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Started by Josquius, April 04, 2011, 03:39:14 AM

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Eddie Teach

Quote from: Tyr on April 21, 2014, 07:27:46 AM
Tommen was recast ey? I thought so.
I'm really not sure about this kid. Aging up the other characters...yeah, it works. But Tommen....the whole thing about him in the books is he was a lovely innocent little kid who just wanted to play with his cats and would be nothing but a pawn. Here he's a teenager, you'd think someone that age would be a bit more forthright.
And I suppose it puts a different spin on his relationship with Margery...she can control him not because she controls the supply of kittens and candy but because she controls the boobs.

[spoiler]Isn't he gonna get killed pretty soon too, or am I misremembering?[/spoiler]
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Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 21, 2014, 08:15:13 PM
Quote from: Tyr on April 21, 2014, 07:27:46 AM
Tommen was recast ey? I thought so.
I'm really not sure about this kid. Aging up the other characters...yeah, it works. But Tommen....the whole thing about him in the books is he was a lovely innocent little kid who just wanted to play with his cats and would be nothing but a pawn. Here he's a teenager, you'd think someone that age would be a bit more forthright.
And I suppose it puts a different spin on his relationship with Margery...she can control him not because she controls the supply of kittens and candy but because she controls the boobs.

[spoiler]Isn't he gonna get killed pretty soon too, or am I misremembering?[/spoiler]
[spoiler] he's alive. his sisters maimed though, IIRC. Though he's a sweet innocent kid, so he'll probably die a horrible death.[/spoiler]
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Quote from: garbon on April 21, 2014, 08:08:00 PM
Remembering things from Hot Fuzz...:x
it was an ok movie. Better than the third in the makeshift trilogy
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Ed Anger

Quote from: HVC on April 21, 2014, 07:56:05 PM
Just found out the Hound is the "Yarp" guy from Hot Fuzz. The illusion as been shattered, I can't look at the hound the same way again.

:lol:

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Josquius

Quote from: HVC on April 21, 2014, 08:18:19 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 21, 2014, 08:15:13 PM
Quote from: Tyr on April 21, 2014, 07:27:46 AM
Tommen was recast ey? I thought so.
I'm really not sure about this kid. Aging up the other characters...yeah, it works. But Tommen....the whole thing about him in the books is he was a lovely innocent little kid who just wanted to play with his cats and would be nothing but a pawn. Here he's a teenager, you'd think someone that age would be a bit more forthright.
And I suppose it puts a different spin on his relationship with Margery...she can control him not because she controls the supply of kittens and candy but because she controls the boobs.

[spoiler]Isn't he gonna get killed pretty soon too, or am I misremembering?[/spoiler]
[spoiler] he's alive. his sisters maimed though, IIRC. Though he's a sweet innocent kid, so he'll probably die a horrible death.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Maimed? Was that seen 'on screen' (err....on page?) I can't recall that [/spoiler]
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Liep

Quote from: Tyr on April 23, 2014, 04:28:45 AM
Quote from: HVC on April 21, 2014, 08:18:19 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 21, 2014, 08:15:13 PM
Quote from: Tyr on April 21, 2014, 07:27:46 AM
Tommen was recast ey? I thought so.
I'm really not sure about this kid. Aging up the other characters...yeah, it works. But Tommen....the whole thing about him in the books is he was a lovely innocent little kid who just wanted to play with his cats and would be nothing but a pawn. Here he's a teenager, you'd think someone that age would be a bit more forthright.
And I suppose it puts a different spin on his relationship with Margery...she can control him not because she controls the supply of kittens and candy but because she controls the boobs.

[spoiler]Isn't he gonna get killed pretty soon too, or am I misremembering?[/spoiler]
[spoiler] he's alive. his sisters maimed though, IIRC. Though he's a sweet innocent kid, so he'll probably die a horrible death.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Maimed? Was that seen 'on screen' (err....on page?) I can't recall that [/spoiler]
[spoiler]It was, she got hurt during a Dornish scheme in the last book iirc.[/spoiler]
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Quote from: Tyr on April 23, 2014, 04:28:45 AM
Quote from: HVC on April 21, 2014, 08:18:19 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 21, 2014, 08:15:13 PM
Quote from: Tyr on April 21, 2014, 07:27:46 AM
Tommen was recast ey? I thought so.
I'm really not sure about this kid. Aging up the other characters...yeah, it works. But Tommen....the whole thing about him in the books is he was a lovely innocent little kid who just wanted to play with his cats and would be nothing but a pawn. Here he's a teenager, you'd think someone that age would be a bit more forthright.
And I suppose it puts a different spin on his relationship with Margery...she can control him not because she controls the supply of kittens and candy but because she controls the boobs.

[spoiler]Isn't he gonna get killed pretty soon too, or am I misremembering?[/spoiler]
[spoiler] he's alive. his sisters maimed though, IIRC. Though he's a sweet innocent kid, so he'll probably die a horrible death.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Maimed? Was that seen 'on screen' (err....on page?) I can't recall that [/spoiler]

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Solmyr

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Josephus

So without giving stuff away.

I'm mid way through book 4 now.

Are they showing stuff that isn't until Book 5? :huh: Are they merging Books 3,4,5 in the series?

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Grinning_Colossus

Yeah, they're showing certain events north of the Wall and (I think) in Essos that don't happen until book 5. Most of 4 and 5 won't happen until next season, though.
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Valmy

Quote from: Liep on April 23, 2014, 05:07:59 AM
[spoiler]It was, she got hurt during a Dornish scheme in the last book iirc.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I thought that was waaaaay back at the end of Feast For Crows.  That was why Doran locked his daughter up in the tower[/spoiler]
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Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on April 27, 2014, 10:38:53 PM
Yeah, they're showing certain events north of the Wall and (I think) in Essos that don't happen until book 5. Most of 4 and 5 won't happen until next season, though.
...and some things which aren't in the books at all.
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crazy canuck

It feels like they are rushing now.  But I am not sure why.

grumbler

Quote from: crazy canuck on April 28, 2014, 12:59:21 PM
It feels like they are rushing now.  But I am not sure why.

Maybe because they're halfway through the TV series and not halfway through the story?

I agree that they are accelerating the pace, but it makes sense to do so; the characters are established and now it is more straightforward storytelling.
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Grallon

I stopped reading the books after book 3 so it feels like they're showing stuff I don't remember.  That last image of the white walker - are there more than conjectures as to what they are?



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