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

well i've read all the books so it wasn't that hard to intuit

but yeah i see yr point

Now that I'm 700 pages into the 3rd book I kinda wish they'd compressed the 2nd book into a chapter of the 3rd and skipped it. 3rd book is indeed crazy.

dude that's still pretty spoilery?

― g++ (gbx), Thursday, August 4, 2011 10:11 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ppl die in this series. Spoiler. But srsly if u have no idea who I care about how can that possibly be a spoiler?

― Mordy, Thursday, August 4, 2011 10:21 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Thanks, now I'm on the lookout for many many deaths in the middle of book 3.

yeah don't be hinting at spoilers, its almost as bad as the spoilers themselves to anyone who's smart enough to actually ~make inferences~

i don't wanna start a big tumult about this, but i didn't spoil anything and if you think any of these books don't contain numerous deaths you totally haven't gotten this series (and you probably didn't watch the first season of the show yet)

nods, winks, etc to specific deaths should be avoided. it would also be preferable for people reading the books to not know when or whenabouts in a book there is a HUGE SHOCK because then they'll be looking for it and expecting something etc.

Still, saying that people fucking die at some point in these books is not a spoiler at all.

GREAT THX FOR THE SPOILERS ILX H8 U

ice cr?m dies at the end of book three

its sad he was delicious

#rip

making cutesy hints about characters dying is obnoxious and you shouldnt do it

http://www.thefriendsociety.com/forum/images/smilies/armscrossed.gif

unbookmarking this thread, I just can't take the chance.

this is cute

http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6579356/game-of-thrones-rpg

It's sad he was Sean Bean.

Don't think anyone has been particularly spoilery so far TBH, I've heard the later books are dramatic and I expect that to involve people dying.

Knowing GRRM's rep for killing characters is one thing, but when you start indicating whereabouts these deaths happen, that's the beginning of some poor form. I definitely land on the paranoid end of spoilers (if that wasn't immensely clear already), because in the case of ASOIAF, I wanted those deaths to be as sudden and horrifying as Ned's was, but if at certain points in a book I'm starting to wonder if it's this character or that character, I'm not sure the actual death's going to have that effect on me.

That's why I'd hope that people err on the side of caution, because once the cat's out of the bag, that horse has left the barn.

I mean, it's definitely an asymmetrical dynamic and a possible burden for fans who aren't Spoiler Nazis Socialists, but getting specific again, this thread is for the TV show, *not* what's happened in Storm of Swords (or at least till/if the show catches up with SOS).

is the cat riding the horse? or did it scare it or?

the cat beat the horse at dice but then the horse took off across the river to catch a ship before it left

Just finished zooming through bks 1-4, but have no appetite for 5 after the ball-ache of 4. That's some sub-Silmarillion world-building-not-story-telling tedium, right there.

keep reading; book 5 basically provides the asparagus tips to the plotlines of #4.

Roy Dotrice (who apparently does the audio versions) has been cast as Pryomancer Hallyne, while Hannah Murray will play Gilly.

http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/blogs/files/2009/12/gilly.jpg

lol

Roy Dotrice (who apparently does the audio versions)

Dotrice's readings of these books are str8 fire, btw.

http://i.imgur.com/LRdjQ.jpg

str8 fire

Does this mean good?

y

He's not for all tastes, of course-- he totally goes for it theatrically with different voices for different characters. I love it. You haven't lived till you've heard the grizzled Dotrice act out Jon Snow's SPOILER REMOVED with the SPOILER REMOVED girl

^^^
Now that's a fuckin spoiler.

in every sense of the word

Ha, i knew that wasn't going to go down well

Unless you're talking about channel 4 news anchor Jon Snow.

So long, thread!

Oh god I'm so sorry.

What was I thinking. Humor overtook common sense.

*bans self from thread*

Tywin Lannister = Vlad Putin
Cat Stark = Sarah Palin as she imagines herself
Ned Stark + head = Jimmy Carter
Littlefinger = Rahm Emmanuel

(Now I leave the thread for good.)

Michael McElhatton cast as Roose Bolton. Perfect imo
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTk2MTIzMTcyMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjc3NjQ5NA@@._V1._SY314_CR183,0,214,314_.jpg

Robert Baratheon = Silvio Berlusconi
Lysa Arryn = Michele Bachmann
Jon Snow = Levi Johnston
Tyrion Lannister = Bam </Morbius>

that Roose casting is p spot on

He's a p great actor too. Lotta Irish TV, primarily comedy oddly enough but he's got the dramatic chops as well.

http://io9.com/5829720/new-study-shows-that-knowing-spoilers-doesnt-ruin-a-story

The people in that study are weirdos

im sry its science fact, spoil away all ye

ohboy this morning i just bought the 4-book kindle package (to read on computer/iphone because i do not have an actual kindle (yet?))
so far today i have gotten no work done

i'm inclined to say just read the first three and stop, then wait for the last 4 to be finished to read together.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqajzwUQuc1qbypg1o1_250.jpg

ohboy this morning i just bought the 4-book kindle package

We bought the books, but then my (visually handicapped) husband realized he wasn't able to read the small letters. So I urged him to buy the Kindle package (for the ipad). He's so happy. :-)