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I'll be back.
Join Date: Nov 2002
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House of the Dragon
OH YEAH!
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#721 |
The Insider
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Lake of the Ozarks
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Every time I think of Martin lol
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#722 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2012
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#723 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Kansas City
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Martin is a classic example of a “pantser” writer - someone who writes by the seat of his pants and sees where the story he takes him. Usually this type of writer will have, at most, a very high-level outline of where they’re planning to go with things. The flip side is a “plotter” - someone who outlines a lot of detail and then writes to fit it in. Pantsers tend to write the most beautiful stuff (Patrick Rothfuss is another example of this) with the best dialogue and the most rich storytelling and world-building. Plotters tend to get done faster and actually get done, but can be more formulaic (Kevin J Anderson, Sanderson). Their characters are more likely to do something that seems out of line with their established operating styles. Very few can meld the pros of both styles. Steven Eriksen is one of them. His writing/world partner Cam Esslemont cannot (he’s a plotter) |
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#724 |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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"Plotter" is a more diplomatic take on Anderson than I'm willing to give him...
But solid breakdown. |
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#725 | |
You gotta kill a few people
Join Date: Sep 2007
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In the show they brought down the Wall and then had the Battle for the Dawn within what felt like two or three episodes. The series heavily leans on the Game of Thrones moniker but the very first scene of the series showed the Others. I’m thinking GRRM’s outline probably has the Others making it a bit further South than Winterfell, like the Isle of Faces, Trident or even King’s Landing. |
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#726 | |
**** the Raiders
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: A Webb of chaos
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#727 |
MVP
Join Date: Oct 2012
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Started a knight of the 7 kingdoms today. Already hooked it seems a lot more relevant to the GOT stuff. It’s set 90ish years ahead I’d guess. Aeg has already mentioned that his brother aemon went to the wall. There’s several names that you’ve heard about in the original books. Can’t wait to see this on tv.
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#728 |
You gotta kill a few people
Join Date: Sep 2007
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I grow tired of watching this incompetent hack Daemon bumble around this castle.
This dude is worthless without a sword in his hand. |
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#729 |
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Join Date: Oct 2012
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#730 |
Has a particular set of skills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
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Weird decision to keep one of your most popular and a badass inside a dream state and talking about nothing at a table when there is a war going on. Still got some season left.
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#731 |
MVP
Join Date: Feb 2013
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It will be interesting to see what the end game is for Daemon's story this season. This Harrenhal story has been spinning it's wheels for a while with not much movement character wise.
Rhaenyra seemingly heading head first into the same mistake that Aegon just made with his restlessness is troubling as well. |
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#732 |
Needs more middle fingers
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: San Diego
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I'm just miffed by the Scorpion Ballistas, or lack thereof.
1. In the original GOT series, they introduced the Scorpion as some sort of new technology designed to fight off a dragon. Ok, great. Maybe it was poor writing, innaccurate, or im just mis-remembering, but i swear they made it seem like it was new tech. 2. So then we go back in time to HoD and they're discussing using Scorpions. Whoa....ok, so they WEREN'T new technology, they had them hundreds of years prior to GOT? Sure, i mean that makes MORE sense really since there woulda been more dragons around and thus a bigger need. But of course that's a major contradiction. 3. So....if we know Dragons are the biggest threat to pretty much every kingdom in the world....how is every castle NOT guarded by a slew of Scorpion ballistas? In a series so well written....the fact that Scorpions are nowhere to be found is some serious unspoken plot armor. |
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#733 |
The man you could post like.
Join Date: Oct 2010
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Targaryens would probably roast the entire family of anybody that tried to post them up.
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#734 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2012
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#735 | |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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Now I guess the counter would be that he didn't invent/build it, but rather he 'rediscovered' something that had largely vanished from the landscape as Dragons had seemingly gone extinct and those Scorpions wouldn't seem to be terribly useful for anything else (though it would seem as a defense against naval forces, they'd be pretty spectacular). But yeah, I do seem to recall Qyburn 'revealing' one to Cersei in GOT. Good catch. EDIT: Reddit says that the Dornish created the Scorpion used in it battles prior to the events of House of the Dragon. Last edited by DJ's left nut; 07-15-2024 at 03:25 PM.. |
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