That's exactly what I've been thinking. Like a personification of Ned Stark's copy of Robert Baratheon's last will and testament. But instead of being torn up or burned (can't remember how Cersei destroyed it), he gets killed.
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That's exactly what I've been thinking. Like a personification of Ned Stark's copy of Robert Baratheon's last will and testament. But instead of being torn up or burned (can't remember how Cersei destroyed it), he gets killed.
I was disappointed in how the show handled Arya's closing scene in the red wedding episode. IIRC, the book had her fading to black after being maced in the head. While the show displayed her being carried off by the hound, clearly alive.
Hopefully the Jon Snow skewering will be a cliffhanger, and the viewers will get a good WTF moment out of the scene.
In the book the Hound hit her in the head with an axe, and the chapter ends.
Only in the following chapter do we learn that he hit her with he blunt end to knock her out.
Kind of hard to do that in a TV show, though not impossible.
I think they changed it to make sure that viewers didn't start throwing their remotes through their TVs. They've just seen the Red Wedding, thinking that Arya got killed as well would have been a little much for the show's audience.
That would depend on how much you enjoyed the world-building from the books you read. Does the idea of reading a fictional history book about the Targaryen kings appeal? Or a region-by-region geographical and historical overview of Westeros? Because that's what the book is. On those terms it's pretty enjoyable, but it's not going to appeal to everyone who likes the main series.
I'm in what appears to be the minority in that I love ASOIAF's frequent diversions into the history and mythos of Westeros (I know some people are shouting 'just get on with the story!' at those points) so I'm looking forward to getting this.
Yeah, I love this sort of thing too. If the question is, "Did you personally enjoy the book?", my answer would be "Heck yes." (And also, "Make them release Fire and Blood ASAP.") But that's because I'm the kind of person who wanted to know more about the aftermath of the Dance of the Dragons, the Third and Fourth Blackfyre Rebellions, etc.
Major TV version Game of Thrones spoilers in Vanity Fair here
Also more spoilers in Huffington Post.
And Daney Spoilers here
Also more spoilers in Huffington Post.
And Daney Spoilers here
^ Can I take it that you mean spoilers even for those who've read the books, Tom? As in spoilers for where the TV show has departed from the books?
They might be book spoilers, they might not; if they are, they're not major ones. But I suppose you should stop reading if you absolutely don't want to know...
It's photos from filming for the Daznak's Pit sequence, and one of them shows several actors resting in a shady spot. Peter Dinklage is sitting with Emilia Clarke, Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei), and Joel Fry (Hizdahr), which has led to speculation that Tyrion will interact with Dany earlier than in the books. He could just be sitting with them because that's where the shade is, though.
It's photos from filming for the Daznak's Pit sequence, and one of them shows several actors resting in a shady spot. Peter Dinklage is sitting with Emilia Clarke, Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei), and Joel Fry (Hizdahr), which has led to speculation that Tyrion will interact with Dany earlier than in the books. He could just be sitting with them because that's where the shade is, though.
Without giving too much away, it appears they've accelerated on the TV show some of the characters, 'events,' from how it evolves in the books - notably Tyrions.
I was wondering what they were going to do with Penny. Glad they may be doing away with her. Although, there are certain aspects of Tyrion's journey across Essos that really should be included, especially his experience on the river and worrying about greyscale infection.
I seriously think they would have to do something with Griff. That seems like kind of a major plot point - y'know, having another Targaryen running about who's supposed to be dead. If they cut ALL these nuances of the story out, they're not going to have much in the way of anything significant left to tell.
I seriously think they would have to do something with Griff. That seems like kind of a major plot point - y'know, having another Targaryen running about who's supposed to be dead. If they cut ALL these nuances of the story out, they're not going to have much in the way of anything significant left to tell.
Penny is a character who exists largely to highlight some of Tyrion's flaws, and since TV Tyrion has no flaws...
If they were doing anything with Griff this season I think we'd have seen some evidence by now. Maybe they're holding it back for season six or seven, but I suspect they're just dropping that strand of the narrative entirely. The same for Euron, Victarion, and the horn, and I doubt they'd be keeping Dorne if it didn't give an opportunity for badass sexytimes shenanigans with the Sand Snakes.
If they were doing anything with Griff this season I think we'd have seen some evidence by now. Maybe they're holding it back for season six or seven, but I suspect they're just dropping that strand of the narrative entirely. The same for Euron, Victarion, and the horn, and I doubt they'd be keeping Dorne if it didn't give an opportunity for badass sexytimes shenanigans with the Sand Snakes.
That makes sense. I thought it really odd they made Bran('s story) get as far as he(it) did last season.
I love world building in sci-fi and fantasy, so it sounds like this will be right up my alley. Does it cover the events of the books themselves, or just the history leading up to the books?
It basically halts at the beginning of Robert's Rebellion. The fiction conceit is that the maester writing it began his work after Robert's coronation, and he didn't finish it until about where the books are now, with Tommen on the throne.
If you read the "Dunk & Egg" novellas, the book contains a mixture of spoilers and dancing around certain events.
The fictional dedication to Tommen, where you can see that his name has been hastily written over Joffrey's, is a nice little touch of black humor. Yandel was lucky, really, considering what Joffrey did with the copy of Lives of Four Kings Tyrion gave him...
Cool. I read rumours to this effect but its good to know that it's confirmed (one way or the other). Thanks for posting.
