[TV] Game of Thrones [No Spoilers]

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Neil Marshall confirmed to be directing in Season 4. Battle at the Wall anyone?. If he can make that as good as Blackwater, i'm even more pumped for S4.

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Three Eyed Raven cast.

http://winteriscoming.net/2013/10/th...ed-raven-cast/

Looks interesting, hopefully it means they'll be cutting a lot of the "Bran is going North" crap out, worst parts of Dance by far.

[Gallahadd]

Three Eyed Raven cast.

http://winteriscoming.net/2013/10/th...ed-raven-cast/

Looks interesting, hopefully it means they'll be cutting a lot of the "Bran is going North" crap out, worst parts of Dance by far.

God I hope so... I never skip chapters, but man Bran's chapters were pushing it...

[Ryme]

I quite enjoyed them after a while! As soon as he was past the wall, I thought it got pretty interesting.

[drwelfare]

God I hope so... I never skip chapters, but man Bran's chapters were pushing it...

Those were painful and I skipped some on a second read through

[mber341]

Sometimes I feel I'm the only person in the world who actually enjoyed reading Bran and Ironborn chapters.

[Monoxide]

well age is a bit different in that time of the world than it is for us

in the 12th/13th century the average lifespan was 43 years

Yes, but do you understand why the average lifespan was 43 years? It's because it's an average.


Look at it like this, the "average lifespan" being 43 years...doesn't actually mean people generally lived to be/died at around 43 years old. If that were the case, the average lifespan would actually be much lower (in the low to mid 20s). People lived to be 70+ all the time. As stated, it was generally the noblemen who did, because they had a much easier lifestyle than peasants. The thing that skews the average, though, is infant mortality. Get a cold as a baby? Dead. Born with a deformity? Dead.

The reality of the matter is, if you lived long enough to escape adolescence you had a very good chance of having a long life. It was just getting over the initial hurdle of infancy when your body doesn't have a fully developed immune system. Think back to as recently as 250 years ago, around the time America was gaining it's independence. Infant mortality rate was huge. It's only been in the last century or so that medicine has advanced enough, and technology has advanced enough to make said medicine readily available for the vast majority of people, that the infant mortality rate has diminished. It's still a huge factor in many of the third world countries though.


That being said, I wouldn't take the fact that there are people in the show who live to be 70+ as cause for labeling it fantasy. My money would be on the dragons, and the whole "dead people coming back to life" part. Just saying.



Edit: As far as Bran goes, I found Cersei, Sansa, and Bran to all have horribly boring chapters UNTIL their characters developed more. Basically Sansa throughout all of books 1 and 2 was horrible. Constant crying and whining and worried about being a "proper lady". Bran was worse, sob story "pity me" bullshit. His got a lot better once he went North though, and Sansa's got a lot better once Ser Dontos...helped her.

[Julian Rayne]

Sometimes I feel I'm the only person in the world who actually enjoyed reading Bran and Ironborn chapters.

I enjoyed them too.

[wonderlust]

I have never wanted to skip a single chapter, to be honest. I was okay with reading Bran, and even Sansa.
What really dragged were the Brienne chapters in book four. On a second read, I might consider going through them pretty quickly (but I still wouldn't skip them).

[Feral Camel]

Sometimes I feel I'm the only person in the world who actually enjoyed reading Bran and Ironborn chapters.

I love the Ironborn but I do struggle with the Bran stuff.

[ProphetFlume]

I have never wanted to skip a single chapter, to be honest. I was okay with reading Bran, and even Sansa.
What really dragged were the Brienne chapters in book four. On a second read, I might consider going through them pretty quickly (but I still wouldn't skip them).

Oddly enough I breezed through Brienne chapters on all my reads after the first. They seem much longer the first time when you're hoping for something important, or a chapter from someone you care about, but once you know what (not) to expect, they go by quickly. I still have trouble with Bran chapters. I thought once he got past the wall and the overt magic stuff started appearing that they would pick up. Nope. He even found a way to make time travel boring.

[Arrowstormen]

Oddly enough I breezed through Brienne chapters on all my reads after the first. They seem much longer the first time when you're hoping for something important, or a chapter from someone you care about, but once you know what (not) to expect, they go by quickly. I still have trouble with Bran chapters. I thought once he got past the wall and the overt magic stuff started appearing that they would pick up. Nope. He even found a way to make time travel boring.

Why aren't we in the spoiler thread with book stuff? :P

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Magnar of Thenn cast.

http://winteriscoming.net/2013/11/st...of-thenn-cast/

Looks a bit younger than expected, but I think they'll roll him and his son into the same role, cut down on the characters and such.

[madokbro]

If you don't want Game of Thrones 4th season spoilers, DO NOT WATCH the last south park episode.

[Dasffion]

If you don't want Game of Thrones 4th season spoilers, DO NOT WATCH the last south park episode.

Haha, I was like people are going to be pissed that SP is spoiling GoT.

[Disenchanted]

Haha, I was like people are going to be pissed that SP is spoiling GoT.

Considering how he used the "everyone dangling" line, I'm not sure they meant to spoil anything, and rather were going for an outrageous scene.

[Jibjabb]

Haha, I was like people are going to be pissed that SP is spoiling GoT.

People that dont know spoilers wont find those spoilers because they will think its south park just fucking around making stuff up, since I highly doubt people are saying OMG really sam swings his floppy weiner around?

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

People that dont know spoilers wont find those spoilers because they will think its south park just fucking around making stuff up, since I highly doubt people are saying OMG really sam swings his floppy weiner around?

I think they'll be too busy laughing at GRRM's obsession with floppy willies to notice any spoilers.

[Tommy T]

Really looking forward to the Jousting pig warriors and Tywin Lannister death

[sinilaid]

nvm, can't delete for some reason...