Poll: Winter Is Coming - HBO's A Game of Thrones [READ WARNING]

Who will rule Westeros?

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A quick question for anyone who's read the books/knows about the story. I remember someone saying to Arya (or bran) that she's yet to see a winter and she's meant to be around 10 years old :eek: So how friggin' long are the seasons in this place?

Oh and, do we get to see this notorious winter, in this season?
 
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A quick question for anyone who's read the books/knows about the story. I remember someone saying to Arya (or bran) that she's yet to see a winter and she's meant to be around 10 years old :eek: So how friggin' long are the seasons in this place?

Oh and, do we get to see this notorious winter, in this season?
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Did you not listen to Nan's story? Shame on you :p

If you had listened you would have heard the tale of Winters so long that people were born, raised and died without seeing the Summer.
 
Most of the winters are 1-2 years long, with most of the peasants migrating to holds or refuges during the peak. Winters can be much longer; If memory serves there was a winter some 8,000 years ago that dragged out over 10 years, with Winterfell and everything north of the Wall enduring complete darkness for several years.

The lack of wolf scenes in the early episodes is apparently due to the nightmare logistics in finding enough trained Northern Innuit pups at the various stages of development to film them growing as the story unfolds. Fully grown Innuits will be used in the last half of Season 1, and enlarged with a mix of CGI and forced perspective in Season 2. I wonder why they picked Innuits over American Alsations - as that breed is bred to resemble the extinct Canis Dirus.
 
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The lack of wolf scenes in the early episodes is apparently due to the nightmare logistics in finding enough trained Northern Innuit pups at the various stages of development to film them growing as the story unfolds. Fully grown Innuits will be used in the last half of Season 1, and enlarged with a mix of CGI and forced perspective in Season 2. I wonder why they picked Innuits over American Alsations - as that breed is bred to resemble the extinct Canis Dirus.[/QUOTE]


There are 4 wolves left right? Do they stick with there owners?
 
Got a question about folks watching this who haven't read the books (if it's been asked already please ignore me, I'm new to the thread and don't feel like reading the past 400 posts!:))

Are you following? :p I'm not being condescending, it's just that they tend to throw a lot of characters at you without explaining their relationships, or mention characters by name when they're off-screen without ever having named them while they were on-screen (the Stark kids in particular - if I hadn't read the book I wouldn't have known which was which, and I don't think it's actually explicitly stated that Jon is Ned's ******* son - hope the swearie filter doesn't grab this - until WELL into the first episode, so at the beginning when they find the wolf cubs the significance of him saying "I'm not a Stark" would be lost to most).

It's typical HBO in that sense (Wire and Generation Kill were like that), and I know I had trouble following with those (especially the Wire where I couldn't even understand the accents of some characters!), so that's why I thought I'd ask - are you finding it hard? Are you relying on summaries/family trees on Wikipedia or HBO's site? Or are you just happily following without a problem?
 
I'm sure Ghost fans will be happy that he made an appearance in this episode. The dialogue has been great all series
 
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