Game of Thrones Season 2

[exe3]

You saying the books won't be a good read all after I bought them all? D:

[Yurtles]

Oh no, they're great. Just don't read them expecting resolutions. Whenever George sees a resolution building he goes and does something crazy instead. You have to read them for the journey, just like the show really. Except you watch the show. Not read it.

[Disco LT]

Oh no, they're great. Just don't read them expecting resolutions. Whenever George sees a resolution building he goes and does something crazy instead. You have to read them for the journey, just like the show really. Except you watch the show. Not read it.

This.. it never ends. There is no ending. Even in his final book he was still introducing new characters!

Bit like a picture I saw the other day.. "A Game of Thrones reminds me a lot of twitter, because there are 140 characters and stuff keeps going wrong"

[Wolfstar90]

This.. it never ends. There is no ending. Even in his final book he was still introducing new characters!

He hasn't written the final book yet... Still two more coming. Can't wait, bring on Winter.

Hopefully Storm of Swords being split into two seasons means that all these battles won't be skipped. Though it's kind of dawning on me that having to wait a year for the second part of the story is gonna be painful. Might actually end up reading ahead of the tv series.

I believe they're releasing them back to back.

[exe3]

So over a single period of 20 weeks? I thought part of the reason for splitting the season would be to give Martin more time to finish the last books before the show catches up.

[Nekosan]

If they stop to give him time then we'll be waiting 5 years per season.

[exe3]

So what's the alternative? What happens if they do get to Dance with Dragons yet Winds of Winter still isn't out? Just quit and kill the series? Make up their own endings like so many anime do when they catch up to the source material?

Also what I was saying was that I thought Season 3 (Part 1 of SoS) would be 2013 and Season 4 (Part 2 of SoS) would be 2014 thus dragging out the releases a little bit and giving him more time to release the books.

[Nekosan]

I hope that's what they do exe, the only other real alternative is to have the tv story massively diverge from the books and do its own thing and i think that might be a mistake.

[exe3]

I don't think it might be a mistake, I definitely believe it will be a mistake. Though it almost looks like they'll have to do it in some ways.

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I just read that the guy who Drogo killed and tore out his throat in Season 1 didn't die in the book and will actually play a prominent role in Winds of Winter. Martin spoke a bit about the butterfly effect cascading into massive differences in an interview he did.

[Wolfstar90]

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It'll just be someone else since he's quite dead. Having read all the books more than once, (I haven't read GOT for a number of years though as someone borrowed it and never brought it back), I have no idea what that character's name was and you could tell me it was pretty much any random Dothraki, its not a major factor. They do have a bit of poetic licence and they can't make everything 100% accurate to the books

He also has 3 years (1 for Storm of Swords assuming back to back release, one for Feast For Crows, one For Dance Of Dragons) to one write more book which he's almost finished anyway, and another year on top of that (possibly two), to write the last. Which would be fine for most authors, but this series is huge, so that is a tight deadline. I'm almost certain Winds of Winter will be out next year or the following year as Feast For Crows was originally meant to be the last one in the series and as far as I recall he's written the majority of the story and he's more or less tying up loose ends and working on finer details. In this case that is a rather large job but he'll get it done one day and I'm happy to wait until its perfect, which it will be.

Don't stress about what's done first. Remember GRRM is watching them make it, I'm pretty sure he even produced a couple of eps from season 1, he will NOT let them do what they like with his story under any circumstance. He's also already told the major people behind the show what happens and how it ends in case he doesn't live long enough to finish it all. Under that circumstance no-one else will write the last books, but I believe the TV show will finish the series.

[Jnr]

Holy ****! This episode was insanely epic. I'm a bit disappointed the scenes between Cersei and Sansa dragged on though, and I'm also really interested to see what's going on with Jaime/Arya.

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Tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm just a little bit over halfway in the book and the Tyrell's just refused marriage proposal from the Lannister's and it's implied they would never side with them, am I wrong in assuming the tv show did this of it's own accord?

[Bek]

Wow what a good episode.

Anyone want to fill me in on why

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the goldcloak slashed Tyrion?

Also the Hound was quite awesome in this ep. So was Tyrion's guard, can't remember his name.

[cdkit3]

Wow what a good episode.

Anyone want to fill me in on why

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the goldcloak slashed Tyrion?

Also the Hound was quite awesome in this ep. So was Tyrion's guard, can't remember his name.

Probably don't click this if you didn't click Bek's.

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It wasn't a gold cloak, it was a white cloak of the kings guard, big difference. gold cloaks are the city guards, white cloaks under the direct command of the king.

[Nekosan]

Holy ****! This episode was insanely epic. I'm a bit disappointed the scenes between Cersei and Sansa dragged on though, and I'm also really interested to see what's going on with Jaime/Arya.

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Tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm just a little bit over halfway in the book and the Tyrell's just refused marriage proposal from the Lannister's and it's implied they would never side with them, am I wrong in assuming the tv show did this of it's own accord?

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I don't want to be a queen, I want to be THE queen.

Lawdy... I was eating apricot chicken when suddenly vomit barrel... vomit barrel everywhere.

Highlight of both series so far is easily "The Rains Of Castamere" over the credits of this episode lol, slight woody.

[Bek]

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So that's implying Joffrey (or the queen) wants Tyrion dead?

Also was that the finale or is there one more ep in this season?