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

Gonorrheaing

it funny though, GOT does seem to occupy a fairly unique position with regard to spoilers. I can't think of any other adaptation that's inspired such animosity between readers and non-readers

There is a separate spoiler end thread to avoid this kind of hogwash.

Spoilered*

exactly, the fact that two threads are required at all is unusual

it's almost like this story exists in two different formats

It's unique in that a serialised television show is an adaptation of a series of books.

so is True Blood. I doubt anyone gives a shit about spoilers for that

ditto Dexter, although I gather the show went its own way after season 1

wasn't Walking Dead a comic book...?

Boardwalk Empire also an adaptation of some bio iirc

one book != a series

the list of television shows based off of comic books is ludicrously long

http://www.twonkhammer.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/monopoly-man.jpg

how many tv shows based on informative pamphlets/brochures I wonder

This show has deviated plenty.

I found the second season kind of sad. The "battle" of the Blackwater was pathetic. I knew they wouldn't have the cast of thousands necessary, but the 60 dudes they had made it worse than if they hadn't shown it.

Nah the Blackwater battle was great. They did a really good job of scaling it down without making it look cheesy, I thought. I mean, it's never gonna match what's in your head.

At least they didn't just have Tyrion pass out at the beginning only to wake up in the aftermath.

I thought it was cheesy as hell. You can't make King's Landing so big and have that handful be the invasion force. You either need to scale it all down or make sure your shots don't show that the line of men is twenty across and three deep.

isn't that what cgi is for

My point above was simply that if you are SO CONCERNED about spoilers (it's just a tv show guys), then go out and read the books.

Ok - some of us are A) dyslexic and painfully slow readers; and B) incredibly busy with jobs and families and all that silly stuff and just don't have the time to read a bazillion pages worth of some fantasy books, simply to satisfy some smug, ignorant internet jerk-offs who are too lazy to find the thread specifically for the people who *have* read the mother fucking books.

also, i thought the blackwater battle was great.

The way people on this thread respond to someone telling you the books are worth reading is enlightening. you guys deserve this shitty tv adaptation.

it's all love up in here, huh

isn't that what cgi is for

― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 6, 2013 9:20 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no, *this* is what cgi is for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FddHy44cwsw

WE MUST FORM CLANS AND BATTLE TO THE DEATH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8BPP4ASQWo

Glasgow Film Featival is screening "Blackwater" followed by a q+a with the cast (who? I don't know). Kind of want to go but after the EFF Serenity screening and q+a I think I'd just cringe a lot.

BTW you guys Jaime Lannister is in the new horror film Mama and it's hella distracting for awhile.

Stannis was in Zero Dark Thirty

Cersei was the villain in Dredd, Mr Veg and I spent the first half of the movie waiting for them to introduce a sibling character for her to have sexytimes with

Melisandre will always, for me, be first and foremost the hott witch in Black Death.

Odd to look back and see Grandpa Lannister fighting off a Xenomorph in Alien 3.

Melissandre also as the Dutch resistance nazi killer in Voerhoeven's flick

I will always think of Dinklage as the guy in The Station Agent.

The way people on this thread respond to someone telling you the books are worth reading is enlightening.

If you're referring to me – I was not responding to someone say "oh hay, check out the books, you will like them" I was incensed at someone, too lazy to post in the thread made just for them to talk about what happens in the books; telling me how to live my life. I'm sure the books are great – if reading comes easy to you and you have a surplus of free time.

I recently found out i have a mutual acquaintance with Joffrey. Apparently he hates talking about the show and acting in general

I will always think of Dinklage as the guy in The Station Agent.

I always think of him as the man Tina Fey mistook for a child

I'm not offended by anything anyone said, nor should they be by my words. This is an internet discussion forum. Not sure why me sharing my opinion gets people so rankled.

Too busy to read? Great life you've created for yourself. I work seven days a week, but a bit of escapism/self-enrichment goes a long way to keeping me balanced, happy, and uninterested in calling people names on the internet.

xpost - Porto guy -- of course I feel for you if you're dyslexic. That will make a 1000 page book a real chore. Peace man.

says the guy who started this stupid argument by calling sean a "crybaby"

I love this thread so much more now. Thanks, everyone!

i never thought i would see someone trying to make a moral argument for spoilers

Not sure why me sharing my opinion gets people so rankled.
Insulting people and willful misunderstanding get them rankled, IIRC
(for instance, no one here is all "fuck reading" or devoid of escapism/self-enrichment)

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/spoilers-dont-spoil-anything/

so who gives a shit. also the books are awful.

fuck reading! I'm not even reading this thread! DVRing it for later tho

i have my family act out ilx threads, pffft reading is SO 20th century

do we really need to get trolled into an argument about whether spoilers are necessary or not, seriously, there is no reason not to be a dick about this

the interpassive subject; i bookmark threads so that my browser can read them for me and i can do something more fun

if i'm not going to post trigger warnings i'm sure as hell not going to post spoiler warnings

the read the books/make time/no excuses/the things that i value the most are the things that everyone else should value the most argument is so stupid that everyone should just ignore it asap.

in other news, i finally caught up with this show so i was pumped to open this exciting thread! it's been forever, but what i was intending on posting turns out to have been said by Matt DC already:

Everything supernatural in this that doesn't involve either dragons or white walkers is a bit rubbish really.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, June 6, 2012 9:01 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean one of the reasons I like it is that it keeps all that stuff firmly in the background in favour of backstabbing and political intrigue but really having a smokey ghost Stannis that inexplicably doesn't do anything in an actual siege feels both wasteful and a cop-out.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, June 6, 2012 9:02 AM (8 months ago)

i am not a big fan of the magic stuff in this show. i can tolerate the dragons, and i enjoy the whitewalker story line, but i hate it when magic is used as the deus ex machina. it's been a while so i can't really remember the details, but remember when the baratheon who likes to make out with the magic lady who wears red was in that struggle with his brother, and their troops were lined up across the river from each other? that was so awesome! so tense! how would they resolve it? oh, i know - just send a ghost magic thing to the other side and murder one of the brothers. that was less than satisfying.