unless he fasts foward several years its just going to be impossible, from a production point of view, to go a full seven seasons. just the actors themselves will have changed from young or teenagers into full blown adults. i agree books 2 and 3 are full of awesomeness so youre probably right it might get spread out over two seasons then. maybe 4 and 5 will be combined since not a whole lot goes down. i guess we'll see what 6 and 7 holds but im guessing the suits at HBO arent willing to drop the massive amounts of dough to complete the saga all the while waiting for this dude to get off his lazy ass and complete the series
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They began tinkering with the ages of young characters before the series even began (Robb/Jon/Sansa all older) so I don't think adjusting to the actors playing Arya and Bran getting older is going to be any major kind of hurdle. Who knows though.
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ROME was a terrific show with a wide viewing base that was slated for 5 seasons. they realized about halfway through season 2 that it just was too expensive. hopefully they dont think that way with this
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Anybody get the blu-ray yet? I'm at bestbuy they have the stark packaging for 35 and thinking about it. But I subscribe to HBO so like....
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The Stark Kids singing the theme to Game of Thrones. This is hilarious!
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coming in a year late or whatever, I just downloaded season 1, it's kick ass. Although since ROME was killed due to budget issues (IIRC) I am a little worried about ti's future but all in all good god damn show
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Hopefully it gets 6 or 7 more seasons.
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Amazon pre-release announcement for a new set of GOT illustrated books.
What do you think? Worthwhile purchase or money-grabbing gimmick? *edit* I just looked at the first pages. It's a godamned comic book. Nevermind. Book Description Publication Date: March 27, 2012 | Series: A Game of Thrones: the Graphic Novel (Book 1) You’ve read the books. You’ve watched the hit series on HBO. Now acclaimed novelist Daniel Abraham and illustrator Tommy Patterson bring George R. R. Martin’s epic fantasy masterwork A Game of Thrones to majestic new life in the pages of this full-color graphic novel. Comprised of the initial six issues of the graphic series, this is the first volume in what is sure to be one of the most coveted collaborations of the year. Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King’s Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert’s name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse—unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season. Yet a more immediate threat lurks to the south, where Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died under mysterious circumstances. Now Robert is riding north to Winterfell, bringing his queen, the lovely but cold Cersei, his son, the cruel, vainglorious Prince Joffrey, and the queen’s brothers Jamie and Tyrion of the powerful and wealthy House Lannister—the first a swordsman without equal, the second a dwarf whose stunted stature belies a brilliant mind. All are heading for Winterfell and a fateful encounter that will change the course of kingdoms. Meanwhile, across the Narrow Sea, Prince Viserys, heir of the fallen House Targaryen, which once ruled all of Westeros, schemes to reclaim the throne with an army of barbarian Dothraki—whose loyalty he will purchase in the only coin left to him: his beautiful yet innocent sister, Daenerys. |
Coulda sworn I put this up yesterday. Guess not.
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Three times in the past couple days, I saw this thread and thought 'I should post that new trailer." |
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I re-watched the episode last night where Ned is saying goodbye to Jon Snow as they part ways for King's Landing and the Wall.
Ned tells Jon something like "you may not have my name but you have my blood"
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Here is a video of a recent interview with GRRM where he reads an excerpt from the Winds of Winter near the end of it. It is an excerpt from a Victarion chapter. Man I can't wait for book 6. All the set up in books 4 and 5 is about to pay off in book 6 as the shit is about to hit the fan!
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Someone on Westeros.org posted the text of what he read, so here is the text for those who'd rather read it:
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Definitely a Stark.
Could see being a Targaryen [great vengeance and furious anger, as Jules would say], maybe even a Greyjoy if you love the sea, but WHO THE **** would be a Lannister? Even Tyrion wearies of it And without Robert, the Baratheons leave me cold. |
Those were pretty cool!
I agree, how could anyone be in the Lannister house? It would be like picking Slytherin House in Harry Potter. I love the actress playing Dany, she's doing a hell of a job breathing life into that character. And, well, she's ****ing hot! I kind of hope they move a little of book 3 Dany into season 2 because she truly kicks some ass in book 3 and I'm looking forward to seeing it on the show. I also like the guy playing Rob Stark. He's not a character I ever grew overly fond of in the books, but he is one of my favorites on the show. Funny how that works. It was like that with Khal Drogo for me too. Didn't think much of him in the books, but on the show he was awesome. Too bad Drogo had to die! |
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I felt like Robb Stark was miscast a little at first, but I grew to like him. He did a great job portraying Robb in season 1 so kudos to him.
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I assume that means spoilers up through the current place where the show is which is just the end of book 1. I try to spoiler tag anything having to do with later books because I don't want to ruin any surprises for people, plus its easy to click the spoilers if you want to read them.
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So this leads to an interesting question, which characters do you most want to see get what's coming to them at this point? Spoiler tagging it because some of the obvious choices may have already been offed in the books, and others are on the list for reasons not yet known to show watchers: My list:
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New 22 minute intro to season 2 from HBO:
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Finally got around to ordering (and receiving) my bluray discs. I'd...umm..."procured through the use of alternate means" the series originally, so it's awesome to see them in 1080p. It's pretty impressive what they've been able to do with a TV-only budget.
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Didn't realize season 2 starts next week. Sooo freaking excited.
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I just finished the third book, and loved it. I was a bit disappointed with the second, so was great to read a strong third book. I wanted to run out and start the fourth right away, but I've heard some mixed reviews, so I think I'll switch to some other reading for awhile.
The spoiler policy here seems pretty confused, so I won't say anything. But I think it's the first book where I didn't dread having to read certain character's chapters. Also, the HBO series looks great. I hope they're making enough money off of it to keep it going. And that Martin keeps writing! |
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People will want to argue that, but I think at the end of the day, it's too difficult to police spoilers when you're talking about a series of books that began in 1996, and Dance With Dragons came out 8 months ago. So whatever statute of spoiler limitations there is has pretty much expired now. For the folks who haven't read the books, or who haven't finished the series through DwD yet, I created a separate spoiler-free thread that's been linked in the first post on this thread for nearly a year. You can find that one here. So, Ice and Fire noobs: use it, love it. That's what it's there for. |
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I like coming here to see previews. But I vote we separate the show and books into different threads. [edit] Also, I don't think there is any spoiler warning when you actually click on the thread. And if people are like me, they don't always read the first post, especially for updates. I'd hate to have people that are reading the books or watching the series have some of the great developments ruined by this mish-mash of a thread, where every poster seems to have different views on when do hide spoilers and when not to. |
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I think the main reason people have an issue with the fourth book is that the ending of the third book is great, but then three of the main characters and their story lines just don't show up at all in the fourth book (weird choice by GRRM), so if you go straight into it from book 3 wanting to find out what happens next with those characters and don't realize that they aren't in the book atl all (like I did), it gets frustrating.
But if you know it going in and are mentally prepared for that, and you have the fifth book to read once you are done with the fourth so that you can pick those storylines back up, it is not so bad and you can enjoy the fourth book more. I liked it better on a re-read for that reason, because then you can really focus on all the interesting details and the characters that are focused on in the fourth book. |
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