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Arya Caption Contest winners

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After delving and double-delving into the 250+ answers we received for the Arya Caption Contest, Winter Is Coming (aided by his trusty sidekick Fire And Blood and the vile minion known as Hear Me Roar) can now state with sound mind and bold purpose the winners.

We initially promised three winners, but there were so many good ones we decided to expand to five, plus three extra “honorable” (or “honourable” if you’re British) mentions. So without further ado…

Arya and the knife

5. TastesLikeTheSea: “What did you say about Justin Bieber, biatch?”

4. DragonsFTW: “The things I do for pudding…”

3. victarion: “… and their eyebrows are different f***ing colors.”

2. DH: “I have something to tell you. I’m not right handed either!”

And the winner of the 2011 First Quarter Caption Contest…

1. … comes courtesy of KG. You really can’t say it any better than this.

Congrats all, and especially to KG for being so inspirational. Oh, and the honor/ourable mentions go to:

WiC for Tom Hilton: “I came here to kick ass and eat lemon cakes… and I’m all out of lemon cakes.”

HmR for Ollie: “I will NOT let you beat me at Fruit Ninja!”

FaB for Saithkar: “Archmaester Rigney was right, dammit, history is a wheel, and the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging!”

We hope to have a few more of these contests, hopefully three or four per year. Partly because the responses are awesome, and partly because we think it might nudge HBO toward sending us some of the more odd screen caps they may find. If the show keeps going, and the caption contest keeps going, year after year after year, we’ll see if we can somehow make the winning prize something extremely cool. Like maybe a date with Maisie Williams. But only after she’s 18. Or 19, just to be safe. And if you have a car and can make a trip to her house. (Please remember to drive on the left side of the road when in England.) And only if her mum approves of you. (We’ve been told her mum is extremely cool, so if she disapproves of you, well, what does that say about you?)

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65 Comments

  1. Hear Me Roar
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 4:54 pm | Permalink

    The vile minion approves.

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  2. Posted February 16, 2011 at 5:05 pm | Permalink

    It was certainly a breath of fresh air and fun in the middle of a quiet month.

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  3. Hollyoak
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 5:07 pm | Permalink

    Congrats to the winners.

    Now, enough about them…

    I read the first three books years ago but never Feast for Crows. In anticipation of the show, I read the first three again and am now finally reading Crows…

    And I find it hard-going.

    After a while, I can barely keep track of who/what/where. I just finished the chapter where they have the Kingsmoot, which was pretty cool. But when we start getting into all the scheming of Cersei and Littlefinger and the names, places, counterplots, it gets too be a little daunting.

    How did others feel about this book?

    And no, I am not a dumb reader. I’ve read “hard” sci-fi and fantasy for years.

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  4. Posted February 16, 2011 at 5:17 pm | Permalink

    Congrats to the winners!

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  5. Brude
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 5:24 pm | Permalink

    Wow, all of those captions were good but I think you guys chose the right winner. Congrats!

    (I couldn’t come up with anything – I’m never good at caption contests. Just not funny enough. :(

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  6. Fire And Blood
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 5:27 pm | Permalink

    Hollyoak,

    For me, AFfC’s excellence lies in certain chapters rather than the overall flow. It has what I think to be GRRM’s best chapter ever (Cat of the Canals), but I agree with you, my first read found it plodding at some points.

    Part of it may be ASoS hangover, since we simply don’t get the same level of significant events in AFfC as we did in ASoS. I found many of the Brienne chapters a little plodding during my first read.

    Subsequent reads allowed me to adjust to the pace and enjoy it much, much more. And I think once we get A Dance with Dragons–and the full story within that particular timeline–it will play even better.

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  7. Fire And Blood
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 5:29 pm | Permalink

    Brude,

    You are beloved for your intellect and intolerance of stupidity.

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  8. Rob O Sevens
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 5:43 pm | Permalink

    on a completely un related note IGN has a short article about a Game of Thrones computer game http://pc.ign.com/articles/115/1150451p1.html

    seems like an RTS or possibly similar to a total war game

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  9. coltaine777
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 5:59 pm | Permalink

    This is a really nice post…it made me laugh out loud…congrats winners…well done lol…

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  10. Dom
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 6:07 pm | Permalink

    Rob O Sevens

    GRRM announced it quite a long time ago, but those pics are new! I find the dragon image and the “Genesis” subtitle very interesting – a game set much before the book series maybe?

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  11. Posted February 16, 2011 at 6:19 pm | Permalink

    haha, well done. My favourite is still Saithkar’s: “Archmaester Rigney was right, dammit, history is a wheel, and the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging!”

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  12. Posted February 16, 2011 at 6:26 pm | Permalink

    “Disappointment is Coming.”

    Heh. Congrats to the winners and let’s do another one soon!

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  13. KG
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 6:29 pm | Permalink

    ^_^ Wow, thank you! I didn’t think anyone even noticed my entry lol

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  14. Posted February 16, 2011 at 6:39 pm | Permalink

    Hilarious! Congratulations to the winners; I feel honored to be mentioned in their company (which I guess is why they call it…oh, never mind).

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  15. Rob O Sevens
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 6:57 pm | Permalink

    Dom,

    I know it was announced before but this is the first news Ive seen anywhere especially from a gaming site, with a screen cap and a vague relase date of this summer

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  16. purplejilly
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 6:57 pm | Permalink

    Hollyoak,

    AFFC exhausted me. It was too many new people that I didn’t really need to know about, and didn’t want to care about. I had so much in my head from the previous three, storylines that I was trying to keep straight, and was hoping to get more traction on. Instead, it was just too much. I was frustrated and mad when it was over, esp since I knew ADWD was still not done and seemed to be in limbo. I felt like GRRM was getting himself deeper and deeper in trouble as AFFC unwound. I thought “How will he ever pull this all together? How can he tie this up in just three more books? It can’t be done. He’s going to need a bigger boat…”

    Yet still i like the overall series..

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  17. Phantomwriter05
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 7:17 pm | Permalink

    I feel like I won anyway because my entry to the contest was Arya angry about the prize being Emila’s number …

    So just by suggesting a date with her all be it along time from now … I still feel justifyed … so yay me.

    On the game of thrones game I hope it isn’t like the total war because while I love that game alot …

    I would end up never winning because I would always marry Cersei and then I would always end up dead and all my children not being mine.

    So in summery I would go nowhere fast. LOL!

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  18. Apollo
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 7:30 pm | Permalink

    Hollyoak,

    What makes that book is totally the ending.

    While it was certainly harder to get through than the previous three, the ending made was definitively not a let down!

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  19. Phantomwriter05
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 7:51 pm | Permalink

    Hollyoak,

    What you might do is what I did just several months ago upon my first read of all the books.

    Go to tower of the Hand and go through there summeries and break downs and they will help you understand what is important to take from the chapter as well as keep you up to speed on the continuity.

    As the only Cersei fan boy I loved the book, but to pull back the curtain some … I skiped most of the Sam and Briene chapters and just read the cliff notes version on Tower of The Hand.

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  20. Posted February 16, 2011 at 8:27 pm | Permalink

    Thought I might chime in on AFFC since I just finished my re-read of the series a few nights ago. The first time I read Feast was when it was brand spanking new, so it was first read in ignorance of the virulent criticism (from some) which would gather about it.

    So this time I made a special point to consider the book in light of its haters, and even in light of those who are a little blah over the whole thing when compared to the first three.

    Verdict: I think Feast holds up very well in comparison to the others. It IS however a different kind of vibe from ACOK and ASOS especially. There’s no grand thunderous battle, no storms, no clashes as we’d had before, just this almost elegant aura of decay and of doom that hangs over everything, and you have to be able to deal with that.

    For my money, Brienne’s journey up Crackclaw point was not plodding: it was beautiful, the whole thing pervaded by a gentle sense of doom that very gradually and very subtly came to cover the Maid of Tarth as she wandered with Dick Crabbe through that sad lonely landscape. It was like Still Life with Unscrupulous Drifter, shadows, dread, come to completely cover them both.

    Cersei’s blessedly fucked up decision-making has the same kind of air to it, the doom she rushes headlong into as she destroys her city and her realm seemingly practically inevitable by the time you’re done. Gorgeous, really, Cersei’s like some kind of Greek mythic character, Oedipus or Cassandra, completely fucked, and completely aware of it, too, not that it does her any good.
    Beyond the simple fact that some people simply hated that Jon Snow wasn’t in the book (or at least was in it only very very briefly), I think some of the unease or worse comes from the multiple POVs used to tell the story in Dorne and to a lesser extent those used in explicating the deal in the Iron Islands. Martins’ difficulty in dealing with Dorne was that the only person who knows the entire story is most decidedly NOT a man of action. Doran Martell would have made an untenable POV character, so–as long as you can deal with Martell’s nature at all (and that was established back in ASOS)–telling the parts of the story that each of the minor POVs knew, and then having the reader add them up, was probably the best way of approaching the telling ot the tale.

    Anyway, I’m starting to ramble, so I’ll just end by saying that even though there IS less action and even though the whole thing IS on the down beat, I liked AFFC on my first reading five years ago, and liked it even more this month, because even as the Lannisters claim victory, Westeros falls apart so very prettily within its pages.

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  21. Yusanis
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 8:50 pm | Permalink

    Wow! Well said.

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  22. Saithkar
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 8:51 pm | Permalink

    Thanks to GaR, Jeremy and of course, the man himself, Fire and Blood for voting for my caption. I considered submitting something about lemon cakes or Needles, but decided to go all out with a reference to an obscure passage from AFFC which I’m glad people remembered. I may have been inspired by having just finished reading Robert Jordan’s (Mr Rigney Himself) Towers of Midnight. Looking forward to future contests as there was some very amusing stuff thrown up.

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  23. Strong Belwas
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 9:19 pm | Permalink

    rastronomicals,

    THIS WHOLE THINGS IS SPOILERS. STOP READING NOW IF YOU DON’T WANT TO LEARN THINGS.

    I agree with a lot of what you’ve said here. Feast was definitely my least favorite of the four books, but there’s a lot to love in it. What makes Feast great is not so much the action that happens in the book, but the groundwork that gets laid for how the story is going to continue into the second half of the series. This is actually really important. If you look at how SoS ended, there’s really not a lot of momentum left in the story. The war is over. The Lannisters won. All the major plot threads of war and rebellion were pretty much resolved at the end of the third book. The action is now shifting north and east, as ice and fire are starting to take center stage. Where the fourth book fits is to kind of give us a “state of the union” for Westeros, and give our characters and plot threads a gradual turn to line them up for the direction that the series is headed. For instance…

    The Sam chapters are a build up to the last chapter, where we learn that the Maesters aren’t the beneficent servants of the realm that they pretend to be. The maesters are militantly anti-supernatural, and that is going to be important as the supernatural elements begin to take the fore in the next few books.

    The Dorne chapters are AMAZING in that they reveal what the secretive and dangerous Dornish have been up to this whole time. Can’t wait to see how that develops.

    The Greyjoy chapters send Crows Eye in the direction of the dragons, with evil designs. We’re going to see some sparks fly when he reaches Dany!

    The Sansa chapters are finally giving us some insight into the maneuverings of Littlefinger, who’s been one of the most intriguingly duplicitous characters in the series. Looks like the next few books are going to see him making a play for the Iron Throne itself. But with Dany heading west and the Others at the wall, how will he react when the Iron Throne starts looking remarkably unimportant?

    And the Cersei chapters introduced a dangerous, unstable new force into the politics of Westeros, with the armed sparrows taking over the priesthood. Adding religious fanatics to the mix is going to make things crazy.

    I have no idea where the Brienne chapters are going. Perhaps they are part of a long setup of some bigger conflict with Jaime? Time will tell.

    The point is, the plot elements just mentioned here are definitely not present in the first three books, but they are the forces that are going to drive the last three books. The old plot threads from the first three books needed to be tied up, and the direction needed to shift to the new conflicts that will make up the end of the series. This can not be done too quickly, or else the transition will be sloppy and jarring. Feast for Crows took a lot of time to plant a lot of seeds. While the planting process was, I admit, rather tedious at times, by the end of the next book we’re going to start to see some rather delicious fruit.

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  24. Zack
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 9:20 pm | Permalink

    Cersei’s chapters totally made AFfC. Her and Jaime’s storylines were the highlight. But I also enjoyed the Dorne stuff a great deal, and loved the brief glimpses of Arya. Her interaction with a certain other POV character was wonderful!

    I thought the Brienne chapters spent too much time not doing enough, but it wasn’t like I didn’t enjoy reading them. That would be an area I’d not be shy about critiquing, though.

    The other thing I wasn’t wild for was the shift in chapter naming convention. It was mostly a solid book, though, made awesome by Cersei’s madness.

    Now, had I discovered the series when AGoT was first written, and therefore had to wait for such a long time for essentially half a story…my reaction might not have been so positive, so those of you who were underwhelmed, I’m not saying that’s a bad perspective.

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  25. Posted February 16, 2011 at 9:31 pm | Permalink

    I just recently re-read AFFC (2nd reading in total). It held up very well!

    The Good:
    -The Cersei plot is brilliant. You can really feel the paranoia and incompetence.
    -I don’t care what anyone says, the Iron Islands are awesome! I love the viking mentality, and I really liked the shipboard battle scenes with Victarion.
    -The Dorne scenes were pretty cool. The subplot was intriguing.

    The So-So:
    -Dorne and the Iron Islands should really have only had ONE point-of-view each, instead of THREE each. It gets unnecessarily difficult to keep track of the Greyjoy brothers, and Areo/Arys.
    -Did we need quite so much detail about all these subplots? It’s a lot to take in.
    -The Brienne chapters still feel too slow to hold my interest. Not bad, but… kinda boring.

    Overall it’s probably the weakest in the series, but it’s still top quality writing and still satisfying. I like it.

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  26. reedgirl
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 9:56 pm | Permalink

    Congrats guys! You all made me laugh.

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  27. Hollyoak
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 10:14 pm | Permalink

    I”m going to stop reading now for fear of Feast spoilers, but thanks to those of you who replied. And yes, Phantom Writer, I discovered Tower of the Hand and it is a great resource. I rush over there after every chapter so I can figure out what the Hell I just read!

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  28. Andy
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 10:20 pm | Permalink

    I think that winning comment is pretty lame. “Dessert is Coming” almost made me hit the floor laughing. I thought that was a winner.

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  29. Posted February 16, 2011 at 10:20 pm | Permalink

    Woohoo!!

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  30. Luana
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 12:06 am | Permalink

    Andy,

    “Dessert is coming” – definitely my favourite caption, too!

    Just to put in my two cents worth about AFfC, because my opinion seems to differ somewhat from many others here:

    The best: Brienne’s chapters, hands down!

    The worst: Everything in the Iron Islands. Yawn! The only thing GRRM could do to improve this series is leave the Iron Islands and the bloody boring Greyjoys out of it.

    I guess you can’t please everyone!

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  31. gendry's hammer
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 12:20 am | Permalink

    http://pc.ign.com/articles/115/1150451p1.html

    ASOIAF video game coming out this summer for pc……says martin helped write the story…………and not writing ADwD….but i’ll prob get the game

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  32. Croccifixio
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 12:51 am | Permalink

    I like AFFC but of the 4 books it is the weakest but i will take AFFC anyday rather than the weak books of the Sword of Truth and Wheel of Time.

    Crossroads of Twilight (WOT 10th book) was by far the worst book in any series i have read. so, i think AFFC is not crap.

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  33. KG
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 12:52 am | Permalink

    Andy,

    :P Maybe you’re too lame to appreciate it?

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  34. The DarkStar
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 1:06 am | Permalink

    Grats KG

    “Dessert is coming” was brilliant

    Nod to the r+l=j comment

    FFC SPOILER

    IMO
    Besides being slow and boring, the Brienne chapters were particularly terrible, because the reader understands they are pointless. We know where Sansa is, we know she won’t find her and is chasing false leads the whole time. Her story line has nothing to do with the “song of ice and fire” or the politics of westeros. Just a waste of time that is known every time a chapter of hers appears. It’s her story arch that made me accept that George has lost control of the story.

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  35. Posted February 17, 2011 at 1:16 am | Permalink

    Yes don’t know why pop culture references that have no relation to the picture whatsoever were favored over witty ASoIAF lines such as Dessert is Coming and the Archmaester Rigby one.

    As far as AFFC goes, I’d say that it definitely needs a re-read or two to be enjoyed as much as the other books (if not more so), but there’s actually a lot more detail, perspective, atmosphere and emotion in many of the chapters in AFFC compared to some of the other books where some of the chapters are very short (particularly AGoT).

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  36. DH
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 2:25 am | Permalink

    I really don’t deserve second place. Which is really easy to say when there is no prize :)

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  37. KG
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 2:42 am | Permalink

    I can’t believe so many people miss the point of the Brienne chapters. It’s showing you the wretched morass of the world through the eyes of the one truly good character in the book.

    She is used to illustrate how farked up everything is.

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  38. Ollie
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 2:49 am | Permalink

    \o/
    Thank you for the honourable mention for my caption Hear Me Roar! I’m pretty chuffed by it. Congratulations to all the other winners!
    \o/

    Bring on the next captioning comp.

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  39. Hear Me Roar
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 2:50 am | Permalink

    rastronomicals,

    This! :) well said.

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  40. Dom
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 3:09 am | Permalink

    KG: I can’t believe so many people miss the point of the Brienne chapters. It’s showing you the wretched morass of the world through the eyes of the one truly good character in the book.She is used to illustrate how farked up everything is.    

    ^This +1

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  41. Tar Kidho
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 4:32 am | Permalink

    Croccifixio: Crossroads of Twilight (WOT 10th book) was by far the worst book in any series i have read.     

    If you think THAT is the worst book you’ve ever read, you probably haven’t tried ‘The elder gods’ by David and Leigh Eddings? It is utter pointlesness combined with hugely uninteresting characters that are badly developed, set in a world I couldn’t care less about. So here’s my top tip: if you want to explore new levels of bad fantasy, give that one a try. I had it with me on a holiday so tried very hard, but I couldn’t finish it. It’s that bad! Btw, the Belgariad/Mallorean series was what brought me to fantasy when I was in my mid-teens, and after that I also quite liked the Elenium/Tamuli series, so it’s not that I’m an Eddings hater.

    On WoT: I still think it’s the most amazing world-building that has ever been done. The last book I read was Winter’s Heart (then I decided till all books are finished to read everything in one go again) and I was so thrilled with the final of that one that I thought “Great, he’s back on track after the rather boring previous two or three books”. So I hope it’s just a matter of opinion and that I will like all the books I haven’t read yet, including Crossroads of Twilight! Well, I’ll read past that one anyway ’cause I can’t wait to find out how Brandon Sanderson wrote the end!

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  42. Tar Kidho
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 4:38 am | Permalink

    (edit: please insert ‘to wait’ between ‘decided’ and ’till’ in my previous post…)

    Oh yes, and congrats to the hono(u)rable mentions and especially to KG for winning! Man, I’m so jealous of your not-date with Emilia!!

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  43. KG
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 6:53 am | Permalink

    Tar Kidho,

    Oh that … I traded that not-date in for a not-date with Mr. Coster-Wadlau. <3

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  44. Tar Kidho
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 7:31 am | Permalink

    KG: Tar Kidho,
    Oh that … I traded that not-date in for a not-date with Mr. Coster-Wadlau.<3    

    Right, how sexist (/homophobe) of me to only see Emilia as a price! :-) In my defense I could point out that FaB started it… Anyway, have fun on your not-date!

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  45. Tar Kidho
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 7:35 am | Permalink

    edit button replacement: ‘price’ = ‘prize’……..
    (note to self: use ‘preview’ and an edit button is not necessary!)

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  46. The DarkStar
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 8:49 am | Permalink

    SPOILER

    KG: I can’t believe so many people miss the point of the Brienne chapters. It’s showing you the wretched morass of the world through the eyes of the one truly good character in the book.She is used to illustrate how farked up everything is.    

    I feel differently, Here is why.
    Many things happen in the books “off stage” so to speak. They have to, or the books would never end. We don’t NEED a POV on bear island to illustrate what it’s like there. Nor Highgarden to illustrate what it’s like there. Nor a dothraki to illustrate how they feel post drogo, and after hearing about dragons being born on the dothraki sea.
    Now, after two books of Arya runnin around the same areas Brienne was, I had a good grasp of how things were going in the world. Martin did not need to hammer home the fact things are crappy, with a POV that adds nothing else to the story. Not to mention what takes up like a third of what most fans think is the worst book (which is only half of a book) there would be a lot more action if she was just omitted entirely and if Martin things people don’t properly grasp how bad things are it could be solved in a few lines sprinkled through out the book.
    Cercie “things are really crappy, there is chaos and much savageness”

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  47. J
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 9:38 am | Permalink

    OK. I know that this is not meant to be a place for debating the merits of Feast,and this whole post is spoiler-full, but that said…..
    Brienne does more than rehash Arya’s viewing of central Westeros. Arya views it in full on war, Brienne is there in nominal peace and things have gotten even worse. Brienne provides great contrast to the Cersei (luxury) and Arya (new home some place else away from where things have gone from regular terrible to “is the world freaking ending?” terrible) chapters. And I think what we find out about the B w/o B and their leadership from Brienne’s chapters is great.
    We get to see several of the mysterious off-screen presences (specifically Doran Martell and Euron Greyjoy.) Euron in particular is a great new character: the first person to begin bringing magic from Essos back to Westeros. And they both provide possible ways for Dany to return.
    As was previously pointed out, Feast also gives the story a turn in a new direction and some new momentum after much of the initial storyline wraps up in Storm. So even if you don’t like Brienne’s bit, or the Dorne and Iron Islands bits, and you don’t think the Cersei POV was worth the price of admission by itself,
    Feast was still important and useful to the series.

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  48. Lord Ned's Head
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 9:40 am | Permalink

    I just realised something. For all of you looking for something to do while we wait, Patrick Rothsfuss listed the release date for his second book in the Kingkiller Trilogy as March 1st. If you haven’t read The Name of the Wind yet, it should give you a pretty good amount of time to finish it casually before Wise Man’s Fear (book 2) comes out.

    If GRRM weren’t around, Rothsfuss would be the head of the class for modern fantasy writers in my opinion. Also, his trilogy (at least in the first book), completely juxtaposes ASoIaF in that it is an incredible fantasy read that focuses on a much more narrow scope. The first book wasn’t epic in the sense that it concentrates on only one character. It was epic however as an example of great story telling. If you haven’t read it yet, I strongly recommend it. Especially to musicians…or apothecaries.

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  49. Posted February 17, 2011 at 9:45 am | Permalink

    For my part, I don’t think it was any specific character/area that made me find AFfC weaker than the others, but rather, the fact that there were so many new POVs started with characters the reader hadn’t had time to fall in love with yet, and ones that were just one-offs. It just made the book feel uneven to me, and I found myself wondering why some of those POVs couldn’t have been switched around a bit.
    I don’t remember the book well though, since I haven’t reread it yet.

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  50. Posted February 17, 2011 at 9:52 am | Permalink

    Lord Ned’s Head,

    I quite enjoyed Name of the Wind. I did, however, feel as though it could have been edited down a bit, and Kvothe wasn’t my favourite character, so I’m looking forward to learning more about weird-magic-friend-guy (whose name I have completely forgotten, rather embarrassingly).
    Rothfuss is definitely something different from a lot of the crap that has been plaguing speculative fiction for a long while.

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  51. purplejilly
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 10:21 am | Permalink

    So what Arya is REALLY upset about is that, in the land of WIC, just as in the land of Westeros, Patriarchy has such a firm and unfair hold. Even when a caption contest is about a picture of Arya and Sansa, it’s assumed that only fanboys will be able to come up with the winning caption? Hence the fake prize of Emilia Clarke’s phone number? Why not a fake prize of Emilia Clarke’s OR Miltos Yeremolous’ phone number? Also, no faith, no trust in the fangirls, no thought that they might perhaps be clever or wise enough to come up with the winning caption. Hand me that knife, Arya!

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  52. purplejilly
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 10:32 am | Permalink

    Steve Hugh Westenra,

    Exactly – it was just too much, too many, and they didn’t feel necessary to me at the time. Perhaps I will look upon this book differently at the very end, but just getting all those new viewpoints that I didn’t want or need at the time just wore me out.

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  53. Luke likely
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 10:50 am | Permalink

    congratulations to the winners you are definitely a handful of the ones I thought were funny. I loved Name of the Wind by the way, I thought it was an interesting close up view of college life in this fantasy world. The writer is a college professor so it seems he used his real life experiences for the book. I am surprised though by peoples opinions about AFfC . I mean I just really liked Brienne,s character and she always felt like a refreshing break from the other chapters. And am I the only one who really loves Sam’s character. I mean I would go so far as to say, I don’t think the books would be as good without his character. Because one reason I love the books is it has all different types of characters, even a character like Sam. He always reminds me of the fat kid from” Lord of the Flies”. He seems like a martyr type of character, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. when he goes up against adversity it makes me feel like you may feel when watching the scene where Joan of Ark gets burned at the stake. That may not make sense to anyone, I mean it barley makes sense to me, but there you go.

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  54. Tar Kidho
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 11:11 am | Permalink

    purplejilly: So what Arya is REALLY upset about (…) Hand me that knife, Arya!    

    You win the post-contest prize! :)

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  55. Morgane
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 12:34 pm | Permalink

    KG,

    I’m sorry but I don’t get what’s funny about your proposition. I probably missed something could you explain it to me please ( I’m french, so maybe it’s a cultural reference or something )

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  56. Syphilitic Whoremon
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 1:00 pm | Permalink

    Morgane: I probably missed something

    It would be nice if someone explained all of the quotes actually. Unless they have something to do with pop culture, which is not funny.

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  57. KC
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 1:10 pm | Permalink

    Isn’t ADwD supposed to take place during the same time as AFfC? That being true, would we really see any resolution to the plot development of the Brienne, or any of the characters featured in AFfC, as alluded to by quite a few comments here? Or will we have to wait another decade to truly see what seeds Martin has planted?

    I am rather new to the series, and am extremely excited for both the series and the new book. but am already loathing the impending wait for WoW.

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  58. Posted February 17, 2011 at 1:26 pm | Permalink

    KC,

    George has indeed confirmed that roughly the first 800 or so manuscript pages of ADwD occur concurrently with the events of AFfC, but the final 30% or so of the book will be dedicated to actually resolving several cliffhanger endings from AFfC!

    He has confirmed that Arya will have at least two chapters towards the end of the book. ALso, it is widely beleived that he intends to resolve the Cersei and Brienne storylines from book 4. I read this over at westeros, I believe.

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  59. Posted February 17, 2011 at 2:53 pm | Permalink

    On Feast:
    If the book were half the length it was, it would have been fine.
    As it is, it’s a bloated monstrosity.

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  60. KG
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 5:23 pm | Permalink

    Tar Kidho,

    “Sexist” is the correct choice ;) I’m of the highly traditional girl + boy = win group

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  61. KG
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 5:27 pm | Permalink

    Pretty simple:

    There’s an English phrase, “If looks could kill …” that is used whenever someone gives a look of extreme disdain or outright loathing to another person. Which is exactly what is depicted in that photo.

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  62. purplejilly
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 10:18 pm | Permalink

    Tar Kidho: You win the post-contest prize! :)

    That means I get the set of fake phone numbers!:)

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  63. Strong Belwas
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 11:10 pm | Permalink

    KC:
    Isn’t ADwD supposed to take place during the same time as AFfC? That being true, would we really see any resolution to the plot development of the Brienne, or any of the characters featured in AFfC, as alluded to by quite a few comments here? Or will we have to wait another decade to truly see what seeds Martin has planted?I am rather new to the series, and am extremely excited for both the series and the new book. but am already loathing the impending wait for WoW.

    What follows is a bit spoilery, as it patches together hints that GRRM has dropped, previews released, etc. If you don’t know anything about what’s coming in the next book and want to keep it that way, stop reading.

    DwD is supposed to overlap with AFfC, but then expand the timeline somewhat. For one thing, some of the characters form Feast are popping up again in Dance – GRRM has mentioned working on Asha chapters. And I’m sure we’ll see more Arya, since we only got three chapters worth of her in Feast. There’s also the matter of the Meereenese Knot. GRRM has said that much of his frustration with the Dany plotline is that much of what’s driving the action around Dany is people showing up in Meereen as her court expands with people from Westeros. We know Tyrion is headed that way from the preview chapter from GRRM’s website. We know that the Doran Martel’s son (forget his name…) is headed that way to court Dany. We know that Euron is headed that way to steal the dragons. We know that one of the maesters is headed that way to help Dany, to both gain and provide knowledge of magic/dragons. The point is that some of these people who are headed to Meereen only leave to head in that direction during the fourth book. So if they are going to arrive during the fifth book (which is plausible, seeing as how Dany’s plot is all about people arriving in Meereen, possibly generating a three-headed dragon), then the timeline must extend somewhat beyond Feast.

    So in terms of what plotlines we’re going to see advanced in Dance, we’ll probably get advances on every Dany-directed plotline, as well as Jon, Davos, Arya, and Tyrion (who I guess is now a Dany-directed plotline). Many of these will involve extending the timeline past the end of Feast.

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  64. Chris
    Posted February 18, 2011 at 2:54 am | Permalink

    Just found the official website for the AGOT Genesis computer game:
    http://www.agot-genesis.com
    There isn’t much there yet though.
    These pages have some additional information along with the cover art for the game, the screenshots we saw before and some concept art:
    1, 2.
    I quite like the cover art for the game.

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  65. Hear Me Roar
    Posted February 18, 2011 at 3:56 am | Permalink

    Syphilitic Whoremon,

    Well, my honourable mention is a pop cultural reference, and I found it funny because “Sansa” is a big fan and played it a lot, and so did many many people on set. We followed their tweets about it, their bickering about the records, and so I liked the reference. Only as a mention, though, I prefer references and spoofs pertaining to the books as well! Dessert is Coming was shortlisted, but didn’t make it. Personally, I prefered the things I do for pudding, which is in a similar vein, but that’s just my taste.

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