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by Wimsey
Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:41 am
Forum: HOTD & GOT General Discussion
Topic: S07E03 - Queen's Justice - predictions
Replies: 12
Views: 35984

Re: S07E03 - Queen's Justice - predictions

Arya will get to Winterfell and kill Little finger disguised as Sansa Doens't she have to kill sansa first?! I hope she doens't go that far. heh, true! The bigger problem is that it would be completely arbitrary, in at least two ways. First, if LF is going to be killed by a main character, then it'...
by Wimsey
Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:05 pm
Forum: House of the Dragon Spoiler-Free Talk
Topic: Dany - Villain? Savior? Something else?
Replies: 39
Views: 494671

Re: Dany - Villain? Savior? Something else?

Daenerys is none of these: she's "just" a protagonist. I think that the problem comes from looking at the roles from typical fantasy stories (in which there is "good" and "evil," and thus "heroes" and "villains") and trying to put them onto characters written according to modern literary/cinematic c...
by Wimsey
Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:54 pm
Forum: HOTD & GOT General Discussion
Topic: Jon/Ghost scene cut from Stormborn
Replies: 5
Views: 16280

Re: Jon/Ghost scene cut from Stormborn

Not Littlefinger wrote:
Wed Jul 26, 2017 9:03 pm
CGI is expensive.
Also, the wolves don't look great, particularly compared to the dragons & giants.
by Wimsey
Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:52 pm
Forum: The Winds of Winter
Topic: The winds of winter release date
Replies: 28
Views: 408762

Re: The winds of winter release date

and then I can concentrate on the true story from GRRM but my resolve would last about 2 minutes before I crack the front cover.... The stories are going to be the same: it's only going to be trivial details that will differ. However, and as Martin himself stresses, there is no "what really happene...
by Wimsey
Fri Jul 14, 2017 5:16 am
Forum: HOTD & GOT General Discussion
Topic: s7 Death Pool
Replies: 18
Views: 54875

Re: s7 Death Pool

I really hope they don't kill Meera. She survived the white walkers, what would kill her now that they're at the wall? Tripping over slippery ice? Besides, I believe they'd at least use her a lot more before killing her off. She can bring Howland Reed to Jon, he's the only person alive other than B...
by Wimsey
Thu Jul 13, 2017 5:12 am
Forum: HOTD & GOT General Discussion
Topic: Religion in Westeros
Replies: 23
Views: 68441

Re: Religion in Westeros

But I’m hoping that there’s a lot more going on and that the apparent weakness of the New Gods is important to the endgame. Anybody have any insights? The New Gods almost certainly are not real: like gods in our world, people just invented them. The Old Gods are real, but not really "gods," at leas...
by Wimsey
Thu Jul 13, 2017 3:03 am
Forum: The Winds of Winter
Topic: The winds of winter release date
Replies: 28
Views: 408762

Re: The winds of winter release date

I think the pressure was ON GRRM to release TWOW before the series could catch up to him. The minute that was out of question (over a year ago), he gave up on the urgency and I think he's going to release when he feels it's 100% finished. I would add to this that often times when one gives up on a ...
by Wimsey
Thu Jul 13, 2017 2:57 am
Forum: HOTD & GOT General Discussion
Topic: s7 Death Pool
Replies: 18
Views: 54875

Re: s7 Death Pool

Bran & Arya will make it, as they are two of the primary protagonists around whom GRRM has crafted the larger story. As for everyone else, they could die. I give Jaime & Cersei very low odds of dying: I see a G'Kar-Londo death for the pair of them at the end of all things. Sansa seems to have become...
by Wimsey
Thu Jul 13, 2017 2:51 am
Forum: HOTD & GOT General Discussion
Topic: How was the Red Wedding possible?
Replies: 6
Views: 19493

Re: How was the Red Wedding possible?

Even if someone did feel bad about that plan, they'd probably be too scared to rebel against it, because for every one soldier that doesn't support it, there are 20 soldiers that do. It'd be too risky. Given that the Freys seem to be the "White Trash" of Westeros, it probably was very easy to whip ...
by Wimsey
Tue Jul 11, 2017 4:35 am
Forum: HOTD & GOT General Discussion
Topic: End of Thrones.
Replies: 31
Views: 74081

Re: End of Thrones.

I was thinking about stories that would move the timeline forward - find out what happens in the immediate or distant future. If magic is gone, then any "future" stories are about a basically different, mundane, and likely less interesting world. Given how small a role magic plays in the plots of t...