The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors - GoT chat # 1

[WinterIsComing]

following on from...

Hello all! I like the Greyjoy username

Know what you mean about re-reading. I often have to have to refer to the wiki page for minor characters when I've forgotten the back-story.

Don't know about anyone else but it's decades since I've read a fantasy novel. DH reads nothing else but I've never really embraced the genre.

Which has reminded me of this spoof article

?At a recent aspirational dinner party I locked myself in the toilet and read a few pages. I couldn't help myself, I just had to see how the manipulative dwarf Tyrion Lannister's evil schemes unfolded."

Dany

?My husband Jeff was a loving, well-adjusted man when he first picked up A Game of Thrones (A Song of Fire and Ice Book One)"

My best friend is a man called geoff and he loves GoT... It is known

My best friend is a man called geoff and he loves GoT... It is known

Love that phrase. I might start trotting it out after unimaginable bullshit on AIBU benefit / DLA threads. GRRM does it in his books after all.

"Yes, and they get a free top-of-the-range Ferrari every two weeks!"

"It is known"

I tripped up the stairs because i was too engrossed in affc.

I don't do fantasy or anything similar normally either. I dislike myth and magic usually, yet got seems so realistic that i almost forget. Iyswim.

i don't do fantasy either... unless you include the lion the witch and the wardobe when i was 7...

oh but i do like a bit of terry pratchett!

maybe i do like fantasy

I dont like fantasy either. couldnt abide LOTR etc. but this seems almost real.

oh LOTR was super boring, I almost felt I had to read it because of what it is though but yh, I agree, these do seem real.

evening fellow throners, how is everyone?

Hello!

I was mourning this thread today.

But Bridget Jones is on and I am thinking, "Hmm - Colin Firth as Stannis"

He is definitely buttoned-up enough but has something about him...

I don't really like Stannis but I forgive him for the line, "only Renly could vex me so with a piece of fruit"

evening :)

I'm starting at the beginning again before I read DWD, I'm going to understand it a lot more this time I think.

what channel is bridget on?

ITV2 plus 1

179 on Sky.

I am going to watch it with DD (11 going on 20) tomorrow and point out shite choices regarding men.

The Colin Firth / Hugh Grant "fight" scenes really remind me of Renly and Stannis!

Morning.

I think firth is too "nice" for stannis.

I have no affection for stannis but cant see him as a baddy.
I think he is doing what he thinks is best. He seems to be a very loyal and just man. But very easily lead I fear.

I think the casting for the show was very very good. The only one I thought difficult to see as. The character in my head was jorah mormont. He was too smooth and good looking.

Is it very bad that I finally watched the final madterchef last night and I couldn't help thinking the girl in it just had to have been a targeryan.

It is known.

Yes, it is known. I often see Targaryens in town.

When I go to the shops I sometimes see a parked car with the reg Dav0s or something. I think it says Davos anyway

Jorah is a bit smooth, isn't he?

DH and I were wondering where we might put Johnny Depp once but can't remember which character we decided on.

No jorah should be a muscular hairy bear.

Hmm. Where to put Depp.now there's question worthy of pondering.

Oh yes, jorah needs to look a bit more animalistic. Although I do have a bit of a thing for the actor who plays him

If Johhny Depp were to be in GOT it would need to be a character that never dies. that is all.

Dany,

HBO have confirmed season 2 for 1st april in the US

atlantic website!

they show it pretty much straight away over here now don't they? can't wait!

i'm halfway through the first book again, have hardly been on MN since I started

i'm gonna read them all again and then i will buy DWD

hows everyone?