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(December 17, 2014 at 2:48 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: R+L=J!
Yuh huh.
No alegbra in this thread please.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
(December 18, 2014 at 12:26 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:
But if the books are any indication, Euron is going to be major player in the times to come, with his vague magicky knowledge (the dragon horn, for example) and his now-secured command of the Iron Fleet due to his appeasement of the lieutenants at the Shield Isles. Maybe they'll combine Euron and Victarion into one? A single character could still hit all the story points that each does in the book, but just the inter-family brother's quarrel would be gone.
I really, really want to see the scenes with the Ironborn boarding ships and fighting in full plate armor against unarmored sailors, and then Victarion grab the sword with his bare hand, leading to Moqorro giving Victarion his new magic red fire arm.
You're probably right about them combining the two characters. I don't think we've seen anyone of the Ironborn except Theon, Balon, and Asha (Yara in the series) so far. I wonder if they'll introduce Aeron as well? He always intrigued me. I suppose they'll do what they did with Ser Davos' children and condense all of them into one character like Mathos. I expect a LOT of changes in order to make "A Feast for Crows" palatable in video format. It was my second favorite book of the five so far because of the sheer amount of plot advancement, but there is a lot going on that it would be nearly impossible for someone who hadn't read the books to keep up with all the new POVs and strange lands. What kills me is that storylines like Young Griff and Jon Connington, and the Second Sons in Yunkai, and Sam in the Citadel, Paxter Redwyne's fleet from the Arbor, and even the Martells fuming and plotting revenge for the death of Oberyn. It's a lot to cover, and I look forward to how they're going to adapt it.
ETA: I could see the kingsmoot being the opening scene of season 5. With Aeron Damphair calling for it, with Euron, Victarion, and Asha squabbling over power.
I'm hoping that the Young Griff and Jon Con casting has been kept secret because of their characters' nature in the plot. If they are cut, Tyrion is going to have a fairly boring storyline. Jaqen's actor is supposedly returning in Season 5, probably as the Kindly Man but I'd much prefer it if they included some form of the Oldtown plot.
I think that Season 5 will kick off with Arya arriving in the house of black and white, since the thats where Season 4 ended, and thats what was in the first teaser. The faith militant are meant to be in the first episode aswell.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R Tolkien
February 21, 2015 at 2:28 pm (This post was last modified: February 21, 2015 at 2:34 pm by SteelCurtain.)
So we'll make this the GoT/ASOIAF discussion thread.
As requested, here are all of the primers for each of the 4 seasons of the series so far. Just a note, having watched all of them, these are primers for the season for which they are labelled. They do not contain any spoilers for that season. For example, the Season 3 primer doesn't contain any information about what happened in Season 3, but does contain some spoilers from Season 2.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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Haven't been able to stick with the books so I'm just going off the show.
Favorite characters change season to season but the overall favs have been Bran, Arya, Tyrion, Sam and Gilly, and I still like Dany but her story line is getting kind of boring. Cersei is among the favorites and, though it's my understanding that a lot of people can't stand her, I rather like Sanza in the she's-in-a-shitty-situation-and-I-want-her-to-get-out-of-it way.
Jon has been demoted from the favorites list.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
