ALL LEATHER MUST BE BOILED

foosballton asked: What's the smart money on when Dany will actually make landfall...or Dragonfall, at least, in Westeros?

With any luck? Right on top of the Twins.

foosballton asked: Could a dragon become a wight? Or would the ice and fire just not mix?

We just don’t have that kind of info, but a zombie dragon, c’mon, man, that rules.

Help a scholar out!

voelliglosgeloest:

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I am a PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands and I am currently working on a project about Game of Thrones tourism. The project is part of a bigger project about media-inspired tourism: why and how people experience places from television and film, what we get out of the experience, what we make of it when we get home. In order to make this a good, representative project, I would like to interview Game of Thrones fan/tourists about their experiences with the places of the show.

If you have been, or are intending to go, on a Game of Thrones location trip and are willing to be interviewed for this project, please email me at waysdorf [at] eshcc.eur.nl. Pass this on to anyone you think would be interested as well. 

Thanks!

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patrickmmeaney asked: According to the recent EW article, GRRM thinks the odds of the show catching the books "are very long." Seems to me like it's inevitable, so is he much further through Winds of Winter than expected, just delusional or something else?

I trust him!

sunjournal944 asked: If House Martell makes into S4, wondering if opening credits will call it Dorne or Sunspear (neater name) in it (like they use The Eyrie in opening credits rather then The Vale)?

They always use the name of the city or castle rather than the name of the region.

sunjournal944 asked: Do you think if they bring back Tommen Baratheon in S4, he'll be recast both because Callum Wharry might have hit puberty by now or at least look older then the "child king" vibe that storyline requires as well as feeling that Callum was good for a very minor role, but might like another child actor will a bit more chops. Happens all the time I guess (last one I remember when Teeny on "Big Love")

They’ve been sticking with the kids so far, and since Margaery is older in the books, I think it’ll still have the same May-September feeling.

sunjournal944 asked: Two reasons I've haven't seen mentioned for how come no Lady SH in S3E10. One is that is gives the production team a whole extra year to test make-up to get the look right. Two is that the impact for the TV audience of the RW would kind of be negated if suddenly THE final death was only going to last one episode rather then at least couple in S4.

I think the latter explanation is most persuasive. It really would have negated the impact of the event and made the audience trust death in this world a lot less.

cronehead asked: What are your thoughts on Brienne's hunt for Sansa on the show? Not much searching to do, is there, since she got to KL pre-Purple Wedding?

I’d imagine this will be a source of tension between the Lannisters: Jaime and Brienne saying they swore to return Sansa to her mother, Cersei and Tywin and god help us all Joffrey saying a) Her mother’s dead, and b) Fuck you. When Sansa goes AWOL, Brienne will see it as her chance to make good on the oath and Jaime will give her the go-ahead.

yollotheimp asked: RE: Show-viewers; I think another option, beyond civillians and unsullied, is smallfolk: the muggles of Westeros!

But these smallfolk are POV characters from time to time.

nobodysuspectsthebutterfly asked: Question for a friend: Have you written any essays on the topic of the horror aspects of ASOIAF? (Or do you know of any?) Especially in Theon and Bran's chapters of ADWD, or the rising tension of the RW chapters of ASOS.

No, I haven’t, not really. I tend not to react to the material in that way, for whatever reason.

stilljoosen asked: Like Tyrion would know if he'd fathered an illegitimate children. It wasn't like he was a cassanova rutting through the neighborhood girls, he's probably been with hundreds of women that he never thought twice about again, let alone seen.

Sure, but they’d likely remember him, and know who he was, and come calling if they had a son by a scion of the richest family in Westeros — if, that is, they weren’t worried Tywin would have them killed, which they probably would be, so maybe this gets us nowhere after all.

ciscocosta asked: Isn't it a little amazing that some nonbook-readers think that the whole Jon/Ygritte is gonna work out? Whenever I'm asked, I always say "how could it possibly work out?" People wanna 'ship so hard! (Also: I love "Unsullied" as "nonbook-readers", but we need a little something extra. By itself, it's too ambiguous in most sentences.)

I’ve really come around to respect a lot of the fannish reactions I used to reflexively dismiss, like shipping. It speaks to the intensity of the connection with the characters and the material. Particularly as regards actual romantic couples, it’s tough to blame people for wanting love to find a way. But as a wise man once said, if you think this has a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention.

I usually call the uninitiated “civilians,” which believe me is as pejorative regarding me as it is regarding them.

sunjournal944 asked: Mentioning Coldhands, just like dire wolves are a real extinct species, I wondering how they'll handle visualizing the also real and extinct Giant elk (more commonly called Irish elk)?

I think these direwolves are supposed to be different than the historical species, magically so. And I’m not holding my breath about the elk. :(