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

stannis is so unchill i hate him

There's that scene where Davos reads something to Stannis after hanging out with his daughter iirc

Thought it would have been cool and funny if Ygritte had become a white walker right as Jon Snow was about to burn her corpse

xp they see something in the flames too

I asked a bookreader friend about the process of turning into white walkers. I think there is supposed to be some kind of white walker interaction with the corpse before it can be a zombie??

Cause if not... where exactly is the border that decides whether corpses become zombies or not? Maybe it's the wall? Kind of vague though. More complicated than walking dead rules.

turning into zombies I should have said

"white here while we walk all over you" --the white walkers

white walkers are a separate bunch of dudes from the zombies/wights i.e. reanimated corpses. it is implied that the walkers have to touch the corpses to make them wights but who knows, maybe that shouldn't be read so literally.

Yeah I knew they were distinct- but the "it is implied that the walkers have to touch the corpses to make them wights but who knows" rules I was unsure of.

we haven't witnessed the process in action afaicr. altho the show helpfully showed us where new walkers come from, which the books have thus far neglected to

seriously bran get to the point bruh

― Dreamland, Monday, June 16, 2014 12:36 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i might suggest that these books and this TV series might not be what you want

These wights were made 4 walking..

murder and tits?

xpost

no i mean if you think the plot is needlessly plodding around and wasting time NOW...well....this is what I consider the peppy parts still

I don't understand how Stannis got his armies onto the other side of the wall.

They got on the 4:40 to Brighton

Sailed around. Probs a straight shot from Braavos.

so Wildlings and zombies can't build boats?

I mean why doesn't everyone just go around the wall?

Well they can kill a ship and then make it into a white walker or wight ship

Its not really a white walker anymore tho, more of a white 'floater'

why don't the wildlings build a huge catapault for themselves and parachutes that they can yank the cord on when they pass over the wall

If you want it spelled out tho, the Wildlings were fine with living above the wall until the white walkers came now they just wanna flee from the white walkers

Nobody goes from south of the Wall to above the wall because why would you

I just... why build a wall you can just sail around

idk why I watch this show

bettern nothin m8

this episode was p good but I gotta say the show's two most sympathetic protagonists essentially running away from the action to parts unknown doesn't really bode well narratively...

I just... why build a wall you can just sail around

― Οὖτις,

The Romans did it.

I just... why build a wall you can just sail around

― Οὖτις, Monday, June 16, 2014 11:55 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk why I watch this show

― Οὖτις, Monday, June 16, 2014 11:55 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Remember when Ygritte thought the little windmill was a castle? I don't think the wildlings have advanced enough boat technology...

this episode was p good but I gotta say the show's two most sympathetic protagonists essentially running away from the action to parts unknown doesn't really bode well narratively...

― Οὖτις, Monday, June 16, 2014 12:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm not worried about it lessening their roles or involvement in the conflicts myself.

i alwyas figured it was implicit that the responsibility/purpose of the nights watch folks at eastwatch-by-the-sea and at the shadow tower was to keep wildlings from going around the ends of the wall

the shadow tower isn't even at the ocean, theres just like a river and some hard-to-pass mountains or something on the west side of the wall. its dumb

sailing to attack somewhere is much much harder than advancing via land the wall makes sense ffs people

not to be picky but they wouldn't necessarily be attacking, just sailing.

i mean shit just sail around the great wall the oceans right there u idiots

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Map_of_the_Great_Wall_of_China.jpg

the wall is more of a deterrent than a solution to the wildlings & its heavily implied that its original purpose wasn't to keep wildlings out, it was to keep worse stuff out. its a magical wall.

white walkers dont sail thats why theyre called walkers

am I wrong but I thought the wall might have initially been built to keep out the white walkers?

Even worse are white joggers

http://us.123rf.com/450wm/andreypopov/andreypopov1307/andreypopov130700566/20976917-happy-mature-couple-jogging-over-white-background.jpg

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130429141238/iceandfire/images/thumb/5/55/The_North_map.png/500px-The_North_map.png

As far as I can tell, there is a watchtower to the east keeping an eye out for ships, and a lack of trees to the west, meaning getting a fleet would be really tough.

am I wrong but I thought the wall might have initially been built to keep out the white walkers?

Yeah and after the white walkers went dormant for thousands of years it became repurposed and used to fight wildlings

Think a big reason for the show's success so far has been its po-faced realpolitik grimness

For me, this time 1E6.

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Sunday, June 15, 2014 11:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't understand this twilight-related youtube video embed, was it meant for this thread?

so, tywin and the hound were both in the bathroom, doing number twos, when we dropped in on them last night. note to other GoT characters: do not under any circumstances go to the bathroom! hold it in!

Anticipation of the finale, hyperventilating, etc. xp

I'm not that into the realpolitik so much as the Arthurian legend filtered through the realpolitik. Feels kinda fresh and mythical at the same time.

idk this finale, and maybe the whole season have just made me realize that it's just going to drag on for soooooooooo long

like all I want is for arya to see jon snow or bran (and vice versa) and none of that is ever going to happen

and now I'm kinda like, I don't know if I'm even looking forward to more of this?

not that any of it was bad I think i'm just realizing how boring it all is when you step back. idk idk maybe I just need to lay down

idk this finale, and maybe the whole season have just made me realize that it's just going to drag on for soooooooooo long

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not that any of it was bad I think i'm just realizing how boring it all is when you step back. idk idk maybe I just need to lay down

In this respect they're being very faithful to the show, now you know how the readers feel.

#notallreaders

no offense to the book lovers but I'm glad I bailed halfway through the 2nd book, there's now way I'm gonna pick it up now. 7 books of this cmon

tbh I don't mean to sound like as much of a sudden hater as I'm being

i do like the story