Oh, goodness. We may not be able to be friends anymore. I am still sad over the death of Ned Stark.
However, I agree with you about the rest of the stuff. HBO will totally cancel it before any of the actors have a chance to get too old or anything like that, so they'll shoot book 1, which I love, and I'd be fine with that.
I wouldn't mind if they mostly skipped book 2, because there is an awful lot of maneuvering in that book with most people except Poor Ded Rob ending up about where they started. Well, maybe not, but sometimes it feels like book 2 is a lot of character development and not much else.
If Jaime is your cup of tea, and he IS mine too, just not to the exclusion of all else, then you're right, a lot of the good stuff comes in 3 and 4.
Kidding about the friends thing, of course. Viva la difference.
Heh. I know, I know, lots of people like Ned Stark. I won't hold it against you. ;)
Jaime is totally my favorite character, but Tyrion is a close second. I think I like book 2 so much because it's where Tyrion really has a chance to shine. It's so fun watching him consolidate power, outwit everyone around him, and actually be the only person who in power at King's Landing who genuinely cares about making the people's lives better. (And the character transformation there is so fascinating, too, because the more he does to help people, the more they despise him and call him a monster, and the more he gets fed up and lets his ethics slide. It's like he and Jaime are on opposite paths, Jaime rediscovering his goodness and Tyrion losing his
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Tyrion is a very interesting character, you're right. I found book 4 suffered from his lack.
My absolutely favorite character is Jon Snow, though, so I can see you and I have very different focuses. I like the Starks as an idea, but never cared for Rob or Bran's stories much. I just love the North as a place and a concept. The Long Night, the Wall--these concepts still give me happy shivers 10 years after reading the first book.
Don't care for the Tullys AT ALL. They could cut a lot of that, and Theon and the Sea and Rock people and I'd be just fine with that.
My order of favorite characters would probably go: Jon Snow, Jaime, Brienne, Danaerys. Arya used to make that list, but I don't know where Martin is going with her--she's gotten frightening.
I have no idea how they'd stage it! If you're watching Rome, you know that they tell rather than show the big battles because the budget doesn't cover them. They'd probably do the same thing for ASOIAF.
King *was* branded a traitor by the administration at that time. He was under constant surveillance by the FBI, and scurrilous stories about him were being planted in the press to discredit him.
As for religion, remember he was *the Rev.* Dr. Martin Luther King, so that's just where he was coming from. The non-violent portion of the civil rights movement was pretty heavily church based, coming out of a coalition of black churches and supported by an alliance with Jewish congregations.
The one of the last places MLK spoke before the speech where he was killed was my high school in 100% while Grosse Pointe Farms, MI. He was picketed by right wingers who called him a communist and lacky to the North Vietnamese.
There are so many parallels to today that it isn't even funny.
Yeah, I know that he got shit from the administration at the time. What's ironic is that our country today supposedly venerates him, yet apparently hasn't learned a single lesson from what he actually said and experienced.
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However, I agree with you about the rest of the stuff. HBO will totally cancel it before any of the actors have a chance to get too old or anything like that, so they'll shoot book 1, which I love, and I'd be fine with that.
I wouldn't mind if they mostly skipped book 2, because there is an awful lot of maneuvering in that book with most people except Poor Ded Rob ending up about where they started. Well, maybe not, but sometimes it feels like book 2 is a lot of character development and not much else.
If Jaime is your cup of tea, and he IS mine too, just not to the exclusion of all else, then you're right, a lot of the good stuff comes in 3 and 4.
Kidding about the friends thing, of course. Viva la difference.
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Jaime is totally my favorite character, but Tyrion is a close second. I think I like book 2 so much because it's where Tyrion really has a chance to shine. It's so fun watching him consolidate power, outwit everyone around him, and actually be the only person who in power at King's Landing who genuinely cares about making the people's lives better. (And the character transformation there is so fascinating, too, because the more he does to help people, the more they despise him and call him a monster, and the more he gets fed up and lets his ethics slide. It's like he and Jaime are on opposite paths, Jaime rediscovering his goodness and Tyrion losing his ( ... )
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My absolutely favorite character is Jon Snow, though, so I can see you and I have very different focuses. I like the Starks as an idea, but never cared for Rob or Bran's stories much. I just love the North as a place and a concept. The Long Night, the Wall--these concepts still give me happy shivers 10 years after reading the first book.
Don't care for the Tullys AT ALL. They could cut a lot of that, and Theon and the Sea and Rock people and I'd be just fine with that.
My order of favorite characters would probably go: Jon Snow, Jaime, Brienne, Danaerys. Arya used to make that list, but I don't know where Martin is going with her--she's gotten frightening.
I have no idea how they'd stage it! If you're watching Rome, you know that they tell rather than show the big battles because the budget doesn't cover them. They'd probably do the same thing for ASOIAF.
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As for religion, remember he was *the Rev.* Dr. Martin Luther King, so that's just where he was coming from. The non-violent portion of the civil rights movement was pretty heavily church based, coming out of a coalition of black churches and supported by an alliance with Jewish congregations.
The one of the last places MLK spoke before the speech where he was killed was my high school in 100% while Grosse Pointe Farms, MI. He was picketed by right wingers who called him a communist and lacky to the North Vietnamese.
There are so many parallels to today that it isn't even funny.
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