A Game of Thrones Television Adaptation on HBO/BBC

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It's Asha, Asha Greyjoy. They changed it to Yara because they already have characters named Osha and Arya and feel like most of the people who watch the show are fucking morons, or something. I dunno, but Asha will always be Asha to me.

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Just finished a chapter near the last couple hundred pages of A Dance With Dragons, and I feel like I need to let off some steam about it's climax. . .SPOILERS

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I can't believe Martin killed Jon Snow like that. CANNOT. I hope the Nightwatch burns in hell, and the Others fuckin' assrape them. I'm just speechless, after all we've been through with Jon, that he basically gets shanked to death by his underlings. It feels like Martin second Red Wedding, yet, it doesn't exactly work that way in just being pure, genuine OMG, and more of I'm pissed one of my favorite characters just got killed in a surprising, but certainly underwhelming death(if he is dead. . .I still hope he's actually not). The difference with Robb is, why Robb was a well loved character, we didn't really spend so much time in his POV, which is what made the Red Wedding such a fucking brilliant stroke of genius. With Jon, we've journeyed with the character so far, and to see him die by simple mutiny. ..just makes me feel somewhat cheated. I wouldn't have minded him dying, but at least let it be with a sword in hand or a sudden betryael as he's about to take "Lord" Ramsay's head off. Alas, it isn't so, and after taking a break after reading that jaw-dropper, it was well-done. It's just I've always wanted to Jon to take up the Stark name and the cause of the north, and when he's finally going to do that. . .he gets killed.

Bah. The Nightwatch can burn in hell. Them and the Frey's. At this point, Cersei is a more sympathetic character that I care about at this point. ..since I fear Jaime might as well be dead too, given that Stannis was killed off-screen apparently. . .

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This is what I gathered:

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I doubt Stannis is dead. Ramsay's letter to Jon was asking for Reek and his bride back...but we know that Theon and Jeyne escaped Winterfell and got to Stannis's lines, as evidenced by Asha's final chapter in Dragons. If Stannis was killed and his men defeated, why would he still be asking for them? The only evidence he had was Mance and his spearwomen who he captured, but they were seperate from Stannis.

Jaime, however, may as well be dead, considering he was escorted away by a revived Brienne of Tarth and seemingly brought back to Zombie Catelyn and the rest of her outlaws. Brienne was hanged at the end of Crows, and seemingly revived again by Thoros and his blood magic, only to go back to Jaime and lure him back, I'm guessing. I can't imagine Catelyn wouldn't kill Jaime at this point.

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So after moving to Oslo I noticed an area/section here called "Østerås" which translates to "Easteros". Cool.

[Alexia_Ashford]

You know, I really think Philip Glennister would fit well in this show.

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Oona Chaplin(granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin) cast as 'Jeyne' for Season 2

http://www.accesshollywood.com/confirmed-charlie-chaplins-granddaughter-joins-game-of-thrones-season-2_article_52018

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My money's on Jeyne Westerling, Robb's future wife. She looks way too old to be Jeyne Poole, and those are the two main Jeyne's who come to mind. Robb was barely seen at all in A Clash of Kings as he was off fighting in the west, but he will continue to be an integral part in the show, so it makes sense for this girl to be playing his future wife.

[Dracarys]

Nearing end of Clash of Kings now, I think series 2 will need a far bigger budget than series 1.

Wanna finish it before I pass judgement.

[Trent]

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) is starring in a Norwegian production film ("Headhunters") which is cool.

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Hour-long interview with George R.R. Martin:

http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2011/08/game-of-thrones-author-talks-about.html

More solid Season 2 casting:

http://www.twisted-news.com/2011/08/season-2-of-game-of-thrones-meet-the-cast/

Robert Pugh is Craster


Hannah Murray is Gilly


Roy Dotrice is Hallyne the Pyromancer


Tom Wlaschiha is Jaqen H'ghar



Also, some pictures from set:






The Seven?

[Dracarys]

I don't know some of these names you're posting, I guess series 2 goes beyond Clash of Kings? I don't how they can fit so much into the series unless gonna be a lot longer than series 1.

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where the red woman burns them with Stannis

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http://innatthecrossroads.com/

This site is pretty awesome. They have recipes for anything and everything ever eaten or drank in A Song of Ice and Fire. Everything from spice wine to iced milk with honey to the breakfasts eaten at Winterfell. Pretty incredible stuff.

[Trent]

Saw a girl in the bus today reading A Storm of Swords.

[Dracarys]

I'm on book 1 of Storm of Swords right now. The book has enlarged text despite being in the same print series as the GoT and CoK I have, I find it annoying to read.

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Ser Davos Seaworth has been cast!

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/game-thrones-casting-characters-season-2-191100938.html

Irish actor Liam Cunningham will portray the Onion Knight in Season 2 of Game of Thrones. Looks like another excellent casting.

[Darkmoon]

Whoever they have in casting needs a medal, a payrise and to be made the tutor of every other casting minion ever. They've been nigh perfect with casting.

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(I've read the books, im on a storm of swords where Jon escapes the wildlings near where bran is

who in the seven hells is Jaqen H'ghar? Well u cant really answer that but does he play a important role in Arya's future? or in later books?