Season 3 See mod note Post #1

Washington Irving · 20-11-2012 03:47PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

Oh right, now I get it, the swords are meant to be a III. I thought it was some vague reference to
House Selmy
or something. D'oh.

I thought the same thing until earlier today. I don't think it's as "exceedingly clever" as people were making it out to be

Sleepy · 20-11-2012 03:58PM

Yeah, another in the, "I thought there was something clever that I couldn't see" camp here...

Liamalone · 20-11-2012 05:45PM

Sleepy wrote: »

Yeah, another in the, "I thought there was something clever that I couldn't see" camp here...

One here too lol

KJY · 20-11-2012 11:00PM

fitz wrote: »

It's awful.
The shadows under the swords are all wrong.
For them to fit through the zero like that, they'd need to be angled, which would make the shadows angled and skewed, with part of it closer to the sword.
Instead they're just flat...it's poor photoshopping and gives the impression of the swords bending around the number.

Aside from that, it's completely random.
"It's season 3, so lets stick three swords through a zero on the date, regardless of that looking imbalanced, too busy, or just plain tacked on."

Why not put "Season III" under the date and use swords for the Roman numerals?

To me, it's just bad design.

Wel.....well I just wanted the Littlefinger reference.

Washington Irving · 21-11-2012 01:06AM

KJY wrote: »

Wel.....well I just wanted the Littlefinger reference.

Littlefinger reference?

Why can I never spot these things?

KJY · 21-11-2012 05:33PM

SaulGoode9 wrote: »

Littlefinger reference?

Why can I never spot these things?

"It's an exceedingly clever nickname" - S1 E5

Sleepy · 22-11-2012 01:17AM

I'm not seeing a Littlefinger reference?

Washington Irving · 22-11-2012 03:21AM

Sleepy wrote: »

I'm not seeing a Littlefinger reference?

Post above yours. KJY was quoting Littlefinger when he said 'exceedingly clever'. I thought he was talking about the advertisement at first too

Sleepy · 22-11-2012 10:42AM

Ah, I though he was suggesting there was one in the poster!

Mickeroo · 22-11-2012 12:08PM

Sleepy wrote: »

Ah, I though he was suggesting there was one in the poster!

This has all been terribly confusing.

GerB40 · 22-11-2012 04:35PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

This has all been terribly confusing.

Exceedingly...

KJY · 22-11-2012 08:21PM

......I'll just make the steady transition back into lurking

Gbear · 20-12-2012 01:22AM

Apparently next season's episodes will be slightly longer.
Last season each episode was about 52 minutes in length (not including adds obviously).
Next season each one will be closer to 57.

That'll work out as nearly an extra episode over the course of a season.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/12/18/game-of-thrones-longer-season-3/

“A super-sized season, as befitting Storm of Swords,” Benioff adds. “Last year we had a lot of 52-minute episodes. This year is a lot of 56, 57.”

Mickeroo · 20-12-2012 01:53AM

Gbear wrote: »

Apparently next season's episodes will be slightly longer.
Last season each episode was about 52 minutes in length (not including adds obviously).
Next season each one will be closer to 57.

That'll work out as nearly an extra episode over the course of a season.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/12/18/game-of-thrones-longer-season-3/

Nice! Pretty sure season 1 was closer to 57 too?

Mr.Prodston · 20-12-2012 02:00AM

I haven't seen it mentioned on the thread but George R. R. Martin is writing the 7th episode called "Autumn Storms" so this would lead me to believe that this episode will feature

Robb and Catelyn et al on their way to they Freys, making sure the build up will be done right and then have the Red Wedding take place in episode 8, as to not fall on episode 9. I would imagine Bran and Jon's close call would also be appropriate here culminating with Jon heading back to the wall

As the TV writers have said the seasons will no longer go book for season or half book for season I would see episode 9 and 10 feature

The first battle at the wall with Jon and Ygritte. Also to justify the red wedding let Joffrey have his comeuppance this season, and let the excellent Jack Gleeson return to his studies

This would roughly be 2/3rds of ASOS and leave season 4 & 5 to fill up the rest of the books so far.

Perhaps George will have book 6 out by then :pac:

Gbear · 20-12-2012 11:58AM

Mickeroo wrote: »

Nice! Pretty sure season 1 was closer to 57 too?

Yeah. Just had a look.

So it's back to season 1 length.

WindmillWarrior · 21-12-2012 12:41PM

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

This would roughly be 2/3rds of ASOS and leave season 4 & 5 to fill up the rest of the books so far.

Perhaps George will have book 6 out by then :pac:

What are people gonna do if it comes to a (likely) situation where the TV show gets ahead of the books (hasn't George filled the 2 boys in on how the story will come to a conclusion). Watch the show and spoil the books yet to come? (to a certain extent). Or just wait for the books and ignore the TV show? I know I'd choose the latter.

Mr.Prodston · 21-12-2012 02:37PM

WindmillWarrior wrote: »

What are people gonna do if it comes to a (likely) situation where the TV show gets ahead of the books (hasn't George filled the 2 boys in on how the story will come to a conclusion). Watch the show and spoil the books yet to come? (to a certain extent). Or just wait for the books and ignore the TV show? I know I'd choose the latter.

Well I would imagine that they'll have to be patient, I do think it's highly likely that TWOW (Book 6) will be released within the next 2 and a half years. As the writing problems in terms of structure Martin had are more or less solved.

That would leave just the last book. What I could potentially see happening is that they would split book 6 into two seasons and then with perhaps a year break before the last book is out, The Wire would be an example of this in terms of a gap year. (Assuming book 7 will be the last). That way at least 2014 and 2015 are available. They probably could then last 2016 & 2017 for book 6 and see where things stand.

Long story short, there is no way in Valyria that the show can move past the book if they are in anyway committed to doing the best they can do. They were aware of these issues before they started season 1.

WindmillWarrior · 21-12-2012 03:53PM

Sounds good, and I hope you're right. Another spanner in the works could well be an extra book, as you alluded to. I really can't see such an epic story being wound up in just 2 further books...

Mickeroo · 21-12-2012 04:06PM

WindmillWarrior wrote: »

Sounds good, and I hope you're right. Another spanner in the works could well be an extra book, as you alluded to. I really can't see such an epic story being wound up in just 2 further books...

I think from here on out it might go two seasons per book which should hopefully five Martin plenty of time to finish the final few books.

I'm more worried about him passing away before its finished than the show overtaking though tbh!

Mr.Prodston · 21-12-2012 05:35PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

I think from here on out it might go two seasons per book which should hopefully five Martin plenty of time to finish the final few books.

I'm more worried about him passing away before its finished than the show overtaking though tbh!

I agree, but I thought I read somewhere (possibly in a dream) that season 3 would be 2/3rds of ASOS and season 4 would be the other 1/3 and the openings of both AFFC and ADWD. 4 seasons between the two of those would be overkill to be honest.

If he survives the mayans he better survive a few more years

I'll spoiler this even though it doesn't reveal anything too specific

After the shenanigans of ASOS the natural dip and influx of new characters could lead to a drop in viewers unless some really big name actors were brought in, which is why some of the viewers could get bored without anything really happening except building the blocks for the explosion of shenanigans I anticipate in the TWOW

I could talk about this for hours, as I recently caught up on all the books but it's not the right place for that :pac: So back on topic. Season 3 will be good

Gbear · 21-12-2012 09:37PM

Doing both Feast and Dance at the same time (for the parts where they overlap) could wind up being mighty confusing.

As it is I think the series is tough for people to get into.

Oafley Jones · 21-12-2012 09:48PM

Gbear wrote: »

Doing both Feast and Dance at the same time (for the parts where they overlap) could wind up being mighty confusing.

As it is I think the series is tough for people to get into.

If they even did a single straight season of Feast - not to mind two - I'd imagine it'd kill the ratings fairly quickly. The adaptation so far have shown that the show writers are smart enoguh to work around the worst of Martin's excesses.

StaticAge11 · 28-12-2012 07:34PM

In reference to the series overtaking the books. Myself and my cousin were chatting to a guy that works on the show, he's like an editors assistant or something. He said that the shows creators have their contract with Martin. There's a clause that says if he were to die, the ending goes with him. The creators are allowed access to anything written (notes manuscript etc) but he has not written down the ending. According to the guy I was speaking to, the creators hope (if the worst should happen) that Martin will have written enough so that they could improvise an ending based on where they think he's heading.

The guy also told us (SPOILER WARNING)

that the Red Wedding is episode 9 of series tree and looks "****ing epic"

Mod Edit: Added Spoiler Tag : You have enough posts at this stage to know where the spoiler tag button is when making a post, please use them. Fair warning.

Mr.Prodston · 28-12-2012 08:22PM

StaticAge11 wrote: »

In reference to the series overtaking the books. Myself and my cousin were chatting to a guy that works on the show, he's like an editors assistant or something. He said that the shows creators have their contract with Martin. There's a clause that says if he were to die, the ending goes with him. The creators are allowed access to anything written (notes manuscript etc) but he has not written down the ending. According to the guy I was speaking to, the creators hope (if the worst should happen) that Martin will have written enough so that they could improvise an ending based on where they think he's heading.

The guy also told us (SPOILER WARNING)
that the Red Wedding is episode 9 of series tree and looks "****ing epic"

Mod Edit: Added Spoiler Tag : You have enough posts at this stage to know where the spoiler tag button is when making a post, please use them. Fair warning.

I really would prefer if

the red wedding wasn't episode nine, it will kind of ruin the surprise a little as people will be expecting something to happen, given the last two ninth episodes. Like I said above, IMO episode 8 would make the most sense.

Professional Griefer · 28-12-2012 09:10PM

Thank **** for calex71 being on the ball.

Had I come here a earlier and something was spoiled I would not be happy.

Thank you Calex.

StaticAge11 · 28-12-2012 11:06PM

Sorry guys hadn't done a spoiler on mobile yet, forgot it could be done by code too! My bad!

calex71 · 31-12-2012 11:58PM

StaticAge11 wrote: »

Sorry guys hadn't done a spoiler on mobile yet, forgot it could be done by code too! My bad!

Ah the dreaded mobile ..... I'll let it slide so

..... I know the job I had getting the edit and spoiler tag in on mine lol

iamanengine · 03-01-2013 10:23PM

Season 3 is getting so close I can almost taste it.

GerB40 · 04-01-2013 02:28PM

iamanengine wrote: »

Season 3 is getting so close I can almost taste it.

It's unbearable isn't it. My advice would be if you have the books, reread them. If you don't have the books, get the books.

Season 3 See mod note Post #1

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