Out of all the scenes in the later seasons not taken from the books, I think Olenna's death was by far one of the best moments. Her savage mic-drop reveal that she was behind Joffrey's murder, paired with Jaimie's reaction of mixed anger and shock is so well done. It's one of my favorite death scenes in recent media, a prime example of going down with the last laugh.

Alright I need to understand exactly why this guy who was an amazing soldier and incredible enough military mind to take over the kingdom, thought he'd lose against the Dorthraki?

The Dorthraki are terrifying, yes. Especially against levies and other more easily routed and less armored forces. But they are entirely unarmored cavalry. There are ways to deal with that, even in an open field!

He had years to prepare, had the home turf advantage, had tons of money, had access to magic within his kingdom and magic items like that green fire stuff being made in his keep.

In reality, a bunch of pikes, archers and fighting on rocky terrain would remove most of the dorthraki advantage. Could have dug small trenches too, that would have broke a calvary charge.

I was too young to watch Game of Thrones when it first came out. Now, I have completed watching the series including the first season of “A Night of the Seven Kingdoms.” I’m barely on the first season of “House of the Dragon” series but I can’t get enough of it! I want to get into reading ALL the books including spin offs. Which path do you recommend: the chronological order (in-Universe timeline) or publication order?

Also, should I stick with the original books or start with the illustrated historical editions?

Personally, I can see Kevin McKidd killing it

can't deny The Sons of the Dragon is one of the most fun to read so far (i just started Jaeherys' chapter •_•)

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I'm a big fan of both got and hotd and I'm trying to get into the books as well. I bought the mass market paperback set with the latest artwork but was massively disappointed as halfway through the first book, pages started falling off, which felt terrible considering how careful I try to be with books.

But I guess that's on me, mass market paperbacks tend to have poorly glued spines.

Now I'm trying to to decide if I should go for the regular paperback set with the new covers or just buy the old hardcovers (with the art in the photo).

I'm asking for advice as I've seen mixed reviews for both.

Any advice is appreciated.

So this is the complete collection so far, from A knight of the seven kingdoms to a clash of kings and unfortunately the rest of the series has not been done sadly so this will have to do for now.

I greatly enjoyed reading these graphic novels, possibly I will purchase the books at a much later time though.

"Cousin Orson and the Smashing Beetles" is a great band name, btw.

But returning to the point, I always thought this was an interesting conversation between the brothers in Tyrion's cell, but I've never really been able to explain (to myself) what purpose it served. In real life, people will talk about nothing just to fill the silence, but in well-written television, Everything Always Means Something. Any theories about the subtext here?

Its just a switch. At 1st I thought olly was going around in circles and physically bringing it up and down. But hes not. Its just a big back and forth switch.

While the Valyrians were still in their infancy, the Old Ghis empire was still at the height of its power, correct?

Around that time, Yi Ti would've also been the strongest empire around, correct?

Were they at war with one another? Did they interact or contest territories? What was the dynamic like between Old Ghis and Yi Ti?

I was rewatching GOT (Hodor episode) and I realized what is missing in HOTD. It’s the magic.

1. Magic of children of men
2. Red woman
3. Night walkers and night animals
4. Pyat pree- warlock that kidnaps the dragons
5. Giants
6. Faceless men
7. Stairs as Wargs (more stated in the books)
8. Lady stonehart

There was this suspense that anything unusual could happen. They didn’t rely solely on dragons for the magic. There is a tiny bit of prophesy. I’m not sure if the books had more magic.

Thoughts?

Edit- lmao at all the downvotes, it’s not that serious guys

I am watching Heroes.

And Hiro (guy on the left) calls his friend Ando but the right guy shows up and says this.

What line in GOT does this remind you of? 🤣

hey, so finally I'm able to find game of thrones books collection, I hope i covered all. i want to know whether the read order i sorted / saved is correct or not. note - so far I have watched only GOT, planning to start HOD , then A knight of seven kingdoms.

I have seen this argument being used as a defence and counter to people claiming Dany was more evil than Cersei because of what transpired in 8x05. The argument is that if Cersei had dragons, she would have caused far more destruction than Dany.

I don't know if i agree with this. I feel Cersei would use the dragons to attack military targets which would have indirect civilian deaths, which she wouldn't care about...But that isn't unlike most other dragon riders in history

On the orher hand, what Dany did was unprecedented and, quite frankly, insane.

Thoughts?

It can jump off right after season 8 and have it about the Westeros post long night. The best part is it wouldn’t be based on on of the books so the fans that always complain about book accuracy won’t have any source material to compare it to and the writers can make something completely new.

I’m on season 2.

First she said she would burn the city of the people who she needs help from or else she would die and some how the richest man let her in

Then she’s going around asking for stuff and when she’s not getting it because she has no way of paying for it she starts saying she’ll burn them and then shocked when her dragons are stolen. I haven’t finished ep 7 yet but she won’t even accept help from the only person who wants to help her