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

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everytime I see Xaro I can't help but think casting made a mistake in not choosing Pretty Raheem for the part.

Good episode, in retrospect, but at the time I was waiting for shit to kick off. Preview for next week probably eased that pain.

Very end was really affecting, and it, Onion Knight + Stannis, and Varys and Tyrion bro'ing down saved the rest of the episode with its Stupid!Robb and Stupid!Jon and Boring!Talk. Even the Arya stuff was meh.

Last three episodes felt lke they could easily have been two episodes. Writers seem committed to giving every storyline at least two minutes of screen time a week, which gets a little silly I.e. this week with Dany.

"blah blah blah slave saved my brother blah blah blah exposition necessary don't worry i am pretty much guaranteed to get naked by the end of this monologue blah blah blah"

she should've whistled and said "I'm not in the book you know" like Gopher

Well that scene had a reason for existing since they're building up a genuine love story which has to involve feelings and she's not just some random prostitue.

Stannizzz. I feel like they could've successfully done an entire late season Stannis/Davos/Melisandre episode, sewn up that entire storyline in a single hour, neatly explained Renly's otherwise mysterious death, and then subsequently concluded with whatever conclusion will conclude the Dragonstone/King's Landing battle.

But Stannis/Davos scenes are the best!

Can't get used to the fact that guy is actually Davos

most awkward sex scene ever in this one, it was like a kung fu movie with them trying to remove each other's strait-jackets.

also mama stark is now on my list of annoying characters, she just has the same pained expression in every scene.

this show is sliding into walking dead levels of mindlessness, but will still watch every week as i did with that.

"blah blah blah slave saved my brother blah blah blah exposition necessary don't worry i am pretty much guaranteed to get naked by the end of this monologue blah blah blah"

The actress is so gorgeous that none of this bothered me TBH.

episode didn't do much to alleviate my "much ado but no real forward progress" complaint about the last few

Tbf, longwinded footchopper is indeed the most attractive woman on the show

longwinded footchopper = Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter

you wouldn't have thought she came from a silent heritage

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no kidding

imo the wildling who captured jon is now the most attractive woman on this show.

aka Gwen the Housemaid from Downton Abbey!

lol oh yeah!!!!!

Someone mentioned the Chaplin girl's long speech is dripping with foreshadowing.

Not all she's dripping with etc

Long something something Robb's cock

the wildling looking after bran is pretty hot.

her from About a Boy I think

she was in harry potter. she's in a sort of... gypsyish band that played at the premiere party for the last one. v weird, but not awful. she seems quite the character in real life.

whoa she is totally that girl from About a Boy! Huh

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/what-do-spoilers-spoil/

^ olympic level point-missing

What a joyless piece.

Do we really have to debate spoilers again when it's a whole lot easier to treat it as a matter of etiquette?

who's debating?

besides stanley fish, i mean...

Clearly, I didn't read the article.

one of stanley fish's great contributions to letters imho

felt the need to respond.

Actual lols:

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I am an easy mark for big dick jokes.

er, Cersei is the hottest woman on this show I think.

And Dinklage is the hottest dude.

otm about Dinklage at least, dude is handsome

I thought Dinklage was pretty terrible in his big scene with Shae. The accent hampers him when he's trying to get all serious

agreed.

why even bother w/the terrible accent

The accents are all over the place. Like Liam Cunningham playing Davos is doing some kind of Geordie thing, Michael McElhatton as Roose Bolton is doing his normal Irish accent and fuck knows what Aidan Gillen is doing. I guess not everyone notices that kind of stuff though

Aiden Gillen's accent seems like it changed a lot between the first and second season? I don't know what is up with that.

yeah, he's definitely gone to some very weird places with it in the second season

its just like 1 show is set in an imaginary place 2 medieval england had totally diff accents than present day 3 is how i break it down to an extent

i liked it when the northmen all had actual northern accents

but i guess that was really mostly just sean bean

iron islands geordie is good value.

also like the few random irish dudes.