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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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This unforgiving nature means I'm pessimistic that we'll ever see Dominic West on this show
I would imagine writing or killing someone off only applies if the actor has already appeared on the show. 'Sides, it was an honest misunderstanding on his part.
I'd watch it.
Six seasons and a movie.
His appearance is OK, and they have plenty of time to flesh out his character. I like him a lot in the books I'm hoping there's time to do him justice. And the mance as well.
Joffrey is one sick asshole.
This neo-feudalism would be more tolerable if our betters had fancy titles.
I think the book only documents Baratheon/Lannister couplings.
oh, no. It's a massive book with hundreds of pairings across hundreds of years.
something like Lineage of the Great Houses of Westeros
edit: The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, With Descriptions of Many High Lords and Noble Ladies and Their Children
the wiki page lists a half-dozen Umbers, but those are apparently not canon.
I mean the parts of the book Ned reads in our book. I'm aware the book is exhaustively boring.
The big difference between that stuff in the books and how the show handles it is most of the nasty stuff in the books is related to us, not experienced directly in the narrative (except for theon). We don't take a chapter to describe Vargo Hoat's breakfast choices from a close-up point. We hear about Joff doing shit things to animals but there's no Joffrey PoV where he spends a couple pages enjoying torturing some kitten. We hear about Saltpans, but we don't get a scene set there during its destruction.
I mean you can read a history book and hear some really gruesome shit far in excess of anything GRRM's ever put down, but there's a difference between glorying in and dwelling on the violence and just acknowledging its existence.
I think Grey Wind's death was seen, but it was the sewing of his head onto robbs body which was just talked about.
I'm rather disappointed about the lack of direwolves even though I understand this. I guess dragons get the most CGI budget attention though.
The direwolves shouldn't be that expensive though. They're just regular wolves shot against green screen, scaled up, and composited into the shot. I'm no expert compositor, but I could do that in a day or so with Adobe After Effects. The hardest part for the direwolves effect is making sure the lighting and perspective are correct in both shots for where you want the wolf in the scene.
The dragons are obviously full CGI, so that's more difficult & expensive. And now I feel like posting this again!
But I'm sure he'll just film between seasons, no reason to worry...
Sean Bean all over again.
True. I bet trained wolves are expensive!
I feel like they could've waited to say he's filming something else, kinda ruins the surprise.
Emilia Clarke is doing broadway. right now.
Did that spoil her death at the end of this season?
It gets people thinking at least. It doesn't help that Robb is going to meet with the Freys to get support for a do or die battle. That, coupled with getting another job? That's a little suspicious. Dany meanwhile isn't doing a whole lot, she's coming off a big win in the show, and they haven't said what she's doing next.
Too late. Can't un-press the panic button.
This show has such a large ensemble cast that being in it should not preclude an actor's involvement in other projects.
(Want to have a good lie ready if my TV friends start to notice the leaves changing color.)