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

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:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4dz2vEuaS1qd0q92o4_250.gif

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.

annoyed that some of the ppl from the free cities have funny pan-european accents and some of them just have english accents

i get super annoyed by the "fantasy land = generic UK at some unspecified point in non-history" cliche

just like ancient rome

always british

yeah, that too.

tbf in the books westeros feels like a pretty clear britain analogue

apart from the olives...

yeah, it starts off as britain and then grrm squishes a bit of france and spain/north africa on the bottom

it felt like he expanded the size of westeros as the books grew - first one was england, second was like england/france/spain, latter couple were 'generally europe-sized'

tbf in the books westeros feels like a pretty clear britain analogue

yeah, but it's a cliche of fantasy literature as much as it is of fantasy film & television.

now it's the size of South America apparently

He's stated that Westeros is the size of South America, room for plenty of diversity. Don't forget the vast swamplands in the middle which don't really have a clear analogue.

Oh xpost

basically the scale is just totally fucked up. the travel time between places is way way smaller than south america size would suggest

maybe they have super horses

'horse' is the westerosi word for light aircraft

i do wonder about scale and distance in westeros. it seems that information and even people travel fairly easily between king's landing and winterfell, but online sources put the distance between the two at some 1,500 miles, with another 600 miles north from winterfell to the wall. though a carrier pigeon could make that distance inside a week, 1,500 miles is some two month's journey on horseback, half a year's travel time for a mounted army.

Well the ravens are pretty close to magical, at least.

not everyone puts as much thought as Tolkien into these things