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

ixoy

fitz wrote: »

Excellent casting.

Dead eyes in that picture - creepy, as required.
I wonder who'll they get to play the delightful Ramsay Bolton?

fitz

pljudge321 wrote: »

He's got the eyes for it.

ixoy wrote: »

Dead eyes in that picture - creepy, as required.
I wonder who'll they get to play the delightful Ramsay Bolton?

Yeah, the eyes and complexion are just how you'd want them.
Sinister.

Ramsay will be interesting...and will be a fantastic part for whoever lands it.

Liking the look of the Jaqen casting too.

Sleepy

Hard to argue with most of the casting so far to be fair.

pljudge321

Having watched The Borgias I've decided that Sean Harris needs a role.



What role I haven't decided yet.

Sleepy

Would've made a great Theon, Edmure Tully perhaps?

Dades

Or the aforementioned Bastard Bolton!

Sleepy

Might need some hair dye but yeah, wouldn't be a bad call.

Hatgirl

Anyone else going to TitanCon, the Game of Thrones convention up in Belfast at the end of September? Syrio and Hodor are confirmed, there are likely to be other guests (many are looking forward to going, it seems, it just depends on the shooting schedule which should be sorted out closer to the date) but the star of the show is the Coach Tour of shooting locations on Sunday ending in a Medieval Feast at the Winterfell location (Castle Ward).

*bounces excitedly* I can't wait!

pljudge321

Sleepy wrote: »

Would've made a great Theon, Edmure Tully perhaps?

Dades wrote: »

Or the aforementioned Bastard Bolton!

He's a bit old for both of those roles unless they massively age up the characters.

After reflection I'm thinking one of the wildings, Rattleshirt maybe. He would have made an excellent Bronn or even Stannis.

Sleepy

Mance?

ixoy

Sleepy wrote: »

Mance?

Isn't Mance bigger though?

BlaasForRafa

pljudge321 wrote: »

Having watched The Borgias I've decided that Sean Harris needs a role.



What role I haven't decided yet.

Well he wouldn't appear for quite a while yet...but Victarion perhaps?

TwoShedsJackson

http://www.sporcle.com/games/maxvroom/game-of-thrones-most-mentioned-characters

10 minute quiz to see how many of the most-mentioned GoT characters you can name: 39/50, I was never getting

Grenn or Rodrik Cassell

anyway.

Tenger

pljudge321 wrote: »

Having watched The Borgias I've decided that Sean Harris needs a role....
.....What role I haven't decided yet.

Well that pic makes me think of Ramsay Bolton (or should that be Snow?)

In that pic he looks too ratlike to be Edmure Tully,
and not really sure how I have pictured Mance, I assume more physically charismatic?


An amusing video I found on youtube of the romance 17 years previously of Lyanna and Rhaegar.

The editing is a bit mad but far play to the creator for the idea of using Lord of the Rings footage to cover past events. Aragorn as a young Robert, Boromir as young Ned and Legolas as Rhaegar. Also Eva Green from 'Camelot' as Lyanna Stark, I would done the same myself, Rhaegar!!



Not really relevant to the conversation at hand .....but a great metal version of the GoT title music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-ZmlwBWKM

JohnK

Tenger wrote: »

Not really relevant to the conversation at hand .....but a great metal version of the GoT title music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-ZmlwBWKM

I like that a lot more than the official one; just seems to be a lot more life to it.

Tyler MacDurden

JohnK wrote: »

I like that a lot more than the official one; just seems to be a lot more life to it.

And this one is rather good too, not sure if it's been posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yydcG9woWA

BlaasForRafa

Both of them are good. I have to say I like this one as well..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ7GLQqqk1s

Dades

Tenger wrote: »

Well that pic makes me think of Ramsay Bolton (or should that be Snow?)

Lord Bolton - if you want to keep your skin!

Saw the new Roose Bolton in some British movie over the weekend - he really does suit the role.

pljudge321

pljudge321 wrote: »

I've heard people talking about Malcolm McDowell for Balon Greyjoy, stick a fuller beard on him and he'd be perfect.

"...I pay the Iron Price"

Mc Love

Anyone reading Clash of kings?

Tenger

Mc Love wrote: »

Anyone reading Clash of kings?

Read it about 2 months ago......

Re-read them all in preparation for Dance (25% way through that)

Mc Love

Just about half way through ACOK ( ) and cant put it down

Sonovagun

I'm Half way through Book Two of A Storm of Swords! It's some book i tell ya. Season Three is gonna be awesome! lol

Playboy

Mc Love wrote: »

Just about half way through A COK ( ) and cant put it down

haha

ei.sdraob

Damnit after reading the 5 books back to back in space of month, now have to wait several years before next book this is worse than waiting for tv series at least you know those come within a year

arghghghg

i dont often read fiction lately but this series was good, very good, the 4th book is a bit meh but the 5th one makes up for it, i presume seasons 4-5 ~(maybe 6 since 3rd book is so big) of the tv series will be a mix of the 4th and 5th book since they run in parallel for most part and just divided geographically

me-skywalker

If I see another joke or reference to the penis acronym I'll get very angry... you don't want to see me when I'm angry!

fitz

me-skywalker wrote: »

If I see another joke or reference to the penis acronym I'll get very angry... you don't want to see me when I'm angry!

Which acronym, the COK one?





















:P

Sonovagun

Bloody Hell A Feast For Crows is hard work!

Fluorescence

Sonovagun wrote: »

Bloody Hell A Feast For Crows is hard work!

Bit of a slog, but totally worth it for the Arya chapters. That girl's a champ.

Dades

But for every Arya chapter there's a Sansa chapter to struggle through. :pac:

BlaasForRafa

Dades wrote: »

But for every Arya chapter there's a Sansa chapter to struggle through. :pac:

Sansa's aren't the worst, theres Brienne wandering about all over the place like a wonky satnav, and being told by every bloke that she meets that she could do with a good raping.

Then theres pretty much anything to do with the Iron born who are boring as f**k imo.

Dades

^^ I'd take Brienne over Sansa any day (your honour... )

Fluorescence

Sansa's chapters are ok in AFFC though. Not so :rolleyes: as her chapters in the first two books! Plus we get to see more of Littlefinger being a creep, which is funny.

Sonovagun

It's the new Characters that are hard work and

Hate the new style of chapter naming, The Queen Maker, The Solied Knight ect ect. Wish GRRM used their real names and I'd have gotten to know them quicker

Tenger

I don't mind that too much, it adds a bit of variation to the chapters.....

Isard

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Sansa's aren't the worst, theres Brienne wandering about all over the place like a wonky satnav,.

Surprisingly, I didn't find her chapters that bad... I feel a strange sympathy for her... doesn't prevent me from thinking "What a fool!!!" from time to time, though;)

Sonovagun wrote: »

It's the new Characters that are hard work and

Hate the new style of chapter naming, The Queen Maker, The Solied Knight ect ect. Wish GRRM used their real names and I'd have gotten to know them quicker

I didn't like it, too, from the first time it began in AFFC.

AFFC has become my toilet reading. The other books were awesome and took me about a month to read in total but this one just has no direction apart from Arya and has taken me about a month and a half and I'm on page 577. Brienne and Sansa are really annoying and so is Cersei

If I wanted to read about the role of women I'd have bought a book on the suffragettes.

Victarion is a nice POV character though. I wish they'd call the chapter Victarion rather than The Reaver though.

Still pissed off over that certain longsword aswell.

Someone please assure me that Arya will be in ADWD? Or that it's slightly better than this.....

Pentecost

Yeah she is, a bit anyway, and yes it is, IMO anyway

osh

Just after finishing A Clash of Kings, flew throught it.

I read them originally when they were first published but never got around to reading book 4 after the long wait. I seem to have forgotten pretty much all of what happens thankfully

Going to get stuck into A Storm of Swords now tonight...

Pepe LeFrits

osh wrote: »

Just after finishing A Clash of Kings, flew throught it.

I read them originally when they were first published but never got around to reading book 4 after the long wait. I seem to have forgotten pretty much all of what happens thankfully

Going to get stuck into A Storm of Swords now tonight...

You're in for a treat, ASoS is my favourite of the series thus far. Some absolutely jaw-dropping chapters in it - wish we didn't have to wait 3-4 years before we get to see them on screen... though watching them in my mind's eye isn't half bad!

me-skywalker

Brienne is ugly. Don't trust a man cause you ugly. Don't trust yourself cause your ugly. She travels far and wide and yet still she is ugly.

Boring... I couldn't care

What happens to her she's just a device used to get the feeling portrayed of the common folk and lower peoples of the riverlands, fingers, etc...

Fluorescence

me-skywalker wrote: »

Brienne is ugly. Don't trust a man cause you ugly. Don't trust yourself cause your ugly. She travels far and wide and yet still she is ugly.

Boring... I couldn't care

What happens to her she's just a device used to get the feeling portrayed of the common folk and lower peoples of the riverlands, fingers, etc...

I wouldn't have thought you'd need to spoiler that :pac:. It gets a bit old to read every man she comes into contact with telling her she needs a good raping :rolleyes:. Also, GRRM says "Words are wind," "Much and more," and "Little and less," almost every other sentence. It's a bit much....

Sonovagun

I like Brienne, can't wait to discover what words she cries out

On ADwD now and it's much more enjoyable!

Pepe LeFrits

They're filming the Battle of the Blackwater at the moment apparently - that ought to be absolutely epic.

osh

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

You're in for a treat, ASoS is my favourite of the series thus far. Some absolutely jaw-dropping chapters in it - wish we didn't have to wait 3-4 years before we get to see them on screen... though watching them in my mind's eye isn't half bad!

Yep just finished part 1, great book. Some amazing chapters in it alright

On to part 2 now

Hatgirl

Was anyone else at TitanCon? It was so cool to have so many GoT fans in the same hotel! I couldn't go on the coach trip, but I hear it was awesome *sigh*

Munster Blogger

Im afraid to search the thread in-case I see a spoiler. Does anyone know what date it will be back on TV

Zapp Brannigan

April 2012 I believe.

Somnus

Been seriously neglecting the thread since the end of the first series. Any cool/interesting announcements I should know?

Some filming got delayed in Belfast cause one of the sets blew away when we got the tail end of that hurricane recently :P

Sonovagun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qtLi0SmQ1E

worth watching