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Beric175
brotherhood without banners
Joined: Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:17 am Posts: 4052
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witless chum wrote: ETA: I suddenly realizing how great it would be to photoshop Ashley, Mimi, Kyle and Amin onto the face of the goatlord there and put the podcast sigil over the pentagram. yeah, and he's so popular that he seems to get all the ladies in Berserk, too: Ironically, this makes me think about another criticism I have of the book: most of the Targaryens look like Griffith in my mind and that's not a character I wanna constantly be reminded of. That probably cost the book a whole LC in my rating.
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Fri Nov 14, 2014 10:52 pm |
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witless chum
★wardens of the woody★
Joined: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:20 pm Posts: 1527 Location: Kalamazoo, The Southern North
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I did not know what bezerk was until I just googled it.
Got to listen to the episode when I was driving long distance this weekend. It was as much fun to hear as everyone said. Mimi hatin' and everyone getting excited was just fun.
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SerDanielDayne
house micro-woody lord
Joined: Thu Jun 05, 2014 8:55 am Posts: 22
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Mordion wrote: Yeah, I really liked that too, Amin was giving Greg a run for fast talking at one point. I know, Amin had espresso in his veins for this one. But it's always awesome to have the full crew. I'll be interested to hear the more in-depth podcasts about the content of each section.
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Mon Nov 17, 2014 3:12 pm |
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claudiusthefool
♜ vassals of kingsgrave curator ♖
Joined: Fri May 18, 2012 5:50 pm Posts: 4778 Location: Long Island
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Mordion wrote: Yeah, I really liked that too, Amin was giving Greg a run for fast talking at one point. I missed this. Was this in reference to me? I actually keep a post-it on my screen that says "SLOW DOWN" when we're recording, but I didn't know I was the fast-talker.
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Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:24 pm |
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Mordion
★wardens of the woody★
Joined: Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:04 am Posts: 1395 Location: Grapevine, TX
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claudiusthefool wrote: Mordion wrote: Yeah, I really liked that too, Amin was giving Greg a run for fast talking at one point. I missed this. Was this in reference to me? I actually keep a post-it on my screen that says "SLOW DOWN" when we're recording, but I didn't know I was the fast-talker. Yeah, I mostly made the joke because I know you perceive yourself as talking too fast sometimes, though some of the Silmarillion into stuff can be pretty speedy. Certainly no offense meant.
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Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:43 pm |
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claudiusthefool
♜ vassals of kingsgrave curator ♖
Joined: Fri May 18, 2012 5:50 pm Posts: 4778 Location: Long Island
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No worries. Better a fast-talker than a close-talker:
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Mon Nov 17, 2014 10:11 pm |
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Beric175
brotherhood without banners
Joined: Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:17 am Posts: 4052
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Gytrash
house baratheon
Joined: Thu Nov 28, 2013 12:32 pm Posts: 544 Location: City of Legends
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Re Summerhall, I get the real reason GRRM wasn't going to tell us exactly what happened, but it did seem weird to me it's treated like such a mystery because it happened within living memory of the older people in Westeros, so surely it's not just one maester whose manuscript got ruined who knew what went down.
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witless chum
★wardens of the woody★
Joined: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:20 pm Posts: 1527 Location: Kalamazoo, The Southern North
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Gytrash wrote: Re Summerhall, I get the real reason GRRM wasn't going to tell us exactly what happened, but it did seem weird to me it's treated like such a mystery because it happened within living memory of the older people in Westeros, so surely it's not just one maester whose manuscript got ruined who knew what went down. Maybe the (sort of retconnish) idea is that Egg was secretive about his secret egg program and most of those in the know were there with the turkey fryer turned over and died. Given that previous attempts to hatch dragon eggs had been failures and farces, it might make sense for PR to keep it quiet until you had some success to announce to the realm. Or if Egg believed the maesters were sabotaging the dragons or that his lords might want to make sure he didn't get those dragons he wanted to truly curtail their power, secrecy might make sense, also. It seems odd, but you can explain it without too many storytelling gymnastics, I think.
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Tue Nov 18, 2014 8:33 am |
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Gytrash
house baratheon
Joined: Thu Nov 28, 2013 12:32 pm Posts: 544 Location: City of Legends
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witless chum wrote: Gytrash wrote: Re Summerhall, I get the real reason GRRM wasn't going to tell us exactly what happened, but it did seem weird to me it's treated like such a mystery because it happened within living memory of the older people in Westeros, so surely it's not just one maester whose manuscript got ruined who knew what went down. Maybe the (sort of retconnish) idea is that Egg was secretive about his secret egg program and most of those in the know were there with the turkey fryer turned over and died. Given that previous attempts to hatch dragon eggs had been failures and farces, it might make sense for PR to keep it quiet until you had some success to announce to the realm. Or if Egg believed the maesters were sabotaging the dragons or that his lords might want to make sure he didn't get those dragons he wanted to truly curtail their power, secrecy might make sense, also. It seems odd, but you can explain it without too many storytelling gymnastics, I think. Well, yeah, but then what was Archmaester Gyldayn's source and why didn't anyone else have access to that? It just seems weird that with one inkspill, it's been lost forever when this is really recent history that lots of people alive would remember happening. And I never got the impression from the novels that what happened at Summerhall is a big mystery in-universe, just that the readers aren't allowed to be privy to it. Like the way GRRM withholds the information from the readers is by having characters talk about Summerhall like everyone knows what happened, to such an extent no explanation is necessary (like Alester Florent being all "Did we learn nothing from Summerhall?") And we get more information from characters in the novels than TWOIAF gives us, so it seems like there is information out there. IDK, it's just a tiny point, but it seemed weird to me and a bit contrived.
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witless chum
★wardens of the woody★
Joined: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:20 pm Posts: 1527 Location: Kalamazoo, The Southern North
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Quote: Well, yeah, but then what was Archmaester Gyldayn's source and why didn't anyone else have access to that? It just seems weird that with one inkspill, it's been lost forever when this is really recent history that lots of people alive would remember happening. And I never got the impression from the novels that what happened at Summerhall is a big mystery in-universe, just that the readers aren't allowed to be privy to it. Like the way GRRM withholds the information from the readers is by having characters talk about Summerhall like everyone knows what happened, to such an extent no explanation is necessary (like Alester Florent being all "Did we learn nothing from Summerhall?") And we get more information from characters in the novels than TWOIAF gives us, so it seems like there is information out there. Gyldayne might have been there himself, given that he's apparently a contemporary of Egg. My impression was that everyone knows what we've been told: that they tried to hatch dragons and almost everyone died, but not the details of what happened or especially why it all went wrong or what magical forces were involved. But maybe you remember the various references better than I do? The Florent one you quoted fits my interpretation fine.
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josephus
house manwoody mongoballer
Joined: Sat May 19, 2012 2:20 pm Posts: 346 Location: montrose fucking PA
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i thought it was generally accepted throughout westeros that dunk burned summerhall down with his cornballer
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mimi
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Joined: Fri Dec 24, 2010 9:53 pm Posts: 1079 Location: texas
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josephus wrote: i thought it was generally accepted throughout westeros that dunk burned summerhall down with his cornballer lolol
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wera
house micro-woody lord
Joined: Fri Oct 31, 2014 5:38 am Posts: 25
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josephus wrote: i thought it was generally accepted throughout westeros that dunk burned summerhall down with his cornballer there is always coin in the hot pie stand (I hope u made a reference on arrested development cuz i sure did)
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