A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Boris Godunov]

And is the worse for it.

Ugh, you can't be serious. How would that even work in a TV show? There's no way to work all of the heraldry and stuff into the show and actually have, you know, plot things happen. Books can't be adapted that slavishly to the screen.

[Boris Godunov]

The infamous Jeyne Westerling's hips case was an incident in which he forgot previous details.

Or did he? The speculation is that Jaime saw an impostor, not the actual Jeyne.

[DinoDoc]

Late Halloween joke but still GoT related:

[Imran Siddiqui]

And is the worse for it.

[regexcellent]

That's the sort of thing the show immediately discarded though.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Why cater for the obsessively anal-retentives?

What Bosh said.

He himself is probably an obsessive anal-retentive. It's why the world he's created is such an incredible thing - it's very, very detailed (his recently released "The Worlds of Ice and Fire" - mostly written by the folks at A Song of Ice and Fire website based on stuff he's written in the books with input from GRRM).

In addition, pchang probably has the right of it as well, the original boost of popularity that got it noticed by HBO in the first place was likely those that really enjoyed the anal retentive lists of heraldry and history (the stuff that really appeals to me, for instance).

[Bosh]

I'd just go ahead and have continuity errors then laugh at the fan sadness all the way to the bank

I think he's already hit the "has more money than he'll ever spend" level at this point. He really is a perfectionist about that sort of thing.

Don't really care that much how slow he is one way or the other, I think he's a good enough writer than I'd enjoy a big stack of his first drafts but I'm sure we'll get some interesting stuff this way as well. But people shouldn't be surprised at him being slow, he was incredibly slow back in the 70's.

One thing that stuff like Martin's side projects shows is that he really hasn't lost interest in Westeros as pretty much all of the side stuff he's written in the last decade+ has been set in Westeros, as much as I'd like one last story set in his Thousand Worlds sci-fi setting or more Haviland Tuf for that matter.

[regexcellent]

Daenerys, famously, is not anal retentive.

[pchang]

Maybe it's the anal retentives that really drive sales.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

In addition, the world GRRM has created is REALLY complex and I'm not just talking about the past history (pre-GOT) stuff. He's gotta make sure he doesn't completely **** something up that he wrote about 3 books ago and that requires a whole lot of checking. This is maybe where the reading of the fanzines hurts him - he knows the fans are going to go back and ding him on continuity errors where another writer may be like, **** it.

Why cater for the obsessively anal-retentives?

[regexcellent]

The infamous Jeyne Westerling's hips case was an incident in which he forgot previous details.

[Hauldren Collider]

I'd just go ahead and have continuity errors then laugh at the fan sadness all the way to the bank

[Dinner]

Yeah, I imagine it is hard to keep track of all those characters then make sure what you wrote is consiste t with what he previously wrote 20 years ago, etc...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Writing stuff isn't ****ing easy. I live with a writer. That **** is hard. Everyone needs to chill their ****ing ****.

In addition, the world GRRM has created is REALLY complex and I'm not just talking about the past history (pre-GOT) stuff. He's gotta make sure he doesn't completely **** something up that he wrote about 3 books ago and that requires a whole lot of checking. This is maybe where the reading of the fanzines hurts him - he knows the fans are going to go back and ding him on continuity errors where another writer may be like, **** it.

[Lorizael]

Homer is actually a step above writers, because he figured out how to automate button pushing.