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Seriously, 2 weeks? I was waiting for this season to end so I could start bursting on the book reading, but meh. By the way, I love Daenerys. The actress that portrays her makes such a great job, especially when she was talking with the Yunkai lord. She makes this kind of amused/arrogant/interested face that looks so badass!

Originally Posted by Zoth

Seriously, 2 weeks? I was waiting for this season to end so I could start bursting on the book reading, but meh. By the way, I love Daenerys. The actress that portrays her makes such a great job, especially when she was talking with the Yunkai lord. She makes this kind of amused/arrogant/interested face that looks so badass!

She really is a good actress, as I've been noticing more and more. If you watch Emilia Clarke in interviews, it's hard to believe she's the same person, and it isn't just the hair change. She acts so differently it's like her face morphs into someone else's. It's like she brings almost nothing from her real personality to her character's, and vice versa. It's kind of nit-picky but I've noticed that Emilia tends to move her eyebrows a lot when she talks, which personally annoys/distracts me a bit (OCD maybe), but when she's acting as Dany she doesn't do that at all.

I guess they didn't want to air the episode on memorial weekend, since some people wouldn't watch it. And episode 9 is one they really want people to watch, since episode 9 is likely to be the climax and the best episode, as it was in the last two seasons. And if you've read the books, you'll know something bad happens in either episode 9 or 10 which may be sort of bad timing for memorial day. So I guess it makes sense, and at least we'll be able to look forward to it longer.

WHAT???? 2 WEEKS !!!, SPOILER ALERT i can't believe samwell dropped the arrow after killing the white walker. i guess he had others though.

Yes, it has everything to do with the ratings. Last years memorial day episode totally tanked in the ratings so they put it off because it's going to be a good episode

Originally Posted by Dianeva

It's kind of nit-picky but I've noticed that Emilia tends to move her eyebrows a lot when she talks, which personally annoys/distracts me a bit (OCD maybe), but when she's acting as Dany she doesn't do that at all.

FACT: Emilia Clarke's eyebrows have five points of articulation each, compared to a normal person's three.

Put spoiler replies inside spoilers marks please. I haven't read it, but I noticed it isn't inside spoilers.

Dangerous stuff :x

Originally Posted by ♥Mark

FACT: Emilia Clarke's eyebrows have five points of articulation each, compared to a normal person's three.

Look at all this eyebrow:

If you have not seen the latest episode (9) then do not read this post.

Spoiler for episode 9:

HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Even having read the books, there's no way I could have prepared myself for that. My God, what a good episode. Not just the ending either, but all the way through those fights were freaking intense. I was extra nervous the whole way through, like part of me hoped they'd save RW for the next episode and I wouldn't have to watch it yet. I thought maybe since the episode wasn't called RW it wouldn't happen yet. I bet several of my friends are in tears or at least will be when they get around to watching it. It was so hard not to spoil this shit but I didn't. I didn't spoil it. Now I have to somehow stop myself from spoiling the next impending death

***More episode 9 spoilers***

Spoiler for episode 9:

That was fucked up. I had the misfortune of hearing about the Red Wedding thanks to being dumb and reading YouTube comments (For YouTube is dark and full of spoilers.) but I didn't really know the specifics. I knew it was going to be bad but I didn't know it was going to be that bad. And just as poor Arya was so close -- though she's lucky she didn't make it in time.

But yeah... that was fucked up.

Also that one Wildling guy is Garreth from The Office (UK version.) The More You Know★

Jesus fucking christ, that episode 9.

That was a crazy episode. Pretty excited for the finale now.

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And here's a video compilation of reactions to the episode's climax, I found it funny

Spoiler for Reaction Compilation:

Oh fuck, I was reading it that whole time thinking it mewant to be serious. But a bit way through I thought for sure it must be a joke. So I looked for an april 1st datean d there was none. Then only at the very very end did i look at the url and see it was the onion. Facepalm.

My Lord look at these eyebrows wiggle!

This has to be one of the best artwork of a character I've seen. Putting it undo spoilers just incase:

Spoiler for Arya Stark:

Still got like 250 pages left on A Dance With Dragons. Any else read the series?

Originally Posted by Original Poster

Still got like 250 pages left on A Dance With Dragons. Any else read the series?

Shit, me too. I'm at about the same place you are. Well on page 788 (just checked). I think I started this thread, and I read the previous 4 books before the HBO series even came out. For some reason it took me a long time to get around to reading this one. I was kind of disappointed in this book. The last few chapters have finally gotten more exciting though. GRRM is great at describing things but sometimes to a fault... ugh.. the Yunkai camp. So disgusting.

At some point, there are so many characters POV's going on at the same time I couldn't help but feel a bit overwhelmed. But indeed the last chapters of DWMD were pretty exciting Just wish I hadn't read the series so fast

Originally Posted by Original Poster

Still got like 250 pages left on A Dance With Dragons. Any else read the series?

IT'S SO GOOD
I've read all the books so far
:Y
You will LOVE the ending! (All I'm gonna say is that Daenerys becomes even more badass)
I'm going to perma-lurk this thread now

I'm at Barristan's first POV, so maybe more than 250 pages. It doesn't translate perfectly because my broke ass is reading a PDF.

Spoilers

My favorite part of ADWD so far were the conversations between Jon Snow and Stannis. First character to give Snow space to reveal how strong a leader he is. His personality is like everything they describe Rhaegar as. I also like the part with the fighting pits in Meereen. I was on the verge of thinking Dany was watching her kingdom all fall back to the old ways and I don't know, I was starting to get this really dreadful feeling. It helps with the way GRRM describes the heat and everything else. But then the shadow hits and sent me shivers of relief.

Originally Posted by Original Poster

His personality is like everything they describe Rhaegar as.

*fan theories all over the place*

Well...

Spoiler for Don't read this if you want to remain in the dark regarding Jon's mother:

In this episode of Writer's Room, D&D explain that Martin asked them to guess Jon's real mother before they could become the show writers and they guessed correctly


Now, they began working on this show before ADWD was published, so based on the first 4 books, we already know the primary possibility. The fact that such a twist remained important enough to GRRM to be a qualifying question, and that it could be guessed correctly from the first 4 books, leaves little room for doubt.

Originally Posted by Original Poster

I'm at Barristan's first POV, so maybe more than 250 pages. It doesn't translate perfectly because my broke ass is reading a PDF.

I'm a little past that, just finished Victorion chapter and am beginning a Jaime one. And I'm reading it on my phone. The reason I never read it earlier is because the hard copy is huge, and I only have time to read on the bus, and I finally got a smartphone then bought it for $10.

I'm really hoping that Jon's mother really is just some whore or girl who tended to Ned when he was lonely or something. That's more realistic. It seems a really typical kids-fantasy story move to have a bastard's long-lost mother be some amazing person with royal blood or something. I'd like to think GRRM wouldn't sink to that. Though I have a feeling he is.

Originally Posted by Original Poster

Well...

Spoiler for Don't read this if you want to remain in the dark regarding Jon's mother:

In this episode of Writer's Room, D&D explain that Martin asked them to guess Jon's real mother before they could become the show writers and they guessed correctly


Now, they began working on this show before ADWD was published, so based on the first 4 books, we already know the primary possibility. The fact that such a twist remained important enough to GRRM to be a qualifying question, and that it could be guessed correctly from the first 4 books, leaves little room for doubt.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

I'm really hoping that Jon's mother really is just some whore or girl who tended to Ned when he was lonely or something. That's more realistic. It seems a really typical kids-fantasy story move to have a bastard's long-lost mother be some amazing person with royal blood or something. I'd like to think GRRM wouldn't sink to that. Though I have a feeling he is.

Well, I agree and disagree with you on that. The logical side agrees, the fangirl doesn't.

I remember in one of the books (been so long since I've read them) that

Spoiler for Spoiler :

Somebody told Jon that his mother was just a whore. Now it's completely possible that it was a lie but it's still out there. Also, there is the fact of the supposed (SPOILER) Aegon being alive (Young Griff). Seems kind of interesting that there would be multiple hidden Targaryens.
Melisandre did have a particular interest in Jon, and I'm interested to see where that goes (oh boy does ADWD end well).

All in all I really suck at fan theories so I'll just have my little hopes but won't expect too much.

It's called A Song of Ice and Fire for a reason though..