THE SEASON FINALE WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! Season two has been so much more engaging overall, in my opinion, despite the lack of Khal Drogo.
How much do you love TYRION/SHAE??? (SPOILER)
(FANGIRL'D!!!!)
This CF is to discuss the season finale of Game of Thrones. If you like, we could play Kill/F***/Marry/Serve again!
I have a specific topic in mind, however. After I watched the show, I was wiki-ing lots of book information (because I love spoilers), and I found this comment about the "White Walkers"/"Others", which are pretty much Ice Zombies.
The Others appear in the prologue to AGoT as tall and gaunt with flesh pale as milk and blue eyes, deeper and bluer than human eyes, burning like ice. The White Walker who married the Night's King******* is similarly described as having skin as pale as the moon and eyes like blue stars. Old Nan declares them to be cold dead things, hating all life, but in an email to the comic-book artist Tommy Patterson GRRM recently wrote: 'The Others are not dead. They are strange, beautiful… think, oh… the Sidhe made of ice, something like that… a different sort of life… inhuman, elegant, dangerous.'
...Their language is unknown, although it may be the Old Tongue...The wildlings believe the Others and their Wights can smell life, or rather its warmth.
******(According to legend, the Night's King, lived during the Age of Heroes, not long after the Wall was complete... he fell in love with a woman "with skin as white as the moon and eyes like blue stars", he chased her and loved her though "her skin was cold as ice", and when he gave his seed to her he gave his soul as well.)
Here is the EPIC ending from last night: (SPOILER)
OMG I DIED.
To clarify, there are the White Walkers, which are what George is describing, and there are their minions, called "wights", which are the zombies.
Now, can I just say, Martin's description TOTALLY REMINDS ME OF TWILIGHT VAMPS (description-wise, of course). Especially because I always had this plotbunny about a Twilight super-vamp whose eyes glowed blue because they ate the essence of other vamps, or something. I think it came from World of Warcraft... or Alexis Bledel in Sin City.
ETA: Seriously, no GoT fans that want to talk about the finale? Maybe it needs to be more interactive? QUESTION FOR DISCUSSION: What fantasy-genre images inspire you to create stories?