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this_is_hard posted:isn't rickon like 4 years old? Almost a man grown.
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someone explain varys=merman to me idgi
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Jun 20, 2015 02:43
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V. Illych L. posted:someone explain varys=merman to me idgi Varys is a merman
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Jun 20, 2015 02:45
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V. Illych L. posted:someone explain varys=merman to me idgi I just googled it and found a reddit where someone copy/pasted it and basically: He never smiles with his teeth so he's hiding something. Probably spiky teeth like rorge the biter who is a retarded merman. a dumb idiot who is too dumb to sit around all day filing his teeth they are naturally pointy and so is varys. Also littlefinger is from bravos and "has varys in the palm of [his] hand" i.e. he knows his secret (that he's a merman) I'm tired of remembering this nonsense. google it yourself.
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Jun 20, 2015 02:46
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Krinkle posted:I just googled it and found a reddit where someone copy/pasted it and basically: Littlefinger owns a ship called the Merling king. Therefore, he is the king of the Merlings
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Jun 20, 2015 02:47
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this_is_hard posted:isn't rickon like 4 years old? He's three years old in book one.ince the books take place over about two and a half years he should be at least five, hanging out with his near feral giant wolf on the island of unicorns and cannibalism,
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Jun 20, 2015 02:48
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V. Illych L. posted:someone explain varys=merman to me idgi Here is the Preston Jacobs video explaining it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_mV1IpjWA
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Jun 20, 2015 02:56
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p.crestmont posted:Here is the Preston Jacobs video explaining it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_mV1IpjWA No no, the one with Varys is this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyFVG4VfPmg
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Jun 20, 2015 03:01
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My favourite thing about this thread is how it rapidly swings from enthusiastically discussing to nuances of the schemes and plots of the series to declaring GRRM a hack and the worst piece of poo poo on earth.
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Jun 20, 2015 03:10
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FreudianSlippers posted:Theories that are obviously true: Notice how "Jaqen is Syrio" isn't on this list.
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Jun 20, 2015 03:15
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Knuc U Kinte posted:My favourite thing about this thread is how it rapidly swings from enthusiastically discussing to nuances of the schemes and plots of the series to declaring GRRM a hack and the worst piece of poo poo on earth. You know it's funny just today I saw an GRRM interview where he makes fun of M Night for going for the "twist" a bit too much. Really good one GRRM, but honestly it also made me realize that he's not that far above and possibly below M NIght's writing skill level, because at least M Night comes up with a new twist every time while GRRM's twist is the same predictable boring thing: "bad ending/good guy dies". Hey let me guess how do the last 2 books end? All the good guys die and it's a bad ending but Tyrion/Sam live. Oops did I solve all the mysteries in one fell swoop? WHoops! What a twist!
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Jun 20, 2015 03:17
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Jon is the only stereotype good guy who died, no?
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Jun 20, 2015 03:19
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Here's the Vary's merman theory: it SOUNDS like a joke making fun of having complex "theories" about a dumb glistening dragon weenier pants making GBS threads fantasy story that pretended to be mostly good and serious in the first book But GRRM loves SUBVERTING Ergo; it is not a joke bc that's being subverted and Varys IS a merman
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Jun 20, 2015 03:20
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Dr. Video Games 0112 posted:You know it's funny just today I saw an GRRM interview where he makes fun of M Night for going for the "twist" a bit too much. Really good one GRRM, but honestly it also made me realize that he's not that far above and possibly below M NIght's writing skill level, because at least M Night comes up with a new twist every time while GRRM's twist is the same predictable boring thing: "bad ending/good guy dies". Hey let me guess how do the last 2 books end? All the good guys die and it's a bad ending but Tyrion/Sam live. Oops did I solve all the mysteries in one fell swoop? WHoops! What a twist! GRRM doesn't rely on twists, that's just what your brain focuses on because you're used to reading puerile trash. If you can't see the difference between the way that george and M Night use twists in their stories, you're a big idiot.
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Jun 20, 2015 03:21
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Is it the hack or the brilliant writer of 1000 page schemes without a point that relies on fans and wikipedia to keep his own plot straight?
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Jun 20, 2015 03:21
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Does Emily Clark's contract seriously expire next season? i just realized how much reading dany's chapters made me hate her, so i hope htis happens
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Jun 20, 2015 03:24
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mind the walrus posted:Notice how "Jaqen is Syrio" isn't on this list. I mean I was just talked out of it by those people making arguments and quotes from the book. I wasn't aware forums posters were a cite-able source. Someone quote this: Fat Walda is Arya wearing Hot Pie's corpse as a skin suit. Whoops I just made it canon by writing it down.
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Jun 20, 2015 03:24
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A Major Fucker posted:i just realized how much reading dany's chapters made me hate her, so i hope htis happens I bought that Game of Thrones adventure game in the Steam Sale and she's even more of a big annoying retard.
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Jun 20, 2015 03:25
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A Tasteful Nude posted:It's dumb and silly if everyone is a Secret X, though i think there's going to be at least one more instance of it besides all the ones that have been confirmed
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Jun 20, 2015 03:28
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Knuc U Kinte posted:GRRM doesn't rely on twists, that's just what your brain focuses on because you're used to reading puerile trash. If you can't see the difference between the way that george and M Night use twists in their stories, you're a big idiot. Yeah GRRM likes to do the more trashy comic book twist. Where a character seems to die but on the next issue (chapter) he is fine and it was all a misunderstanding. This is also used to great effect in the literary classic series goosebumps.
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Jun 20, 2015 03:32
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CharlestheHammer posted:Yeah GRRM likes to do the more trashy comic book twist. When does this happen. Arya in Storm? I can't remember any else.
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Jun 20, 2015 03:34
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Jon is the only stereotype good guy who died, no? No. Ned was doing the "right" thing in his own particular idiom. He was just a bag of hammers looking for some nails. He should have screwed Cersei and stitched the seven kingdoms together over Robert's steaming corpse. Also a lot of actually good and innocent people die in war and that's the point gurm was trying to make. Back in 1996.
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Jun 20, 2015 03:39
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Knuc U Kinte posted:When does this happen. Arya in Storm? I can't remember any else. Davos off the boat. Davos in the hall of manderly, was that all flashback? We thought he had his hands nailed to a wall for a while but I can't remember if he got dungeoned in a PoV. Arya going blind. Quentin getting burnt. I mean he lived for a little while and died in someone else's chapter. Catlyn's throat getting slit. Brienne getting hanged.
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Jun 20, 2015 03:40
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syscall girl posted:No. I meant in the last two books.
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Jun 20, 2015 03:40
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Krinkle posted:I read early drafts of star wars where anakin is an old man and he smashes his robot arm on the desk to make a point and I don't think I ever want to read early drafts of things I enjoy again. Thank you for the links to your post but I decline. it actually sounds better and much more coherent than what we got
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Jun 20, 2015 03:41
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Krinkle posted:Davos off the boat. Davos in the hall of manderly, was that all flashback? We thought he had his hands nailed to a wall for a while but I can't remember if he got dungeoned in a PoV. I haven't read these books in a while so I did a little poking around. Bran and Rickon is the other one, but most of your examples are lame.
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Jun 20, 2015 03:44
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I got carried away and misunderstood the question.
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Jun 20, 2015 03:46
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Krinkle posted:I got carried away and misunderstood the question. It does seem like he does do a lot of fakeouts though.
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Jun 20, 2015 03:47
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ZShakespeare posted:Does anyone have that wall of text that is all the food descriptions from all the books? i want to see this real bad
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Jun 20, 2015 03:50
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And killing off characters only to introduce a new carbon copy with a different name. That's not a fakeout but it's kind of the same thing, just done in a different way. But same category or something.
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Jun 20, 2015 03:54
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Krinkle posted:I just googled it and found a reddit where someone copy/pasted it and basically: it's cool that if grrm had finished the series in a timely fashion and not wrote stupid twists, preston would be sane
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Jun 20, 2015 04:16
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Dr. Video Games 0112 posted:And killing off characters only to introduce a new carbon copy with a different name. That's not a fakeout but it's kind of the same thing, just done in a different way. But same category or something. what specific thing are you talking about
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Dr. Video Games 0112 posted:And killing off characters only to introduce a new carbon copy with a different name. That's not a fakeout but it's kind of the same thing, just done in a different way. But same category or something. I think someone quoted an interview where for GRRM Gandalf's "death" was like a huge moment for him because he remembered how sad he was that Gandalf died, and then how happy he was when it turned out Gandalf wasn't actually dead. So I think all these dead-not-dead is him trying to recreate Gandalf. loving American Tolkien
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Jun 20, 2015 05:45
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GRRM's dead-not-dead is a bloated corpse fished from a river that is all gross and can't speak, a 7 foot tall faceless voodoo zombie, a dude trapped in a bird who will gradually lose his mind, and probably a dude trapped in a direwolf who will gradually lose his mind and the direwolf will always have its mouth slightly open.
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Jun 20, 2015 09:21
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HookShot posted:I think someone quoted an interview where for GRRM Gandalf's "death" was like a huge moment for him because he remembered how sad he was that Gandalf died, and then how happy he was when it turned out Gandalf wasn't actually dead. loving Westerners and their Jesus metaphors.
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Jun 20, 2015 10:41
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A Major Fucker posted:what specific thing are you talking about Oberyn and Darkstar maybe?
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Jun 20, 2015 10:49
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:a dude trapped in a direwolf who will gradually lose his mind and the direwolf will always have its mouth slightly open. Well, wolves do pant, so it's a natural fit.
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Jun 20, 2015 10:50
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Darkstar feels a bit like Oberyn-lite but without the charisma and really incompetent. But the fact that he talks a load of poo poo about how great and dangerous he is and his only act in the book is to try, and fail, to murder a small child makes it come of as a joke. I hope it's intentional.
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Jun 20, 2015 13:02
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FreudianSlippers posted:Darkstar feels a bit like Oberyn-lite but without the charisma and really incompetent. But the fact that he talks a load of poo poo about how great and dangerous he is and his only act in the book is to try, and fail, to murder a small child makes it come of as a joke. I hope it's intentional. It's not.
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I'm pretty sure GRRM has said that he wrote Darkstar because Oberyn was well-received, so he was intended to be a replacement even if in reality he didn't work too well.
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