#halemcjoel

[eliaamartell]

halemcjoel replied to your photo: “Jon knew that other men accused of treason had been allowed to redeem...”:

oooo that last gif is a really nice touch

Haha thanks! It was a nightmare to color and make the two scenes fit together. And I thought there’d be more snowy scenes with Boromir in LOTR that I could use, but that short shot turned out to be the only usable one :/

[joannalannister]

halemcjoel replied to your post:

i wish they didn’t make them so delicate in the show. they’re strong and all but a touch of valyrian steel and they go poof

In the books:

And then he was stumbling forward, falling more than running, really, closing his eyes and shoving the dagger blindly out before him with both hands. He heard a crack, like the sound ice makes when it breaks beneath a man’s foot, and then a screech so shrill and sharp that he went staggering backward with his hands over his muffled ears, and fell hard on his arse. 

When he opened his eyes the Other’s armor was running down its legs in rivulets as pale blue blood hissed and steamed around the black dragonglass dagger in its throat. It reached down with two bone-white hands to pull out the knife, but where its fingers touched the obsidian they smoked. 

Sam rolled onto his side, eyes wide as the Other shrank and puddled, dissolving away. In twenty heartbeats its flesh was gone, swirling away in a fine white mist. Beneath were bones like milkglass, pale and shiny, and they were melting too. Finally only the dragonglass dagger remained, wreathed in steam as if it were alive and sweating.

20 heartbeats. *poof* “swirling away in a fine white mist” I assume dragonsteel has an effect similar to dragonglass.

[lyannas]

halemcjoel replied to your post: anonymous asked:fave and least fa...

do you mean Feast for Crows? Clash was the second book

YES sorry, i had a hard day at work lol

overall I liked AFFC but idk some parts were reaaaaaally slow... the cersei chapters were the only thing that kept me alive

[leccters]

halemcjoel replied to your post: someone pls kill me this boy says thin...

what a qt

buttercup-everdeen replied to your post: someone pls kill me this boy says thin...

THAT’S SO CUTE OMG

i know RIP me honestly i hate this its so gross god!!!!!!!!!

[lyannas]

halemcjoel

 one of the only things keeping me alive with got...

what do you mean by this

i mean tons of character development was sacrificed and too many shitty plots have been introduced for me to take joy in arya fucking up meryn trant lol

[eliaamartell]

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halemcjoel replied to your post: SPOILER ASK (spoilers from the leaked ...

also what’s up with Jorah? does he think to row all the way from Volantis to Meereen on a boat with only him and Tyrion? i wouldn’t be surprised tbh, seeing as how people are going from the Vale to Winterfell in the span of an episode.

I didn’t think about that. Yeah, considering it’s the show, they might (and technically it’s a sailboat, so he doesn’t have to row all the time lol). Didn’t they cast Yezzan though? Maybe a slaver ship will attack Jorah’s boat, make him and Tyrion prisoners ad take them to Meereen as slaves just like in the books.

[eliaamartell]

halemcjoel

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“Why did you fancast a white guy as young griff?”

i didnt wanna believe this theory for the longest time bc i felt like the Blackfyre thing was irrelevant, since it was so long ago. but it's looking more and more likely. but i don't understand what Aegon being a Blackfyre means in the broader sense

I think everything that happened pre-asoiaf and has been mentioned in the books at some point is bound to have some impact on the present storyline, and the Blackfyre rebellion wouldn't have been covered so much by GRRM, especially by the Dunk&Egg stories, just for no reason. I think that (f)Aegon is basically a red herring and unfortunately his character won't last long. He's the mummer's dragon of Dany's prophecy (the mummer being Varys) and he was just set up as an obstacle on Dany's way and as a distraction for other characters. I just see him as a plot device, tbh, and I doubt he will do much. I just hope poor Joncon dies before him or before he's exposed as a fake or it'll destroy him. Of course, this is all just my own personal opinion and there are people who think differently.

[eliaamartell]

why did that "Only Cat." thing matter so much? i don't see much difference between saying that and saying "Your sister."

Ok, I’m going to write a long post about this, so bear with me :)

Well, first of all, it was one of the most iconic scenes in the books:

Littlefinger let Lysa sob against his chest for a moment, then put his hands on her arms and kissed her lightly. “My sweet silly jealous wife,” he said, chuckling. “I’ve only loved one woman, I promise you.”Lysa Arryn smiled tremulously. “Only one? Oh, Petyr, do you swear it? Only one?”"Only Cat." He gave her a short, sharp shove.

So iconic that people have been referring to that whole scene as “Only Cat” and all the book readers know exactly what someone is talking about when hearing those words. And it would have made book readers very happy to hear a few words from the books in a season that deviated so much from them.

But, more importantly, as a lot of people said when the episode came out, “Only Cat” is much more intimate than “your sister”. With those words, Petyr is throwing in Lysa’s face the intimate (though just one-sided) bond he’d always had with “Cat” and never had with her; the feelings he’d always had for “Cat” and never had for her. It was a twist of the knife for Lysa to hear that word from Petyr’s lips. Instead, the phrase “Your sister” focuses all the attention on Lysa; it’s like Petyr is saying “yours, not mine. I have nothing to do with it”. I’m not sure I’m managing to say what I want to say here, but you don’t refer to the love of your life when talking to her sister as “your sister”, if you want to throw in the sister’s face the intimacy you had with that person.

And D&D’s only reason to change “Only Cat” to “your sister” was freakin’ exposition. They thought viewers might no longer know who Cat was, though she had been a main character for 3 seasons and had been mentioned a lot in the 4th. They could have just changed the sentence Lysa says 5 seconds earlier (“She’s just like her mother. She’ll never love you.”) into “She’s just like Catelyn. She’ll never love you.” to remind these forgetful viewers, but yeah, no. Better remind everyone that Sansa had a mother and that she’s Lysa’s sister instead.

Exposition is a necessary thing in TV shows, but it shouldn’t stretch beyond episode 2. When in episode 1 of season 1 Catelyn said loudly “Where’s Arya? Sansa, where’s your sister?” it served to tell us that the red-headed girl was called Sansa, and the little girl with the helmet on her head was Arya and she was her sister. But in episode 7 of season 4, such exposition would just feel awkward, just like “your sister” felt awkward to many viewers.