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So the Giants won, lets hope George rides his wave of elation into TWoW (self.asoiaf)

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[–]doormatt26The Knight of Autumn Leaves 61 points62 points ago

More likely he'll spend the rest of the month partying and we'll have to wait another month for the release. But better than a loss: if the Patriots had won, another Stark would have surely died.

[–]Iswearimadoctor 16 points17 points ago

Even worse DWD Spoiler

[–]kingerp 40 points41 points ago

Even worse, ADWD

[–]mapguyMaster-of-Arms 37 points38 points ago

You shut your whore mouth, wherever it is you go.

[–]frozentedwilliamsCorn! 2 points3 points ago

Any sentence with the word "whores" in it gets recited in my head in the voice of Danny Devito. Hooors!

[–]harabec01Ironborn 2 points3 points ago

You got to pay the troll toll to get in the boys hole

[–]unregisteredanimagusFaceless Dude 4 points5 points ago

i hate reading about that shit. so boring.

[–]Maester_MayArchmaester of the Citadel 2 points3 points ago

I discussed this for a while. I think it's because all of the names are so off-putting. I might have enjoyed it, if the politics and the names were something I was reading in book 1 or 2 of the series, but this exponential growth of locations and characters needs to stop. A

Or at the very least, Martin can do it by bringing in Highgarden characters or something.

[–]harabec01Ironborn 1 point2 points ago

Just needs to have some spring cleaning. Just have a page or two listing all of the characters in Mereen dying and never being mentioned again.

[–]easye7 1 point2 points ago

Didn't he say their weren't going to be any new POV characters? I could be wrong, I just vaguely remember that.

And yes, fuck Slaver's Bay. The Barristan POVs were interesting, but I really don't need to read about Dany's sex life.

[–]Maester_MayArchmaester of the Citadel 0 points1 point ago

That's what Martin said, but personally I doubt he will stick to that. Maybe we'll only see minor POV characters brought in (e.g. Areo Hotah) rather than, say, a Littlefinger or a Loras integrated into the POV's.

I think he's always planned on only bringing in another couple of characters each time around, but out of necessity it keeps happening every book. I think we'll see the last iteration of that next book. Some characters (such as Jon, or either of Brienne/Jaime) could be absent the whole while, while if they re-join the narrative in the last book, peoples thee characters will have been killed off to make room.

[–]Verco 12 points13 points ago

NOoooooooo why did i click that/hover over that

[–]c3judgeStark of Winterfell 31 points32 points ago

Because you hate yourself.

[–]Verco 2 points3 points ago

every night, I blame browsing reddit after the superbowl and 12 delisoush hand crafted beers

[–]Fauster 5 points6 points ago

Don't worry, the covered spoiler is more ambiguous than it sounds for a number of reasons.

[–]easye7 0 points1 point ago

So we hope.

[–]acharmedmatrix 4 points5 points ago

Don't worry man the speculation is strong with this one

[–]Verco 3 points4 points ago

sadly I am only 70% through AFFC soooooooooooooooo yeah, I'm working on it!

[–]CullingsongReek 28 points29 points ago

Yeah, that spoiler isn't as bad as you think....It pretty much means "he might die"

Oh, and STOP READING THIS REDDIT TILL YOU FINISH THE BOOKS!!!

for your own good.

Or not. Whatever.

[–]Verco -1 points0 points ago

I know I know, some of the posts are worth it though!

[–]futurelibrarian 0 points1 point ago

I'm glad I read the book already, cause my reddit automatically shows the text after the spoiler. All thanks to /r/MyLittlePony

[–]Petyr_BaelishLord Protector of the Vale 4 points5 points ago

if the Patriots had won, another Stark would have surely died.

As a Patriots fan, I would have gladly made that sacrifice.

[–]mastermouzeSand MouZe 4 points5 points ago

Him and I, both. Ideally, it would have been Sansa.

[–]Petyr_BaelishLord Protector of the Vale 12 points13 points ago

But hopefully only after her role in my plans is finished.

[–]ialsolovebees 0 points1 point ago

Hooray Baelish icons!

[–]mastermouzeSand MouZe 0 points1 point ago

Yes, we can not get in the way of your plans, Little Finger.

[–]umair56Young Griff -3 points-2 points ago

Yup. All the good Starks are dead anyways!

[–]muertecaza 28 points29 points ago

I'm hoping for a "Ser Justin Tuck" to woo Cersei.

[–]Maester_MayArchmaester of the Citadel 7 points8 points ago

I hear he loves to sack villages.

[–]TuffeyPom 0 points1 point ago

And then force her to eat a fistful of grass as he slams her into the turf!

[–]b3wizzFamily, Duty, Honor 23 points24 points ago

I've always thought of Bill Belichick as the Tywin Lannister of the NFL

[–]sobersister 1 point2 points ago

And Vince Wilfork is Wyman Manderly.

[–]GraphicNovelty -3 points-2 points ago

And Rex Ryan is Greatjohn Umber

[–]NotHosaniMubarak -1 points0 points ago

Tom Brady is Jamie Lannister Giselle Bundchen is Cersei Lannister Vince Wilfork is Gregor Celange

Peyton Manning is Ser Loras Tony Dungy is Renly Baratheon

Mike Holgren is Robert Baratheon Brett Favre is Ned Stark Aaron Rodgers would be Robb Stark

Tom Coughlin is clearly Stannis Eli Manning is Jon Snow (Does that make Kurt Warner Joer Mormont?)

[–]b3wizzFamily, Duty, Honor 0 points1 point ago

peyton is ser loras?!?! get ouuttta heeeerrre

[–]NotHosaniMubarak 0 points1 point ago

It works with the current status of Ser Loras. We don't know if either of them will ever be able to play/fight again or at what level but if they are healthy (and they might be) then they are among, if not the, very best in the land but we have no idea where they might show up.

It also works that both Dungy and Renly are out of the picture

[–]le_canuckWarden of the Sea 20 points21 points ago

Actually said to my mother:

"I'm rooting for the Giants just because I'm afraid that if they lose, GRRM will kill off a half dozen characters in the next book"

[–]NotHosaniMubarak 5 points6 points ago

That's why I rooted for them and immediately checked his not a blog after the victory.

[–]NBegovichRhymin' Wyman Manderly 2 points3 points ago

Oh man, I really hope you look at the edit to my other reply to this comment...

[–]le_canuckWarden of the Sea 2 points3 points ago

Haha she is. Started off watching Game of Thrones, and then read the books. Got all the way to AFFC before deciding to stop because if there were five years between book releases she'd never remember what happened when a new one came out and wouldn't want to spend ages waiting.

[–]NBegovichRhymin' Wyman Manderly 2 points3 points ago*

That's awesome. If your mom is as different from you as mine is from me, then I just want to add that I'm amazed at the kind of broad appeal these books have. Of course, maybe it just means we're more alike than we thought...

"I'm you, writ small."

[–]NBegovichRhymin' Wyman Manderly -1 points0 points ago*

Is your mother also a fan of "A Song of Ice and Fire"?

EDIT: Let me rephrase that (seriously): My mother is a fan of the books. I ordered the Blu-ray set of the HBO series so we could watch it together since she hasn't seen it yet. Is your mother also a fan of "A Song of Ice and Fire"?

[–]koolaidfaceNuncle Slayer 0 points1 point ago

My mom is a fan...

[–]Jugh3ad 16 points17 points ago

I spent the whole bloody day trying to avoid not finding out who won the superbowl as I had it recorded and was going to watch it when I get home. I though of all places, I wouldn't find out in r/asoiaf ... sigh

[–]piercebroBog Devil 2 points3 points ago

really? that's just impressive

[–]dersparrowSand 4 points5 points ago

"... and everyone lived happily ever after."

[–]cummintoniterocks 8 points9 points ago

When its not 1 am I want to make a chart of Jets and Giants losses verses characters dying per period of book being written... I wonder...

[–]b3wizzFamily, Duty, Honor 8 points9 points ago

read GRRM's thoughts on the matter here

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Wun Weg Wun Dar Wun ends up seated on the Iron Throne, calling it now.

[–]Maester_MayArchmaester of the Citadel 0 points1 point ago

I came here to express the same thought. An upvote to ye, instead.

I wonder what happened to the Giants when GRRM wrote Storm? It wasn't a good book for the poor fellas.

[–]perfectmHowlin' 2 points3 points ago

The Giants from Beyond the Wall were victorious in front of gods(old and new) and men.

[–]officemonkeyHouse of Payne 5 points6 points ago

My prediction for the first scene of WOW: ADWD

[–]zachkerr 1 point2 points ago

Come on now, I like to think GRRM has a plan that he is going to stick to for these final two additions to the series, and that he wouldn't be angered so much by a football game that he would inflict his pain onto a fan base... Hahahahaha just kidding, thank god they won!

[–]Kevo_Yo 2 points3 points ago

I thought he was a Jets fan.

[–]QuillandTankard 13 points14 points ago

He's both a Giants fan and a Jets fan. While this is clearly an instance of sports bigamy, he's from New Jersey, so they could both be considered his hometown teams, and they're in different conferences, so they only play each other once every four years. Or in the Super Bowl, if they both made it the same year.

[–]officemonkeyHouse of Payne 3 points4 points ago

Or in the Super Bowl, if they both made it the same year.

Which would be never.

It's the same reason I'm a Yankees fan and a Cubs fan. No chance of them meeting in the World Series.

[–]atomicbison 1 point2 points ago

hey, the Berlin Wall came down in our lifetime, maybe we'll see a Cubs World Series.

[–]BlueBayouOurs is the Fury 0 points1 point ago

An all New York Super Bowl

Thy will be done

[–]Guy_Dudebro 0 points1 point ago

Life is magical and full of joy.

[–]DidntClickGuyHOT PIE! 0 points1 point ago

I just know that tWoW will contain a scene in which Wun Weg Wun Dar Wun's brother gets stabbed in the neck, and so he ends up killing Jaime Lannister in a rage somehow.

[–]polynomialsWhite Harbor Wolf 0 points1 point ago

He won't. I read somewhere this subreddit linked to that we're looking at late 2015 :( according to people close to him.

[–]revenantrevenge 2 points3 points ago

2015 is probably very optimistic..it all depends on new Ben & Jerry's flavors, Giants/Jets seasons, how many worldwide Comic Cons he attends, and a variety of other factors. Did you know Stephen King writes about 3000 words per day?

[–]polynomialsWhite Harbor Wolf 0 points1 point ago

That's just what I heard from I think it was some of the people that run westeros.org who were at a book reading or something.

In terms of words written, I forgot the source on this too, but GRRM puts out a 1000-1200 page book on average every couple of years. When you average out the word count against other authors, he publishes about as much as if not more than anyone else in sci-fi/fantasy, it just feels like less because there is a long time between publications.

[–]revenantrevenge 0 points1 point ago

A 1200 page book every couple of years? Am I missing some? But seriously, I'm not here to troll GRRM fans...I'm one, too, just a little cynical/sarcastic. Although I admit I have a real love/hate thing going for him. He's frustrating. I avoid his Not A Blog like the plaque because it just pisses me off. Having said all that, the first 3 books of ASOIAF are among the best fantasy novels I've ever read, and I remain hopeful he will finish them as strong as he began. I fear he has lost some focus, but perhaps that is a topic for another thread. I greatly enjoy discussing all aspects of the series with other readers, and reading all their opinions.

[–]Gish21 0 points1 point ago

Good news for TWoW. Got the election coming up next though, that's an even bigger danger

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[–]kingerp 4 points5 points ago

you're absolutely right, it's impossible for somebody to like both football and ASOIAF!

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[–]DrAnhero 2 points3 points ago

You should write to GRRM and tell him to leave the fooseball comments off of his blog, and get back to writing.

Also, this is one of the most on topic, informative, and meme free subreddits that I have found. If it doesn't satisfy you... well.. bye.

[–]kingerp 0 points1 point ago

So downvote and move on. Nobody cares that you're unsubscribing because you don't like a post.

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[–]kingerp 1 point2 points ago

"Making a stupid smartass comment" and "Throwing a hissy fit about unsubscribing" aren't the same thing.

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