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

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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.

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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

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the thought of Joff with Natalie Dormer still gives me shivers

I mean I didn't really think about it at the time, because Littlefinger crepeing on Sansa out-shivered it but still

is that face she does her smile or just a face she does

perma- :/

I didn't think Kit Harrington could get more emo than Jon Snow, but then

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On episode 7 and my least favorite part about season 2 so far is the recasting of Tywin as Arya's cuddly grandpa.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/hbo-is-sorry-that-george-w-bushs-severed-head-sort,81308/

haha waht

That was in the elevator news screen in three business buildings I was in yesterday. VIRAL

http://media.avclub.com/images/articles/article/81/81308/original_jpg_300x1000_q85_jpg_300x1000_q85.jpg

i need to get this on bluray before they edit that out

The scene where Jaqen changes his face gave me chills.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5rttm6zKB1qbypg1o1_250.gif

*hides*

the dude who plays Jaqen is so good

played

:(

In the books, Joff's paternity is an open secret among the small council, but I forget who knew about it before Ned blew the lid off of that. Littlefinger, and maybe Varys?

Oops, I mean, who on the show version knew about Joffcest before Ned.

I think it could have been an open secret amongst the small council. They never seemed shocked by the accusation, nor did it matter to them. The Maester must have known if he killed Ned's predecessor for finding out.

I'm not entirely sure we know who killed jon arryn yet

I thought the Maester told Tyrion that he did. I've not read the books so I might be wrong.

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