TheRevanchist

Thanks for the recap. To be fair, I understood this from the book. Just that my hope was that we might see something more than this. And while I was not a fan of another universe, considering the breaking of the laws of physics, it kinda made sense. Nevertheless, the goths should had just initiated a vacuum decay and destroy our universe, rather than killing some people there Did anyone else feel that the goths not liking the opening of the universe is kinda similar to those ghosts/shadow in His Dark Materials?

Possibly my expectations were different. To be fair, I don't know if I was not paying attention (read books yearly, though no binge-reading), but I didn't see the goths being on another universe, despite that the signs were there. In any case, I was thinking that there will be a bit more of Romans/Goths rather than next to nothing. It does not mean that it wasn't good, the fact that most people liked it, means that they nailed it. Just that I was expecting to know a bit more about those civilizations after a series of 9 books.

Extremely disappointed with the final book. I was expecting a bit more depth in the main conflict with the goths, not the book being about some old woman chasing them over the galaxy. I feel a bit sad that the authors didn't explore more the Romans and the goths, feel that the last two books should have been more about that. The epilogue was really good though, and I was expecting humanity to get divided into separate worlds that cannot communicate with each other. Nevertheless, I enjoyed these years of reading the series.

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Third best overall episode IMO, after Rains of Castamere and Winds of Winter.

Which is his best book after Tigana and Lions? I loved Tigana and found Lions very good. Still somehow, I have read only these two books of him despite that I read Tigana two years ago and usually when I like an author so much, I read more books from him/her. Also, I find his writing as arguably the best in the genre.

Tigana is even better than Lions, IMO. It is probably even more gray-ish, which is always a plus in my book. I think that a lot of people are divided about his writing (similar to Rothfuss' case), but I really find his writing excellent and addictive.

Indeed. And they actually cut the by far the main character on Dorne.

The North story is still brilliant, but every other storyline was awful, with the Sand Snakes being the worst thing ever. They made Doran a craven and a fool, despite that he is one of the most intelligent players in the game. Oberyn's girlfriend seems to have gotten the Arianne story part, but cannot see Arianne killing Doran. Mel's part was the biggest twist, but then it was common knowledge that she is old. I hope that they do not continue this masquerade of Jon being dead dead. We all know that he is going to be revived.

It has become my e-persona.

Ah, cool! Always go with Revan/TheRevanchist myself. Btw, Cartman is awesome.

You're finally here, welcome! Why not the caf name?

That is the post I was looking for. Definitely going to read it in the future. Kay's writing is really good. Tigana had as perfect writing as it can be.

Read only Tigana and is is wonderful. One of the best fantasy books I've ever read and certainly the best standalone one.

Arya - great Daenrys - okay Jon - okay (extra 1 point for finally not managing to ruin a great quote 'For the Watch'). Cersei - awesome Dorne - awful All in all, a very good episode. 8/10