Pippin Took: I didn't think it would end this way.
Gandalf the White: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... then you see it!
Pippin Took: What? Gandalf? See what?
Gandalf the White: White shores... and beyond. A far green country, under a swift sunrise.
Pippin Took: Well, that isn't so bad.
Gandalf the White: [smiles] No... no, it isn't.
Besides, GOT and ASOIAF are now two separate entities in my eyes. So I may as well enjoy them both separately and also avoid spoilers. I do hate spoilers.
I am fine with spoilers, I do not like spoilers, but it is part of life. Anyway (at my current age, not so when I was a preteen) I do not read to know how the book ends but instead to ride the journey. To see things I did not notice even though they were standing next to me.
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Don't Cry for Me Argentina. I will surive and endure and deal with the spoilers. Now I see GOT the tv series and ASOIAF the book as separate worlds (not merely an adaptation) very much since Season 2 of GOT.
But my feelings of Game of Thrones the TV series is wonderfully summed up by this scene in West World Episode 2 between Ford and Sizemore talking about the future narrative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JJnL-kEGQE
It just seems to me the writers of Game of Thrones when they do not have a plan and a story-line already crafted seems to just go for cheap thrills and sensory experiences without these things being anchored and rooted in telling a greater story, a story that produces insight and expands your understanding.
And that is what I loved so much about George RR Martin, but Weiss and Benioff do not seem to have. For example this was a scene cut from Game of Thrones but it was one of my favorite scenes in ASOIAF, it was Mance Rayder telling the story of his black cloak with the red threads. A story inside a story that shed so much insight into the character and made you feel and hurt. We had similar scenes to the black cloak with the red threads in GoT such as the drinking game in Season 1 but these insights seem lost the further and deeper you go into the Game of Thrones tv series.
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Now I am addicted to Nolan Brother crack, so this new show...this WestWorld by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan is too intense, so 99.8% pure that I think I will get by even while waiting for the books to finish before I return to Game of Thrones.
Smiles
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Your comment is reminding me of this
http://upic.me/i/wp/rahxephon_mishima-painting.jpg
http://evaxephon.com/ComparisonGallery/EvaXephon-008.gif
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Nostalgia is pulling me back to 17, the year I read the first 10 books of Wheel of Time, but I also read Game of Thrones during the christmas of that year, and A Clash of Kings during January and A Storm of Swords during February. It was so cold that winter in Kansas, and some of the time I was reading A Game of Thrones in my uncle's house during Christmas Vacation in Fort Riley in houses with bad heat and I was curled up with so many blankets on his wonderful and comfy leather couch. The edition of Game of Thrones I was reading had such an apt cover (see link below) that blend the reading, the sensory feeling my body was feeling while my mind was in another world, and all of it intertwined with the though Winter is Coming.
https://jmichaelmelican.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/a-game-of-thrones-george-rr-martin-book-cover.jpg
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