HBO Game of Thrones, Season 2

He did talk something with the producers of the TV Series (that's why he decided to give the green light, because they got a question on the endgame right), so they should know how to go forward if they get that much seasons. But then there's also quotes from GRRM like this:

"I am aware of the TV series moving along behind me like a giant locomotive, and I know I need to lay the track more quickly, perhaps, because the locomotive is soon going to be bearing down on me," he said. "The last thing I want is for the TV series to catch up with me. I've got a considerable head start, but production is moving faster than I can write. I'm hoping that we'll finish the story at about the same time ... we'll see." Interview
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Still, I'm not convinced. I know he wants to go forward, but then he also lists his current projects in the interviews... ;)

But it's good that he mentions the locomotive behind him... So I guess the tv series is the best thing that could have happened for the books...
 
I wouldn't worry about the show catching up too much or GRRM dying before he's done with it. Martin is working on book 6 and show just finished with book 2. Robert Jordan had dreamed up more than he was able to finish because of his health. GRRM will probably still be around for a while after this series is done. Should something happen then there are several people who know the storyline well enough to finish it, if Martin leaves them with a basic outline of events.
 
That could be anyone really.
 
GoodSarmatian said:
We've got controversy !
It get's political around the two minute mark.
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As if I needed to see another video showing basically that Americans are a bunch of clueless, self-centred morons. No offence. I mean, what is wrong with these people? Are they living in some sort of a bubble that's completely out of touch with the reasonable universe?
 
Winner said:
As if I needed to see another video showing basically that Americans are a bunch of clueless, self-centred morons. No offence. I mean, what is wrong with these people? Are they living in some sort of a bubble that's completely out of touch with the reasonable universe?
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You know, saying "no offense" doesn't automatically make what you're saying unoffensive :crazyeye: I wasn't offended by your post, I just thought your inclusion of "No offence" was funny.

"Your're a complete idiot, no offence." See what I mean?
 
PeteAtoms said:
You know, saying "no offense" doesn't automatically make what you're saying unoffensive :crazyeye: I wasn't offended by your post, I just thought your inclusion of "No offence" was funny.

"Your're a complete idiot, no offence." See what I mean?
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I actually wanted to add a footnote to the effect that "I know all Americans aren't like that, but the media surely seem bent on making them look that way", but I deemed it too distracting. Even the way that woman speaks about the show as if there were no books is annoying.
 
Winner said:
Where is it implied? I never caught that.
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His first chapter, it's mentioned he has an unusually high success rate, and the description sounds more like what the Red Priests do than CPR. Don't have the book with me at the moment.
 
North King said:
His first chapter, it's mentioned he has an unusually high success rate, and the description sounds more like what the Red Priests do than CPR. Don't have the book with me at the moment.
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I remember that, and it didn't seem to me that there was anything supernatural involved in the process. I guess he just has a good timing/technique.
 
North King said:
His first chapter, it's mentioned he has an unusually high success rate, and the description sounds more like what the Red Priests do than CPR. Don't have the book with me at the moment.
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If it's in his POV chapter it's likely just his delusion.
 
Spoiler :

We know the power exists in the world -- the Red Priests clearly have it. It's not a matter of proving that characters can accomplish this, it's a matter of whether we can believe it's not just the Red Priests. The option of any one magic being more powerful or divinely granted just seems extremely un-Martin-like to me, with his "shades of gray"/"everyone's cut from the same cloth" moral. Pretty much all of the magic of the Red Priests has been mirrored or surpassed by one religious tradition or the other in the books. We have resurrection with these Viking knockoffs, Glamorie -- easily outdone by the Faceless men, and the generalized seeing the past and future with uncertainty -- done better by greenseers. A lot of Martin's magic is paralleled between groups. Shade of the evening is described in almost identical terms to another "eye-opening" magic food -- the weirwood acorn paste eaten by Bran. etc., etc.
 
I know and I agree, it's just that I am not aware of any direct textual evidence supporting the claim that the ritual performed by Damphair is anything but a form of CPR. He just pats himself on the back saying he's better at it than the other priests.

Maybe there's something more involved, but I don't remember seeing any evidence of it. Then again, I totally hate the Ironborn and pretty much everything that has something to do with them, so I might have missed many clues from their chapters.
 
Surely we would've heard about the negative consequences of Thoros' method in the ironborn Damphair "revives". Maybe Martin intended there to be a parallel in motives, but combined with the circumstances that it only works on drowned people I doubt it's true resurrection magic.
 
Especially since what is "dead" may demonstrably die quite easily ;)

BTW,

Spoiler :
the resurrected people are really undead, right? They don't have to eat, breathe, their bodies pretty much remain in the state they were when they were resurrected, don't they?

Spoiler Dance with Dragons :
So if Jon was really killed in ADWD, he's screwed as a person, even if Mel or someone else resurrects him.
 
I don't see why people are so reluctant to accept Aeron has this power. Except that the Ironborn are the most irritating faction in the series, and I wish they would all die. But somehow I don't think Martin has quite the same inclination.

Spoiler :
"It was a sign of the Drowned God's favor, men said. Every other priest lost a man from time to time, even Tarle the Thrice-Drowned, who had once been thought so holy that he was picked to crown a king. But never Aeron Greyjoy."

Maybe Martin is intimating that Aeron's CPR has a 100% success rate. But that would be frankly idiotic. CPR has a fairly low success rate (somewhat higher on drowned people, granted, but nowhere near 100%), and even in Martin was unaware of that fact, I doubt they'd make such a big deal out of this. This also is hard to explain away as an unreliable narrator -- him "never" losing a man is a fact; it either happens or it doesn't.

"His drowned men formed a circle around the dead boy, praying. Norjen worked his arms whilst Rus knelt astride him, pumping on his chest, but all moved aside for Aeron. He pried apart the boy's cold lips with his fingers and gave Emmond the kiss of life, and again, and again, until the sea came gushing from his mouth."

Sounds like CPR, sure, until you notice that it says "all" moved aside for Aeron. All. Aeron wasn't doing compressions, he was just making out with a corpse, which has a markedly low success rate unless magic is involved.
 
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