They did, and some people have been hoping for HOMEWORLD 3. Though Relic's reaction on Twitter was apparently genuine bemusement. It's more likely to be COMPANY OF HEROES 2, given they just made a song and dance about issuing the 'final patch' for CoH1.

That's weird. It was never said that the Final Five were in any kind of cryo-suspension during the journey from FirstEarth to Kobol*, just that they were travelling at relativistic speeds. Assuming a fast acceleration and deceleration system (maybe like the Conjoiner Drive in Alastair Reynolds' SF, which can…

Renly was homosexual in the books and in a relationship with Loras. It simply wasn't as blatant as on the TV show. But there are plenty of references to them spending time alone together 'praying' and numerous characters (most notably a comment from Jaime about telling Loras to stick his opinions so far up his…

This is a superior SF novel. Lots of fun, fast-paced and a good plot. They've also pretty much finished the sequel, so hopefully not too long to wait for that either.

Yeah, Doreah is from Lys, but I meant more that she felt a little incongruous to the whole GoT world, but as I said that's more likely to do with my familiarity with her previous work.

That's more like it. Things are coming together more solidly, character relationships are becoming clearer and there's some nice shout-outs to the fans. The series didn't have time to show the khal passing Qohor, but they drop in a reference anyway, whilst the 'Ser Duncan the Tall' reference is a cool easter egg…

I assume the dragons are indiginous to the planet, but so are the humans. No relationship between us and the humans of this planet is even remotely hinted at in the books. It's a full-on fantasy. I suspect, since Martin was a friend of Roger Zelazny, that the situation may be a bit more like the AMBER books (where…

It's meant to be a different world. In an interview GRRM even said the planet was slightly larger than Earth. It wasn't meant to be Earth in the far future (like the WHEEL OF TIME wolrd) or in the distant past (like Middle-earth). As for any relationship between the two, I don't expect any to be apparent in this…

Almost ridiculously, even this minor casting has a bit of a story to it. The actor is Elyes Gabel, a very promising up-and-coming young British actor. He's supposed to be playing Jhogo, the more active and story-important of Dany's guards, until someone pointed out that with the accent they're going for, 'Jhogo' and…

ROME had full-frontal male nudity three years before TRUE BLOOD, it should be noted.

"So in your first scene you receive oral sex and get to talk about how well-endowed you are."

Oddly, they thought about Skarsgard for Jaime, but him being cast in TB scuppered that. A cameo as Oberyn is possible though (since it'd be maybe 3 episodes maximum).

The actor playing Renly has said they've filmed a pretty 'intense' scene between him and Loras for Season 1. So take heart, the manlove is on its way!

The original plan was to age her up to 15 in the TV series, but I think it's more likely that they're just not going to mention it and let people draw their own conclusions (actually, based on the timeline that's been changed from the novels, it might not be possible for her to be 15 now, 16 is probably the youngest…

"Those are brave men. Let's go kill them."

Last I heard, AMC had the MARS TRILOGY rights and have been working onit, but it's now in development hell.

There are quite a few extremely strong female characters in the books (by Book 4, more than half of the viewpoint cast is female) and it looks like they're translating them quite well to the series. This is the start of Daenerys's story, not the totality of it, and her experiences here (horrific and unpleasant, to be…

There were. They've been extinct for 150 years by the time the books/TV series starts. People would probably doubt they existed, but their bones and remains are still around.

It's a fantasy set in a fictional world, but there are strong historical inspirations to the series. The principle feuding houses are Stark and Lannister, with some parallels between the houses of York and Lancaster. There's an event later in the books inspired by a Scottish chieftain's treachery. Some of the politics…

That's a huge part of the debate. HBO said today that they've made back $25 million in foreign sales. That's 50% of the budget covered already. If that's multi-year deals, the show should be set for a second season already.