A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Guynemer]

We also have an Ellaria Sand: Indira Varma, of HBO's Rome.

If you are not familiar with her, a Google Image Search demonstrates that she is not shy.

[Felch]

Lucius Vorenus had a smoking hot wife.

[Guynemer]

Lucius Vorenus had a smoking hot wife.

Indeed.

Incidentally, I'd love for Vorenus and Pullo to join the cast. Either would be a good choice for Victarion, with Antony being a good Euron.

[regexcellent]

re: iron throne, there's something called "limited budget" which is already brutally apparent from how many scenes they did in the first season with just two characters talking in a room.

[DaShi]

I doubt that the budget factored much into it. It's fairly cheap to have something like that made in China.

[regexcellent]

It's not the chair, it's the room to put it in.

[DaShi]

Yes, because there is one thing that TV producers lack is access to large studios.

Actually, that is true for a lot of them, but not the kind who would make GoT.

[Dinner]

It's not the chair, it's the room to put it in.

In one of his blog posts GRRM said while he liked the Iron Throne in the TV show and thought it was a good design neither the throne nor the royal audience chamber were very close to what he had in mind when he wrote the books. The throne was supposed to be 20-30 feet tall so that the King was literally above everyone else looking down on them and audience room was supposed to be truly massive, like an ancient Egyptian temple massive, because Aegon wanted to impress everyone with how powerful he was so they'd forget he was an upjumped usurper.

[Felch]

Yes, because there is one thing that TV producers lack is access to large studios.

Actually, that is true for a lot of them, but not the kind who would make GoT.

It's explained somewhere that they'd need something the size of a cathedral. While they could probably find a big enough space, making it look good on modern HD television would have been much more expensive. You can't just bull**** the staging anymore.

[Dinner]

Apparently (and not surprisingly) GRRM is way, way, way behind on writing the next book in ASoIaF and HBO ia imploring him to please get to writing as the TV series is quickly catching up to where he is in the book series. Sadly, GRRM has dozens of projects all of which he is juggling at the same time and he keeps putting those other projects in front finishing The Winds of Winter. He has recently (in the last year) written a short story, an anthology, stuff for a new HBO series (a different one than GoT), started on a book much like Tolkien's Silmarillion detailing the history of Westeros, several merchandising items (miniatures, swords, calendars, costumes, etc...), and now he's even bought a century old movie theater which he is spending all of his time restoring. NPR covers all of this and mentions how GRRM just hasn't been writing much for the next ASoIaF book.

http://www.npr.org/2013/10/07/227772024/george-r-r-martin-author-and-movie-theater-guy

[Dinner]

They were saying HBO might make up their own ending if GRRM doesn't get the lead out.

[Nikolai]

IIRC, GRRM has made a will or something outlining how he wants things to unfold.

[Robert]

Only fools think that an author can work 100% on one project, like 15 hours a day.
Authors obviously need to go out, have things to do, and inspire themselves in any possible way.

[Guynemer]

Shush, Plomp. You're ruining the well-established internet narrative.

[DaShi]

They also need to meet deadlines and actually produce work.