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emanresu tnuocca posted:Actually I think it's funny people hate Brienne's chapters so much given that despite the pointlessness of her quest her chapters are pretty much the only ones decently paced in that stuff actually happens in them quite frequently and she has a couple of big fighting scenes and there's a rather dramatic and interesting conclusion, even if it's a cliff hanger. The pointlessness of her quest is the buzzkill for me. We know she isn't going to find Sansa. If GURM had laid things out differently we get some dramatic tension.
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The gently caress did I do here? Double post. Woodpile fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Jun 10, 2015 |
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Arbite posted:What plots? There's no war, there's no more Hizdar, there's no Green Grace,just a bunch of Assholes in masks and flammable cloth. Yeah, aside from Iron Island stuff, maybe some Bran stuff, and Sam goes to the Citadel, I think we're in all new territory next season. I'm not sure if we're going to get any resolution with the riverlands (and see how the Tully's are holding out), and the Lord Manderly / Frey stuff was probably completely cut. Still not completely sure about Stoneheart / Brotherhood without Banners. They may bring them back. Gendry may also come back. And they may also do something with Septon Meribald and the Quiet Isles. I also heard they cast Randyll Tarly so some of the Maidenpool plot may resurface. No clue what they're going to do with Rickon's plot next season, if anything at all. Gianthogweed fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Jun 10, 2015 |
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If you recut AFFC and ADWD so you read the Brienne chapters before Sansa, you'd have a solid narrative. Otherwise Brienne's chapters are a really good ground-level look at how loving devastating that pointless war was.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:If you recut AFFC and ADWD so you read the Brienne chapters before Sansa, you'd have a solid narrative. Which brings up the central point one must look at when dealing with GRRM's books. The man needed a loving editor with balls so bad.
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A CLASH OF KINGS A STORM OF SWORDS A FEAST FOR CROWS
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A Major Fucker posted:A CLASH OF KINGS cock penis dillznick naw those were some fun books for the most part I am fond of several characters and hope things go well for them they're even good ways of relating to other people, water cooler chat wise Aghast At Dat rear end Riled About Rape A Pyre for Preadolescents
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CharlestheHammer posted:The man needed a loving editor with balls so bad. I certainly believe this as well and yet...if he was producing a book like these every year or two and the plot/narrative was progressing I would take however many digressions because the man can build a world full of characters you want to hear more about.
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I really liked the Brienne chapters. The fact that the only truly heroic knight in Westeros is wandering around on a totally pointless quest to save someone she'll never reach is humorous to me.
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A Major Fucker posted:A CLASH OF KINGS GoT CoK SoS FFC DWD Got Cock Sauce, gently caress Dude e: WoW
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syscall girl posted:HIV/ADoS
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syscall girl posted:HIV/ADoS But I'm only likely to get one of those things. 
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Some of the plot lines should have been split over both books (ie Brienne), You mean the fat gently caress should have finished the book, and not split it into 2 :P
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syscall girl posted:HIV/ADoS I don't get it. I mean I only understand one side of each of these acronyms. Human Immunodeficiency and A Dream of Spring. Where's the pun?
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Im a fooking legend is way more memorable than anything in the last two books.
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Gianthogweed posted:I don't get it. I mean I only understand one side of each of these acronyms. Human Immunodeficiency and A Dream of Spring. Where's the pun? If you try to pronounce the acronym of A Dream of Spring it could sound vaguely (think clanging in schizophrenia) like AIDS I have a mental illness I guess
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I'm pretty sure aDOS will turn out to be a long ode to GRRM's favorite operating system of all time.
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syscall girl posted:If you try to pronounce the acronym of A Dream of Spring it could sound vaguely (think clanging in schizophrenia) like AIDS Ah, I see. Trying too hard though. This is funnier (and more consistent): Got cock sauce, gently caress dude wow dos! 
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kaworu posted:I'm pretty sure aDOS will turn out to be a long ode to GRRM's favorite operating system of all time. I thought he wrote the books on like an Amiga or some poo poo.
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He will only write books on one of those brother label makers and if they ever stop making plastic sticky tape cartridges for them he will give up writing forever.
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No Pants posted:I read the blog that tried to rehabilitate the dany chapters (it was better than them) Anyone got a link?
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yronic heroism posted:Anyone got a link? https://meereeneseblot.wordpress.com/essays/
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Gurm's Last: A Dream of Spring (GLADoS)
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:I thought he wrote the books on like an Amiga or some poo poo. what does wordstar run on? because I think some people here who collate not a blog said he used that at one point I know some authors and their choice of writing platforms are universally weird as poo poo because M$ word keeps changing so it's not that odd who am I kidding though, GRRM writes his missives in flesh to be transcribed by the greater chupacabra during the heat death of the universe
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1991 called and wants their word processor back posted:Many Science Fiction writers — including myself, Roger MacBride Allen, Gerald Brandt, Jeffrey A. Carver, Arthur C. Clarke, David Gerrold, Terence M. Green, James Gunn, Matthew Hughes, Donald Kingsbury, Eric Kotani, Paul Levinson, George R. R. Martin, Vonda McIntyre, Kit Reed, Jennifer Roberson, and Edo van Belkom — continue to use WordStar for DOS as our writing tool of choice. Gianthogweed posted:Ah, I see. Trying too hard though. This is funnier (and more consistent): Don't look right to me 
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AtAt-de-fay posted:The pointlessness of her quest is the buzzkill for me. We know she isn't going to find Sansa. If GURM had laid things out differently we get some dramatic tension. There's something to be said about bad threaders finding a story less enjoyable cause the author himself spoils a plot element.
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counterfeitsaint posted:The fourth daughter is Darkstar, who will maim Mycella next episode on the way out of Dorne. Darkst-Arya. New theory: Arya disguises herself as Darkstar, mutilates Mycella so Mycella has to run around in a bandaged face. Then Arya can take Mycella's place and travel safely back to King's Landing where she will get close enough to Cersei to stab her dead.
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Willing to bet GRRM wordstar dos machine already poo poo the bed awhile ago and he lost everything
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Regulus74 posted:Two more show vs. book images Yes, dog rape is definitely a less gratutious way to go.
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Shageletic posted:Yes, dog rape is definitely a less gratutious way to go. Yeah those images are so hilariously biased. Which makes them worthless, but hilarious.
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That image is right. the dog rape is one line where she's like "I'll do anything...even with the dog" which suggests he's threatened her with it rather than actually done it. If it was the show it would be a full on scene of her being hosed by a dog off screen while Theon grimaces in horror.
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Also the show isn't torture porn unless you have horribly low standards. Hell they hardly show anything.
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AtAt-de-fay posted:The pointlessness of her quest is the buzzkill for me. We know she isn't going to find Sansa. If GURM had laid things out differently we get some dramatic tension. The real awfulness of her chapters can only be experienced through the audio books. Listening to Roy Dotrice butcher a female voice and then pronounce her name wrong about a hundred times, each one a variation of the name is like nails on the chalkboard. I was a huge fan of Brienne too. I was excited as hell to read her chapters because I felt she'd be a huge part of the books but after her sections I felt so let down and exhausted from her POV. Had it been a little shorter and less world building I would have been definitely more into it. It felt like such a speed bump in the story.
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I really liked Brienne's chapters. I remember how powerful it was when she killed those merc guys and heavily implies it;s the first people she's killed. In the show she's like some crazed beast and kills like 5 rainbow guard guys in her first episode. I like the show, but it;s about as subtle as a hammer to the nuts.
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Knuc U Kinte posted:I really liked Brienne's chapters. I remember how powerful it was when she killed those merc guys and heavily implies it;s the first people she's killed. In the show she's like some crazed beast and kills like 5 rainbow guard guys in her first episode. I like the show, but it;s about as subtle as a hammer to the nuts. Same. Her loving Monty Python wedding scene at the Inn was hilariously bad. Like a petulant child throwing a tantrum after being told they can't have any more fruit snacks.
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Knuc U Kinte posted:That image is right. the dog rape is one line where she's like "I'll do anything...even with the dog" American Tolkien.
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I think you guys want the tv show to be the actors reading their book chapters. "ugh they showed something instead of implying it, this show is over!"
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DangerZoneDelux posted:I think you guys want the tv show to be the actors reading their book chapters. "ugh they showed something instead of implying it, this show is over!" Emilia Clarke reading her Danyrhea chapter 
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