Cornballer
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Not sure it's the same Q&A, but there was another transcription/translation over on Reddit from his time in Russia.
The 25th Hour is good, too. Both the book and the movie screenplay that he adapted.
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Omitting the Qarth dress is something I'm grateful to the show about. Couldn't imagine that not looking really dumb.
I have heard good things about Benioff's novels.
I have heard good things about Benioff's novels.
The Artisan
Member
of course not, the confederates were assholes and the showrunners wanna make a show about them.Was Lincoln scum if he prayed for the deaths of the confederates trying to rip apart his country?
Robb Stark on the other hand, never tried to rip Westeros apart, he only wanted to avenge his father and I'm pretty sure Stannis should be aware of that
Honestly it's a really dumb ability because it's just another tangent that keeps GRRM from making reasonable progress on his books at a consistent clip. The show cut out so many things and people are still complaining about plotlines being dropped suddenly.
Ocarina_117
Banned
Forever salty about changing the nights king actor.
The shot at the end of hardhome is THE ICONIC shot of the series.
Also I'm sure the posters on buses around England advertising the show use the old face.
He wanted to be king. Stannis wanted to be king. There can't be two kings at the same time. It's not hard.
The tangents as you put them breathe life into the world created in the books. These are not the things that stop him from finishing the series. Also this is the book thread, I can complain about whatever the F I want lol.
Robb should have just allied with Stannis though and bargained that the north just be sovereign as it basically is anyway.
I keep forgetting that Theon exists. D&D apparently do too, they're probably like "oh yeah this guy. I guess we still gotta do something with him. Say, why did we torture him for multiple seasons again?". I feel like Sansa, Arya, Littlefinger, Varys, Melisandre, Grey Worm and Missandai are some of their other leftover characters that don't particularly matter for the main plot, so they don't get to do much besides some of them being involved in the superfluous Winterfell drama to occupy them for a season. And the rest just joined Jon's merry band
I feel the same. But dragons attract more eyeballs.
The Artisan
Member
It's not hard at all because Robb Stark never wanted the iron throne. He was fine with king in the north and renly was fine with partnering up with Robb. Stannis on the other hand said fuck them both.
He certainly should have after the Greyjoys took Winterfell. It would have been perfect for both. Bend the Knee, Stannis helps bail the north out with the Greyjoys and then he takes the northerners south to take on Tywin.
But Stannis wasn't going to have a Sovereign North.
CGwizz
Member
I had to see episode 6 to not get spoiled but i am excited as fuck to see it again with great quality, lets hope episode 7 dont leak, this episode i dont know nothing because we only have like 3 seconds of episode 7 footage from the trailers that does not spoil anything.
Its 80 minutes? Shiet its like a movie in lenght *.*
Its 80 minutes? Shiet its like a movie in lenght *.*
Bounceounce
Member
Switching Jeyne out for Sansa gives Theons arc completely thematic implications in the show.
Bounceounce
Member
I think Theon is actually their favorite character, or at least his Clash arc was their favorite.
http://deadline.com/2013/06/emmy-q-a-with-game-of-thrones-david-benioff-and-d-b-weiss-532200/amp/
Anyways I've think they've done a fine job with him this season, at least relative to the other characters, we'll get back to him when it's necessary.
Edit: accidentally doubled
The Artisan
Member
Or, they could just up the budget from $100 to $150 million and make room for both expositions.
Curious if any fellow fans are handy with sound editing for a sound clip from an episode I wanted to single out if possible
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0cHRmQWUCl4
3:50 minute mark... the sound right before the fire breathing is what I was trying to get
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0cHRmQWUCl4
3:50 minute mark... the sound right before the fire breathing is what I was trying to get
The North wasn't sovereign by any stretch of the imagination and Stannis wouldn't settle for six kingdoms when seven are his by law. Stannis basically has one characteristic, and letting the North be an independent kingdom is antithetical to that.
An interesting wrinkle would have been if Renly was open to an independent North but Stannis murders him.
InstigateAndInquire
Member
Sansa, LF, and Melisandre should have died in Season 6 imo that's where their importance in the story peaked. I mean, who died in Season 6 anyway??? House Tyrell, Tommen, and Hodor that's really it. (i don't count Balon, Doran, 3ER such minor characters)
BreezyLimbo
Banned
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Does he even have lines lol?
He didn't before, so they can't be different regardless of his five page monologue about his boyhood in White Harbor tonight.
toastyToast
Member
I watched the ending of Hardhome and it's quite clear that they're different people
Also the new Night King was ruined for me after seeing the video where he's lip syncing Passionfruit
Maybe he's like Caesar (the ape) where he suddenly just screams "NO." at Dany.
Sansa isn't going to die simply because she has been so ill-treated throughout the entire show...and now continues to be ill-treated by her own sister lol. Sansa is D&D's personal whipping girl at this point. Honestly I thought I was going somewhere with this but I don't know what kind of arc is a character like this is supposed to have. Maybe she should die.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Oooh that would be good.
But that video wasn't the actor though, it was a YouTuber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_7l652fV5M
Another one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP6YGc1RiJY
InstigateAndInquire
Member
At one point, I thought Sansa would skip season 5 with Bran but when they put her in Jeyne Poole's role it felt like they were ramping up her role in the show to kill her off, since she wasn't a part of the OG5 from GRRM and thus expendable.
Her arc would have been abandoning her family for southern royalty, returning home, and exacting revenge on Ramsay and retaking Winterfell for her family and her brothers at the cost of her life. Also somehow fit in her executing LF and still using the Vale forces. It would have made at least as much sense as any other plot introduced into the show.
I suspect that they recast the Night King because he'll eventually have to get more physical. Richard Brake is 52 and kind of frail. Vladimír Furdík is only 5 years younger but clearly in better physical condition.
Just talking about the faces, there's a bit of give and take between the two versions. Furdik looks less CGI'd but there's more personality with Brake's version.
Just talking about the faces, there's a bit of give and take between the two versions. Furdik looks less CGI'd but there's more personality with Brake's version.
Cpt.Underpants
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Brake's facial structure makes him more creepier. Dude was already creepy in Doom. Shame they had to swap another actor for his character. Brake's face makes a more sinister expression compared to the poker face Night's King
DrForester
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TheDarkKnight774
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It's a little too on the nose for me. Just feels like different plot points talking to each other in condensed form before the action happens
Jibbajabbawockky
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So where exactly are they going? This just seems like they're looting too far out of the circle in PUBG. Just get a Wight closer to the Wall, like at Crasters or something. Show is making it look like they're going back to the Fist of the First Men or something.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Arya's storyline is pretty stupid.