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PoorQuentyn

@PoorQuentyn

Writer, librarian, and podcaster. Come for @NotACastASOIAF, stay for correct movie takes https://t.co/Q1mQIv2idY https://t.co/myZa9Iru9C

Philadelphia, PA Katılım Nisan 2016
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Girls Gone Canon Podcast
Girls Gone Canon Podcast@girlsgonecanon·
To go forward, we must go back ... to Tyrion I in A Game of Thrones. Relive AGOT through Tyrion's eyes with us for the next year, and help us celebrate our final published POV (haha... unless...) in the ASOIAF Series. #ASOIAF
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PoorQuentyn@PoorQuentyn·
@LartinMeff Both ways have their weaknesses--do you spoil the reveal, or ruin the timeline?
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(((Martin Leff)))@LartinMeff·
@PoorQuentyn It jumped right into the Quentyn chapters from the start. It was a slightly modified A Ball with Beasts order, I believe the original pushes the Merchant's Man back and the Princess in the Tower *up* so that the reveal can happen in the correct order ballofbeasts.weebly.com/chapters.html
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PoorQuentyn@PoorQuentyn·
ADWD is the best one in terms of individually great chapters, great scenes, great moments. But in terms of structure it's the worst one, because it's a mess
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PoorQuentyn@PoorQuentyn·
@verissimoallan And I get why, with Davos at least--you need Wyman Manderly to start showing up in Theon chapters instead. But it stands out!
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Allan Veríssimo
Allan Veríssimo@verissimoallan·
@PoorQuentyn The biggest example of this is Bran and Davos simply disappearing halfway through the book.
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PoorQuentyn@PoorQuentyn·
@LartinMeff I'm curious--in the order you read, did it jump into Quentyn chapters right away, or delay them until after Doran drops his "vengeance, justice, fire and blood" reveal?
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(((Martin Leff)))@LartinMeff·
@PoorQuentyn I've only read it with the combined order which probably helps the structure in the way you mention but does make the first half an enormous slog with half a dozen new POVs being introduced. Even if they are interesting it takes a very long time for the momentum to come back
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PoorQuentyn@PoorQuentyn·
A lot of this is fixed if you read Feast/Dance together via a combined reading order. But that has its own problems: jarring tone shifts, massive gaps for the smaller POVs, the impossibility of paralleling the Dornish storylines properly
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PoorQuentyn@PoorQuentyn·
Perfect example: Cersei's Walk is, on its own terms, one of the most powerful written and perfectly paced sequences in the whole story. But it would hit even harder if it came at the end of a book full of Cersei chapters. Instead, we're just suddenly checking back in with her
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lead sandworm in dune 🧬⛓️
lead sandworm in dune 🧬⛓️@liesandarbor·
HAMMER JUST CAME ON IN THE A TERMINAL IN PHL.... the lorde is with me oooohhhh my goddd this Bodes Well for my travels
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a knight who remembered his meows
a knight who remembered his meows@ManuclearBomb·
Love getting the call that they have to do an emergency asbestos removal from my unit. Great stuff!!!
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Girls Gone Canon Podcast
Girls Gone Canon Podcast@girlsgonecanon·
Patrons in the Thunder Tier and above have access to TYRION I in AGOT. That's a crazy sentence to type. Been a long ride... let's go!
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Xenocrypt
Xenocrypt@xenocryptsite·
@PoorQuentyn A climactic negotiation about the terms of a bank loan.
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PoorQuentyn@PoorQuentyn·
That's the struggle: if this is my job, and I hate it, do I even want this job? But how will I achieve my (admirable, necessary) goals without holding a position of power?
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PoorQuentyn@PoorQuentyn·
Even their enemies are (deliberately) boring. There's no rush to be had in dealing with a bland bureaucrat like Bowen Marsh, despite how awful his views are. You know who *is* fun to fight? Ramsay, because of his flamboyant cruelty...but fighting him is not technically Jon's job
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PoorQuentyn@PoorQuentyn·
"Uncathartic" is the key here, I think. Both Jon and Dany spend ADWD struggling with how little excitement or righteous release there is to be had in day-to-day governance, especially when they're trying to avoid open war
Coconut Tree Faller Outer Ofer@Cam_Oflage

(clarifying here that when I say grrm is pro-compromise I don't mean that he thinks the specific pseudo-peace that is in place in ADWD is right, I mean that he wants Dany to have to pursue justice in ways that compromise her personal +moral goals & are uncomfortable +uncathartic)

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alex lei@alexL_E_I·
i think about this scene all the time. two master actors at the peak of their craft going toe to toe with each other and they’re not even on set together
The Sting@TheStingisBack

Happy Birthday, Elias Koteas. One of the most underrated actors of his generation, Some Kind of Wonderful, Fallen, Zodiac, The Prophecy… he’s always outstanding. He's incredible in The Thin Red Line. Standing out amongst this cast takes real skill. This is spectacular.

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collin
collin@fiendformojitos·
I really miss Steven Attewell. Incredibly thoughtful and intelligent and had some of the best writing about ASOIAF and the world and characters
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Red Jon Rivers
Red Jon Rivers@Knight_2359·
@quinnthegm Stannis when he sees every single Northern house abandon him for that boy
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Quinn The GM
Quinn The GM@quinnthegm·
Jon Snow being elected Lord Commander
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PoorQuentyn@PoorQuentyn·
Young Grift, or something like him, has to exist because of Varys. We know he's up to *something* from his secret meeting with Illyrio. It isn't Dany because she hasn't hatched dragons yet, and it's hard to believe it was ever Viserys, the most obvious chump of all time
Red Jon Rivers@Knight_2359

Young Griff is great. He may be individually uninteresting but his presence creates a lot of rich emotion for Dany's story (literally trying to steal her claim, her story & her home) & for Varys' story (final jigsaw piece in the Where Power Resides riddle)

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