[TV] Winter HAS COME! - A Game of Thrones

"To that I can only say: You’re going to love it."?

I hate when I'm told what I am and am not going to like.
 

Dave

Staff member
"I’ve read everything of his since, pretty much as soon as it came out. I have therefore been waiting for this book longer than you have — but we’ve all been waiting for it impatiently for six years."

Fuck you, hipster bitch.
 
Ha ha ha, I didn't even catch that. Yeah fuck this broad.
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I'm not even done Feast for Crows yet so I'm not waiting with the anticipation of most around. I like to wait for paperback anyways.
 
I've finished Game of Thrones, haven't started Clash of Kings.

I've started reading Eye of the World (Wheel of Time) since I'm in no rush to finish either series while they're still being written.
 
Man, I hope this book series (which I am just starting now) stays stronger than the Wheel of Time stuff that just gets terrible about halfway through.
 
How many books in is Wheel of Time? Like 15? That's kind of a ridiculous length for any story to stay coherent.
 

Dave

Staff member
Man, I hope this book series (which I am just starting now) stays stronger than the Wheel of Time stuff that just gets terrible about halfway through.
Yeah, but the last two books have totally made up for that. I was about to give up on it but now I'll be sad when it ends.
 

GasBandit

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I've read them all, but I'm not happy with how he decided to separate the these two most recent books by characters instead of by chronology.
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How many books in is Wheel of Time? Like 15? That's kind of a ridiculous length for any story to stay coherent.
Books 6-9 or so were mostly just descriptions of the silver chasing thread up the hem of the left side of the aes sedai's dress with silver buttons and ruffles and laces and an embroidered icon of a book that spends paragraphs upon paragraphs obsessing on minutiae and doesn't advance the plot to any believable degree within 3 volumes.

Then they told him he was dying, and all of a sudden things started happening in the books again.
 
Yeah, but the last two books have totally made up for that. I was about to give up on it but now I'll be sad when it ends.
Well thats great but I just can't find myself slogging through 800,000 pages of the stuff gas posted to get there. Maybe I'll wiki it someday so I know how it ends. Probably with some very lengthy coffin descriptions I'm going to guess :p
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Well thats great but I just can't find myself slogging through 800,000 pages of the stuff gas posted to get there. Maybe I'll wiki it someday so I know how it ends. Probably with some very lengthy coffin descriptions I'm going to guess :p
Don't worry, somebody else wrote the final few books from Jordan's notes. And even Jordan got way better around book 10.
 
We don't really get overt hints to Neo-ness till later. Also, the comet was not specifically pointed out is what I mean.

Martin has A LOT of subtle plot hints in the books which are not conveyed as well in TV format.
The comet isn't even mentioned in the book until the last few chapters, where its not dwelled upon at all, just mentioned in passing. Its not until the beginning of Clash of Kings that its really given any significance.

I just finished Game of Thrones and began Clash of Kings last night, and honestly if I hadn't read the spoilers here in this thread (unwise, I know), I wouldn't have even given that a second thought.
 
Martin said on his blog that she came to the audition looking very unlike any photo of herself. She was the only one that was close and she read fantastically.
 
She's not ugly, but she easily falls into the TV ugly realm, which is just someone not absolutely ideal in every way.

I would climb that mountain, but I loooooooove tall women.
 
Yeah, I saw that bit of casting a while ago too, and thought she is way too attractive to play that part from the descriptions Martin gives in the book
My brother told me that Gerard Butler was set to play Stannis, but I've yet to actually find anything anywhere that confirmed it.

(Finished Clash of Kings a few nights ago. Taking a break from the series for a bit before I start Storm of Swords)
 
Yeah, I saw that bit of casting a while ago too, and thought she is way too attractive to play that part from the descriptions Martin gives in the book
My brother told me that Gerard Butler was set to play Stannis, but I've yet to actually find anything anywhere that confirmed it.

(Finished Clash of Kings a few nights ago. Taking a break from the series for a bit before I start Storm of Swords)
Tyrion is described as being a hunchback with misshapen facial features and one black eye and one green eye. Do you think they should have passed on Peter Dinklage because he didn't match the description in the book?

I think the casting on this series has been excellent and I trust their judgment.
 
They've done a bunch more casting in the last little while.

Liam Cunningham of Starz' Camelot as Davos Seaworth



Carice Van Houten as Melisandre (who was in Black Death with Sean Bean)



Stephen Dillane as Stannis Baratheon

 
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Philosopher B.

I don't know who the hell most of these characters are (haven't laid my spindly man-mitts on book #2 yet), but Liam Cunningham is tres coo'.

Also, fun fact: Gwendolyn C. is the same height as me.
 
Tyrion is described as being a hunchback with misshapen facial features and one black eye and one green eye. Do you think they should have passed on Peter Dinklage because he didn't match the description in the book?

I think the casting on this series has been excellent and I trust their judgment.
I think you misunderstand me, and take what I say far too seriously, sir.

I am not crying foul over a pretty girl being cast in the roll, I'm merely agreeing with others (who you didn't seem to take issue with, for some reason. Did I do something wrong here?) that she doesn't look the part as described in the books. Nothing more.

I've yet to read Storm of Swords and onwards (As I said, I'm taking a break from the series to read some other things) , but so far, her reported unattractiveness doesn't seem to really serve any plot purpose, so, like Tyrion's eyes and deformations, I don't see not including them as necessarily a bad thing. It is nice when characters look the part, but being able to play the part is much more important (And even still, as far as looking the part, I think her being so tall is a more important physical trait to hone in on.

semi-related story: My ex-girlfriend was pretty furious about Daniel Radcliffe playing Harry Potter, cause I guess his eyes are the wrong colour. She was an insane person.
 
Just finished a Dance with Dragons, holy crap the TV series for this one if it makes it that far will break even more rules for TV, which i heartly support. And Peter Dinklage better win the fucking emmy for his portrayal of Tyrion Lannister.
 
Personally, I won't be upset if Peter Dinklage doesn't get an Emmy this year. CoK is a much bigger Tyrion book than GoT.
 
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