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[TV/BOOK] *SPOILERS* Game of Thrones Discussion - Page 713
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SPOILER WARNING If you only watch the show, this thread will spoil you of future events in HBO's Game of Thrones. Thread contains discussion of all books of the series A Song of Ice and Fire Click Here for the spoiler-free thread. | ||
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PepsiMaxxxx
Sweden5452 Posts
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Wuster
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Apple just announced an enhanced edition to the digital book release. It's getting decent reviews, though I'll pass. It also contains a preview chapter for Winds of Winter - Mercy. Which was already spoiled, but makes sense, since it's one of the spoiled chapters that was pretty faithfully adapted* into the last season of the TV show (rather than say any of the Arianne / Sansa spoiler chapters). Seems like it's about courting show watchers to pick up the book I guess? * well a character swap took place | ||
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jxx
Brazil307 Posts
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Spaylz
Japan1743 Posts
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LennX
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With only 6 more episodes, I am waiting to be surprised but I don't expected much. It is blockbusterish but the rewatchablity falls. Arya opening scene while good was dragged out, same with Daenrys ending scene. Random thoughts - Jamie will be a queenslayer, Jamie X Brie, Tormund is a red herring, 2 different wars fought as Westeros is split (war of the north vs ice, war of the south vs fire), Sansa plot line is finally more interesting compared to plot armour Arya, Sam feels like a Harry Potter spinoff, Whose left in Kings landing if Jamie is forced to return to Casterly Rock or the war in the north? Please die Littlefinger but you will survive and become the most powerful person just to piss me off. | ||
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TheFish7
United States2824 Posts
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Hyperbola
United States2534 Posts
On July 19 2017 00:51 TheFish7 wrote: We may still get UnCat. Other than that I think we're all out of book stuff. Not gonna happen unfortunately. | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14892 Posts
On July 19 2017 00:51 TheFish7 wrote: We may still get UnCat. Other than that I think we're all out of book stuff. DOnt kid yourself this plot line is way over | ||
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saddaromma
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PandaRed
France58 Posts
On August 01 2017 13:49 saddaromma wrote: I was wondering is there a reason to wait for Winds of winter. TV show seem to finish way earlier and everything will be spoilered. The books are different from the show (more characters in the books + some events only in books or TV). The two stories could have totally different ending. | ||
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way2mash4u
Germany183 Posts
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Laurens
Belgium4517 Posts
There's a fair few POV book characters that are missing in the show, but some of them have been merged into other characters, i.e. Jon Connington -> Jorah Mormont. Arguably Victarion -> Euron, in any case if Victarion does something really important in the books, they'll probably have Euron do it in the show. Quentin was a POV but he's already dead. Lady Stoneheart has probably been replaced by Beric, which is a strange move considering how many Stark fans there are. Perhaps having a mute, disfigured character wasn't appealing enough. I can't think of many other book characters that are not in the show which could have a big effect on the "endgame". There's (f)Aegon and Arianne, who will end up in the same party in the 6th book, idk how (f)Aegon fits into all of it, perhaps Dany arrives later in Westeros in the books and her entire plot in S7 is Aegon's plot in the 6th book. | ||
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Reaps
United Kingdom1280 Posts
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Laurens
Belgium4517 Posts
The question is whether he can stick to his plan of 7 books, I'm pretty sure it's gonna end up being 8. | ||
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Dav1oN
Ukraine3164 Posts
but personally I wish Martin long live - so we can wait for his next book forever | ||
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Hyperbola
United States2534 Posts
On August 01 2017 22:25 Laurens wrote: He's 68 and his health is perfectly fine, he's just fat. The question is whether he can stick to his plan of 7 books, I'm pretty sure it's gonna end up being 8. He is obese. Not even trying to be insensitive here. Heart failure can sneak up on you, especially at that age and at that weight. | ||
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TheFish7
United States2824 Posts
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Broetchenholer
Germany1849 Posts
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0x64
Finland4519 Posts
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Laurens
Belgium4517 Posts
Now I can explain things. It was a confluence of many, many factors: lets start with the offer from Xaro to give Dany ships, the refusal of which then leads to Qarth's declaration of war. Then there's the marriage of Daenerys to pacify the city. Then there's the arrival of the Yunkish army at the gates of Meereen, there's the order of arrival of various people going her way (Tyrion, Quentyn, Victarion, Aegon, Marwyn, etc., and then there's Daario, this dangerous sellsword and the question of whether Dany really wants him or not, there's the plague, there's Drogon's return to Meereen... All of these things were balls I had thrown up into the air, and they're all linked and chronologically entwined. The return of Drogon to the city was something I explored as happening at different times. For example, I wrote three different versions of Quentyn's arrival at Meereen: one where he arrived long before Dany's marriage, one where he arrived much later, and one where he arrived just the day before the marriage (which is how it ended up being in the novel). And I had to write all three versions to be able to compare and see how these different arrival points affected the stories of the other characters. Including the story of a character who actually hasn't arrived yet. Would love to read something similar for the 6th, and how many different versions he's written for certain chapters lol. | ||
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