HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]

[BASNAK]

Here's gifs of the next episode on the Trial by Combat that will be fought between the Mountain and Jon Snow.

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[Angantyr]

Oberyn comes very close to how I imagined him in the books.

[The_Bloody_Nine]

The First Law is OK, but it's more generic fantasy than ASOIAF. Very clichéd and predictable and it doesn't have the sort of clever dialogue ASOIAF does.

erm, but you do have noticed that he is using those cliches on purpose and then completely fucks them up, right? For me those books have lot of fantasy parodies combined with gritty real life stories. I would never compare them to ASOIAF, and I don't think Abercrombie ever intended to create something similar. And yes, each book seems to get better, you notice first law was his first attempt at being a author.

To add one huge pluspoint to that teeth mentioned: He writes fast. The first Book of his next Trilogy will be released in July this year and the third of it is planned to be released in July 2015, and so far he more or less kept his publishing plans.

Steven Brust sounds very interesting, will check out someday.

[Xant]

Haven't really noticed him fucking up the clichés. There's the lithe Girl Warrior Who's Just As Good In Combat If Not Better As Her Male Counterparts and the Uncivilized Dumb Barbarian, etc...

[Kalam]

Haven't really noticed him fucking up the clichés. There's the lithe Girl Warrior Who's Just As Good In Combat If Not Better As Her Male Counterparts and the Uncivilized Dumb Barbarian, etc...

I've only read the the first book of the First Law from Abercrombie, granted. No idea about his other books. Didn't really feel motivated to continue reading afterwards -- I'd give it a 7/10. A good time-killer and well written, but not really a page turner. One of those "will read after I've read all the good stuff" series.

Probably because of that ^. He subverts the tropes over time. His writing does get phenomenally better, too. By the time we get to the Heroes, he's on several levels above the First Law. You wouldn't like Best Served Cold, though, since you seem to have grown up somewhere where there aren't any strong women.

On GoT...who doesn't want to have Oberyn's babies?

[The_Bloody_Nine]

He does, though, in many ways. For example the great magician, the great warrior, and the noble Jezal set off to their great journey to retrieve some powerful magical artifact. Those are the cliches he uses, but then the journey turns out to be quiet different... Of course hard to discuss if you haven't read it.

[Kalam]

He does, though, in many ways. For example the great magician, the great warrior, and the noble Jezal set off to their great journey to retrieve some powerful magical artifact. Those are the cliches he uses, but then the journey turns out to be quiet different... Of course hard to discuss if you haven't read it.

I think it's fairly easy, if you don't mind spoilers. I've never minded spoiling things. The great magician turns out to be more of a ruthless banker who has used the wealth and knowledge he's acquired through his practical immortality to manipulate nations. The barbarian is also a philosopher, who has a habit of killing his friends. Jezal, the 'hero', is something of a coward who nonetheless ends up having the only moral compass of anyone in the group. His victories are the result of someone else's machinations, and he becomes a puppet figure. All to encourage a war that none of the characters but one have a purpose in fighting. And what about Sand?

I'm not sure that sort of thing would translate as well to a tv show. His stand-alone books, however, seem perfect for translation to the big screen.

[SirCymro_Crusader]

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[Molly]

Just watched it and noticed my self go "Uuuuuh Uuuuuh", flapping my hands, when I saw the aunt watching the kiss

[Thorondor]

shame on me for not predicting oberyn being tyrion's champion:D.good episode..

[Tor!]

shame on me for not predicting oberyn being tyrion's champion:D.good episode..

I thought it was pretty obvious seeing the intrigued reaction when Tyrion wanted trial by combat.. But I think team Tyrion & Oberyn are gonna be interesting!

[Tibe]

It was a good episode. Im happy.

[Franke]

LOL, dat imp slap. Tyrion and Sansa really make a perfect couple 

And the Tyrion/Oberyn scene was magnificent!

[Osiris]

tis a shame not being surprised by any of it almost wish i could forget the books until the series is over

[Xant]

A lot of that episode was straight from the book, dialogue and all. Very good. I'm glad they did Bronn justice, I was afraid they'd make him say he's too scared of fighting the Mountain etc.