HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones - will this be just for nerds? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

Well it'll be like one emphasized word per every three lines that give me that impression.

i think part of the problem is he's clearly reaching for a deeper voice than he naturally has, plus he seems like like he's not naturally an accent guy

welsh would be "correct" in some sense, since he's from the vale and theoretically vale accents = welsh

i think in a weird way his accent is worse or more distracting than dinklage's, because he seems to have something specific in mind that he's trying to do, where as dinklage hardly bothers these days

I had no idea Dinklage's was so weak. USA! USA!

from what i can tell dinklage's "accent" is basically just dropping his Rs and opening up his As a little bit

it's Victor Meldrew I think

Americans will get that reference

did littlefinger do all that growling stuff in earlier seasons? i've definitely noticed it more this season.

"and opening up his As a little bit"

Had to double take

Ronan called him Irish Dracula and now that's all I can think of any time he speaks.

I think Dinklage is just doing Stewie from the Family Guy.

hah!

did littlefinger do all that growling stuff in earlier seasons? i've definitely noticed it more this season.

Yeah I think it's been getting more pronounced the further in we've gone. Don't recall thinking anything in particular about Gillen's accent in the first series.

i think in a weird way his accent is worse or more distracting than dinklage's, because he seems to have something specific in mind that he's trying to do, where as dinklage hardly bothers these days

― caek, Monday, May 6, 2013 7:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

shifty character = shifty accent maybe?

for all we know this could be a middle earth type deal where in the reality of the story the common tongue sounds nothing like english but for our convenience it does

/nerd

They're on a predator ship.

heh

for all we know this could be a middle earth type deal where in the reality of the story the common tongue sounds nothing like english but for our convenience it does

/nerd

― lego maniac cop (latebloomer), Monday, 6 May 2013 22:00 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah like Ned Stark's first name is actually like Weenwo or something

Littlefinger is probably from Aerilon

it's Victor Meldrew I think

― random accies memories (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 6 May 2013 20:41 (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol otm

davos is probably the secret weirdest accent in the show, like uh why get a very irish guy to be very geordie

iain glen p much talks the same irl besides being strikingly camper

check out the osha actress irl on youtube btw, woof

I recently learned that Sibel Kekilli (Shae) used to be in the pornographies

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osha actress was in About A Boy and I still think, "good on her, doing more things". Although she was in Harry Potter as well now that I think of it.

Also realised last night that the torturer of Theon is from Misfits, which puts that show at 2, tying it with Skins.

cool ep, boss speech from littlefinger which i hereby vow never to paraphrase irl

ricky n bianca at the end didnt feel so cheesy mainly cos as soon as you see the show lay it on thick with hope now then you immediately wince for the expected tragedy

have literally no idea abt theon's torturer ("bolton's bastard"? when was he previously referred to?) but those scenes are boring now, get on with it

oh and bring the podrick subplot back for the love of god i cant handle any more of jon snow muff diving

srsly thought he was gonna save her by jamming his tongue in the ice or something

Misfits, which puts that show at 2, tying it with Skins.

― Gukbe, Tuesday, May 7, 2013 12:59 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

uh, and Hollyoaks

If they weren't in the very last scene of Hollyoaks before Channel 4 news, I never saw them.

Nathalie Emmanuel was in Misfits and Hollyoaks

Aaah, I get it now.

no but Daenerys's previous maidservant was also in Hollyoaks

I don't actually watch it that much honest

The one who was locked in the big empty vault at the end of S2? Tbh I figured there would be some ex-Hollyoaks actors being fed into the minor-role-nudity machine.

srsly thought he was gonna save her by jamming his tongue in the ice or something

― r|t|c, Monday, May 6, 2013 8:05 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this shouldve happened

did jon snow introduce Cunnilingus to just the wildlings, or some larger part of the seven kingdoms?

economics of GOT

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/17/goldbugs_in_westeros_house_tyrell_is_richer_than_house_lannister.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/18/lannister_subprime_lending_the_king_owing_you_money_spells_trouble.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/22/economics_of_ice_fire_iii_the_market_for_dragons.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/06/wildling_egalitarianism_why_bad_weather_leads_to_more_economic_equality.html

Wait, I thought "Cunnilingus" was a place, now I'm totally lost.

Jon Snow INVENTED cunnilingus.

Really wish they'd cast a better actor, because I'm not feeling any chemistry from his end with the Jon/Ygritte ship.

http://i.imgur.com/qGeqOc4.jpg

i like the jon snow actor!

That picture comparing him to Hodor kind of set me down the road of disliking him, also, his inability to act.

http://i.qkme.me/3pa1v5.jpg

I'll tell you what I do like, and that's Tywin and Olenna. In fact, I like Tywin and anyone (especially if their meetings didn't happen in the books, cos then it's like some kind of fantasy scenario).

Olenna so far has just been a series of one-on-one conversations with everyone in King's Landing.
All she needs is Joffrey for the complete set.

But Varys is right, too: Chaos is a pit. Sometimes instability and uncertainty are not your friends. So let’s talk about Ros and the cruel and abrupt way her story was snuffed out. I’m sickened but not surprised by how little Joffrey and Littlefinger regarded her life. Woman, prostitute: These are not categories of people that either of these men have much feeling for. But I am surprised by how cheaply the creators of the show valued her — especially since she’s the one major character wholly created for it.
Since the death of Ned Stark, we all know that menace simmers just below the surface of every conversation, every meal, and every courtly turn about the palace grounds. Like Tywin, the pitiless plot machine of Game of Thrones does not discriminate: Everyone is in peril, all the time. And sometimes, the oblique view is the fresher view; not every big moment needs to be underlined by crashing music and dragonfire and High Valyrian. But dispatching Ros under a voice-over, and then using the image of her violent death as a preamble to Sansa’s weeping, felt reprehensible. Ros’s arrow-pierced body is Arya’s target-practice effigy come to life — or death, as the case may be. Her eyes glassy, her face turned away from us, the camera lingers in the room long after Joffrey has left, to run itself along her corpse in its filmy dress. In an episode that already had one stomach-churning scene of shocking, needless torture, did this one accomplish anything new?

I thought the way it was done was more shocking and fitting for the way people viewed Ros.

Am I right in thinking that Ros was totally innocent and the spy who blew Littlefinger's plan was actually Shae?

No wait that doesn't make sense either.

Wow, a lot of fucking around with the book last night …

xp - No, I think it was Ros that'd been squealing to Varys. I thought the whole scene was a good and timely reminder that Littlefinger (who doesn't seem to have actually done too much in a while) has got his finger absolutely on the pulse, that he is more than capable of playing Varys at his own game and that he is just as merciless and dangerous as all the other players.

Obviously it also demonstrates how casually Varys, for all his talk of being a guy working only for the good of the realm, throws comparative innocents into the line of fire without unduly worrying about it.

I really enjoy that whole angle of this second sub-level of political maneuvering between Littlefinger and Varys beneath the high-level posturing between Tywin and Tyrion and Olenna and Robb Stark / whoever else. No one seems to be keeping close enough eyes on the pair of them, given how clever and influential they are.

Not too bothered about the casual way of writing Ros out as I was never especially keen on her anyway. Not essential to anything happening in the plot, too often used for clumsy exposition, basically an opportunity to get a pair of naked breasts into every episode regardless of what else was going on.

I thought the Theon / mystery man torture stuff was fine as well, but admittedly that is with the benefit of having read those scenes in the books. And the climbing-the-Wall scene was very good. Solid episode

Yeah I'd forgotten about the scene where Ros showed Varys the ship manifest.

The scene on the wall is fantastic and hopefully John Snow is over it for good now because all that endlessly wandering around in blizzards was getting fucking boring. Kind of assuming that, at some point, Rob Stark is going to be basically legally required to execute his brother for having deserted the Night's Watch?

The scene with Olenna and Tywin was straight up awesome.