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More Icy-Firey Songs* thoughts:
I've just finished reading Arya's chapters in A Clash of Kings. And I have some thoughts that are spoilery. By which I mean, they go all the way up A Dance With Dragons, so if you haven't read that, you might not want to hear what I have to say about this (when I said I know spoilers out the wazoo, I wasn't kidding).
I suppose I wouldn't notice this, but that I do know the spoilers - specifically that Arya trains to become a Faceless Man. And you know what? It's really well foreshadowed in A Clash of Kings. I mean, think about it: once Arya leaves King's Landing at the end of the first book, she's not referred to by her actual name for 2/3s of the next one, and even then she starts collecting names like friends. And also she's pretending to be a boy for a least a good third of the book (until Gendry calls her out on it, which is a scene I find SO amusing, because if only Gendry knew who his father had been, it'd be Arya calling him M'lord, and not him calling her M'lady).
I know nothing about GRRM's writing processes, but I think the whole foreshadowing thing goes back to the first book because, lest we forget, Syrio Forel - Arya's sword-fighting teacher was from Braavos. Where do the Faceless Men train and live? Braavos.
(There is a theory that Syrio and Jaqen are the same person, but I don't believe it. I'm of the school that believe Syrio died when he was helping Arya escape from the Lannister guards. I don't know about Jaqen being Pate (my mum thinks he's the Kindly Man, but I don't know that I believe that, either) - but only because I haven't got that far yet).
I mean actually, really, that's quite cool.
I have much respect for that. I wish I could write like that!
And really, that's all I've got to say about that.
(Except P.S. The TV show is more ad breaks than show. Which is kind of annoying).
*If you expect me to be super-serious about the books/TV series/mythos, then you are looking at the wrong person.
~*~
I hope I don't jinx it, but I have been doing some writing. And I really mean "some". Like a handful, a scribble of words, rather than mountains and mountains. And it's on what is technically a new idea (I thought of it in November last year) (it's not the ideas I have problems with, it's the writing).
I've just finished reading Arya's chapters in A Clash of Kings. And I have some thoughts that are spoilery. By which I mean, they go all the way up A Dance With Dragons, so if you haven't read that, you might not want to hear what I have to say about this (when I said I know spoilers out the wazoo, I wasn't kidding).
I suppose I wouldn't notice this, but that I do know the spoilers - specifically that Arya trains to become a Faceless Man. And you know what? It's really well foreshadowed in A Clash of Kings. I mean, think about it: once Arya leaves King's Landing at the end of the first book, she's not referred to by her actual name for 2/3s of the next one, and even then she starts collecting names like friends. And also she's pretending to be a boy for a least a good third of the book (until Gendry calls her out on it, which is a scene I find SO amusing, because if only Gendry knew who his father had been, it'd be Arya calling him M'lord, and not him calling her M'lady).
I know nothing about GRRM's writing processes, but I think the whole foreshadowing thing goes back to the first book because, lest we forget, Syrio Forel - Arya's sword-fighting teacher was from Braavos. Where do the Faceless Men train and live? Braavos.
(There is a theory that Syrio and Jaqen are the same person, but I don't believe it. I'm of the school that believe Syrio died when he was helping Arya escape from the Lannister guards. I don't know about Jaqen being Pate (my mum thinks he's the Kindly Man, but I don't know that I believe that, either) - but only because I haven't got that far yet).
I mean actually, really, that's quite cool.
I have much respect for that. I wish I could write like that!
And really, that's all I've got to say about that.
(Except P.S. The TV show is more ad breaks than show. Which is kind of annoying).
*If you expect me to be super-serious about the books/TV series/mythos, then you are looking at the wrong person.
~*~
I hope I don't jinx it, but I have been doing some writing. And I really mean "some". Like a handful, a scribble of words, rather than mountains and mountains. And it's on what is technically a new idea (I thought of it in November last year) (it's not the ideas I have problems with, it's the writing).