Fantastic
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 4 July 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
The librarian in that scene was Frank Hvam, very locally famous Danish comedian. Weird casting for a lot of Danes.
― Frederik B, Monday, 4 July 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
Frederik I can't believe you didn't bring up the best cameo of the season, native son Frank Hvam as the Citadel's receptionist
― El Tomboto, Monday, June 27, 2016 3:19 PM (1 week ago)
― El Tomboto, Monday, 4 July 2016 19:51 (seven years ago) link
quite surprising to me that westeros has so many books, bet most of them are dead boring
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Monday, 4 July 2016 19:52 (seven years ago) link
mostly just dupes of the satanic verses
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 July 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link
Books are catalogued Feast Description 1-400,000
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 4 July 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link
haha!I am on p122 of the first book. There have been a lot of meals described
― kinder, Monday, 4 July 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
― El Tomboto, 4. juli 2016 21:51 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh, sorry!
― Frederik B, Monday, 4 July 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
See you in 2021 for season 7!
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 4 July 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
I found the conversation upthread about whether or not GoT is fantasy mostly quite clueless. It is definitely 100% fantasy. It has a somewhat different and rather more interesting approach to character and morality to most of the Tolkien-esque heroic fantasy from which it draws, but that doen't make it not fantasy by any means.
Anyway, killer finale.
― chap, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 08:33 (seven years ago) link
different but 100% the same makes sense
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 13:05 (seven years ago) link
Yes, it actually does. You build a house out of vinyl, it would be different from all other houses, but still 100% a house.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 13:11 (seven years ago) link
would sound better than other houses
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link
everyone in the world: i usually dont like shit with dragons and swords but i like thisnerds: ahhh nooo this really freaks me out for some reason
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 13:16 (seven years ago) link
everyone is the world: i usually dont like shit with dragons and swords but i like this therefore it must not be fantasy.nerds: Yes it is. Some fantasy is really good, we've been trying to tell you.
― chap, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
Plus, I said it was different to most Tolkien-esque heroic fantasy. This is only one kind of fantasy.
― chap, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:00 (seven years ago) link
Game of Thrones is 100% nerd, even though it was stitched together from the skins of cool people
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:06 (seven years ago) link
game of thrones is mostly scifi if were being honest
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:06 (seven years ago) link
― lag∞n,
Haha bollocks.
― chap, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:07 (seven years ago) link
http://www.goldlabel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Martin-Starr-Party-Down.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:14 (seven years ago) link
post-fantasy
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:24 (seven years ago) link
Is that a younger Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley? xp
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:37 (seven years ago) link
That's Martin Starr from the well pre-SV (and probably ultimately superior) Party Down.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link
lol younger Gilfoyle
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
I think you mean older Haverchuck
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
Martin Starr debating hard sci-fi with that woman in Party Down is probably the funniest thing I've ever seen on TV. As well as his attempt to point out that Jim Morrison didn't write the lyrics to "Light My Fire".
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCqjR1gHyIQ
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 15:33 (seven years ago) link
I know this show is really popular but I've been surprised by how often I hear supermarket workers talk about it and people I know who I never imagined would like it.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 15:36 (seven years ago) link
Sullivan: Oh, Gilbert! You and your world of topsy-turvydom. In 1881, it was a magic coin; and before that it was a magic lozenge; and in 1877 it was an elixir.Gilbert: In this instance it is a magic potion.
Gilbert: In this instance it is a magic potion.
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
Taystee drops a "Winter is coming" in the latest season of Orange Is The New Black.
Hoping Cersei will respond in kind with "trust no bitch".
― nashwan, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 15:53 (seven years ago) link
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, July 5, 2016 2:14 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
warmer, too
cut down on your electric
― Number None, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
The actress they got to play Lyanna in the last episode actually looked quite a lot like Emilia Clarke in her scene. Theories ahoy!
― Nicholas Nickelback (Leee), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 00:28 (seven years ago) link
This is the TV equivalent of nerds throwing tantys because Normal People all play games not but theyre not REAL gamers.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 01:25 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/milestones-grrm.jpg
Quite like this picture
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 7 July 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, July 6, 2016 1:25 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah it's the classic nerd backlash pattern: lamenting the lack of respect or appreciation for a treasured show/genre/movie/book/band/whatever but flipping out when it actually receives some
― Rob Boss (latebloomer), Thursday, 7 July 2016 22:34 (seven years ago) link
Have to admit that it annoyed me when some people sold it as "fantasy for people who hate fantasy", partly because this style of fantasy has been quite popular for a long time now.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 8 July 2016 12:35 (seven years ago) link
There's a huge crossover in the readership of historical fiction and fantasy, so historical fantasy is also popular.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 8 July 2016 12:37 (seven years ago) link
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― chap, Tuesday, July 5, 2016 2:58 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 8 July 2016 12:42 (seven years ago) link
There's a variation on this with comics - had this conversation a lot circa 2007
"Watchmen is amazing! Have you read it?""Yes! Also, if you enjoyed that, these are some really good comics you might like...""Nah that's nerd stuff"
i.e. Frustration is seeing people miss stuff they'd probably enjoy, not being protective of our precious genre boundaries. It's like when your grandparents can't be arsed to figure out how the digital TV works - "But you love nature documentaries and channel 43 is nature documentaries ALL DAY" "Nah it's too much effort I'll stick with BBC 1 thanks"
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 8 July 2016 12:49 (seven years ago) link
it's not like gRR martin is hiding his devotion to jRR tolkien
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 8 July 2016 13:21 (seven years ago) link
busted!
― 龜, Friday, 8 July 2016 13:22 (seven years ago) link
But you know what people meant when that say they like this but they don't like fantasy, right? They mean they enjoy the real world stuff, but aren't interested in the fantasy stuff. I like fantasy, but at the end if the first book I would have loved for it to continue without dragons or white walkers. I think that's what people mean - what they enjoy is not the 'fantasy' tropes.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Friday, 8 July 2016 13:23 (seven years ago) link
Ha, and sometimes I feel like Patrick O'Brian's books could use the odd giant octopus
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 8 July 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
Dowd- I feel some of that. I love otherworldly fantasy but in the case of GOT it is mostly the historical style stuff I love. I could easily leave the dragons, but without white walkers or any fantasy at all, it probably wouldn't be as good.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 8 July 2016 14:14 (seven years ago) link
I'd say HBO's Rome and the two different shows about the Borgia's would be examples of ancient age soap operas that have been tried in the past decade or so.
― earlnash, Friday, 8 July 2016 14:26 (seven years ago) link
In my mind invented cultures, societies and histories are just as much fantasy as dragons and zombies. Not trying to diss anyone else's perspective, though.
sometimes I feel like Patrick O'Brian's books could use the odd giant octopus
You should probably read "The Terror" by Dan Simmons.
― chap, Friday, 8 July 2016 14:26 (seven years ago) link
^ That's about to be a TV series on AMC
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Friday, 8 July 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
Oh shit!
― chap, Friday, 8 July 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link
Read some off-putting things about Simmons but have had him recommended to me a lot. (Sorry, can take that to the SF thread on ILBooks.)
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 8 July 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
In my mind invented cultures, societies and histories are just as much fantasy as dragons and zombies.
Sure, I agree - but that's not what people are talking about when they discuss whether or not GoTs is 'fantasy' or not.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Friday, 8 July 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link