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

the band played the potter premiere and did a cover of the theme from super mario.

They bust into it in the middle of that song, actually.

"Rattleshirt Takes the A Train"

"The Wildings go to the Whitney: Please Don't Eat the Retrospective"

Geico: so easy, even a wildling can do it.

I liked when Arya was like "I don't like her" (about Melisandra) and dude was all "that's because you are a girl"

http://fuckyeahmelisandre.tumblr.com/

the aesthetic endemic to those sorts of blogs is confounding and troubling to me.

that's alot of red for starters.

needs more noodz

O_o

does not need more noodz

could do with more wolves

I don't know that I'd want to base my marriage on any from Westeros. Even with Catelyn and Ned, Catelyn didn't even want to marry him but eventually came around to liking him. And that's probably the best marriage out of all of them!

and she was expected to raise his bastard and prayed for him to die

being a bit hasty here, what with several potentially very happy marriages on the immediate horizon

Robb seems pretty pumped about his marriage

Why would you want to base or compare any real life circumstance with something from a fictional story?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/6dbab482a6c7949d1dc0a118dfab6c40/tumblr_mlw33pVypU1rr2s2ro1_500.jpg

haha

wkiw

the frig is he holding?

it's a rug beater

That wasn't shabby.

Theon's scene was upsetting and i'm not sure how much more torture pr0n i want to sit through.

they could've had 3 scenes with theon total all season and they would've achieved just as much as they have. this time was definitely gratuitous in just about every way possible. grrm wrote this one and i imagine he has been disappointed with the full frontal noodz count in s3 so far.

Agreeing with the two posters above, too much pandering to the 15 year old king demographic at the minute.

fyi theon doesn't actually appear in book 3, these scenes have all been written in for the show, and it shows

aside from theon's scene this was a p good episode!

The bear scene was terrifically exciting, very well done indeed. Also loved Tywin & Joffrey and the the dragons this week.

torture pr0n

literally this week

I was half hoping that Jaime would push Noah Taylor over the fence into the bear pit

I was anticipating that happening. Didn't, though.

I don't mind the nudity usually - I embrace it! - but, wow, the Theon scene was so ridiculous and obvious. 'Ooh, you're going to get good times - haha, not really; we're going to torture you instead!'. Big surprise. I suppose that was the point, but... why bother?

Yeah, good episode again. I can't believe Ygritte would be that naive abt buildings, tho?

yeah the writhing girls went on for so long and I was like, "look, I don't know if sadoboy is going to come in here with a stretching rack/ wicker man & bee helmet or if the girls are going to pull out a roll of needles and go 'Audition on him but can we just get this whole thing OVER with ragh'

ASS Bill

Previous Balance: $Lots of nice asses
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TOTAL DUE: $0.00

that particular account is way in credit

its in arrears

tee hee

Yeah, good episode again.

eh I dunno. aside from the stuff chap mentioned in his post (bear pit, Tywin/Joffrey scene) I didn't get much out of it. most of the plotlines seem to be spinning their wheels although Melisandre bringing Robert's bastard to King's Landing seems to be going someplace interesting. Rob, Theon, and Jon Snow are all super boring right now.

I liked JP's take:

http://entertainment.time.com/2013/05/13/game-of-thrones-watch-dragons-and-eagles-and-bears-oh-my/

i would not have guessed the population of kings landing at 500k

no that seems off

King's Landing is extremely populous, but rather unsightly and dirty compared to other cities. Its population is estimated at more than 500,000,[15] although this number varies during winters and in times of war, when people take shelter behind the city walls. George R. R. Martin has stated that the city is larger than Medieval London or Paris but smaller than Medieval Constantinople or Ancient Rome (each had a population of about 1,000,000).

i thought everything was good except for theon's scene. nice to see jon get an injection of spine for a moment there, and clarke is starting to fall way behind sansa actress in the terribleness stakes as dany's character develops. i will say i am surprised by the extent to which they are stretching some things out - there was definitely more scope for things to actually happen this season and that has been sacrificed in the name of timing as much as anything, to have things happen at certain points in the season and to leave things in a certain place at the end of it.

hmm sorry if that is too books-y for this partic thred

the fact that grrm thinks that kings landing would be bigger than a mediaeval london or paris is the problem really, there is no reasonable basis for that imo except, yknow, this is fantasy so fuck it i guess

all the cities seem super small on the show

like i wouldve thought kings landing was like 10k

lol, google comes up with the goods: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/blueroom/demog.htm

Wouldn't it be effective for Dany to where a fire crown or something? Wouldn't hurt her, would be gnarly.

Literal fire on a crown I mean.

Just a little "Why wouldn't they have thought of this?" kind of idea.