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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 5 Offseason Thread
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PhoenixDark
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I need a book with Edd, Tyrion, Victarion, and Davos on an expedition to Southoryos.
What is a "MUSH"?
A now-lost post in which Ratsky reveals HE'S BEEN LINDA ALL ALONG??
A now-lost post in which Ratsky reveals HE'S BEEN LINDA ALL ALONG??
Basileus777
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You mean the old text based browser games, often used for role-playing? What brought this question on?
One of those blogs from Linda that Ratsky posted is about why black characters aren't allowed in "the MUSH". I guess she must DM some roleplaying game?
Basileus777
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Yeah, Westeros has long run a ASOIAF MUSH. Blood of Dragons. I believe it's mostly for role-play.
After finding out both that latest Hardhome tidbit (which could disprove the whole elaborate rumour) and which book character
, I've decided to go Unsullied for the last few weeks before the season. My balls are up for the taking.
And on the Linda thing, I do value and enjoy both her and Elio's vast knowledge and insight into the world of the books... I just don't think Linda is a very nice person, or agree with 90% of what she says.
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And on the Linda thing, I do value and enjoy both her and Elio's vast knowledge and insight into the world of the books... I just don't think Linda is a very nice person, or agree with 90% of what she says.
PHOENIXZERO
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Has Linda read the Red Wedding yet?
biosnake20
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Oh yeah that is some crazy shit. She said wasn't mentally ready to read that chapter or some shit.
Basileus777
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She read the summary. That's just as good.
Pyramid head
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Wait.
They used a fully CGI face to make her look like a normal child dressed in rags?
It's so fucking dumb. She must have been spoiled to know what chapter it is is anyway. Just read it...
Cornballer
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Folks, it's probably time to wrap up the extended Linda discussion. It's not particularly productive or relevant to this thread.
Also, let's try and stay focused on the television show in here. Note that the A Song of Ice and Fire -- **Unmarked Spoilers For All Books including ADWD** is available for all of your book discussion needs.
Thank you.
Also, let's try and stay focused on the television show in here. Note that the A Song of Ice and Fire -- **Unmarked Spoilers For All Books including ADWD** is available for all of your book discussion needs.
Thank you.
Basileus777
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There's already a community thread.
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
I feel sorry for them. They just wasted a lot of money/time/effort for what people thought was just a featured extra.
If only they could have put that time, money and effort into Bloodraven instead, rather than giving us Tree-Saruman.
Memento Mori
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Wait wrong thread.
biosnake20
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The Season 5 world premier is in London tomorrow so hopefully some episode 1 details trickle out from there. And I think a trailer came out the same day of the premier last year so maybe that will happen again this year.
Lol, I was wondering what this was about.
Memento Mori
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This is what happens when you're reading three threads at once over two forums at the same time in different tabs.
badcrumble
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I don't consider it wasteful. We'll be seeing more of the Children of the Forest, I'm sure.
DKehoe
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"Thousand eyes and one" makes no sense with the show version of Bloodraven. I was really looking forward to seeing how they portrayed him and it was such a disappointment.
But, they didn't do anything to her. They shelled out money to superimpose her own face over her face.
RatskyWatsky
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shh dont tell anyone
Er, what? They made a cgi face for an actress whose real face looks just the the cgi one? I can't tell what the differences are. Could they have not just used makeup?
I think you guys are slightly missing what they did to her face. They made it look non-human, the bone structure is a bit different, eyes that are farther apart, etc. Not something you can do with makeup. The end result though is we only see her face on screen clearly in this one shot pretty much, so there isn't much there to spot that stuff anyways.
Yo real talk. Why do this?
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They just like... pulled the eyes apart a bit?
EDIT crap -griffy- beat me and with better quality stills ;_;
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
If you didn't show me the before and after side-by-side, I wouldn't know they did any post effects at all.
It seems like they just made her face more cherubic.
It seems like they just made her face more cherubic.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
What? No they didn't. She still looks like a regular human, just more childlike.
I do see the differences now that there are comparison pics, but I still think this could have been achieved with make up (I seen some shit on those youtube tutorials!).
BobTheFork
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I thought those were pox marks. Turns out it's a disease the God of Fire gives you before he re-writes your face.
Yes they did, they widened the upper part of her face and narrowed the lower part of her face, and made her eyes farther apart to an extent beyond what is normal for a human. It's subtle for sure, but subtly non-human. Just to the point that it looks strange but not unnatural, which I'm sure was the intent. Makeup only adds to what is there, no amount of makeup will move an actor's eyeballs or narrow bone structure. It's one of the limitations of makeup, you can't take away.
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/17/game-thrones-showrunners
New interview with D&D + Cogman. Nothing too much new. They seem pretty bullish on Lena Headey's performance this season, and pretty excited about Dorne. Their comment that Jon admires both Mance and Stannis but is frustrated by their stubbornness inspires a bit of confidence for those relationships. The main thing I noted is that
Him saying he doesn't want to celebrate prematurely is better than him shooting it down altogether and saying that he's not actually close to the end! Keep hope alive!
New interview with D&D + Cogman. Nothing too much new. They seem pretty bullish on Lena Headey's performance this season, and pretty excited about Dorne. Their comment that Jon admires both Mance and Stannis but is frustrated by their stubbornness inspires a bit of confidence for those relationships. The main thing I noted is that
they say winter is still confined to Northern areas, which would seem to imply that the shot of Brienne in the snow in the trailer really is in the North, instead of her seeing snow in the Riverlands.
I fucking you people for convincing me to read these books so many years ago.
Him saying he doesn't want to celebrate prematurely is better than him shooting it down altogether and saying that he's not actually close to the end! Keep hope alive!
Guys, I've managed to remain spoiler-free on this upcoming season and have only watched the initial trailer so far. This is the most unspoiled I will go into a season ever and I can't wait to be completely surprised a la the White Walker baby scene last year.
IS IT APRIL YET?
IS IT APRIL YET?
You might want to leave this thread then.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
iirc mr wolfy is making the thread :3
Cornballer
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RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Eh, "beyond normal for a human" ≠ "non-human". I think they did a good job with the giants - they're clearly different from humans (they're not just really tall people, in other words) - but I think they did a poor job with the Children of the Forest. They (or rather, just Leaf right now) look just like human children (with an ever so vaguely different facial appearance, I'll grant you).
Pyramid head
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They made her look like a different human, but still human. I'm sure they could have cast someone with features pretty much indistinguishable from that.I think you guys are slightly missing what they did to her face. They made it look non-human, the bone structure is a bit different, eyes that are farther apart, etc. Not something you can do with makeup. The end result though is we only see her face on screen clearly in this one shot pretty much, so there isn't much there to spot that stuff anyways.
I didn't catch that it wasn't just a plain old girl in makeup when I first saw it and I doubt anyone else did either.
Is there an extra which shows how they used advanced CGI to make one old guy slumped against a tree look like a different old guy slumped against a tree for Bloodraven?
joliefaire
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We've been discussing this very thing at another board. One of our members emailed Hibbard asking if he deliberately typed 'North' rather than 'north' or 'northern.' He answered back pretty quickly that he shouldn't have capitalized North and he's changed it to read 'north,' meaning generally the northern part of Westeros. So, Brienne could well be in the Riverlands, the Vale or who-knows-where.
Show Hardhome spoiler:
Seems that way, unless this guy very convincingly bullshitted the Watchers staff into thinking he's legit. They back him up, and he says that both that spoiler, and the one about Jon dying at Hardhome and being taken away by the White Walkers are false. And I agree. It's the sort of spoiler I wanted to believe, because it sounded great. All the trailer clips look really cool though, so I still have hope.
Interesting. I don't like the idea of Brienne going North, just because it seems like that would mean the Brotherhood plot is probably cut, or at least significantly reduced, and I think that would feel like a kind of big loose end. Also, Brienne in the North sounds like a death sentence for Stannis. D:
badcrumble
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The children of the forest are animes, canonical & confirmed
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