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

just like everyone else, they don't take him seriously
BUT THEY'LL LEARN. THEY'LL ALL LEARN

By the way if that Cersei smackdown on Loras was anything to go by I am looking forward to her wedding even more.

Joffrey and Sansa was genuinely chilling as well, especially now we've established that Tyrion isn't going to be having sex with her any time soon.

what's going to happen with the evil leeches?

i figure all those characters dying is unlikely but maybe sickness or some kind of control of their behaviour? that would set up some insanity.

they will all suffer a slight itch.

in the books they get ingrown hairs but i like the slight itch idea too

They lose a lot of odd socks.

The 7 kingdoms crumbled as the small folk had but one mismatched sock to keep them warm with the onset of an endless winter.

Finally caught up last night.
"welp, guess I won't be needing this badass obsidian dagger anymore." whaaaaaaaaaaat the everloving fuck is wrong with that dude, seriously.

drunk tyrion is the best. cersei's face when margery grabbed her arm was awesome.
dany's new rapping dude is whoa p cute. weird looking, but handsome.

Cersei's face is that same sour squint it always is imo

xpost Yeah, kinda relieved they Daario is at least a slightly believable love interest for Dany, the description of him in the books (SPOILERS BUT RLY) are just so horrific, it's like the ultimate giveaway as to what a nurrd GRRM really is. "Ahhh, I know exactly the sort of guy that a stunningly beautiful and independent and strong-willed young queen with armies and kingdoms and dragons would be into" yeahhhh not rly George

*SPOILERS BUT NOT RLY

Holy shit, ridiculous typo, sorry guys

I enjoyed that typo

yeah Daario seems more in-keeping with her Dothraki husband's steez, and she gets the added bonus of conversation

i love melisandre.

the description of him in the books (SPOILERS BUT RLY) are just so horrific, it's like the ultimate giveaway as to what a nurrd GRRM really is. "Ahhh, I know exactly the sort of guy that a stunningly beautiful and independent and strong-willed young queen with armies and kingdoms and dragons would be into" yeahhhh not rly George

That's what I meant by the blue beard comment upthread -- Daario's description sounded sooo ridiculous in the book that I could not understand how anyone could be attracted to him, let alone Daenerys.

she's a teenager tbf

so... i *shouldn't* dye my beard blue?

there was definitely a part of me that felt like GRRM came up with Daario after sitting through a friend's slideshow of a Burning Man trip

http://i.imgur.com/l6ilnOV.jpg

i kind of give grrm credit for being a bit wacky and not taking the obvious-good-looking-dude route like the show has. without thinking about it too hard, having grown up in an exotic play (relative to westeros) she might have more elaborate fantasies about what her dream date looks like.

exotic place

i guess the question is more why and how is a mercenary on campaign dressed up so elaborately

until someone convinces me otherwise I'm gonna stick with "Burning Man"

to be clear i am not at all contradicting that, i have a feeling you are on to something

http://image.blingee.com/images18/content/output/000/000/000/78d/747046348_183465.gif

GRRM clearly drawing inspiration from Enid Blyton's Noddy series

wtf dude

serious bon jovi/wwe vibe off the guy in the show

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Is it all that badly written?

no, sometimes the descriptions are about food

As in:

"Tyrion's belly growled loudly as he helped himself to a trencher of pointed mustachios."

I always have this initial reaction that a mustachio is a mustache made of pistachios

Is it all that badly written?

yes

well, that passage isn't really badly written, i suppose it is just the content that might offend. and if grrm is a bad writer it is definitely more to do with content then actual writerly aptitude. he definitely has the fantasy-series-writer curse of starting out with indulgent urges and then slowly losing the editorial checks on those as the series becomes more successful.

i mean, i have read some fantasy books and i...i've seen some bad writing. terrible, horrifying writing. sometimes i close my eyes and," he trailed off, staring into space, mayhap into the very void.

he was a tv writer for quite a while and that definitely shows in his writing. a lot of the first season of this show practically just used the book as the screenplay

The chapters feel perfectly paced to be scenes in a tv show.

Yeah the first book is rather tightly structured for a 900 page novel

he's talked some about how the act structure of building to commercial breaks by cutting on a cliffhanger really influenced how he approached the chapter structure.

Yeah the first book is rather tightly structured for a 900 page novel

― lego maniac cop (latebloomer)

The first is my favourite in some ways because of this. There's a neat inexorability to the plot which is missing in the later ones, particularly the last two.

yeah the first book is really the best-written one

The third is the most exciting though.

daario kept making me think of the groosalugg

"The third is the most exciting though."

For sure, I'm not sure I've ever read a book quite like it in that respect. Once it hits its stride it's totally relentless.

Seven Hells at the book's description of Daario! Still, I think it would have been more... interesting if the TV show had gone with something closer to that than the bland, romance novel guy that they did go with.

Daario morelilke Fabio amirite

FWIW I really don't think his prose is particularly bad. He's never going to win any awards as a stylist of course, but his writing is often pretty evocative, and he has a way of describing the big dramatic scenes in a somewhat understated way which is very effective. Also a good dialogue writer. As Roberto said, there's a ton of far far worse professional SF/fantasy writing out there.

yeah I was pleasantly surprised tbh tho by the third book he's definitely showing tics and by 4/5 he's straight-up lazy/maybe even a little bored.

aka second act problems I suppose

GRRM vs. Robert Caro in prose style showdown

if hes too lazy to write the books and hes bad at writing why doesnt he just hire someone to do it for him