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Plus it has Boromir
I'm a fan of most HBO shows so this is getting me excited as I can't stand most attempts at the Fantasy Genre in film. "Game of Thrones" is a show of political intrigue set in a Medieval Europe world (actually N. Ireland) the bordering lands have a different feel. The southern people and land invoke Dark Sun style to me. There is a land to the North very icy maybe Viking style. I don't really see any magic in this trailer but they mention supernatural forces.
Check out a preview here: www.hbo.com/#/game-of-thrones/about/vide...
Plus it has Boromir
This is based off of an amazing fantasy novel series called A Song of Ice and Fire. by George R. R. Maryin. A Game of Thrones is the first novel in the series. I would highly recommend this series to everyone on these forums.
This looks good. I'll keep my hopes up.
Great novel series that is unfinished. The author is YEARS behind in his own timeline for the next novel release...
But beyond that, yes, this is a GREAT fantasy series. And I say this as a guy who doesn't really care for fantasy novel series'... :-)
Speaking of finally getting it, I also recently re-read the original Dune novel (which reminded me very much of A Game of Thrones). Now, I gotta find that movie on DVD (which was originally on Sci-Fi channel I believe).
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This is based off of an amazing fantasy novel series called A Song of Ice and Fire. by George R. R. Maryin. A Game of Thrones is the first novel in the series. I would highly recommend this series to everyone on these forums.
I wouldn't.
At least not until Martin gets his ass in gear and finishes the next book, dammit!
This is based off of an amazing fantasy novel series called A Song of Ice and Fire. by George R. R. Maryin. A Game of Thrones is the first novel in the series. I would highly recommend this series to everyone on these forums.
I wouldn't.
At least not until Martin gets his ass in gear and finishes the next book, dammit!
I thought it was written alongside Feast for Crows?
(note, this has been driving my friend, a HUGE Martin fan, crazy. What the heck happened to the next book? He's old enough that him pulling a Robert Jordan is a valid concern for his fans.
Personally, I really liked the series at first read-through, and then put it down when I tried to read it again.)
This is based off of an amazing fantasy novel series called A Song of Ice and Fire. by George R. R. Maryin. A Game of Thrones is the first novel in the series. I would highly recommend this series to everyone on these forums.
I wouldn't.
At least not until Martin gets his ass in gear and finishes the next book, dammit!
So, because he hasn't released the fifth book yet, you wouldn't recommend others to read the (extremely enjoyable) first four books? That seems...pretty silly, sorry. He's not even that far behind, sorry. The time between the release of the third and fourth novel was...five years (2000 and 2005, respectively). The release time since the fourth novel is currently...a little over five years.
The editor has said that all but five chapters of the fifth novel are finished, and those five chapters are at a solid stage, not completely unwritten. Mind you, these are books with between 46-82 chapters in them!!! So at worst, the book is 89% done, but might be 94% done. That seems pretty darned reasonable to me.
Sorry if the pace isn't what you want, but me? I prefer a great novel released when it is than a pressured and rushed release that isn't up to snuff.
I mean, look at The Dark Tower series. There is another series where there were six years between releases of volumes three and four, and another seven years between the release of volumes four and five. It happens. It isn't the end of the world. It doesn't, IMO, take from the enjoyment of the reading of the first four (fantastic) novels. At all.
I completely stand by my recommendation of A Saga of Ice and Fire.
So, because he hasn't released the fifth book yet, you wouldn't recommend others to read the (extremely enjoyable) first four books?
Yeah. Better than arriving at the end of book 4 and then having to wait years until the story finally continues at a time when you have forgotten all the plot hooks and characters anyway.
The time between the release of the third and fourth novel was...five years (2000 and 2005, respectively). The release time since the fourth novel is currently...a little over five years.
Which IMO is already too long. By the time I got the fourth novel I couldn't remember who 80% of the named people were and what they were doing in the last 3 books.
The editor has said that all but five chapters of the fifth novel are finished, and those five chapters are at a solid stage, not completely unwritten. Mind you, these are books with between 46-82 chapters in them!!! So at worst, the book is 89% done, but might be 94% done. That seems pretty darned reasonable to me.
Except that it won't finish the story and good luck remembering anything from book 5 when book 6 releases in 2017
So, because he hasn't released the fifth book yet, you wouldn't recommend others to read the (extremely enjoyable) first four books?
Yep. Looks like we disagree on the value in recommending unfinished tales that suck you deep into personalities, only to leave you hanging on the edge of your seat for years.
You mention that the publisher said he is 89% finished. It wouldn't be as bad if he were 89% finished after working on it for five years. But he was 89% finished when he concluded Book 4 (if we are to take the publisher at its word *and* we are to take Martin at his word in the Author's Note at the end of Book 4.
This series is one of the best I have ever read. But it is like hearing the set-up of the best joke ever told and the comedian refuses to deliver the punch line.
If anybody hasn't seen them yet, Darksword Miniatures has the license to produce the George R.R. Martin Masterwork miniatures...
I'm only recently getting back into gaming so I missed all that.
Still should be a good show HBO does some good work.
Slightly off topic I felt that the book Public Enemies which became the Johnny Depp Dillinger movie of the same name would've been much better as a HBO Series. Instead of Boardwalk Empire imagine Steve Buscemi as Clyde Barker or Alvin Karpis.
only to leave you hanging on the edge of your seat for years.
Spare a thought for poor Brienne, who has been hanging from a tree in Schroedinger's Cat limbo for five freaking years.
So I now have a reason to watch TV? Interesting...
Indeed. I'm sure HBO will have the first episode or two available for free download to try to hook people into getting HBO. I'll watch what I can get for free, and if interested I'll pick up the box set when it comes out.
I read the first four Song novels in pretty rapid succesion in the latter half of this past year, they're good reads. I am rather disappointed that the author seems to be sitting on the next book, but I don't lose any sleep or go nerdrage over it.
This is based off of an amazing fantasy novel series called A Song of Ice and Fire. by George R. R. Maryin. A Game of Thrones is the first novel in the series. I would highly recommend this series to everyone on these forums.
I wouldn't.
At least not until Martin gets his ass in gear and finishes the next book, dammit!
I thought it was written alongside Feast for Crows?
(note, this has been driving my friend, a HUGE Martin fan, crazy. What the heck happened to the next book? He's old enough that him pulling a Robert Jordan is a valid concern for his fans.
Personally, I really liked the series at first read-through, and then put it down when I tried to read it again.)
The next book in the series was originally part of a feast for crows, but the book got too long (even by the standards set by the previous books) so it was split into two books. I wish martin would finish the damn book already.
If anybody hasn't seen them yet, Darksword Miniatures has the license to produce the George R.R. Martin Masterwork miniatures...
I've been pining for them for so long... I'd love to have a Night Watch pack and Rattleshirt. And maybe Mance Ryder, to be used as a bard. And the Hedgeknights. And Sansa Stark. And...
It also comes with the ubiquitous midget found in every fantasy film.
Hey, that midget is probably the most intelligent character and surely the only Lannister worth any of that Lannister gold. The book is written in character point of view sections rather than chapters and Tyrion is one of the most often featured one.
I really like this actors voice, it fits Tyrion.
It also comes with the ubiquitous midget found in every fantasy film.
Hey, that midget is probably the most intelligent character and surely the only Lannister worth any of that Lannister gold. The book is written in character point of view sections rather than chapters and Tyrion is one of the most often featured one.
I really like this actors voice, it fits Tyrion.
Agreed.
You too?
And black haired, even thought it's been explicitly stated that all Lannisters are blonds.
You too?
And black haired, even thought it's been explicitly stated that all Lannisters are blonds.
I thought Tyrion was normally clean shaven, and that on those rare occasions when he let it grow in it was a mix of black and blond? I think it's mentioned after he gets his facial scar. I'll try to remember to look it up later.
You too?
And black haired, even thought it's been explicitly stated that all Lannisters are blonds.
Actually... he is blonde.
The actor looks familiar; I cannot place what other things he might have been in as I do not know the man’s name and cannot look it up.
It's Peter Dinklage.
How is he "the ubiquitous midget found in every fantasy film" when the only fantasy film he's ever been in was the second Narnia flick?
Well, LotR had Hobbits; maybe that's what he meant.
Btw, I did today a pic of some of the Ice and Fire characters. I would show it, but I don't have a scanner handy.
Well, LotR had Hobbits; maybe that's what he meant.
And don't forget Willow. Don't you dare forget Willow.
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There is a nw preview for game of thrones.
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Hmmmm. I was expecting some guys on toilets playing cards or chest.
Chess. The name of the game is chess.
Hmmmm. I was expecting some guys on toilets playing cards or chest.
Chess. The name of the game is chess.
You expect Goldo to care about little details like that when there's an infantile joke about poo to be made? Really?
Hmmmm. I was expecting some guys on toilets playing cards or chest.
Chess. The name of the game is chess.
You expect Goldo to care about little details like that when there's an infantile joke about poo to be made? Really?
If he's going to make scatological jokes he might as well not look like an idiot in addition to being tasteless.
If he's going to make scatological jokes he might as well not look like an idiot in addition to being tasteless.
I'll credit you this, mate, you certainly don't settle for the low-hanging fruit. You'd have better luck trying to get a wolverine to use chopsticks.
I'll credit you this, mate, you certainly don't settle for the low-hanging fruit. You'd have better luck trying to get a wolverine to use chopsticks.
Oh come on. It wasn't that good of a joke. Besides Logan would just use one of the claws.
No. He uses his hands