[QUOTE=TheIceman;35011596]How much was that box set?[/QUOTE]
Mine (DVD) cost £24.95 but I had to go pick it up from the shop.
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This is pretty neat
[QUOTE=Chrille;35010077]I'm not normally one to wear merchandise clothing (if that's a way to describe it) but the Stark t-shirt looks pretty rad, might be I should buy it.
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the dark grey one[/QUOTE]
The black and red targaryean shirt is also pretty sweet looking, although the logo is far less discrete
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[img]http://store.hbo.com/img/product/resized/469/00366270-844469_catl_281.jpg?k=a1eaca8a&pid=366270&s=catl&sn=hbo[/img]
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Just have a question about printed shirts though since I'm don't know fashion lingo. Are printed insignias the ones that can crack and wash out with repeated washes?
I just finished season 1, amazing show. Might even read the books now, I'm guessing each season covers 1 book?
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Oh man there's quite a few books, seems like it'll take a long time to catch up... I'll probably end up reading them then.
[QUOTE=lum1naire;35014666]I just finished season 1, amazing show. Might even read the books now, I'm guessing each season covers 1 book?
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Oh man there's quite a few books, seems like it'll take a long time to catch up... I'll probably end up reading them then.[/QUOTE]
It's a season per book, yeah. They hussle some little things around but besides that it's all quite accurate.
So if they're breaking up SoS into 2 seasons, does that mean that (AFFC and ADWD) [sp]Feast for Crows and Dance with Dragons will be during the same season because most of the events happen at the same time? [/sp]
Feast and Dance could be compressed into one season for sure, 2 seasons of set up (literally both books are setting up Winds of Winter) would be horrible. Both Feast & Dance were a pretty big fuck up on George's part that were never meant to happen, they're still better than 99% of fantasy books though.
I'm guessing by the time it gets to that point (if it does) the show is gonna be a lot different to the books.
Feast and Dance should make about one and a half seasons. Combine that with the one and a half SoS makes that'd make three.
why were feast and dance fuck ups?
He originally (like a decade ago) meant to have a five year timeskip instead of those books. He scrapped the idea pretty early because then he would have had to have a shitload of flashbacks to events in those five years. Instead we got world-building and set-up for Winds of Winter.
I really want to see how HBO handled the DVD menus, they always have amazing production quality with their DVDs.
[QUOTE=moffe;35049891]why were feast and dance fuck ups?[/QUOTE]
They're good but they were not meant to happen or planned to happen, he wanted a 5 year gap like Zezibesh said but he changed his mind after a while which left the big problem of 2000+ pages of being all set-up and no pay off.
Everything (especially in Dance) stops just before something big happens so having 2 seasons would not make good tv, blue balls all over. Basically, imagine if in Season 1 certain scenees cut off just before certain events like when Jorah found Dany with the Dragons or Ned lost his head and you had to wait until next season (or Winds of Winter in the books case) to see what was gonna happen.
Also keep in mind it took him 11 (!!!) years to write both of these books when the first 3 all came out within 4 years and he wrote the best book (Storm of Swords) in 2 years.
[QUOTE=The_Marine;35050848]I really want to see how HBO handled the DVD menus, they always have amazing production quality with their DVDs.[/QUOTE]
I haven't checked any of the others, so I'm not sure if the other discs are different. But the first disc had it fade in on a view of Winterfell similar to the one in the first episode, then various clips from the show. Mostly showing single characters with transitions being the flag of that character's house/affiliation.
It's set to a shortened version of The King's Arrival from the soundtrack. The big orchestral bit that you hear in the show that comes in about a minute into the track.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr6FbiRRJNQ[/media]
Are the extras any good?
While I love HBO they've always included a rather small amount of bonus material on their DVD's/Blurays.
[QUOTE=Carne;35056783]Are the extras any good?
While I love HBO they've always included a rather small amount of bonus material on their DVD's/Blurays.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Making of
15 Character profile clips
Creating the Dothraki language
Inside the Night's Watch
From Book to Screen
Creating the Show Open
7 Audio Commentaries Guide to Westeros[/QUOTE]
So far I've only started on the commentary, but that's definitely good. One of the better commentaries I've heard.
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Also, episode two's commentary is done by Jaime, Cersei, and Robert. Interesting grouping.
I think i just spoiled a huge part of the series for me, possible massive spoiler for entire book series [sp]I read on wikipedia that every king in Westeros except Stannis dies[/sp]
I'm on book 3 and I have no idea why I clicked that spoiler :suicide:
I'm on book 2 and I hope I read it wrong.
You shouldn't read Wikipedia pages for books, TV, cinema or anime or anything really. Massive spoilerfests.
[QUOTE=moffe;35061306]I think i just spoiled a huge part of the series for me, possible massive spoiler for entire book series [sp]I read on wikipedia that every king in Westeros except Stannis dies[/sp][/QUOTE]
That's actually not 100% true if it makes you feel better. (ADWD) [sp]Euron Greyjoy.[/sp]
Now I feel horrible since the next 2 books are almost completely spoiled for me.
[QUOTE=moffe;35062646]Now I feel horrible since the next 2 books are almost completely spoiled for me.[/QUOTE]
No they're not. You might have missed a couple (big) twists but honestly the context and implications it holds at the time matter much, much more. There's a big difference between a character getting backstabbed by a friend and a character dying peacefully in his sleep (not saying either of those happens, but not saying they don't happen either).
[QUOTE=Terminutter;35062433]That's actually not 100% true if it makes you feel better. (ADWD) [sp]Euron Greyjoy.[/sp][/QUOTE]
(Book 5)[sp]He was spoiled about the participants of the War of the Five Kings. Euron joins in later in AFFC, once Balon has been dead for a while.[/sp]
I still feel bad for spoiling that though, even though I do not know how it happens i know it happens now.
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best one:
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[QUOTE=moffe;35063558]I still feel bad for spoiling that though, even though I do not know how it happens i know it happens now.[/QUOTE]
Well, you know the author, so I suppose that you already knew that it would happen deep inside, it's the how that matters!
I have a feeling the last book is gonna end with an apocalypse sort of event resulting in every single person in his story dying.
[QUOTE=moffe;35066428]I have a feeling the last book is gonna end with an apocalypse sort of event resulting in every single person in his story dying.[/QUOTE]
If I recall, there is a particular character who George's wife forbade him from killing.
Its kinda sad with all these characters i love just dying like flies.
final scene of last book has been confirmed to be snow or dust blowing over a massive field of graves
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