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

I actually like the guy playing Jorah, he's dashing and suave. (Definitely beats casting him as a lol bear, imho.)

hah, i like iain glen, but he's definitely a weird choice for the character. too aristocratic, too handsome. it's gonna be interesting seeing how he tackles some of the later material...

To me he comes across as a guy trying way to hard to be dashing and suave. Just don't like him.

ive seen him in some other stuff and i think hes just like that all the time tbh

You know, the one downside of having watched the show and then having read the books is that for Dany's Westerosi companions, I hear TV Jorah's voice for all of them, so for me at least Iain Glen is tapping some archetypal Trusted Advisor mojo.

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

i don't understand this point of view at all. she's a child, she's a bit silly, she's scared. what the fuck did she do to merit what joffrey does to her? joffrey is a fucking monster. no reasoning needed.
she went to court to plead her dad's case. she didn't get stupid ned stark killed, that was all joffrey's impulsiveness.

considering the characters on offer, she is way, way down the list as far as being hateful goes.

and tv Jon is hot but I prefer Jaime.

The way Sansa treats Arya in the first book borders on horrible, right up to the point when all of the actually horrible people step up and say "no see, this is how it's actually done". It's more a recalibration of scale and expectations than Sansa really "deserving" any of the things that happen to her.

Sansa is horrible to Arya the way sisters are horrible to each other. She starts off as less sympathetic than her sister, sure. But Arya turns into kind of a weird psycho and she doesn't (nb, I really like Arya).

no spoilers!!!

I mean I know that's vague and all but let's just be careful.

Yeah, sorry.

I've only seen the first season, and I've never read the books, but my take on Sansa was that she was totally into the 'being a princess' idea and all her shittiness came from there. I felt much more sympathy after Ned died.

But Sansa is really great because it provided one of my favourite moments, which was her saying she didn't want Joffrey to be noble and great and worthy and the subsequent look and smile Ned and Arya gave each other.

i think people find sansa dislikeable because she is written as oblivious and stupid to a remarkable degree

really all the kids are written as already being little adults or have arcs where they mature in completely random, arbitrary ways. actually there's one big exception to that, and he's the one who doesn't get to be pov, which makes an unfortunate kind of sense.

she is her father's daughter - naive and way too trusting.

i don't think ned is trusting so much as he goes 'ah, x is untrustworthy' and is incapable of the necessary mental work to be able to work out what that means he have to do and how x is going to attempt to stab him in the back down the line -- this makes him one of the more interesting characters i think

hmmm maybe; he's not exactly like "oh i will trust this blatantly untrustworthy person" so much that he realises this, has no way of coping with ~intrigues and ~plotting, and has to rely on the only people who have talked to him about his worries/fears ie littlefinger etc.

his conversation with cersei where he reveals he knows her kids are Jaime's is this blinding example of it; not trust, but what did he think was going to happen?!

but what did he think was going to happen

That they would leave Westeros!!

http://www.makinggameofthrones.com/production-diary/2011/2/11/official-pronunciation-guide-for-game-of-thrones.html

lol:

Hodor - HO-dor

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150540111247734.376925.74133697733&type=1&_fb_noscript=1

sad to see they ignored the all-consuming issue of the correct pronunciation of 'maester'

Maester Luwin - MAY-ster LOO-win
Maester Pycelle - MAY-ster PY-sell

Heh I was just watching part of a bad Syfy movie (Triassic Attack) and spotted the actress that plays Daenerys.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz8kbzFucJ1r4nutwo1_500.png

I get extreme bowel cramps everytime I think about Dany eating raw organs

also wtf

was reminded recently that Tom McCarthy directed the original, mostly scrapped pilot for this.

Jennifer Ehle played Catelyn and Tamzin Marchant played Daenarys.

tyrion was played by verne troyer

spoilers all over the comments of those facebook photos. sigh.

I get extreme bowel cramps everytime I think about Dany eating raw organs

That heart was made of 3 lbs of gummi bears, fyi.

shut...up

:D

Has anyone played this?

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Game-of-Thrones-Board-Game.jpg

I have. in my dreams.

shut...up

:D

I am serious! http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/game-thrones-dvd-bonus-features-video-emilia-clarke-285357

This one sincerely lolzy:

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzkk5fWX8Z1r4nutwo1_500.jpg

I don't understand it.

Ser Pounce == a kitteh. I forget which book he shows up in, but it's not the first, oops spoilers.

I've read up to the third and I don't recall Ser Pounce. It wouldn't be surprising if he's been in it and I've forgotten, I have trouble keeping track of all the human minor characters.

"ship"?

idgi

lol u guys are old or else I'm an internet shut-in.

a little from column A...

I am old, so you're at least half right.

lol xp

lol

waitaminute

<3

Get it now, I'd never heard of shipping used that way before.

I do a lot of mail order fan fiction. Free shipping!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuXSwgK2VA

okay now i am officially excited about this.
i was trying to hold back, but damn, yaay!