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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 1:20:40 GMT
There probably isn't a great deal to discuss about this topic, yet, but there will be in episodes and seasons to come. We're only going to see our first real signs of Winter in the coming episode(s), and then presumably all of Season 6 and well into Season 7. (I capitalized Winter because this is not our Earthly winter, but GRRM's Winter, Old Nan's Winter, a whole different proposition.) But, unquestionably, the arrival of Westeros Winter is a factor the showrunners have been contemplating all these years, the dread of Winter has hung over the characters in the books and the show since the very beginning. The onset of Winter has peppered their speeches and their legends and their tales of times gone by. Their ages can be measured by 'how many Winters have you seen?' "Sweet Summer Child' and the 'Knights of Summer' are common phrases used to describe those who haven't experienced what true, bitter hardship really means.
Since I first started reading the books, lo, those many years ago, I have half been mesmerized and half dreaded the time that Winter would finally descend. (I hate winter, hate being cold, hate it). And now, its about to happen. To the people of Westeros, to the showrunners, to us. Winter Has Come. Brand new GoT territory for all of us. We, the book readers, experienced the bitter taste of the beginning of Winter with Stannis' march to Winterfell. The show-only viewers are all the Knights of Summer and have been for all these years. This will be our first experience of a real view of GRRM's Winter in the future episodes and season(s) to come.
It will be intriguing, I think, to see what the show has in mind to make it clear that a Westeros Winter is not simply an Earthly winter. Will we see snowfalls in fifty-foot drifts, peasant mothers, their tears frozen on their dead faces as they cradle their frozen children? Will the Ghost Grass (snow) finally envelop the Dothraki sea and kill all their horses? Will Nymeria and her pack of wolves terrorize the countryside in their desperate search for food? Will Littlefinger's teleporting device freeze and burst asunder?
Winter, GRRM's Winter, will be with us now all the way through til the near the very end of the series (and the books). Winter Has Come, at last. |
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Post by mattpeto on May 14, 2015 11:00:32 GMT
There probably isn't a great deal to discuss about this topic, yet, but there will be in episodes and seasons to come. We're only going to see our first real signs of Winter in the coming episode(s), and then presumably all of Season 6 and well into Season 7. (I capitalized Winter because this is not our Earthly winter, but GRRM's Winter, Old Nan's Winter, a whole different proposition.) But, unquestionably, the arrival of Westeros Winter is a factor the showrunners have been contemplating all these years, the dread of Winter has hung over the characters in the books and the show since the very beginning. The onset of Winter has peppered their speeches and their legends and their tales of times gone by. Their ages can be measured by 'how many Winters have you seen?' "Sweet Summer Child' and the 'Knights of Summer' are common phrases used to describe those who haven't experienced what true, bitter hardship really means.
Since I first started reading the books, lo, those many years ago, I have half been mesmerized and half dreaded the time that Winter would finally descend. (I hate winter, hate being cold, hate it). And now, its about to happen. To the people of Westeros, to the showrunners, to us. Winter Has Come. Brand new GoT territory for all of us. We, the book readers, experienced the bitter taste of the beginning of Winter with Stannis' march to Winterfell. The show-only viewers are all the Knights of Summer and have been for all these years. This will be our first experience of a real view of GRRM's Winter in the future episodes and season(s) to come.
It will be intriguing, I think, to see what the show has in mind to make it clear that a Westeros Winter is not simply an Earthly winter. Will we see snowfalls in fifty-foot drifts, peasant mothers, their tears frozen on their dead faces as they cradle their frozen children? Will the Ghost Grass (snow) finally envelop the Dothraki sea and kill all their horses? Will Nymeria and her pack of wolves terrorize the countryside in their desperate search for food? Will Littlefinger's teleporting device freeze and burst asunder?
Winter, GRRM's Winter, will be with us now all the way through til the near the very end of the series (and the books). Winter Has Come, at last. Great post! Can't wait to see what the showrunners demonstrate what Winter actually is (unless we get the book before Season 6). With A Dreams of Spring as book #7, does this mean we get 2 full books in winter up until the final epilogue? How many years will pass in these books? |
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Post by Admin on May 14, 2015 11:04:45 GMT
I don't want to rain on anyone's parade but I assume winter will just be...winter. Snow and that's it. I hope I'm wrong but they are really not good with otherworldly elements of the series either underusing them like direwolves or omitting them altogether - you know who I mean  |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 11:06:53 GMT
I honestly can't see the show showing us the effects of the real harsh winter. If they are to end this in 2 more seasons after this, I don't see time for it. Nor do I see time for WW to wreak chaos and burning castles.
BTW, I like winter. It's my favourite season. So much snow, so cold.
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Post by Admin on May 14, 2015 11:13:46 GMT
I honestly can't see the show showing us the effects of the real harsh winter. If they are to end this in 2 more seasons after this, I don't see time for it. Nor do I see time for WW to wreak chaos and burning castles. BTW, I like winter. It's my favourite season. So much snow, so cold. I think the extent of D&D adaptation of "winter is here" will be "WW are here". |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 11:15:41 GMT
I honestly can't see the show showing us the effects of the real harsh winter. If they are to end this in 2 more seasons after this, I don't see time for it. Nor do I see time for WW to wreak chaos and burning castles. BTW, I like winter. It's my favourite season. So much snow, so cold. I think the extent of D&D adaptation of "winter is here" will be "WW are here". Agreed. But how can they show the full effect of the Others? If they are just stopped at the Wall, I will be bummed. They need to roam the whole kingdom. |
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Post by day dreamer on May 14, 2015 12:33:46 GMT
I honestly can't see the show showing us the effects of the real harsh winter. If they are to end this in 2 more seasons after this, I don't see time for it. Nor do I see time for WW to wreak chaos and burning castles. BTW, I like winter. It's my favourite season. So much snow, so cold. I think the extent of D&D adaptation of "winter is here" will be "WW are here". Yep, this exactly. We'll get some snow, but I don't think it will be insane amounts like they are described in the books. Show winter will be all about the White Walkers. |
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Post by mattpeto on May 14, 2015 12:41:08 GMT
I think the extent of D&D adaptation of "winter is here" will be "WW are here". Agreed. But how can they show the full effect of the Others? If they are just stopped at the Wall, I will be bummed. They need to roam the whole kingdom. I always thought the Wall was coming down eventually in the books via the Horn of Winter. |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 12:53:36 GMT
Agreed. But how can they show the full effect of the Others? If they are just stopped at the Wall, I will be bummed. They need to roam the whole kingdom. I always thought the Wall was coming down eventually in the books via the Horn of Winter. I think Euron will raid Oldtown and Sam will blow his broken horn, which he has fixed. Then the Wall will come down. |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 14:19:46 GMT
The Wall coming down will look so epic.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2015 4:56:36 GMT
I don't want to rain on anyone's parade but I assume winter will just be...winter. Snow and that's it. I hope I'm wrong but they are really not good with otherworldly elements of the series either underusing them like direwolves or omitting them altogether - you know who I mean So, do we know that no special effects are planned for GRRM's Winter, and that it will be just an ordinary winter that we're all familiar with? Snow and ice and that's it? I don't think that. From the opening scenes of the books to the opening scenes of the show, the over-arching theme throughout the books and show has been those three words: Winter Is Coming. I don't know how the show will portray GRRM's Winter as opposed to our real-life winter, but I think it will be spectacular and eerie, otherworldly. I look forward to it and dread it at the same time. |
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Post by Admin on May 24, 2015 14:02:05 GMT
It's just gonna be a lot of snow.
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Post by janicia on May 26, 2015 18:12:09 GMT
At some point, winter should lock down some of the characters and make it impossible for them to go anywhere. But it seems like most of the people we care about up north will be dead or on the move or safe in Wintefell before winter entrenches.
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