Khaldun
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Don't worry, we get to complain about the prequel later on.
And then probably in the nursing home a few of us will get a shot to complain about the reboot and about the ghostwritten version of the concluding books.
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Current writing levels insures I'm not going to watch the prequel until GRRM finishes the book series.
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Threash
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At least whoever is making the prequels knows from the start they are going in blind instead of signing up to do an adaptation that ended up being fan fiction.
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Khaldun
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Kind of. Martin actually HAS written some prequel stuff now in three books, so there's a bit of guidance from the Official Author.
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Final season of 'f13 complains about Game of Thrones' starts April 14.
There is a teaser trailer of Starks wearing big coats that I can't be arsed to link.
You mean final season of F13 GoT Fantasy League! Because really, I'm looking forward to that more than anything. I can't imagine a show any time soon that will replace this as perfect for a TV series fantasy draft. |
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Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic!
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Khaldun
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Considering where they seem to be in that shot, it may turn out that having a crypt underneath your castle is a bit of a disadvantage when you're fighting zombies.
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Samwise
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 Curious whether that sequence is actually in the show or if it was made solely for teaser purposes. If it's from the show it's got to be a Bran dream.
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Riggswolfe
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Current writing levels insures I'm not going to watch the prequel until GRRM finishes the book series.
So, never then? I doubt the man will finish the next book, let alone the series. Curious whether that sequence is actually in the show or if it was made solely for teaser purposes. If it's from the show it's got to be a Bran dream. I heard it was just for the teasers. Some people freaked out that the statues hinted they'd be dying but Sophie Turner said it was just for a commercial and she took one home to put in her garden. |
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If you want to go all in on statue analysis, Jon's and Sansa's could be older versions of each, whereas Arya not so much.
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Maisie Williams is almost 22. She's not getting any bigger than that. |
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Polysorbate80
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Rewatching the whole series, and Hound/Arya roadtrip is still gold: "I understand that if any more words come pouring out your cunt mouth, I'm gonna have to eat every fucking chicken in this room."
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Riggswolfe
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Rewatching the whole series, and Hound/Arya roadtrip is still gold: "I understand that if any more words come pouring out your cunt mouth, I'm gonna have to eat every fucking chicken in this room."
It's one of my favorite parts of the series. And that line is probably my favorite line in the entire series. I'd seriously watch a spin off that is just those two traveling the country side and fucking people up when they get irritated with them. |
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Khaldun
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Was just rewatching that scene. It really is one of the top five best moments in the whole series, and a good example of how the showrunners working with the actors revised Martin's original storytelling for the better WHEN they had a complete story rather than an outline to work with. Once it was outline only, they did some dumb as fuck stuff, so now Martin if he ever writes the books will be able to return the favor by revising the show's mistakes.
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Brolan
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I don’t think GRRM will ever finish with his pace/age/physical condition. The show will likely be our only ending.
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Riggswolfe
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I don’t think GRRM will ever finish with his pace/age/physical condition. The show will likely be our only ending.
I'll go further. I doubt we'll even get the next book in the series. Between his age and what seems to be him finding any excuse he can to do anything other than write this book it's just not happening. |
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Khaldun
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Eh, someone will write them eventually. They'll have the chance to edit/improve.
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Polysorbate80
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Once it was outline only, they did some dumb as fuck stuff, so now Martin if he ever writes the books will be able to return the favor by revising the show's mistakes.
It’s not all dire. I hope the Brienne/Tormond stuff gets written in, I do love those bits. |
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The show certainly got worst after they had to wing it, but even then, the best form of this story is some blend of the books and TV. Even in the later seasons fixed some silly shit Martin did.
He may die off before finishing the next book, but I think he has written a giant tome of pages for it already. If he were to croak today, Sanderson would basically just walk in, edit that pile into something coherent, then take what ever little bits are left along with any notes Martin might have given, and make a final book blending that with how the show ended. Doesn't seem like much of a stretch.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
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The show certainly got worst after they had to wing it, but even then, the best form of this story is some blend of the books and TV. Even in the later seasons fixed some silly shit Martin did.
Yeah, even when they still had actual books to work off of it wasn't exactly high quality product. We're lucky we didn't end up with a season of Tyrion doing nothing but asking "Where do the whores go?". The story seems to have gotten away from GRRM and it's an unenviable task the HBO folks have had trying to rein it in so they can get it across the finish line. They've been a bit sloppy with it at times, almost getting to Walking Dead levels of characters making bad decisions to advance the story, but even if GRRM manages to finish the last two books (he won't) I wouldn't expect them to be particularly good. |
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schild
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this is an entertaining show
but in fifteen years i'll still tell people to watch x-files
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Draegan
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this is an entertaining show
but in fifteen years i'll still tell people to watch x-files
Hmmm. As someone who re-watched xfiles a few years ago with the exception of the last season and a half I'll have to agree. |
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Cyrrex
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I'm probably the only person on this board who never watched X-Files. Not really sure why. There, just outed myself.
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Rendakor
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I've never watched all of X-Files either. I'd seen a few episodes when I was younger; tried to watch the whole thing and got somewhere into the second season before giving up. I've debated trying to just watch the mytharc episodes but haven't gotten around to it.
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Same, I've also never seen the entire X-Files. Only a handful of episodes.
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Draegan
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Heathens.
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rattran
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I just want Game of Thrones to be done. The trailer didn't really get any excitement going, I think it's just too long in between seasons recently with too little substance in each one.
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I'm probably the only person on this board who never watched X-Files. Not really sure why. There, just outed myself.
I only just started watching it a few weeks ago at schild's suggestion. I've stalled out a bit early into season 2, but so far I'm going to say you're fine. |
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Riggswolfe
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I'm probably the only person on this board who never watched X-Files. Not really sure why. There, just outed myself.
I only just started watching it a few weeks ago at schild's suggestion. I've stalled out a bit early into season 2, but so far I'm going to say you're fine. I tried really hard to watch the X-files on Netflix. I figured my love of stuff like Twin Peaks would make it a no-brainer but I don't think I even got past season 2 either. |
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Trippy
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That's too bad cause seasons 3 and 4 were the best.
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Draegan
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You could also skip the monster of the week episodes (you shouldn't) if you just want the conspiracy episodes.
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Velorath
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You could also skip the monster of the week episodes (you shouldn't) if you just want the conspiracy episodes.
The MOW stuff at least has a conclusion to the story at the end of the episode usually. The conspiracy stuff I've seen so far ends with them almost getting some evidence and then having it taken away like the conspiracy is being run by Belloq. And Mulder will mention how he has to know what happened to his sister. Then I think about how nothing will actually get resolved for several more seasons and that if I felt like getting strung along by bullshit with no satisfying answers I'd have watched Lost which has about half the number of episodes. |
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