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

oh yes that rings a bell. did they say who exactly he wanted to assassinate with it, seems like there's a fair few contenders at the mo

he just wants a new friend i think.

Wait so if Theon isn't even in the third book are they just going to keep the character popping up in pointless scenes for two seasons just so Alfie Allen has something to do?

The scene with the bear was awesome.

There's going to be an awful lot of that coming up once we're beyond the third book in storyline terms. Feast For Crows and Dance With Dragons each deals with half the cast, with the stories running broadly in parallel. Be much easier in the tv show to just run it as a single continuous story.

There's been a lot of press around someone at HBO saying they see the show as running for 7 seasons. So Season 4 will be the second half of book 3, right?

xp presumably the events of those books are happening at the same time at each other, then? It would be more confusing to show them one at a time, so.

well they're already integrating books 3, 4 and 5 to an extent and they'll continue to run 4 and 5 parallel as windsor says. book 3 material shouldn't stretch past the 3rd or 4th episode of season 4 at the outside.

i kept thinking of the bear fight from Anchorman and couldn't take the scene too seriously!

I thought Melisandre wanted a king babby? ie I thought part of her plan was to bone down with Gendry. Or am I imagining that?

could be projecting a little...

was the smoke monster a king babby? didn't stannis express some wife-related qualms around the time of its inception?

Wait so if Theon isn't even in the third book are they just going to keep the character popping up in pointless scenes for two seasons just so Alfie Allen has something to do?

yes it would not really work to drop major characters for seasons at a time tbh

i wonder how true that is. i guess they didn't want to be the ones to find out. but there is some much else going on besides.

if u tell an actor he's not going to work for two seasons or whatever then good luck getting him back when you need him

but also i can't imagine the audience would go for that

didn't work too well in the books iirc so why not take the lesson.

Other shows (ie Lost) have managed to get away with dropping characters and then bringing them back but I'd imagine it's contractually A LOT more straightforward this way, especially with in-demand actors.

Alfie Allen is in demand?

Kind of hope that just to make things completely unsubtle, ie par for the course, the torturer is going to hang Theon's Willy around his neck, would be a quaint visual parallel to Jaime's hand.

maybe they could graft Theon's willy onto Jaime's stump

I pictured it more as stuck on a warning pike a'la Ned's head.

New meaning to getting speared.

i kept thinking of the bear fight from Anchorman and couldn't take the scene too seriously!

pretty sure that if a bear smacks you in the nek, it doesn't leave shallow cuts. it just sorta knocks your head off.

on the other hand BART THE BEAR THE SECOND
http://www.ibtimes.com/bart-bear-steals-show-latest-episode-game-thrones-1255199#

maybe they could graft Theon's willy onto Jaime's stump

― far too much asshole flesh (DJP), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:38 (54 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is no way to speak of ray winstone's offspring

Peter Dinklage plays drunk well.

sorely lacking in brienne and jaime. my two faves.

Note to self: when talking to someone who has not seen the latest got ep and they say "how was it", don't do that thing where you FAKE OUT SPOILER by saying "oh yeah, i couldn't believe X died" because maybe they read the books and will reply, totally honestly "yeah, that was a shock to me when i read it" and now you have self spoilered and no one is going to be sympathetic about this ever

Peter Dinklage plays drunk well.

― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Sunday, May 19, 2013 10:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya

Maybe that was a double reverse fake spoiler, forks.

I can't believe how much I've grown to love some of these actors in these roles after initially hating them, esp. Lena Headey and Emilia Clarke

Oh it turns out it's an amazing magic dagger, let's leave it here and run away.

I'm glad that the show made Daario foine instead of some weirdo with a blue beard.

No cute little "...now you have 10,000 men" line?

dany's new suitor has space face (like eric roberts-esque). as in I cannot truly contemplate it.

Oh it turns out it's an amazing magic dagger, let's leave it here and run away.

― Evan, Monday, 20 May 2013 15:21 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

this ffs

was so excited for the possiblity of zombiebro finally eviscerating that fat fuckin feeb as well

Oh it turns out it's an amazing magic dagger, let's leave it here and run away.

― Evan, Monday, 20 May 2013 15:21 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

this ffs

this. going to be so annoyed if he suddenly has it again next episode.

that's a part of the book lore, right? so yeah, i think they're either going back or we'll see more of that magic dagger crystal stuff soon.

magic dagger crystal stuff is obsidian

p sure this was stated explicitly in the show whenever he picked the thing up

Woah Daario - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJjCKLC6yLU

p sure this was stated explicitly in the show whenever he picked the thing up

i thought he just said he didn't know what it was. (trying to not conflate book stuff here)

Now I want Daario to rap on the show.

the only thing I can think of to rhyme with "Khalisi" is "greasy"

Yeezy?

fo' sheezy

"can't leave the throne alone the game needs me"

too perfect that this is that dude's day job

i thought he just said he didn't know what it was. (trying to not conflate book stuff here)

― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, May 20, 2013 8:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no he definitely says it's obsidian in the show

That was hands down the best uncomfortable wedding scene I have ever seen.

lol

I agree actually, Dinklage got the tone pitch-perfect - death-inducing levels of shame and mortification, tempered by the only emotion stronger, viz. an all-consuming hatred of his family for putting him through this (and everything else), all wrapped up in a lovely blanket of being a bit too drunk. Great acting