he's lying. he just threw that bit in to tantalize/torment us.

showrunners replaced more than once, and writers too.

cersei's chapters killed me, they were fucking entertaining. her inner musings when falyse lollyworth shows up distraught, her thoughts on the septas… gold. in fact, i also really enjoyed her chapters in adwd. bitch should have martell's house words, because she.don't.get.broken.

seconded. affc is far better written than dance, for me. and when i recall how much i missed tyrion, jon and dany (and how much i didn't when i saw them again in dance) i feel like kicking myself.

i understood the point of her chapters: the triumph burns out, and it's a slow descent into failure and despair in an alien land… and the related tropes about conquering vs. ruling. i even understood the daario fixation: girl's young and needs lurve.

wish i could, but not there yet. still have hope. now the mereen knot has been undone (so he claims) the momentum should pick up. but yes, too many characters (often memorable ones) killed and replaced with dull ones with the end approaching (so he claims; it might become 8 books blah). at some point it becomes…

i loved the first 3. tried re-reading dance recently and threw it across floor after the 100th mention of 'where do whores go/if i look back, i am lost', interspersed with a thousand 'he was not wrong/much and more/half a hundred' s. he still has some shit down really well and can do scenes with breath-taking subtlety…

i believe he's received much backlash in the days of yore when he would attempt to give deadlines, or even discuss the book in progress. so now he just doesn't talk about it much. read a recent post Season 3 interview where he did kinda sorta say it might be done by 2014 end. go on, hold your breath!

yes.

yes. arya ownage.

'carried-dh'. dance emphasizes the last 'd' hella good.

i love jason's bitterness in the end. martin says: fuck winds of winter; i got hbo!

me too. and i don't know if i hate that, either. most people don't become 'better' after a grand epiphany. they realize something fundamental, and become more aware of it. yet the struggle doesn't end and it's usually a painful dance, with a bit of forward movement and a whole lot of regression. so i would expect don…

the book was good. this sounds dull. and brad pitt=meh.

what i've always liked about superman (kinda what bill said, really) is that he's essentially, irrevocably non-human. he's different from us and always will be. he likes humans, admires them, protects them, impersonates them but he is never them. as such, he's not angsty and conflicted and torn and depressed and blah……

ugh. i put on that piece of shit garbage and told my guy, 'it's some new sci fi thriller'. so he's all into it. 20 minutes pass and his eyes start glazing but he's still determined. another 5 and he whispers, 'i don't know. where's the scifi shit? nothing's really happening.' and i'm like (with unholy glee, mind)…

in the original, when zod screamed 'i am your ruler' he said it like 'i am your lulla' and that's hilarious because in my native language, lulla means penis. and i was like, 5 when i first watched the film so you can imagine my profound excitement.

fair point. wonder whether sam will mention it to him; i guess jon will be a touch preoccupied with the wildling invasion to make such an attempt.

incisive analysis on the newsroom. i think the fundamental problem here (besides telling not showing) is forcing opinions and views down our collective throat, rather than letting us actually get there on our own. 

incisive analysis on the newsroom. i think the fundamental problem here (besides telling not showing) is forcing opinions and views down our collective throat, rather than letting us actually get there on our own.