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

boring little 1 on 1s are also a finale tradition and they're always my favorite, esp when they're reflecting/navel-gazey/not directly talking about the big storylines/sort of how real people talk

― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Wednesday, June 12, 2013 3:30 AM (6 hours ago)

Yeah but with them all one after another it deflated the (potential) momentum I'd been hoping for in the finale. Though I'm aware we all needed a rest after the red wedding arguably... except I was looking for a little more resulting chaos.

tbh i'm cool with the second to last episode containing the climax and the last episode acting as an actual come-down conclusion, everyone's just used to the jj abrams "finale has to be super exciting and end on a major cliffhanger" method

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Nedder

James Stark was the winner for me.

Along with Henry

Ned. Nedder.

Neddest.

Nedderino

ashamed to have cracked up so hard at that

The Nedsterrrr! x-p

Okay you people.

THERIN GREYDUDE

i do have to admit if I didn't read the internet and this board and other boards I would be pretty clueless about the names of 50% of the characters, too.

Nedder Ragdude

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grandmother of boobs girl, iron queen

honestly he did better than me

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Hey I got a new display name of of that.

Was there talk upthread about another fantasy series by a contemporary writer that is as rad and HAM as ASOIAF and doesn't have the same racial and gender baggage that GRRM carries?

what's HAM?

It's like BAMF, I think.

I always think BAMF is the sound of Nightcrawler teleporting.

what about EGGS

Extremely graphic and gratuitous sexytimes?

SNIKT

POTRZEBIE

BLARGH

VEEBLEFETZER

So I've seen most of this, and I don't like it. I don't know why. No complaints about the photography/technical side of it. Why don't I like GoT, anyone?

your a fucktard

wow, sorry... that was uncalled for... and probably untrue...

pvmnic

Well, no, lots of people like it, and they like other things I like, so I kind of wonder if I am being a bit of a fucktard.

not everyone has the hunger for it

for ass, i mean

i don't know what your deal with the show is

put on your freaking thinking cap and figure it out yourself, pal. we're not your analysts!!

dammit i'm a person with a hunger for human asses, not a doctor!

I think part of it is the cumulative effect of lots of almost-actual-names. It's a pedantic annoyance. The thing is, I could ignore the silly names if it wasn't also aiming for (and a lot of the time getting) a certain level of realism.

Relatedly, it's medieval europe without the Christianity. It takes away the element of scheming royalty who pretend to be acting for a greater good, or anyone who actually considers themselves to be acting for a greater good. There's no Gregory of Tours writing his histories in the middle of all the violence. Decaffeinated medievalism. But then who wants to watch Kingdom of God.

I like the dirt and sweat on character's faces. Landscapes, costumes, that's all good. And this isn't me being flippant, these things are important in creating a world. In a similar way I liked this element of Mad Men.

I like the eunuch bits and the dwarf bits and the bits with them together.

the eunuch doesn't have any bits iirc

The thing that bugs me a bit about the show, having no idea where it is going, is the pointlessness of all this fighting and scheming in a world with armies of snow zombies, dragons and women birthing smoke demons. Prioritize, you inbred morons! That's why I liked the end of the last episode. Red Witch was all fuck this game of thrones shit, there is an approaching army of snow of zombies!

Speaking of which, what happened to the army of snow zombies? Did it get lost?

lol i sort of get the name thing

isn't ASOIAF supposed to be one of those "they're all speaking a different language, you're just reading it in english" books? whenever i read some alternate universe story where the names are just slightly different, it seems to imply some sort of evolutionary determinism, like "in every iteration of earth, language will evolve similarly and with a degree of direction, but not quite exactly". which is bunk, and a cool excuse to not create silly names and instead create silly deviations from names we're used to, i guess bc it's between "robb" and "gakzorn". but if we're reading a hypothetically-translated language, why not just translate the names to common english spellings as you would with "dragon" or "sword" or "tree", or i dunno be annoying about it and spell it "dragyn" instead. idk. it is corny and obnoxious to see "robb" and "CATelyn", though there aren't too many other examples from GRRM

also of course the main language we spend the most time with is always perfectly translated into english and the foreign languages across the river into dothraki land aren't based on any real languages, just your standard "savagey gibber-gabber" etc

nb i might be thinking of LOTR with this stuff

Actually, they speak English, complete with Latin alphabet.

oh lol

Sorry, they don't speak using the Latin alphabet, of course! They wrote in it.

Ah yeah, that's another thing, I wish there weren't dragons in it. Sorry if that's missing the point. Ice-demons and smoke-demons, fine, I liked them.

dragons p cool in general tbh

"Relatedly, it's medieval europe without the Christianity. It takes away the element of scheming royalty who pretend to be acting for a greater good, or anyone who actually considers themselves to be acting for a greater good. "

Dunno if I agree with this tbh, I think there are a number of characters and organisations who seem broadly interested in representing the interests of the people or "the greater good" or whatever. Most notably at this point Varys (tho tbf who the fuck knows) and the Brotherhood Without Banners, whose raison d'etre is to protect the 'smallfolk' from the schemers and the monsters and so on

I think GRRM does have a problem understanding religion - the way that the religion of the seven fits with the state and daily life and economic power is v thin and unrealised (and none of the variants he presents in any of the books make it any less so).

the dragons are sadly inextricable from the entire thing.