First reviews of Game of Thrones
I just had to spend ten minutes clearing snow from my car on the first day of spring. This is wrong on so many levels. Luckily we can remind ourselves that we don't have eternal winters like in Westeros; it just feels that way. Anyway, here are the first reviews of the Tower of London screening. http://www.ew.com/…/game-thrones-earl...…
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Mar 20, 2015 01:28PM
It occurs to me that Planet Westeros, for lack of a better moniker, must orbit around a hotter star much further away from it, to be habitable and for the seasons to be so long. Also it must have quite a wobble on its tilt for the seasons to be so unpredictable. It rather begs the question why would they say a season lasts "years" when to them a whole year would be one turn of the seasons and very much longer - a fully grown adult would probably only be "2 years old" by their standards... but there I go trying to rationalise a fantasy story again. (Obviously Martin writes that "seasons last years" so that we Earthlings can understand!)
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LOL, Iset! We have to suspend disbelief in order to visit Master Martin's universe, but I am happy to do that if dragons are involved.
Iset wrote: "It occurs to me that Planet Westeros, for lack of a better moniker, must orbit around a hotter star much further away from it, to be habitable and for the seasons to be so long. Also it must have q..."It's a fantasy world, not everything is explainable by science. The seasons in ASOAIF world are clearly influenced by magic. I suspect we will learn about the cause of it all in the last book, when the final conflict and resolution happens - which will presumably be the invasion of the Others - perhaps even a second Long Night? The Others are described as not only thriving on the winter and cold, but bringing it with them.
Iset wrote: "It occurs to me that Planet Westeros, for lack of a better moniker, must orbit around a hotter star much further away from it, to be habitable and for the seasons to be so long. Also it must have q..."Martin has been asked about the seasons a lot, and he's said that they used to be normal like on our Earth, but something happened that offset them and they're now like they are. All he's revealed is that it's due to magic imbalance, which he'll expand on eventually. For all intents and purposes, that planet is like ours.
Well down here we are enduing a long hot summer...So I have taken the Starks motto as my own with a little difference...Winter is coming....Thank God!
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