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

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I'm guessing they will punish her by raping her a lot. Then Jaime will save her from more rape, to illustrate how much he's grown.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link

wow so cynical what happened to you man

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link

nagl frederik B

Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link

Can't wait to deliver a giant TOLD YOU SO in a year or so.

Basically, the plot is complete nonsense. So absolutely anything can happen. And when Benioff & Wise are left to their own devices, odds are think up something that involves the sexual degradation of women. I've seen the show, folks.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link

Although I did like the one guy who shouted a very audible 'FUCK OFF' during Cersei's walk of shame.

boat of boats (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link

Do the Lannisters have literally no control over the populace of Kings Landing now? I'm still confused as to how all that stuff managed to happen without the king's guard rushing in and doing something about it, especially when during Joffrey's reign, no one would have stepped out of line at all.

boat of boats (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link

wonder if that lady is gonna kill the dorne king next, i mean shes gonna be in a lot of trouble once he finds out right

― lag∞n, Tuesday, June 16, 2015 11:35 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

at first i was like "whuh" because i thought she was drinking her own poison to commit suicide when i watched originally but totally forgot about that whole antidote business lol

slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link

Frederik, why are you watching this since it's obviously annoying you?

tayto fan (Michael B), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link

xpost yeah i didnt catch that either oops

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link

Frederik B can you not

, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link

yeah i thought she was killing herself too which wldve been p cool but then she just took the antidote and walked away all smug smh

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link

Do the Lannisters have literally no control over the populace of Kings Landing now? I'm still confused as to how all that stuff managed to happen without the king's guard rushing in and doing something about it, during Joffrey's reign, no one would have stepped out of line at al

There was a scene in S2 maybe when Joffrey and Sansa got stuck in the middle of King's Landing and the population went mental at them, the Hound and Tyrion had to bundle Sansa out of there. So I think they've always been basically hated by the proles.

Also Cersei built the religious fanatics up in the first place order to compensate for a general lack of allies/muscle elsewhere, so maybe the King's Guard isn't what it used to be.

But they've got a resurrected killing machine now so she should be able to regain that iron fist pretty easily.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link

King's Guard is just like 7 dudes isn't it

dan m, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link

well 6 now post-Ser Merren

dan m, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link

one of them is a big frankenstein tho

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link

x-posts: I'm invested in the show because I'm invested in the books. I like the world and I want to know where the story is going. In a year, the show will be spoiling everything that is happening in the story, and it will do so incompetently, and with extra added misogony. Yay.

In that way, this isn't like all other tv-shows, which I just don't watch when they go bad.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link

u love it u love it so much u almost cant stand it

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link

oh Fred just admit it

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link

more info than you needed: http://time.com/3921066/cersei-game-of-thrones-history/

like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link

x-posts: And I'm sorry, I'll leave you to it, but I can't take all the speculation over the nonsense in Dorne and Winterfell seriously. Trying to figure out motive and what will happen next. Well, the showrunners aren't competent enough to have thought it through! It's like watching people watching a monkey throw paint on a canvas, and discussing who it's supposed to look like.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link

if even DJP didn't get my joek I am going to cry

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link

i got it & i loled :)

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link

*whew*

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link

was it an annoying joke

Mordy, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link

been caught stealing an annoying joke once

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link

Can we talk about how disturbingly exhilarating it was to see Arya kill Meryn Trant?

Falconetti Pot (Leee), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link

^^^

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link

I did appreciate how they added the reminder of how bad he was first. Because without those extra two minutes of the known child raper beating little girls with a stick I would have been all, jeez, Arya, chill out a little with the eye-gouging.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link

It was pretty good. For a minute I thought the other girl who works for many faced God was there and she would kill him.
On the other hand I don't know why Arya revealed her identity after he had been stabbed so many times. It didn't seem like a person in that condition could understand anything being said.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link

shes still an assassin IN TRAINING remember!

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link

magic is p much by definition unexplained. idk what concept of magic as a distinct force anyone in this world cld have given they clearly have no recognisable conception of science (or mb any convincing explanation of the cosmos). how/why wld they differentiate certain animals as magic or w/e

ogmor, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link

also if we're waiting for receipts is the lannister daughter DEFINITELY dead bc i'm going to remain sceptical

ogmor, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link

rankings in order of least to most likely dead

1. jon snow
2. stannis
3. myrcella

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link

On the other hand I don't know why Arya revealed her identity after he had been stabbed so many times. It didn't seem like a person in that condition could understand anything being said.

I think she needs the ritual to make her murders OK -- we saw a similar thing when she killed Polliver(?) by repeating what he said about Lommy -- so that it was as much for her own sake as it was to agonize Trant.

Falconetti Pot (Leee), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link

Well, now that The Mountain is alive again, Qyburn might be looking for a new project

xxp

silverfish, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link

Also, there was a brief discussion on characters with (seemingly) impervious plot armor like Tyrion and Dany -- but I don't think anyone mentioned our favorite little girl psychopath assassin. Didn't GRRM say that Arya was his wife's favorite character, meaning that there's no way she's going to die any time soon?

Falconetti Pot (Leee), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link

There is an established system of science (Maesters/Old Town), it just happens to be at odds with most notions of magic. I presume it will be quite a significant theme in Sam's story going forward.

xps

tsrobodo, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link

Didn't GRRM say that Arya was his wife's favorite character, meaning that there's no way she's going to die any time soon?

is she the only remaining female character that hasn't been raped, besides Brienne(?)

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link

do you really want a list

slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link

i can't tell if you're joking but margaery, melisandre, ellaria, off the top of my head...

Mordy, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link

I imagine the maesters are in the books more but there's been v little hint of what they get up to in the show so far besides act like regular medieval scholars

ogmor, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link

Yeah I think most exposition on that front began and ended with Pycelle (treating Robert/John Arryn. Boasting about his role in the birth of Cersei's children. Aemon was too old to get up to much

Medieval scholasticism is definitely the model he uses but the role of maesters is supposed to be far more practical than that would suggest.

tsrobodo, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link

Maesters practice

http://circleofeducation.com/site/assets/uploads/14-The-Magic-of-LearningLMSZ.jpg

Evan, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link

shakey's had a list of fantasy rapes going for at least a decade iirc

nomar, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link

were the sand snakes actually awesome in the novels? Before this season started it seemed like lots of people were excited abt their presence.

nomar, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link

They really didn't seem so to me at the time and I wasn't going to go back and read all that shit again, so I just assumed they were and I'd skimmed it.

tsrobodo, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link

shakey's had a list of fantasy rapes going for at least a decade iirc

get a new joke

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link

you're criticizing someone else for monotony?

polyphonic, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link

re: Sand Snakes GRRM was going for a sexy Deadly Vipers Assassination Squad only with 8 ladies, and so yes, that aspect got people excited.

Falconetti Pot (Leee), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link

they were okay, and at least not risible

resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link


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