Game of Thrones (tv show thread)

[maxterdexter]

You know (spoilers of 3th book)

Spoiler:

People give shit to Sansa for not managing to kill Joffrey when he was showing her Ned's head, even though she was stoped by a man almost double her height, a killing that at most would have acomplished the ascending of Tonmen to the throne and a more stable rulling during Tyrion's time as hand, while Arya gets 3 death note lines to kill the mass murdering mountain and the mastermind of the war and skips it to kill 2 characters that aren't even TV worthy.

[Taggerung]

a minor detail bit it was the only thing i really disliked about this episode.

Spoiler:

Renly shouldn't have taken his armor off for that scene. The sword was supposed to pierce impossibly through his gorget. Now it looks like anyone with a sword coudl've done it.

UGH i hate brienne already. She was one of my least favorite in the book and she's already off to her great start here. It's like watching a mobile Ned Stark and all his ridiculous codes of stupid

[taboo]

[killerbee1000]

One puzzling elimination from the show is Riverrun and Catelyn's younger brother. He becomes important in the second half of ACOK (Book 2) and throughout ASOS (Book 3), and we haven't met him yet or seen Riverrun. I realize they had to cut somewhere, but I liked the character.

[Huschel]

Spoiler:

I approve of this .

[Elisabeth Heart]

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3...lt9yo2_250.gif

@_@;
*gulps*

[Conekiller]

@_@;
*gulps*

Yeah,I knew Arya was checkin that shit out!

[Kitsune Inferno]

Stop bumping this thread unless the sixth book is coming.

My heart sinks everytime I check it and that's not the case. =(

[RobbyBevard]

Stop bumping this thread unless the sixth book is coming.

My heart sinks everytime I check it and that's not the case. =(

Well, unlike say Berserk or HxH, where I might close a thread between giant breaks, this... sort of has an ongoing tv show running for at least three seasons.

[maxterdexter]

Besides, the 6th has been in writting for like 5 months, plus the transplanted chapters from the 5th, I doubt that he's over the 200th page.

[RobbyBevard]

Besides, the 6th has been in writting for like 5 months, plus the transplanted chapters from the 5th, I doubt that he's over the 200th page.

He managed books 2 and 3 in just two years each. And he's past the giant not of Daeynary's plot that apparently gave him trouble for a decade. Plus the pressure of the tv show catching up... (tho I assume it'll just run three seasons since the end of the third book is a decent, if rather open, stopping point for most of the cast.)

We can *hope* he'll be faster with the next one.

But yeah, expecting news on it this soon... probably not.

[Kaiolino]

Didn't he recently say that he had written 200 out of a planned 1400 pages?

[RobbyBevard]

"Martin believes the two last volumes of the series will be big books of 1500 manuscript pages each.[17] With 200 finished pages by March 2012,[18] Martin hopes to finish The Winds of Winter much faster than the fifth book.[19] He has previously got in trouble with fans for repeatedly estimating his publication dates too optimistically and thus refrains from making absolute estimates for book six.[1] A realistic estimation for finishing The Winds of Winter might be three years for him at a good pace,[20] but ultimately the book "will be done when it's done".[9] Martin does not intend to separate the characters geographically again but acknowledged that "Three years from [2011] when I'm sitting on 1,800 pages of manuscript with no end in sight, who the hell knows".[21]"

[Kaiolino]

Does he still write with MS DOS?

[taboo]

split the thread into a book and a movie thread then lock the book one

[Josl]

(tho I assume it'll just run three seasons since the end of the third book is a decent, if rather open, stopping point for most of the cast.)

They are splitting book 3 into 2 seasons. This means Martin has about 5 years to publish the 6th book. If he manages to write one book every 3 years than all will be fine. To buy him more time they could also split book 6 into 2(or more) seasons.

I don't think HBO will ever stop producing the show, at least not as long as they have a choice. It might be the most expensive show they produce with a budget of 8 million per episode but it is also the second most watched show on the channel. It sold more DVDs of the first season than any other of their shows previously and it is their biggest show in other countries. If the viewer numbers continue to rise or at least stay as high as they are now, HBO can't simple cancel the show or put it on hiatus. It they did, they would anger a LOT of their subscribers and HBO lives from its subscribers and wants them as happy as possible.

Putting in on hiatus is also no option because it will be impossible to reassemble that gigantic cast(not even talking about the children growing up completely)

[Silence]

[RobbyBevard]

HBO cancels stuff ALL THE TIME. Even popular stuff.

And Book 3 makes a good open-ended stopping point for all the characters, aside from the last ending cliffhanger. The show will be at 3 or 4 years by then, which is a good run. This is never going to be a 10 year series. Especially not with the kids aging.

[Kaiolino]

HBO has said that some of their previous "unfair" cancellations might have been a bit too premature, because they didn't use to take DVD/BR sales into account. They do now.

[Taggerung]

HBO cancels stuff ALL THE TIME. Even popular stuff.

And Book 3 makes a good open-ended stopping point for all the characters, aside from the last ending cliffhanger. The show will be at 3 or 4 years by then, which is a good run. This is never going to be a 10 year series. Especially not with the kids aging.

ugh those kids....then again we already have 21 year olds playing 14 year olds