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

Oooh that reminds me of questions I have.

i realized our household has HBO on demand about a week ago, and watched all of Season 1 since then. i've never read the books (and don't really plan to) so i can't speak to how closely the series adheres to the text, but this show is awesome, obv. watching it is so enjoyable that the relatively minor flaws really stand out. i didn't really feel like going back and reading through 2000 posts, so i'm sure a lot of this has already been discussed:

- boobs! vagina! buttz! penis! thwapping! every episode! i feel like rick santorum or something, but the nudity is a little gratuitous. do the books place such a strong emphasis on sex? i understand there are plot elements that demand sex, but there were several scenes where it was just totally unnecessary and distracting. like the one where the advisor at King's Landing who is extremely cunning and witty and is not a eunuch is delivering a long monologue on the nature of power or something, and meanwhile in the background there are two women working on having sex with a man, trading positions, getting off, moaning, and occasionally he interrupts his monologue to throw them a sex tip or two. what

- Daenerys is really hot, and she really can't act at all. oh well. boobs!

- other actors who can't act but are somewhat exempted from ridicule because they're children: Arya (stop making that goddamn face where your mouth is half open in disbelief and pain! FUCKING STOP IT!) and Sansa (the one who has a boner for Joffrey during the first half of the season.

- a child that can act: Joffrey. he was convincing as a total asshole long before his character took the throne.

- Tyrion is awesome. he stands outs in every single scene he's in.

many friends have posted the vid of Tyrion slapping Joffrey as their favorite TV moment of 2011

there's a fair amount of of sex in the books. the ridiculous scene with Littlefinger that you mentioned is completely fabricated for the show though, presumably to meet HBO's boob quota

I've just finished book two. It's probably the most violent thing I've ever read, of course I am completely hooked.

i've just started book 2. i'm not annoyed by the stylistic tics he mentions (yet?). i actually love daenerys and am disappointed to hear she wasn't well cast in the series. :(

i mean tbf page 120 in an asoiaf book is like page 25 in most books

― max, Friday, 14 October 2011 20:44 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol i read GoT on Kindle and on several occasions i had read like 20 (Kindle) pages and barely budged 1%.

been looking at pics of new season 2 cast members...holy shit they are good at casting this thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOzXsqoJhtE&

YES!!!

my pal rory is in the trailer.

Dude who plays the Hound???

yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tZ0LWGdTq0

^LOL

(his big breakthrough)

His face looks much better.

(Also wau @ ur famous friends.)

amazing news all around!

feel like hbo should just produce and send to me all 70 or however many episodes theyre gonna make right now

k so googled rory mccann and his imdb page says he's 6'6" - had to google the guy playing gregor, and he's 7'1"! I just assumed the Lord of Flowers was slight...
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o51/alexandraleaving/tv/game%20of%20thrones/got5_29.jpg

yeah in the books he's meant to be like eight foot tall

i kind of don't remember but was renly & loras' relationship so, uh, graphic in the books?

r mccann i think is lucky, besides the imp i think he's probably the most interesting/dynamic of the adult characters

Well, Andre the Giant is dead, so. xxp

The Renly - Loras relationship is only very vaguely hinted at in the books. They don't even feature in them very much

yeah i knew gregor was a giant, but for some reason he didn't look that tall onscreen? idk.

ia, sandor clegane's a great character. i really like him in the series too.

He is one of my favorite characters in the books (and also so far in the series as well).

Spoilers:

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lys7tmO5Y91qkt4rto1_500.png

I love Maisie Williams so much.

I guess I need to add that it's an admiring, very very platonic sort of love.

good save.

New trailer!

Not enough Brienne, though.

That looks great.

I really like Varys in the tv series.

eeeeee can't wait!

Feel like I'm gonna hate Joffrey even more this season

haha yes you will

The actor who plays him has ruined Batman Begins for me, because I end up thinking Batman is an asshole for saving a child who is clearly pure evil.

Hating Joffrey is like an absolute condition already...like pregnancy, or death.

A bunch of still from the new season

I think Ramsay Bolton is the only character more hateable than Joffrey, but he's not in it yet.

i have no doubt Michael McElhatton is going to kill at as Roose Bolton

The red woman and Stannis look great.
One of my friends alerted me to a tvtropes page of wild guesses for the series, worth a look for lols. Plenty of spoilers obviously.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/ASongOfIceAndFire

Reading Storm of Swords, Dany's arc is so fuckin bad-ass in this one so far.

I've been powering through the books over the last several months and am just about to wrap up Dance with Dragons, but I haven't seen the tv show yet. I asked for the blu-ray set for a birthday present, but my wife thinks I'm crazy for wanting to own it.

What do you think? Is it worth it? Does it have re-watchability?

I've watched the series 3 times through all the way through. The second time through clarified a lot of things (I totally missed that those were dragon skulls) and the third time was fun. Good rewatchability imo.

through through through

http://images.hitfix.com/photos/1084816/Liam-Cunningham_gallery_primary.jpg

"we have one activity planned: not getting killed."

okay seriously

http://www.celebritytattoodesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/nick-offerman-tattoo-pic.jpg

Dany's arc is so fuckin bad-ass in this one so far

i think as far as the books v the tv show goes, i've discovered that having to see sansa's face while she goes through all this shit makes me not think she deserves it all quite so much

You think she deserves it?

Sansa's really sympathetic on the page once you get past Ned's death.