Game of Thrones (Not For Prudes/Boobies are bad mmkay?)

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:23 am

Love this series but it was sort of obvious that Sean wouldnt be staying in the series. He was the only character who was morally straight and being a hollywood actor I didnt think he would hang about for a years...

The bird from Hollyoaks getting het tits out was good stuff!

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:21 am

Professor Smooth wrote:
bumblemusprime wrote:That would clearly be off-putting for someone who has, for the last thirty-odd years, bought and read and reread every single goddamn Transformers comic in existence.

Clearly not the same as all five of these books are really good.
At 22 pages each, 7,000 pages of Transformers comics works out to 318 issues.

By my count, there haven't been 7,000 pages of TF comics, even if you count US Marvel, DW, and IDW.

Every page of For All Mankind felt like ten...

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:25 pm

bumblemusprime wrote:
Professor Smooth wrote:
bumblemusprime wrote:That would clearly be off-putting for someone who has, for the last thirty-odd years, bought and read and reread every single goddamn Transformers comic in existence.

Clearly not the same as all five of these books are really good.
At 22 pages each, 7,000 pages of Transformers comics works out to 318 issues.

By my count, there haven't been 7,000 pages of TF comics, even if you count US Marvel, DW, and IDW.
Every page of For All Mankind felt like ten...

Even then...

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:51 am

HOT NAKED DRAGONCHICK FTMFW

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:04 am

I've started the book!

I've actually started the book.

I'm, like, five chapters in or something.

[composite word including 'f*ck'] knows when I'll get any more of it read, but I've started it. Go me.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:28 pm

HOT NAKED DRAGONCHICK FTMFW

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:04 pm

I think Emvee's trying to tell us something.

Somebody go check down the well!

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:33 pm

I was actually disappointed; in the book she comes out with her hair burned bald, breastfeeding the dragons. Haven't seen the episode yet but I heard that neither one was present.

Also, this is evidence of why HBO will continue to give good fantasy:

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/20 ... ition.html#

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:13 pm

This series is epic, can't wait for more!

Tywin lanister is bloody excellent!

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:44 am

Can I just start right in on the second book after watching this series? Or do I have to go back and read the first book?

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:29 pm

You could live without it. Hit the first book once you've finished 2-5.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:25 am

http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20110704

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 4:26 pm

Can someone who's read the second book please reassure me that in recognition of what happened at the end of the first one, the hot naked dragonchick forgoes clothes from that day forwards?

Honestly, I can't get her out of my head. It's like she's permanently seared onto my visual cortex.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:54 am

More or less, Rob. That is... there are clothes, there is also lots of not-clothes.

FIVE DAYS UNTIL BOOK FIVE.

AAAAH!

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 6:43 am

If you'd ordered the book through Amazon Japan, you'd have had it last week. It's a trick I've used with certain geek girls I've been acquainted with over the years.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 8:27 am

I'm just over halfway through book 1. Have just got the shipping notification from Amazon for books 2, 3(a/b) and 4.

That's me done for the year. Or at least until book 5's out in paperback.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 6:04 pm

Housemate is reading (and doing a certain amount of spoiling of) book 1 right now. I've bought a Ciaphas Cain omnibus to read while he's plodding through it. Which is bloody brilliant, incidentally.

sprunkybumblespence wrote:More or less, Rob. That is... there are clothes, there is also lots of not-clothes.

HOT NAKED DRAGONCHICK FTMFW

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 2:51 pm

I have the new book. I have it at last. Eeeee

Post by **Best First** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:24 pm

Just watched all 10 eps on sky+ in 24 hours. I tried to pace myself but COULD NOT

Fantastic

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:23 pm

Read the new book. Spoiler Free: Lots of treading water as in Book 4, as opposed to the frenetic pace of Books 1-3. He originally was going to let five years pass between 3 & 4 and it's obvious that when he decided to actually write about those five years that he ended up with a lot of dull stuff.

But still, he managed to rip my guts out a couple times. Some really awesome stuff happens with a character who you never expected to like.

Only bummer was that after Sansa actually because interesting and compelling in Book 4, she was left out of this one completely. But most of the characters even got lip-service, and the book was 80% Jon Snow, Daenerys and Tyrion, so I couldn't complain.

Going to be interesting to see how they deal with Books 4 and 5 in the show. For the unitiated, Martin wrote an enormous book and split it into books 4 and 5, using only a few viewpoints in book 4 and saving others for book 5, which is why Jon Snow, Tyrion and Daenerys don't appear at all in book 4. I don't think that'll fly for a season of TV; but I wonder how they will deal with the metric ton of new characters he introduces in 4 & 5. Something like five new viewpoints showed up in those books, after he added two new viewpoints in Book 2 and then two more in Book 3.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:58 am

so...

books or wait 5-6 years for the show to finish right? Hmm...

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:20 pm

Damn you, sprunkner.

I'm just starting book 4. Book 5 sits like a too-large-to-ever-comfortably-read-on-the-tube monolith next to it.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:36 pm

I'm halfway through book 2. I have successfully paced myself. That or other **** keeps getting in the wizzay.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:00 pm

Rob, if I were you I'd read two or three chapters from book 4 and then two or three from book 5. The first two-thirds of book 5 are concurrent with book 4, and the characters are split up. S'really meant to be the same book.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:28 pm

Finally found the series streaming free! Finally going to watch more than clips! Woo!

Oh, forgot to mention this. At Worldcon a few weeks ago, I saw Martin himself do live DVD commentary on the episode he wrote, "The Pointy End." Most of it was uninteresting stuff, just about the actors. Seems the guys playing Sam and Robb are straight out of acting school. First professional auditions. Can you say set for life? Also, they are having a problem with the dogs. They were bred especially to look like wolves, but they don't act much like wolves. The breed is, it seems, way too friendly to growl on-camera as much as they are supposed to.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:06 am

Just a quickie....

Should I read the book before watching this? I've got the episodes downloaded and ready to go but I'll wait if swotting up beforehand enriches the experience.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:38 pm

spiderfrommars wrote:Should I read the book before watching this? I've got the episodes downloaded and ready to go but I'll wait if swotting up beforehand enriches the experience.

I really couldn't say - I watched it before I read it and loved both, but now I've read the book I definitely want to watch the series again. My suggestion is that you do both and the order doesn't matter...

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:03 pm

Main problem I've got at the moment is I keep thinking "what would Tyrion do?" when faced with people causing me any irritation.

Sadly we don't have a wall, and if we did I wouldn't have the power, heads on spikes would probably make the situation worse, and blackmail involves far too much research. Sigh.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:05 pm

Do what Littlefinger would do - mention something offhand to a seemingly unrelated third party that winds up making life extremely difficult for your intended target.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:15 pm

Not helpful when my problem with the person stems from them doing that exact thing.

Well, not that exact thing, but them feeding a third party my name as being responsible for something. Of course I'm only 90% certain it was them, and if they deny it I'm at a dead end. Christ, they are sodding Littlefinger. Heads on spikes is so ******* appealing.