "Alana"... he's the one that made sure Ned took the job...
Or you know, because it was his plan all along... he's the Cyvasse Master!
You know, if he really did love Cat then the i want to see what he's got planned for the "you-know-who's"...
I just realized that Cora's dad in Trenches is George Martin.
I like the stories underneath.I just realize someone reads that comic.
Dammit.
GasBandit
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The man is walking the walk. Wow. He really hates everyone, even more than I do. It takes a special kind of hate to be able to create something amazing and in high demand... and then just cut off the tap with a "Nope! Distracted by shiny!"
He's probably still compiling a huge list of dishes and foodstuff so he can finally get on with more descriptions for the next book.
Oh, and landscapes.
GasBandit
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On that, he'll never measure up to the master of minutiae, Robert Jordan, and his horrible, horrible clothing descriptions.
not as bad as an early chapter in The Grapes of Wrath, it felt like Steinbeck spent 5 pages describing a turtle crossing a road. It was the reason I never finished the book.
In preparation to finally read DWD, I'm listening to the FFC audiobook since I pretty much zoned out of the second half of the book the first time I read it. It finally dawned on me that, most of the time, the characters are constantly headed somewhere or in meetings talking about something that has already happened. The voices of my creative writing professors past echoes in my head "SHOW NOT TELL." Can we PLEASE get some action relevant to the plot? It feels like there's 800 pages of nothing but filler. I has a sad.
DAMN IT. Some of my friends told me DWD was so much better. Listening to the audiobooks makes it more tolerable because I can do other stuff at the same time (cook, needlework, mahjong), which is pitiful considering how fast I devoured the first 3 books. Damn it all to seven hells, Martin. Get your shit together.
I think what happened was after SoS he was going to jump ahead some amount of years then fill in what happened in the interim in the course of his storytelling. Then he decided he needed to fill in that intervening space instead, and we got a jumble of not very exciting things going on. Not knowing what the other way would have looked like, I can't theorize as to whether or not he made the right call, but I kind of feel like he didn't.