Paid Members herbie747 Posted May 17, 2016 Paid Members Posted May 17, 2016 Across the narrow sea seems to jump straight to being the middle East or Asia though instead of Europe. Yeah actually.
Paid Members PunkStep Posted May 17, 2016 Paid Members Posted May 17, 2016 Across the narrow sea seems to jump straight to being the middle East or Asia though instead of Europe. That's just Slavers Bay though to be fair. There's huge land between there and Westeros containing the free cities, which are apparently loosely based on European cities. Braavos for example, is based on Venice.
King Pitcos Posted May 17, 2016 Posted May 17, 2016 Have they ever explained any of the accents anyway? It's all random. The Stark boys are northern, the Stark girls aren't. Mark Addy was northern but his brothers weren't. Davos is from King's Landing and he's a Geordie.When first started watching it, the wife and I came to the conclusion that Westeross was actually just the British isles and everyone lived along the M62 corridor. Winterfell being very much in the vein of Sheffield with Ned Stark being a typical Yorkshireman not wanting to leave to go down south to King's Landing/London via The Kingsroad/M1, The Erie off to the east below the river a bit like Scunthorpe or Grimsby, while The Wall represented the England-Scotland boarder, south of the wall being lush and green while Scotland/North of the wall is freezing cold, grim and full of red headed savages. I feel like that's how it's meant to be, but the accents vary too much. You don't get lads born in London talking like they're from Newcastle. There are probably real life reasons for it all, like the aforementioned younger Starks not being able to mimic Sean Bean's accent, or Liam Cunningham and Aiden Gillen wanting to piss about.
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted May 17, 2016 Paid Members Posted May 17, 2016 The wall is based upon Hadrian's Wall and the Wildlings are the Jock's. George RR Martin has already said that.
Guest Posted May 17, 2016 Posted May 17, 2016 Re the Starks - girls and younger boys talk more proper as spending time with catelyn and old nan. As boys got older more time with Ned and took more of his accent.
Paid Members herbie747 Posted May 17, 2016 Paid Members Posted May 17, 2016 The wall is based upon Hadrian's Wall and the Wildlings are the Jock's. George RR Martin has already said that. Not far off though.
Paid Members PunkStep Posted May 17, 2016 Paid Members Posted May 17, 2016 Where are you then Herbie? Iron Islands?
Paid Members herbie747 Posted May 17, 2016 Paid Members Posted May 17, 2016 Where are you then Herbie? Iron Islands? Nah, that's the Isle of Man. I guess we don't play the game of thrones.
Paid Members Teedy Kay Posted May 17, 2016 Paid Members Posted May 17, 2016 A Stark finally caught up with another Stark! Huzzah! So The Knights of The Vale are riding to support Jon, there must be a few families out there that will help, the family of the fella who helped Ned in the flashback should help. Bolton is gonna get fucked up. And I'm gonna love it.
d-d-d-dAz Posted May 17, 2016 Posted May 17, 2016 The Knights of the Vale aren't going to help Jon, they've been manipulated by Baelish to help him go and get back his 'key to the North'.
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted May 17, 2016 Paid Members Posted May 17, 2016 Yeah I'm sure Littlefinger's long game is having Sansa as his puppet ruler in the North which'll put two of the seven kingdoms under his direct control. He wants it all.
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted May 17, 2016 Paid Members Posted May 17, 2016 Where are you then Herbie? Iron Islands? Nah, that's the Isle of Man. I guess we don't play the game of thrones. The amount of times the North got blown up in the Troubles Herbie, you could be Valyria.
W35ty Posted May 18, 2016 Posted May 18, 2016 Across the narrow sea seems to jump straight to being the middle East or Asia though instead of Europe. In real life Europe is basically the middle east.
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted May 18, 2016 Paid Members Posted May 18, 2016 (edited) ....erm, what? I think the season is strong so far and I like how everything seems to be moving in a direction where a lot of characters are going to join the same storyline. However Ayra's story sticks out like a sore thumb. No idea how they're going to tie that shit in. Edited May 18, 2016 by LaGoosh
d-d-d-dAz Posted May 18, 2016 Posted May 18, 2016 I liked the idea of her sneaking into Kings Landing and daredevilling the shit out of the Mountain. That was until someone suggested that in Cersei's trial by combat, the Faith Militant pick a reincarnated Hound as their champion to battle his brother. I think the long game with the Stark kids is a big reunion. Arya is possibly going to refuse to recognise them as family, but beyond that I have no idea what the payoff is.
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