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

^^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

Gasp! Eccles! YES

That would make me vvvvvvvv happy

Badg, it worked, but now that I've selected the two games, I wonder if I can download them later...

Err, wrong thread.

traitor

:)

Anyway, you teasing cravens make me wish I read faster.

Trying to think of a Who/GoT joke, it's not working. :\`

"Every Westeros has a north".

man kind sux to know there are books of this i will never read while i wait around for more eps

they shoulda just made it all at once, sent to me in a torrent

show's more addictive than crack. To think only a week ago I was only peripherally aware of it and today there's a Game Of Thrones hole in my world that True Blood won't fill.

Would love Rufus Sewell as Stannis.

hmmmm, rufus sewell best suggestion so far imo. doesn't look too old, can pull off a bit of po-faced gravitas.

man kind sux to know there are books of this i will never read while i wait around for more eps

― ice cr?m, Friday, July 1, 2011 12:16 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

they shoulda just made it all at once, sent to me in a torrent

― ice cr?m, Friday, July 1, 2011 12:16 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

haha the only reason i read the books is because when they were promoting the show i was like 'hmm im probably gonna watch this, i guess i'll read it just so nobody can spoiler me on it'

yeah i basically read them cause i saw the first six episodes early and didnt want to have to wait six weeks to find out what happened next

me too. but damn, they sucked me in hardcore.

why because there intersting

I bet you smell like blackberry jam.

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btw, kinda lol that "butt" is part of the vernacular in the books ("Nearly a man grown, he yet slipped and fell on his butt").

He compensates by describing things as a "mummer's farce" on the regular; guy must be a total downer at ren fairs

"he walked like he had a dagger up his butt" was the point where I considered just skipping to book 2 to find out about deaths

A song of ice and fire more like a description of beards and armour

ha yeah one definitely doesn't read these books for the prose

Massive Westeros Map

I'll come back to this map once I've made it deeper into the books. 2/3 into GoT is the most fun I've had w/ a book in ages. Then again, I haven't read anything like this in a long time.

my god that map do they really mention all those places in the book wtf

way more

too much! #OJVU

a massive family tree wd be more helpful

Brienne of Tarth
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1EDafL1qUqg/TKvChJVWP7I/AAAAAAAAQe8/Ja6H_TRdns8/s1600/Picture+80.png

should work. she's tall