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

oberyn, olenna, eddard and possibly stannis are good parents. balon, robert, cersei and especially tywin are terrible.

the best father in westeros is obviously roose bolton

we haven't, and presumably won't, meet brienne's father, but he seems like a dad who learned, as he was forced by his daughter's nature to learn who she was and not who he wanted her to become, to be an excellent parent.

sam tarly's dad arguably the worst of them all though, based the story he tells about how he arrived at the night's watch.

surely the worst parent of all is craster

I get all these North of the Wall nutters mixed up, probably shortsighted of GRRM to give them all really similar names - Rast/Craster/Manse - they're all just interchangeable bearded blokes wearing fur and raping people.

Walder Frey is the true family man of the bunch

Craster ftw

yeah Craster is a bad dad

Theon's dad's a real nurturing dude too, and of course there's Tywin...

So is Nedd maybe the only decent dad in the story, then?

Catelyn seemed to like her dad

love that we're reduced to characters who never appear in the show for good dads

the dad who got an arrow through the head courtesy of ygritte seemed like a pretty good dad in his 30 seconds of screen time

Worst dad is the direwolf who couldn't prevent his baby momma from dying AND left all seven of his newborn children to die in the snow

the dad who took in the hound and arya and then was robbed by the hound seemed like a good dad, wanted the best for his daughter even as winter comes etc

maybe westeros is full of lovely families who happily go about their lives until the characters grrm's decided to focus on appear and immediately fuck everything up.

Hound and Mountain's parents could've supervised their kids a bit better

I honestly couldn't remember if he appeared in the show or not. Think I invented a deathbed scene

I actually don't think Tywin was THAT bad of a dad. I mean overall sure. But he had a lot of good traits that you want in a parent..or maybe more a boss. Tywin would make a great CEO.

maybe westeros is full of lovely families who happily go about their lives until the characters grrm's decided to focus on appear and immediately fuck everything up.

― Merdeyeux, 20. juni 2014 17:15 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, that's feudalism for you...

I think that not being killed by your children would be fairly high on the list of key performance indicators for being a good parent.

yeah, a great CEO. would watch a spinoff consisting of nothing more than Tywin going to council meetings and ruling the kingdom. Charles Dance has no equal on this show (Pedro Pascal and Diana Rigg come close).

but a terrible dad with a hate/competition thing going on with his only worthy heir

https://soundcloud.com/steveduzz/game-of-thrones-main-theme-80s-version

sick jam

if they're not gonna be bold enough to use this as the theme next season they could at least re-record the current one with real instruments, it could be so much better.

Balkan turbo-folk version more like.

http://i.imgur.com/hH0pL9j.png

the two on the right are rory mccann and iain glen iirc

lol I can see the casting agents thinking "Oh yeah, this kid is totally 'Reek'"

http://cdn.winteriscoming.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pedro5.gif

http://cdn.winteriscoming.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pedro6.gif

Ws (would squeeze)

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/06/24/the-sexual-politics-of-full-frontal-on-hbo/

the article claims theon's the only male to do full frontal, but i could've sworn we saw hodor's hodor swinging around at one point.

There was definitely Hodor dong in there

It was a prosthetic Hodor, and we saw the wine merchant who tried to poison Dany, but Theon's is the only one that was in a pointedly sexual context.

didn't we see this one dude who was sleeping w/ser loras at the behest of littlefinger?

http://io9.com/great-game-of-thrones-soccer-uniforms-prove-we-need-a-w-1596960050

these are p great tho the tully kit looks like a blue corset and i can't stop seeing cleav

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oVfIFrpslI&list=UU5f1_cpOtRv0CxTLJhRmFJA

a video accompanying the 80s version theme song

the Sean Bean double take is excellent

"Alphie" Allen - really?

During the chaos, many old grudges were settled, sometimes under the guise of overdue justice. A man called Iron Herman took the opportunity to charge Guy of Steenvoorde with participating in the Flemish count’s murder. Guy turned immediately to a trial by combat, and in this case, both men did their own fighting.

This actual fight has more than a few echoes in the Martell-Clegane duel.

From the beginning, Guy had the better of the fight, unhorsing Herman and toying with him for awhile. Eventually Guy lost his mount as well, and the two men got down to a slugging match with their swords. The sheer exhaustion involved in such an effort quickly wore out both men, who both willingly threw away their heavy shields to devote their remaining strength to the fight itself. Eventually, Iron Herman was on the ground prostrate and seemingly finished. As Guy prepared to deliver the coup de grâce, Herman saw and took a brutal path to victory. From his place on the ground, he reached up and grabbed Guy’s testicles, held on to them tight, and then shoved Guy aside without loosening his grip. With all his "lower parts broken apart," Guy admitted defeat, an admission that saw him hanged a few hours later for his (now proven) treachery.

http://www.longwood.edu/gotduel.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O59SiA4Yg0A

Would be better if the Queen came out and got her corgis to savage some slavers.

Yeah I agree it needed a little something- that's definitely what it needed.

that or stripping down and making passionate love to Philip on the balcony whilst reading out a preview of her Christmas speech.

direcorgis

Windsor is coming.

Have the books or the show ever explained what exactly is meant by Winter is Coming?

Never

it's pretty literal

it's gonna snow in the near-to-distant future.

An Albino is gonna play a totally rockin song called Godzilla