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

just go read the books you lames

― Number None, Tuesday, July 19, 2011 3:51 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

totally the people not reading these books are the lame people

anyone who needs proof of van Houten's awesomeness, rent Verhoeven's Black Book.

even if u dont need proof, rent it anyway because its fwiggin gweat!!!!!

*went

*pwoof

Is Stannis like really rilly interested in talking about swivel chairs?

They're making my WRISTS HURT right now, because I'm re-reading this damn series on the subway.

totally the people not reading these books are the lame people

Well, yeah

What happened to Alan Rickman? I thought he was all super-rumored to be cast as Stannis. Or maybe that was another character?

alan rickman was never in the conversation - you're probably just thinking of some fan speculation. he's got other shit to do, and besides that he's like 20 years older than mark addy (stannis' older brother on the show)

i don't really understand what it is with alan rickman and americans of a certain persuasion

he's so dark + moody!

ha i was gonna say alan rick is too goth for game of thrones

maybe he could play a braavosi banker or something

has he ever been in anything actually good

yes.

die hard

you feeb!

yes, but has he ever been in anything .. actually good

Quigley Down Under

Galaxy Quest

die hard is legit a really good movie. have you seen it man

he was the only good thing about the last HP movie. he has one line-reading in it that's so juicy you basically have to laugh

He was also in Smiley's People.

i've seen die hard but i was fourteen and it's all bound up with the sequels and the psone game for me, so maybe it is better than i am giving it credit for

i am entirely willing to believe that he is A Good Thing in the middle of harry potter eight or galaxy quest or whatever! that wasn't my question tho really

he was in rasputin: dark servant of destiny

galaxy quest 2nded

lolol rasputin:

http://content7.flixster.com/photo/85/71/66/8571665_gal.jpg

yeah i admit outside of die hard i dont have much to say about his filmography. i havent seen ang lee's sense & sensibility, he's in that and it has a veneer of respectability

He would be a terrible Stannis tho. Quite apart from his age

he's more of a lannister senior type

i mean, he'd be okay as pretty much anyone in the books in the right age bracket except stannis tbh

yall pretending u dont luv harry potter is p cute

walked past some americans in oxford the other day, in gryffindor scarves, complaining about how they didn't show some character repairing his wand, because it was An Important Moment. we need some kind of south africa style cultural embargo imo

Alan Rickman was also one of the few things that doesn't make me want to shoot myself when my wife wants to watch Love Actually for the 2.4 billionth time.

Also, I loved him as Metatron in Dogma.

bill nighy vs. allan rickman

Fair enough, as Bill Nighy helps save Love Actually a little too.

Tea-leaf reading on a practical level:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/07/29/138807511/hbo-grapples-with-the-future-of-game-of-thrones

Asked why many HBO shows get 13 episodes a season and GOT has been getting 10, Lombardo said it simply wasn't possible to physically execute more than 10 episodes a year of the quality they want to produce. He and Plepler also tried to clarify that it wasn't a strict requirement from the network that the producers cover an entire book in each 10-episode season. Would that answer the question?

Of course not. Later in the session, we once again returned to the possibility that the entire story of GOT will somehow not wind up being told. "This is a story that sort of has to finish at some point," said the next questioner. "And it can't finish in the middle." (Of course, TV stories finish in the middle all the time, but the assumption buried in the question was clear: You do not want to deal with what will happen if you stop telling this story to this particular audience before the end of whatever winds up being written by Martin.)

What the critic wanted, though — a guarantee that HBO would finish exhaustively covering the story as it's told in the books, was not forthcoming. Already running short on time, largely as a result of answering this very question in a number of different incarnations, Lombardo said, "I don't know where the show for us ends as opposed to the books. It maybe would be fantastic to be able to say, this show will go on for ten years and do every aspect of the books. I don't know that that will be the case."

And so on, etc.

they could totally collapse the next three books into two seasons imo

I heard after the next book they're breaking with the structure

Well they're going to have to mix it up if they make it to books 4 and 5

Ok I'm going to consult the this thread--having come into the series cold and loved it, I followed it up by reading the book and loving it as well. Now I'm torn between waiting until next spring and being delighted by the surprise of each episode or reading ahead and not having to wait 4-5 years to see where this story goes. What say you all?

general consensus has been to just go ahead and read them

i mean, that's what max and i did

and we the best, so

still in the exact same boat as you, Sparkle, and it's been months of deliberation. I'm not really convinced of his skills as an actual writer, which is what gives me pause. That and seeing ep. 9 and not knowing that was coming at all was so amazing I'd hate to lose that for the next seasons.

What say you all?

I'm reading book 2. Will not read book 3 before the show catches up to me.

read the fukken books.
the surprises and twists are just as jaw-dropping in the written form. and he's not a "great writer", but his characterization & (to a lesser extent) his plotting are leagues beyond most sf writers..

yeah the books are worth reading

and ian is right about the twists being better written than filmed

also i find it helps my reading if i listen to shit like this --->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ophrjwLl4kk