Chris
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Re: The Official Game of Thrones [A Song of Ice and Fire] Thread
Glad you love it man.
RW hit us all hard. You're not the only one.
As for the ages of the characters, GRRM admits he made them too young. Daenerys is older in the show. Sansa is about the same age though, I think, yet she still looks so hot ... I always feel bad for thinking that but it's true. :chuckles:
Spoilers:
I think you'll struggle with the next two books, but enjoy ASOS while it lasts. The last 1/4th of it is really awesome too. The Red Wedding was insane and as much as it seems GRRM does stuff like that just to be a troll, I don't think that is the case. Ultimately, Robb proved to be an amazing commander on the battlefield but much like his father, he was outmaneuvered in the political arena so badly it made his head spin...literally, in the end. That was his undoing.
Also just FYI, GRRM foreshadowed this in A Clash of Kings. Not sure if you picked up on it but Daenerys in the House of the Undying, she comes into a room of a banquet slaughter, with corpses and limbs everywhere, and at the front of the table a man with the head of a wolf watches her (Robb obviously). Here is the passage:
"Farther on she came upon a feast of corpses. Savagely slaughtered, the feasters lay strewn across overturned chairs and hacked trestle tables, asprawl in pools of congealing blood. Some had lost limbs, even heads. Savaged limbs clutched bloody cups, wooden spoons, roast fowl, heels of bread. On a throne above them sat a dead man with the head of a wolf. He wore an iron crown and held a leg of lamb in one hand as a king might hold a scepter, and his eyes followed Dany with mute appeal."
Glad you love it man.
RW hit us all hard. You're not the only one.
As for the ages of the characters, GRRM admits he made them too young. Daenerys is older in the show. Sansa is about the same age though, I think, yet she still looks so hot ... I always feel bad for thinking that but it's true. :chuckles:
Spoilers:
I think you'll struggle with the next two books, but enjoy ASOS while it lasts. The last 1/4th of it is really awesome too. The Red Wedding was insane and as much as it seems GRRM does stuff like that just to be a troll, I don't think that is the case. Ultimately, Robb proved to be an amazing commander on the battlefield but much like his father, he was outmaneuvered in the political arena so badly it made his head spin...literally, in the end. That was his undoing.
Also just FYI, GRRM foreshadowed this in A Clash of Kings. Not sure if you picked up on it but Daenerys in the House of the Undying, she comes into a room of a banquet slaughter, with corpses and limbs everywhere, and at the front of the table a man with the head of a wolf watches her (Robb obviously). Here is the passage:
"Farther on she came upon a feast of corpses. Savagely slaughtered, the feasters lay strewn across overturned chairs and hacked trestle tables, asprawl in pools of congealing blood. Some had lost limbs, even heads. Savaged limbs clutched bloody cups, wooden spoons, roast fowl, heels of bread. On a throne above them sat a dead man with the head of a wolf. He wore an iron crown and held a leg of lamb in one hand as a king might hold a scepter, and his eyes followed Dany with mute appeal."
