A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Cort Haus]

Seriously? You bring that up in a thread about ASOIAF? That someone appeared to die made you cry?

WTF.

I was exaggerating for rhetorical effect. It is a love scene after all, to be fair.

[Cort Haus]

To be fair, there is a fair bit of "so-and-so is dead! ... NO THEY AREN'T!" in ASOIAF, too.

Spoiler:

Davos!

[Docfeelgood]

Shame on you!
There is nothing wrong by being emotionally touched by good literature.

[Dinner]

I have always meant to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance...Three_Kingdoms

and War and Peace was amazing.

JM

War & Peace was indeed well worth the read. My aunt bought it for me right before I left for Kosovo in 2000 and it took several months of reading parts in my spare time but did manage to finish it all. Cort could say the author spent a lot of time on extraneous detail and could have shortened it up considerably, that would be fair, but one of the cool things is he was so detailed describing whole rooms and what everyone wore and how they acted so well that it is almost a case book study in what life was like in Tsarist Russia. The level of detail and realism was just that good.

[Hauldren Collider]

I've no idea- but if it was, it wasn't edited well. And as for all the others...

It's H P Lovecraft Syndrome. Great imagination, but little technical skill as a writer.

Agreed. I really didn't like the LOTR books.

[Krill]

To be fair, there is a fair bit of "so-and-so is dead! ... NO THEY AREN'T!" in ASOIAF, too.

It was more that so few important characters actually die in LotR, that I can't get any real sense of loss form the writing, and that just doesn't happen in ASOIAF.

I was exaggerating for rhetorical effect. It is a love scene after all, to be fair.

Just wondering, but are there any real love scenes in ASOIAF? Which is funny, when you think about all the nude scenes in the TV series.

[Cort Haus]

*cough* Gandalf

[regexcellent]

Just wondering, but are there any real love scenes in ASOIAF? Which is funny, when you think about all the nude scenes in the TV series.

There's the horrible one with

Spoiler:

Sam and Gilly

and the somewhat less horrible

Spoiler:

Jon and Ygritte

ones.

[Cort Haus]

Just wondering, but are there any real love scenes in ASOIAF? Which is funny, when you think about all the nude scenes in the TV series.

Spoiler:

Apart from Dany's various emotional spasms, I think the nearest is the odd moment between Jaime and Brienne - emotionally rather than physically

[Krill]

Gandalf dies? All I saw was he fell off a bride and miraculously survived. It really proves my point more than anything.

[kentonio]

Gandalf dies? All I saw was he fell off a bride and miraculously survived. It really proves my point more than anything.

He dies and gets sent back in his new incarnation.

[Krill]

That's the ****ing point. LotR = crap writing with little emotional investment and tons of dei ex machinae, ASOIAF = huge piles of dead bodies (and that isn't a spoiler) and real shock at the events.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Let's not get too proud of the lack of deus ex machina in the series that wiped out a key player via mystical vagina ninja.

[Dauphin]

Gandalf dies? All I saw was he fell off a bride and miraculously survived. It really proves my point more than anything.

LotR had Gandalf get jiggy with a claim of prima nocte? I missed that scene.

[DinoDoc]

Mystical Vagina Ninjas? This series sounds awesome.