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

I'm also never going to be able to think of Arya as Malcolm in the Middle again after this

lol

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so what happens with those barbarians that wanted to take over the Vale?! did they just get told to go to hell after the battle?!
a trivial point i guess, but i'm curious.

i feel bad for the joffrey kid, he has to through the rest of his life with that smug face

so what happens with those barbarians that wanted to take over the Vale?! did they just get told to go to hell after the battle?!
a trivial point i guess, but i'm curious.

― magic punani (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, June 21, 2011 4:54 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

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so what happens with those barbarians that wanted to take over the Vale?! did they just get told to go to hell after the battle?!
a trivial point i guess, but i'm curious.

I don't remember what happened to them in the books so assume they're still floating around in the background as part of Tywin's army

SPOILER FOR THE HILL TRIBE CURIOUS (BUT NOT SUPER SPOILERY):

Tyrion takes them with him when he leaves Tywin's army. Not saying where they all go.

END SPOILER.

Natalie Dormer from the Tudors has been cast as Margaery Tyrell.

Any word on Stannis yet?

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I've taken the plunge into the book--nearly 100 pages in and it's still the first episode.

this show's use of nudity is so cheeky

probably my biggest complaint with it. not that it ruins the show or anything, and sometimes it is purposeful. the general grievance seems to be down to "hey, we're HBO!" but I think it has more to do with "hey fantasy geeks, you like tits right?", which is much worse.

i wouldn't call myself a fantasy geek (although i did watch the entire first season of GAME OF THRONES so perhaps this particular elven longship has sailed) but i mean i like tits

nevertheless i almost wished the show had held off on them entirely until the last shot of the season just to up the impact of the whole STRIPPED TO NOTHING AND YET MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER thing but yeah this is an hbo adaptation of a series that was pretty titty to begin with so it's inevitable.

that would have been more "impactful" if she had also been bald the way shes supposed to be. and if she was nursing the dragons too.

cause then shes naked and weeeeird instead of naked

i wondered if they'd keep the nursing the dragons, i think that was the first time reading them i went 'errrrrrrr'

three weeks until book six! CANT WAIT

They probably though one weird breast feeding scene was enough for the season

what good is hbo if you can't do multiple weird breast feeding scenes

dragons are reptiles (they don't nurse from teats) so i think making it more herpetologically correct was a smart move on the part of hbo.

i was sort of wondering what they would start off eating.

like, i doubt Gerber makes baby dragon food.

maybe she was menstruating?

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...and the thread goes next level

that would have been more "impactful" if she had also been bald the way shes supposed to be. and if she was nursing the dragons too.

― ☂ (max), Friday, June 24, 2011 6:54 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

one of the dragons was deffo suckin on some titty m8

give that dragon a pat on the back.

dragons are reptiles (they don't nurse from teats) so i think making it more herpetologically correct was a smart move on the part of hbo.

Are they, though? If we're to think that dragons are flying, fire-breathing dinosaurs, then it's not so clear.

well they're not flying, fire-breathing potatoes

mmmm firey potatoes

Not exactly "GoT (the book)" spoilers, but what the hey:

*** NOT EXACTLY SPOILER BUT SOME BOOK DETAIL STARTS BELOW

There's a point during the Hand's tournament where the Hound escorts Sansa back to the Red Keep and totally freaks her out (he's the one who tells her about the Mountain melting his face off), but by the second day, she seems to have grown attached to him -- am I reading that right? Am I to presume that their little heart-to-heart the night before is the beginning of a beautiful BFFship?

END WHATEVER THAT NON-SPOILER IS ***

Oh and btw, is there some kind of literary punning with Gregor Clegane and Sansa, i.e. Gregor Samsa?

mmmm firey potatoes

Like, is there a compendium of high literary references in ASoFaI (e.g. Riverrun, Gregor/Sansa)?

The Hound is Sandor, not Gregor

D'oh! Can't keep those darned Cleganes straight.

Hound = bad, Mountain = good-ish sort of.

I love the actor that plays Gregor. He was the "Yarp" fellow in Hot Fuzz :D

how is the Mountain better than the Hound?!

Hound = bad, Mountain = good-ish sort of.

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, June 26, 2011 4:13 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

whoa whoa whoa i think u got these two mixed up

lol glad to see I'm not the only one!

Mountain = killing his horse, destroying random village, melted his brothers face off etc etc

good-ISH

Fuck, dammit, now I'm confused. Hound is the one that's niceish to Sansa, Mountain is the burn-your-face one. Dammit. Sorry.

Hound is the one that stopped Sansa from shoving Joffrey to his death.
so... merely quasi-bad?

Yeah. Without being spoilery, what I've read so far he's more...conflicted. but I'm still only on the tail end of Book 2.

me too! (10% left acc to Kindle)

Hi-five!

stayed up all nite watching this shit last nite, p dope tbqh

So there's a comics version coming, and does this cover painting remind anyone of a certain... magical... T-Shirt?

http://www.comicsbeat.com/2011/06/29/games-of-thrones-the-comic-gets-alex-ross-covers/