fuck reading! I'm not even reading this thread! DVRing it for later tho
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
i have my family act out ilx threads, pffft reading is SO 20th century
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
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
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
the interpassive subject; i bookmark threads so that my browser can read them for me and i can do something more fun
― Mordy, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
if i'm not going to post trigger warnings i'm sure as hell not going to post spoiler warnings
― Mordy, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Z S, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
I recently found out i have a mutual acquaintance with Joffrey.
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:56 (36 minutes ago) Bookmark
i have one with renly baratheon. not quite so exciting :(
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
xp - magical assassin was def. the low point of the series so far, IMO
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
creepy ghost people fucking with Daenearys second worst
Thinking about GoT with all that thrown out makes me sad that we'll never get a series about medieval Europe with fewer boobs than The Tudors or that one that was similar to the Tudors but about the Medicis IIRC.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
Borgias you mean?
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
There's alway Cadfael.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
definitely. i was definitely glad to see the lead creepy ghost killed off (by a baby dragon?). but what a complete waste of time! i'm glad daenerys got to defeat the grand mage and level up (side quest: say final goodbye to a lost true love http://png-5.findicons.com/files/icons/1722/gnome_2_18_icon_theme/16/stock_form_checkbox.png), but it doesn't do much to advance her story arc.
― Z S, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
^House of the Undying in the book is AMAZING, which made the botched TV execution of it all the more sad.
― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 February 2013 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
See? WE DO SO TOO READ
http://25.media.tumblr.com/76851508bc532e984cc284a949c8e5db/tumblr_mhtpsbLcKM1s4m9sgo1_500.jpg
― The Mini-Mamas and the Mini-Papas (latebloomer), Thursday, 7 February 2013 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
NO SPOILERS
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 7 February 2013 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
FYI ghost Stannis was cribbed pretty much directly from the book, probably one of the more faithful interpretations IIRC
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Thursday, 7 February 2013 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
except for the part where they bone down
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 7 February 2013 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
and it was a pretty cool scene in the book. I think it's supposed to be less of a deus ex machina moment and more of an "oh shit, Stannis can tap into some freaky magic, and he framed Catelyn!" moment.
xpost
― Moodles, Thursday, 7 February 2013 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
it doesn't do much to advance her story arc
oh sweet summer child...
― Moodles, Thursday, 7 February 2013 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
oh shit, is she going to level up so much that she too becomes a grand mage? or i guess a dragon mage? i hope her Dragona4 spell (enhanced by the corresponding dragon runes that she picks up on a side quest in season 4) is totally awesome to look at, sigh
― Z S, Thursday, 7 February 2013 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
the scene where she is basically down to zero mp is chilling
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 7 February 2013 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
kinda want someone to keep the political intrigue and backstabbing of game of thrones but set it in a modern city instead, sans magic. for example, baltimore, early 2000s.
― Z S, Thursday, 7 February 2013 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
the problem with dany is that grrm will never ever think of anything remotely as cool for her to do as eating the heart while her brother watches
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 7 February 2013 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
^that was amazing.
― Z S, Thursday, 7 February 2013 02:17 (eleven years ago) link
the thing about Martin's storytelling is that he is wholly, obstinately wedded to the idea of trying to subvert most common pulp fantasy cliches in the most depressing, brutal manner possible; the entire execution of Renly fits well into this because Renly was on the verge of wiping Stannis and his forces off the map and in the running with Robb for "most benevolent option as king of Westeros" up until his brother's witch lover summoned up a giant ghost baby that stabbed him in the gut
basically, if you are viewing all of these plots with the idea that at some point horrifying consequences are going to come down on half the characters like a ton of bricks, you will do well at guessing which direction Martin is most likely to go
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Thursday, 7 February 2013 02:20 (eleven years ago) link
Woah, hot medic is Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 7 February 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
House of the Undying in the book is AMAZING, which made the botched TV execution of it all the more sad.
Meh, I found it pretty trite, plus, every time we get supernatural bollocks in this vein I shed a tear.
― SOPA Middleton (Leee), Thursday, 7 February 2013 06:49 (eleven years ago) link
kinda want someone to keep the "basically, if you are viewing all of these plots with the idea that at some point horrifying consequences are going to come down on half the characters like a ton of bricks, you will do well at guessing which direction Martin is most likely to go" of game of thrones but set it in a modern city instead, sans magic. for example, baltimore, early 2000s.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 7 February 2013 08:26 (eleven years ago) link
that would be a great show! we could call it...mcnulty & friendz
― Z S, Thursday, 7 February 2013 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno The Wire plus magic could be a good time
― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
"Omar summonin'."
― Gukbe, Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
There was a pretty awesome crime procedural in an alternate future San Francisco with magic that made a pilot, never aired, and wasn't picked up. The pilot was on youtube for like a day sometime last year. Still hoping the Sci Fi channel or someone runs with it.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
Was that the Ronald D Moore show I heard about?
― Gukbe, Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
It was going to be called Precinct 17 iirc?
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, 17th Precinct, which is a terrible name. Yeah, that's the Moore. I thought it was completely great! Stockard Channing and Tricia Helfer, y'all!
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
To be fair, I have no idea how anyone could execute the House of the Undying scene well. There was a lot going on there.
― Ulna (Nicole), Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
omg that show sounds amazing
― ciderpress, Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
the fifth season of the wire had magic iirc
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
It was seriously cool. Where we would use electricity, they used a magic life-force sourced from growing plants. It sounds gimmicky but it was inserted smoothly and not explained except by demonstration--a quick shot of the Golden Gate bridge turned into a giant trellis and covered with verdant growth, wall planters in people's homes in the backgrounds of shots, etc.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
That sounds p awes. Like Ballard but happy!
― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
i sometimes use a magic life-force sourced from growing plants if you know what i meaaaaannnnn
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
OH NO YOU DI'INT
― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcsh22pYjv1r4chwro1_500.gif
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 7 February 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
From what I know about that pilot, it's probly a good thing it didn't air.
I think Ron Moore made it in Vancouver with BSG castmembers
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Thursday, 7 February 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry for insulting anyone. I realize that Game of Thrones is pretty lightweight G-rated material.
Anyway, I'm just gonna stare at the bud gif for a while and chill out.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 8 February 2013 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
something we can all agree on right
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 8 February 2013 05:00 (eleven years ago) link
It may be the answer as to how I was able to read 4000 pages of highly detailed fantasy without getting bored...
― Nate Carson, Friday, 8 February 2013 07:20 (eleven years ago) link