HBO's Game of Thrones - - - - - Part 14

[Drz]

He had two other writers working on the Encyclopedia.

He has so muchj material out about Westeros, so i can understand him jumping from chapter to chapter, doodling and fleshing out things.

 

[Marvolo]

Bah Gawd....

Here is the picture of Balerion for people who don't want to click on the link:

Spoiler

 

[Sawyer]

That's... An optimistic way of looking at it. I tend to agree with the folks that contend that it seems like Martin is interested in doing anything BUT book 6. Whether it's because he's burnt out on the story or honestly just doesn't know what else to write, I don't know.

I don't see anything optimistic about it. It's just, if we're not getting book 6 for another goddamn five decades or whatever he has in mind, at least we're getting something.

 

[Hush]

I mean I'm fine with getting book 6 whenever now, the guy takes his time to write so what? I love that he is making a Silmarillion of sorts, sounds like an awesome idea and something that will get fans to shut up about book 6 for a bit.

 

[Victarion]

I'd like to have been a fly on the wall when the books were in their earliest stages. At one point, A Dance with Dragons was book three. I wonder what led to him stretching the series as he did.

Could be that George decided to release this history book because his drafts of 6/7 were overstuffed with worldbuilding fluff. He's not told us much about two of the big supernatural elements in the narrative, so perhaps we'll get some of that here.

 

[Drz]

Wasn't Dance with the Dragons book two, with Time for Wolves book 3?

One of the things that caused a major delay between Storm of Swords to Feast for Crows, was because Martin thought he'd jump forward 5 years, but having characters like Jon Snow and Daenarys hang around for 5 years, not to mention Roose Bolton and Ramsay Bolton, don't even forget about the White Walkers or our main man Stannis, would had been rather weird.

It would have given us more experienced characters like Arya Stark being muchy more skilled warrior, but yeah, it's fun to read about their inexperiences.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Bah Gawd....

Dany's dragons won't get that big. Balerion was the last surviving dragon born in Valyria (Meraxes and Vhagar were born on Dragonstone) and was about 100 years during the Conquest when Aegon rode him.

 

[Hush]

Dany's dragons won't get that big. Balerion was the last surviving dragon born in Valyria (Meraxes and Vhagar were born on Dragonstone) and was about 100 years during the Conquest when Aegon rode him.

I don't know they do talk about Drogon being Balerion reincarnate.

 

[Infinity9999x]

I don't see anything optimistic about it. It's just, if we're not getting book 6 for another goddamn five decades or whatever he has in mind, at least we're getting something.

Yeah. I get that. I understand what other people are saying too. Don't get me wrong, the history thing is cool and all, but there's a reason Tolkien never actually published the Simarillion...he was busy finishing his actual story first before creating extra material like that. His son published the book after he died.

And the thing is, the guy really only has two more years before the show is going to be caught up to him. He really needs to get a move on.

 

[Hush]

It's his story he was writing before the show, he can take all the time he wants. I would rather have a product he is happy with than some rushed weakly done plot.

 

[kvz5]

Oh hey... Jaime's hand grew back and... there's coffee in King's Landing!

 

[Hamill-Joker]

That is tremendous.

 

[Victarion]

He pushes you out of a tower. You turn around and buy him cofee. Bran's a swell guy.

 

[Hyde]

 

[Spidey-Bat]

That's from a rehearsal, apparently. Still funny.

I don't know they do talk about Drogon being Balerion reincarnate.

Only according to Dothraki, who are superstitious. Balerion was raised in Valyria by Valyrians who knew how to properly raise dragons. Even if Drogo does reach that size, Dany will long be dead by then.

 

[Ramsay Snow]

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but when Stannis has the leeches burnt and says "the usurper, Joffrey Baratheon", it cuts to the scene of Tyrion's wedding, where Joffrey is drinking wine.

I like that foreshadowing.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Oh hey... Jaime's hand grew back and... there's coffee in King's Landing!

Those Seattle's Bests are everywhere!

 

[Godzilla2000]

So yeah,

Spoiler

it seems that Joffrey is deader than a door nail. Now I'd normally say it couldn't have happened to a better guy but in this case I thought death too good a thing for the little bastard. I'd have loved to have seen him humbled, begging like a dog in front of all the people he once terrorized.

 

[Pink Ranger]

So yeah,

Spoiler

it seems that Joffrey is deader than a door nail. Now I'd normally say it couldn't have happened to a better guy but in this case I thought death too good a thing for the little bastard. I'd have loved to have seen him humbled, begging like a dog in front of all the people he once terrorized.

It's another way that George screws around with the audience's storyline expectations. Any other author would give Joffrey the death he deserves—drawn, crucified, castrated, nostril-raped and beheaded—but even in meeting his just end, George has to remind you that the world isn't a fair place, and that evil kings still get to die mercifully.

 

[Schlosser85]

Also Arya didn't get her revenge.

 

[The Hill]

I would have settled on burned alive.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Joffrey's death was horrible. He felt every second of it. I don't think there was any "mercy" in it.

 

[Hush]

Yeah the book goes into more detail on the poison that was used, downright awful stuff it was.

 

[scatterax]

He looked like he was in excruciating pain. Just cause you don't see blood doesn't mean he didn't suffer.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

He looked like he was in excruciating pain. Just cause you don't see blood doesn't mean he didn't suffer.

When you start leaking from the eyes and start changing colors... yeah.