Stellaboz Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 I honestly forgot this was coming. Was so scunnered after the ending that after all the time and energy invested into this, it ended so fucking shit. Wheel of Time is where its at this winter. Then Witcher series 2. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Cuddy Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 On 26/07/2021 at 20:29, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: I know, its got lots of churches and convents in the walls they seem to focus on that. Theres about 10/12 different places around Malta, the bit from the wedding was filmed there, various bits around Ned being killed and some of the other Dothraki stuff. Given they’re struggling big time over here id have thought someone would take a punt at a game of thrones tour or something. There are tours, but I was there last month and they weren’t running. No idea if it was COVID or time of the year. I wonder if it’s not well publicised after the damage caused during filming, plus trying to preserve history I’m guessing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Lisa Cuddy said: There are tours, but I was there last month and they weren’t running. No idea if it was COVID or time of the year. I wonder if it’s not well publicised after the damage caused during filming, plus trying to preserve history I’m guessing. I think theres an element of the authorities preferring to focus on their own bits of history over the tv show and thats fine, but feeding their history into the context of a tour of locations for me would have been easier to engage. Must have been covid that put a stop to it for our visit too, a beautiful country id def visit again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Cuddy Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 25 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: I think theres an element of the authorities preferring to focus on their own bits of history over the tv show and thats fine, but feeding their history into the context of a tour of locations for me would have been easier to engage. Must have been covid that put a stop to it for our visit too, a beautiful country id def visit again. Yeah I’m definitely planning on going back, it’s stunning. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 43 minutes ago, Lisa Cuddy said: Yeah I’m definitely planning on going back, it’s stunning. Got a few places in Italy and Croatia id like to visit first, but our entire reason for going was we got a really good price so if we did again id go in a heartbeat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishBhoy Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Anyone read the books? I bought the full set off eBay at the start of lockdown last March, and planned to fire through them all. When I seen the thickness of the books and the rather small print, I ended up not bothering. I’ve started a new night time routine however, where I put the TV off half an hour before I go to sleep and spend that time reading. I’ve easily got 100 books that I’ve bought and never finished so I took the first book, ‘A Game of Thrones’, down from the shelf with the aim of actually finishing it and I’m pleased to say I did, within 3 weeks. It’s by far the thickest book I’ve ever read and it helped that it was written in such a way that you were desperate to get to the next page. The chapters describing Catelyn Starks journey to the Eeyrie and back were brilliant and I can’t believe some of that wasn’t in the TV show. I don’t know wether I would have rather read the books before the TV show though, as I like to imagine what each character looks like myself instead of already having a preconceived image in your head. There’s plenty of characters in the first book who don’t make an appearance on the TV show thought so it’s not so bad. I will keep firing through the books and hope that R.R. Martin can be bothered to finish The Winds of Winter by the time I’m ready for it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 He recently said it should be done by 2024 I think. f**k that, totally turned off from it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 The books would only be half as thick if Martin simply wrote "character x put clothes on" instead of taking 3 full paragraphs to describe what character x was wearing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 I gave up on the books after 50 pages. I couldn't take to the writing style at all, it's just dull. He's obviously strong on characterisation and maybe if you break the back of it its fine once you get into it. I'm plodding through the Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss at the moment and it's the same. Its like Tolkein ruined fantasy and everyone feels like they need a 1000 page book to tell a story. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairWeatherFan Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 15 minutes ago, invergowrie arab said: I'm plodding through the Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss at the moment and it's the same. Its like Tolkein ruined fantasy and everyone feels like they need a 1000 page book to tell a story. After getting into the GoT books at the time the series debuted, I quite enjoyed it. However, it has put me off reading a book series that doesn't have an ending. The 3rd book in the Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy has been on the way since 2011. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Get on the Wheel of Time or The Witcher 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoBNob Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 2 hours ago, invergowrie arab said: I gave up on the books after 50 pages. I couldn't take to the writing style at all, it's just dull. He's obviously strong on characterisation and maybe if you break the back of it its fine once you get into it. I'm plodding through the Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss at the moment and it's the same. Its like Tolkein ruined fantasy and everyone feels like they need a 1000 page book to tell a story. 2 hours ago, FairWeatherFan said: After getting into the GoT books at the time the series debuted, I quite enjoyed it. However, it has put me off reading a book series that doesn't have an ending. The 3rd book in the Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy has been on the way since 2011. Aye I got into the King killer chronicles about 2016? In the expectation the third book was imminent. Fucked it. A very good couple of books. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishBhoy Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 On 19/12/2021 at 18:35, invergowrie arab said: I gave up on the books after 50 pages. I couldn't take to the writing style at all, it's just dull. It’s possibly because I don’t read a lot of fiction but I really enjoyed the writing style. I do agree that the extent of the descriptive detail he goes in to could be curtailed slightly, but I didn’t find it as much of an issue as others have. I liked how each chapter was written from one characters POV, as it gives the reader a way to see the plotting and scheming play out from multiple perspectives. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimbledance Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Just coming to the end of a rewatch and it’s still a fantastic piece of tv. Even the much criticised final season is slightly better when binged. The absolute carnage wreaked on King’s Landing definitely offsets the disappointing end to the Night King when watched in one sitting. Grey Worm is still a jobby-gobbler though. No amount of rewatches can change that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairWeatherFan Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Not what I expecting. A sequel series about Jon Snow. Seems a pivot from HBO's strategy of tapping into any and every prequel concept. With how things finished with Arya that would have maybe made some more sense, probably too much like the Sea Snake project they're working on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Fucking go back and redo the finish and then I'll be interested. Until then, fucking bury the whole universe. And fucking kill Mr G Martin for being a complete dickhead and not finishing the novels. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Fucking go back and redo the finish and then I'll be interested. Until then, fucking bury the whole universe. And fucking kill Mr G Martin for being a complete dickhead and not finishing the novels.Amazing how worked up people can get about a TV programme. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 It is amazing to look back. Throughout the 2010 there was GoT stuff everywhere. Folk wearing T-shirts, naming their kids after the characters, huge hype for each series. Each episode really, deeply, discussed and debated. Then the last season seems to have sucked all the life and energy out of it. Not just that the show finished but it really, really put people off the whole legacy of it. Very few people I imagine have watched this show from start to finish several times like they have for other shows. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 9 minutes ago, scottsdad said: It is amazing to look back. Throughout the 2010 there was GoT stuff everywhere. Folk wearing T-shirts, naming their kids after the characters, huge hype for each series. Each episode really, deeply, discussed and debated. Then the last season seems to have sucked all the life and energy out of it. Not just that the show finished but it really, really put people off the whole legacy of it. Very few people I imagine have watched this show from start to finish several times like they have for other shows. I watched the whole lot (up to where it was at the time obviously) 3 times prior to the last series. I wold absolutely watch it all again if it wasnt for the ending. I might do so again one day, but the ending/last season will always hang over it like a bad smell 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 40 minutes ago, DiegoDiego said: 1 hour ago, Stellaboz said: Fucking go back and redo the finish and then I'll be interested. Until then, fucking bury the whole universe. And fucking kill Mr G Martin for being a complete dickhead and not finishing the novels. Amazing how worked up people can get about a TV programme. Like any good story that pulls you in so emotionally, you expect a pay off deserving of everything that came up to that point. When you're let down so badly, that's what happens: you get people reacting angrily. Is it rational? Probably not. Do I give a f**k? I gave too much of a f**k! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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