/got/ general

>>80625147
we keep dying and we're 4 months away. Why are d&d so retarded that fewer episodes take longer to come out.

>>80625254
all intrigue and subtlety is gone, and it's only worse with the leaks being revealed

jon snow is my waifu :3

>>80626480
thread ruined
saged
OP make a new one

Why did Rhaegar name both his sons Aegon?

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>>80627342
>Why did Rhaegar name both his sons Aegon?

>>80627342
because he's a retarded faggot

>>80625147
March Madness

Mar. 18th, 2017 at 3:57 PM
Spain
No, I'm not talking about basketball. I'm a football guy, mostly. A little baseball on the side. But I don't follow basketball, or hockey, or soccer, or tennis, or golf.

My own March has been pretty damned mad, however. Hard to believe half the month is gone already.

We had two great nights at the JCC with Leeman Kessler and ASK LOVECRAFT. His YouTube videos are a lot of fun, but he's even better in person. If you have a chance to see him at a con, don't miss it. Some of his bits are funny, but he also has moments (as HPL) that are moving and profound.

The HAP & LEONARD premiere was also terrific. It's always great to see Joe Lansdale, and the second season of the show looks to be even better than the first.

And of course on Tuesday we brought together the Santa Fe film community up on the hill, and rolled out the Stagecoach Foundation. That was exciting as well.

(Though I have to confess, reading some of the various reports about Stagecoach on line makes me want to bang my head against the desk and bewail what passes for journalism in this age of the internet. Back when I was a journalism student at Northwestern, some of these clowns would have gotten themselves a "Medill F." They don't even get basic facts right. mutter mutter mutter)

Besides all that, there's been the huge new Wild Cards deal, the Wild Cards reread, lots of stuff with HBO that I cannot talk about yet, and of course -- always, always -- WINDS OF WINTER.

So much to do. And the days go by so quickly. I love my work, all my work, all my projects, all my children, but sometimes it seems as if the harder I work, the further behind I get.

Maybe things will calm down soon. But I am not holding my breath.
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>>80627342
Why did he think he could take on this?

>>80628198

Why is the cuck's visor up?

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>>80628198
>>80628596

The helmet decorations are just ridiculous on otherwise realistic armor

>>80627342
DABID

I HAB AN IDEA DABID

What two sons? Is this a new leak?

>>80628680
fuck off with that pseudo realism bullshit.

>>80628876

whot do you prefer?

>>80628948
for lords, knights and other prominent characters to proudly wear their heraldry and colours upon good looking functional plate armour.

>>80628198
Because Rhaegar read all those fairy tales and historical accounts where the prince in shining armor slays the wicked rebels in single combat. Unfortunately, Rhaegar forgot that people die in fairy tales and in history all the fucking time and that his side was clearly in the wrong.

The more you read about the Targaryens, the more you realize they were a fucking plague on the land. Westeros had plenty of wars and border skirmishes, but those were with the armies of 1, 2 or sometimes 3 kingdoms. All the wars in Westeros post-Aegon the Conqueror involved the full might and resources of a continent so no shit the casualties and damage were greater.

The only good Targs were the ones who actually gave a shit about the people and had good administration skills like based Jaehaerys the Conciliator, Queen Alysanne, Baelor Breakspear, Egg, or Maester Aemon.

>>80625147
Stannis got BTFO because he thought he was the hero of his own story.

>>80628680

I think the armor, with the exception of Daemon Blackfyre in that picture is good and fairly accurate for the 1400s. I see a sallet, an armet, a bascinet and a kettle helmet. I can make out Bittersteel and Quentyn Fireball due to their coats of arms and helmet decorations.

I generally find the early medieval period of armor better for fantasy, since swords are often important and they're only a sidearm in the era of plate armor.

>>80625254
They were inspired by GRRM's pace.

>>80629255
>Stannis got BTFO because he thought he was the hero of his own story.
Lol barely any of that prophecy stuff is even in the show, he got btfo because two liberal jews are in charge of the show

>>80629292

Meant to reply to >>80629032

>>80625254
>Why are d&d so retarded that fewer episodes take longer to come out.
7 episodes? 9? Anyway they started filming later in the year so that's one reason it's coming out later.

Plus, do we know each episode's length? HBO doesn't play commercials so can they please do episodes that go over an hour? Seven, one hour and thirty minute episodes would be nice.

>>80629303
Yeah because they know how ASOIAF ends and Stannis is irrelevant.

>>80629430
>Yeah because they know how ASOIAF ends and Stannis is irrelevant.
Yep Stannis is going to burn his daughter two feet outside winterfell then have a bad day where Ramsay Sue btfos him and then Brienne gets to give a self righteous speech about Renly and kill him.

>>80629492
Maybe not like that, but he clearly isn't going to be taking the throne.

I wouldn't be surprised if Dany kills him because of MUH USURPER

>>80629492
D&D simplified and changed a lot of ASOIAF because it's a fucking tangle. And they have to cater to certain demographics.

Look, Book Stannis is gonna die and Shireen will get sacrificed right after Jon gets shanked in the next book. The details are off, but the end result is the same.

>>80629610
Well of course. He's the Usurper's brother and she's a strong independent womyn that's gonna bring cultural enrichment to Westeros with her hordes of Dothraki, sellswords, Unsullied, Ironborn, etc.

>>80629610
.>>80629632
>Maybe not like that, but he clearly isn't going to be taking the throne.
as long as the end of his arc is no where near as contrived or forced as the show then i will be ok with his death i'm denying hes going to die,
Plus since they're in such a rush its funny how they had the time to waste a whole season by delaying the north story instead of just making both armies kill each other in s5

>>80629739
*I'm not denying

>>80629739
I think you'd have to actively work to make book Stannis more contrived than show Stannis, and we all know how much GRRM hates working.

>>80629113
>Because Rhaegar read all those fairy tales
>tfw Rhaegar has the intellect of 11y/o Sansa

>11y/o sansa who herself has a mental age of about 6.

>>80625147
>branbros let bran thread die

Wtf?

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>>80629632
Mel and selyse hearing of stannis's "death" (Pink Letter) will sacrifice shireen to bring back stannis who they believe to be azor ahai, but instead Jon will rise.

>>80629380
>Plus, do we know each episode's length?

They'll still be an hour each at best. D&D said the whole series will be 73 hours and since we're getting 7 episodes season 7 and 6 episodes in season 8, each episode will be the usual length

>>80630049
Exactly. Stannis gets his retarded ass killed by either the Frey/Bolton army or if GRRM decides to throw him a bone, he'll triumph over Roose and Ramsay before it all goes to shit when the Wall collapses and the Others zerg-rush.

>>80628680
Finally ASOIAF art with Wars of the Roses era armour. Those who draw people in 1200s gear with random fantasy skyrim armours on top deserve to be burned in wildfire.

>>80629113
kek, George himself has said it's better for territories to be united

>>Putting aside the specifics of the situation, and taking a long-range look, I think history shows that we do better when we join together into larger political units that embrace diversity, rather than building walls and breaking into smaller units. Alexander's empire was better than the squabbling city-states of ancient Greece that preceded it (a pity he did not live long enough to make the union with Persia permanent, and twice a pity that his successors broke it all up into smaller countries to war on each other). The thirteen American colonies were wise to join together into one large country, despite their differences, than they would have been as thirteen small ones. The nations of Europe have been fighting each other for centuries; joining together into one great multi-national nation represents real progress

And one of the background videos for the Riverlands as part of the dvd extras says they never knew peace until the Targaryens came

Targs represent progress

>>80630269
I whole-heartedly agree that Westeros should be unified under a centralized government, but those sister-fucking psychopaths were the wrong ones to do it.

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>>80628198
>>80628680
>>80629292
>>80630163
>It's a medieval armor thread
Based

>>80630334
That's why they'll be succeeded by Jon, who won't fuck his sisters, just his cousin Sansa

Which reminds me, would Westeros accept following a king who worships the Old Gods? Dany is pretty much agnostic or at least doesn't keep to one god. Arya follows every god cause muh Many-faced God. And Sansa is the only other valuable consort due to lineage that follows the Seven, though Arianne would make a good one too to bring Dorne back into the fold after Rhaegar fucked Elia over to make Jon

>>80630269
>s. Alexander's empire was better than the squabbling city-states of ancient Greece that preceded it (a pity he did not live long enough to make the union with Persia permanent, and twice a pity that his successors broke it all up into smaller countries to war on each other).
And once again the progressive left shows its true imperialistic authoritarian face.

Why is anyone on /tv/ watching this after they've killed Stannis and made clear they'd rather focus on strong womyn like Sansa and Arya rather than based Varys and Littlefinger

>>80630741
>based Varys
>helped kill Tywin and oppose Stannis, so he can bring in the Daenerys rule

you're as bad as them anon

>>80627447
Cause they're retarded..I meant weiss and benioff or whoever came up with that dumb idea.

>>80630991
I just want to see more manly men like varys on screen

showfag turned bookfag here (to my great shame)... Before the Aegon reveal, did people think that Varys was a dany supporter? Given the discussion with Illyrio in AGOT (and illyrio being with viserys/dany)?

>47 posts and not a single Isaac

Disgusting. This shitheap should never have been resurrected.

>>80631393
think they posted some on >>>/hm/ >>>/cm/ and >>>/imahugefaggotfuckmyface/

>>80631350
Logically it would have been retarded if he genuinely supported Dany.
Like why would he want them take the throne with Viserys and the rape horde? Thats waay worse than having Robert as the king.
Plus he has no direct control or interaction with Dany and Viserys whatsoever for them to ever listen to him.

>>80630449

I'm gonna shill for this severely underappreciated channel on the subject https://www.youtube.com/user/neosonic66/

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>>80632873
Thanks brev

>>80627342
>>80627342
rhaegar died before lyanna gave birth.

gay as fuck forced meme

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Now that the wildfire has settled.

How badly is she going to get killed this season?

>>80630449

worth noting that most of the people in the picture are northerners (supposed to be dull) and you're comparing the garb of higher end nobility, which is definitely the case in king's landing.

>>80633568
>How badly is she going to get killed this season?
oh fuck off with this bullshit already. She should be dead within the first 5mins after what she did but she wont because shes a mary sue. Everyone is going to go on a retarded suicide mission to convince a woman who is a known liar, murderer and psycho that the wights and others are real when they together even after their loses eclipse her shitty broken army like beggars for her help.

>>80625147
I'm sure you've noticed that Marvel is finally being rated fairly. Will GoT be next? Season 5 and 6 were dogshit but people pretend it's the greatest show ever.

Bran

>>80631350
The books highlight that Varys was fueling Aerys' paranoia, including pushing him to disinherit Rhaegar, so it was clear he was not a Targaryen supporter.

>>80633856
autism

>>80633861
>Will GoT be next? Season 5 and 6 were dogshit but people pretend it's the greatest show ever.

what you call "dogshit" in GoT is what showfags like most.

So, no.

>>80633861
>I'm sure you've noticed that Marvel is finally being rated fairly. Will GoT be next? Season 5 and 6 were dogshit but people pretend it's the greatest show ever.
If you mean Iron fist most of that shit was well its got the some of the same problems as the other shows maybe worse in other areas but because its got an unlikeable white billionaire doing special martial arts minus 10 points because muh racism, cultural appropriation etc.
Got is never going to be shit on as hard as it deserves to be because its the global meme show with normie fan service and muh stronk woymn.
>>80633973
lol you guys are idiots if you think that d&d dont love Cersei.

>>80633963
what were the theories then?
About Varys conspiring with Illyrio?

>>80633861
>5 and 6 were dogshit
Here is your (you)

>>80634046
At the time I honestly had no idea.
He wasn't a Robert supporter clearly by virtue of allowing Littlefinger's uninterrupted fuckery; it could only have been an outlier faction yet unmentioned, or he was in it for personal reasons. Evidently it's now likely both.

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>start watching GoT not long ago for the first time
>just started Season 3 and I can't fucking stand Daenerys

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>>80631393
s-sorry

fingers crossed for TWoW this year

>>80634600
stop watching

Modern day Isaac Hempstead Wright

New Preston

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzhUSIAcmtI

tl;dw : Euron is a military genius.

>>80625147
Wow this shit again already?

>>80634802
Why? So far I mostly enjoy the Lannisters being complete heels the most I think. Also the idea of THE WALL.

>>80625480

what leaks?

>>80634967
https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/comments/57w3yw/my_awayforthelads_season_7_spoiler_timeline/

>>80634967
Getting real tired of this meme.

>>80635042
and salty cunt spoonfeeding every time

>>80631941
this seems like a really sweet channel, perfect for my procrastination of uni work, i appreciate your shilling

>>80634932
not that guy, buti f you hate Dany in S3 you're gonna want to shove forks into your eyes everytime you see her in S5/6 with her fuckign smug face and her retarded speeches every 30 seconds.

>>80634932
it's all downhill from season 1, hitting unspeakable lows in 4 and onward

just read the books and join the eternal wait

>>80634863
watching it now.
btw does anyone else have a problem with subs on youtube? Never shows me when they have new content. it's always been a big bugged but since 3-4 days they just don't show anything at all.

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>>80635211
>eternal wait
The Winds of Never Ever will come one day anon.

>>80628198
Robert got hurt pretty bad. They were evenly matched.

>>80635280
I unironically think it's a late 2017 TWoW is quite likely. Announcement at the very least. i hoped for 2016 announcement but well
that said, ADoS will never come

>>80634655
>you will never sneak up behind Isaac and playfully mess up already messy hair while he's in his pajamas playing classical music on his upright piano on a snowy December morning, before sipping hot coco and watching Saturday morning cartoons.

The world is a cruel place filled with cruel, cruel misgivings.

>>80635403
>Robert got hurt pretty bad. They were evenly matched.
i think thats because he went all out and didnt have a good defense he just channeled every bit of rage and fury he had into smashing Rhaegar as hard as possible not caring about the wounds he was receiving at the time.

>>80635198
How much of a spotlight does she get per episode, around? I may still survive that because I enjoy seeing Ser Jorah in action.

>>80635211
>it's all downhill from season 1

That's pretty much how it happens with most TV shows, sadly. I noticed the slight drop in quality during S2, but it wasn't as noticeable for me I suppose.

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New table top game will you buy it?

>>80633582
>10th century normans
>higher end
lol

>>80625147
Azor Hot Pie

>>80635661
>I enjoy seeing Ser Jorah in action.
That's too bad, fucko

>>80635656
I'm just saying if Rhaegar got lucky, he could have won.

>>80635795
I suppose he dies somewhat close to where I am currently, then. Shame.

>>80635735
Azor is Sam.

Screencap this.

What happens in Braavos? Jew international bankers and puffy sleeves?

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Glory to the one true God. Praise him, faggots. Praise him.

>>80635846
He doesn't. or does he?

>>80636009
thicc

Dumb Issac posters.

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>>80635965

They've seem like the most advanced society. They have republicanism, banking, and seem to have entered the renaissance with written plays instead of mummery.

>>80635846
Nah he's still around

Is AWOIAF worth a read/buy?

>>80636147
>banking
That's never good though

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>>80635661
>he likes ser jorah the fedorah

>>80636313

It is if you want to transition away from feudalism.

>>80636340
w-wtf I hate Jorah now?

>>80636274
You can buy the books used on amazon delivered for like $3 each.

>>80636274
yes

>>80636274

Just steal the ebook and google the pictures. It fills in some of the gaps from Dunk&Egg and "The Rogue Prince" & "The Princess and the Queen"

>>80636340
Anon what the fuck are you talking about? Stannis bros dont exist, Davos is a loyal follower of the rightful king Jon Snu.

>>80636432
you're a danyfag by association and should be ashamed of yourself

>>80636543
And best bros with Tyrion "oops I killed ur sons" Lannister

>>80636714
t. Ned Stark

>>80634802
>fingers crossed for TWoW this year

lmfao

>>80634863
the whole kraken things seem to make sense ( and pretty much everyone knew it was coming) but isn't it a bit much for Euron to spend so much time on?

Months and months of torture of Aeron just for that? Isn't he smart enough to come out with a way to win the battle against the redwine fleet with his thousand ships without spending months on it?

Victarion rekt the lannister fleet and he's just a soldier, not a thinker. Sur ethere wasn't that many, but still.

If Euron needs half a year to win a naval battle ( that doesn't help him that much to control the lands ) when he has a thousand ship at his disposal, is he really all that great?

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>>80636714

>>80635661
>How much of a spotlight does she get per episode, around? I may still survive that because I enjoy seeing Ser Jorah in action.
a lot
jorah is exiled and will spend 90% of his time away from her.

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>>80636009
How was your anniversary dean

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>>80636509
>"The Rogue Prince" & "The Princess and the Queen"
hol up, I didn't even know these existed

I only read the five main books 3 years ago, planning a re-read but with all those prequel stories.

So that means Dangerous Women, Rogues, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and WOIAF.
Is that all? Any particular order I should read these in?

>>80636958
Satisfying, to say the least.

>>80636987

I'd read them in the order you listed them.

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>>80636987
Don't forget The Ice Dragon as well.

>>80636436
No I am quite autistic about book collecting, only my hands touch these babies

>>80637123
I want to touch your books anon

>>80636987
>Dangerous Women, Rogues
These aren't connected to GoT.

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>>80636340
All men with large cock and balls support Stannis. Betas support everyone else.

>>80637248
showfags leave, this is a book board

>>80637285
t. Red Woman

>>80637338
But those books literally have nothing to do with GoT.

>>80637139
O-only if you wash your hands first. And don't open them too wide please, it hurts

>>80637338
Not directly, I guess, but they're set in the same world sharing the same history

>>80637382
The Blu Ray history and lore make tons of references to these stories and they are show canon.

>>80637406
I'll open your book as far wide as I can while looking you straight in the eyes as I run my cheeto fingers all over the pages. And you can do nothing about it.

>>80637467 is for >>80637382

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>>80637123
I only read a couple chapters at a time, when I'm done I'm just gonna leave them like this for a few days, is that ok?

>>80637975
Jesus fuck anon. All too often this makes the middle-back part (what is the word for this?) crumple up irreversibly

>>80638110
I'll then get the book from the ground, close it and then open it to the maximum again so it will get the most crupling you've ever seen.

>>80637975
>>80638110
>ANON don't leave a book like that!

>why not? ah, whatever, fine
>lazily picks up the book by just 1 cover

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Truly a Renaissance man for our times.

>>80638283
boiii he thicc af

>>80638283
DELETE

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>>80638283
>That pose

lewd.

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>>80638231
I'm actually finding myself having to take deep breaths, jeez. This is the kind of thing my sister used to do to me. Torture

>>80638479
Fucking eunuch, do something about it if you have the balls

>>80638533
>if you have the balls
:^)

>>80638479
pic of sis?
or description/greentext story about you incesting her.

>>80638802
Fuck off Lannister

>>80637382

They literally do, and who cares if they don't?

>page 9

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What do you guys think based Sewage will think of the new season?

>>80638283
Why does this image seem so aggressively sexual?

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>>80634802
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

Ser Fatfuck all but admitted he had quit writing the books yesterday

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>>80635543
NEVER EVER

>>80633582
Bolton should have a dirty salmon colour cape. Northern armour has also gotten worse since Robb's death. Notice how Robb actually wore armour and Jon wears this shit fur leather cloak.

>>80625147
Was Robert really the true steel? Stannis has gotten more flexible and shown growth whereas Robert was the same fat fuck who didn't know nothing except combat.

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>>80633582
fuck off just cuz they're from the north doesnt mean they cant afford decent armour and heraldry its just a meme from the show diluting everything

>>80630449
Finally someone gets it. TheLord of the Rings movies set the standard for fantasy visual design and ruined it forever. If anything dared to actually look realistic they it would be called cheap looking or compared to Renaissance fair stuff.

>>80645143
i think Donald Noye was wrong because he was speaking in terms of the Baratheons from years ago and not ADWD Stannis

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>>80645860
i wish joer lived to give jon a bitch slap for his fuckups

>>80645768
It makes me wish he didn't die before Stannis came to Castle Black. The reuinion of him and Stannis could have been one of the best moments. It would likely be a Jon chapter so I think he would get a lot out of seeing it.

>>80646203
yeah would have been really cool and better than all the bullshit reunions that the show is doing

>>80646184
He'd need to beat him into a bloody pulp considering how much Jon fucked up

>>80645768

I generally don't think it's a good idea to take a random blacksmiths judgment of character as law.

>>80647319
t.butthurt renlyfag

>>80646261
But Salty don't just blame the show. GRRM should have done that in ADWD.

>>80628680
>>80628198
Keep in mind that for thousands of years the people of Planetos have been stuck in one time period, Feudalism. If they can't progress past Serfdom, then it can be explained they can use impractical designs like that retarded helm into battle.

>>80649396
i know, i really dont trust grrm to not sperg out about trump in the book and water down older male character like euron or stannis

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Nice world building

>>80649750
>vertical rectangle+horizontal rectangle

>>80649509
True. It may be for the best Stannis is dead and safe from the show and GRRM won't finish.

Bad Journalism

Mar. 19th, 2017 at 1:03 PM
angry
I am no fan of what passes for journalism on the internet, but I've got to admit, I have been taken aback by the sheer amount of bullshit that's been proliferating all over the web about our Stagecoach Foundation initiative... some of it posted on what I would have previously regarded as reputable news outlets with familiar names, but almost all of it off-base and, well... wrong.

There seems to be some sort of grotesque echo chamber effect going on here. These stories are not only full of errors, but they are the same errors. Rather than checking facts with the primary sources, the writers here (I will not call them 'reporters') are just copying from one another.

When I was in journalism school at Northwestern, we were drilled in the head every day with Joseph Pulitzer's famous maxim, "Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy." That seems to have gone out of favor, at least on the internet.

Instead I am put in mind of Jonathan Swift, who said, "Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it."

So please allow me to come limping up long enough to say:
-- the Stagecoach building is not 30,000 square feet. Someone pulled that number out of their ass, and dozens of other reports have repeated it. That's a rough approximate figure for MEOW WOLF, an entirely different place on the other side of Santa Fe. The Stagecoach building is perhaps a third that size,
-- I did not "build" Stagecoach. David Weininger did that in 1999, as the headquarters for his compnay, Daylight Chemical Information Systems,

>>80649993
-- I am not "opening a film studio." Stagecoach is a non-profit foundation dedicated to bringing more film and television production to Santa Fe, it is not a film studio,
-- there are no sound stages at Stagecoach (though there are several here in town, at the Santa Fe Studios and the Greer Garson Studios). It's an office building, and will be used primarily for pre- and post-production purposes,
-- I am not going to be "running" a foundation, much less a studio. That task I've given to a dynamic young lady named Marisa X. Jiminez, who helped open Santa Fe Studios here in town, and who will have total charge of the day-to-day operations of Stagecoach, under a board of directors.

If there are any real journalists out there who would like to do an accurate story about the Stagecoach Foundation and our plans for it, Marisa is the person to contact, at [email protected]. She'll be glad to send you our press release and answer your questions. In the meantime, hey, can people please stop making shit up?
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>>80650046
>>80649993
I get my news just by looking at Google News. How pilled am I?

>>80649993

Does this fucking guinea-mick (yes I was autistic enough to google his parents heritage in order to use a racial insult) realize that he is mortal and his time is rapidly running out?

>>80646184
Jon did nothing wrong in the show.

>>80650253

He had hundreds if not thousands of people die because he couldn't resist Ramsays bait.

He also couldn't be arsed to ask the Cerwyns for men, who live a couple of hours ride away from Winterfell.

>>80649750
Sothoryos is a lot bigger than that.

>page 9
>again

>>80650253
>hey i know my two younger brothers are alive somewhere and probably in danger
>anyway im going on vacation

>page 10

YOU RAPED HER

YOU MURDERED HER

YOU KILLED HER CHILDREN

how much does a persons powerlevel increase once they achieve punished status?

>>80634067
do you disagree

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>>80633568
we know she likely dies by Jaime's hand. Or tyrions, although Jaime seems pretty destined to it. I'd like toe bet she survives to the last half-season or whatever, but she's essentially just queen of Kings Landing with whatever Westerling support she has. 3 eps in if they parallel joffrey.

>>80654201
Thanks for saving the thread based anon

How do you think the TV show will end? who will still be alive..

>>80649750
Why are there always a billion different versions of the map once it gets past the dothraki sea

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>>80649750

>>80654637

sick noscope level

>>80633582
>overlords of an area the size of brazil or some shit
>not higher-end nobility

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>>80625147
>tfw you know the last 2 seasons will be awful and the ending will be utterly ruined

>preston patreon's supporters voted for a series on the Arianne Chapter

what the fuck?
what do they want him to theorize about, how many dicks arianne can take in her holes at the same time?

>tfw will be months without an interesting preston video

>>80658803
kek

how the fuck do people like her anyway?

Hew whoredom gets a pretty cool guy killed for nothing

>87 videos later
>preston 'first of his autism' jacob's great new theory:
>damphair will summon a kraken

Wow. That was worth it.

Something something bad pussy

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>>80659404
because she's a stronk brown woman.
ok she doesn't really do anything in the entire story except fucking some guy, thinking about other guys she fucked, and wishing that yet another guy fucked her..
But she's rebellious and oppose a man, so she's obviously really stronk and the most heroic person to ever live.

>>80659918
heh

well people thought it might happen, but they certainly didn't know the how, or that he would do it for Euron, and against his will.

I thought he would do it to go AGAINST euron, using kraken as weapons of the drowned god vs the faithless.

>>80628198
well he hasn't been reveled to have survived yet

trust me i read them

I miss Ygritte...

>>80660585
Who the fuck are the Dornish supposed to be based off of anyway

what Mediterranean culture let women have anything even close to any political power?

>>80660921
he's a libtard.
he base it on his brown people utopia.

>>80627993
>sometimes it seems as if the harder I work, the further behind I get.
Fuck.

>>80660921
>>80661334
this will all be confirmed when the Dothraki horde of rapists&murders gets to Westeros and actually behave. Khal fucking Drogo had trouble with this, but once they immigrate into Westeros they're all good be good guys, or no worse than any army anyway.

(And this from the same story that had a speech about how even peasants can turn into rapists/thieves/murderers because war is terrible).

If GRRM doesn't fuck up his characterization for some agenda or to make a character look good, there should be ten thousand rapes every day soon as the dothrakis set foot in westeros.

This reminds me, was there a single rape occuring in Dorne? Because I'm pretty sure I can name a rape ( or more often than not, a dozen rapes ) occuring in every single kingdom of Westeros, all but Dorne.

Iron isles, full of rapes. North of the wall, their wedding system is basically a rape system. the north, boltons have a lot, others too. kingslanding, lots of rape, lollys got raped a hundred times, tywins 'force' gangraped tysha, etc.. riverlands, well, there's probably more raped people than unraped. The vale, Marillion.

Dorne? Can't think of anything beside Arianne thinking about Memestar raping her.

>>80660626

>faithless
>Euron

umm sorry sweetie but Euron is the godliest man who has ever set sail.

>>80661657

>Iron isles, full of rapes. North of the wall, their wedding system is basically a rape system. the north, boltons have a lot, others too. kingslanding, lots of rape, lollys got raped a hundred times, tywins 'force' gangraped tysha, etc.. riverlands, well, there's probably more raped people than unraped. The vale, Marillion.

all the places with white males are constantly raping women. really made me think

Reminder that if you believe the lads leaks completely you are retarded.

>>80661657
Don't forget Euron raping his prepubescent brother

Gay incest pedophile rape

Bravo Gorge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmKhGqWcJGY

>>80662473

What should we not believe? Don't you find it funny how alot of the retarded shit seems perfectly in line with the hamfisted, contrived, cliche and gay approach DND are fond of?

>>80661657
to be fair though nothing happens in Dorne period

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I'm sexually attracted to Tywin Lannister

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>>80662629
*blocks your path*

>>80662553
>What should we not believe?
The vast majority of it. There are certainly some things that may happen

>Don't you find it funny how alot of the retarded shit seems perfectly in line with the hamfisted, contrived, cliche and gay approach DND are fond of?
Not really. These leaks seem very similar to the ones that came out for Season 6 before it aired. Before truede.

>>80662770

What were some of the "leaks" for season 6?

>>80662827
Biggest one was Stannis coming back as a white walker

>>80662827
http://www.thegrumpyfish.com/game-of-thrones-season-6-entire-plot-leaked-or-fan-fiction/

>>80662836

>>80662885

Seems pretty accurate for the early episodes of that season. It's only the later episodes of the season that end up being completely different.

>>80662755
thicc

(farts)

>>80664322
(audience laughs)

>>80664557
Roll on snare drum. Curtains.

>>80664650
>and who... are you

>>80661657
>but once they immigrate into Westeros they're all good be good guys, or no worse than any army anyway.
i can see d&d doing exactly this (in fact i think leaks sort of confirm this) because they can't be fucked with any nuance in the show anymore, but why would grrm bother trying to portray them differently when he's shown their culture revolves around raping and pillaging? he clearly doesn't feel time/space-constrained to wrap up the story, so i don't know why he'd change that element all of a sudden.
no rape shown in dorne because there's no war in dorne i guess, same with the vale
he's a liberal, sure, but i dont think he goes out of his way to show non-white cultures as superior

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Game of Thrones is gay

>>80666918
>it's an 'anon comes into the /got/ general trying to trigger everyone by calling the show shit when everyone here already thinks the same thing' episode
getting old desu

>>80662524
That chapter was fucked. One of the best he's written though. Anything less and Euron would have been just another villain, rather than the story's main antagonist. I refuse to believe they've fucked Euron's character up this badly in the show

Anyone have the webm of the small council from season 1 except there's /tv/ captions over it, where they're talking about their taste in kino?

>>80668116
>One of the best he's written though
on the topic, what does /got/ think the best-written chapter is?
>inb4 the last adwd dany chapter

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Stannis, you guys. Stannis.

>>80668281
probably some theon chapter in adwd or a jaime chapter in affc
or probably the bran chapter after the fall in agot where he's reached the heart of winter and all that other fancy imagery

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>Wed, bed, behead, crown

GO GO GO

>>80669670
But it's already in the right order

What do you lads think the best scene in the show was?
I honestly think it was War Stories
https://youtu.be/q6GW03WsFgU

>>80649750
>southern desert
citation needed. also where is leng?

>>80669670
behead, behead, give a warm clean bed and a nice bowl of soup [2]

>>80661657
>North of the wall, their wedding system is basically a rape system
Confirmed for not getting wildling sexual customs, wikifag.
>You cannot own a woman and a knife
Wildling women get 'stolen' only by those they want to 'steal' them.

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>>80664671
>[Cock jokes intensify]

Are Wildlings all swingers?
Are they cucks?

>>80671687
Perhaps. They don't seem to have a concept of permanent marriage or bastards. Except for Thenns, Thenns are fags. Getting so easily pussywhipped by Melisander into betraying their faith!

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What do you think will be the normies first GoT sketch this year?

>>80636958
>French pervert

>>80636958
Didn't Dean join the cast in season four? That was three years ago and must have filmed four years ago. So he isn't talking about the show. What could be the anniversary? Did they pop each other's asshole cherries?

>>80669973
Robert's interaction with Ned at any time was great.

preston confirmed to watch rlm

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>>80630269
>Riverlands as part of the dvd extras says they never knew peace until the Targaryens came
Haha peace was never an opttion for Riverlands. No matter who fights who, it's the riverlanders who are getting slaughtered in the end.

>>80657122
KEk

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>>80645860

Would based "The Old Bear" Jeor have been open to letting in Wildlings when faced with the WW threat?

>>80628680
Dufuq did the king guy got shot in the back with an arrow while charging forward?

>>80668618
Confirmed for awful taste. AFFC was universally plodding and awful, and Bran's storyline is just retarded and doesn't fit with the rest of the series at all

>>80644592
What? Where?

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DRACARYS

>>80675062
Dumb, dumb animeposter

>>80674515
friendly fire

>>80660785
HAHA YOU KNOW NOTHING XD *upvotes*

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*shoots an arrow at you*

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>>80675470
delet this

>>80675612
what is his end game?

>>80675699
Turning into a dwarf because of how small he is

>>80675612
why does the prince of the iron islands wear rusty armor? or are the ironshits just to cool for armor that looks well maintained?

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>>80676491
>why does the prince of the iron islands wear rusty armor? or are the ironshits just to cool for armor that looks well maintained?

>>80677316
best character right there. thank god they didn't include him in the show

>>80677531
>best character right there. thank god they didn't include him in the show
oh good can you imagine how shitty his "armour" alone would look nvm removing the fun sense of adventure and unironic humour.

>>80668309
wow anzu got chubby

>>80669670
>>80669735
this.
I could do bed wed behead crown, if only to not spend my life with salsa.

>>80665930
>i can see d&d doing exactly this (in fact i think leaks sort of confirm this) because they can't be fucked with any nuance in the show anymore, but why would grrm bother trying to portray them differently when he's shown their culture revolves around raping and pillaging?

Dany told them "no more rapes now you sillies!" so obviously they'll all be nice people now.

I mean a dothraki tried to kill Drogo in S1 when he told him just to rape a DIFFERENT girl... But no more rape at all for the entire horde? Sure, whatever.

Dany's proven to have magical powers and dothrakis fucking love magic ( like Davos loves Melisandre's miracles ) so they're gonna obey her every command.

>>80675699
In the show he will probably kill Euron in season 8 and complete his arc.

>>80675699
in the books, maybe kill Ramsay. the books are less "poetic justice" than teh show, but there's still some.

on the show, being the first transgender hand-of-the-queen for Asha, Queen of the Iron Isles allied with Queen Daenerys, Queen Sansa, Queen Olenna and Queen Snek

>>80678166
its hilarious how tumblr whale never stop moaning about how d&d "ruined" Sansa and how d&d "hate" her when they literally give her Theon's storyline and payback on Ramsay and keep letting Asha dump on Theon and tell him to kill himself whilst Sansa gets to verbally say the sansa whales "waaaaaaaah how could you give me the choice of marrying a man that i had to have sex with etc."

>>80677614
>tfw you will never see an episode completely devoted to a slapstick feud between victarion and a monkey

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>>80636987

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a compilation of the Dunk & Egg stories which are great. I honestly thought those would make a good TV show, never dreamed I would get to see D&D bastardize ASOIAF.

The Rogue Prince then The Princess and the Queen in that order is a good read but written like a historical documentary. Those would make a good miniseries if but on the hands of someone like John Milius.

The World of Ice & Fire is an encyclopedia / cash grab.

>>80636987
>The Rouge Prince
>The Princess and the Queen

>The Hedge Knight
>The Sworn Sword
>The Mystery Knight.

Read them in that order.

The Hedge Knight, The Sworn Sword, and The Mystery Knight are the tales of two characters called Dunk & and Egg. Dunk is a hedge knight who gets caught up in the fighting of lords and he travels the country fighting for coin. Egg is his squire, who is also Aegon Targaryen, bear in mind that these are set about 100 years before AGOT so the Targaryens are cool and we don't have to listen to Dany's bullshit.

The Tales of Dunk & Egg are hands down the best books of the ASOIAF world, much better than the main series, and much better than anything GRRM has written since or before.

The Rouge Prince and The Princess and the Queen are set before everything and are decent books.

>>80637105
Not apart of the same universe according to GRRM

>Maise leaks
Brace yourself lads.

>>80658803
>>tfw will be months without an interesting preston video
I've been enjoying the murder mystery vids
Wish he would hurry up with the Little Walder Pt. 2 vid though

>>80678468
>tfw victarion will never sacrifice male whores and call them unnatural

>>80680378
where? what?
>bracing myself

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>>80680983
Soon

>>80681149
where will it be?
is it linked to the fappening, or just her whoring herself around like the pics on the rock&stuff?

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>>80680378

>>80681235
fappening, if it is real and it leaks then it will be all over this site

>>80630269
George is a lefty cuck. The people of Westeros had one language, and mostly similar cultures with the exception of those Dornish shits.
The Thirteen Colonies had the same language and culture.
Europe does not, nor does Asia or Alexander's empire, great men held these areas together, and them alone. History has shown them repeatedly break back apart without the leader that brought them together.

>>80680378
get the fuck out of here...

>>80680378
>>80681149
I'll be happy if proven wrong, but I don't believe this.

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>>80681808
He's shitposting on /b/ too

Stop spreading this filth

Maisie is pure!
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>>80682773
waifufags are the worst

>>80649993
I like that he cares more about pitching his stupid art show shit he funded than talking about the lesbian women who were assaulted in Santa Fe earlier this week. Classy stuff, very progresive.

>>80682822
repeating digits confirm

>>80668281

I think the kingsmoot chapter(s?) were great, also Victarion's quest was some of the best shit in the story. Also Theon in Winterfell.

>>80682954
didn't hear about this lesbian story. just googled it tho and it feels... weird.

>we just happened to pull behind them and when came out their car we came out ours to confront them but heh we were totally attacked

sounds like they were also willing to fight them, then they lost and cried about assault.
If you don't want to fight you don't follow them, you don't come out of your car when they do, you just leave.

>>80674329

Possibly, after the fist. He seems pragmatic enough to come to the same realization joHn does, that the wildlings are just going to be extra bodies for the others

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>>80625147
So Littlefinger must climb the laddah and manipulate/outsmart each character of pic related. How far does he get?

>>80683886
he falls off the ladder and breaks his necj

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Is this accurate?

>>80685949
No, because it's Bryan Cogman's fault, non D&D.

https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/4mqmd3/spoilers_extended_reactions_game_of_thrones/d3xr8ym/

>>80683886
He chews all those babby-level anime faggots and picks his teeth with their 2d bones, fuccboi. Hopkins' Lecter is 3d, but an animu-tier faggot as well.

>>80685949
Thenns are pussywhipped cuks, nothing of value was lost.

>>80630718
What's wrong with leftism, imperialism and authoritarianism?

>>80683886
He literally stops at Cartman. They're all miles brighter than he'll ever be

>>80678997
Wrong. The Princess and The Queen and The Rouge Prince are better. They take no time to get into because they are filled with drama and action. Our main series and Dunk and Egg take some buckling down and getting into because they are both boring stories until you become invested in the characters.

>>80686129
do you/whoever wrote this shit actually believe each writers does wtv the fuck he wants?

You think Cogman chose to write the arya's retarded plot and could've written something else instead, and whoever writes the following episode just deal with it and continue wherever Cogman left the story?


The writers have strong guidelines. They only get to decide the details, not the big picture.

How the hell do you think this would ever work if everyone decide what he writes

>Vanessa Taylor : Hey I'll write about Talysa killing Robb to take his crown! Queen in the north!
>D&D : But we have the red wedding coming up...
>Vanessa Taylor : Make it about someone else, I don't know, kill Hodor or some shit

>>80688426
>do you/whoever wrote this shit actually believe each writers does wtv the fuck he wants?
Cogman does. He begged D&D to include Dorne and offered up his own fanfiction of it.

>>80636868
Did Jon ever hear about Tyrion being charged with the murder attempt? In the show they last saw each other on good terms.

>>80678580

WoIaF is mostly a cash grab but the stuff written by Gurm and the stuff obviously being his reworked notes is good. It also fills some important gaps from the other "prequels" before I read it I thought (based on the Princess & the Queen) that the Greens won the dance of dragons.

>>80669973

Robert's and Cersei's scene in that same room.

Best OC DnD ever did.

>The Jewlords of Braavos land in Westeros, to bring it under capitalism
>They have invented the musket
Can't wait boys

>>80689503

it's also really useful for the Game of Thrones mod for CK2. Really fills in the gaps of the family trees ;^)

>>80688498
well yeah he can suggest stuff.. but he does not write a thing that D&D don't agree with. D&D writes the episode right after cogman's, if they want to write "Arya's retarded plot : Part 2" then cogman has to write "Arya's retarded plot : Part 1".