Game of Thrones begins....

[Razgovory]

I can certainly understand some questions about how the physics of the world would work (as far as decades long summer/winter, etc.), but to describe the "world" as thin? Huh?

That is kind of dumbfounding to me - Westeros is many things, but I cannot think of any fantasy ever (LotR excepted, although it has become so iconic it is kind of hard to really judge) that has a more real feel to the world the author created.

Your mileage may vary.

[Siege]

That's one of the things I find so odd about the series. People praise the ASOIF for its worldbuilding, but it feels... thin.There isn't a lot of thought about how the world described would actually work.

That, and the fact that the various families have been around for thousands of years in some cases. It's just kind of weird.

I forgot in which book is it that a maester from the citadel says that the Age of Heroes was not 4000 years before but only half that much.
It brought the whole chronolgy under question.
IMO it is 1/4 of whatever time the myths claim.
Execpt the 300 years from Aegon's Conquest. That seems to be somewhat acurate.

[Josquius]

The families being around forever thing did always get me in that there aren't many instances of off shoots of the great families.
Sure, there's the two Lannisters and the Karstarks but you'd expect there to be a bazillion minor Starks et al around after 1000s of years. But there isn't.

[viper37]

GRR was visiting Toronto this week.  He's got 200 pages written on the 6th book, only 1300 to go!
He's already speaking of being late for the release...

[Razgovory]

I've grown my beard out.  I can do a passable impression of the man now.  It's weird.

[Martinus]

EW covers:

[Phillip V]

More side boob, please.

[Eddie Teach]

I've grown my beard out.  I can do a passable impression of the man now.  It's weird.

Any plans to finish the series when he kicks the bucket?

[Zanza]

Isn't Jaime Lannister supposed to have blonde hair? Didn't he have much lighter hair in the first season? 

[Josquius]

I read that comment first and thought "dirt", then I looked at the previous page and thought "who the heck is that guy?"
Yes. Weird change.

[Razgovory]

I've grown my beard out.  I can do a passable impression of the man now.  It's weird.

Any plans to finish the series when he kicks the bucket?

I can barely write a readable post.

[Scipio]

I've grown my beard out.  I can do a passable impression of the man now.  It's weird.

Any plans to finish the series when he kicks the bucket?

I can barely write a readable post.

Puts you light-years ahead of Martin.

[Razgovory]

Actually, I think his writing style is pretty good.  It's clean and the writing flows pretty well.  The problem is that he has lost sight of what he originally wanted to do.

[jimmy olsen]

GRR was visiting Toronto this week.  He's got 200 pages written on the 6th book, only 1300 to go!
He's already speaking of being late for the release...

I'm amazed he's already got 200 pages done.

[Habbaku]

I'm not.  He was very open about some of the chapters that had been written for the 5th book being shifted to the 6th.  There's no telling how much of that 200 pages is actually stuff he's written since the release.