HBO gave ASoIaF pilot the greenlight

As far as I'm aware, they're planning on one season for each book.
 
^Good

Krynn72 said:
Man, you have no idea. Its only just getting started for you. If you're anything like me, you're going to blow through the next several books because you'll be so excited.
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Yeah I have a tendency to dedicate all my free time to a book/series if they're really good, I just haven't had the time lately.
 
I think I heard a rumour that ASoS and ACoK would be mixed into one season, though that seems unlikely given how long ASoS is.
It is pretty likely that AffC and ADwD will be mixed together due to each book only featuring half the series' characters.
 
The timelines start getting really messed up in ACOK. If you pay close attention, you'll notice that most of Dany's chapters happen over the course of the same week, while the events in Westeros unfold over several months, and so Dany is now 'behind' everyone. Her ASOS chapters are 'happening' in ACOK. Hopefully ADWD will help reconcile the timelines, as by AFFC, I think some characters like Arya are over a year ahead of Dany. Read "Cat of the Canals". Nearly a year passes in the course of that one chapter. I think ADWD will help David & Dan work out how many seasons it will take to cover the events of the story.

Yeah, I'm a huge ASOIAF nerd. What of it?
 
My principal concern is the ****ing geography of the whole place. There is simply no way a viewer will understand what half these places are if they don't have regular access to a map (like the readers do). Consider, for instance, the Neck vs. Trident. Their biomes are practically the same, but the politics and culture of them vary vastly and they play very different roles in the story. We see the Twins I think once in GoT, and then not again until the Red Wedding. Are viewers' memories going to be that good? Are they going to know why it's important for Robb to keep allegiance with the Freys after Winterfell is taken? Will the phrase "we've lost the Freys" have any meaning by season 3? Not sure how they're going to manage.
 
Speaking of, wasn't there news on A Dance With Dragons recently? I swear I heard that its release was getting close.
 
Well now that football season is over, he'll probably finish more than one paragraph a day.
 
Viperidae said:
My principal concern is the ****ing geography of the whole place. There is simply no way a viewer will understand what half these places are if they don't have regular access to a map (like the readers do). Consider, for instance, the Neck vs. Trident. Their biomes are practically the same, but the politics and culture of them vary vastly and they play very different roles in the story. We see the Twins I think once in GoT, and then not again until the Red Wedding. Are viewers' memories going to be that good? Are they going to know why it's important for Robb to keep allegiance with the Freys after Winterfell is taken? Will the phrase "we've lost the Freys" have any meaning by season 3? Not sure how they're going to manage.
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They can just have Robb's advisors repeat why it's important to him (in fact, I think that even happens in the book) and have a character take out a map every once in a while and point to it.
 
Sounds like a lot of exposition all the time. Because that's just one example out of many of the numerous complexities around the geopolitical landscape of Westeros.
 
Krynn72 said:
Speaking of, wasn't there news on A Dance With Dragons recently? I swear I heard that its release was getting close.
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There are credible rumors that he will announce its completion within the next several weeks. After that, informed estimates place the publication time at three months, giving us a release date somewhere in June, if all goes as planned. Hey, if Duke Nukem Forever is coming out, why not A Dance With Dragons?
 
I believe Martin said that he was planning to announce something aDwD related during the Christmas holdidays, but got badly sick (a flu or something) and decided to delay it.
 
What the **** man. He just got married and now hes going on a six month honeymoon.
We are so happy to share the news with all our friends, old and new, the friends we have yet to meet, and with all of my (George’s) readers. And now we’ve off for a six-month Honeymoon trip around the world. See you when we get back.
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http://grrm.livejournal.com/196160.html

I mean, its great for him that he got married, but jesus christ, the delays are getting ****ing out of hand.
 
Dear Krynn72,

You seem like a smart guy, and so I think you're being sarcastic, but if you were smart, you'd know that sarcasm does not translate over the internet. So all I will do is silkily ask if you read the last line of his post.
 
For whatever psychological reason, I struggle to recognize sarcasm in real life, never mind the internet.

Anyway, I think a honeymoon on Skull Island could be a hell of a lot of fun, if you packed appropriately.
 
Well, don't worry, it wasn't sarcasm. I honestly didnt see the last line under the picture.
 
Still too long for me to wait. Even after more than five years, that release date is too far away for me.
 
There will be two or three weeks between the season 1 finale of Game of Thrones and the release of A Dance With Dragons. Those, I suspect, will be among the longest days of my life.
 
Oh piss.

If you'll excuse me, I have some books to read.
 
Two things I love most about that trailer:

1. Somehow, some way, Aidan Gillen has made Littlefinger an even bigger pimp than he was in the novels. I don't know how, but he has.

2. Jaime's hilariously over-the-top facial expressions during the swordfight. I swear, he makes the 4chan 'awesome' face. I approve wholeheartedly, as this is in keeping with the Kingslayer of the novels. "Woah shit! You nearly took my head off with that swing... AWESOME!"
 
Can't wait for Jaime to lay down the alpha-cockiness in every scene.
 
Once his "the things I do for love" scene happens then I'm probably going to do a backflip over my couch from a sitting position. Since they're probably going to make that the last scene of the first episode, I think the backflip is an appropriate release of all the excitement thats going to be building up in me between now and then.
 
^This.

"The world is a terrible place because of men like you."
"There are no men like me. There's only me."

That right there is the most badass boast I ever read in fiction. Everyone else goes on long grocery lists of their accomplishments and how tough and kickass they are, but Jaime just boils it down to the barest essentials and delivers it with complete, deadly calm... You stay classy, Jaime Lannister.
 
Its only barely fantasy. Thats why I like it. I don't like magic and weird races like orcs and elves and shit, but this has very few fantastical elements like that. Its much more like a fictional Medieval setting than it is a fantasy setting. Its pretty much all about humans and their power struggles. There is hardly any "fight the evil forces" bullshit since there is hardly anything that could be considered out-and-out "evil."
 
The Others are evil.

The series is highly, highly Machiavellian. And as someone else has pointed out, one thing GRRM does right is motivations. The characters aren't aiming for anachronistic 19th century ideals (Ladies wanting to be free of domesticism and other stuff that doesn't make sense), but things that would be realistic to the setting: money, power, preserved lineage, and honour.
 
Viperidae said:
The Others are evil.
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Yep, and pretty much only them. They also play an extremely small part in the books so far, though that seems poised to change in the next book (after aDwD, since thats covering the same general timeframe as a Feast for Crows).
 
Has anyone listened to an Audiobook of one of the novels? I ask because I use Audiobooks more (since I dont have time, and they are good for working on projects) and sometimes the narrators can be fantastic or terrible.
 
I tried to get my friend to read the books once, and he wanted to know if there was an audiobook version for them so I looked it up. Supposedly the actor who reads them is good, and his slight British accent compliments the story. Haven't listened to it personally though, so I can't say for sure whether or not its good.
 
Krynn72 said:
Yep, and pretty much only them. They also play an extremely small part in the books so far, though that seems poised to change in the next book (after aDwD, since thats covering the same general timeframe as a Feast for Crows).
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But it also takes place partly on the wall. The Others could play a big part for Jon without interfering with A Feast for Crows.
 
ríomhaire said:
But it also takes place partly on the wall. The Others could play a big part for Jon without interfering with A Feast for Crows.
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Well, yeah, I suppose. I just meant in the grand scheme of things.

By the end of Feast still nobody knows that the Others are a threat, or even real. Nobody cares at all really, and even Stannis just showed up to defeat the Wildlings as a gesture to get Jon's support for his campaign. I don't recall Jon or anybody at the wall being particularly troubled by the Others at that point, they all seemed focused on Wildlings.
 
Uhh? Read the end of ASoS again. Stannis states "This was the enemy I was born to fight" to Jon in reference to the Others. He wants to use the wildlings in the fight against them. Meanwhile Melisandre is incessantly going on about the "real battle" against the "real enemy." She's convinced herself and her Queen's Men of the whole mythology around Stannis being Azor Azai reborn, and is using it as a reason for Stannis taking over the Wall instead of being more productive in becoming actual king. The people in charge on the Wall are certainly concerned about the Others. The rest of Westeros isn't, that's true.
 
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