Game of Thrones *spoilers*

Storm of Swords is being split up into seasons 3 and 4. George R. R. Martin is apparently writing/directing episode 7 of season 3, which we can only guess is that one particular event that happens partway through that book...

 

This is correct as Martin notes on his blog.
Ten-episode seasons.

 

Game of Thrones Season 1: Stark Kids Sing Show Open
I wasn't going to watch it but on 2nd thought did--it's not the kids singing--it's the opening GoT montage music with them humming and do-do-do-do-ing through it, then a intro from each in their 'real' voices. Really quite fun.

 

Hah, thats funny

 

I'm at exactly that spot in A Clash of Kings, the introduction of the 'knight in blue.' Like Tyrion, they made her much more telegenic than described by Geo. R.R. Martin. I'm sort of glad they have. I'm digging both the A Song of Ice and Fire book series and the HBO GoT series. Different (as the must be) but both really good.

 

I always pictured Brienne like Milla Javovich in Joan of Arc

 

Did you read the book description of Brienne? I would say from this pic that Milla has the hair about right.

 

Ive read about medieval rat-torture but never seen it. Thanks for enlightening me GoT, and not in a good way.

 

This episode 4 scene blew my mind:




How they did it:
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Last week’s “Game of Thrones” episode proved to be a shocker not just to the audience, but to one of its stars — Liam Cunningham.

The Irish actor was part of the eye-popping cliffhanger scene where his character, Ser Davos Seaworth, watched the red priestess, Melisandre (played by Carice van Houten), give birth to some sort of “monster.” “After I lifted my jaw off the ground, when I read the end of it, I was astonished,” he told AccessHollywood.com of his initial reaction to the script.

“I just really wanted to know how they were gonna shoot this. “When I saw where we were shooting it and what it was gonna look like, I thought, ‘This is like a Caravaggio — a beautiful painting.’ And [Director David Petrarca] said, ‘That’s exactly what our brief was — to make it look like this,’” Liam continued. “And this thing — it’s just so weird to watch. “When I do turn around — you have to get your head around this as an actor — to turn around and see the red priestess dropping the robe and [she’s] nine months pregnant, and two second before, she wasn’t pregnant at all? And for my character, who’s very real, he’s very human, and to see this thing crawl along the ground… this CGI-ed monster, is very, very scary and it’s an amazing end shot,” he enthused.
...“It’s not something you can rehearse. You kind of have to just play it and it’s very taxing on Carice, as well, because of the screaming and the different angles and the basic delivery — it’s not as difficult as a real one. However, when you’re in a cave, in the cold weather, and she’s virtually naked, it’s, I mean she had the tougher job of that,” he said.

To make the lithe Carice look pregnant in the scene, they brought in the experts, who made her faux belly move. “Carice had a prosthetic on which was operated by pneumatics, so we had the wonderful Conor O’Sullivan, who did ‘Clash of the Titans,’ he did ‘The Dark Knight’ — incredible guy, top of his game, whose operating this um, tummy,” he said.

... “It’s just really surreal. You’ve got a film crew and somebody’s giving birth to a monster in a cave, in Northern Ireland, in the middle of the night,” Liam said. “You’ve gotta laugh at that stuff. It could twist the mind of a sane person.” “... this is a wonderful cliffhanger… to finish [the episode]. ‘What the hell is this woman up to and what is she doing at this point?’ And we just cut it,” Liam laughed...

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I love Tyrion.
And right now I'm liking Arya and Gendry's adventure. They're a cute team.
As for King... I guess I'm rooting for Robb, because he's a Stark... or Renly... I don't really care as long as it's not Geoffrey or that Greyjoy guy.
I haven't read the books.