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Is George ever going to finish another book?
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I'm giving up.
I wasn't going to watch this season because I didn't want the book experience to be spoiled. But the ****ing guy isn't ever going to finish so why bother? It blows my mind that the guy knew this was coming for 6 years and still couldn't eek another book out before the series blew past him. I knew he wouldn't get the whole series done but I figured he'd at least get through book 6.
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05-03-2016, 09:44 AM | #1654 | |
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05-03-2016, 11:15 AM | #1655 |
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I have not read the books. Is it ever said or hinted that anyone other than Targaryens rode dragons?
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All sorts of Valyrians rode dragons, and Targaryens are not the only house with Valyrian roots, there are also the Celtigars and Velaryons. Also, a lot of people in Essos have Valyrian backgrounds. Dragons also exist(ed?) In Asshai, which is completely separate from Valyria. So there's not really a lot of evidence that only Targaryens can ride a dragon.
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How did Hodor get so stupid?
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Have you been researching or were you already geeky about this shit? And I take it back. A poster knows something.
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The show's already got a secret Targaryen and the book's got two.
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I love that the Targaryens were kinda shitty Valyrians. Pretty much just middle class hacks that the real nobility tolerated who that couldn't cut it in Valyria so they jetted over to Dragonstone. Then Valyria exploded and the Targaryens were the only people left in the world with Dragons so they just set about wrecking everything and taking over the continent. They weren't even particularly skilled at taming/training dragons in relations to the rest of Valyria - all but one of their dragons keeled over fairly quickly, they just happened to get a couple of eggs to hatch.
Talk about falling ass-backwards into power. This is why I kinda hate Daenerys. Apart from her spending 2 full tomes just wandering about like a bubble-headed teenager trying to bang the help, her entitlement just annoys the shit out of me. Your parents lost - get over it. Nobody 'usurped' authority any more than your family picked on a bunch of crippled kids....or at least soldiers with no close-air support. It would be like traveling back in time with a handful of A-10's and kicking the shit out of Alexander the Great. I wouldn't be all that impressed by using machine guns on guys that are still using sticks as a primary weapon. I mean, sure, they're sharpened sticks, but this is a culture that sees primitive napalm as sorcery; you're not exactly taking on the Wehrmacht here.
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