I hope the writers can find some excuse for Danearys to take her shirt off. She managed to keep it on all of season 2, right?
The third book is the best of the series, so there is a lot to work with for HBO. HBO has been very good at capturing the essence of Martin's world despite having to axe huge parts of the books out. One of my favorite scenes in the entire series is the last episode of Season 1 when Varys and Baelish are looking at the Iron Throne and waiting for Joffrey. It is an absolutely brilliant scene that serves as a synopsis of the entire first season, and never happened in the book.
I had read somewhere that before HBO would start production, they made Martin provide an outline of the last two books in the series in case he never finished the books.
There was an article in one of the New York rags over the weekend that the author is in negotiations with HBO to do a prequel series set 100 years prior to the setting of Game of Thrones. It is supposed to set the background. No timeline for airing was mentioned.
i read all the books last summer and finished them in like a month. i couldn't put them down. can't wait for season 3 and to see people's reaction to a certain wedding
i didn't spoil anything i just said there was a weddingdude... spoilers suck. I think I'm done reading this thread.
i didn't spoil anything i just said there was a wedding
haha when i was reading the books it was really hard to not google people's names to learn more about them because i didn't want to spoil anything. the night is dark and full of spoilers.Well.... I read the EW article and your post. I put 2 and 2 together. It's only 50% your fault.
haha when i was reading the books it was really hard to not google people's names to learn more about them because i didn't want to spoil anything. the night is dark and full of spoilers.
I know, I sort of know what happens with J. Lannister. Right now, I am almost done with the first book and I will read up to the second one.
I HATE fantasy most of the time. I generally find good vs. evil storylines boring, and magic is too big a trump card in the plot. Why read 1,000 pages of dwarves and elves when a wizard will cast a spell at the end and all will turn out all right? Martin is very circumspect in his use of magic, although it starts to become more problematic by Book 5.
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I HATE fantasy most of the time. I generally find good vs. evil storylines boring, and magic is too big a trump card in the plot. Why read 1,000 pages of dwarves and elves when a wizard will cast a spell at the end and all will turn out all right? Martin is very circumspect in his use of magic, although it starts to become more problematic by Book 5.
Those are my feelings exactly. Which is scary.
You don't lose much by reading the books ahead of time. HBO has to vary from the storyline because the main plot is so complex that it would take 20 hour long episodes to even attempt to replicate in a TV show.
Neither of you have probably picked up a fantasy book begun in the past 15 years (other than GRRM's of course). The genre has swung to the other extreme---to series like GRRM's Song of Ice and Fire series. The fantasy genre is longer about clear cut good guys versus bad guys, but anti-hero after anti-hero story.
I couldn't get past the first 15 pages of the first book of the "Wheel of Time" series. I am just not wired for fantasy.
I like science fiction though.
I am not surprised you didn't like it based on your aversion to traditional fantasy novels because TWOT is the quintessential traditional fantasy series: clear dichotomies between good and bad, prophecies, and a dollop of magic. I am an admitted fan of all that, but the likes of GRRM have taken over for now.
That'd be fine and all, but jeez, I'd like to see him get back and finish the GOT books so this series can keep going.