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  1. David Plantinga

    The P. G. Wodehouse thread

    You don't need to know anything about golf, just accept the premise that it's frustrating and inexplicably addictive to some.
  2. David Plantinga

    Fox talks about what it would need to reboot Firefly

    When asked about this possibility in interviews, Joss Whedon has said that he doesn't dare try it. He's afraid that it just wouldn't be the same. The old magic would be gone and it would somehow spoil what's come before. If you consider Godfather 3 and the Star Wars prequels, to take up a...
  3. David Plantinga

    How good is Stephen King as a writer?

    I've always found his shorter works sometimes show him at his best. The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon was brilliant. It was very short and while it did how some supernatural elements, probably unnecessary ones, the core story was about the natural world.
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    new world vegetables and animals in Westeros

    Some polar animals use the ice cap as a bridge. Polar bears are found in Scandinavia and Canada. If potatoes are mentioned, that's significant because they revolutionized agriculture in those countries wise enough to adopt their cultivation. I don't recall syphilis and gonorrhea being...
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    new world vegetables and animals in Westeros

    The world in Game of Thrones is largely based on England during the Wars of the Roses, and I've noticed that plants and animals originating in the New World almost never appear in the books or the show. I've reviewed the menus of several of the feasts in the books and they've corroborated this...
  6. David Plantinga

    GRRM literary board

    Since each chapter concerns itself with one character and one character only, and is written from that character's perspective, the writers of Game of Thrones did have to rip it apart and splice it together for an episode to contain many threads at once. I think they did a fine job of it.
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