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

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."

Also I have no idea where Stannis Kru are packing up to travel to. Pretty sure this is the result of bad writing, but are they heading up to the Wall or having another crack at King's Landing?

Stannis going north, altho it might be good if he kept everyone guessing on this more in the meantime.

Didn't expect them to be killing off Lysa so soon. You would/should slap Robert for the smallest thing tho, as Lil Taffingies asserted himself and especially as he starts to resemble Julian Casablancas more and more. stroke is coming indeed.

had to google Julian Casablancas... and holyyyy shit.

The Hound's accent is doing some pretty interesting things right now as well...

nah not really

Lmao at Julian Casablancas, Lord of the Eyrie

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!).

o man i am so upset abt the depiction of braavos in the opening credits i wait patiently all season for a new castle then this, all the other castles are so dope and look like real little machines gearing up then this braavos shit is just some horrible sloppy cgi bs wtf happened did their original castles guy die or something they ruined everything

I skip the opening credits is this what you're talking about?

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

Man GoT is the one show I never skip the opening credits of. So stirring.

dude who plays the hound was amazin gin this episode. the way he said "i didn't steal the toy, i was just playing with it" just broke my heart.

i agree that new-gregor is not nearly as sinister as the first version. new one just looks like a big brute. old one seemed truly evil.

Somebody told me they change the opening credits based on who shows up in that ep so I started watching the opening credits but they ran the same shit for like 6 eps straight so I stopped

the way he said "i didn't steal the toy, i was just playing with it" just broke my heart.

Oh man this was such a good reading

new gregor is the strongest man in iceland apparently??

its like instantly he was a child again. so good

irsay wanted to draft the mountain
http://www.sportsgrid.com/nfl/the-colts-might-sign-an-icelandic-weightlifter-who-makes-arnold-schwarzenegger-look-like-a-regular-sized-human/

GoT has the best opening credits ever, except for dr. quinn medicine woman. for those of us who haven't read the books it's like a nice reminder of the GoT's geography

but yeah, they totaly fucked up braavos. maybe the person who created it got all cocky after the first few seasons, and when they came back to him to do braavos she was like "yeah i'll do it...for 8 million bucks. ~snicker snicker~ you NEED me now" and the producers decided to go with someone else

yeah that is a large dude. i am curious how he will handle the long stirring monologue gregor gets this season.

Gregor Clegane: You stupid fucking cunt. You, Williamson, I'm talking to you, shithead. You just cost me $6,000. Six thousand dollars, and one Cadillac. That's right. What are you going to do about it? What are you going to do about it, asshole? You're fucking shit. Where did you learn your trade, you stupid fucking cunt, you idiot? Who ever told you that you could work with men? Oh, I'm gonna have your job, shithead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN6JDwldD2E

omg they should remake GGR with arnie, stallone, jcvd, etc. billion dollar idea.

expendables 3: always be closing

I don't think they change the opening credits per episode, they haven't had the Eyrie yet this season and the Dreadfort's been in all the episodes. And Winterfell's still there!

yeah its not comprehensive but it does have some relationship to the episode like the slavers bay cities were all up to date and then when bravoos was introduced and so on

Yeah they aren't different every single episode but they do definitely bring locations in mid-season.

Game of Thrones and True Detective have been the only US series where I have never once skipped the credits.

Braavos looked good in the actual show.

Game of Thrones and True Detective have been the only US series where I have never once skipped the credits.

― Matt DC

And Breaking Bad (v short though) and Mad Men.

worst credits = Boardwalk Empire, the theme song is so long and awful

Close, but the actual answer is Homeland.

xpost otm re boardwalk

it's so incongruous! like, jarringly so. I would love to hear an explanation for why that music was picked to be THE music

I like Brian Jonestown Massacre but I don't get it as theme music for that show (just looked it up on youtube since I haven't watched the show)

or that song specifically I mean

yeah, why not some old timey music that matches with the setting?

or dubstep

lol that shitty themesong is BJM?! yeah they should have gone with something more period appropriate

They should have picked a better BJM song at least.

maybe some big rousing powerful orchestral cgi thing showing all the locations. the boardwalk, zoom in on the hotel, that weird shop with the babies, over to nyc to rothstein's pad, gyp rosetti's apartment, etc.

and all the locations shd be these animated lil machines that pop up when the camera flies over them

I'm powerfully ambivalent about the GoT main theme. It's a great tune/hook but Djawadi does absolutely NOTHING with it, it's just so dead as music. That incessant accompanying figure is so stupid on fake (or fake-sounding) strings, he shoudl have just owned it and used chunka chunka guitars. By about 40 seconds in I feel trapped. He is p good when he does eerie sound designy cues though.

i always sing the theme with the words game of thrones game of thrones game of thrones over and over like that one youtube

That's kind of cool because three syllable "game of thrones" is out of phase with four syllable "NERR ner ner-ner" so you have to be on your game.

Braavos looked good in the actual show.

Agreed, but we saw Braavos once, something like two episodes before it appeared in the opening credits, IIRC.