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A Thread of A Series of Books of A Song of Ice and Fire (BOOK AND TV SPOILERS HERE)
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Nope, those scenes are absolutely dumb. I know where they're going, they're still bad television.
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Jesus, I'm tired.
I was so very confused.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
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I dont read se++ or westeros or winteriscoming but I damn sure will now. thanks :^:
I'd also add alyssa rosenberg to the list: http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/05/06/1965201/game-of-thrones-recap-the-climb/
Leigh Butler is doing an unspoiled readthrough of ASOIAF: http://www.tor.com/features/series/a-read-of-ice-and-fire
from her latest entry: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-storm-of-swords-part-27
delicious.
also, from the show only thread:
oh so close. this is going to be so good.
Maybe Ramsay starts some shit with Bran. Bran and his gang could do with a bit of murder. Murder I can deal with!
RW oughta sort/ shock that right the fuck out straight however.
Maybe I'm just extremely desensitized to torture porn media (or secretly a sociopath!), but I really don't think of those scenes in terms of the physical torture. Sure, flaying is present, but it doesn't faze me, I don't think it's cool or scary or gross, it's just sort of a background element of the scene to me. But I love, love, LOVE the actual dialogue and psychological shit going on in those scenes. So, no, more please!
All this whining about Theon's torture is great because it's exactly how I felt reading it. I was like, "seriously, I need to read even more descriptions of torture?"
Fitting, since Charles Dance, who plays Tywin, also played the patrician in the film/TV/live-action versions of the Discworld series.
I thought it was more awesome what he got right or how close he can be on something and still completely miss the mark. I love the show thread.
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The moment they start playing the Rains of Castamere..
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What does it screw up in book 6?
Might be that they intend to roll the two characters into one? Gendry was bound to leave the Brotherhood eventually, this just means he'll be absent for other reasons.
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Season 6 I should have said or book 4.
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Any random person can fill that role.
I guess if we assume the Brienne knowing there's a Baratheon bastard has no impact
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I think most of the bitching tells me the show is pulling off exactly what they want with it. They just want Theon to be dead and for it to be over with almost as much as Theon surely does... but death won't come. Everyone wants to see him dead and feels he deserves it, and now the viewer will get to sit back and watch, week after week, as Theon gets dealt a fate many would argue is worse than the death he deserved (particularly if he does, in fact, get castrated... I've seen many a poll where men almost overwhelming say they'd rather die than live with their dicks cut off. Pretty sure I agree with em'.)
And it was either this or go "Hey, remember Theon? Yeah, he actually didn't die a couple of years ago," and it's hard to ask an actor to ride the pine for two years and then explain what happened to him through the inner monologue that doesn't exist on the show.
I have to say that I'm loving Ramsay. I want to see that guy do more and more fucked up things. Every bit of dialogue in this last week's episode was perfect from him.
I think he meant book four, where Gendry ends up shankin' some bitches.
It's an old line, but in the show it's from Varys, when he tells his origin story to Tyrion.
All she knows is that this kid looks a lot like Renly. She has absolutely zero reason to suspect that they're actually related.
That's pretty much all Ned needed. And hell there's be some irony if Lady Stoneheart ended up using a bastard as a figurehead
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e: Against a human. Not that I'm endorsing Shagwell as 'human'.
Ned knew that Gendry was important before meeting him. Brienne has no reason to think that Gendry is anyone important.
That too, and I'd say primarily. The entire history of the Baratheon family has dark haired Baratheons marrying blonde women and producing only more dark haired kids. And, suddenly, three Baratheon kids are born blonde of hair.
A bunch of bastards looking like Robert moreso than his "actual kids" is one thing, but for "his" kids to be the exception to a rule that's been the case for the entire recorded history of the family...
She could say that.
But it's a patriarchy. Women are inferior.