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

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

also learning to ignore the 'songs' in the book, something we learned from tolkien...

so fucken sick of the bear & the maiden fair

heheh i was listening to a lot of the wicker man soundtrack when i was reading the books a few months ago

the theme song to the hbo show is pretty sick too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_VSbNEEko8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsjMcEqjZ-c

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

i want to make a mix tape with this theme tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gonKhSIBP54

For many years I have loved this track and always imagined myself walking down the aisle to the man of my dreams, I have waited 37 years and the time has now arrived! =)

TheBikerbabe73 1 year ago 45

the mission soundtrack is a better soundtrack for playing settlers of catan than it is for reading asoiaf but it still rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1aLjltkgV8

xpost that is a beautiful comment!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q19C220Vvo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itwL5y0He-k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovVPmm7_Ezg

"Adiemus" ... This song makes me think
of our own world and the whole universe..
of good and evil..
of peace and war..
of nature and destruction..
of life and death..
of all those dichotomies that we can find everywhere,
even inside ourselves.

I hope you like this video that I edited =)

And please, stop the destruction of this wonderful world..

haha i dont know why i am dragging this in a new age direction

“No doubt some cook’s boy or groom is prancing around King’s Landing just now in my slashed velvet doublet and jeweled cloak,” Lord Alester went on, oblivious. “But war has its horrors, as all men know. No doubt you suffered your own losses.”

^^ quiddities and agonies of the ruling class iirc

I absolutely loved this. Especially visually.

Almost finished with book 2. Oh GRRM is teasing me ever so much with his pacing, a pox on him.

Gonna start reading the first one after I finish my current book. I´m in South America though, and don´t much rate my chances of finding the others till I return home!

They have cast Asha Greyjoy, but changed her name to Yara Greyjoy

Seems pretty perfect for the role looks wise.

So my friend read somewhere that The Dink went to the same very small HS as his nephew who just won some national debate title or something and so he shot Dinklage an email stating as much and saying maybe he could congratulate the kid or something. He felt sorta dumb but figured what the hell. As it turns out Dinklage totally wrote the kid a really nice note. I thought that was pretty sweet of him. I mean I guess it could have been someone who reads his mail but you never know.

x-post

people r too stupid to distinguish osha and asha?

yara is an anagram for arya

They changed Robert Arryn's name to Robin in the first season as well. There are a lot names to keep track of in fairness

lol so here's "Pete's" letter which is actually sweet but v show business insofar as him mentioning/referencing GoT twice in a short note. Still nice tho.

http://i53.tinypic.com/25ko7ip.jpg

That's stupid, changing a name because of "Osha"! Have they even CALLED Osha by her name yet, despite her being in several very distinct scenes??