HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones - will this be just for nerds? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

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I think between those two is like 1 or 2 years

Martin has actually said he wishes he made the kids older now

I agree with Nicole.

The book series is unusual to me because I've never read anything that was so utterly dependent on a big ending that ties up all the loose ends while blowing your mind at the same time. But by the end of Dance With Dragons, I started feeling very skeptical that this could actually be accomplished.

how long does it take dragons to grow up

― lag∞n, Tuesday, April 10, 2012 2:25 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

i hope this isnt a spoiler but dragons can basically continue growing for as long as they live, as long as they're not confined to a space that will limit their size.

My Little Pony has confirmed this, yes.

so why were the last dragons small and deformed? xpost

They were inbred.

and they didn't let them out to play

aah. were they trying to keep a bloodline or were they just running out of dragons?

i heard the last dragons had the power of the glow

basically i was just wondering if Dany's dragons are proper dragons or those little fucked up ones. like she finally gets it to fly up and its about to kill someone and then it just coughs up a puff of smoke and sheepishly shrugs.

the old dragons were kept chained up in a keep, so their size potential was limited

Like goldfish.

well that was silly.

I don't think they really had much use for them at the time?

should have used them like Teddy Roosevelt's white fleet of ships. just cruise them around Westeros.

smh if u cant find a use for dragons

If you have flying dragons and you don't spend all of your time flying around on them, well I don't even know what to say.

otm

'we're all out of Dornish wine, should we take a dragon down there to get some more?' 'nah, we'll walk it...'

as long as they're messing with the one book = one season thing, maybe they'll just do all of books 4 and 5 in one episode

I think they may try to stretch book 3 over two seasons. OTOH I think they should compress 4 and 5 into one season.

I was going to say combine them into one season, but that idea is even better. xp

i feel like moodles' post should have come before mine

eh, I missed your comment about one episode, probably not a terrible idea. GRRM was originally going to just do 3 books which would include a 5 year gap in narrative before the conclusion. He decided instead to write out that whole 5 year period, which I think is largely covered in 4 and 5, so probably they can just be skipped right over.

i wonder if they can fix the pacing of Dany's story arc without messing other stuff up, i can't really elaborate in here but it's probably the worst aspect of the books

man can we please just have a spoiler/speculation thread?

everyone is free to start any threads they want

lol this what i get for only looking at my bookmarked threads

geebs i think the other thread was started 5 seconds ago because of your complaint, so dont feel dumb that you missed it

take it in here, guys

THE GAME OF THRONES/ASOIAF SPOILER THREAD (WARNING: SPOILERS)

that's what we're talking about.

just thought it should be linked in here for others who just look at their bookmarked threads.

that was a good un

nice, reasonably subtle, good balance. and Natalie Dormer.

Speaking of which, I don't see it online but SNL did a sketch about a 13 year old boy consulting on the show to add boobies.

no Daenerys tho :(

That's probably a good thing at this stage, the crossing the red waste part of the story is pretty dull. Can't wait for the House of the Undying though!

Really excited to see Brienne - friends in the US said she was fantastic.

i'm going to go ahead and assume the "House of the Undying" is a band that will be playing midway through an episode; not unlike Saturday Night Live or the Young Ones.

reasonably subtle

Hmmmm

The actress who plays Asha Greyjoy disturbs me. She is so odd.

Oh I guess she's "Yara" on the show for some reason.

i read somewhere that they thought viewers would confuse her with Osha, so they changed her name

O_O @ Brienne skying over Cat.

where do i apply to marry margaery tyrell.

proclaim yourself king and she'll do the rest

i already did :(

In retrospect, she was probably a pretty big reason I managed to make it through a season and a half of the Tudors.

I also remember when The Other Boleyn Girl movie came out, she e-mailed into Mark Kermode's radio show on the BBC to correct him on his historical inaccuracies. Not that he had any idea who she was.

I was pretty stoked to see Ann Boleyn chick in this now.

Agreed that Asha/Yara is a lot different (and less attractive) to how I imagined her. The usual good job on Brienne and Margaery, though.

SPOILERS
Looks like they're cutting a fairly big chunk out of Arya's story if she's going straight to Harrenhal.

And how good is the art direction this season? Pyke castle looks incredible. Everything does.

Considering that a big chunk of Arya's story in book 2 is wandering around the woods, I'm kinda glad they condensed it a bit.