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

We've been keeping tactfully quiet about it for three years, we'll gloat if we wanna gloat.

the ott shocked reactions to this have been way less annoying than the smug "i read a book and am thus an all-knowing seer you naive little children, it is entertaining how i knew a thing and you did not!" reactions

pretty sure no one, at all, thinks the ott shocked reactions are annoying---they are hilarious, you child.

guys we are all in this game... of thrones together

can't we all just agree that we hate everyone but ourselves and the select handful of people that validate our beliefs without question?

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Creepy how that chair slides

those of us that've read the books knew the chair would slide you adorable ignoramus

don't know how you kept mum til now, you've truly earned yr moment of smugness

Son, I can barely even leave the house without telling old and/or Facebook about it, it is a minor miracle I kept my trap shut.

Er, ilx. My phone is being too clever.

Some people believe watching a television adaptation of an adult fantasy novel is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.

oh god Rob's body/head thing might have been more traumatising than the damn red wedding.

Thank god for white ladies!

I could feel that coming. Can't wait for the think-pieces.

sssnore

daenerys is white?

lol @ Hodor hodoring down the well

also can I get all Annie Wilkes re the obsidian knife magically reappearing after Sam clearly, CLEARLY DROPPED IT (and I know bcz we rewound it twice bcz we couldnt believe what we were seeing) ie HE DIDNT GET OUT OF THE COCKADOODIE CAR

he had more than one! there was a whole cache under that stone at the Fist of the First Men in season 2.

also he clearly had a several obsidian knives because gave one to hodor and a couple to meera.

hmmmm Varys' otm advice is rejected again. I wonder how that will turn out.

Dany with the brown ppl at the end was super-awk, but the rest of this episode was pretty awesome.

wait, why wasn't Littlefinger at the small council? I missed something.

one woulda thunk in a post jarjar world that the complications of colonialism surrounding "meesa" would've warned off the wise but I guess "sahib" market tested poorly

also: more varys please. You know, when this comes back in late 2014.

wait, why wasn't Littlefinger at the small council? I missed something.

Tywin sent him off to arryn to secure the territory as an ally by marrying Lysa iirc. He left several episodes ago, with his big "chaos" speech being delivered over a montage that ended on his boat leaving the harbor.

xpost Not seen the latest ep yet. So Sam found a knife did he? When we watched the one a few weeks ago we were both "WTF? You dropped the knife, son! You'll be needing that." Grrr.

We were but to be fair the scene cut with them running away but not very far. What could have come directly after was them going "shit! fucking birds... anyhow lets go back over there get some sleep in the shack, I left all of that stuff that has been keeping us healthy and fed since we left, you know, food? That stuff that I, Sam, am totally capable of gathering and/or hunting in the the tundra for myself, a new mother, and a newborn? Oop- shouldn't forget this..." (picks up knife)

that was an odd season closer. instead of the traditional 'here is some shit to get excited about for next time' it was more 'hey don't forget about this stuff you may already have forgotten about'. and that last scene was a stinker.

With the penultimate episode ending on such a crashing crescendo, this was more quietly positioning the characters again and brewing up new developments. I'm looking forward to seeing Theon's sister and her brutish army wrecking havoc if nothing else, and Cersei and Jamie being reunited is interesting.
The last scene was ehh, but ending on the dragons has become the tradition. This time they obviously thought the dragon's-eye view of the crowd was enough. Ehh.

People are still hung up about Sam leaving that blade?

There was too many boring little 1 on 1s in a row. Halfway through I was too distracted to pay attention by worrying nothing would happen before the episode ended. From what I heard there are some book developments that would have closed out this episode in the same vein as the excitement that closed the other two finales. Don't know whether that is true.

I am excited that Stannis is the first to focus efforts on the incoming army of the dead/white walkers.

*From what I heard there are some book developments that would have closed out this episode in the same vein as the excitement that closed the other two finales if they had wanted*

i enjoyed the half-hearted shooting of jon snow.

i was kinda glad ygritte shot him tbh, cocky sonuvabitch

yeah, it was a cute plot device in that everybody can feel okay about him fucking over ygritte now, she did fucking shoot him three times. everyone's even.

serious lols at "you know nothing, Jon Snow"/"I know you won't hurt me OW OW FUCK OW"

otm

honestly thought she was gonna kill him; just a bit disappointed she didn't as that would've been a perfect way to let that plot thread end

aw i don't want jon snow to die

that scene almost entirely made up for the lack of [BIG SPOILER]

I was too busy rolling my eyes at the triumphant embrace of Dany by the freed slaves to be properly offended by it

if I were more of a sad fan I'd write a Doctor Who/Game of Thrones crossover fic called "The Todger of Theon Greyjoy" because that title cracks me up

stannis really is a gigantic twit, isn't he

all that sausage eating and torture bullshit is so tired; i can deal with the show being sadistic sometimes but not when it has a special sadisms section every ep

yeah I hate everything about that storyline, it's so boring and dumb and ott

My wife didn't realize that Reek and Theon were the same person in the books and spent a good chunk of the episode yelling at that scene "THAT NEVER HAPPENED! IT'S DIFFERENT IN THE BOOKS!" It was cute.

I don't even like theon enough to care whether he dies or escapes, just ugh

so the reek thing as i understand it, and just skip it if it's spoilerish, is that theon re emerges later in the books as another character and all the torture scenes in the show are just implied? so those sequences are just to keep the audience aware theon's out there and to titillate with some funtime torture?
guilty lol at the greyjoy carved cockbox tho; i can't be the only person who thought of deathdrone

waiting on the Theon-related SNL "Dick in a Box" parodies any minute now

i'm curious if Roose knows that his bastard is writing letters to the Greyjoys, making demands etc. (if they stated this i could have missed it as my friend's headcase gf was talking over the episode almost non-stop).

Oh yeah, was wondering that as well.

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