A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Spoilers, you buggers.

[Guynemer]

Indeed.

[Lorizael]

...was that a preview for a trailer?

[Guynemer]

HOLY BALLS

https://vine.co/v/h3j0E330FvQ

HER NAME WAS ELIA OF DORNE

[Imran Siddiqui]

Whatever it was, I don't need that level of detail. Brevity is the soul of wit. If the paragraph is not contributing to the plot, the setting, or the characters, it's wasting my time. The intricacies of her bowel movement or miscarriage or whatever the hell was happening down there don't service any of those.

Hemmingway is that-a-way.

[Dinner]

It was contributing a lot as it had to do with the prophecy. I suspect HC is just a lazy reader who wants the author to spoon feed him while GRRM doesn't often just come out and tell readers stuff and instead he'll throw a hint here, another one there, and a third one some where else letting the reader figure out the sub-text if they can.

[Nikolai]

Whatever it was, I don't need that level of detail. Brevity is the soul of wit. If the paragraph is not contributing to the plot, the setting, or the characters, it's wasting my time. The intricacies of her bowel movement or miscarriage or whatever the hell was happening down there don't service any of those.

It was contributing to the plot.

[Hauldren Collider]

Hell, try being one of the TV series viewers who hasn't read the books. There's a sound reason why most of the characters are just nicknames to me.

I hear you. Hell, they're nicknames to me too. Apparently I'm supposed to recognize who they are when they only ever say their name once if at all.

[Hauldren Collider]

Whatever it was, I don't need that level of detail. Brevity is the soul of wit. If the paragraph is not contributing to the plot, the setting, or the characters, it's wasting my time. The intricacies of her bowel movement or miscarriage or whatever the hell was happening down there don't service any of those.

[Robert]

Peak GRRM was achieved when Dany takes a ****ing diarrheal **** in the desert. THE MORE SHE SHAT! Seriously, probably the most painful piece of "literature" I have read since the Harry Potter 7 epilogue. Did I pay for this? What the **** is going on? If I want to hear about terminal diarrhea I'll play ****ing Oregon Trail. This is important how exactly? Why would I want to know? Another author, with a better sense of when to apply conciseness, would have just said she got sick.

Yeah, Dany wasn't having diarrhea. In fact 1 prophecy was being fulfilled, one which most people didn't even knew about it was a prophecy, and therefore a huge change in Dany's arch was happening. And it was absolutely not diarrhea.

She was having a miscarriage.

[Robert]

More importantly, they both sucked. Still, there's enough stuff to mandate more than one season.

Book 4/5 are awesome, but on a different level.
They're huge complex character -arch filled books that are setting up sick twists in the last 2 books.
I bet that when we read book 6/7 and drop of our chairs out of : w8t...didn't see that coming!!!11!1!! and then re-read book 4/5 then you'll see it's one huge big foreshadowing of huge story-changes that are coming up.

In my re-read books 4 an 5 were suddenly my favourite books after #3
what's going on in Meereen is so behind and between the lines!

[Nikolai]

Hey, isn't that Nikolai's birthday?!

Indeed it is. Brownie points for remembering!

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I just couldn't handle all the characters.

Hell, try being one of the TV series viewers who hasn't read the books. There's a sound reason why most of the characters are just nicknames to me.

[Colon™]

Hey, isn't that Nikolai's birthday?!

[Guynemer]

We have an official return date: 6 April.