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

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.

spoiler

oh come on that's not a spoiler

yah bran's little dream said as much

His dream said this is a detour?

yeah but it said he had to get to some place for some reason so

Didn't Bran learn the last time he was threatened to be made a hostage?? And there's no Theon to save him this time.

"Braaaan...Braaaaaan...go north....spoiler alllerrrttt"

enouuuuuuuugh with the north-going already ugh

Dat Margaery tho

Wish she'd sneak into my room

Braaaaan....now go back South....

braaaan braaan braaaaaan... whatre u doin

Braaaan....I dare you to- I mean, the ancient Gods COMMAND you to- occupy a small animal and jump off a cliff, and then just before you hit the bottom switch into a nearby bird and soar away, and then bring us some small nuts and berries to feast on...Braaaaaan

oh come on that's not a spoiler

it is when you were wondering if Locke was going to go north with Jon and murder Bran.

Haven't seem the latest yet, though I think part of my question gets answered, but what the hell have the snow zombies been up to? We have all these dudes and wildlings and other folks zipping around up north, so the zombies should have made some real headway by now, given they don't eat or sleep. They just lumbering somewhere?

they are very, very slow. they stop every 40 feet to level up their treechopping abilities and play fishing mini-games

they're waiting for winter

im ready for some new castles in the opening, ready to visit new lands

don't worry! image leak from next week's episode:

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/candy-land.jpg

praise the gods new and old

i see they changed the name of castle terror from the books. i guess this makes more sense.

Gorgeous looking episode, from Mireen to the spooky snow fortress.

I wish the white walkers eyes didnt glow

a bit scary huh

*shivers*

man this was boring

It really wasn't.

Yes it was.

no it wasn't

whoever commented on the lack of epic scenes upthread was otm -- I lamented the skipping-over of the meereen slave uprising almost immediately after the scene changed... we only saw one master get shanked! wtf

yeah but then we saw a shit-ton of them get nailed to signposts, which was pretty gnarly

true

so much fun stuff happened this episode

it did feel like another set up ep to me, but you need those too, and there was some cool stuff in it