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

but it decreased our intelligence and we forgot they can shoot fire :(

xp

xp: I like the ambiguity tbh; usually Dani is all "omg MAGIC" and everyone else in the scene is practically rolling their eyes going "argh jeez, just ignore him and he'll go away"

i don't think the warlocks figured that the dragons were that powerful that little (even Dany could just barely get them to shoot a little bit of fire earlier in the season). That said, their "y'all gonna be here for eternity lolz" plan did seem pretty flawed as one imagines the dragons would grow.

"when your dragons were born, our magic was born again. it is strongest in their presence, and theirs is strongest in yours."

oop, i stand corrected. now that you mention it, i remember that line very clearly. anyway, point is that the warlock dude does have real magical abilities, though yeah, they may have seemed trivial w/out dani and her dragons around to amp the magic up.

been looking to redecorate tbh

http://store.hbo.com/game-of-thrones-life-size-replica-iron-throne/detail.php?p=373634&v=hbo_shows_game-of-thrones

that would be perfect for my throne room

I want it for my front porch

TO SURVEY MY LANDS

hey - i got to sit in one of those a few months back!

what ho? are you dragon-born sir?

sword of.

sorry. Couldn't help myself.

I am so running you through for that.

Totally fair. I get your point.

Sorry.

Drawn. And quartered.

However you slice it, I was wrong.

Doh! Sorry.

would love to sit on that and be like "Talk to the Hand... of the King!!!"

they had a GoT exhibit at the Tiff building by my office. you could sit in the iron throne and they'd take a few pics and send you on your way with a contact sheet and a DVD of the first episode. not bad for a free dealy!

I would never get out of it once I sat down.

"Come see the throne [with unremovable VG] today at Westfield Mall"

this broke my brain
http://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/545148_307704782647277_1349063132_n.jpg

Fkin Jean M Auel has to get her porny self in there...

who is the dude on the right?

the bastard

took me a minute too

jesus

dude playing theon is like a lifesize personification of feckless; great job casting director.

Even with the glasses and the haircut I could tell it was Jon Snow because he is always making that same face.

http://assets.flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/snow.jpg

is that a recent photo? they all look very young, maybe from lack of beards?

It's from before the first season

yeah, i was thinking it was maybe from a book release party for Feast of Crows maybe.

that would make the pic about 6 1/2 years old... maybe?

This might not be common knowledge in the US but the dude who plays Theon is Lily Allen's brother (and Keith Allen's son obviously), he's basically a professional feckless tabloid twat. I quite like watching him as Theon because you know that only unpleasant things are going to happen to him.

he really brought it in that scene with the maester tho tbf

yeah i think he killed it this whole season

so I was going to respond to the torrent and stream suggestions with a sactimonious response about how I don't want to watch this through non-legit means and want to wait for the HD glory of blu-ray, but then I thought "what the hell" and started checking out the streams.

I watched the first 3 episodes of season two and they are great! Clash of Kings is my favorite of the books so I think I'm really going to enjoy this.

So far the major changes (Mel and Stannis doin' it, Renly's love troubles, various other little details) haven't struck me as nearly egregious as the annoying new scenes from season 1. I hope this continues for the rest of the eps.

wtf jon snow looks all meh, idgi. amazing what not brushing yr hair and wearing a giant animal pelt does for you.

are we SURE that's jon snow?

all of them save jon snow still have some slight mediaeval flourishes to their look

(2min 20s):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0gDQIB6AHw0#t=140s

Hmm... I thought it would embed but I think I broke it by trying to do the specific time URL. Anyway, yeah - 2min 20s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gDQIB6AHw0

in order for it to embed, the v=[youtube tag] parameter has to come right after the question mark otherwise the site doesn't recognize it as an embeddable Youtube URL

otm about needing a merkin for that sequence; occurred to me as well.

I have such a girlcrush on Osha.

she's awesome.

Her voice = hottt

I said this to my friend who did some work with her and he said "she would destroy you"

even hotttter then

I hate how she dips her head and moves it funny while she's talking? I think it's supposed to mimic predators surveying their prey or w/e and it gets used really clumsily sometimes to connote sexual rapaciousness or primitiveness of some kind and tbh it's just obnoxious on a lot of levels.

I only just recently realized she was Tonks in Harry Potter (slow/too lazy to imdb)

hmmm laurel that's a v interesting catch.

tumblr-nonsense warning vvv

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m54re2XJGX1qc2jbwo1_r3_500.png