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

also very happy to see carice van houten from paul verhoeven's blackbook

Stannis looks a bit like an older version of Statham, I approve.

I briefly got my book characters mixed up so for the first minute or so of the beach scene, I thought Davos was Stannis

a coworker just got his hands on the 2nd ep!
will be watching over lunch. :D

yeah, it's on the torrents. Gonna watch it tonight

I briefly got my book characters mixed up so for the first minute or so of the beach scene, I thought Davos was Stannis

Me too!

I was excited to see Carice van Houten was Melisandre. Must admit I crushed out majorly on her pagan witch-mayor in Black Death.

Someone I know could get access to all but the last 4 episodes but we all decided not to do it. Would rather have the weekly watchin' ritual.

send them my way

plz

*holds head up high*

thx 4 the infos re STANNIS dudes, glad to hear my memory of westeros is intact

Stannis doesn't look grumpy enough but I haven't really seen enough of him to properly judge.

they are so thronesy with casting now that i immediately assumed i'd seen stannis and davos before tbh

2nd ep out there as well?

― just sayin, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 17:55 (Yesterday) Bookmark

oh shit man i hate these judgement calls :[

well it's gonna be on in like five days anyway...

also very happy to see carice van houten from paul verhoeven's blackbook

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 9:54 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

otm!

ya, just watched it on my lunch! (will not spoilzor)

she is such a babe imho

backing u up on this

Wow well I appreciate her as an actress, you horndogs.

bwahaah

one thing about having read the source material for this show is that i'm not so impatient for the next episode and can really bask in all the blood and titties come alive

don't know if any of you have HBOGo on your iPads but the interactive feature thing for this show is pretty awesome.

will try it

Hey no one has yet mentioned
but

DOLOROUS

MF'ing

EDD

I didn't really understand what was going on with the poisoned wine. He was trying to poison her, right? Why exactly did it go so wrong?

― silverfish, Wednesday, April 4, 2012 5:34 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They changed this up from the book (he spikes the wine, offers it to her first, she drinks, then he drinks), but it seemed like in this scene he's going for a murder-suicide thing (maybe killing someone is dishonor enough to make him unfit to be a maester).

ha in the book he offers it to her but she knows he's trying to poison her so she says she'll drink but he'll have to drink with her too. she gives him the glass and kinda smiles at him knowing that he's gonna die.
that whole scene is quite entertaining. i also like how we glimpsed the table thats actually a map of westeros though they could have let us have a better look at it.

I had no idea how far east Vaes Dothrak was until I saw the HBO map.

westeros table is rad, as was the octopus fireplace, feel like theyve stepped up the set design this season from what was already v awesome

It's a KRAKEN. Sorry

octopus fireplace and dragon walls were both pretty awesome!

loved the burning statues

map table was easily best thing in episode for me

POWER is power scene was A+

On the real, I haven't read the books but as soon as Cersei called the guards on Littlefinger I turned to my BF and said "she is gonna be all like "POWER is power, bitch"."

This is not a testament to my predictive talents so much as that writing dialogue for slightly cheesy machinistic modern soapies is basically my number one fantasy job.

:)

yeah you could sort of telegraph it but she really went to town on it with the whole "close your eyes" slightly ludicrous stuff.

also power is hot

she didn't need to say that bit

i dont get why she told them to turn around and close their eyes

coulda told them to hop on one foot, same difference

anyone watched ep2? more like game of porn

i keep the wiki open on my phone while watching to know who the fuck everyone is or is talking about.

cool how ep2 threw in a lil incest foreplay just for kicks

i mean how many eps since last incest, fans demand incest

yeah you could sort of telegraph it but she really went to town on it with the whole "close your eyes" slightly ludicrous stuff.

― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Saturday, April 7, 2012 10:45 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wasn't complaining! It was an intuitively necessary statement. Sometimes a show having predictable dialogue is actually a good thing, it's like a sports player seeing an opening and taking it and scoring.

but if they were already turned around, why did their eyes need to be closed? shouldn't she have said "cover your ears"?

man she was just being theatrical

tbf all the incesty stuff is direct from the books

oh the books!

anyone watched ep2? more like game of porn

― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Saturday, April 7, 2012 3:23 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no kidding.

the "sexposition" is getting kinda ridic at this point. also some interesting changes/embellishments to the story. it's kinda exciting to see what they change and what they don't!