Game of Thrones - Book Readers' Thread - - - - - Part 22

[Marvolo]

Stay safe on the interwebs. I might have clicked a big spoiler from episode one. One image we've seen. The spoilery one has the same kind of background as the one we've seen. I can't tell if its real or not. The first set of images above those were troll images straight from the trailers.

edit: Well, I did enjoy reading about the ****shows in Yunkai and Astapor.

Can you PM me the spoilery image?

 

[Infinity9999x]

What was GRRM's purpose in giving us a Quentyn POV if it amounted to nothing more than a dead end in terms of the character?

I've read that others feel it was GRRM showing the reality of buying into the princely hero sterotype. Quentin was all about emulating classic Knightly tales of honor and bravery.

The reason I still felt that was pointless was because that point was hammered home in Book 1 with Ned and Sansa. We get it, in a more "real world" setting, trying to follow those ideas gets you killed. So Quentin added nothing new in that sense.

Beyond that, we find out Dorne had some political plans with the Targarians....again that's fine, but we also could have found that out without wasting chapters on a POV character who really added nothing to the main plot or already existing themes in the book.

That was my main criticism of Martin for books 4 and 5, too much added material that seemed to go nowhere. It was reminiscent of Wheel of Time for me (though not quite as bad. In WOT you had entire novels that could have been cut). Hopefully he recaptures the pacing of books 1 through 3 in this next installment.

 

[Reek]

I'd like to see the picture, too...

Is it safe to post in here again?

 

[Marvolo]

That pic:

Who was it in here that speculated that Mel [BLACKOUT]might actually be a hag disguising herself as a beautiful woman[/BLACKOUT]? Buy that hypster a beer for being spot on.

 

[Victarion]

I thought the pic was an old dude at first lol

I'm mildly disappoited that this image, if its legit, could mean that

Spoiler

Mance died for nothing

.

 

[Reek]

Oh wow... There is a pic far more spoilery than that.... PM me if you want it.

 

[Reek]

check your pm's... Episode 1 leaked somewhere.

 

[Victarion]

Oh wow, those are episode 1 images? This is new and exciting.

@Marvolo: I'm pretty certain her ADWD chapter said she only took her meals to keep up appearances.

 

[Marvolo]

This season isn't wasting anytime. So do y'all think [BLACKOUT]Ellaria killed Doran? [/BLACKOUT]

 

[Victarion]

@Marvolo's spoiler

Spoiler

She's got nothing to lose if Doran finds out about the hit on Myrcella. Areo's a wild card - no idea what he'd do, but if I were Ellaria, I'd be busting ass and trying to rile up as much of the Dornish population as I could and have them there at the Watergardens. To force Areo's hand or prevent him from retaliating.

 

[Marvolo]

Oh wow, those are episode 1 images? This is new and exciting.

@Marvolo: I'm pretty certain her ADWD chapter said she only took her meals to keep up appearances.

It's been too long since I read ADWD. I started rereading it the other night. Now knowing thisI'm gonna pay more attention to Mel's parts in the book and see if I catch anything new.

 

[Marvolo]

@Marvolo's spoiler

Spoiler

She's got nothing to lose if Doran finds out about the hit on Myrcella. Areo's a wild card - no idea what he'd do, but if I were Ellaria, I'd be busting ass and trying to rile up as much of the Dornish population as I could and have them there at the Watergardens. To force Areo's hand or prevent him from retaliating.

Spoiler

I'd been wondering how she expected to get away with killing Myrcella. Well this certainly takes care of that problem.

 

[Reek]

Wait a second guys... Can we stop talking about Dorne? Let's discuss this...

Spoiler

Ok ... Ok....So STANNIS... HAD SEX WITH THAT..... Think about that for a second...Stannis ****ed an old ass lady! Oh...


and...

Gendry lost his virginity to that thing!

Huh... Jon Snow does know some things.

 

[Victarion]

Not Herr lol

 

[Marvolo]

^

Spoiler

As long as she looks like a sexy hot Carice van Houten I'd let her have sex with her.

 

[Reek]

Sick sick individuals in this thread...

RESPECT YOURSELVES!

Speaking of Carice... she's so much better looking with her natural hair color... and thats saying something cause she already looks good... but when shes on like talk shows and all, shes amazing.

 

[Reek]

theres another pic of

Spoiler

the Harpies burning Dany's fleet

 

[Marvolo]

Christ, all Hell is breaking loose!

 

[Reek]

theres a reddit thread with full details on the premier. I dont know if i can post the link here?

 

[Marvolo]

It's not worth getting in trouble over. You might want to ask a mod if it's ok before posting the link.

 

[Reek]

There are a lot of things not worth getting in trouble over

Well one thing it says is

Spoiler

Roose is really pissed at Ramsay for playing his games with Reek and Sansa... hates on ramsay for being proud about beating stannis because a stronger lannister army is coming (they betrayed the crown)

 

[Roose Bolton]

That pic:

Who was it in here that speculated that Mel [BLACKOUT]might actually be a hag disguising herself as a beautiful woman[/BLACKOUT]? Buy that hypster a beer for being spot on.

Theres always been that theory that Melisandre was actually very old and only looks the way she does because of a glamour....I wonder if that's possibly the "lurid" sorcery it mentions.

Make it a cold one

 

[Reek]

"I don't partake" my ass

 

[Roose Bolton]

Mostly I prefer Martinis made with the tears of women and children, but I'll settle for less.

 

[Reek]