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

it's probably book-readers who know what's coming recording their unspoiled friends? xp

lol yeah jorah is gold with comedy princess bride cheeseball hunk on the case now

he's slowly taking on an "old gill" from the simpsons physicality. also that bloke looks ridiculous, i thought wwe wrestler, but princess bride cheeseball is a good description.

i think she even likes the silver fox more than jorah.

i'd thought the big scene i'd been bracing myself for was jon snow getting his eyes pecked out at first. bit confusing

all the pure interweb shock seems a teensy bit exaggerated considering the overegged marital bliss + doors shutting + caetlyn ruh-roh scene before

roose bolton was superb as said. i don't even know how well he tallies with the book character but he always seemed like great casting the first moment you laid eyes on him

also STOP HODORING

i wonder if michael mcelhatton realises he will be booed in the street now for the rest of his life

Just rewatched the last ten minutes. Another great detail is a shot of Frey relishing a gulp of wine as the slaughter unfolds.

And then there's

http://gawker.com/arya-starks-game-of-thrones-red-wedding-reaction-vid-511123345

gyac posted it ned, come on

Even I am imperfect.

Has that big ol army of white walkers from the end of season 2 been walking around in circles or what

Ned Wedding

https://vine.co/v/b3XZMHmxzxh

― gyac, Monday, June 3, 2013 3:51 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dying at this, wkiw maisie williams

it's the eye crossing that did it for me

i wonder if michael mcelhatton realises he will be booed in the street now for the rest of his life

Somewhere Jack Gleason is breathing a sigh of relief.

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Grey Worm has sick fighting skills and he moves with such grace. I hope there is more of him in the next season.

http://tybe.tumblr.com/post/52037481805/so-if-weve-recovered-from-this-red-wedding

Best spear fighting since Brad Pitt and Eric Bana in Troy imo.

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i far prefer the joffrey/sansa/tyrell/tywin stuff to this week's gang, though now most of them are dead i guess there won't be as much about them.

OTM, timely cull of boring characters IMO.

Dunno how Westeros succession works but given that John Snow is illegitimate and everyone thinks Bran is dead, does this mean that Tyrion is now running the north/Lord of Winterfell?

Genuine lol at Arya knocking that dude out though.

Also, trying to work out at what point Lord Bolton was supposed to have been tapped up by the Lannisters. Sometime around that scene when he released Jaime and Brienne?

Kevin McCloud is brilliant as Roose Bolton. Hasn't even changed his voice. Kept expecting him to ask Walder Frey how much over budget the castle had gone.

Tbh I'd barely noticed the dude until this latest ep.

In Westeros it's prob a good idea to never call - or even SAY you're going to call - your son Eddard. A bad end is ahead for any Ned.

Tbh I'd barely noticed the dude until this latest ep.

Same here - couldn't have put the face with the name before now.

What are the rules of the Lord of Light/re-animator stuff? These people are, like, DEAD dead, right? We're not looking at any Starkzombies in Season 4, are we?

Also, trying to work out at what point Lord Bolton was supposed to have been tapped up by the Lannisters. Sometime around that scene when he released Jaime and Brienne?

why did nobody mention this kinda weird act? like robb practically disowned his own mother for releasing jaime and then when baldy did it he was just what, too busy to care?

I don't think Robb even knew about it.

I guess he never found out Jaime was recaptured. Though he would have done from that bearded guy who severed the hand.

the bearded guy is one of roose's men

it does seem weird that not a soul would have told robb, or that we didn't even have a scene of roose telling people to be quiet on it.

well, someone would have had to send a raven, so maybe they're v strictly controlled? or all dead like in winterfell.

Robb didn't appear to know that his sister had been married off to a Lannister either. He wasn't really that up on several things.

no twitter

maybe the ravens were down

just like twitter last night, same shit different ravens imo

you can't get the ravens these days!

a few months ago on reddit there was some "i am a historian, ask me anything!" thread and loads of people were like "how did they get ravens to carry messages in the middle ages???" because apparently GoT is a documentary

A modern communications strategy is useless without both ravens *and* a network of brothels.

pigeon messengers go back to the middle ages in this realm but ravens are just classier eh

pigeons, being inherently magical creates, were wiped out by the doom of valyria

creatures

anyway, yes, i can imagine it wasn't entirely clear but everyone involved in the jamie/briene stuff were roose's men and they were apart from the rest of the northern folks. i think you were supposed to infer that this was going on without robb or anyone else's knowledge from the lack of conversation/shitstorm about it. and as for robb and crew finding out about sansa's wedding, i imagine there is no one left in the capital with sufficient sympathy and resources to get a message to them in the required time.

Harper Voyager (Martin's publishers) have uploaded the Red Wedding chapter to share. In case anyone is interested: http://cdn1.vnetrix.com/A.Storm.of.Swords-Catelyn.pdf

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poor guy

dude crushed it in that scene imo

http://i.imgur.com/LfOhx0S.png

lol

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