Game of Thrones begins....

[garbon]

On Sanderson, what would be a good first book of his to read? Though I listened to his podcast about writing I don't think I have read anything by him.

[Habbaku]

Sanderson is more-workmanlike than GRR & also way more talented.

Yes and noooooooooooooooooooooo.

[Grey Fox]

The Final Empire or Elantris.

[Berkut]

Sanderson is more-workmanlike than GRR & also way more talented.

Yeah, no he isn't.

Not even close to Martins talent level.

DOn't get me wrong, I really like Sanderson. He is a excellent writer.

[Eddie Teach]

Is he at least more talented than Robert Jordan?

[Berkut]

Well, yeah.

[crazy canuck]

Sanderson is more-workmanlike than GRR & also way more talented.

Yeah, no he isn't.

Not even close to Martins talent level.

DOn't get me wrong, I really like Sanderson. He is a excellent writer.

Books 1-3 and perhaps 4, I agree with you completely.  The last efforts, not so sure.

[grumbler]

Less than six weeks to go, now, and a trailer (and breakdown):
https://www.theringer.com/tv/2019/3/5/18252099/game-of-thrones-season-8-trailer-breakdown-questions

Time to start binging to bring yourselves up to speed.

[Josephus]

Less than six weeks to go, now, and a trailer (and breakdown):
https://www.theringer.com/tv/2019/3/5/18252099/game-of-thrones-season-8-trailer-breakdown-questions

Time to start binging to bring yourselves up to speed.

Yeah, I'm rewatching Season 7 again.

[Maladict]

Haven't watched it since early season 3, wondering if I should see how it ends and go straight into s8.

[crazy canuck]

Haven't watched it since early season 3, wondering if I should see how it ends and go straight into s8.

I would not recommend that.

Less than six weeks to go, now, and a trailer (and breakdown):
https://www.theringer.com/tv/2019/3/5/18252099/game-of-thrones-season-8-trailer-breakdown-questions

Time to start binging to bring yourselves up to speed.

Yeah, I'm rewatching Season 7 again.

I watched the last episodes of 5,6 and 7 to get ready, it was great fun

[Josquius]

First reaction, I hope this episode isn't a image of things to come. So many scenes with awful lighting where you couldn't see what was happening.

Was kind of expecting an Aladdin/Snowman-esque dragon ride around the whole world for a minute given we've seen they can cross continents in hours.

Story wise....Why hasn't the obvious Danni-Jon marriage solution came up right away? Instead its all 'oh its treason'. That would have been a solution even with Jon just as king in the north.

[grumbler]

Was kind of expecting an Aladdin/Snowman-esque dragon ride around the whole world for a minute given we've seen they can cross continents in hours.

This is a very common complaint and I don't understand it.  Clearly, they skipped scenes of the guys on the island standing around, bored, for the days or so it took for the ice to freeze solid again, but it clearly was a long time by the fact that they had gotten bored by the time Dani finally showed up.  Remember that this whole thing was a trap by the Night King to lure in a dragon so he could get one and destroy the wall with it.  It took as long as it took for the dragons to get there.  Arguing that it was only "hours" seems silly and just looking for things to complain about.

If you ant to complain about a plot loophole, complain about the idea that the North, where horses haven't been common, is finding fodder for 100,000 Dothraki horses in the midst of the worst winter in a thousand years.

[saskganesh]

Don't those 100,000 Dothraki have remounts too?

[Solmyr]

It's not any better in the books, really. I mean, Khal Drogo's khalasar alone apparently had 40000 Dothraki (plus non-fighting members), and their diet is horse meat. Someone on youtube calculated that they'd eat all the horses in the Dothraki Sea in a couple of months.