Game of Thrones begins....

[Eddie Teach]

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]

[HVC]

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]

[HVC]

Remembering things from Hot Fuzz...

it was an ok movie. Better than the third in the makeshift trilogy

[Ed Anger]

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.

[Josquius]

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]

[Liep]

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]

[jimmy olsen]

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]Darkstar is of the Night![/spoiler]

[Solmyr]

Google Maps -like map of the world where you can see the movement of all major characters: http://quartermaester.info/

[Josephus]

So without giving stuff away.

I'm mid way through book 4 now.

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

[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.

[Valmy]

[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]

[Sophie Scholl]

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.

[crazy canuck]

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

[grumbler]

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.

[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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