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You must have missed the first season if you do no know what Arya's problem with Sansa is.
Either that or you have forgotten.
Maybe your just dim.
Or maybe you just really, really want on have a presence on here.
I don't know you so I cannot say but I am guessing it is a combination of two or more.
The GF's gash I presume.
Not really sure why he was so ashamed over that though.
Twice? Seriously?
No he cannot. He is terrible.
As bad as he is though he ten times better and actor than Johnny Depp.
There is a ton of material that the movie did not use, roughly 99.999999999999999%, that could used used to make a movie.
However, what happened in this movie renders all of it moot.
The book series ended in such a way to tie it to the beginning of the book series. I will not even tell you with SPOILER tags because it is something you do not want to know if there is any chance that you will read the books. I alluded to it above but do not wish to ruin for anyone tempted to scroll over the spoiler blackout.
It is difficult to explain but with the way things were done here, there is little point in doing more.
So if these Westerosi just kept moving towards the horizon they would eventually see a planet start peaking over the horizon? I don't think so.
There are many people who have traveled far and wide and not a soul has mentioned anything about a planet around which this "moon" orbits.
Do you not think that after 10,000 years of human habitation, the Maesters or the Red Priests or some sailor somewhere would have made mention of it? There is not even a hint of a legend regarding a planet.
BTW, our moon does have a side which never faces us but it is not always dark. Sometimes the far-side is the dark side and sometimes the near-side is the dark side.
As I said in another post. The movie did not stray from the source material at all.
It would have first have had to consult the source material in order to have strayed from it.
Actually the movie has so little to do with the source material that you can start the books without the movie effecting it at all.
I, having read every word in the series, literally had no idea what I was watching for the first 15 minutes. Had my wife, who has not read the books, not been with me I would have walked out.
In great WWZ fashion, the book series and movie shared little more than a title. As I said in response to a post where someone wrote that the movie was an insult to the source material, it was NOT an insult to the source material as the movie would have had to first consult the source material in order to insult it.
The good news in this is that there is room out there for someone to come in and give it the Game Of Thrones treatment.
Granted GoT, the show, is a paltry representation of the book series from which it was derived, but compared to The Dark Tower it is magnificent.
Beware, those 8 books are a long haul.
The source material describes Roland, through his interaction with Detta, as being white.
Did you not just read what I wrote? You did not read the books but I did.
The story stops dead with a non-white Roland.
It matters to the story itself.
Casting a black Roland is, story-wise, akin to casting a white Kunta Kinte.
You are mistaken CRAIG. Roland cannot be any color.
Making Roland black renders a very important portion of the story moot completely.
In fact, the story cannot happen if Roland is black.
Without a white Roland, Detta Walker would not exist. Roland was the yin to Detta's yang. Just like Eddie was the yin to Susannah's yang. Detta Walker is integral to the story and Roland would not have found the DT without her. It was Detta who solved the riddle in Blaine's Cradle.
Susannah/Detta is a split-personality character. A black lady who suffered a head injury due to a white man when she was a girl.
It matters as much to this story that Roland be white as it matters to Roots that Kunta Kinte be black.
I agree with the last part. Elba was, as usual, very impressive. He made the movie bearable.
Edward Norton is a fantastic character actor. No doubt he could play a fabulous Kunta Kinte but that does not mean that he should.
I am not saying the movie would have been better with a white Roland. I am saying that with a white Roland, the makers of the film would have not spent the rest of their time high-5ing each other over how diverse they are and put some effort into the film. Instead, they rested on their laurels.
The fact that they cast a black man to fill the role of a white character IS blackwashing. As long as whitewashing exists then blackwashing exists. And this was a prime example of it.
Making Roland black renders a very important portion of the story moot completely.
In fact, the story cannot happen if Roland is black.
Without a white Roland, Detta Walker would not exist. Roland was the yin to Detta's yang. Just like Eddie was the yin to Susannah's yang. Detta Walker is integral to the story and Roland would not have found the DT without her. It was Detta who solved the riddle in Blaine's Cradle.
Don't you think the "planet" in this case would be quite visible from this "moon"?
A giant planetary body in the sky over Westeros would be deeply ingrained in the histories. It would be linked to all sorts of occurrences.
Try again.
I have read all of the books several times and I really cannot tell you for for sure.
Generally, the years are based upon a set number of days and are not tied to the seasons in any way.
Calling it great, even with a qualifier, might have been a little optimistic.
I rarely get outraged over anything and am not outraged over the blackwashing of this movie. If I were, I would not have went to see it the Friday morning after it was released.
I am simply pointing out that PC agenda trumped story in this case. No it is not a good thing if they keep on doing this sort of thing because it robs us all of good movies.
The key problem is that all the attention was given to blackwashing this film and no attention was given making a good film.
You made my point for me.
It is interesting that you made my point for me. Little thought was given to the script, editing or direction.
The main goal of the movie was to blackwash something in a major way. To the extent that making Roland black completely negates the appearance of an actual black character.
Seems like a hollow victory.
Arya will gut him.
They have no base of operations on the mainland.
To take those provisions and attempt to get them back to Dragonstone would have put the entire army at risk.
So they did the next best thing, deny them to the enemy.
It is very standard wartime strategy.