GAME OF THRONES [Book and TV Discussion (US Pace)]

5live · 19-07-2011 10:39PM

pljudge321 wrote: »

Being pragmatic they could just cut that out. .

:D:D:D:D Freudian slip or deliberate....LOL

Dades · 20-07-2011 10:38AM

And he's Irish

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/07/19/liam-cunningham-davos/

cunningham-liam_240.jpg?w=213&h=320

Happy now - big fan of Davos in the books!

Fluorescence · 20-07-2011 11:59AM

Dades wrote: »

And he's Irish

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/07/19/liam-cunningham-davos/

Happy now - big fan of Davos in the books!

I wonder how they'll do his hand :pac:. He looks exactly like I pictured him.

Scruff · 20-07-2011 12:45PM

http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/07/stannis-and-melisandre-cast/

never heard of em, though she will make a hot (hoho!) Melisandre.

Cunning Alias · 20-07-2011 01:00PM

Hell yes! Liam Cunningham was very good in (the not so good) Outcasts. Definitely looks the part.

Saltfeather · 20-07-2011 03:03PM

good casting! so pleased, Melisandre is perfect and Davos too, i'll hold judgment on Stannis till i see him act, afterall most of Stannis isn't about looks but about how well he can chew scenery:p

PhiloCypher · 21-07-2011 11:06PM

Saltfeather wrote: »

good casting! so pleased, Melisandre is perfect and Davos too, i'll hold judgment on Stannis till i see him act, afterall most of Stannis isn't about looks but about how well he can chew scenery:p

Agreed loved her in Black book and reckon her accent will work a treat as Melisandre .

TimeToShine · 22-07-2011 04:51AM

Anyone know where I can buy the books, online or in a shop. thanks.

Jumpy · 22-07-2011 05:19AM

me-skywalker wrote: »

RObert Carlyl would be too small for Halfhand?

For Strong Belwas - Michael Clarke Duncan (Armageddon/ John Coffee the Green Mile)

Erm, Strong Belwas was sort of small but chubby. He wasnt some hulking monster.

5live · 22-07-2011 04:22PM

I have stopped reading Storm of swords:Blood and gold. That bloody Tully/Frey wedding p***ed me off sooooo much i cant read anymore (for a while anyway):(
It will be interesting if the series ever makes it that far on screen but i take time to adjust:o. Crap series:mad: (cant wait to finish it;))

You know not everyone has read all the books yes? So out of respect, DON'T SPOIL IT! Spoiler tags for discussing plots for anything from "A Clash of Kings" onwards.

Pentecost · 22-07-2011 05:05PM

The

Red Wedding

is a right kick in the stones at first all right but after a while you'll want to know how it turns out! I can imagine the uproar amongst the non book reading viewers if it gets that far!

Fluorescence · 22-07-2011 07:56PM

5live wrote: »

I have stopped reading Storm of swords:Blood and gold. That bloody Tully/Frey wedding p***ed me off sooooo much i cant read anymore (for a while anyway):(
It will be interesting if the series ever makes it that far on screen but i take time to adjust:o. Crap series:mad: (cant wait to finish it;))

There's still a few :eek: :eek: moments in the book after that bit, so do finish it! I'm utterly gobsmacked by A Storm of Swords - I can't wait to see how they'll do every bit of it on screen. It's just so action packed.

Sleepy · 22-07-2011 08:11PM

TimeToShine wrote: »

Anyone know where I can buy the books, online or in a shop. thanks.

Uhm, anywhere, they're all in the top 10 at the moment.

mikemac · 23-07-2011 08:15PM

Halfway through Book 2

Loving it so far

I've no idea how Arya and the group will make it back to Winterfell now Yoran was killed, it'll be some achievement if they manage it

Theon Greyjoy seems a lot less sympathetic compared to the TV, when he and his father were discussing an attractive target I assume Winterfell, oh that's sneaky!

I haven't got far enough to see if this is what happens but seems obvious

When the butcher boy was around in Book 1 Arya chased away one direwolf to save it.
Somehow I'm thinking this direwolf will have a part to play somehow. When Arya was in the woods she mentioned wolves but didn't confirm anything over this so I'm not sure

Just thinking out loud here, I'm not realy asking questions

ei.sdraob · 24-07-2011 09:00AM

Most of way thru' first book of the A Song of Ice and Fire trilogy .epub on my nook, 3500 pages in all :eek: but cant wait till read the lot

! I aint usually the fiction type but this is one heck of an interesting book to read

I have to say watching the 1st series on tv first made the book that much enjoyable since can put faces on characters and visualise settings/scenery

the series does follow the book fairly closely except few bits here and there where i presume it didnt make financial sense to shoot.

5starpool · 24-07-2011 10:50PM

ei.sdraob wrote: »

Most of way thru' first book of the A Song of Ice and Fire trilogy .epub on my nook, 3500 pages in all :eek: but cant wait till read the lot ! I aint usually the fiction type but this is one heck of an interesting book to read

I have to say watching the 1st series on tv first made the book that much enjoyable since can put faces on characters and visualise settings/scenery

the series does follow the book fairly closely except few bits here and there where i presume it didnt make financial sense to shoot.

Just in case you are getting false expectations, this is not a trilogy. 5 published so far, 2 more to come it seems.

ei.sdraob · 25-07-2011 09:32AM

5starpool wrote: »

Just in case you are getting false expectations, this is not a trilogy. 5 published so far, 2 more to come it seems.

Yeh I know

makes it even better since more to read about this fictional world created by Martin,
tho I made the mistake out of reading the preview for 4th book needless to say spoiled few things

5starpool · 25-07-2011 02:51PM

Schoolboy error.

Saltfeather · 25-07-2011 03:35PM

as an old ASOIAF reader, (yup i'm rocking on my porch, puffing my pipe having actually started this journey nearly 10 years ago) i find myself jealous of newbie readers who don't have suffer the wait, are spoiled rotten by having a series on tv and then.....then....i get to snicker and chuckle at their little theories and worries.

It's the literal experience equivalent of wanting to give someone a condescending pat on the back:D
or is that just me?

i just want to go 'Ah bless'

any other old cynical readers out there?
anyone else sometimes want to shout 'i was there in the begining' into the howling wind of new fandom?:P

5starpool · 25-07-2011 03:47PM

I picked up AGOT in early 2002 in Australia as I trawled the second hand bookshops in Rural Queensland to give me something else to do in the evenings othe than get drunk (cunning plan and all as it was). I read the second one over the next while, and bought the 2 paperbacks for art three on the journey home. The 5 year wait for the relative anticlimax that was book 4 wasn't pleasant, and after a longer than intended re-read, I've just started on book 5 now.

Saltfeather · 25-07-2011 04:09PM

picked up my GOT in aussieland too,
maybe they were more popular there in the day :rolleyes:
back in the day they were the first fantasy book with a relatively subtle cover-art.
Twas hard to avoid the cliched 'hero with a sword and buxom-blond maiden' cover art:D
No wonder fantasy isn't respected.
I mean come on, who were they aiming at with those woeful covers?

Fluorescence · 25-07-2011 05:24PM

The covers of my set look like this:

AGoT%2BUK.jpg

I prefer fantasy books with clean, simple covers to the overly painted picture ones you tend to get in the USA.

BlaasForRafa · 26-07-2011 02:18AM

fluorescence wrote: »

The covers of my set look like this:

I prefer fantasy books with clean, simple covers to the overly painted picture ones you tend to get in the USA.

YMMV I guess, I find that type of cover boring, I prefer a nice John Howe type painting on fantasy books.

Fluorescence · 26-07-2011 11:54AM

Suppose it depends on personal preference. For example, I hate the cover for my copy of Priestess of the White that I bought a few years ago in the USA.

I much prefer the UK covers I have on the other two in that series.

I suppose I just like my books to be nondescript. I also find them much more aesthetically pleasing when they're not overcrowded.

me-skywalker · 04-08-2011 10:09AM

Jumpy wrote: »

Erm, Strong Belwas was sort of small but chubby. He wasnt some hulking monster.

Are you calling Mr Coffee a hulking monster? tut tut...

I was under the impression yes he was fat but he wasnt small by no means he's bigger than average from what I recall.

Belwas, more commonly known as Belwas the Strong, is a tanned eunuch colossus. He is big, with many pallid scars crossing his chest. He is bald and his arms and belly are huge...

If you didnt want to go as huge as Mr Coffee could maybe look at Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje aka Mr Eko from Lost. Would get my approval.

Sleepy · 04-08-2011 10:15AM

WAY too lean... He'd need to put on at least 7/8 stone for the role...

Wouldn't surprise me to see Omid Djalili in the role tbh.

me-skywalker · 04-08-2011 10:32AM

I've landed on his stand-up on Comedy and was woeful was is irrelevant I know but still he's more a comic/light relief actor plus height wise is too small.