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There's also a summary website out there... http://www.towerofthehand.com/books/Awesome. I am going to go back now and reread the series from the start so when July comes, everything will be fresh.
I was wondering the same thing when I re-read it recently. I was sure when his character was introduced that he died when the #### went down and kept looking for the passage where he died but never found it, obviously. Maybe it's just a writer's trick to keep a character in reserve for a later date; one that he can never feature again without upsetting any storylines as well.
There's a theory out there that he's already reappeared. I don't feel like going into details but maybe one of the Stark kids has seen him again (even if that kid doesn't know it).
and I wanted to throw my book.Great series so far, but man, sometimes it seems like the bad guys win an awful lot more than the good guys do.
Finished it last night, just could not put it down every night when I got home from work. I will agree with some criticisms that the foreshadowing is a little too obvious sometimes and he has a weird obsession with describing some disturbing sex scenes in too much detail, but dang is it not really entertaining and gut wrenching reading. But yeah, the bad guys win a lot and there are times I want to throw my book because of it.I can totally understand how some people are so frustrated at how long it has taken him to put out these books though. With the constant POV changes and different plotlines going on, it's like a literary version of the tv show Lost. Each plotline goes at a snails pace and the POV's are usually ending on a cliffhanger or right in the middle of the action. I am glad I am just discovering these books now, instead of having to wait 5+ years in between some of them. God help me to have the patience to space out reading the next 3.
and I wanted to throw my book.Great series so far, but man, sometimes it seems like the bad guys win an awful lot more than the good guys do.
and I wanted to throw my book.Great series so far, but man, sometimes it seems like the bad guys win an awful lot more than the good guys do.
Well, haven't heard anything about a series there, but they did make a full-length animated move a couple years back...
They did one cartoon, iirc, and it was awful.
and I wanted to throw my book.Great series so far, but man, sometimes it seems like the bad guys win an awful lot more than the good guys do.
Here's more of my concern about accelerated plotlines'mad sweeney said:
April 17. Not sure on the reairings
Seriously? That kind of blows and makes it tough to create a new audience doesn't it?Is the "preview" they showed recently just the beginning of episode 1 or something else? I never read any of the books, but I want to watch this.
I don't know, I'm asking. I haven't had HBO/Showtime forever so I don't know how they air oringal programming.
If they want to make it more like the books, HBO should schedule it as a weekly show, but then made viewers wait 6 months or so for the second episode.
There was some talk of it above. Basically just the first two scenes of the show where the Night Watch rangers get into a little trouble beyond the wall and then a little of Winterfell that ends with Ned's beheading of a deserter. It looks #####in. I wish the episodes were 90 minutes though...
Yep. There's some speculation whether there will be any post-production stuff added before the premiere (music, CGI, etc..), but it looked finished to me. In fact, the lack of music makes the scenes north of the Wall spookier IMO.It'll be interesting to see how the continuity goes from episode to episode since there are multiple writers working (Martin himself wrote one of the later season one eps).
I've read that they combined some characters. Not sure what that is or how it was done.
I think they combined some of the lesser characters, which is probably for the best. I have a hard enough time keeping up with them with the book's glossary in my hands.
Sounds like a good FB update and quizzical text to friends.Bump for the first episode tonight.Winter is coming.
I thought I'd read that the first two episodes would be shown tonight a few weeks back, but the schedule on HBO's website shows that they're repeating Episode 1 three times tonight with Episode 2 premiering next week.
I wouldn't guess against that. I think you nailed it.
That's my guess as well. Hard to be the contrarian here.The things I do for love...
It's been pretty much confirmed. Someone with much more time on their hands than I and with much more patience than I divvied up AGOT into episodes base on an average of 80-100 pages per episode in season one to cover the book. I'm looking for it and will post as a spoiler if I find it. But Martin cliffhangers a bunch of chapters in the second half of the book, so they've got some flexibility with the page count. "The things I do for love", however, is the first cliffhanger of the book and is a perfectly logical place to end Ep One.
Is there a link por favor to view that breakdown? Assuming since it's commercial free HBO that episodes are a full 60 minutes, that's only 60 +/- pages of script per episode. Regular TV scripts are usually 40-50 pages long because there's only 45 +/- minutes of screen time after commercial breaks. So unless he's accounting for that as well as allowing for cut out scenes, which obviously he would have no possible way of knowing what's cut/condensed/combined, he's probably overshooting each episode's content. I really wish they were doing 90 minute episodes or starting off with a 2 hour epsiode 1 to be able to establish the world a little more throughly at the start.eta: my other guess would be to end it with a quick look at the other threat to Westeros (after the Others in the prologue) with a little teaser of the Targaeryans across the sea.
No, GB. I'm still looking for the post. It was on the main ASOIF MB but I can't locate it. My apologies if I'm wrong, but my memory ain't as far gone as it may appear.
No worries and thanks for looking. I'll be skimming those boards tomorrow after I watch it (waiting for it to get dark to watch in on the DVR).
ThisAccording to HBO's schedule it will air a new episode on every Sunday
