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Reply #1155 on: December 19, 2011, 09:27:01 PM

Is it just me or is that a really shitty trailer?
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Reply #1156 on: December 22, 2011, 09:47:00 AM

Well it was probably done with whatever footage they had done at the time, any big action scenes are probably nowhere near done.

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Reply #1157 on: January 30, 2012, 01:35:54 AM

New, kickass trailer!

"Shadow":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOzXsqoJhtE

Sansa  ACK!

Daenerys  DRILLING AND MANLINESS

And more, juicy glimpses here and there  awesome, for real

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Reply #1158 on: January 30, 2012, 01:57:02 AM

Nice, hopefully it will keep going till the end of book 3 and then I don't care if they cancel it.
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Reply #1159 on: January 30, 2012, 02:14:04 AM

Are the later books that bad?
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Reply #1160 on: January 30, 2012, 02:59:42 AM

I'm about 20% into book 2 at the moment, can see why people like this stage of it.
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Reply #1161 on: January 30, 2012, 03:05:24 AM

When's Season 2 due to start airing? Anyone know?
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Reply #1162 on: January 30, 2012, 03:16:00 AM

April apparently

Are the later books that bad?

It's not that they are terrible it's just he seems more interested in introducing new characters that I personally don't give a crap about, rather than continuing the story for the ones I do care about.
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Reply #1163 on: January 30, 2012, 03:47:47 AM

April apparently

Are the later books that bad?

It's not that they are terrible it's just he seems more interested in introducing new characters that I personally don't give a crap about, rather than continuing the story for the ones I do care about.

Yep, 1st April; regarding the later books: book 1 to 3 seem to tell one,coherent and immensely detailed and gripping story from the beginning to the end. In book 4 and 5 Martin expand the universe, open new scenarios, there are highs and lows.

Unless ratings and subscriptions will show a drastic decrease (unlikely), we'll get the third book covered, and split in two seasons.

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Reply #1164 on: January 30, 2012, 04:07:39 AM

Book 4 and 5 are after he realized "Oh hell, they're all too young" and was thinking to skip ahead a few years, which hasn't happened yet.  He also seems rather bored with the narrative, if not the characters, and has been dallying with other projects.

It was his mistake to take on an epic when he's not that focused in the first place.

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Reply #1165 on: January 30, 2012, 06:32:56 AM

Are the later books that bad?

They are bad compared to the first three, they are still miles above almost everything else.  A lot of people don't like that the story has moved on from where it started to involve the other kingdoms, meaning different characters and slow pacing on the original storylines, but really the collapse of all seven kingdoms framed by the invasions of Dany and the Others was what it was meant to be about all along.

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Reply #1166 on: January 30, 2012, 08:17:42 AM

Book 4 was pirates of the caribbean and don't get me started on Ali baba and the forty thieves.  Feel free to like it but don't tell me this is how it was going to go from the start, he's clearly got stage fright or lost interest in finishing it.  He reads what's people say about him on the internet and every time he gets pissed off he kills a Stark, I sympathise, but the last two books were scraps from the top table.
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Reply #1167 on: January 30, 2012, 08:29:16 AM

Is there a hidden cache of Starks hidden somewhere? Because knowing the internet, all the original ones should be dead in the middle of season 3 then.
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Reply #1168 on: January 30, 2012, 08:41:21 AM

Is there a hidden cache of Starks hidden somewhere? Because knowing the internet, all the original ones should be dead in the middle of season 3 then.

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Reply #1169 on: January 30, 2012, 09:06:32 AM

I'd agree that Martin has been overwhelmed by his own creation. He reminds me a bit of JMS on Babylon 5, only without the garrulousness--someone who promised a tightly-built narrative with a vision and then got to the middle of the story and it was like that guy on Sesame Street who used to teach numbers by dropping a bunch of pies and cakes on his own head.

I thought after Book 3 that it was fairly clear what the sequencing of the story should be:



Instead, it's like reading what an alcoholic with serious ADHD would come up with if you put him in charge of a world-building epic. "Oh, let's see, I need a new viewpoint character, some other place I haven't been to, and, um, how about a character whose tongue has been ripped out who is forced to perform cunninlingus on a goat corpse. There we go."
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Reply #1170 on: January 30, 2012, 09:29:40 AM

Once you hit the 1500 total pages mark on these multi volume epics authors invariably go pants on head. I can't think of a single epic fantasy that didn't go off the rails after the third or fourth book.

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Reply #1171 on: January 30, 2012, 09:33:19 AM

Khaldun nailed my thoughts spot on.

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Reply #1172 on: January 30, 2012, 10:55:02 AM

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Reply #1173 on: February 03, 2012, 01:09:44 PM

Err...Behold the Game of Ponies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uI1Y8B6L28

 Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

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Reply #1174 on: February 07, 2012, 06:00:10 PM

Err...Behold the Game of Ponies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uI1Y8B6L28

 Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

That was unimaginably awesome.

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Reply #1175 on: February 08, 2012, 12:47:06 AM

Haha brilliant!

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Reply #1176 on: February 09, 2012, 12:19:50 PM

You guys are sad.  Fucking ponies?   Ohhhhh, I see.
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Reply #1177 on: February 09, 2012, 12:50:33 PM

Careful, it's considered unwise to rile up the Bronies.

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Reply #1178 on: February 09, 2012, 01:07:54 PM

I do not understand the latest Internet fascination with the goddamn My Little Ponies, and frankly, I do not want to. Therein lies madness... or at the very least  this guy looks legit

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Reply #1179 on: February 09, 2012, 01:12:30 PM

The show is really great.  The guys patting themselves on the back for enjoying it really grate.

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Reply #1180 on: February 09, 2012, 01:16:03 PM

I don't get it at all, but I don't especially see a reason to be a dick to the people who do.

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Reply #1181 on: February 09, 2012, 01:21:38 PM

Other than "dick" being my natural state of being, I wouldn't either if they didn't feel it necessary to penetrate every goddamn thing with pony memes.

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Reply #1182 on: February 09, 2012, 01:29:21 PM

The show is really great.  The guys patting themselves on the back for enjoying it really grate.

Thank you for eloquently summing up my feelings on every self-identified "brony" I know.

It doesn't help that I've watched the show after being told how great it was and found it to be "meh."

So how about that Game of Thrones, eh?
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Reply #1183 on: February 09, 2012, 02:09:22 PM

HBO has just published a bunch of official Season 2 photos:



Stannis and Melisandre:

Brienne of Tarth:

More at Winter is Coming website:
http://winteriscoming.net/2012/02/the-first-publicity-photos-from-season-two/

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Reply #1184 on: February 09, 2012, 03:05:52 PM

Oh, man.  Brienne looks like she's about to bust some heads.  I can't wait.   DRILLING AND WOMANLINESS
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Reply #1185 on: February 09, 2012, 03:08:26 PM

I just got to the part in Clash of Kings where Brienne is introduced. Yeah, that's a good casting choice.

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Reply #1186 on: February 09, 2012, 04:33:18 PM

I always pictured Stannis with a beard.

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Reply #1187 on: February 09, 2012, 09:45:43 PM

Yeah, they all look great, except Stannis looks like a bank manager. And I'm wondering how Bran is going to hit his head on door frames like that.
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Reply #1188 on: February 10, 2012, 04:49:39 AM

I always pictured the red bitch having "Lucy Lawless in Spartacus" red hair for some reason.

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Reply #1189 on: February 10, 2012, 06:10:12 AM

I'd pictured Stannis as a little more stocky, but otherwise I'm quite happy with those looks.

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