Game of Thrones begins....

[Josquius]

...in a fortnight.

For now though here's the first '15' (more like 13) minutes.

http://www.westeros.org/GoT/News/Entry/Fifteen_Minute_Preview/

Jon Snow pronounces watching wrong. OMFG series ruined foreva.

[Syt]

Blind Guardian had two tracks dedicated to SoIaF on their most recent album:

A Voice In The Dark
and
War of the Thrones

[CountDeMoney]

Which network is going to make RuneQuest II?

[Ed Anger]

Which network is going to make RuneQuest II?

Or Elric.

[Valmy]

There were some differences from the books but I really enjoyed the preview.  Looking forward to April 17!

[Berkut]

fwapfwapfwapfwapfwap

[Razgovory]

You know, I would have enjoyed the book more if Martin actually focused a bit more on the monsters in the North.  The preview sets us up for a supernatural threat, but through out the 700 page book very little happens on that front.  While I do like the politicking and war, if you are going to set up a monstrous threat in the prologue you really should try to follow through with it.


Also, what the fuck do the wildlings eat?  They live in a land where it's always snowing!

[Josquius]

You know, I would have enjoyed the book more if Martin actually focused a bit more on the monsters in the North.  The preview sets us up for a supernatural threat, but through out the 700 page book very little happens on that front.  While I do like the politicking and war, if you are going to set up a monstrous threat in the prologue you really should try to follow through with it.


Also, what the fuck do the wildlings eat?  They live in a land where it's always snowing!

The Sami, Canadian and Siberian natives manage.

[Valmy]

what the fuck do the wildlings eat?  They live in a land where it's always snowing!

From what I gather there are rather few wildlings living in an enormous wilderness.  Besides it does not always snow from A Clash of Kings it seems the southern Wildlings have little farming villages.

[Siege]

You know, I would have enjoyed the book more if Martin actually focused a bit more on the monsters in the North.  The preview sets us up for a supernatural threat, but through out the 700 page book very little happens on that front.  While I do like the politicking and war, if you are going to set up a monstrous threat in the prologue you really should try to follow through with it.

Wow, my taste in literature is completely opposite to yours.
The only reason I like AsoIaF so much is because it is so light in magic and so heavy in medieval politicking and warfare.

Had the northern front been the center of the story, it would have been just another run of the mill fantasy crap.

[Razgovory]

You know, I would have enjoyed the book more if Martin actually focused a bit more on the monsters in the North.  The preview sets us up for a supernatural threat, but through out the 700 page book very little happens on that front.  While I do like the politicking and war, if you are going to set up a monstrous threat in the prologue you really should try to follow through with it.


Also, what the fuck do the wildlings eat?  They live in a land where it's always snowing!

The Sami, Canadian and Siberian natives manage.

Only the Inuit live in perpetual snow, and they had a stone age society of hunter-gatherers.

[Sahib]

Changes to the prologue were weird. Why the Others/White Walkers simply let the last guy go? OMG RUINED FOREVAR 

[Valmy]

Changes to the prologue were weird. Why the Others/White Walkers simply let the last guy go? OMG RUINED FOREVAR 

It was necessary.   To do the prologue right would have taken too long and they got the basic point across: The Others are coming to break shit up.

[Darth Wagtaros]

You know, I would have enjoyed the book more if Martin actually focused a bit more on the monsters in the North.  The preview sets us up for a supernatural threat, but through out the 700 page book very little happens on that front.  While I do like the politicking and war, if you are going to set up a monstrous threat in the prologue you really should try to follow through with it.

Wow, my taste in literature is completely opposite to yours.
The only reason I like AsoIaF so much is because it is so light in magic and so heavy in medieval politicking and warfare.

Had the northern front been the center of the story, it would have been just another run of the mill fantasy crap.

Indeed.  Defeat the Big Bad.  The Wars of the Roses stuff is what made the series stand out.  It is unfortunate that he has abandoned it.

[Siege]

That was beautiful.