tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post6035223030885585632..comments2024-03-06T04:35:38.806-06:00Comments on Disaffected and it Feels So Good: Hold your own Door, Game of Thrones is such GarbageGrung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-46596460641213381442016-06-19T14:40:18.446-05:002016-06-19T14:40:18.446-05:00GoT way overrated. Very unbelievable. GoT way overrated. Very unbelievable. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-62700383680319420652016-06-03T02:48:22.808-05:002016-06-03T02:48:22.808-05:00The TV show has deviated in significant ways from ...The TV show has deviated in significant ways from the novels. GRRM shrugs and says "they are different things." I seriously doubt that he cares one way or another what the TV show does. They asked him where he saw his future books going so they could wrap up the series, he gave them a five page plot summary that they may or may not have followed, and that's his total input to this season of the television show. In the meantime, he's still working on the next volume of the book -- completely divorced from the television show.<br />BadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-58797751310219280232016-06-02T07:31:51.637-05:002016-06-02T07:31:51.637-05:00BadTux,
I only read a little of the first book a...BadTux, <br /><br />I only read a little of the first book and haven't read any of the compendiums or historical novellas but, the TV Show is now the standard. If G Doouble R Martin does finish it, scenes will follow what's be established in the show (e.g. The death of Baristan the Bold).Grung_e_Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-6110656928145827752016-06-02T03:49:58.452-05:002016-06-02T03:49:58.452-05:00The sad thing is that the books are nothing like t...The sad thing is that the books are nothing like that. The nobles in the books are just people, and are no better and no worse than anyone else. The "good guys" are as likely to die as anybody, and the plight of the peasantry is oft referred to. <br /><br />But of course the television series has run off the end of the books and is making up their own stuff now, so ...<br />BadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-18285439691591069542016-05-28T07:18:01.404-05:002016-05-28T07:18:01.404-05:00Nan,
I'll re-read Barbara Tuchman's Distan...Nan,<br />I'll re-read Barbara Tuchman's <i>Distant Mirror</i> and Mackay's 19th century <i>Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds</i>.<br /><br />Dervish,<br />Sorry about the spolier from Weiss and Beinoff!<br /><br />One of my gripes is the way people claim Martin's series is so revolutionary because "Main" characters die. Of course, that's not what's happened. The major characters deaths were scripted out from the beginning by Martin. He didn't set up computer models or run simulations or even role-play out the battles and/or betrayals. He wrote the stroy this way. Also I have no doubt Martin writes what he likes and what he wants. So, I think alot of the story-line conforms to Martin's own beliefs about the world, especially Tyrion Lannister the true main character of the book.Grung_e_Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-76447552972295140152016-05-27T21:03:28.502-05:002016-05-27T21:03:28.502-05:00It's very popular from what I've heard (an...It's very popular from what I've heard (and there is going to be a spin-off after the series ends with season 7). I watch it but I too have not seen the episode in question (I've only seen up to the first episode of season 6 because there was a free preview). Although <a href="http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/21/game-thrones-piracy-record" rel="nofollow">I have the episodes</a>, I just haven't watched them yet. In any case, you make a compelling case. But I'm going to keep watching it anyway. Have not, nor do I ever intend on reading the books though. Spoiler alert on the article you link to, btw. Article author says "regardless of whether you've watched the episode or not, you probably know [what happens]"... but no, I didn't know that.Dervish Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13671865801885224353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-50909495737478344862016-05-27T18:13:19.314-05:002016-05-27T18:13:19.314-05:00Martin's model is, IIRC, medieval England with...Martin's model is, IIRC, medieval England with some sword and sorcery thrown in. I always kind of wonder which English queen was the inspiration for Cersei. <br /><br />I'm a little behind on the series so haven't seen the infamous Hold the Door episode yet, but I am getting a distinct whiff of jumped shark. I read somewhere that HBO had signed up for an 8-season run, which may have been a mistake on their part.Nanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18359007443116549436noreply@blogger.com