expected to air around this time next year, alongside the second season of Treme.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
Can't wait for the crossover episode.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Saturday, 19 June 2010 11:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
1 book = 1 season makes total sense
they can make that work
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 June 2010 11:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
also hbo shows arent always 1 season = 1 year
sopranos took long breaks
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 June 2010 11:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Never read the books, but pretty keen on watching this.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 19 June 2010 13:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
what is the point of this if the dude won't even finish the books???? Goddamn stop re-writing them already!!!
― ears are wounds, Sunday, 20 June 2010 10:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Saturday, June 19, 2010 7:50 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
name one HBO show besides Sopranos that didn't/doesn't do a new season every year
― fantast (ico) (some dude), Sunday, 20 June 2010 14:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
actually, I'll name another, Curb Your Enthusiasm, but i think that's it
― fantast (ico) (some dude), Sunday, 20 June 2010 14:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Wire had a significant gap between seasons 3 and 4, but that was partly because they weren't sure if they were going to renew it.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Sunday, 20 June 2010 14:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
at this point, I am wondering if it might not be better if some talented cable TV writers finished this thing for him. I am losing faith that he has any idea where he is going with these books.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Sunday, 20 June 2010 17:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
We should start bitching about the BSG/Lost style finalefail.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Sunday, 20 June 2010 17:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Turns out Tyrion is Jesus.
― schwantz, Sunday, 20 June 2010 19:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
big love took a break right?
― ian, Sunday, 20 June 2010 20:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
If it hasn't it needs to.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Sunday, 20 June 2010 20:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Carcetti is Littlefinger
That character means nothing to me obv.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Monday, 12 July 2010 23:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
FUCK YEAH THAT IS BRILLIANT!!!!!
― hot dub grime machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 July 2010 23:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, that is good casting
― richie aprile (rockapads), Monday, 12 July 2010 23:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
ditto
Really looking forward to this!
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 02:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
more teasing
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Monday, 13 September 2010 06:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
I hope this starts a trend of classy TV fantasy adaptations. Someone should do Perdido Street Station (though would be fucking expensive). Do these books have monsters and magic and shit, or is it just guys fighting with swords?
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Monday, 13 September 2010 15:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
They have dragons and undead.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 13 September 2010 16:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
only in the first and last episodes of this season though, that saves you some money right there
― thomp, Monday, 13 September 2010 16:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
perdido street station feels basically like a miniseries already! which is unfortunate in that the other bas-lag stuff wouldn't really work as further series of.
Exclusive EW pics
Martin has penned the 8th episode.
Also EW On the Set
There's a new language or something that's better than Klingon it says.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
Looks nice and wintry
― Number None, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wasn't the guy in the first scene of the trailer also in the Lord of the Ring movies? I guess all "serious" fantasy movies/series now have to look kinda murky with muted colours, since LotR did that. Will anyone make a colourful fantasy movie anymore?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 10:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah thats sean bean... ive been reading the first book and im not a fantasy guy at all but its p. good... a lot of the early parts of the story take place in a wintery shithole, which limits your color choices... plus its kind of 'gritty' fantasy and they wanna convey that style/mood...
lotr movies were pretty colorful imo, like that part where they're in elfburg and the dwarf goes AND U HAVE MY AXE... lots of stuff actually... its just the color palette changes depending on context... i mean what do you want dude, rainbows over mount doom..
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipr-wS5iBv0 (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 10:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Well, not necessarily, of course it depends on the story... It's just that every recent live action fantasy seems to have had a similar muted colour palette as LotR, as if gritty fantasy was suddenly the only choice. For example, based on the trailer the Avatar The Las
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 12:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Well, not necessarily, of course it depends on the story... It's just that every recent live action fantasy seems to have had a similar muted colour palette as LotR, as if gritty fantasy was suddenly the only choice. For example, based on the trailer the Avatar The Last Airbender movie has the same kind of look even though the source material is actually quite colourful and fun.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 12:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
have you read the books? if there is one story that needs to look "gritty", it's this one.
― get off my lawn (rockapads), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 17:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
So is each season going to be one book?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 17:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
God, I hope not. To me the best way to do it would be to break it down and rearrange in a linear timeline. Jump around between characters, like any good television drama with a ton of characters tends to do.
― get off my lawn (rockapads), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 17:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's just that every recent live action fantasy seems to have had a similar muted colour palette as LotR, as if gritty fantasy was suddenly the only choice.
yes because there have been so, so many live action fantasy movies recently
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
still lolling at "muted color palette of LotR"
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's not fantasy, it's HBO
A decent little write-up about the 10-minute making of that premiered and also the branding of the show.
― Gukbe, Monday, 6 December 2010 05:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh, and that Inside of Game of Thrones featurette:
― Gukbe, Monday, 6 December 2010 05:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
This looks so good. I really, really hope it succeeds and gets George off his fat ass to finish the story before they catch up.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 6 December 2010 17:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
April cannot come soon enough.
― schwantz, Monday, 17 January 2011 17:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
im still peeved they didnt get tamzin merchant to play daenerys. her replacement doesnt look inbred enough imo. at least they got the iron throne right.
and yes this will be just for nerds.
― ☆, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 00:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hopefully it will do for us nerds who haven't read the books as well.
― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 00:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
i have the speakers off, did they cut this trailer to 'power'
this looks so awful. the throne of swords is a pretty stupid idea for a visual and this is not executed in any way that'd serve to redeem that
― thomp, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 10:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
I pulled out my old copy to read again before the adaption starts and I'd totally forgotten I have an autographed copy.... lol.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 March 2011 23:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
hi five!
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 24 March 2011 23:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
also that counts as a humblebrag, right? ;)
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 24 March 2011 23:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm on storm of swords now. it's good, but i liked the first book best. should be incredibly easy to adapt for cable!
here's some big-ass pics:
― ℳℴℯ ❤＼(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 24 March 2011 23:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
am 3/4 of the way through the first book...freaking love it!
those photos make me p excited for the tv show
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 24 March 2011 23:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yes, I should have followed that up with #humblebrag
Looking at prices on eBay I'm wondering if I should just sell this thing, or wait a few more years?
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 March 2011 23:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
wait until he's dead, yes
― ℳℴℯ ❤＼(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 24 March 2011 23:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
holy crap @ the wall, that is impressive. is the 2nd one supposed to be winterfell? don't remember things well enough to ID the first one, maybe the lannisters' castle? that was by the ocean iirc
i'm real tempted to reread the books now that the 5th one finally has a release date and i don't remember most of the plot details, but that's like...4000 pages of pulp fantasy when i already have a long list of new and probably better things to read, damn. i'll probably do it anyway
― ciderpress, Thursday, 24 March 2011 23:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
he's talked some about how the act structure of building to commercial breaks by cutting on a cliffhanger really influenced how he approached the chapter structure.
― Clay, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:05 (Yesterday) Permalink
Yeah the first book is rather tightly structured for a 900 page novel
― lego maniac cop (latebloomer)
The first is my favourite in some ways because of this. There's a neat inexorability to the plot which is missing in the later ones, particularly the last two.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:10 (Yesterday) Permalink
yeah the first book is really the best-written one
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:11 (Yesterday) Permalink
The third is the most exciting though.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:12 (Yesterday) Permalink
daario kept making me think of the groosalugg
― shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat (zachlyon), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:14 (Yesterday) Permalink
"The third is the most exciting though."
For sure, I'm not sure I've ever read a book quite like it in that respect. Once it hits its stride it's totally relentless.
― Windsor Davies, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:15 (Yesterday) Permalink
Seven Hells at the book's description of Daario! Still, I think it would have been more... interesting if the TV show had gone with something closer to that than the bland, romance novel guy that they did go with.
― DavidM, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:22 (Yesterday) Permalink
Daario morelilke Fabio amirite
― DavidM, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:23 (Yesterday) Permalink
FWIW I really don't think his prose is particularly bad. He's never going to win any awards as a stylist of course, but his writing is often pretty evocative, and he has a way of describing the big dramatic scenes in a somewhat understated way which is very effective. Also a good dialogue writer. As Roberto said, there's a ton of far far worse professional SF/fantasy writing out there.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:27 (Yesterday) Permalink
yeah I was pleasantly surprised tbh tho by the third book he's definitely showing tics and by 4/5 he's straight-up lazy/maybe even a little bored.
aka second act problems I suppose
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:40 (11 hours ago) Permalink
GRRM vs. Robert Caro in prose style showdown
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:51 (11 hours ago) Permalink
if hes too lazy to write the books and hes bad at writing why doesnt he just hire someone to do it for him
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 01:04 (11 hours ago) Permalink
I'm strangely upset that TV Daario doesn't have a gold tooth.
― llama del rey (Leee), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 01:38 (10 hours ago) Permalink
― shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat shit, cat (zachlyon), Tuesday, May 21, 2013 7:14 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol, yes
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 22 May 2013 02:40 (9 hours ago) Permalink
― lag∞n, Tuesday, May 21, 2013
he totally should tbh. too rockist tho.
(except I bet he's left instructions just in case something happens to him)
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 02:44 (9 hours ago) Permalink
GRRM supposedly told Benioff and Weiss where he's going in case he kicks off.
― llama del rey (Leee), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 03:23 (9 hours ago) Permalink
the show is going to catch up to the books if he doesn't speed up his process significantly on the last two
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 03:28 (9 hours ago) Permalink
even if it takes 2 more seasons to get to the end of book 5, he needs to have book 6 ready by then and also suddenly has a year to write book 7
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 03:29 (8 hours ago) Permalink
i could imagine him writing the last season of the show before finishing the last book. i think he might revel in the howls of outrage
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 03:57 (8 hours ago) Permalink
otm
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 06:21 (6 hours ago) Permalink
but the show could probably spin the balance of 3 + 4 + 5 into…maybe even 4 more seasons.
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 06:25 (6 hours ago) Permalink
Also GRRM is only two years older than my mom and I want her around for another 30 years :( :(
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 06:26 (6 hours ago) Permalink
which book is the show in now
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 10:56 (1 hour ago) Permalink
Three. They're likely to get about 2/3rds of the way through it.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 10:58 (1 hour ago) Permalink