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

(but otm)

so many weddings but how many funerals etc etc

so Stannis' daughter...is it just a deformity?

Stannis inflicted burns I'm guessing. Angry about having a daughter?

It's a disease called greyscale (for obvious reasons).

There's more about it in the books but that's all you need to know really.

i really liked this ep. everything's getting exciting. Kinda crushing on Kingslayer finally.

Though can I just: I am at the point of giving up hope of a Jon Snow or Jaime Lannister full frontal *sigh*

Hasn't full frontal (as far as men go) been limited to Theon? In which case, GoT is probably trollin' women.

I kind of guessed that with Bryan Cogman writing we'd get a good backstory speech, and Jamie's was probably the best the show has done.

For those of us who have heard a certain two word phrase, I've been trying to guess which characters it will involve, and now the show is just teasing me with the number of possibilities.

Also bummed there was no movement on the Podrick Sexual Prowess front. I hope that pays off.

yeah loved the Kingslayer backstory.

re full frontal. Yeah Theon so far only. big woop. all we got in this ep was Littlefinger's baitboy. if they're going to do it at least make it a OH HELLO reveal & not just zzz oh him. harrumph

that Littlefinger / Loris / Sansa plot felt like it was on fast forward with those three scenes all in a row

Jamie's was probably the best the show has done

yeah that was awesome

think it's time to have the yearly "srsy wtf is gillen trying to do with that accent" convo

sometimes there's even like an american twang in there, i just dk anymore

is he delib trying to make him sound like a un-nobleman acting posh, introducing that unsettling fake note

I haven't seen the latest episode yet, but if Shireen was is in it did they include Patchface?

no, altho she did sing his song over the credits

is GREY WORM going to be a big character

Grey Worm scene was dope.

ooh i'm thinking daenerys has a go on him when she finds out about jorah's shenanigans

him and dany become lovers after quaa'rlog the porcupine sorcerer uses the red god's powers to regrow his junk. i can't remember if they have introduced quaa'rlog yet.

ahh yes good point i forgot about the unsullied entry criteria

probs wouldnt want a porcupine sorcerer in charge of that gig anyway tbh

they've booked Diana Rigg in this the way WWE shoulda booked Lesnar

oh man Stannis' wife was Tara Fitzgerald

Serious? For a second I asked myself if that was her, then decided it wasn't.

i keep thinking i've seen the actor who plays roose bolton somewhere before but i realized he just sort of looks like terence stamp.

think it's time to have the yearly "srsy wtf is gillen trying to do with that accent" convo

― r|t|c, Monday, April 29, 2013 8:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

absolutely lost it at his delivery of "I can't tell you how touched I am"

I actually had to stop and rewind it

it's impressively terrible

my favorite gillen line delivery in this entire show is "PLAY WITH HER AAAASS"

his Carcetti was kinda weird but he's really breaking new ground here

lol al

Part of me wonders if by now he'd be even worse playing in his own accent, after muffing up all these others

Charles Dance really is the best tho

gillen going for some soft spoken brythonic thing maybe? it is weird but appropriately crepey

Jamie becoming one of my favourite characters in the show at exactly the equivalent point he started becoming one of my favourites in the book, great work from Nicholaj Coster Waldau.

I love how booby her dresses are. She's like Game of Thrones catwoman

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, April 22, 2013 1:23 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

i keep thinking about the phrase 'booby dresses' since this post

sure, since then

also before.

sometimes there's even like an american twang in there, i just dk anymore

is he delib trying to make him sound like a un-nobleman acting posh, introducing that unsettling fake note

It's so fucking weird. It's got a touch of Irish about it but the rhythm is a bit "I vont to suck your blooood"

I kind of like his ridiculous accent, but I just like to think of it as some weirdo accent from wherever his character is from. Tyrion's is a bit funnier, but I'm cool with it too.

Yeah, I keep thinking booby dresses everytime I see Marjorie. It feels like the nearer we get to the wedding the boobier the dress becomes.

Also bummed there was no movement on the Podrick Sexual Prowess front. I hope that pays off.

― Gukbe, Monday, 29 April 2013 06:30 (Yesterday) Bookmark

tbf we did get to learn the finer points of ricky & bianca's inevitable union instead

Loved the scene with Tywin, Tyrion and Cersei at the end. This speculation might be lolworthy to anyone who's read the books but it feels like the Tyrrells aren't that interested in dicking over the Lannisters, and that Tywin doesn't have a clue what Littlefinger's planning. So this whole thing will probably end in Sansa's escape rather than the opposite. I guess Shae will be crucial here at some point?

Also Stannis finally got interesting in this episode, although his homelife is so shitty it explains why he'll go to such extreme lengths to get out of the house. Was there any explanation for the pickled babies?

previous miscarried sons

if i were directing i'd urge Gillen to 'Taffin up'

I know they were previously miscarried sons but I wondered why they were being kept there other than out of insane morbidity.

if i were directing i'd urge Gillen to 'Taffin up'

then maybe you shouldn't be RULING HERRRRRRRRRRE

cracking up

if you really wanted to bend over backward for gillen you could argue that littlefinger's weird accent is the accent of a small northern lord attempting to lose his rural accent to fit in better in the southern cities. but game of thrones is pretty inconsistent w/ accents--a lot of the northmen have solid northern accents but not all--davos still sounds irish--thoros of myr should by all rights have some kind of european-ish accent if he's from myr

Davos sounds Geordie!

hrm i guess, i dont really have a good ear for this stuff