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

so, hispanophone accents for ppl of rhoynar descent

Dorne -- like Baja, but side to side! (Kill me.)

that dude seems hella young for oberyn as i imagined him!

btw where do i claim my 5 on the "no stoneheart in finale" wager?

yes i was fully wrong about that, my apologies, cash is in the mail

yeah ro-mex, you called it. but i maintain the writers fucked up there.

^^^^

i assumed dorne was equivalent to spain/iberia. that seemed obviously what grrm was going for.

i believe its a wales-spain-palestine hybrid

Huh. Well I can't make those other two scan at all. Wales just because of the marches? And why Palestine?

I could believe Cornwall before he decided to make Westeros more continental

definite moorish spain/morocco thing, though politically dornwall feels about right

guys it's going to be a great WTF moment when she shows up at the end of a late ep in S4

awful casting.

who is he. how is anyone supposed to know who that is just lookin at a photo. why is everyone allergic to just linking to things

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/177783-pedro-pascal-joins-game-of-thrones-season-four

http://boourns.dynu.net/mystery2.gif

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DAMMIT I WANT MY SEXY BROWN PEOPLE.

Also Oberyn is supposed to be in his 40s in the books.

I'm glad to be wrong at the show holding off with UnCat, btw.

in the books it happens a good 400-500 pages after where we currently are so its not that surprising

where were you when i needed you man?

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/first-game-of-thrones-season-4-trailer-is-out-1499947243

trailer for Season 4

looks like they're going to do a similar thing with Catelyn as they did with Theon in season 3, even though she doesn't actually appear again until book 4/5

everything i've read pretty much spells out that they'll be solidly into affc/adwd by the end of this season, at least for some of the stories.

yeah, not sure how much they could do with Arya without moving into later books

she's got more travels with the hound but yeah, not a ton of material for her. dany's book 3 story is over pretty quick from where they are, too.

there's pretty much no chance they don't end up finishing this thing years and years before martin wraps things up huh

Dany's book 3 story seemed really long ... like there is a lot left that could be enough for the season.

Was a bit irritated at how they changed Asha(?) - Theon's sister, at the end of Season 3.

There's still a ton of Wall/Wildling battle stuff to go

http://i.imgur.com/lksfJO7.jpg

wkiw

Yeah this guy is a boss.

So we should lay out bets on when UnCat shows up. I say the third episode.

And the Purple Wedding. I reckon they'll spring that one surprisingly early, maybe even episode 2.

most of the episode titles have been released and you can m/l place where things happen from those

Just finished ADAD

I lol'd that GRRM basically pulled the Luke Perry on the Simpsons gag with Loras

Also, show-Roose needs to have gray eyes, and maybe be bald, and more rounder and fatter like Varys

Did GRRM ever explain in the books who reforged Ice into Oathkeeper and the other sword

Used to think Valyrian steel was just a special kind of tempered steel folded a bajillion times like katana steel

But the closer analogue to GRRM's world is probably Damascan steel

Also feel like lately whenever he needs to explain a plot point he's been like, throw a spell on it

Controlling the dragons and creating that big dragontaming horn

Throw a spell on that Valerian steel

Yeah Valyrian steel being forged by magical means has been a thing in the books for a while. The bit about the reforging of Ice is in an early Tyrion chapter. All the things you mention (taming dragons, Valyrian steel) were done by the Valyrians, who basically did everything with magic.

I don't know if GRRM specified an exact smith who reforged Ice, but it was done at the behest of Tywin.

Also, Rickard + Lysa = Joffrey.

I think you mean Roose + Littlefinger = Jaime.

Yeah I guess the knot is, if Valyrian steel is magical, but nobody remembers how to make it, then how can smith reforge it, if he dont know the spells

maybe the magic is imbued in the metal, not the casting.

If that's true I'd melt one sword down and then mix the metal with a hundred other different swords and then I'd have a 100 Valyrian swords :)

No, you'd have 100 swords that are 1/100th valyrian steel.

The way they made Tyrion go nudge nudge wink wink to Shae is kind of problematic, because then why wouldn't he just tell her life is in imminent danger?

Having Bronn replace Ilyn paynes role was disappointing but then I remembered paynes actor has terminal cancer, so I felt bad

Same. But they're not afraid of recasting (No two season with the same Mountain! Some old dude playing Bran now!), so I think they wanted Bronn there.

Yeah, but Payne has such a unique look to him

Tbh that was one of only a few bright spots from the books post SOS, the grim humor of Jaime's ineptness witnessed by a man who can't speak or write

Bronn is playing the role of like 15 different characters from the book now, sells words will do anything for gold

They didn't care about appearances with the second Mountain, aka the Beanpole That Rides. He was tall, at least.

Yeah - the most egregious switch has been Daario so far I think but he's very necessary to the plot so they had to