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

I was glad to see Hot Pie again. Sort of comforting to know that in the midst of all this blood and chaos, he's just been chilling at the tavern making kidney pies and pontificating about gravy.

ha, yeah, this might be the only truly chill scene in the entire series.

lady mcwitchtits seemed pretty chill in that bath, getting her calgon on

yet she's too creepy to really make a scene chill

I wonder how they break down the writing gigs because the dialogue in the scene with Arya, the Hound and the dying man can't be by the same people who write the Essos or Night's Watch scenes. That whole exchange about death was on another level. "Nothing isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just nothing."

Littlefinger's accent is one of the show's seven wonders. "What shall it be today? Johnson from Peep Show? Rob Brydon caught between impersonations? A Welshman trying to sound Irish? An Irishman trying to sound Welsh? Why not all of them? Yeeeeesss."

Daario most unconvincing lover man ever

I think he was quivering

― 龜, Monday, May 19, 2014 11:26 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this was a horrible re-cast

he really is shit.

this guy is on orphan black doing much the same role, right?

daario v.1 definitely seemed to have a sinister edge that this guy is lacking. He reminds me more of Ellis from Die Hard (Daenerys! Bubby! I'm your white knight!) than a dangerous sellsword with nebulous motives.

al leong, everything reminds you of something from Die Hard

; )

Daario v1 had crazy eyes and iirc a cool ponytail, Daario v2 has a nice recipe for baked apple fritters that he got from his grandma

haha it's true

Daario v2 wants to know if you have any questions about our deals on flatscreens here at Best Buy.

when Daario v2 pissed on the ground after defeating the opposing champion, he was also extinguishing glowing ash from the previous night's campfire, as he noted that the dry conditions and strong winds in the area amplified the potential for brushfires

ha he is on orphan black!

he is so generic and personality free I didn't realize it was the same person

daario 1 had that uber-douchey super confidence that women are viscerally repelled by but also ultimately can't resist (fyi).

Daario v2 is a known master of knife throwing, famous for having won many tournaments all over the land.

But you should see what he can do with an ultimate frisbee.

http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/tv/2014-04-04/c64caf50-bba1-11e3-ab6a-a567d1fa47dc_Michiel-Huisman-split.jpg

rolling fedora 811

he... he looks like a male version of my sister-in-law's partner

http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/dancing/rocking-stickman-smiley-emoticon.gifhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFdYlTXluJMhttp://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff281/airbass182/th_misc337.gif

he is so generic and personality free I didn't realize it was the same person

The mark of a great actor!

like a blank canvas

http://i.imgur.com/FVWPj4H.jpg

That scene was pretty clunkily written, yes.

Lol @ lady mcwitchtits

yeah, the whole I'M GONNA HIT YOU NOW BECAUSE YOU KNOCKED OVER MY SNOWCASTLE after years of being debased by a real baby sadist rang hella false

If they'd written it more as her venting years of frustration against an easy target that would've been OK.

yeah, exactly! it was right there!
tbf, the actress playing sansa is not spectacular.

that was probably the intent but i think what failed in that scene wasn't the writing as much as the directing and via that the acting.

how much actual time is supposed to have passed between the beginning of season 1 and now? because arya is about 5'9" now.

I think two years at least.

I'm not sure it's ever made entirely clear how they mark the passing of years in Westeros (and I've read the books!). Are there like mini seasons on top of the years-long summers and winters?

I think it's the writing that got messed up, because:

in that same chapter little robert arryn comes along with his doll and starts destroying her snow castle, like the little jerk that he is. So Sansa in an attempt to stop him grabs the doll and accidentally rips it head off

The accumulated trauma idea could've been pulled off, but that's the responsibility of the writing and at the discretion of the direction/editing. As is, everything happened so quickly (like they were antsy to get to The Kiss) that any motivating factor got shortchanged.

i think w/that exact dialogue you could have shown sansa kinda getting worked up a bit more, or differently, making it clear that it's really about something else entirely, and making her apology play like her snapping out of it, rather than this sort of generic bratty kid and exasperated girl thing that plays like a dumb overreaction.

The look on Lysa's face after Fingerbang says "I have only loved one woman" is gonna haunt my nightmares forever

Has "Fingerbang" always talked out the side of his mouth like Popeye?

stroke is coming

Xp the cadence of his voice is that of a man who has been directed to change how he talks so many times that he's forgotten what human speech should sound like

http://ninjanomers.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/rickybobby.jpg

Like this kind of thing?

Except mouth/tongue vs. hands

Sort of thinking that Littlefinger's entire plan is predicated on Tyrion dying, which looks a banker from his point of view but probably isn't going to happen. Assuming divorce isn't a thing in Westeros, which it doesn't appear to be.

So as long as Tyrion remains alive (and everyone thinks that Bran is dead) then Sansa isn't the grand prize that she appears to be. Which means that now would be a very very bad time indeed for Arya and the Hound to just rock up at the Vale.

Does it matter whether Tyrion dies? I thought the only purpose Tyrion serves in the plan is to be who everyone thinks killed the king. Though honestly I have no idea how this is all supposed to play out in the long run according to LF.

he needs to marry sansa to have a claim on winterfell, and she is married to tyrion.

Divorces in Westeros happen the same they did in Tudor England: find a religious figure to annul it.

Isn't the prosecution's story that Sansa was an accomplice to the murder? Seems weird that they'd just let her marry Littlefinger without a trial or something.

Seeing her pushed through the hole was a rare moment of something being all the sweeter for being predictable, with all the anticipation knowing it was going to happen.

Is Littlefinger doing Sean Connery?

Define "doing."