I think everyone was also waiting on Syrio’s exit scene as well.
-Joe
Magic that works has a tendency to misdirect research in the fantasy genre.
That was #4 on my personal list, behind Viserys getting his crown.
I have a question regarding the books, but not about their content as it relates to the plot.
I think I read someone say in this thread that some copies of the paperback book had chapters missing? Does anyone know which versions to stay away from? There’s a copy w/ Sean Bean on the cover, and another that is just a picture of a sword. Or was it some other paperback that was the offending copy?
Look familiar?
I wish I had that kind of patience. I’m nearing the end of the first book now, and I expect I’ll read everything available before season two.
I’m actually looking forward to material that I haven’t seen yet, using the same cast of faces and voices from the show in my minds eye.
Well, keep in mind that they’re baby dragons so you couldn’t really expect them to be doing anything super-cool anyway. As they said earlier in the season, those big skulls down below the castle were very old dragons. I have the impression that they grow slowly like some of our large lizard species. And unlike direwolves that quadruple in size from one week to the next.
The Direwolves didn’t grow all that much either. It made those claims about Robb’s wolf killing 12 men and as many horses a bit doubtful. Ghost looks like a mid sized dog at best.
Maybe its just the name, but isnt he a doper ?
Declan
Um, funny cause I have read all the books out right now, but is Dany a female bastard ? She starts that spiel with I am Dany Storm something of the house targaryen blah blah.
Declan
No, she was called “Stormborn” because she was born in the midst of a fierce storm (and figuratively, in the midst of the storm of Robert’s rebellion). She’s Aerys’s trueborn daughter, although twenty-odd years younger than her brother Rhaegar.
The direwolves were significant and fearsome avatars in the books and were about the size of ponies. The only full sized dire wolf shown so far was the huge dead mother in the first episode. The trained wolves (or whatever they are) in GOT aren’t all that big even for real wolves which can get pretty huge.
Yes that line suggests that Dany knew she needed a human death to hatch the dragon’s eggs. Also possibly, since there were three dragons, she needed three deaths; Drogo and her son were already dead and Mirri was the third.
They’re still pups just a few months old, though. Giant breed dogs and Maine Coon cats both take a few years to gain their full size, so it stands to reason that the direwolves aren’t supposed to be anywhere near full grown yet.
Stormborn is an adopted epithet, not a bastard’s name. (I believe, were she a bastard, she’d be Daenarys Waters. Storm is the bastard name of the Stormlands - Baratheon lands, not Targaryen.)
I figured throwing that title out there when it was never even mentioned Dany was born during a massive storm that sank most of the Targaryen fleet would confuse people. Daenerys stormborn is what she goes by in the books for the most part.
If you wanna be queen, you gotta have a cool nickname.
They aren’t wolves, they’re dogs. Apparently not a breed that’s easy to train. I was looking for more info on the specific breed & found this recent story:
Hodor has some fearful symmetry. A baby’s mind between his ears, and a baby’s arm between his legs.
All hail Cersei the brother-fucker!