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Anybody else Looking Forward to the Game if Thrones Season 7 Premiere?

 
 
 
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Its kinda sad I guess, or so much of humanity would try and convince me, but certain shows and films are all that are keeping me breathing. Well, that and my cat and a mercifully short life thanks to illness and a smoking/burgeoning drinking habit. I think these things are funny and good to think about, but others like to shit on it and I shrug.

I no longer write my own fiction because no point, and no longer read so I've never got into the books. The show's fairy well done for a series run I think, so I'm mildly interested in seeing the next season in a few weeks time.

Anybody else?
 
I sort of am. Not like I did for the first 3 seasons, though. With Martin taking so long to write the books, I've decided to make the show canon and not read anymore of the books.
 
Tars Tarkus said:
I sort of am. Not like I did for the first 3 seasons, though. With Martin taking so long to write the books, I've decided to make the show canon and not read anymore of the books.
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First caught the show only a couple years ago, and never started on the books, cuz frankly my days at ploughing through the massive amount of text in them are over. Plus, I like the dialogue in the show more than the older style in the books. I think now that Martin may very well die before finishing it and that might ruin the book version depending on who takes it on after him.
 
Tars Tarkus said:
I sort of am. Not like I did for the first 3 seasons, though. With Martin taking so long to write the books, I've decided to make the show canon and not read anymore of the books.
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I don't really care about which is canon, and at this rate, reading any more of the books may not be an option - neither I nor GRRM are getting any younger.
 
Tried to read the books--too poorly written to do anything but, alternately, bore me and unintentionally tickle my funny bone. Too low quality to continue reading. The quality of the show has varied somewhat, but has been better than what I sampled of the books. I am looking forward to this season--somewhat: I can sense several ways it could go bad.
 
Definitely looking forward to it. Season Six did very well without having a published book to back it. What I find interesting is that there are two massive story arcs and I wasn't certain how they can finish them both in one season. I rewatched the first six seasons recently and in Season Six, I was pretty certain one beloved character's death was being heavily foreshadowed in Season Seven (I'll try to act surprised).

I know one thing, if I was Trump, I'd be furious that a lid has been so well kept on Seasons 6 and 7 for this show, where as if Trump farts in a closest, it is reported rather quickly.
 
jab said:
Tried to read the books--too poorly written to do anything but, alternately, bore me and unintentionally tickle my funny bone. Too low quality to continue reading. The quality of the show has varied somewhat, but has been better than what I sampled of the books. I am looking forward to this season--somewhat: I can sense several ways it could go bad.
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Given the time constraint, I think some conflicts are going wrap up quicker than one would guess. The one thing I don't get is why the Iron Born angle exists (i.e. the competing family feud). Was it a plot device or is there a breaking ball waiting to drop.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Given the time constraint, I think some conflicts are going wrap up quicker than one would guess. The one thing I don't get is why the Iron Born angle exists (i.e. the competing family feud). Was it a plot device or is there a breaking ball waiting to drop.
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Not sure what they are doing with it in the tv show. In the book the guy trying to take over had an artifact recovered from Valyria- a horn that supposedly could control dragons... tho it kills the person blowing it.
 
jab said:
Tried to read the books--too poorly written to do anything but, alternately, bore me and unintentionally tickle my funny bone. Too low quality to continue reading. The quality of the show has varied somewhat, but has been better than what I sampled of the books. I am looking forward to this season--somewhat: I can sense several ways it could go bad.
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I read what GRRM posted online from the books and was honestly not understanding the appeal of the books to anybody let alone so many of the readers as he has. The language usage varies from stilted old-world=esque to pedantic thought streams by way of multiple character viewpoints and it just goes on, and on and on I that same that same vein, book by book it seems.

The show hasn't disappointed me yet save for the lack of episodes as I think there could have been one or two more per season so far. Id think they will end it ell if they manage to keep the same quality despite shorter seasons.
 
Ya, the books have become redundant. Martin has completely lost the plot but the show has picked it up and is giving a good storyline which moves forward and is going to end. There are a lot of subplots in the book that the show has completely ignored, so you know that they're not all that relevant to the main plotline and are just filler. They're not cliffhangers anymore when you've seen the characters move past the stuff or end up dead already.

If he ever gets around to releasing another book, I might get around to reading it at one point, but I won't jump out and buy it on the first day like I did the earlier novels.
 
As long as they don't kill any of my favourite characters, and shy away from gratuitous sex and violence, I'm sure the new season will be just fine.
 
There's like 15 different plot lines. I'll binge watch this next season when it's over and then grumble about it until the end of the next season, when I'll binge watch that too.
 
So umm... Pike loses most of its Navy and commanders, yet, in about 6 months, they rebuild with ships about 5 times the size and have a commandable Navy that can sail anywhere and know where the other Navy is. And their new king is a god or something (though I presume there is something behind that, hopefully, other than they are running out of bad guys).

GoT has quite become a 24 like show where large events or travelling over long distances can take place within the span of a cut scene.
 
Watched the firs two episodes--snippets from lotsa plot threads--most of them rather hohum except for Arya's thread.
 
Curious why Pike's navy can't fly as well. And how no one knew the Tyrell's would be invaded. Mr. "I have lots of birds" couldn't get wind of the first navy loss, the uber navy heading to the other castle, and then army marching on the Tyrell's?!

The story telling is getting very weak and starting to involve too much plot device. About the only stuff that make sense is the Targerian and Stark relationship.
 
this is what happpens when D&D run out of book material to use.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
So umm... Pike loses most of its Navy and commanders, yet, in about 6 months, they rebuild with ships about 5 times the size and have a commandable Navy that can sail anywhere and know where the other Navy is. And their new king is a god or something (though I presume there is something behind that, hopefully, other than they are running out of bad guys).

GoT has quite become a 24 like show where large events or travelling over long distances can take place within the span of a cut scene.
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I think this is because they're trying to speed up the pacing so they can move through all the plot threads quicker.
 
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