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#1541 Re: The Sunset Strip » HBO's A Game of Thrones » 361 weeks ago
Just finished book one. Awesome. Better than I thought it would be. Like the show, I still think Dany had the weakest storyline, but still good. Did she use blood magic hatching the eggs? That's what I was getting.
That’s the million dollar question forum fans have been asking for years. Did Dany even do anything, or was it all Miri Maz Dhur? Was it intentional or a fluke? No one knows how to hatch dragons, and the desire to do so is part of a much deeper plot.
#1542 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 362 weeks ago
Randall Flagg wrote:It’s classless and pandering to the crazies as you said, but it’s nothing new. Yet at least Trump says his bravado to audiences, rather than behind closed doors.
King Trump says everything out the open! King Trump never would say anything behind closed doors! Duhhhhh....
We've got one of the biggest idiots as POTUS in our lifetime, maybe in the history of our country. That lies constantly, doesn't understand basic functions of government, who insults our allies, attacks the media, attacks free speech, thumbs his nose at the rule of law, welcomed Russia's help to get him elected ,obstructed justice on nearly a dozen occasions and you're all like...."at least Trump says his bravado to audiences, rather than behind closed doors."
We're moving into full blown cult leader status now, do you have guys all have daddy issues or something?
Get help man. I get it’s cathartic for you to make a straw man out of me and funnel your rage at me; I really do - but you look unhinged. You can give me negative karma and call me by my real name, I won’t throw a tantrum and fabricate a story to get kudos from strangers on the internet.
But this bit is getting old.
#1543 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 362 weeks ago
So I guess that was a no.
#1544 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 362 weeks ago
I don't think she meant it, but was trying to let the left wing crazies know she's still hip while coaxing them back to daycare.
No, I absolutely agree. That was my point. I don’t think Trump “meant” it when he cheered on with “Lock her up” either. Petraeus didn’t do any time for mishandling classified information, and unless someone has evidence Clinton ordered staffers to destroy cell phones and hard drives after a congressional subpoena, good luck getting a conviction for obstruction.
It’s classless and pandering to the crazies as you said, but it’s nothing new. Yet at least Trump says his bravado to audiences, rather than behind closed doors.
#1545 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 362 weeks ago
Anyone care to opine on how Pelosi saying "I want to see Trump in prison" is positive or productive? Anyone want to try to explain how it's any different than "Lock her up"? Congress, whom has a much lower standard of evidence to support a possible impeachment, lacks the desire to do so - allegedly because Pelosi feels she needs something "solid" and that "resonates" with the American people. So how on Earth can she support a punishment only to those who have met the much higher standard of evidence and verdict of guilty in a courtroom?
These are the same people who accuse Trump of obstruction for a "corrupt mind", but think Congress is both legally and in good-faith attempting to investigate the President. Anyone not see that this represents everything the partisan Truthers accuse Trump of having done?
#1546 Re: The Sunset Strip » HBO's A Game of Thrones » 362 weeks ago
Little finger's demise in the show will be different in the books I think...in the books he is becoming quite powerful in book 5....this was never portrayed the same in the show
Yep, the show portrayed him as a snake that everyone knew was a snake. It didn't make any sense. Book Littlefinger is much more cunning, and realizes how being perceived a likable and non-threatening is much more suited to his goals.
#1547 Re: The Sunset Strip » HBO's A Game of Thrones » 362 weeks ago
Notes so far, I really like Sansa in the book and her odd attraction to The Hound.
I think the show did a better job with Ned wounding his leg fighting with Jamie. A horse fell on him?
George's writing really makes me hungry.
Yea, a lot of fans think Sansa ends up with the Hound in the books.
While I agree the action scene was fun, didn’t they avoid crossing swords in the books? I always appreciated that narrative, because it’s absurd of Jamie to attack Ned Stark, the hand, in public. If he won, Robert would execute him or face war. Tywin would have been furious, but he’d have been outmatched with no allies to support him.
Plus in the show, Jamie shows honor when Ned is stabbed from behind. This is contrasted in the show, when Ned kills Arthur Dayne after Howland stabs him in the back. This was a huge moment because the nature of Arthur and Ned’s fight is something Ned never talked about in the book as you know. So when Bran comments that Ned claimed he beat Dayne, it was a huge deviation that never added to the story now that we’ve seen the finale.
I appreciate the level of realism the books bring to the story. Arya won’t be stabbed in the gut 3 times, fall into raw sewage, and run like the terminator 24 hours later in the book.
#1548 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 363 weeks ago
Maybe someone can point me to the obstruction?
Me thinks you’re going to wait a long time before you get a solid answer on this. If it were that concise, there’d be politicians making the argument for the specified reasons you’re asking for. But something like less than 1% of living federal prosecutors expressed an opinion, so that’s good enough for the partisans.
#1549 Re: The Sunset Strip » HBO's A Game of Thrones » 363 weeks ago
You guys are making me want to read them for a 3rd time in hopes I finish by the time TWOW comes out, but I just have so many other books in my que.
#1550 Re: The Sunset Strip » HBO's A Game of Thrones » 363 weeks ago
Am I off the mark or is Tyrion more the size of Vern Troyer (mini me) than an average dwarf? You really don't get the full scope of how tough his life is physically than you do in the novel. His bow legs are kind of twisted and gives him fits just walking. I feel awful for him, but it makes him that much more impressive.
I can't speak to real life dwarfism, but I believe they're generally not proportionate like normal people are. Vern Troyer was slightly above 2 feet in height if I recall, so no, Tyrion wouldn't be similar. His head was normal size, but his torso and limbs were relatively small. I think Peter Dinklage is a good comparison save book Tyrion wasn't nearly as handsome and had a black and green eye respectively. But that's the beauty of books; you create the character in your mind's eye.
Just keep an open mind as you experience his character arc in later books. He's not the hero the show kept him to be.
