Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire Thread (WITH SPOILERS)

yea .. . the 10 shows just does not seem to be enough.

I was thinking . . .wish they would have stolen the WebComic Idea
from HEROES. Kind of a cool way to put background info and things
they did not have time for in the show

Rocket River

 

Took me about 9 months but I just finished reading the series. Worth it, but not worth it when even hopeful estimates for Winds of Winter are guessing 2014. They should do Dunk and Egg webisodes!

Glad to hear the Reeds are in, as I'm hoping they hit a home run with Meera like they did with Jeyne Westerling (or whoever that is).

Agree with disliking character changes. Also making Loras a wuss, Stannis impulsive, and Asha/Yarra not a babe.

 

I am wondering how the Sand Snakes will look.

Rocket River

 

yeah he was there, but easy to miss. Even though it was his brother who was actually wearing Renly's armor in the books, but not having introduced him or even cast him at this point, changing it to Loras made sense.

 

I saw Larus but was he in Renly's armor? I don't recall seeing the stag which was the symbol of house Baratheon which Renly wore. This was why stories of Renly's ghost had spread around. Soldiers thought Larus was the ghost of Renly.

In the episode it appeared to me that Larus was wearing the same armor as the Lanisters.

 

They showed him fighting in the armor around the time Tyrion was blacking out from being wounded.

 

Ok cool. I guess I missed it.

 

There's a brief moment in the fighting where you can make out stag antlers on Loras' helm. That's about it. When he comes into the great hall, he has cloth covering the front of his armor so you can't see any sigil.

 

He is on the white horse around the 1:06 mark:

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I'm glad they made the Lannister victory feel kind of epic and neat even though you kind of root against them.

 

I posted this elsewhere but Martin told HBO the outline of the conclusion so they can continue if he dies but...

at his writing pace it's plausible the HBO series might finish before he does. lol.

 

yes, but the show compacts the books a bunch. If they want/need to drag it out longer they can just include more of the books content and not compress it as much, which would give Martin more time. One problem is that the kid actors are going to start aging up. Storm of Swords is already confirmed to be 2 seasons long. How old will the actors playing Bran, Sansa, Arya and company be by the time we get to the end?

 

I've also read that while the show producers would continue on in the event of his untimely death, contrary to what's been said here before, he wouldn't want another writer finishing his books for him a la Robert Jordan.

 

I have read as much too. I forget where though. Probably wikipedia.

 

Personally, I'd prefer it if they were older. If I wanted to see kids save the world I'd watch Harry Potter. (and I dislike Harry Potter)

 

I believe he gave them a road map of where the story was going to end more so they could plan on which characters were absolutely essential to cast and which could be cut, and in case the show surpassed the books. But that doesn't necessarily preclude Martin from blocking the finish of the books by anyone else if he were to die.

 

From wiki:

 

What a morbid thought. He'd knock a year or two off the ETA if he chilled out on describing how lush every lord's doublet was.

Besides the tragedy of his death, it'd be horrible to watch GRRM's endgame through the distorted vision of HBO's time/budget/corner cutting bigwigs.

 

I read where originally GRRM intended to age the Stark kids by 5 years prior to the last book. I know HBO aged them 3 years at the beginning of the series. I have no problem with the Kids being older when the series ends.