Dudebro fandom for Game of Thrones is so weird.

Good concept, poor execution.

The writer's obviously never read the books, either.

In my case it's a matter of it being bottled up for so long it can't help but burst out in embarrassing ways.

Unless I have vastly misread you based on our internet discussions, I do not think of you as a dudebro.

Jaime Lannister has lived in the shadow of his father since he was born

To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if HBO does a better job of making an interesting story out of the material in books 4 and 5 than the books themselves did.

Ah, I misunderstood, mostly because I'm not entirely sure what dudebro is.

my friend complained that I was getting crumbs on the seat of his new BMV convertible

Dudebros are the target demographic for magazines like Maxim. Basically fratboys, or men who live/act like fratboys despite being in their 20s or 30s.

I don't think I've ever mustered a "bro" in earnest though.

So, people who do things you don't enjoy, so you mock them? How very dudebro of you.

The writer's obviously never read the books, either.

To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if HBO does a better job of making an interesting story out of the material in books 4 and 5 than the books themselves did.

Perish the thought of him using the current widest exposure of the series?

Jaime Lannister is the most famous person in Westeros at the beginning of the series. That's hardly living in a shadow.

(I personally tend to hate 99% of adaptations [can't stand Peter Jackson's attempts at LotR, for example], but have to admit this is a very well-done, relatively-true-to-the-story adaptation).

[26]: In fairness, people seem to just hate on Essos plotlines in general. Then again, what do I know? I much prefer the eastern stuff to the western stuff (making me the only person in the world whose favorite aSoIaF book is the most recent one).

You have to look at movies as something based on or inspired by a book, but not simply the book translated into moving images. What I mean is that a translator has a standard of fidelity that she has to live up to, but the goal of a film adaption should be to make a good film, and concerns about trueness to the story be damned.

I think Dany tends to be a favorite character of a lot of fans, but readers who don't like her absolutely hate her. And since most of the ADWD Dany chapters focused on her thought process in relative leisure moments and not her actually, you know, doing stuff, they tend to be highly polarizing.

I am plowing thru the books and am at the beginning of the 4th one. It's a little frustrating that I can't really talk about it anywhere: I am way past anyone who has only watched the shows, but don't want to be spoiled by anyone who has read everything.

I suppose that in this series, even acknowledging that a character lives to a given book qualifies as a spoiler.

There is a forum for this specific reason

Yeah, if anything, I think the "living in his father's shadow" thing is a description of Tywin.

Carping on the fact that it works from that rather than adding the most recent three novels seems a bit much.

I don't know -- which ones are really bad calls?

43. McCoy Posted: January 28, 2013 at 02:54 PM (#4356624)
I always viewed the Dany storyline as George being stuck with the character and simply stalling for time and hoping for a miracle to get him out of a jam.