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

That film 'Crash' was so racist...

Summer Islanders are generally portrayed as rather civilised in the books.

rich guy in qarth (xaro xhoan daxos) hardly strikes me as a caricatured "savage"

right, but he does go to great pains in the show to describe overcoming his beginnings to get rich. anyway, i was just disappointed because that was not how i read the Summer Isles inhabitants in the book at all.

idk, I just interpreted that as being smarmy in order to get access to dragon

^ otm. the show has not insignificant racial problems; that doesn't rate (to me) as one of them.

Woha Lady in Red delivering that weirdo thing. It didn't seem like fun. Otherwise, I LOVE this show so much. I am not much into "fantasy" but this is so mad awesome. Probably cause it feels medieval to me

I just watched the latest episode while stoned and it seemed like the Muppet show

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right, but he does go to great pains in the show to describe overcoming his beginnings to get rich.

he mentioned that he wasn't born to wealth & power. didn't strike me as great pains, or an indication that he arose from savagery, but today hasn't been my day for figuring shit out so [< heads up, aero]

durnit why don't you l33k already.

oh Ian

was on tonight, but i missed the beginning, so i gotta watch it again before commenting. not a great episode, but not a bad one. mostly just moved the pieces around some.

moyyyyyyyyyyy baaaaabbeeeeee

(dragons)

Osha was pretty badass this ep.

loved the riot scene!

yeah, that was unexpected and very tense. loved tyrion putting joffrey in his place afterwards.

THEY THREW A COW PIE AT YOU SO YOU KILLED THEM

waiting for the inevitable character building session with the dog

the current lord of winterfell is sorta fucked

why does the dog serve joffrey? he seems a relatively good dude and joffrey is obv a little shit.

daenarys' bad acting was really on display in this ep.

i don't think its ever said why but i may not remember correctly. something like cleganes are vassals of the lannisters and the hound is one extremely loyal dude?

daenarys' bad acting was really on display in this ep.

yeah, her exchange with whatshisname on the steps was just awful

Dingos ate my dragon

i don't think its ever said why but i may not remember correctly. something like cleganes are vassals of the lannisters and the hound is one extremely loyal dude?

― Jibe

Pretty much, but more that he's a nihilistic dude than loyal.

Where was Jorah Mormont in this episode?

the lack of characterization for the hound has been a disappointment so far. he gets some pretty good scenes in the books. thank god we have plenty of scenes of the timeless created-for-the-show character of Roz The Prostitute instead

her exchange with whatshisname on the steps was just awful

I've only read the first book, but are we supposed to be totally impressed with the ridiculous things she says? clearly many other characters in the world see her as a young girl with delusions of grandeur. maybe she's a bad actress, but it seems like a limitation of the role and the dialogue too. the character seems to be taking a "fake it until you make it" approach to power.

the delivery of that dialogue is the problem
she's a definite weak spot in the casting

Yeah she's not handling this stuff particularly well. It's also because her character is somewhat delusional and everyone else has her pretty sussed out.

right i think it'd be laughable if people fell to their knees at one of her foot stamping entitled monologues, but they basically shrug it off. i can def see it being more of a problem down the line (assuming she DOES acquire power).

She doesn't realise her father is known as The Mad King, does she?

No, she does not. Viserys filled her head with nonsense about their father being beloved.

She is probably 14 at this point in the book, so her petulance makes a lot more sense to me in that light.

theon's sacking of winterfell + beheading rodrick was maybe the most disturbing scene for me so far, maybe because I've started reading the books, so I can see more of the psychological angles and have just spent more hours with the characters. But jeez that was awful.

man they really went off the books in this episode! crazytalk

yeah...
i am kind of sad not to see the psychic bogland kids :(

chopping and chopping at guys neck and then breaking the last bit off w/yr foot like a piece of wood NAGL

i don't think its ever said why but i may not remember correctly. something like cleganes are vassals of the lannisters and the hound is one extremely loyal dude?

― Jibe

Pretty much, but more that he's a nihilistic dude than loyal.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, May 7, 2012 7:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks to your reply, i'm imagining the hound going "Ve vant ze money Lebowski". Would make those nihilists so much scarier.

The stuff w/ Jon Snow this week really sucked, esp. in comparison w/ the rest.

tru. i'm hoping something interesting comes out of it. I also hope Ghost isn't gone for good.

i wish each episode of this show was 30 minutes longer, and 15 of those minutes dedicated solely to the hound

just realized that not only have the reeds been left out but also beric dondarrion. i understand that this is a tv show and some cuts have to be made but these are important characters.

He appeared briefly in S1, I think he'll be back

Yeah, the show has been pretty faithful to Beric D. thus far, though that isn't exactly hard at this point.

btw, did anyone else lol @ the whole frantic Arya/Jaqen scene?

i most certainly did. i kind of liked her screaming " i want you to kill him NOW!", as it made her sound like the little kid she is, which you sometimes tend to forget considering everything she does.

The stuff w/ Jon Snow this week really sucked, esp. in comparison w/ the rest.

otm, i was also disappointed by the mechanical and rather ridiculous presentation of arya's second assassination. a big disappointment after last week's (great) episode, imo.

Yes! Very sitcomy vibe, esp. the wry way Jaqen seemed to be teasing her.

Otherwise agree on overall quality of this episode, which was also written by the same writer who did "Garden of Bones" (the other majorly dud episode this season).

arya's assassination genie is pretty sweet

big lolz on dude opening the door and then keeling over

lol yes

btw, Armory Lorch is the guy that Tywin chewed out and dismissed for being dum, right?

tough to blame the writer when she gets stuck with Robb and his nurse-love and some of the cack-handed Harendal stuff. Loved the Littlefinger looks though. Also all the Winterfell stuff was A+ and we also got Tyrion slapping Joffrey again so I can't find much to complain about on the whole.