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

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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/

If they don't look like muppets, I have no interest.

http://www.gameofthronesofmuppets.com/thumb/Kermit_th.jpg

lamo would rock that on a shirt

kermit would be a crannogman!!

say what up to your crannogmans and dem

^^quality post

Just read the part where Ned dreams about his promise to Lyanna -- what did that entail? Was it just burying her at Winterfell, or was there something more to it?

keep readin and find out!

So you're saying that I didn't forget a detail?

no, pretty much everything regarding Lyanna is written very evasively in the books, you probably didn't miss anything

just finished watching season 1 after it taking over my life in the last week! absolutely brilliant series and the setup for S2... There's gonna be dragons, and zombieeez... Oh ma god Lydia!

okay, so holy shit, i just watched episode 10. dunno why i waited a week & a half, but it's the best of the series by far, by far. everyone comes into their own, esp danaerys and sansa, both delivering their strongest performances to date. first ep that's really moved me, too, esp cat w robb after news of eddard's death and jon snow with sam & co in the night. and that final shot! can't believe i have to wait a whole damn year to find out wot happens next...

You could always read the books

i really really wanted Sansa to grab Joffrey by the neck and throw themselves off that walkway...

Where are people getting the eps online? I never saw 10 and quickly tooled through the HBO website but it wanted me to join something for the content...gave up quickly.

http://www.scnsrc.me/

Like several others, have started on the books in the wake of the series. When Catelyn and Ser Jorik are in the tavern where they encounter and capture Tyrion, the minstrel is called … Marillion. Lols, rofls, lmao etc etc

Yeah, Marillion is the one who gets his tongue cut out... by Wilko Johnson of Dr Feelgood (who plays the mute executioner).

I finished the last episode of this this morning, great stuff. Along with everything else, I love the opening titles and music. You don't hear so many great theme tunes these days, but this is one.

u just blew my mind

Who would be a good Stannis? I Googled "cast as Stannis" to see if anybody had been cast as Stannis and the second result was "HBO Cast Alan Rickman as Stannis", but then I noticed there was a comma after "HBO" and it was just a Facebook group making unreasonable demands

He's like ~30 years too old for the role, right? I guess everyone in this is older than the book says they are but even so

Seems like he should be played by a "name" actor cos he's important but not too omnipresent on screen, but then I also quite like the idea of him being someone maddeningly familiar who you belatedly realise was an awkward parliamentary advisor in two episodes of The Thick of It

mark strong

tom hanks

Is there a dude who looks kind of like Colin Firth that isn't Colin Firth?

Oooh! Ciaran Hinds? Is that his name? Caesar from Rome?

I've heard Mark Strong and Christopher Eccleston's names being bandied about by a lot of people. On board with either.

Eccles would be a strong choice, yeah