Tony Danza Claus posted:

The books are six god drat dollars. The answers are available freely in one of the spoiler threads.

What's the point of writing a 30-page fanfiction about Jon Snow being Cersei's son to sit back and watch if you're proven right? Suppose you are. Suppose that in 2 seasons you find out you're right. You'll have to buy archives, dig up your old post, repost it, and say "I was right!" And maybe one, if that, person will say "oh, yeah, ok, good for you."

YOU'RE SPECULATING PAST EVENTS.

It's already written! You're literally watching a history channel program and saying "Gee whiz, this Hitler fella seems bad. I wonder what becomes of him?"

gently caress you, read a goddamn book you shits!

Bhaal posted:

Had dinner last night with some friends I don't see often. It turns out they've never read the books but are huge fans of the show. They want joffrey dead so badly they can taste it, and are CONVINCED (/hoping) it will happen before the halfway point this season. I probed for more of their speculation and they're pretty sure Robb will have a hand in it if not deliver the killing blow himself. They're pretty big Robb fans, and are just pumped to see Joffrey get whacked in the next couple weeks.

It might be tricky, but I'm going to have to schedule a dinner date or something way ahead of time next year (or the year after) so that I get to see them < 24 hours after they witness the Red Wedding. It's not that I hate my friends, I've just found the best way to cope with the pain of GURM is to witness it among others.

Blade_of_tyshalle posted:

Contra Calculus posted:

I just googled leaders who married their relatives and apparently Franklin D. Roosevelt married his cousin. Wow, didn't know that

Why cookie Rocket posted:

All the talk about the show's ending reminds me of a thought I had yesterday-- they're going to need to wrap this thing up before Arya or Bran are clearly in their 20s. I don't care for Harry Potter but every time I saw a movie poster for the last two films, I kind of had to laugh at their ages.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

"She's sickly, weak, shut away in a tower. She disgusts you. And she has given you nothing. No sons, only stillborns. Only death."

There's a bit of wiggle room there, if they wanted to introduce Stannis' daughter at some point.

IRQ posted:

She's pretty much inconsequential from what I remember anyway (aside from introducing fantasy leprosy which itself isn't relevant until ADWD [which itself isn't relevant to anything]), so why add even more characters for people watching the show to get confused about?

Martin Van Buren posted:

Oof, is that underboob sweat I spy on the grrm?

empty sea posted:

God dammit Arya had her stupidest moments in the books when she was having Jaqen kill retards and not Tywin or someone loving important.

quote:

• The only time I've had a problem with the sex in Game Of Thrones was when Stanis banged the red priestess last week - because Stanis in the books is essentially portrayed as being grossed out by sex. He's some weird asexual stoic and it went against character.
  
• It happens in the books, you just don't see it happen...How else do you think shadow babby is made?
  
• I interpreted shadow baby as sex magic, rather than magic sex. I agree that Stanis seems like an ultra-prude.
  
• I'm not convinced shadow baby was the result of her having sex with a human.
  
• I truly don't recall getting the impression that he'd actually succumbed to her charms. [scuttles off to re-read...]
  
• I don't think shadow baby is the result of sex but it's heavily implied that Stannis and Red Priestess are having an affair and his wife is looking the other way or in the dark about it.
  
• Magic obviously... We need to have sex to make a shadow baby? When this happened in the books not once did I think about how she got knocked up with a magic shadow baby.
  

JustFrakkingDoIt posted:

I'm thinking he's gonna get left out in the cold to follow his in his uncle's footsteps and become an Über-Other (I don't remember what the consensus is here about Benjen > Coldhands) or maybe he could just be dead.

Klungar posted:

I'd be interested in why people are opposed to it, as that's the theory I've been running with as well.

Martin Van Buren posted:

Wasn't his face also covered when he was around Sam? Whats he care if some fatty sees his zombie face?

crazypeltast52 posted:

In other news I have reached April of 2008 in the proto-Bad Thread and GRRM is not yet an absolute fucker. However, there has been vigorous debate over the pronounciation of Aeron as "damp hair" or "damfare"

Tony Danza Claus posted:

Aeron "damp hair" Greyjoy.

It's a nickname, you awful nerds. He's always in the ocean. His hair is wet. I'll loving kill you all.

crazylakerfan posted:

I am almost wondering if you guys are trolling when saying that was ever a discussion. How could you guys read it as Dam Phair?

Tony Danza Claus posted:

Conclusion: the vikings are boring.

Not like the Dornish. They have nicknames like "Darkstar".

So cool.

Tony Danza Claus posted:

The other two dragons are in Myreen and flamehand Victarion will claim them.

Dany only has the one, now.

Jon will Warg into Ghost and become a tree.

Tyrion will die when Victarion burns him with his dragons.

Contra Calculus posted:

I think Jaime's shameful boner will be the best CGI art in television history once it is filmed.

run DNC posted:

I think Theon grabbing Ashas junk and fondling it for the whole ride was a pretty good tradeoff for her not undoing his pants (they changed it so he was wearing a skirt instead!)

Joramun posted:

After that snowballing scene I think we can safely conclude that there is no low HBO won't sink to.

Junkenstein posted:

badthread.txt

Seriously, someone actually typed that.

Ross posted:

The medic's name was not Jeyne, it started with a J though (Jasmina or something?). My feelings are that she will play the Jeyne role though.

SammyWhereAreYou posted:

Well, I gotta give the Institute for Gifted and Talented Goons thread one thing: they managed to catch on right away that the burned kids weren't Bran and Rickon but the orphan kids. I tried to hint to my husband that it was a fakeout ("where are Hodor and Osha though?" What about the orphan kids they were going to visit in the previous scene?") and he didn't catch on at all. Did I really somehow manage to marry someone dumber than the average goon or is he actually smarter than all of us because he doesn't care enough about this stupid fantasy series to pay very close attention to it?

Dead Man Posting posted:

I don't think I like or dislike HBO since they did things great and terrible.

Let's make a list:

Pros:
Ned Stark total badass
King Robert
Syrio
Cat
Littlefinger
Mormont
Ygritte total babe/great actress
I guess literally every other casting than Jon Snow is great
Greyjoy subplot totally

Cons:
Jon Snow
Ros
Cutting Jojen and Meera Reed
Cutting flashbacks, memories, fantasies

IRQ posted:

Is anyone else disappointed that Showdor uses inflection and poo poo when he says Hodor?

I wanted it to be full on retard volume HODOR! each and every time.

Urdnot Fire posted:

Please, there are many and more where those come from. It is known.

Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:

Are the Dunk and Egg stories actually any good? I didn't know they existed until I started reading this thread.

empty sea posted:

At what point do the SECRET TARGS become not so secret? When there are three? Five? I MUST KNOW.

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“Thousands and thousands of years ago, a winter fell that was cold and hard and endless beyond all memory of man. There came a night that lasted a generation, and kings shivered and died in their castles even as the swineherds in their hovels. Women smothered their children rather than see them starve, and cried, and felt their tears freeze on their cheeks.” Her voice and her needles fell silent, and she glanced up at Bran with pale, filmy eyes and asked, “So, child. This is the sort of story you like?”
“Well,” Bran said reluctantly, “yes, only…”
Old Nan nodded. “In that darkness, the Others came for the first time,” she said as her needles went click click click. “They were cold things, dead things, that hated iron and fire and the touch of the sun, and every creature with hot blood in its veins. They swept over holdfasts and cities and kingdoms, felled heroes and armies by the score, riding their pale dead horses and leading hosts of the slain. All the swords of men could not stay their advance, and even maidens and suckling babes found no pity in them. They hunted the maids through frozen forests, and fed their dead servants on the flesh of human children.”
Her voice had dropped very low, almost to a whisper, and Bran found himself leaning forward to listen.
“Now these were the days before the Andals came, and long before the women fled across the narrow sea from the cities of the Rhoyne, and the hundred kingdoms of those times were the kingdoms of the First Men, who had taken these lands from the children of the forest. Yet here and there in the fastness of the woods the children still lived in their wooden cities and hollow hills, and the faces in the trees kept watch. So as cold and death filled the earth, the last hero determined to seek out the children, in the hopes that their ancient magics could win back what the armies of men had lost. He set out into the dead lands with a sword, a horse, a dog, and a dozen companions. For years he searched, until he despaired of ever finding the children of the forest in their secret cities. One by one his friends died, and his horse, and finally even his dog, and his sword froze so hard the blade snapped when he tried to use it. And the Others smelled the hot blood in him, and came silent on his trail, stalking him with packs of pale white spiders big as hounds—”

el_brio posted:

Ahhh, ice spiders. We hardly knew ye. Seriously though... the books are filled with interesting ideas that GRRM pulled out of his rear end and then forgot about. He should have focused on the others/north/invasion and the books wouldn't have sucked nearly as bad. Instead we got Tyrion the Public Works Administrator, half-assed Vikings and loving Mereen. God I hate Dany's story line.

The Unnamed One posted:

Pretty sure he sent her body to the North for whatever reason. Probably because Cersei would use her as a rug in the Throne Room.

Demiurge4 posted:

He kidnapped Lyanna Stark because the saviour had to have the blood of the old men. He was remorseful about kidnapping and raping her, and Ned rescued the baby and pretended it was his own son so King Robert wouldn't murder it.