Amph Game of Thrones - HBO (Book Spoilers must be masked/HTR)

I get that way every time I re-read the series. It's like re-reading Chewbacca and Anakin Solo's deaths in the NJO. You know it's coming and yet every time you re-read it, you want it to somehow happen differently.

 

There are to be seven books in total: The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring following A Dance with Dragons.

 

A Lannister always plays? his SNES.

I can't wait for the season finale.

Evil.

 

I just finished reading Game of Thrones just before the 9th episode aired.

One thing that I believe that the television series lacks, is a sense of scale. For example, Robb Stark leads an army of 20,000 men, but you don't get a sense of scale watching the show. Surely HBO could have utilized the MASSIVE software by WETA, to at least show a few scenes of armies marching.

BTW, now more than half-way through Clash of Kings and loving it...

 

I really doubt they have the budget for that. They're probably stoked that most of the major battles are shown offscreen (except for the conclusion to CoK, but I won't spoil that for you.) GRRM alluded to this on his blog, since he's scripting that particular episode and is struggling to fit it in to the budget constraints.

 

Yeah, the final battle of ACOK will be a joy to see on screen. They might even need 2 episodes to contain it all.

 

The final scene was a clincher, in the book it always made me wonder, Is Daney a future hero, or Villian?

 

Lancel Lannister, Robert's former squire and her cousin. The wine boy.

 

This was a solid ending to a really good season. I was dreading the reveal of the dragons the entire episode, because I was not confident that they wouldn't look terrible. Fortunately, I thought they looked great and did their job to make that final scene as awesome as it needed to be.

Hey, that old man has a name.

And that name is General Veers.

 

Great finish to the season! I'm a few chapters into the third book now...

 

Best brace yourself now.

 

She's a future hero and wife of Jon Snow, imo.

 

You really should; the books are a great read so far. I've come to enjoy the narrative structure used by Martin. Instead of Chapeter 1, 2, 3, etc. the books are broken up by character. Ie: Tyrion, next chapter is Arya, etc.

 

I find this unlikely. Cersei would be super sure to off any actual child of Robert's, particularly one that was actually hers.

 

That would be an interesting twist, but as of now, Gendry is just a normal bastard of Robert's.

 

Anyone else hear that Gerard Butler is going to be Stannis?

 

False rumor.

As to Gendry, the books tell against his being Robert's heir. In the books, Cersei aborted her only child with Robert, not had him and lost him. That's a small enough detail that the show can tweak, to get Cersei more sympathy up front, but making Gendry the true heir is much too big a change for the show to be going for that.

 

Not only that, but once Robert died, Cersei began hunting down and systematically killing all of Robert's bastards. Remember in episode 5 when Ned and Jory visit a brothel to see Robert's latest, um, conquest? Yeah, Cersei had them both killed.

 

It's even more explicit in that she sent the Gold Cloaks after Gendry specifically.