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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgfPYetWWJw

Nancarrow-esque and answering the question in the thread title ably.

that hard drive thing is very rad.

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ooh deary me
theon greyjoy's in his bedroom smoking weed

I don't understand...

Theon is played by Lily Allen's brother, who is also the subject of that song.

i r slow

No wozzas.

tbf that factoid is just for nerds

so all of that happened

and yet it still felt anticlimactic. What gives?

I think had Cersei killed her kid and herself and were left dead on the throne, it probably wouldn't have felt that way. I guess nobody of note died in that battle (is Stannis still alive, then?), and maybe that's what I was expecting. It seems to have resolved the larger Stannis season arc by, largely, leaving everything "as it was".

it thought Tyrion died?!

no way, just took an arrow to the knee more or less

amaz!
also that floppy drive thing is epic.

I think we would have seen more of Tyrion actually dying than just that unbelievably brutal slash across the face.

Lena Headey dialing up drag queen mode to the max is the best thing about this episode.

Stannis pimp as hell too.

But I am pretty sure that Tyrion doesn't get an arrow to the knee.

it's a nerd reference
i'm just saying his adventurer days got cut short but he ain't dead by any means

I just want to know what happened to Stannis. If that isn't dealt with next week, I'll be pretty annoyed. I'm guessing his second-in-command is alive, and I'm assuming that dude's kid didn't make it out.

I know there were budget constraints and the battle narrowed (which is fine, I think it actually worked really well), but I did get a pretty big thrill out of that green explosion ripping apart the fleet. Well done. Some good Neil Marshall gratuitously violent inserts in the battles as well.

I am glad to know that I am not in fact a nerd. xp

battle scenes often looked as though executed with a comically small cast, but it was nice to finally see something big and dramatic really happen. even if it did leave things much as they were before. certain tyrion isn't dead. guessing he lost a bit of blood and acquired a nice scar. love dinklage, but man that accent...

i'm guessing you're pulling my kneee leee, but if not:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-took-an-arrow-in-the-knee

Hah, no, I was serious. (I haven't gamed in forever, like, what is this "skyrimming," it sounds like a sex thing, why can't kids play GoldenEye anymore, and everyone playing on PHONES, what's with that.)

"Any man dies with a sword free of blood, I'll rape his corpse!"

The guy who plays the Hound is fantastic.

so is his makeup tbh, presumably it's just one big prosthetic they weld on every day and then paint

did not expect him to pussy out the way he did!

frankenstein fear fire

It was a bit of a poxy amount of fire, was expecting massive walls of flame.

blew the money on the cgi for the wildfire, couldn't afford to set anything else on fire probs

I wanted it to end with the sun rising on a widescreen shot of mass carnage, but again cash money.

The wildfire explosion was bitching though.

"Those are brave men knocking at our doors... Let's go kill them!"

yeah "let's go kill them" felt weird, i mean if you're going to make everyone English you should have to keep to that shouldn't you?

what's the hound's deal, he loves killing (he cannot stress this enough) but just kind of wandered away from the battle.

ended alot like Stannis'!

xpost

i think he's scarred of fire (rather obvious now that i think about it)

Yeah, fire is his one fear.

ah of course.

y'all are killfiling me aren't you.

hound had a change of heart

he was heir to blahbady rock and i was sold to some stranger like a horse to be riden when ever he pleased

but you were roberts queen

and you will be joffreys, enjoy

casterly

fraggle

^^ Spoilers.

Hahaha oh god I just accidentally stumbled on some Stannis/Selyse porn fic. (Selyse is his wife.)

To root for Lannisters to win really was a hard pill to swallow.

i was rooting for the leetle fellow

I couldn't root for anyone. One of the things I really like about this show.

plus stannis is a gross evangelical fundie

I could never quite grasp how much he was a fundie and how much he was going along with it for the benefits. Which is a pretty great representation of how Christianity spread through Europe.