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Hal-9000
04-20-2011, 06:10 PM
Apparently a new mini series that started last Sunday.Stars Sean Bean from LOTR's fame.It's supposed to be quite good, already been picked up for a second season after airing only one installment :thumbsup:

Anyone happen to watch this?

PorkChopSandwiches
04-20-2011, 06:18 PM
Its fucking great so far, just saw Ep1

DemonGeminiX
04-20-2011, 09:38 PM
Yeah, I watched it. It's pretty cool so far. Jason Momoa from Stargate Atlantis is in it too.

:tup:

Teh One Who Knocks
04-20-2011, 09:39 PM
What's it about?

Hal-9000
04-20-2011, 09:42 PM
What's it about?

Stuff that you hate...medieval castles and mysticism and swords and guys in wigs :lol:

Hal-9000
04-20-2011, 09:43 PM
I read where the production values rivaled the LOTR movies :thumbsup:

Teh One Who Knocks
04-20-2011, 09:44 PM
Stuff that you hate...medieval castles and mysticism and swords and guys in wigs :lol:

Do you watch it while playing WoW? :)

DemonGeminiX
04-20-2011, 09:49 PM
It's based on the book of the same name by George R.R. Martin. It's the first book in a series called A Song of Ice and Fire.

DemonGeminiX
04-20-2011, 09:49 PM
Do you watch it while playing WoW? :)

Hal plays Women of Wrestling?

:-k

Teh One Who Knocks
04-20-2011, 09:53 PM
It's based on the book of the same name by George R.R. Martin. It's the first book in a series called A Song of Ice and Fire.

That's super helpful....











































If I had heard of any of it :slap:

Hal-9000
04-20-2011, 10:18 PM
Do you watch it while playing WoW? :)

I have NEVER booted up a game of WoW on my pc.....I have seen parts of it on a rather hot girl's pc however... and made the mistake of cracking a few jokes :lol:

DemonGeminiX
04-20-2011, 10:31 PM
That's super helpful....

If I had heard of any of it :slap:

Well, you have just heard of it, because I just told you. Now go pick up the books and read them, Slappy McSlapperson.

:slap:

DemonGeminiX
04-20-2011, 10:31 PM
I have NEVER booted up a game of WoW on my pc.....I have seen parts of it on a rather hot girl's pc however... and made the mistake of cracking a few jokes :lol:

You can play Women of Wrestling on the PC?

:-k

Hal-9000
04-20-2011, 10:47 PM
Well, you have just heard of it, because I just told you. Now go pick up the books and read them, Slappy McSlapperson.

:slap:

Lotsa violence in the threads when Lance is around :lol:

Hal-9000
04-20-2011, 10:47 PM
You can play Women of Wrestling on the PC?

:-k

Yes for a small monthly stipend from your credit card :)

Don't worry, it won't become addictive :rolleyes:

Hal-9000
04-20-2011, 10:51 PM
Lance? This is what it's about.

Just down-rent the damn first episode and enjoy it!!! :x



Its fucking great so far, just saw Ep1

DemonGeminiX
04-20-2011, 11:08 PM
Hey Lance, there's a scene with a midget and a naked woman in it. Right up your alley, Lance.

:tup:

Hal-9000
04-20-2011, 11:11 PM
...there's a scene with a midget and a naked woman in it....


*speeds home from work*

DemonGeminiX
04-21-2011, 01:20 AM
Midgets and titties, FTW!

:banana:

Hal-9000
04-21-2011, 05:33 PM
Got a nice copy of this and watched last night.Looks very good, they cut heads off and show boobies so I'm in for the duration :thumbsup:

DemonGeminiX
04-21-2011, 05:57 PM
Got a nice copy of this and watched last night.Looks very good, they cut heads off and show boobies so I'm in for the duration :thumbsup:

Yeah, you know you're going to be in for a pretty wild ride when you see a head rolling in the very first 5 minutes of the very first episode.

Midnight_Beacon
04-21-2011, 05:58 PM
Hey Lance, there's a scene with a midget and a naked woman in it. Right up your alley, Lance.

:tup:

A? Try several.

Seriously, they did a great job. I've only read the book once, and that wsa a long time ago but they seemed to stick to it for the most part. Awesome sets, costumes, acting & of course a good story.

DemonGeminiX
04-21-2011, 05:59 PM
I meant the midget and the naked woman were in a scene together.

Hal-9000
04-21-2011, 06:10 PM
I meant the midget and the naked woman were in a scene together.

and guest starring Lance as - the Imp

:rolleyes: :lol:

DemonGeminiX
04-25-2011, 04:20 AM
That little prince is a douchebag.

Hal-9000
04-25-2011, 05:01 PM
that little prince's name is Peter Dinkleage


Peter....Dink? :lol:



Got to watch the first bit of episode 2 last night....looks great :thumbsup:

Lambchop
04-25-2011, 05:34 PM
I'm not 100% on this show but I'll keep watching for a possible opportunity to see Daenerys' vagina.

Hal-9000
04-25-2011, 06:14 PM
I'm not 100% on this show but I'll keep watching for a possible opportunity to see Daenerys' vagina.

Is she the shy, sexy blonde who horse-boy is currently tearing a new arse in??? :lol:

Lambchop
04-25-2011, 06:52 PM
Yep that's her. I read something the other day that suggested in the book she is more welcoming to his penetration but in the episode they made it feel like a rape scene. :shock:

Hal-9000
04-25-2011, 11:02 PM
Yep, nothing like a girl crying during the intimate moment to help with the sexual ambiance :lol:

Hal-9000
04-26-2011, 04:44 PM
Watched episode 2, another good one

Goofy
04-26-2011, 05:05 PM
Hey Lance, there's a scene with a midget and a naked woman in it. Right up your alley, Lance.

:tup:


Got a nice copy of this and watched last night.Looks very good, they cut heads off and show boobies so I'm in for the duration :thumbsup:

:shock:

*downloads*

DemonGeminiX
05-04-2011, 07:22 AM
That little Stark girl is awesome. :thumbsup:

Hal-9000
05-04-2011, 05:15 PM
I really like this new show.Sure it's drama, drama, drama....they do such a good job with the sets and cinematography, it's easy to get lost in the world.

Sean Bean rocks as an actor and the little guy Peter Dinkleage is a great actor to watch too, very charismatic (and funny)

Hal-9000
05-04-2011, 05:16 PM
That little Stark girl is awesome. :thumbsup:

Stab them with the pointy end

:thumbsup:

Hal-9000
05-10-2011, 02:05 AM
There's such an undertone of impending doom in this show, it's really coming together.

Nice joust scene in this ep :thumbsup:

Arkady Renko
05-10-2011, 01:54 PM
dammit, I'm hooked now.

MrsM
05-10-2011, 02:09 PM
I watched the first 2 - and have the next 2 DL'ing.
:tup:

Hal-9000
05-10-2011, 03:39 PM
On each show I like there's usually a favorite character for me...Peter Dinkleage (prolly getting his name wrong) has become mine for this series.He's the short guy...

I love his wit, his intelligence and his sympathy for the Starks...very well written character IMO

DemonGeminiX
05-16-2011, 06:25 AM
Wow. :shock:

Hal-9000
05-17-2011, 06:23 PM
Episode 5 was great :thumbsup: Really went a long way explaining the kingdom(s) and various story lines.

Midnight_Beacon
05-17-2011, 06:38 PM
So far I like Arya Stark & Jon Snow the best, followed by The Imp. I looooooove the look the Imp gives Katherine Stark & the one she eventually gives him back after dealing with her sister. Yes. Your sister is nuts & maybe this wasn't a good idea.

Oh & when the King has been yelling about putting your head on a pike.... maybe delaying getting out of town is a BAD IDEA.

Hal-9000
05-17-2011, 06:42 PM
the Imp (Taryn Lannister?)

Is my favorite character in this series :thumbsup:

DemonGeminiX
05-17-2011, 06:55 PM
:lol:

Yeah, that scene with the sister was really messed up.

Hal-9000
05-17-2011, 07:01 PM
*suckles on the crazy queen's teet* :oops:

DemonGeminiX
05-18-2011, 07:48 AM
The kid was like what? 10? That was really messed up.

DemonGeminiX
05-24-2011, 01:33 AM
:twisted:

"He was no dragon. Fire cannot kill a dragon."

Hal-9000
05-24-2011, 04:07 PM
:twisted:

"He was no dragon. Fire cannot kill a dragon."

Yet the heated up egg didn't burn her hands....looking good :thumbsup:

DemonGeminiX
05-30-2011, 05:37 AM
:x

Oh, that rat bastard!

Arkady Renko
05-30-2011, 12:55 PM
:x

Oh, that rat bastard!

he looks like a rodent, too, wesome casting there!

Hal-9000
05-31-2011, 10:27 PM
episode 7 was great...there's going to some shite going down in the Lannister house :thumbsup:

Midnight_Beacon
06-01-2011, 05:26 AM
I have to admit I'm very frustrated with the Stark House. The only smart one is Jon? And his last name is Snow. I'm guessing he gets what few brains he has from his mother, because he certainly didn't get them from Ned.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/introducing-stupid-ned-stark

(I like Ned. I just think he's an idiot.)

DemonGeminiX
06-01-2011, 06:53 AM
I have to admit I'm very frustrated with the Stark House. The only smart one is Jon? And his last name is Snow. I'm guessing he gets what few brains he has from his mother, because he certainly didn't get them from Ned.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/introducing-stupid-ned-stark

(I like Ned. I just think he's an idiot.)

The problem with Ned Stark is that he acts with honor when it doesn't belong in the world he was dragged into by Robert Baratheon. He believes that acting with honor is the only way to live. Unfortunately, because no one else in his vicinity believes it, it's not working out too well for him. He's about the only admirable adult character in King's Landing. Honor and nobility has no place among the scheming rats.

Arkady Renko
06-01-2011, 11:43 AM
DGX hit the nail on the head, that's what makes his character interesting. As far as his offspring are concerned, the two youngest kids seem quite smart, too. When's episode eight due anyway?

DemonGeminiX
06-01-2011, 04:14 PM
Sunday night.

Arkady Renko
06-01-2011, 04:16 PM
*rubs hands in anticipation*

Jezter
06-06-2011, 08:40 PM
Ooohh I just want to murder Joffrey Baratheon and especially Cersei Lannister!
Also, what was that random fat dude with huge cock? When they were praying for their gods...Bran was and the prisoner girl. Then out of nowhere, a random cock! Made me lol. :D

Hal-9000
06-06-2011, 09:00 PM
random cocks cause mirth on any show :lol:

Arkady Renko
06-07-2011, 10:00 AM
yeah, the random cock was pretty...random.

Hal-9000
06-07-2011, 05:07 PM
Ooohh I just want to murder Joffrey Baratheon and especially Cersei Lannister!
Also, what was that random fat dude with huge cock? When they were praying for their gods...Bran was and the prisoner girl. Then out of nowhere, a random cock! Made me lol. :D

I believe random cock guy was a servant to the young male Stark....

Just watched episode 8 last night, hardcore :thumbsup:

allsmiles
06-08-2011, 04:31 AM
I saw penis. I'm hooked.

The violence makes me a bit sick at my stomach, but the nudity and great story line make up for it.

Wyeast
06-11-2011, 08:14 AM
I saw penis. I'm hooked.

I knew that's why you'd like the show!:giggle:

Hal-9000
06-14-2011, 06:45 PM
Episode 9 - :shock:

Arkady Renko
06-17-2011, 09:27 AM
yeah, that must have hurt...one more and we're done for the season. I hope the next one will be just as good.

DemonGeminiX
06-20-2011, 06:09 AM
Dragons!

:twisted:

Jezter
06-20-2011, 03:39 PM
Should've pushed that fuckwit Joffrey off the bridge when she had the chance...

Midnight_Beacon
06-30-2011, 05:59 PM
Should've pushed that fuckwit Joffrey off the bridge when she had the chance...

I agree 100%.

Arkady Renko
07-01-2011, 03:03 PM
Should've pushed that fuckwit Joffrey off the bridge when she had the chance...

she's certainly not the sharpest pencil in the can...

Iffy
07-01-2011, 08:59 PM
IN all fairness she is like 11 or 12 years old in that particular situation

Hal-9000
07-01-2011, 09:10 PM
and also there's the whole thing with his entire guard and family living there too...if she did it, she would have likely been tortured and killed for treason

SmoothBob
07-02-2011, 11:35 AM
Loved it, was a fantastic 1st series, and we have HOW LONG to wait??? poss a year.. jings!

Heres to HBO for another fantastic programme and to letting it be made the way it has been!

'What, a dwarf having sex?'
'Incest?'
'Gratuitious willy scenes?'
'Oh no no, we will not be having that!'

Damn shame they killed Sean Bean off, really liked Ned, but i suppose he'd be a fish oot o water for where it appears to be going next.. Homicidal inbred King, lovely breasted (8-[) Dragon Queen, Rampaging 'King o the North', teh Watch going beyond the wall on march..

Cannae wait! :mrgreen:

Might have tae get the books now!

PorkChopSandwiches
07-02-2011, 03:24 PM
What a fantastic show

SmoothBob
07-03-2011, 01:54 PM
Picked up the 1st book today, gonna give it a go! :)

Teh One Who Knocks
07-04-2011, 12:55 AM
I haven't read anything in here yet as I'm only thru episode 6 so far, b ut I have one general question about this genre. Why is it whenever a fantasy program, that has no basis in anything factual, makes it on the air, the people always speak with a British accent? :-k



Love the show so far BTW...it's available On Demand in HD on HBO, so I can watch all 10 episodes without having to d/l anything :dance2:

I'll be back to read the thread after I get thru the last 4 episodes :tup:

Iffy
07-04-2011, 02:14 AM
Thats a good point. In this case I would imagine it is mostly because the majority of the actors are English. Plus proper English without an accent still sounds Brittish. No drawls and whatnot

SmoothBob
07-04-2011, 08:57 AM
Its also an easier accent to understand so would make selling the programme to foreign markets easier..

Teh One Who Knocks
07-04-2011, 06:34 PM
Its also an easier accent to understand so would make selling the programme to foreign markets easier..

A North American accent (Canadian or American) is much easier for me to understand ;)

Although I must say that there was no one cast in the entire series with any thick English accent dialect, so it was all easy to understand. Sometimes when I watch UK films, I need to put the subtitles on because of the uber thick accents and slang :lol:


Just watched all 10 episodes in about 2 days time. This series was, in a word, fantastic.

Hal-9000
07-04-2011, 06:37 PM
I'm playing a pc game called Oblivion and there's a large voice acting roll for a character named Martin...turns out it's Sean Bean :lol:

I really like this series for the production values and then later, for the story.By about episode 5 you can tell it's going to be epic.

Teh One Who Knocks
07-04-2011, 06:39 PM
It is so easy to get wrapped up in the whole series when you are watching it...I just watched 4 hours worth of the series this morning and it just flew by. Didn't even feel like it was half that long.

Hal-9000
07-04-2011, 06:46 PM
I thought earlier on that I'd never understand all of the storylines, kingdoms etc.Now that they're starting to weave together, it looks to be awesome.

I like the legendary scary creatures beyond the north wall..

Hal-9000
07-04-2011, 06:46 PM
Canadians :lol:

Teh One Who Knocks
07-04-2011, 06:50 PM
I thought earlier on that I'd never understand all of the storylines, kingdoms etc.Now that they're starting to weave together, it looks to be awesome.

I like the legendary scary creatures beyond the north wall..

Yup, it seemed at first like there were about a billion different story lines to follow...but everything tied together nicely.



At the end of episode 9/beginning of 10 I was :shock:

I think season 2 may lose something because of that, he was such an integral character :(

Teh One Who Knocks
07-04-2011, 06:51 PM
Canadians :lol:

Who else could stand that kinda cold? :-s


:lol:

Hal-9000
07-04-2011, 06:54 PM
Yup, it seemed at first like there were about a billion different story lines to follow...but everything tied together nicely.



At the end of episode 9/beginning of 10 I was :shock:

I think season 2 may lose something because of that, he was such an integral character :(

Either they're not afraid to take out pivotal characters or he's coming back.As a fan and a general suck about those kinds of shocking developments, I'm hoping he comes back somehow :sad2:

Teh One Who Knocks
07-04-2011, 06:57 PM
Either they're not afraid to take out pivotal characters or he's coming back.As a fan and a general suck about those kinds of shocking developments, I'm hoping he comes back somehow :sad2:

I thought it was all just a way to have a 'shock' ending of episode 9 because as episode 10 started, that guy that was holding Arya kinda shook her out of a trance or saomething and I thought maybe she had just imagined it....but it really happened :(

And I'm the same as you, I'm not a big fan of shocking things like that which affect major characters to the story

Hal-9000
07-04-2011, 06:58 PM
I'm glad I haven't read the books or know any of the background :thumbsup:

Teh One Who Knocks
07-04-2011, 07:08 PM
Same here :tup:

Hal-9000
07-04-2011, 07:11 PM
I like how it also only hints at just the right amount of fantasy...the dragons hatching in the last episode and of course the legendary horrible Canadian creatures beyond the north wall :thumbsup:

Teh One Who Knocks
07-04-2011, 09:53 PM
I like how it also only hints at just the right amount of fantasy...the dragons hatching in the last episode and of course the legendary horrible Canadian creatures beyond the north wall :thumbsup:

Yup, if you didn't know anything about the series and didn't see any parts about the monsters, it could easily be medieval England :thumbsup:

DemonGeminiX
07-04-2011, 10:26 PM
I'm glad I haven't read the books or know any of the background :thumbsup:

I have and I do.

:oops:

Teh One Who Knocks
07-05-2011, 01:15 PM
Okay, this may be a silly question since this was fantasy and all, but weren't those dragon eggs fossilized? :-k

Teh One Who Knocks
07-05-2011, 01:16 PM
Should've pushed that fuckwit Joffrey off the bridge when she had the chance...


I agree 100%.

:+1:


she's certainly not the sharpest pencil in the can...

She does seem to be a bit of a :dunce:


IN all fairness she is like 11 or 12 years old in that particular situation

13 according to what she told the Queen

Hal-9000
07-05-2011, 05:54 PM
Okay, this may be a silly question since this was fantasy and all, but weren't those dragon eggs fossilized? :-k

I don't think they explained it very well...only saying they were 'old'.

Teh One Who Knocks
07-05-2011, 05:59 PM
I don't think they explained it very well...only saying they were 'old'.

I thought that her protector dude (can't remember his name) said that the dragon eggs were so old that they had turned to stone :-k

Hal-9000
07-05-2011, 07:06 PM
I thought that her protector dude (can't remember his name) said that the dragon eggs were so old that they had turned to stone :-k

He may have (you mean the white guy, right?)

He seemed to be awfully protective of them as I recall too

Teh One Who Knocks
07-05-2011, 09:15 PM
He may have (you mean the white guy, right?)

He seemed to be awfully protective of them as I recall too

Yup, the white dude :thumbsup:

He was until the end after the Khal died and he told her that she should sell the eggs :-k

Hal-9000
07-05-2011, 09:16 PM
I watched it weekly so I can't remember some of the parts....other than the Kahleesi (blonde chick) is kickin!

Teh One Who Knocks
07-05-2011, 09:18 PM
I watched it weekly so I can't remember some of the parts....other than the Kahleesi (blonde chick) is kickin!

I love how she went from this meek little thing that let her brother do and say whatever he wanted to her, to a take-no-shit kinda girl and basically had her brother killed. Man that dude was an asshole.

Hal-9000
07-05-2011, 09:21 PM
I love how she went from this meek little thing that let her brother do and say whatever he wanted to her, to a take-no-shit kinda girl and basically had her brother killed. Man that dude was an asshole.

You know what transformed her?

About 6 months of getting brutally ravaged by Horse-man :lol:


and yes, brother met his fate and I was glad

Teh One Who Knocks
07-05-2011, 09:22 PM
Yeah, the scenes first after the marriage were painful to watch as they were more like rape, but she did end up falling in love with him

Hal-9000
07-05-2011, 09:38 PM
I loved the - you must look at me when making love scene...he just grunts and turns her over doggy style again :lol:

Teh One Who Knocks
07-05-2011, 09:42 PM
So I wonder what happens with the Dothraki story line next season. Only a few stayed back with the Khaleesi and saw that she survived the fire and had live dragons. I wonder if she tries to regroup with them all to try and invade King's Landing :-k

Teh One Who Knocks
07-05-2011, 09:42 PM
I loved the - you must look at me when making love scene...he just grunts and turns her over doggy style again :lol:

That was hilarious :lol:

Hal-9000
07-05-2011, 09:44 PM
ahhh I miss the good ol days :thumbsup:

Teh One Who Knocks
07-05-2011, 10:04 PM
So I wonder what happens with the Dothraki story line next season. Only a few stayed back with the Khaleesi and saw that she survived the fire and had live dragons. I wonder if she tries to regroup with them all to try and invade King's Landing :-k

Maybe a two way invasion of King's Landing....the Dothraki and the army from the North :-k

Hal-9000
07-05-2011, 10:16 PM
So I wonder what happens with the Dothraki story line next season. Only a few stayed back with the Khaleesi and saw that she survived the fire and had live dragons. I wonder if she tries to regroup with them all to try and invade King's Landing :-k

They made it sound like they have a huge army.Didn't the brother say that if the Dothraki ever make it over the narrow sea that they would toast all in their path?

DemonGeminiX
07-05-2011, 10:19 PM
I don't think they explained it very well...only saying they were 'old'.


I thought that her protector dude (can't remember his name) said that the dragon eggs were so old that they had turned to stone :-k

When she burned the witch with her husband, the magic released revived and hatched the eggs. That's how the story went in the book.

Teh One Who Knocks
07-05-2011, 10:22 PM
They made it sound like they have a huge army.Didn't the brother say that if the Dothraki ever make it over the narrow sea that they would toast all in their path?

Yeah, but unless she reunites the Dothraki under her command, she will have no army. All she had were the handful of them that stayed behind.

Teh One Who Knocks
07-05-2011, 10:22 PM
When she burned the witch with her husband, the magic released revived and hatched the eggs. That's how the story went in the book.

That witch was evil magic :nono:

Hal-9000
07-05-2011, 10:23 PM
I woulda fried one of them little dragons up on the spot :yumyum:

WITH BBQ sauce :lol:

Hal-9000
07-05-2011, 10:24 PM
That witch was evil magic :nono:

I like how the little blond queen didn't hesitate - Throw the old crone on the pyre! :thumbsup:

DemonGeminiX
07-05-2011, 10:25 PM
That witch was evil magic :nono:

Magic is magic. The only qualification is the intent of the practitioner.



I woulda fried one of them little dragons up on the spot :yumyum:

WITH BBQ sauce :lol:

Those little dragons would kick your honky white ass for even thinking about putting barbecue sauce on them.

[-(

Hal-9000
07-05-2011, 10:29 PM
:lol: the irony is delicious...fire breathing dragons get BBQ'ed :dance:



my honky white ass....:lol: ffs

Teh One Who Knocks
07-05-2011, 10:30 PM
Actually, depending on how fast dragons grow, she probably won't need the Dothraki army seeing how she now has 3 dragons :-k

Hal-9000
07-05-2011, 10:43 PM
I think she's got some sort of internal dragon thing going on too...

Teh One Who Knocks
07-05-2011, 10:48 PM
She definitely is the one with dragon blood in her

SmoothBob
07-09-2011, 09:14 AM
I am lovin the book, is fantastico! Its got soooo much more its fills in the series quite nicely! :)

Teh One Who Knocks
07-12-2011, 05:17 PM
Good interview with the writer :thumbsup:

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EW interview: George R.R. Martin talks 'A Dance With Dragons'
by James Hibberd - Entertainment Weekly


http://i.imgur.com/xEHWZ.jpg

After six years, George R.R. Martin’s eagerly anticipated A Dance With Dragons has arrived to glowing reviews. EW met with the author at his Santa Fe office for an in-depth conversation about his wildly popular Song of Ice and Fire series. Below he discusses why Book 5 took so long, his feelings about HBO’s Game of Thrones and his thoughts on killing beloved characters, among other topics. For more, see next week’s EW print edition featuring a profile of Martin that answers some burning fan questions. [Note: There are no Dance spoilers below, but there are spoilers from the previous four books].


ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You’ve said before that the first book, Game of Thrones, was partly a reaction to the sort of storytelling you couldn’t do as a TV writer in the 1980s. What was the actual moment that inspired Thrones?
Martin: I just wanted to make it big. For so long , I heard, “It’s too big, it’s too expensive, lose characters and lose the settings.” Going back to prose, I could make it as big as I wanted, as big as my imagination. It really came out of nowhere. I knew in a general sense I wanted to write an epic fantasy since I loved [J.R.R.] Tolkien since I was a kid. But I didn’t have any specific ideas for it. In the summer of 1991 I was in Hollywood but I had no TV deal. Suddenly I just got the first chapter where they found the direwolf pups — it was just there. I knew I had to write it.

This may be a silly question, but: When you think of the world you’ve created, where seasons last for years, where is it? It is another planet?
It’s what Tolkien wrote was “the secondary world.” It’s not another planet. It’s Earth. But it’s not our Earth. If you wanted to do a science fiction approach, you could call it an alternate world, but that sounds too science fictional. Tolkien really pioneered that with Middle Earth. He put in some vague things about tying it to our past, but that doesn’t really hold up. I have people constantly writing me with science fiction theories about the seasons — “It’s a double star system with a black dwarf and that would explain–” It’s fantasy, man, it’s magic.

Do you find it fun to write?
I do. Yeah. To the extent that anything is fun to write. I’m one of those writers who say “I’ve enjoy having written.” There are days I really enjoy writing and there are days I fucking hate it. I can see it in my head and the words won’t come. I try to put it on the page and it feels stiff and wooden and it’s stupid. Writing is hard work.

On your blog you say you throw a lot away.
I do. Maybe more than I should, especially with these books, especially as we go deeper. I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting older, or the series is getting more complicated. I think I’ve been influenced by my own good reviews. I’ve had so many people say this is the greatest fantasy since Tolkien or even greater. It’s awoken in me a desire not to blow it.

Is there anything you regret in the series?
The biggest thing I’m wresting with is the chronology. When I set out with the young characters it was my intention that the kids grow up during the series. And I thought I’d have a chapter. And the the next chapter would be a month later. Then the next would be two months after that. And by the end of the book a year will have passed. But it doesn’t make sense that a character will take two months to respond to something that happens. So you wind up writing the whole book and very little time has passed. After the third book I thought I would jump forward five years, then the kids would be older. That was part of the delay. I tried to write it with a gap but it just didn’t work, so I wound up scrapping all that.

Do you know the ending?
I know the ending in broad strokes. I don’t know every little twist and turn that will get me there, and I don’t know the ending of every secondary character. But the ending and the main characters, yeah. And [Game of Thrones producers] David Benioff and Dan Weiss know some of that too, which the fans are very worried about in case I get hit by a truck.

There’s a point in the series where you feel like you’re reading a bunch of separate stories. Toward the end of Dance, you feel the threads starting to come back together. Is that accurate?
That’s certainly the intent, and always was the intent. Tolkien was my great model for much of this. Although I differ from Tolkien in important ways, I’m second to no one in my respect for him. If you look at Lord of the Rings, it begins with a tight focus and all the characters are together. Then by end of the first book the Fellowship splits up and they have different adventures. I did the same thing. Everybody is at Winterfell in the beginning except for Dany, then they split up into groups, and ultimately those split up too. The intent was to fan out, then curve and come back together. Finding the point where that turn begins has been one of the issues I’ve wrestled with.

If you wrote Rings, Gandalf would have stayed dead after Mines of Moria.
Yes, he would have. I get a lot of credit for killing my characters, but Tolkien really did it first and in some ways that was the inspiration for me. And then Tolkien did it again at end of the second book where he seemingly kills Frodo, though that turns out to be feint.

There’s a line in book 5 where character says, “The gods are good.” Jaime thinks, “You go on believing that.” You talk about religion a lot in the stories, but what are your views?
I suppose I’m a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic. I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn’t the end and there’s something more, but I can’t convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever. That’s what Tolkien left out — there’s no priesthood, there’s no temples; nobody is worshiping anything in Rings.

There’s few acts of kindness in your novels. If somebody is on their own, or weakened, they can pretty much expect everybody to take advantage of them or treat them terribly. Obviously Aslan is not going to save the day, but are your books cynical about human nature?
I think the books are realistic. I’ve always liked gray characters. And as for the gods, I’ve never been satisfied by any of the answers that are given. If there really is a benevolent loving god, why is the world full of rape and torture? Why do we even have pain? I was taught pain is to let us know when our body is breaking down. Well, why couldn’t we have a light? Like a dashboard light? If Chevrolet could come up with that, why couldn’t God? Why is agony a good way to handle things?

When fans complain about a character killed off, what do you say to them?
In some cases I sympathize. It’s hard to kill characters, they’re my children. Obviously some were marked for death in the beginning like Ned. There are plenty of books out there for fans who want comfort reading, who want to enjoy an exciting story with nothing to upset or disturb them. It’s fun to go to an Indiana Jones movie and watch him kill 40 Nazis, but there’s a place for Schindler’s List too. Schindler’s heroism resonates more with me than Indy’s — one is fun, but the other is profound and says something about human nature. I don’t know if I’m achieving it, but that’s what I’m striving for. I think fantasy after Tolkien had become Indiana Jones. They were imitating a lot of Tolkien’s tropes without capturing the spirit of Tolkien. His books are not all happy fun books.

Do you feel like you owe your fans anything? At end of the day, is there a responsibility?
I think owe is the wrong word. I try to give them a good story. And I like my fans — the vast majority are great. I probably have more interaction with fans than any author I know. By and large, I’m very nice to my fans. But I don’t owe it to them to be nice. And if I wanted to withdraw, that would be my right. I certainly believe it’s my right to take off Sundays and watch NFL football and go to conventions and work on other projects — the more hardcore trolls, that’s what they object to. You met [his assistant] Ty, he think it’s generational. That people who are angry [about Book 5 taking six years] are younger people from what he calls The Entitlement Generation. They want instant gratification — something that they’re used to from the Internet. I’m from the Baby Boomer generation, and we had to wait for s–t, man. If I heard about a book, it might never come to the spinner rack at the local drugstore. If I wanted to see a movie, we’d have to hope they’d show it on television at some time. It’s Ty’s theory, not mine, but maybe it’s true.

You intended the story in Book 5 to go further, I hear?
It’s always difficult to know where to break each book. You’re walking a fine line. Like Lord of the Rings, you’re writing one story. At the same time, I want each book to represent a phase of the journey. I try to end each character with a cliffhanger or some kind of resolution. And I try to make the cliffhangers the smaller portion — I don’t want eight cliffhangers. [Dance] had more cliffhangers than I ideally would have liked.

So with the next book, have you now gotten to the point where you no longer need to have the characters in separate books?
That is certainly my hope, yes. Three years from now when I’m sitting on 1,800 pages of manuscript with no end in sight, who the hell knows.

Which episode of Game of Thrones are you writing next season?
The Battle of the Blackwater, God help me. David and Dan must hate me.

That’s the one where you have to be most conscious of budgetary decisions.
It’s very tough because we don’t have the budget to do the battle in the book. We just don’t.

Well, they have to be able to show the ships and what happens to them, right?
I hope so. We’ll see. I’m writing it. I’m cutting certain things. We’ll see once I turn it in if we can do it. When you look HBO’s Rome–

Loved Rome.
I loved it too, but what about the battles?

We see Caesar leave the tent to go to war, then he comes back and falls asleep.
Caesar leaves the tent. Pompey leaves the tent. Then we see Pompey’s banner in the mud. And Caesar comes back to the tent. The next episode, Pompey describes the battle to Pullo and Vorenus drawing it in the dirt with a stick to explain what happened. For the Battle of Actium, they open with Mark Anthony floating on a piece of wood — and Rome had a bigger budget than we do. I’ve been trying to tell the fans that. On some level they’re expecting the Battle of Pelennor Fields [from Peter Jackson's The Return of the King].

Fans don’t distinguish as much between mediums now.
They don’t. And television has set that up by being increasingly good. Back in the 1960s or ’70s, you could tell TV show from a movie in three frames just way it was shot and lit. But you can’t these days.

There’s a lot of debates about whether Thrones is feminist or anti-feminist. Were you surprised by those reactions?
Not really. I think it’s good people were debating those points. Obviously I don’t think I’m misogynistic or racist as some of those critics say, I think they’re reading it too simplistic. Certainly, I’m a 62 year old white male and none of us entirely escape the values that we’re inoculated with at an early age, even if we reject them — like me leaving Catholicism. I don’t hold myself up as a paragon of feminism. But I’m very gratified — that idiot critic at the New York Times notwithstanding — on the fact I have so many female fans who love my women characters and I tried to provide a variety of female characters. With all my characters, I try to show that we’re all human.

There was a fair amount of explicit sex in the series and some fans of the books were taken aback.
One of the reasons I wanted to do this with HBO is that I wanted to keep the sex. We had some real problems because Dany is only 13 in the books, and that’s based on medieval history. They didn’t have this concept of adolescence or the teenage years. You were a child or you were an adult. And the onset of sexual maturity meant you were an adult. So I reflected that in the books. But then when you go to film it you run into people going crazy about child pornography and there’s actual laws about how you can’t depict a 13 year old having sex even if you have an 18 year old acting the part — it’s illegal in the United Kingdom. So we ended up with a 22 year old portraying an 18 year old, instead of an 18 year old portraying a 13 year old. If we decided to lose the sex we could have kept the original ages. And once you change the age of one character you have to change the ages of all the characters, and change the date of the war [that dethroned the Mad King]. The fact we made all these changes indicates how important we thought sex was.

Was the viewer reaction to killing off Ned Stark bigger than you anticipated?
It was. It was fascinating to see the intensity of the reaction. You have to remember I wrote that scene in 1994 and it came out in 1996. So people were reacting with extreme shock in 2011 to something that’s been a hallmark of the books. On one level it was good, you don’t want to kill an important character and nobody gives a damn. You should grieve when a character dies. I will say your column after the death of Ned, and then a week later about the ratings, was news I was pleased to see. Because there were people saying they were giving up on the show.

The big question is what’s going to happen in the ratings between seasons. But I suspect, if anything, it’s going to come back bigger.
Well, Natalie Dormer [cast as Margaery Tyrell] is a great choice to start with. She was best thing about The Tudors and the best Anne Boleyn I’ve ever seen.

Are there any changes the TV show made that you particularly liked?
I loved some of the new scenes they added. As a novelist, I have certain tools like internal monologue and the device of the unreliable narrator. I can have flashbacks and dreams, which are pretty hokey in a TV series. So they had to insert some new scenes. I loved the interplay between Varys and Littlefinger, which never occurred in the books since neither is a viewpoint character. I loved the scene of Drogo ripping out Mago’s throat, which was entirely new. But that’s going to have ramifications if we go the full length down the pike. I’ve talked to Dan and Dave about the butterfly effect — you’re familiar with the classic Ray Bradbury short story?

A Sound of Thunder. One of my favorites.
Step on a butterfly in the Pleistocene Era and it changes everything in year 2000. [MILD BOOK 6 SPOILER WARNING] So Mago is not dead in the books. And, in fact, he’s going to be a recurring character in Winds of Winter. He’s a particularly nasty bloodrider to one of the other Khals that’s broken away after Drogo dies. This is the challenge the shows face as we go forward. There will be divergences, they’re trying to be faithful and Dan and David are doing a wonderful job. But the books are plotted so intricately that you do step on a butterfly in season one and in season four you’re going to have to deal with that. There’s also another character, [the singer] Marillion, who also got his tongue ripped out in season one, and that doesn’t happen with the books. Joffrey makes that decision, but it’s an unnamed bard. Marillion [has more to do]. We ought to call it The Tongue Effect instead of The Butterfly Effect.

Was there anything you missed from the book?
I wish the tournament was much bigger. They originally scripted in the first draft a parade of knights and a dozen jousts that they had to cut for budgetary reasons. And I would have liked the crowd to have been much bigger. This is like the Super Bowl in the books and draws people from all over the Seven Kingdoms.

Sansa no longer telling Cersei about her father’s plans to leave — were you OK with that change?
It didn’t bother me.

TV viewers might have never forgiven her.
A lot of book readers haven’t forgiven her. The other thing was lost was Catelyn to Jon Snow saying, “It should have been you” [after Bran was crippled].

For me, seeing her in the show, the way she acted toward him, the visual added a lot of harshness without that line.
Yes, just her face, which you can’t do in the books. It got the same thing across.

Is there any performance in the TV show that’s caused you to think differently about a character?
The performances have been great, but they’ve been great at capturing the characters as I saw them. The one exception is Natalia Tena as Osha. Cause she’s very different than in the book, but I think she’s more interesting. When I bring Osha back in Winds of Winter, I’ll have Natalia in mind and perhaps give the character more interesting things to do.

One big concern has been what if the TV series surpasses where you are in the books. For awhile, that seemed premature. Now that season one has done well, it’s worth asking.
There’s two questions here. The first is: How long will it take me to write the next book. Will Winds of Winter go smoothly or is it going to be Feast and Dance all over again? I certainly hope it’s not the latter. The other issue is: What is what is HBO going to do if we get a third season and beyond? Storm of Swords is a gigantic book. I was hoping they’d give us 12 episodes for Clash. So I don’t know how they’ll get everything in. But there’s no way they can get Storm into 10 or even 12. My hope is they’ll split that into two seasons. There’s nothing in the law that says each season must cover one book. The only danger of catching up is if we have to do all of Storm, and then Feast and Dance have to be re-combined. Then there’s a danger they would catch up with me. I think I’ll have Winds out by then, but they could catch up with me before A Dream of Spring.

[B]Is there anything you’d like to add?
I’d like to see more fantasy on TV. There’s been resistance to it, the powers that be often don’t think it can succeed. Most of it’s action-adventure for kids. I enjoyed Xena Warrior Princess, but fantasy can be much more than that. I’d love to see somebody do Roger Zelazny’s Nine Princes in Amber. What a fantastic HBO series that would be.

I don’t read much fantasy, but the the Chronicles of Amber is the one I would pick too. It’s been kicked around in development forever; Syfy had the rights to it for awhile. So how firm are you that Ice and Fire will be seven books?
I’m–

[I]And that’s it. We saved some of the best bits for next week’s print edition of EW which features a profile of Martin. Check that out on newsstands.

SmoothBob
07-12-2011, 05:34 PM
Does anyone know how many books there will be altogether?

Has the author said?

Arkady Renko
07-28-2011, 01:43 PM
I read that the cycle is supposed to involve seven books in total but he's not sure if he should make three books out of the material he's got for the last too. Apparently the publishers balk at the proposed length of over 1500 pages each.

DemonGeminiX
07-31-2011, 04:47 AM
I just noticed that the kid that plays that little shit Joffrey was the same kid that played the little blonde haired boy in Gotham City in Batman Begins.

SmoothBob
07-31-2011, 08:52 AM
'That little shit' :rofl:

Arkady Renko
08-02-2011, 12:04 PM
'That little shit' :rofl:

I think several of the Starks called him just that on various occasions, as well as his uncle.

SmoothBob
08-02-2011, 12:24 PM
I hate the queen just as much, she comes across much more as a bitch in the books..

Im still pissed off they killed Ned.. :(

Teh One Who Knocks
08-02-2011, 01:40 PM
I just noticed that the kid that plays that little shit Joffrey was the same kid that played the little blonde haired boy in Gotham City in Batman Begins.

I'm still pissed that Sansa didn't push him off the edge of that ledge/bridge when he was tormenting her by showing her father's head to her

Arkady Renko
08-02-2011, 02:11 PM
I hate the queen just as much, she comes across much more as a bitch in the books..

Im still pissed off they killed Ned.. :(

Losing Ned is much harder for the TV series than for the books, even though he's my favourite character in both (except maybe for the dwarf). Since Sean Bean was the most famous and also the best actor on the show, his Ned was much more important there than in the books. I'm curious if they'll try and shift the focus on someone else for the second season or if they'll try and have the cast carry it more evenly.


I'm still pissed that Sansa didn't push him off the edge of that ledge/bridge when he was tormenting her by showing her father's head to her

that dumb cow...did you read the books yet, BTW?

SmoothBob
08-02-2011, 04:33 PM
Hate that Sansa too. Friggin piece o shit, puts her 'prince' before her family, fuckin chop her head off too..

Have watched the series, ahm halfway through the book, fav characters are Ned, Anya, Lord Snow and the Dwarf.. Dont really like ANY of the others..

In fact at the half way stage o the 1st book have became bored and unsure if can be bothered wi the rest..

Will finish readin it and might change my mind, but at the moment i find the Lannisters a rather pathetic bunch..

SmoothBob
08-02-2011, 04:37 PM
Hate that Sansa too. Friggin piece o shit, puts her 'prince' before her family, fuckin chop her head off too..

Have watched the series, ahm halfway through the book, fav characters are Ned, Anya, Lord Snow and the Dwarf.. Dont really like ANY of the others..

In fact at the half way stage o the 1st book have became bored and unsure if can be bothered wi the rest..

Will finish readin it and might change my mind, but at the moment i find the Lannisters a rather pathetic bunch..

Arkady Renko
08-03-2011, 09:46 AM
keep going, it will get much better towards the end. And the second book seemed even a little better to me.

Teh One Who Knocks
08-03-2011, 05:07 PM
that dumb cow...did you read the books yet, BTW?

Yes she is :wha:

And no, I haven't...I'm happy with just watching the series right now :)

Hal-9000
08-03-2011, 07:05 PM
I haven't read the books, don't know the story other than what's been on TV.

I hope that the little girl who's handy with a sword comes back and pokes the shit outta every one of those dickwads :x

SmoothBob
08-03-2011, 11:06 PM
Man this series is making a lot of us angry! :beatdown::machinegun::nutkick:




:lol:

Hal-9000
08-05-2011, 02:02 AM
To axe a prominent actor like Sean Bean early on is a sign that the producers are fearless....I think they're going to tell us a great big story and I look forward to it :thumbsup:

SmoothBob
08-05-2011, 06:50 AM
keep going, it will get much better towards the end. And the second book seemed even a little better to me.

Ok dude, ahm gonna trust yi! :)

SmoothBob
08-29-2011, 07:33 PM
Ok, 1st book done, def got good towards the end, the battle scenes much better in the book and a lot about teh Dwarf not seen onna telly so aye, thumbs up fae me! :tup:

Need tae get the other books now..

SmoothBob
08-29-2011, 07:34 PM
Oh and this is brilliant! Yi can watch 'the little shit' be slapped for hours! :D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUS2LSJR22k&feature=related

Teh One Who Knocks
03-08-2012, 01:30 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV3RflsNxak


:cheers:

MrsM
03-08-2012, 01:37 AM
:woot: - can't wait

Hal-9000
03-08-2012, 01:49 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV3RflsNxak


:cheers:


Love that little guy and this quality show :woot:

Teh One Who Knocks
03-08-2012, 01:52 AM
Love that little guy and this quality show :woot:

"I will hurt you for this...The day will come when your joy will turn to ashes, and you'll know the debt is paid."

Hal-9000
03-08-2012, 01:56 AM
"I will hurt you for this...The day will come when your joy will turn to ashes, and you'll know the debt is paid."

:thumbsup: and the look on his face is all business......go Mayor of Munchkinville! :woot:

Arkady Renko
03-08-2012, 03:19 PM
*counts down days*

Teh One Who Knocks
03-14-2012, 10:46 PM
Season 2 Promo Poster


http://i.imgur.com/VkDET.jpg

Hal-9000
03-14-2012, 10:46 PM
no way :lol:

that's HBO's real poster???


:rofl:

Teh One Who Knocks
03-14-2012, 10:47 PM
Yup, sure is :tup:

Hal-9000
03-14-2012, 10:57 PM
love that show more every minute

Teh One Who Knocks
03-14-2012, 10:59 PM
I can't wait for it...I may have to grab the last episode of last season to refresh my memory

Arkady Renko
03-15-2012, 12:02 PM
Season 2 Promo Poster


http://i.imgur.com/VkDET.jpg

Sean Bean's parting gift?

Nemowork Pt2
03-22-2012, 01:21 AM
Meh, theres snow zombies in this series, i'm sure he can be kept chilled and return for season 7 :-k

Teh One Who Knocks
05-08-2012, 07:03 PM
http://i.imgur.com/Fyt93.png

Hal-9000
05-08-2012, 07:10 PM
shoulda cut her head off..............

Teh One Who Knocks
05-08-2012, 07:12 PM
No way, she's hot :hand:

I loved the way when they were lying down to sleep that she kept grinding her ass back against him and he told her to knock it off :lol:

Methinks Jon Snow be ghey :facepalm:

Hal-9000
05-08-2012, 07:40 PM
I think she's a mutt...he should have cut her head off and then ground with the headless body :thumbsup:

Teh One Who Knocks
05-08-2012, 09:07 PM
I think she's a mutt...he should have cut her head off and then ground with the headless body :thumbsup:

:blind:

Teh One Who Knocks
05-08-2012, 09:08 PM
http://i.imgur.com/uoJLp.jpg

Hal-9000
05-08-2012, 09:26 PM
not want...bigtime

Hal-9000
05-16-2012, 03:08 PM
http://i45.tinypic.com/v2vhbd.gif

Teh One Who Knocks
05-16-2012, 04:42 PM
I loved how Ygritte kept taunting Jon the whole episode :lol:

Ygritte: I can teach you how to do it.
Jon: I know how to do it!

:lol:

Hal-9000
05-16-2012, 05:01 PM
So...you lads just do each other then?




:rofl:

Teh One Who Knocks
05-16-2012, 05:18 PM
"With your hands, then. No wonder you're all so miserable"

:lol:

Hal-9000
05-16-2012, 05:20 PM
I started losing it about the time she was describing how 'her story' would go down and she mentioned waking up with a bruised tailbone because of his thing poking against her butt

:lol:

Teh One Who Knocks
05-16-2012, 05:20 PM
I think those scenes with Lord Tywin and Arya have been some of the best so far this season. Can't wait to see if he figures out she's a Stark or not.

Teh One Who Knocks
05-16-2012, 05:21 PM
I started losing it about the time she was describing how 'her story' would go down and she mentioned waking up with a bruised tailbone because of his thing poking against her butt

:lol:

That was hilarious :lol:

Hal-9000
05-16-2012, 05:24 PM
I think those scenes with Lord Tywin and Arya have been some of the best so far this season. Can't wait to see if he figures out she's a Stark or not.


Yeah a lot of cat and mouse there....very good writing IMO

her comment - So you've met a lot of stone masons then?
him - :x



:lol:

Iffy
05-16-2012, 09:49 PM
I think those scenes with Lord Tywin and Arya have been some of the best so far this season. Can't wait to see if he figures out she's a Stark or not.

Should be interesting. As I recall Arya was not a cupbearer to Tywin in the books. I think it was Lord Bolton instead of Lanister. Puts a different twist on the exchange

Teh One Who Knocks
05-16-2012, 09:52 PM
Outta here with your book talk, Mr Bookie McBookerson :hand:

Iffy
05-16-2012, 09:57 PM
:sad2:

Teh One Who Knocks
05-16-2012, 10:03 PM
:sad2:

:empathy:

SmoothBob
05-16-2012, 10:11 PM
Im lovin this, esp the scenes with Tywin, i always thought he was a well underused character in the books so its great he's gettin more airtime! I thought the 1st two episodes were a little slow but by jings its been taken off somethin mental! Been waiting nearly two episodes for her to say it..

'You know nothing Jon Snow'

Awesome! :D

Hal-9000
05-17-2012, 02:15 AM
It really is a Game of Thrones :-k

DemonGeminiX
05-17-2012, 06:05 AM
http://i.imgur.com/uoJLp.jpg

She is kinda pretty.

Acid Trip
05-17-2012, 04:30 PM
I think those scenes with Lord Tywin and Arya have been some of the best so far this season. Can't wait to see if he figures out she's a Stark or not.

She keeps exposing herself as more than she is. She's proven far too intelligent and well read to be from the background she's claiming. Tywin is going to catch on if she doesn't tone it down.

Teh One Who Knocks
05-17-2012, 04:37 PM
She keeps exposing herself as more than she is. She's proven far too intelligent and well read to be from the background she's claiming. Tywin is going to catch on if she doesn't tone it down.

Even Tywin told her she was too smart for her own good. He may suspect that she's upper class, but it remains to be seen if she slips up enough to let him know she's a Stark.

Hal-9000
05-22-2012, 06:40 PM
On the recent episode did Arya ask her wish-assassin to kill the Lord she works for? (Tywin)

Teh One Who Knocks
05-22-2012, 06:45 PM
Yup, but he declined, that's why she named him (the assassin) and then forced him to help her and her friends escape. When she heard Lord Tywin was sending his army to engage her brother instead of marching on King's Landing to help against Stannis' attack, she wanted to help Rob by killing Tywin.

Hal-9000
05-22-2012, 06:49 PM
Yeah I caught the bit about her naming him (assassin dude)...crafty little girl :lol:

He certainly paved the way for them to leave the castle....guy must have some killing skillz

Teh One Who Knocks
05-22-2012, 06:51 PM
I like the character...but why does he always talk in the third person? :x

And what about that nasty dude that was locked in the cage with the assassin before Arya set them free? He said some pretty vile things to Arya when she came upon them in the street looking for the assassin dude.

Hal-9000
05-22-2012, 06:56 PM
Yeah back then an 8 or 10 year girl was considered a prize :|


You know that the nasty dude is going to get it...did you catch her going for her sword when he first threatened her? :lol:

Nemowork Pt2
05-22-2012, 08:55 PM
Yup, but he declined, that's why she named him (the assassin) and then forced him to help her and her friends escape. When she heard Lord Tywin was sending his army to engage her brother instead of marching on King's Landing to help against Stannis' attack, she wanted to help Rob by killing Tywin.

He didnt decline, his rules of conduct mean its religiously impossible to decline a named kill he said that he couldnt kill Tywin in the timeframe she demanded because Tywin had already left.

Thats why he was so distraught when he was asked to kill himself, he HAS to do it whatever his convictions and why he was pleading to be let off!

Sneaky little weasel isnt she :lol:

Arkady Renko
05-23-2012, 10:48 AM
Yeah I caught the bit about her naming him (assassin dude)...crafty little girl :lol:

He certainly paved the way for them to leave the castle....guy must have some killing skillz

Stay tuned, you'll soon find out more about his orgins and trade secrets.


I like the character...but why does he always talk in the third person? :x

And what about that nasty dude that was locked in the cage with the assassin before Arya set them free? He said some pretty vile things to Arya when she came upon them in the street looking for the assassin dude.

I think the third person bit is supposed to be a tradition of his order so as to distance themselves from their actual/original personality. These assassins are so anonymous they don't even refer to themselves in the first person because they're nobody.


Yeah back then an 8 or 10 year girl was considered a prize :|


You know that the nasty dude is going to get it...did you catch her going for her sword when he first threatened her? :lol:

Rorge and Biter will provide a lot of entertainment if the TV show sticks to the books' plot as far as they're concerned.

Teh One Who Knocks
05-24-2012, 10:18 PM
http://i.imgur.com/ngzT5.jpg

Nemowork Pt2
05-25-2012, 02:49 AM
Rorge and Biter will provide a lot of entertainment if the TV show sticks to the books' plot as far as they're concerned.

Since theyve sidestepped the bloody mummers and given Amory Lorch over to a comedy pratfall death by Jaqen instead of bear baiting its a fair bet theyre going to do something different and both guys might not last long.

Arkady Renko
05-25-2012, 10:48 AM
Sigh, you're right.

Acid Trip
05-25-2012, 01:22 PM
Stay tuned, you'll soon find out more about his orgins and trade secrets.


God dammit! Info like that makes me want to go buy the books and I hate reading books.

F'ing Master's degree research ruined reading for me. If it's not news or funny I don't want to read it. :(

Arkady Renko
05-25-2012, 01:35 PM
God dammit! Info like that makes me want to go buy the books and I hate reading books.

F'ing Master's degree research ruined reading for me. If it's not news or funny I don't want to read it. :(

if you have a smartphone you can always grab the ebooks and read them in small portions whenever you have a few minutes to spare. or, if you commute, you could always get the audio book version instead.

Dr Death
05-29-2012, 05:05 AM
This last episode has been the best so far! So excited for the season finale! :tup:

Teh One Who Knocks
05-29-2012, 12:24 PM
Whole season has been great....very sad that there's only one episode left :(

And dammit, why did Lord Tywin have to save King's Landing from Stannis? I wanted to see Joffrey get his head cut off :x

Arkady Renko
05-29-2012, 12:38 PM
Whole season has been great....very sad that there's only one episode left :(

And dammit, why did Lord Tywin have to save King's Landing from Stannis? I wanted to see Joffrey get his head cut off :x

haha, I already hated that turn of events in the book version. That dickface was supposed to sit on a spike on top of the city walls for sure.

Hal-9000
05-29-2012, 02:55 PM
Quite possibly the best hour of TV I've seen in a long time :thumbsup:

Hal-9000
05-29-2012, 02:56 PM
Whole season has been great....very sad that there's only one episode left :(

And dammit, why did Lord Tywin have to save King's Landing from Stannis? I wanted to see Joffrey get his head cut off :x


They didn't show where Joffrey went near the end. His Mom summoned him and he never ended up with Mommy..


there's still hope :lol:

Teh One Who Knocks
05-29-2012, 02:56 PM
The special effects and the battle scenes were so good, I almost forgot I was watching a TV series...everything was THAT good and better than a lot of actual movies out there.

Hal-9000
05-29-2012, 03:03 PM
Loved Tyrion's speech while he was obviously fearing for his life...


...now there's some brave men at the castle gates, why don't we go kill them


*cheers from crowd*




:lol:

Dr Death
05-29-2012, 06:25 PM
So tell me if I'm wrong but wasn't the guy that slashed Tyrion's face the same guy that Joffrey commanded to represent the king?

Hal-9000
05-29-2012, 07:45 PM
So tell me if I'm wrong but wasn't the guy that slashed Tyrion's face the same guy that Joffrey commanded to represent the king?

That's what confused me too...I think we're right because initially Tyrion looked relieved to see him...


and why did Tyrion go down after that relatively minor wound? Nerves? :lol:

Teh One Who Knocks
05-29-2012, 09:15 PM
I'm confused about one thing....in episode 8 (the one prior to this past weekend) we heard Lord Tywin saying he was heading over to engage Rob Stark's army before it marches on King's Landing. And that's why Arya wanted the assassin to kill Tywin. Then at the end of the last episode, we see Tywin enter the throne room at King's Landing declaring they had won and the battle was over (with Stannis).

Was him saying he was going to engage Stark's army a ruse or did he just end up changing his mind? :confused:

Hal-9000
05-29-2012, 09:27 PM
I'm confused about one thing....in episode 8 (the one prior to this past weekend) we heard Lord Tywin saying he was heading over to engage Rob Stark's army before it marches on King's Landing. And that's why Arya wanted the assassin to kill Tywin. Then at the end of the last episode, we see Tywin enter the throne room at King's Landing declaring they had won and the battle was over (with Stannis).

Was him saying he was going to engage Stark's army a ruse or did he just end up changing his mind? :confused:

Good point...he implied he was going elsewhere to fight Robb Stark. There's no way he could of fought Stark's army and then returned...

Teh One Who Knocks
05-29-2012, 09:30 PM
Exactly...so did he think there was a spy among the group of people he was with and he wanted to throw them off or did he just simply change his mind and instead of fighting the Stark forces, he decided to go defend King's Landing instead.

Hal-9000
05-29-2012, 09:34 PM
Exactly...so did he think there was a spy among the group of people he was with and he wanted to throw them off or did he just simply change his mind and instead of fighting the Stark forces, he decided to go defend King's Landing instead.

I need a geographical map with pushpins and labels to keep up :lol:

I have no idea how far apart things are, how much time has passed in between scenes etc...the opening credit map is cool but I'm thinking of a realtime one when the characters are talking and/or moving.

Teh One Who Knocks
05-29-2012, 09:45 PM
Here's a pretty cool map (it's huge)

http://t.imgbox.com/aavYhVKx.jpg (http://imgbox.com/aavYhVKx)

Teh One Who Knocks
05-29-2012, 09:51 PM
I didn't get the reference to the doll Sansa picked up in her chambers until I just saw this:

http://i.imgur.com/pupKl.jpg


:(

Hal-9000
05-29-2012, 10:28 PM
Here's a pretty cool map (it's huge)

http://t.imgbox.com/aavYhVKx.jpg (http://imgbox.com/aavYhVKx)

:thumbsup:


It's too bad that they couldn't show a brief shot of the map let's say at King's Landing, then show a scene with Tyrion etc....new scene, new map pointer...

Hal-9000
05-29-2012, 10:29 PM
I didn't get the reference to the doll Sansa picked up in her chambers until I just saw this:

http://i.imgur.com/pupKl.jpg


:(

I completely missed that part

Dr Death
05-30-2012, 07:23 AM
:thumbsup:


It's too bad that they couldn't show a brief shot of the map let's say at King's Landing, then show a scene with Tyrion etc....new scene, new map pointer...Here's an interactive map that you can check out what happened in each episode! :tup:

http://viewers-guide.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/season2/#!/map/

Hal-9000
05-30-2012, 03:09 PM
Here's an interactive map that you can check out what happened in each episode! :tup:

http://viewers-guide.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/season2/#!/map/

GoT for Dummies! :)


thanks

Teh One Who Knocks
05-30-2012, 11:10 PM
I've just been thinking...there are quite a few active story lines that they need to address in the season finale :-k

Hal-9000
05-30-2012, 11:22 PM
yes they do..


*puts on Ned Stark's head*

I'm not really dead I'm not really dead :dance:

Teh One Who Knocks
05-31-2012, 10:35 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gud4I3kMbyE

Arya does the cinnamon challenge :lol:

Hal-9000
05-31-2012, 10:57 PM
wtf? :lol:




I did the cayenne pepper in glass of hot water challenge. Don't EVER try that, no matter how good it's supposed to be for your body :x

Arkady Renko
06-01-2012, 11:49 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gud4I3kMbyE

Arya does the cinnamon challenge :lol:

good thing her older sister wasn't around to see this, she would have been mortified...nice boots, BTW

Acid Trip
06-01-2012, 01:29 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gud4I3kMbyE

Arya does the cinnamon challenge :lol:

Dammit, why did you have to post that! Now I'll think of her as the dumb ass girl who tried to swallow cinnamon every time I watch the show.

Hal-9000
06-03-2012, 08:58 AM
So it's the big finish tomorrow night. I'm excited :face:


I wonder how many main characters are going to live through it :lol:

Teh One Who Knocks
06-04-2012, 10:26 AM
I couldn't watch it last night, the fucking power was out :x

I'll see if I can catch it tonite

Arkady Renko
06-04-2012, 12:14 PM
do you watch it on TDC ?

Teh One Who Knocks
06-04-2012, 12:16 PM
I usually watch it on HBO when it's first run on Sunday night. They will have it On Demand starting today, so I can catch it any time now.

Arkady Renko
06-04-2012, 12:35 PM
do you need to pay a supplement for that or is it included in the monthly fee?

Teh One Who Knocks
06-04-2012, 12:37 PM
As long as you already subscribe to the premium channel (HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, etc) you get all the stuff they offer On Demand for free :)

Arkady Renko
06-04-2012, 12:39 PM
nice. If we lived in the US, I'm pretty sure we'd get it because I don't mind paying for a good service.

Teh One Who Knocks
06-05-2012, 12:46 PM
Well, after letting the episode sink in for a bit, it was pretty awesome. They did an excellent job (IMHO) of wrapping up a lot of story lines and setting the stage for next season.

If I have a complaint about the episode, it's just a minor one. I thought the way they resolved Dany being captured in the House of the Undying was a little too "quick and easy". That felt like the weakest part of the episode to me. Everything up to that point in that storyline was great, I just don't like the way it resolved.

Other than that, I loved it :thumbsup:

Next season is so far away :sad2:

Hal-9000
06-05-2012, 03:12 PM
Thereon's (whatever his name is) speech in Winterhold :lol:

loved how it ended

Teh One Who Knocks
06-05-2012, 03:23 PM
I thought he'd never shut up

:lol:

Teh One Who Knocks
06-05-2012, 05:11 PM
I liked how the Wildlings were marching the prisoners to camp and Ygritte was behind Jon Snow and she kept saying things to him and whacking him in the head with a sword when he was ignoring her :lol:

Hal-9000
06-05-2012, 05:52 PM
I liked how the Wildlings were marching the prisoners to camp and Ygritte was behind Jon Snow and she kept saying things to him and whacking him in the head with a sword when he was ignoring her :lol:

:lol:


Yeah and what happened after he killed his fellow Wall protector dude? Ygritte and the rest of her crew seemed to love him after that...they cut his bonds etc...

Hal-9000
06-05-2012, 05:53 PM
I liked the part with Ayra and her assassin friend....he's talking about how she can become a 'faceless man', then he turns away for a sec and has a new face! :shock:

I thought that was pretty cool

Hal-9000
06-05-2012, 05:58 PM
Well, after letting the episode sink in for a bit, it was pretty awesome. They did an excellent job (IMHO) of wrapping up a lot of story lines and setting the stage for next season.

If I have a complaint about the episode, it's just a minor one. I thought the way they resolved Dany being captured in the House of the Undying was a little too "quick and easy". That felt like the weakest part of the episode to me. Everything up to that point in that storyline was great, I just don't like the way it resolved.

Other than that, I loved it :thumbsup:

Next season is so far away :sad2:

It was almost as if Dany and the dragons have special powers when together. I loved the creepy warlock guy and his house of craziness, sad to see him burned to a crisp.


I'd have to disagree with your overview. I thought last week's episode would have been a great season ender. This week's seemed to be the afterglow of what happened with some minor explanations. I liked that the pretty young Stark girl doesn't have to marry Jauffre the Twat and that Tyrian (dwarf guy) Lannister actually has some humility.

If was an odd show for me....if Daddy Lannister (Tyrion?) came and saved the other Lannisters in the castle, why all the hate for the dwarf Lannister? He's the son of Tyrion isn't he? And he also almost saved the castle from an entire fleet of ships.

I've missed something....

Teh One Who Knocks
06-05-2012, 06:21 PM
:lol:


Yeah and what happened after he killed his fellow Wall protector dude? Ygritte and the rest of her crew seemed to love him after that...they cut his bonds etc...

Yeah, I think that's why the old Watcher dude was provoking Snow...he mentioned something about infiltrating the Wildlings an episode or 2 ago...and he knew the only way to do that was to get Jon to kill him. That's why he said all those evil things about Jon's parents.


I liked the part with Ayra and her assassin friend....he's talking about how she can become a 'faceless man', then he turns away for a sec and has a new face! :shock:

I thought that was pretty cool

Yup, never saw that coming...now we know how he is able to kill people and not get caught.

Special effects the past couple of episodes have been epic. The White Walker at the end was just amazing as well.


It was almost as if Dany and the dragons have special powers when together. I loved the creepy warlock guy and his house of craziness, sad to see him burned to a crisp.


I'd have to disagree with your overview. I thought last week's episode would have been a great season ender. This week's seemed to be the afterglow of what happened with some minor explanations. I liked that the pretty young Stark girl doesn't have to marry Jauffre the Twat and that Tyrian (dwarf guy) Lannister actually has some humility.

If was an odd show for me....if Daddy Lannister (Tyrion?) came and saved the other Lannisters in the castle, why all the hate for the dwarf Lannister? He's the son of Tyrion isn't he? And he also almost saved the castle from an entire fleet of ships.

I've missed something....

They had to do this episode, there was way too much left unresolved after the battle episode last weekend.

I think Tyrion is being treated as second class because he always has been, and now that Lord Tywin is back, Tyrion is back to being relegated to 2nd class status. Nobody in his family has ever really liked him.

As for Sansa and Joffrey, Sansa has now had two opportunities to leave King's Landing, yet both times she elected to stay....that girl is just dumber that a sack of wet mice, especially when she was told that just because she doesn't have to marry Joffrey now, that doesn't mean she's a free woman.

Hal-9000
06-05-2012, 06:33 PM
Yeah, I think that's why the old Watcher dude was provoking Snow...he mentioned something about infiltrating the Wildlings an episode or 2 ago...and he knew the only way to do that was to get Jon to kill him. That's why he said all those evil things about Jon's parents.



Yup, never saw that coming...now we know how he is able to kill people and not get caught.

Special effects the past couple of episodes have been epic. The White Walker at the end was just amazing as well.



They had to do this episode, there was way too much left unresolved after the battle episode last weekend.

I think Tyrion is being treated as second class because he always has been, and now that Lord Tywin is back, Tyrion is back to being relegated to 2nd class status. Nobody in his family has ever really liked him.

As for Sansa and Joffrey, Sansa has now had two opportunities to leave King's Landing, yet both times she elected to stay....that girl is just dumber that a sack of wet mice, especially when she was told that just because she doesn't have to marry Joffrey now, that doesn't mean she's a free woman.

dumber than a sack of wet mice eh? ok :lol:


Ok in order...

Yeah I caught the watcher telling Snow about the set up, I just don't see what's changed in the Wildling's eyes about Snow. One prisoner killed another one, so what?

That whole group of undead soldiers was awesome. You wonder why I like playing Skyrim so much? Imagine playing Game of Thrones...all locales and people, it's very close to the varied environments and happenings on the show.

So if Tywin thinks of Tyrion as second class, I still don't understand the need to kill him :lol: Someone said that the King's guard was given instruction to murder Tyrion, that happened before Dad showed up. I still can't really see how if the Lannister family in general is at war with everyone, why would they want to kill one of their own at such a pivotal time? I think there's someone else behind it...

Teh One Who Knocks
06-05-2012, 06:41 PM
I believe in the opening scene with Tyrion he was told that his sister is the one that put the hit out on him.

Hal-9000
06-05-2012, 06:43 PM
I believe in the opening scene with Tyrion he was told that his sister is the one that put the hit out on him.

aaahhhh, the queen Bitch

she was a second away from killing her young son with the potion when Dad came in and saved the day...that would have been a lil embarrassing :lol:

Teh One Who Knocks
06-05-2012, 07:20 PM
Yeah, not sure why she was gonna kill just her son like that :nuts:

Dr Death
06-05-2012, 07:24 PM
Yeah, not sure why she was gonna kill just her son like that :nuts:I guess she figured a quick death would've been better than being tortured slowly by the enemy...but that doesn't make her any less of a heartless twat! :lol:

Hal-9000
06-05-2012, 07:55 PM
I guess she figured a quick death would've been better than being tortured slowly by the enemy...but that doesn't make her any less of a heartless twat! :lol:

Here son, drink this....FIRST :lol:

Teh One Who Knocks
06-06-2012, 12:35 AM
http://i.imgur.com/DXUXQ.gif

Hal-9000
06-06-2012, 04:34 PM
:lol:

Teh One Who Knocks
06-06-2012, 04:41 PM
I nearly died laughing when I came upon that gif :lol:

Hal-9000
06-06-2012, 05:27 PM
He's changed into a completely different guy! :shock:


:lol:

Arkady Renko
06-07-2012, 11:15 AM
I'll have you know he's a homie.

Teh One Who Knocks
06-11-2012, 04:00 PM
http://i.imgur.com/u1SZpl.jpg

Hal-9000
06-11-2012, 05:59 PM
:lol:

I love that little Peter Dink......

Lambchop
07-13-2012, 10:22 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpSDSgChsaI

Dovah
07-16-2012, 02:57 PM
OH MY GOD! FINALLY Jojen and Meera!

Teh One Who Knocks
08-02-2012, 09:43 PM
http://i.imgur.com/ZI1Ws.jpg

Hal-9000
08-02-2012, 09:49 PM
how do people think of this shite :lol:

Arkady Renko
08-02-2012, 09:51 PM
not bad at all.

Nemowork Pt2
08-02-2012, 11:22 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpSDSgChsaI

Clive Russels been in everything, including the 13th Warrior, but they got Nathalie Emmanuelle?

So now we've figured out who's doing the uncalled for nudity next year.

and yes it is an NSFW link

http://www.nudecelebrityz.com/11232/nathalie-emmanuel-shows-her-pussy-and-nude-ass-in-misfits-pics-and-vids/

Arkady Renko
08-03-2012, 09:33 AM
rather her than the Eunuch...

Teh One Who Knocks
03-25-2013, 10:33 AM
Six more days :cheerlead:

Hal-9000
03-25-2013, 08:41 PM
When a man has diarrhea and all stalls at work are occupied

Game of Thrones :)

Acid Trip
04-01-2013, 03:42 PM
First episode of the new season and....











It was boring as hell.

Hal-9000
04-01-2013, 03:55 PM
I liked it :thumbsup: Yes it was low key but it established a few things and caught us up on others.


Peter Dinkelage (Lord Tyrion) got a spanking from Dad :lol:

Acid Trip
04-01-2013, 04:19 PM
I liked it :thumbsup: Yes it was low key but it established a few things and caught us up on others.


Peter Dinkelage (Lord Tyrion) got a spanking from Dad :lol:

It would have been better if he actually spanked him.