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2011-06-07, 04:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hell, It's About Time: Wings of Liberty
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My Life For Aiur? I Barely Know 'Er: Legacy of the Void
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2011-06-07, 04:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerThat's noted in the theory since Arya is stated to having looked like Lyanna. So apparently, Ned, Arya, Lyanna, and Jon all had similar features.
Personally, I dislike the theory since it implies that Lyanna was a complete ***** who let the kingdom go to war because she just had to have her piece of man meat. So it's ok for her to bed an already married men but she gets to talk down about her soon to be husband because Robert probably wouldn't have been faithful. That doesn't make sense.
Now it's possible that she made a mistake, or didn't think about the implications of going off with Rhaegar. But she honestly didn't leave once her brother and father were killed? By the Old Gods girl, if that is true I don't even care that you died, and you should feel ashamed that your idiocy plunged the kingdom into war.
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2011-06-07, 05:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Jon is resembling Eddard and Arya because they are his uncle and cousin... it can be.
and besides, that makes him a royal blood (the stronger one, after daeneris)... very near to Melisandre.
boy oh boy how I am waiting the new book (and its translation in italian)
this discussion is getting a spoiler festival
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2011-06-07, 05:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-07, 06:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-07, 06:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-07, 07:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerDidn't he also make his own? I could've sworn I remembered something about him wearing a different one made of mud or something...
Originally Posted by Seerow
...otherwise they're likely to take the door off of the hinges.
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2011-06-07, 08:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ah man, I made A Clash Of Kings into an acronym and couldn't help but laugh. Surely GRRM saw that when he named his book.
Step 1: Get workers to make goods for you.
Step 2: Sell the goods for a higher amount than what you pay the workers.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!
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2011-06-07, 10:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-08, 12:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-08, 06:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Book Spoilers (also, I'm now up to episode 8. Woo, caught up! )
SpoilerRobb scenes make me too sad. I'm not sure I'll be able to watch much more of this without shedding manly tears for the heresy still to come.
That said ~
"A green boy, he'll run back to Winterfell with his tail between his legs at the first taste of battle"
Even Tywin Lannister couldn't have predicted that he'd need to have Robb murdered, for fear the Young Wolf would win the war (and he almost did, too ). Bloody coward lion, at least the North has honourable victories, not Red Weddings.Last edited by Klose_the_Sith; 2011-06-08 at 06:55 AM.
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2011-06-08, 07:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerActually, it's mentioned quite often how much Arya looks like Lyanna, and how much Lyanna and Ned looked alike and how unlike Ned the other children are. It's one of Catlyn's gripes against Jon Snow, that he looks more like Ned than Robb, Bran, or Rickon. Arya, Ned, and Jon all have the Stark look, as did Lyanna.
As for the Targaryen look in Jon, it's mentioned in the first book that Jon had unique, or at least interesting, eyes being deep grey/blue/purplish. It's very briefly mentioned in one of the very early chapters, and yeah, it's not a lot to hang one's coat on, but it's there.
The morality of Lyanna and Rheagar's supposed fling? I don't know. People don't always act rationally, or consistantly with their own morality. Love/lust can make humans do stupid and silly things. Yeah, objectively, given the info we have, it was a dumb thing to do that exacerbated an already bad situation and plunged the kingdom into war. However, I don't think we have all the information we need in order to make that judgement call. There's a lot we're missing, and I think we're going to get it, or at least a taste of it, in Dance With Dragons.
The Tower of Joy incident is pivotal, and it's hidden quietly for a reason. I suspect that's going to be one of those reveals that hits the audience like a Mack Truck at 80mph.
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2011-06-08, 09:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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I love how he can speak gibberish and sound like he means it. (Assuming that gibberish was made up for the show. Somebody correct if me I've accidentally implied that some language I've never heard before is legit and not made up for the show.)
Everyone is sized down a bit. Otherwise it would be impossible to find actors. I think Robert Baratheon was originally 6'6" and he didn't really stand out at that height. Greatjon towered over everyone, but didn't strike me as all that massive. The internet tells me Greatjon's actor is 6'5.5", which seems reasonable given the 6-10 inches everyone else (except Sansa!) lost.If you like what I have to say, please check out my GMing Blog where I discuss writing and roleplaying in greater depth.
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2011-06-08, 09:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-08, 09:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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I love how he can speak gibberish and sound like he means it. (Assuming that gibberish was made up for the show. Somebody correct if me I've accidentally implied that some language I've never heard before is legit and not made up for the show.)Resident Vancian Apologist
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2011-06-08, 09:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-08, 11:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Actually it's a language, a "real" one. They hired a linguist fellow to create a language for the Dothraki culture. So it's not a language you'll find on earth, but it's definitely a proper, working language with it's own grammar and syntax. So if you start to listen, as in really listen to what they are saying instead of just reading the subtitles you can start making out certain repeated words and phrases and start to make out what certain words mean and sound like.
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2011-06-08, 12:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Makes sense and I thought there was a good chance of that. Because it sounded like it could be legit I thought it could have been real world as well. At any rate, I suppose the actor knows what each of his words means (even if he couldn't fluently speak the language without a script) and that helps him lend weight to the words.
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2011-06-08, 12:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Heh, maybe that's why he has so few speaking roles so far... Cuz he has to put three times the effort into his lines as anyone speaking English would.
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2011-06-08, 02:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Haha! Possibly. Jason Momoa, the guy who plays Drogo actually did say in an interview that he had a hard time reading for his lines to begin with. I mean, who wouldn't with a language that doesn't really resemble any other language he has ever heard. I think the actors speaking Dothraki are doing a good job though, and I think I'm starting to really like the ones who play the smaller roles there. Especially Amrita Acharia, the girl who plays Irri who is one of Daenerys' closest maids. Some of the looks she has given the other characters just scream passion and genuinely good acting.
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2011-06-08, 02:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-08, 02:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-08, 02:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerWell, versus Robert, Cersei, Aegon, Joffrey and Cersei...
And don't forget there's a part in AGoT where Dany is saving all the women of the city by taking them as slaves instead of seeing them raped, and it reminds Jorah somehow of her brother. The not Viserys brother.
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2011-06-08, 03:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-08, 04:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-08, 05:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Just noticed a post on the last page I wanted to respond to.
SpoilerWhy Tyrion loses everything doesn't change the fact that he does lose everything. Sure he gets revenge but he still goes from having control over Kings Landing to being hunted all over Westeros and beyond as a regicidal traitor, he still fails.
Jaime does get character growth, and that's good. But he still loses the one thing that allowed him to affect the world. Now sure it's interesting to watch him grow as a character but he's impotent character that we're following.
Sansa spends most of the book in Joffrey's court and is forced to marry Tyrion. The two chapters she does get after leaving have her almost get raped and almost murdered by her aunt (who is the murdered). She still spends the whole book suffering.
Maybe Arya has achieved something, but her goal was to rejoin her family, which she spends over two books failing to do, and every step closer she gets a whole new problem stopping her appears.
And now I've just started with book 4 my main response to most chapters is apathy, only one of the characters I really enjoyed is still being followed and I find the Jaime chapters interesting, he never seems does anything. Two whiole subplots start being shown (the Greyjoys and the Dornes) and I just don't care, although I care about Sam becoming a maester even less. Other PoV's are added so I can see Brienne run around not doing anything and Cersei doing her level best to destroy her son's rule. Granted this is just my personal response and I've only just started but from what I've read so far I fear the whole book will just be 900 pages of nothing happening.
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2011-06-08, 08:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Book 4 discussion below. May spoil.
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Take a break. Seriously. Books 1-3 can be read consecutively but you should hold off before 4. When GRRM meant for the series to be 6 books long he was treating it as two trilogies. You're at the beginning of the second trilogy and expecting a continuation of the first.
Book 4 is also supposedly the low point in the series. While 3 had some high notes/partial victories, most of the characters you followed are dead. GRRM has to start up new characters and plots. It's really hard to care about those darned Greyjoys when you want to know what Tyrion is up to. Take a break and when you pick it up again, treat Feast like a whole new series.
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2011-06-08, 10:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Completely unrelated to the current discussion, I just found this quote on the official forums (apparently sniped from one of those people over on the unspoiled discussion at TWOP) that I thought was hilarious and had to share:
Tywin Lannister doesn't get ducks in a row, he slits their throats by the flock-full and personally field dresses them while delivering a speech about how stupid and disappointing and weak everyone else is.If my text is blue, I'm being sarcastic.But you already knew that, right?
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2011-06-08, 11:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerI preferred Feast to Storm, and read them sorta consecutively (1 - break - 2, 3, 4) - but like this threads already seen, I'm pretty much the lowest of the low in GRRM's audience. I don't care for the symbolism or foreshadowing and have trouble predicting even the most obvious of plot outcomes. All I really wanted was for Robb to survive, because he'd worked harder to earn more than anyone else who was about.
I also found the Ironmen pretty sweet, mostly just cause of their religion. I could really get a sense of these half crazed sea monks smashing cudgels together and getting too caught up in their fervour to care about the outside world.*Splendid Goatatar by that cool kid Serpentine
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2011-06-08, 11:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler@ Klose: There is symbolism in ASoIaF? I just read a good story man....