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The Official Game of Thrones [A Song of Ice and Fire] Thread (includes spoilers)

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"How is Bud Light producing more ASOIAF content than George R.R. Martin right now?"
 
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So I've been re-watching The Wire and I find it super weird that Aidan Gillen, the guy who plays Littlefinger, is so much better at acting with a fake American accent than he is with his native Irish one. I never would have guessed he was Irish watching this show the first time, but man his Game of Thrones performance has some truly awful moments. I also never understood why he does that whisper talk thing so often. Reminds me of Jax in Sons of Anarchy, but he only whispered at times because he couldn't yell without breaking into his native accent.
 
Thought Gillen was the perfect Baelish. His accent seemed to fluctuate several times throughout the series though.
 
Chris said:
Thought Gillen was the perfect Baelish. His accent seemed to fluctuate several times throughout the series though.
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I think the actor himself looks the part, but man his performance is so uneven. The accent isn't consistent and it always seems like he's twirling his mustache to the point where I can't understand why anyone else can't see everything he's up to. In the books, he was charming and quick-witted, and used that to make himself seem nonthreatening and to mask the fact that he was fully capable of ruthlessly removing opposition from the board. I mean, the dude basically started the War of the Five Kings by killing Jon Arryn and lying to Cat about who the knife belonged to (and later inflaming things further by killing Joffrey) and no one ever even suspected it.
 
Well yea. He was basically behind everything, really. All in order to plunge the kingdoms into chaos to aid his own rise to power.

Which is why the end of his arc was so poor IMO. Not sure how I saw him biting it, but the weird cat and mouse plot with the Stark sisters just didnt do it for me.
 
Chris said:
Well yea. He was basically behind everything, really. All in order to plunge the kingdoms into chaos to aid his own rise to power.

Which is why the end of his arc was so poor IMO. Not sure how I saw him biting it, but the weird cat and mouse plot with the Stark sisters just didnt do it for me.
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I imagine it will be better in the books, as most things are. The whole Sansa/Littlefinger arc in the book is so wildly different anyway.

About the only thing the show has done better is actually make Sam likable.
 
Jack Brickman said:
I imagine it will be better in the books, as most things are. The whole Sansa/Littlefinger arc in the book is so wildly different anyway.

About the only thing the show has done better is actually make Sam likable.
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Agreed. But at this point, we all know the books aren’t coming.
 
Chris said:
Agreed. But at this point, we all know the books aren’t coming.
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I think book six will at least get released. Not sure Martin will live long enough to finish the last one.

But I think we'll see Littlefinger's end in book six anyway, as book seven will likely deal with the Others' invasion and wrapping up all the loose ends between the Lannisters, Starks, and Targs.
 
Jack Brickman said:
I think book six will at least get released. Not sure Martin will live long enough to finish the last one.

But I think we'll see Littlefinger's end in book six anyway, as book seven will likely deal with the Others' invasion and wrapping up all the loose ends between the Lannisters, Starks, and Targs.
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Yeah, true, decent chance we see TWOW in the next 5-6 years. That’s about it though. Crazy how Martin is content letting HBO and Benioff/Weiss hold the legacy for the world he created.
 
Chris said:
Yeah, true, decent chance we see TWOW in the next 5-6 years. That’s about it though. Crazy how Martin is content letting HBO and Benioff/Weiss hold the legacy for the world he created.
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I think we see Winds in the next three years, just because I think it's physically impossible it takes another six.
 
Chris said:
Boy, I don't know. I'll believe it when I see it.
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I just feel like another five years means he hasn't been working on it at all, and I just find that hard to believe. He's been wasting time on other stuff as well, but I refuse to believe he hasn't worked on Winds at all the past six or seven years. Hell, he already had a bunch of chapters written because he's released them at various places.
 
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