You’re thinking of The Old Man and the Sea.

@@Simplejackfade Yeah he reminds me of the guy from far harbor, They have the same hat

Its the hat.

Bunch of nonsense

very allegorical

I was thinking the exact same thing when I was listening to him talk! However I’d say that GRRM delivers a master stroke in the battle of the black water by also giving us Davos’ viewpoint so we actually understand firstly Stannis’ plan and secondly Tyrions plan (aka the chain).

I wouldn't say perfectly since Tyrion's POV reeks of plot armour and it's quite ridiculous to read about him killing/injuring half a dozen armored knights and only getting hit in the end by an ambiguous assassin (who failed nonetheless.) But it's really good, Davos' POV especially.

I liked when Ser Whatsisname apologised to her afterwards for being rude.

You mean after the recapture of Deepwood mote?

Do authors often get together to write like a super book or some shit? I feel like there would be a lot of good material out there if they bounced ideas off of each other

@@GgCashh451 not sure about super book, but author do get allong to write novella.

@@GgCashh451 That would be a terrible idea. They all have different and unique styles. If they work together it will just be a mix of everything and would be considered as a standard and mediocre story/writing.

@@comebackguy8892 I don't know about authors, but in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul they had whole team of writers, and they did get along with each other, I guess the key here is to have some guy(Vince Gilligan/Peter Gould) who would direct the overall plot

@@anaumnau Yes, but breaking bad isn't exactly a "visual" masterpiece like Pulp Fiction or The Batman. Though the acting and story is of course a completely different story.

sounds more like a totally logical deduction than a random guess, holy shit that is going to go so hard

What battle are you talking about (i read up to AFFC so probably it's a spoiler of ADWD)?

@@tankmh4468 Yeah, he’s referring to something that is technically going to occur in TWOW, but you see much of the lead up in ADWD.

@@donnyemig6001 bro that’s osha

@@tankmh4468 To me it reminded me the battle between Asha and Staniss in ADWD

Every character who dies in those movies doesn't even die, they come back a few movies later lol

Obi-wan would approve

That's a pretty shitty reason but ok

Ramon Jardim not sure if you understood the Obi Wan reference, if your mentally undeveloped or if you just don’t have a sense of humour. Either ways move on with your life this was 7 months ago

@@Ronam0451 Ramon Jardim is a shitty name but you're using it anyways.

Nice profile pic

@@hunterrowland3601 lmao

They sort of forgot about battle tactics

You don't even need to know battles to know how stupid that battle was. Especially the Dothraki part.

Episode 2 was okay. They're battle preparations were good. (Other than putting all women and children in the crypts...) I had never been so psyched for a battle. I have never been so disappointed. I don't hate the Dothraki charge. They're a Calvary so they're almost useless behind the walls. But how did half survive? Numerous times we saw main characters about to die but then live.

Often you'll find people simply have less experience and/or knowledge vis a vis swords and their use so it's less likely that a reader would find a mistake and lose suspension of disbelief. Much more people in the modern era are acquainted with firearms and their usage

@@bigmacattack7747 so true, and those aquatinted folks will be all over it if there is any inaccuracies. I challenge anyone right now to go watch a scene from a show or movie on youtube that includes a gun (or guns) firing. Go to the comments sections. Now find your arguments and complaints about the details. Sorry, I know you guys were speaking of writing, but I have just noticed it a lot on here lately.

@@anasurimborplantagenet5478 It's a fact man, you got it

Really?

@@vek3681 No. That’s how pluralizing works in Latin. It’s a joke.

Stannis the Mannis. His Grace marched out like a King and went out like a Baws.

@@willthisdoreviews3376 Rest assured, our one true king will not make his series exit as he did in the show. He'll live long enough to meet Daenerys- as the blue eyed king w/a red sword who casts no shadow (that she saw in the House of the Undying).

@@ashleyofnaath Here's hoping George might end up writing a seriously bad-ass ending for our King, maybe as a middle finger to Dumb and Dumber!

Excited to read it for the first time with my great grandchildren!

Even tho cause everytime Martin kills he let everybody knows in many details(Specially with the Red Wedding he did that)Then why the hell he would portray the death of Stannis on a letter?

I think he had a fucking heart attack from that.

He couldn’t see shit 🤷‍♀️

@@TBx46 that's winter in GOT

Since they rushed the show, the episode ofcourse has its problems but I still think it is truly an incredible episode

​@@danielirl9252 incredibly lackluster

Theon would kill himself if Stannis lost the battle.

More like Gay-sterley rock gottem

The Sacred and the propane

“Duh something” ... anyway Aegon clapped him in irons

mysaria: “Put all this family civil war to rest. the basterd insults, the lying and bettayal. Start a clean slate. Lucerys valeryon what ever happend there. May the seven give him rest.” Rheanyra: “WHAT EVER HAPPEND THERE. COCK SUCKER ATE HIM WITHOUT ANY PROVACATION WHAT SO EVER!!!”

Lol And that describes an actual battle.Just people clustered wailing there weapons. Yeah I agree, doesn't work to well in TV and movies.

Battles lasted hours and were fairly slow. Its hard to condense that down into ten minutes roughly on screen. Films like Alexander do the best job imo.

Yes, he has avoided all the battles. Either the character gets knocked or the chapter ends

@@SubhamPalcyd not blackwater, that was awesome. There’s also Jon snow defending the wall at the end of ASOS and other smaller fights, but I agree, George RR Martin doesn’t really give us too many battles.

@@cheeseisjar3058 nope nothing happened at blackwater. Tyrion gets knocked out just after the ships burn. Jon vs Mance Ryder started off grand but ended quickly. That was nice though. Jon snow defending against Yigritte troupe was the only true battle

@@SubhamPalcyd What do you mean nothing happens? there is a big naval battle and tyrion is fighting off stannis' forces on a bridge of wrecked ships

There are plenty of people who enjoy GRRM's work so much that it has led them to go full circle and become unhappy with him. They are annoyed at his procrastination. Impatient at him for not working faster, concerned for his age, frustrated at the prospect of him dying or otherwise becoming so ill that he cannot finish the very writings that popularised him in the first place. For an author, this is what success looks like. This is how it goes when you tell a tale that is so good that people become afraid you are about to die without finishing it. And so GRRM finds himself in the odd situation of being successful without having finished. I wonder how that feels. I wonder how it feels to sit alone at a desk, 70 years old, and know that you haven't been wrung dry yet. To know that you still have a lot of work to do before people are happy with you. And then to feel that, once the final word has left your hands, you have officially finished your life's work. You, as an author, are considered done. Without missing a beat, your appreciators then become transfixed by the next author or curiosity, never really having understood the true depths of your work and the deep truths to be found therein. Perhaps the best bet then is to leave them guessing. Perhaps the perfect story is an unfinished one.

@@redryder3721 This looks suspiciously copied and pasted from a smarter man, perhaps an Elder Brother.

​@@willthisdoreviews3376 So articulate was the man's argument, so convincing his words, that his peer did assuredly quoth: "yeah that dude's totally an imposter".

@@redryder3721 Stephen King is 73 and he writes at the pace of a rabbit on crystal meth.

@@redryder3721 you are a bit of a sussy baka

LOTR has great battles. Unfortunately, D&D can’t even copy them correctly

@@megamovieman101 Exactly

You will take it with a mouse, you will take it in a house

Marijuana?

It’s probably Ares

Pure evil definitely exists, just perhaps not the great big sauron like evil

it's just a joke

That took me out of the battle and just made me really confused. Not a good chapter imo

Ikr, also it was really short as well. I was taken aback haha.

I did. It reminded me of the way ship battles in real life are described, ship names are always used.

Meh.

@@jaimelannister1797 Nah.

Battle on the green fork was written, battle of Blackwater Bay was written, the battle to hold the wall was written

@@conors4430 wasn't battle of oxcross written?

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@@russellfisher1303 what can't understand english?

@@russellfisher1303 hes a liberal talks bad on our military

@@stomper5432 what did he say specifically?

@@russellfisher1303 tbh I don't remember exactly

That's badass! Thank you for sharing:-)

Now if only he could stop the left wing soy boys taking over and strike a nice balance ,but I doubt it cos ya know, orange man bad.

@@glennross85 As a left wing soy boy, I wish we were taking over. Reality ain't that simple tho. I just want people to respect each other, including people of any skin color, any ethno-religious background or any gender, that's all.

@@smuu1996 the vast majority of people dont care what color your skin is, who you pray to or what you do in your bedroom. Its just a few idiots with nothing better to do.

Both the left and the right have something to contribute to society. Let's not insult those we disagree with, just debate them.