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Post by tjvike on Aug 30, 2017 23:52:30 GMT -5
BTW, when Clegane tells the Mountain, "You know who's coming for you." who does he mean? I wondered this too. Maybe he meant himself and it was delivered awkwardly? I can't imagine the hound would let anyone rob him of his vengeance.
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Post by Premier on Aug 31, 2017 8:27:46 GMT -5
You know who is coming for you? This guy right here The one talking to you.
That's how I took it.
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Post by Tapout on Aug 31, 2017 9:18:05 GMT -5
Yea, that's how I took it to. He said, this is not how it ends for you brother. Meaning, he will be the one to kill him.
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Post by PatSox on Sept 1, 2017 14:21:57 GMT -5
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Post by daywork on Sept 1, 2017 15:38:22 GMT -5
LOL ^^^^^^ That's funny.
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Post by Tapout on Sept 1, 2017 15:46:33 GMT -5
Ive decided that I am going to try and get all the books finished, before the next season comes out. ive read the first. Just started Clash of Kings.
Serious question; Can I say I read the books if I listened to them on Audible.com?
I have two hours of a commute daily, so I figured that's the only way I would get them done.
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Post by daywork on Sept 1, 2017 16:11:48 GMT -5
Ive decided that I am going to try and get all the books finished, before the next season comes out. ive read the first. Just started Clash of Kings. Serious question; Can I say I read the books if I listened to them on Audible.com? I have two hours of a commute daily, so I figured that's the only way I would get them done. I say your good.
Only because I was thinking about doing the same thing. When I visit my other offices, I have to drive 4 plus hours each way.
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Post by Canuklehead on Sept 1, 2017 18:22:00 GMT -5
Ive decided that I am going to try and get all the books finished, before the next season comes out. ive read the first. Just started Clash of Kings. Serious question; Can I say I read the books if I listened to them on Audible.com? I have two hours of a commute daily, so I figured that's the only way I would get them done. Sure you can. They are great audio books too I love the narrator and he was actually on the show as well. He played the guy who showed Tyrion the wild fire back in season 2 or 3.
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Post by boboplata on Sept 1, 2017 18:28:25 GMT -5
Ive decided that I am going to try and get all the books finished, before the next season comes out. ive read the first. Just started Clash of Kings. Serious question; Can I say I read the books if I listened to them on Audible.com? I have two hours of a commute daily, so I figured that's the only way I would get them done. Sure you can. They are great audio books too I love the narrator and he was actually on the show as well. He played the guy who showed Tyrion the wild fire back in season 2 or 3. I listened to the 1st 2 years ago. Let me tell you, hearing an old man do a cersei impression while being fondled is...traumatic.
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Post by boboplata on Sept 1, 2017 18:30:49 GMT -5
My officemate won an offical GoT Stark hoodie. With a big wolf sigil at the back. Jelly.
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Post by Premier on Sept 6, 2017 18:53:17 GMT -5
Family
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Post by Tapout on Sept 7, 2017 12:59:47 GMT -5
I need a little help from the book people. Ive gone down the rabbit hole that is GOT wiki pages. It seems like every character has a rather large backstory. Where do these back stories come from? Not sure if my question makes sense, and maybe it'll be answered once I am further along in the books (I'm about halfway through A Clash of Kings). They don't seem to give you all the backstory that the wiki pages have, or is it coming?
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Post by Elissa on Sept 7, 2017 13:08:40 GMT -5
I need a little help from the book people. Ive gone down the rabbit hole that is GOT wiki pages. It seems like every character has a rather large backstory. Where do these back stories come from? Not sure if my question makes sense, and maybe it'll be answered once I am further along in the books (I'm about halfway through A Clash of Kings). They don't seem to give you all the backstory that the wiki pages have, or is it coming? https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/3929g6/no_spoilers_where_are_all_the_backstories_from/
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Post by Tapout on Sept 7, 2017 13:24:29 GMT -5
Da fuc is a Novella??
I need more that that girlie.
Who rights these Novellas? Martin?
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Post by MMAJim on Sept 7, 2017 13:29:49 GMT -5
Da fuc is a Novella??
I need more that that girlie.
Who rights these Novellas? Martin? Yes he wrote the Novellas as well as what is basically a fake encyclopedia. I'm pretty sure I own them all in various forms. You should just finish the main books. Then mix in the three Dunk & Egg novellas that currently exisit. If you're still trucking along there are now some Targ novellas about the original "Dance of Dragons" (ie Targ civil war).
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Post by MMAJim on Sept 7, 2017 13:32:01 GMT -5
There is also "The She-Wolves of Winterfell" which I honestly can't remember if it is out yet or not. Then after you read all of that, you read through the books a second time (or 3rd/4th).
It has been a while since I have read through everything. I have been waiting for the completion notice from GRRM on his blog for the 6th book. At which point I will re-read, probably everything, in time for The Winds of Winter to actually be available on book shelves and interwebs.
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Post by Tapout on Sept 7, 2017 13:41:05 GMT -5
There is also "The She-Wolves of Winterfell" which I honestly can't remember if it is out yet or not. Then after you read all of that, you read through the books a second time (or 3rd/4th). It has been a while since I have read through everything. I have been waiting for the completion notice from GRRM on his blog for the 6th book. At which point I will re-read, probably everything, in time for The Winds of Winter to actually be available on book shelves and interwebs. I'm hoping to be caught up books wise by the new year. Giving myself a month or so per book. Any word on when the new one will be released?
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Post by Elissa on Sept 7, 2017 17:27:01 GMT -5
There is also "The She-Wolves of Winterfell" which I honestly can't remember if it is out yet or not. Then after you read all of that, you read through the books a second time (or 3rd/4th). It has been a while since I have read through everything. I have been waiting for the completion notice from GRRM on his blog for the 6th book. At which point I will re-read, probably everything, in time for The Winds of Winter to actually be available on book shelves and interwebs. I'm hoping to be caught up books wise by the new year. Giving myself a month or so per book. Any word on when the new one will be released?
2028
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Post by PatSox on Sept 7, 2017 17:34:48 GMT -5
I'm hoping to be caught up books wise by the new year. Giving myself a month or so per book. Any word on when the new one will be released?
2028 HAHAH!!! ....that's muh girl
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Post by PatSox on Sept 7, 2017 17:36:55 GMT -5
This is fucking amazing.......
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Post by MMAJim on Sept 8, 2017 11:08:52 GMT -5
There is also "The She-Wolves of Winterfell" which I honestly can't remember if it is out yet or not. Then after you read all of that, you read through the books a second time (or 3rd/4th). It has been a while since I have read through everything. I have been waiting for the completion notice from GRRM on his blog for the 6th book. At which point I will re-read, probably everything, in time for The Winds of Winter to actually be available on book shelves and interwebs. I'm hoping to be caught up books wise by the new year. Giving myself a month or so per book. Any word on when the new one will be released?
The Winds of Winter honestly feels like 2018 for sure. GRRM basically posts on his blog when it is 'complete'. When he posts that I think its been 2-3 months for actual publication. He has sort of alluded to 2018 being likely, but it has been a guessing/hoping game for about 3 years now. 2028 for A something-or-other-Spring, is honestly realistic.
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Post by Premier on Sept 12, 2017 9:43:28 GMT -5
Lol........Them Spanish soap operas are called Novelas.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2017 19:44:53 GMT -5
Where is Edmure Tulley?
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Post by boboplata on Sept 17, 2017 21:41:02 GMT -5
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Post by Baph on Sept 18, 2017 1:16:07 GMT -5
I'm gonna take a couple shots here, but I do it out of love. Speaking only about season 7 and some newfound concern for season 8.
One, drifting into the realm of conventional movie magic. Just on a general note, the sort of . . . "feeling" . . . that I had for six season about the savageness, the stakes of it all, the very real danger, the certainty of consequences for any mistake, and the real world rules and limitations and utter unpredictability and cruelness of it all . . . man, a lot of that is just flat out gone now. Plot armor is thick. Characters warp around the map like they're taking Mario pipes. Loose ends tie up like Nikes. The ability to really immerse and forget that it's a multi million dollar studio production with a timeline and pressure from the producers . . . it got a lot harder to do. Sure, it's was still there in spots. Ep. 3, the Finale, etc. But overall, my suspended belief is chipping away. When Jon Snow crawled out of the frozen lake after not drowning in arctic waters, after fighting off 30,000 walkers, only to be surrounded again and then saved again by his sort of dead uncle . . . man, that felt a LOT like the Hobit. I'm starting to have trouble believing the danger is real anymore . . . in a show that used to give me ulcers. Cersei's walk of shame, Ned's beheading, Jamie's amputation, Joffery's poisoning . . . nuclear fucking bombs going off. That shit just ain't happening anymore.
Two, short-changed payoffs. These massive moments, these epic reunions, these shocking deaths . . . not so shocking anymore. 90% of this board predicted the Littlefinger hit right down to the episode and even who would do it. That sort of fortune telling was NOT happening in GOT prior to season 7, and certainly not happening prior to season 5. A lot of the suspense and build-up and the power of these moments now feel about as flat and underwhelming as Brand makes them out to be. I get that he and Aryia are cold and dead inside, fine, but beyond those dead pan reunions with long-thought-dead relatives, there were several others that just didn't pack the punch they should have. Things that had me sweating, crying, shouting, giggling like a little girl just 3-4 seasons ago . . . now feel like the writers are just working their way down a checklist of plot points systematically doing what needs to be done so that season 8 can focus on white walkers. Wham. Bam. Thank you, ma'am.
Three, becoming black and white. Probably THE single greatest thing about GoT and it's writing up to this point is that black and white don't exist, ever, anywhere. Even Ned fucking Stark lied to his wife and family for 25 years. It's full of grey. 1,000 shades of grey. Is the Hound a good guy or a bad guy? Well, which season? What about Jamie? What about anybody? They're complex, and not just complex, but dynamic, moving, growing, living and breathing, events and experiences change them and that's fucking brilliant, compelling stuff. Good guys loose. Bad guys win. Savagery abounds. And there's rape. Chaos is a ladder. Climb or die. But now, all of a sudden, there's a shit load of black and white around the globe of Westeros. I realize part of that is putting aside the petty stuff to deal with the big bad "other", but still, this is starting to look a lot like a game of checkers. Good team, bad team, winner takes all. Hell, part of me was secretly hoping Littlefinger would survive just to keep a touch of grey in the beard.
I've said this before, but once we quit adapting books and started making big budget HBO productions it was the beginning of the end. 6 was worse than 5. 7 was worse than 6. And for the first time since I started watching, I'm more concerned than hyped for the upcoming season because I can't shake this feeling that HBO is about to turn GoT into the Battle of the Five Armies.
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Post by boboplata on Sept 18, 2017 7:08:04 GMT -5
I'm gonna take a couple shots here, but I do it out of love. Speaking only about season 7 and some newfound concern for season 8. One, drifting into the realm of conventional movie magic. Just on a general note, the sort of . . . "feeling" . . . that I had for six season about the savageness, the stakes of it all, the very real danger, the certainty of consequences for any mistake, and the real world rules and limitations and utter unpredictability and cruelness of it all . . . man, a lot of that is just flat out gone now. Plot armor is thick. Characters warp around the map like they're taking Mario pipes. Loose ends tie up like Nikes. The ability to really immerse and forget that it's a multi million dollar studio production with a timeline and pressure from the producers . . . it got a lot harder to do. Sure, it's was still there in spots. Ep. 3, the Finale, etc. But overall, my suspended belief is chipping away. When Jon Snow crawled out of the frozen lake after not drowning in arctic waters, after fighting off 30,000 walkers, only to be surrounded again and then saved again by his sort of dead uncle . . . man, that felt a LOT like the Hobit. I'm starting to have trouble believing the danger is real anymore . . . in a show that used to give me ulcers. Cersei's walk of shame, Ned's beheading, Jamie's amputation, Joffery's poisoning . . . nuclear fucking bombs going off. That shit just ain't happening anymore. Two, short-changed payoffs. These massive moments, these epic reunions, these shocking deaths . . . not so shocking anymore. 90% of this board predicted the Littlefinger hit right down to the episode and even who would do it. That sort of fortune telling was NOT happening in GOT prior to season 7, and certainly not happening prior to season 5. A lot of the suspense and build-up and the power of these moments now feel about as flat and underwhelming as Brand makes them out to be. I get that he and Aryia are cold and dead inside, fine, but beyond those dead pan reunions with long-thought-dead relatives, there were several others that just didn't pack the punch they should have. Things that had me sweating, crying, shouting, giggling like a little girl just 3-4 seasons ago . . . now feel like the writers are just working their way down a checklist of plot points systematically doing what needs to be done so that season 8 can focus on white walkers. Wham. Bam. Thank you, ma'am. Three, becoming black and white. Probably THE single greatest thing about GoT and it's writing up to this point is that black and white don't exist, ever, anywhere. Even Ned fucking Stark lied to his wife and family for 25 years. It's full of grey. 1,000 shades of grey. Is the Hound a good guy or a bad guy? Well, which season? What about Jamie? What about anybody? They're complex, and not just complex, but dynamic, moving, growing, living and breathing, events and experiences change them and that's fucking brilliant, compelling stuff. Good guys loose. Bad guys win. Savagery abounds. And there's rape. Chaos is a ladder. Climb or die. But now, all of a sudden, there's a shit load of black and white around the globe of Westeros. I realize part of that is putting aside the petty stuff to deal with the big bad "other", but still, this is starting to look a lot like a game of checkers. Good team, bad team, winner takes all. Hell, part of me was secretly hoping Littlefinger would survive just to keep a touch of grey in the beard. I've said this before, but once we quit adapting books and started making big budget HBO productions it was the beginning of the end. 6 was worse than 5. 7 was worse than 6. And for the first time since I started watching, I'm more concerned than hyped for the upcoming season because I can't shake this feeling that HBO is about to turn GoT into the Battle of the Five Armies. Stop stealing my shtick. You're making patsox upset.
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Post by PatSox on Sept 18, 2017 10:38:11 GMT -5
I'm gonna take a couple shots here, but I do it out of love. Speaking only about season 7 and some newfound concern for season 8. One, drifting into the realm of conventional movie magic. Just on a general note, the sort of . . . "feeling" . . . that I had for six season about the savageness, the stakes of it all, the very real danger, the certainty of consequences for any mistake, and the real world rules and limitations and utter unpredictability and cruelness of it all . . . man, a lot of that is just flat out gone now. Plot armor is thick. Characters warp around the map like they're taking Mario pipes. Loose ends tie up like Nikes. The ability to really immerse and forget that it's a multi million dollar studio production with a timeline and pressure from the producers . . . it got a lot harder to do. Sure, it's was still there in spots. Ep. 3, the Finale, etc. But overall, my suspended belief is chipping away. When Jon Snow crawled out of the frozen lake after not drowning in arctic waters, after fighting off 30,000 walkers, only to be surrounded again and then saved again by his sort of dead uncle . . . man, that felt a LOT like the Hobit. I'm starting to have trouble believing the danger is real anymore . . . in a show that used to give me ulcers. Cersei's walk of shame, Ned's beheading, Jamie's amputation, Joffery's poisoning . . . nuclear fucking bombs going off. That shit just ain't happening anymore. Two, short-changed payoffs. These massive moments, these epic reunions, these shocking deaths . . . not so shocking anymore. 90% of this board predicted the Littlefinger hit right down to the episode and even who would do it. That sort of fortune telling was NOT happening in GOT prior to season 7, and certainly not happening prior to season 5. A lot of the suspense and build-up and the power of these moments now feel about as flat and underwhelming as Brand makes them out to be. I get that he and Aryia are cold and dead inside, fine, but beyond those dead pan reunions with long-thought-dead relatives, there were several others that just didn't pack the punch they should have. Things that had me sweating, crying, shouting, giggling like a little girl just 3-4 seasons ago . . . now feel like the writers are just working their way down a checklist of plot points systematically doing what needs to be done so that season 8 can focus on white walkers. Wham. Bam. Thank you, ma'am. Three, becoming black and white. Probably THE single greatest thing about GoT and it's writing up to this point is that black and white don't exist, ever, anywhere. Even Ned fucking Stark lied to his wife and family for 25 years. It's full of grey. 1,000 shades of grey. Is the Hound a good guy or a bad guy? Well, which season? What about Jamie? What about anybody? They're complex, and not just complex, but dynamic, moving, growing, living and breathing, events and experiences change them and that's fucking brilliant, compelling stuff. Good guys loose. Bad guys win. Savagery abounds. And there's rape. Chaos is a ladder. Climb or die. But now, all of a sudden, there's a shit load of black and white around the globe of Westeros. I realize part of that is putting aside the petty stuff to deal with the big bad "other", but still, this is starting to look a lot like a game of checkers. Good team, bad team, winner takes all. Hell, part of me was secretly hoping Littlefinger would survive just to keep a touch of grey in the beard. I've said this before, but once we quit adapting books and started making big budget HBO productions it was the beginning of the end. 6 was worse than 5. 7 was worse than 6. And for the first time since I started watching, I'm more concerned than hyped for the upcoming season because I can't shake this feeling that HBO is about to turn GoT into the Battle of the Five Armies. Stop stealing my shtick. You're making patsox upset. It's fine. Because Baph is someone I actually think believes everything he says. And it's just a case of differing opinions Judging by all his movie lists of late, I don't have many similar tastes with him, so his take on GoT being different from mine is not at all surprising. And I mean..........anyone who thinks season 5 was better than season 6? Jesus. That's a different kind of cat. I figure it's best to leave it alone after reading THAT
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Post by Premier on Sept 18, 2017 11:55:13 GMT -5
Remember "Lost"?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2017 13:00:47 GMT -5
Last we heard of Edmure, Walder told Jamie he had locked him in the dungeons.
Well, the main Freys are gonzo, so I'm wondering if anyone that was friendly to his wife let him free.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2017 16:37:58 GMT -5
Better than most. The ending that aired on the network was pretty weak. The actual epilogue that you got in the box set: awesome.
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