Originally posted by dadudemon
That.Was I missing anything or did that not happen in the books at all? I don't remember reading any lengthy soliloquy regarding beetle smashing.
Didn't happen.
Thats why I said some of these choices are utterly baffling to me. I literally don't understand not putting Tysha in and having that rather pointless soliloquy.
Originally posted by dadudemonNigga Hemingway was just jelly.
Even more so in the books, I'd say. Sometimes, we would get 2 full pages of description over some small trivial thing. Another great American author who won prizes was William Faulkner. One of the biggest criticisms of Faulkner's style was his overly-abundant description (too much of it). People would complain about the 2 paragraphs of description.GRRM does it for multiple pages. He makes it look like Faulkner used brevity.
Originally posted by Nephthys
Didn't happen.Thats why I said some of these choices are utterly baffling to me. I literally don't understand not putting Tysha in and having that rather pointless soliloquy.
I enjoyed the brief "homicide, regicide, fratricide" dialogue. But I enjoyed it because it was brief and to the point.
There are other additions that escape me, at the moment, that I also enjoyed.
Oh, I remember one of them: everything that happened between Tywin and Arya. That was some of the best writing the show had to offer outside of the major tragedies. For me, those scenes made it seem like Tywin KNEW who Arya was. It was cutting it so close...deliciously close.
Originally posted by NemeBro
Nigga Hemingway was just jelly.
It wasn't just Hemingway who criticized him, though. Hemingway was Faulkner's polar opposite, though. I think someone should hand GRRM a few Hemingway pieces. Hemingway succeeded in creating the same sensory as GRRM but with FAAAAAAAAAAAR fewer words. Hemingway was a damn good writer. 🙂
Some of them are gold, like the Brienne/Hound fight and the Arya/Tywin scenes or the added talks with Varys and Littlefinger.
But others just make no sense and actually detract from the quality of the work.
Originally posted by NemeBro
I think most people like Tywin's scenes with Arya.Except maybe sociopaths like Nephthys and focus who wanted Tywin to not have any apparent humanizing elements, like in the books.
Best parts of season 2 imo. :I
Weird. I thought you said Tywin should have been shown to be a not nice mean man?
Originally posted by dadudemon
It wasn't just Hemingway who criticized him, though. Hemingway was Faulkner's polar opposite, though. I think someone should hand GRRM a few Hemingway pieces. Hemingway succeeded in creating the same sensory as GRRM but with FAAAAAAAAAAAR fewer words. Hemingway was a damn good writer. 🙂
Yeah but who gives a **** what anyone else said about Faulkner? Hemingway's criticisms were the funniest.
"Oh poor Faulkner, he thinks big meaning comes from big words."
Or something like that. Lol, what a shithead.
Originally posted by ares834
But Red Viper...Quentyn ****ing sux though. Didn't help that you knew he was going to die as soon as he appeared.
Expand on this. Was his "story" so obviously closed ended when he was introduced? I didn't see him dying, myself. I thought he would genuinely do something awesome with the dragon. Maybe tame it. I thought he would get injured, for sure, but I thought he would see some success.
I'll be honest: for a while, there, I thought Q was going to become a contender for the Iron Throne.
Originally posted by NemeBro
Bro what do you have against Darkstar, the biggest badass in Westeros or beyond?
He's the most unintentionally hilarious character in the books. "I am of the Night." Lmao, what the ****? How could GRRM think that was cool? He's like a phaggy hot-topic poser who tries way too hard to be badass. You could just feel Martin trying to make him as cool as possible and utterly failing at every step. Obviously trying to replace Oberyns natural badassery except he could only manage the completely forced "woah, this guy is super handsome and deadly and boasts about how cool he is, what a total panty-drencher."
He the Westeros version of Poochy, is what I'm saying.