On Ned Stark, Ice and Fire
Spoilers after the leap… (First half of the post may have season one show spoilers, after that there is a warning for more book-related spoilers.)
Tagged: game of thrones
Game of Thrones Bookclub: Portents of Things to Come
This is week four of the bookclub. We just read chapters 21 – 28, Eddard IV through Eddard V. At this point in the book things are growing more and more foreboding. Eddard arrives...
Game of Thrones Bookclub: A Plan of Books
If my calculations are correct, we should be finished with Chapter 28, the sixth Eddard chapter, by tomorrow when we post a discussion. For a list of all chapters, go here. We will need...
Game of Thrones Bookclub – Week Three Spoiler Thread
The main discussion is here. If you want to talk about spoilers, you can talk about them in this thread.
Game of Thrones Bookclub (Week Three)
I want to talk about the Starks’ intelligence for a second now. Since the television series started I’ve seen a lot of online commentary saying that the Starks are pretty dumb. Obliviously stupid might...
Game of Thrones Book Club: Meet the Starks
Daniel: I have to admit, it’s a little hard to reread these chapters without considering what’s going to happen next. I just want to mention things that, right now, are all spoilers. The only...
Game of Thrones Book Club
So commenter Daniel and I are going to be hosting a book club for Game of Thrones here at The League. Recent discussions of the show have been a lot of fun, so we...
Tits! Swords! Edginess!
(Editor’s note: Erik’s praise for “Game of Thrones” drew me out of semi-retirement. Bear with me) One of the problems with easing constraints on a creative medium is that creators are inevitably tempted to...
George R.R. Martin is not your bitch.
Well, it looks like HBO will begin shooting the pilot episode for George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones in October in Northern Ireland. I am gripped with excitement and trepidation. And at...
