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

Littlefinger was using the same tone of voice he used to deliver his "chaos is a ladder" speech - which may have been the last we saw of his character at the end of last season?

I remain unmoved by the 'rape' scene. It was grim, but in this show it didn't strike me as being something that stood out of place, particularly.

It seems even thicker than at the end of last season though.vIt's kind of puzzling that in the course of shooting his scenes no one is like "TIME OUT dude why are you talking like that?"

i enjoy the weird accent. the show has made him much more of a pantomime villain and i am fully behind the theatre of it.

Inbetween last season and this, we watched the Wire, which has made Littlefinger all the more puzzling.

Gillen is not a good actor. He just about got away with it in The Wire but he's been terrible (and bizarrely-accented) in everything he's done since then

i thought he was great in the wire!

Don't get me wrong, his accent, and acting in the Wire were both weird. I had no idea he was in it until the episode he appeared.

he was great in Queer as Folk (which was obviously forever ago, but still)

I thought he was quite good in that Statham/Considine flick (the name of which escapes me). Ropey accent aside I think he's a very good Littlefinger.

Yeah, I think he's a great fit for Littlefinger. Just wish he could pick one accent.

lol I hated this guy and his chicken-faced g/f in the Wire, he's only slightly less irritating here. such a silly actor.

his silliness as littlefinger is kinda perfect for the role tbh. also you better not be talking abt my girl brandy burre.

his chicken-faced g/f in the Wire

If you are referring to D'Agostino then we should have words, outside.

Brandy Burre in a blonde wig:
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/UbyKywWvlCE/maxresdefault.jpg

shakey you really love to make fun of the way women look

I can make fun of you too if you like

in my defense I reserve it for people on TV who are asking to be looked at

http://www.joshhanson.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/youaskedforit.jpg

tbf s1ocki it's only a select few he fantasizes torturing

thx ethan

anytime morbs

Loved Gillen in Treacle Jr. He played a sweet, delusional outsider who may have a mental condition. Quite sad and funny film.

does ilx have an ignore feature yet so i can opt to never see another shakey mo collier post again? thanks, mods

I feel like Dinklage's accent is a bit shaky too but he's just so charismatic that it's extremely easy to forgive. I feel similar about Gillen.

Doesn't Littlefinger travel a lot? Could that be an excuse for a wonky accent? Probably not. Some people pick up little bits of other accents very quickly and other people keep their original accent for decades in another country, I wonder how that works?

The Baelish family came from Braavos. Arya's tutor was from Braavos and had an accent. Maybe Petyr's weird accent is a shorthand way of getting into how he changed his family sigil and disavowed his Eastern roots.

Serious RetConning going on ITT...

What are some nonspoilery examples of said retconning

I just mean trying to come up with a "reason" for Littlefinger's new accent. Seems more like dude just switched accents...

LF has no personal connection to braavos tho, his family has been in Westeros for at least a couple generations and he was mostly raised at Riverrun so if anything he should sound like Catelyn.

jeez shakey

also this tweet is otm https://twitter.com/nicole_cliffe/status/458042660993789953

― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, April 23, 2014 10:01 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

in the books i always pictured stannis as henry rollins

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stannis wouldn't fuck around in a band, he's too dour, more plausibly a former championship centre back

Ha well I suppose there was already an ex punk on the show (rip wilko)

stannis is more like

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/wennpic/wenn5233486.jpg

hahahahahaha low blow man.

davos is kind of like

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_404h/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/10/24/Style/Images/fahey.jpg

Well that explains his antipathy towards pirates and smugglers xxp

http://i.imgur.com/RkxjlGW.gif

Oh come on, I thought this was the spoiler-free thread! Thanks a lot, fun-killer.

Baelish is gonna ruin everything for Sansa.. again.

http://youtu.be/rog8ou-ZepE

tight ep

Feel like an uber-nerd when I see a "written for television" credit for Bryan Cogman because I just *know* there's gonna be some mythology shit.

That ending ruled.

hell yesssss
baby + whitewalker I caught myself thinking, oh well maybe they're nice to the babbies and they don't mess them up and they're just weird zombies who legit like babbies hmm oh wait yea no

brianne getting the sword & armor & podric was v exciting

Only thing I rolled my eyes at this ep was the stuff with bran & co. Like I get it, bran's story is pretty dull (at least until he gets to...a certain place) but I'm not crazy about this little detour.

It is kinda fun as a book reader not knowing exactly how things are gonna play out!

For us non-book readers, here's an AV Club list of 15 changes from the novels to the series that isn't spoilery: http://www.avclub.com/article/well-actually-books-15-differences-text-tv-game-th-203713

This episode was mildly frustrating to me. Why they ever wanted to go north of the wall I don't get. Jon isn't fucking there! And yes that story is kinda snoresville. I have't read the books but I know how some stuff plays out this season.

The Jaime/Brianne scenes were pretty rad though.

Only thing I rolled my eyes at this ep was the stuff with bran & co. Like I get it, bran's story is pretty dull (at least until he gets to...a certain place) but I'm not crazy about this little detour.

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