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

alfie is a pretty terrible actor but it kind of works because theon is pretty terrible at what he does too.

― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 14 May 2012 15:21 (Yesterday) Bookmark

agree, same goes for daenerys

not sure about her, her scenes are particularly grating apart from that cool illusion freak.

yeah, i was starting to like dany as a character cause clarke did okay with the rising-to-power stuff last season, but god, she's been just awful ever since her arrival in qarth.

agreed

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danaerys is made even more obnoxious b/c the episodes feel so unsatisfying in the way of plot development and then we have to spend a fair chunk of it with her crying about her dragons. qarth scenes are only redeemed by neat visual stuff like the charlatan and the metal-mask lady.

well, everybody's dead now so

karth felt like a whole lotta build up and then the whole GREATEST TOWN EVER had a quick flip to being run by goopy ghoulie and ragged dick.

so hopefully we don't have to see her again until she flies in on top of a dragon and rains fire on stuff

Goopy Ghoulie and Ragged Dick would be a great name for a GoT spin off show.

Qarth is the bit that is especially cringeworthy when I watch this show while stoned

The richest man in Qarth, the house of the undying dude, the merchant, Dany's horrible acting, mask woman.. it's really, really bad

Tyrion is still the most awesome

one thing i'm confused about - the metal-face tatoo-artist girl asked jorah if he would ever betray Daenerys *again*? what was that about? did i miss something?

also, forks - i really like that image!

Jorah was reporting back to Varys (I think) about Dany's movements, etc...

Yeah they did not play it up very much, but Jorah was doing that. His turning point is right before the little rat face dude tries to poison her.

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http://fuckyeahgameofthrones.tumblr.com/

http://fuckyeahgameofthrones.tumblr.com/post/23049916118

also lolzy
http://fuckyeahgameofthrones.tumblr.com/post/22328143483/the-flawless-cast-of-game-of-thrones

This tumblr is killing me. I'm hoping it's all 13 yr olds.

To taste the full-on firehose of teen mania, search for the game of thrones tag on tumblr, especially around a new episode.

Popular themes include:

"OMG! I'm having so many feels right now, I can't handle it! [insert 10 wacky GIFs of people freaking out]"

and

"I know it's wrong, but I can't stop shipping Arya and Gendry hardcore!"

these creeps also seem to ship sansa and the dog

knock them now, but amongst them is the heir to the literary crown of E.L. James.

'ship'?

fanfic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_%28fandom%29

'ship 'shop

shoop

imho Harrenhal + Arya, possibly my least favorite parts of the second book, are the stand out scenes this season

It wasn't Tywin in the books, right? Because that's what's been really amazing.

these creeps also seem to ship sansa and the dog

It is called SanSan, and they are all gross.

two episodes in a row with no tits I'm pretty sure. Unprecedented.

There was boobis in the last episode.

I've been keeping track.

Who is the woman with the crazy mask? And where can I obtain naked ritual back-painting services on the east coast?

Her name is Quaithe. To say more would be spoiling.

There was boobis in the last episode.

boobis+

brief though, and the previous episode was chaste iirc? their skin quotient overlords at HBO seem to have lowered the tithe this season.

Brief by HBO GOT standards!

so um for the people like me who haven't read the books and don't want spoilers

SPECULATIONS PLEASE

bran and ricon can't be dead, right? so um what happened? those the bodies of the farm kids? did theon deliberately let the princes go and burn up the kids? (hard to accept that one...)

i actually looked that up and spoilered it for myself. had to know.

It seemed really obvious to me that it was those two orphan boys. Bran and Ricon et al were hiding at the farm, I guess? Or at least they went near it. The dogs picked up the scent. Theon failed again because he's lol Theon and killed the kids to make a point to the people of Winterfell. That's my guess, anyway. I don't see why you'd mention the two orphan boys if you weren't going to use them at some point.

not read the books and I'll be well pleased to be proved wrong, except I don't want anything to happen to Bran (don't care about Ricon).

its spelled rickon

there's a preview of what happens to rickon here

Rickonroll.

rickon blues

It seemed really obvious to me that it was those two orphan boys. ...I don't see why you'd mention the two orphan boys if you weren't going to use them at some point.

^ my guess

there's a preview of what happens to rickon here

Lookin good, little guy

Sean that is amazing to me that you haven't read the books and good on you for not wanting to be spoiled, but for serious if you're looking for a spoiler-free experience you should just turn off the internet entirely

I've managed to not be spoiled yet, except for a phrase that seems to be a big deal event later on but I don't know what it means or what it consists of.

I'm not panicked about spoilers, just avoiding them. But ot's one of the funny downsides of watching a show based on books lots of people have already read: there aren't as many long fun wild internet threads of speculation about what will happen. (See: MAD MEN.) All of that fun speculative talk happens in the book threads, instead!

OK! But like don't click on anything. GoT's online info is ridiculously spoiler-y. Big Events happen followed by other Big Events and they're so Big and so "like, totally 2004" that I suppose when this Wiki was made or that conversation was posted online people just assumed you could safely talk about Lancel's Kablooie or Arya's Lizard Transformation without anyone 'not knowing' that these things had happened.

i.e. Like, you're like, "huh, Ygritte, who's she again?" and then you click a link and then it's "WHAAAT???"!""!"