May 2012
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My friend and fellow ASoIaF fan Jamieson Cox, whom...
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Man, if y’all only knew the amount of Game of Thrones writing I’ll be doing over the next few days.
[Link] Game of Thrones: News - EW Scoop on S3 New... →
Elio & Linda confirm that Ramsay Bolton and Vargo Hoat are in Season Three as well, and some unnamed Slaver’s Bay characters too.
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[LINK] 'Game of Thrones' scoop: Season 3 character... →
Mance Rayder: We’ve heard about him all season. A former member of the Night’s Watch who became the “King Beyond the Wall,” the leader of the Wildlings.
– Daario Naharis: A confident and seductive warrior.
– Jojen Reed; Meera Reed: A teenage brother and sister duo with special insights.
– Edmure Tully: A brash young member of the Tully family.
– Ser Brynden Tully (The Blackfish): Catelyn...
[Link] Game of Thrones Season 2, Episode 9:... →
Andy Greenwald’s reviews of Game of Thrones for Grantland mostly mine the show for comedy — not that it’s snark at the show’s expense, necessarily, but just that it’s mostly a stand-up routine about the show. But man, “Blackwater” appears to have wiped the smile right off his face, particularly the Hound’s storyline, about which Greenwald writes as...
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The Boiled Leather Audio Hour Episode 09!
Suffer the Children/Blackwater Bonus: Children and Violence in A Song of Ice and Fire, plus thoughts on Game of Thrones’ “Blackwater” episode
Stefan Sasse and I are once again a dynamic duo for this week’s episode, which once again tackles two topics for the price of one.
First up, BLAH goes to the Blackwater, for a discussion of this week’s tremendous episode...
croclock asked: I'm a bit surprised (if not disappointed) that your list of 10 biggest changes in the adaptation of the book A Clash of Kings to the TV you did not mention either Dany's dragons being stolen or, and especially, Catelyn's character dramatic change? In my opinions, those two seem to be far more relevant than Ygritte running away from Jon Snow.... maybe you disagree?
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Game of Thrones thoughts, Season Two, Episode...
For my recap/review of Episode 19, please visit Rolling Stone.
You have no idea how hard it was not to just title this one “Smoke on the Water” and call it a day.
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A Feast for Crows/A Dance with Dragons...
Can anyone recommend a reasonably authoritative reading order for reading the two books simultaneously in more-or-less chronological order? I googled but nothing jumped out as the consensus choice.
Everything I Do: a pre-break cross-post
My name is Sean T. Collins. I write about television, comics, music, film, the real world, horror, and other things for my blog Attentiondeficitdisorderly at seantcollins.com. This is my main site. I cover Game of Thrones and other things for Rolling Stone. I review comics and interview cartoonists for The Comics Journal. I write short comics of my own in collaboration with a variety of artists. I...
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Joffrey's Theme
I’m listening to the Game of Thrones Season Two soundtrack right now (it’s already available on iTunes!) and I’m reminded of something I never had room to mention in any of my Rolling Stone reviews: Composer Ramin Djawadi took the Medieval Times music that played for King Robert’s arrival at Winterfell — arguably Season One’s cheesiest musical cue — and...
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Midnight realization
Oh my god — I ship Jon & Dany!
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[Link] Game of Thrones: News - Season 2 Soundtrack... →
Spoilers in the song titles, in case you were wondering what’s going to happen toward the end of the season. But mainly, “The Rains of Castamere” is going to be performed by the National???
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The treason for gold
“The treason for gold was Brown Ben Plumm”
That was my thought, until Brown Ben himself disabused me of the notion. During her wedding to Hizdahr in DofD, Danaerys runs into Ben and asks pretty directly if he and the Second Sons betrayed her for money. Ben says no, and tells the story of finding a corpse, after his first battle, that had a fortune of gold sewn beneath the armor:
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Sandor Clegane jerked backward, still burning. He ripped the remnants of his shield off and flung them away with a curse, then rolled in the dirt to smother the fire running along his arm.
Lord Beric’s knees folded slowly, as if for prayer. When his mouth opened only blood came out. The Hound’s sword was still in him as he toppled face forward. The dirt drank his blood. Beneath the hollow hill...
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“Your skies were too grey, your wines too sweet, your women too chaste, your food too bland … and you yourself were the greatest disappointment of all.”
“I had just been born. What did you expect of me?”
“Enormity,” the black-haired prince replied. “You were small, but far-famed. We were in Oldtown at your birth, and all the city talked of was the monster that had been born to the...
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[Link] Game of Thrones: News - Bryan Cogman... →
Bryan Cogman, the writer of a couple of very good Game of Thrones episodes and the series’ overall story editor, loremaster, and guy who broke down the books into episode-by-episode beats, has been trolled off of Twitter, basically. This is a real bummer — he’s a good writer and struck me as a good guy, too. Certainly my own interactions with him on Twitter, in the context of my...
peterhassett asked: Do you have any links for the Tyrion Targaryen theory? I understand the basic points (light blond hair, Aerys' interest in Joanna as told by Selmy), but I want to know more. Thanks.
parhelions asked: I take it you're an Aegon Blackfyre believer, then.
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[Benioff:] There was a good deal of pressure to turn Blackwater into a land battle. The Battle of the Blackwater Banks, I guess. And we understood the technical reasons why that would help our cause: land battles are much easier to shoot than naval battles.
Weiss: But we’ve seen so many pitched battles in epic fantasies, and relatively few naval battles (probably because most people making epic...
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Theory clearinghouse
Jaime is the valonqar. He’ll kill Cersei and die in the process, somehow.
The Prince That Was Promised is the same thing as Azor Ahai is the same thing as The Last Hero (provided you view that story prophetically), and there are three people who will fulfill all these prophecies simultaneously (three heads has the dragon), and those three people are Daenerys Targaryen, Jon Snow (son of...
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Game of Thrones thoughts, Season Two, Episode...
For my recap/review of Episode 18, please visit Rolling Stone.
I’m especially pleased with the opening line for this one.
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"Pure lust"
If there’s one image I keep coming back to in this episode, it’s Robb Stark’s face as he watched Talisa tell the story of her little brother.
He could relate to the gut-churning terror she felt during her brother’s near-drowning, and he deeply needed to believe her when she said that changing your entire life was possible. But a lot of the hunger we saw on his face was...
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[Link] The becoming of deities ~ Tower of the Hand →
My Boiled Leather Audio Hour co-host Stefan Sasse discusses the gods of Westeros’s major religions — the old gods, the Seven, and R’hllor — attempting to determine their origins (real or mythological) and their role in current events. He leaves out the Drowned God, presumably because the Cthulhu Mythos already answered those questions for us.
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[Link] Leaked audition tape confirms Edmure Tully... →
Woo! Keep fishin’, Game of Thrones!
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Against "Was that really necessary?" as a...
Beyond that, I think “is it necessary?” is the single most overrated rubric for evaluating quality in art. For starters, no art is “necessary,” that’s what makes it art. Moreover, this allows only for utilitarian plot-advancement and arc-based character growth. All the weirdness that really matters — the spectacle, the symbolism, the dead-ends and meanderings...
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Some people have rules about sex in comic books or stories in general. It needs to serve the story and not just exist to titillate the reader. Do these people have sex at all?
Sex never “serves the story” in the way these people want. Hell, you could take the sex out if 9 Songs and the story would be there. It just wouldn’t be the story that anybody wants to watch.
Generally, people don’t look...
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[Link] Westeros: Updates - Westeros Fundraiser →
I wouldn’t be where I am today with out Elio & Linda’s support. Won’t you consider chipping in a few bucks to keep the biggest and best ASoIaF site on the web up and running?
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[Link] Not A Blog - Odds and Ends →
Here’s everything GRRM’s up to these days. Sounds like Dunk & Egg #4 is done?
“You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull,...”
– George R.R. Martin, “The Hand Behind the Throne” by Gavin Edwards, Rolling Stone #1157, May 24, 2012. (via hermixedtapesamasterpiece)
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[Link] 'Game' Changers: The 10 Biggest Changes... →
In my latest GoT piece for Rolling Stone, I render my verdict, King Joffrey-style, on the 10 biggest changes from book to screen. I’d love to hear what y’all think.