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

Ygritte really was "kissed by fire" after this episode!!

next season opens with Lysa Arryn waking up with a broken leg

LOL. Or landing on the Hound, just the quell the rumors...

"Pushed me out the moondoor" is a hell of a domestic abuse charge.

As well as Gendry that wild girl who protected Bran has been gone a long time. Didn't she leave with somebody?

She's gone off to enforce health and safety regs in King's Landing

Gendry that wild girl?

Gendry is Robert Baratheons bastard. He is last seen in a boat somewhere.

The wild girl is somewhere looking after Bran's little bro.

there is a missing comma in that post

"As well as Gendry[,] that wild girl who protected Bran has been gone a long time"

white walker pulls jon snow off next season and they fall in love

SPOILER ******* if u want to know who the not dead character is follow this link http://bit.ly/1i6P8g8

from THIS season?

have a feeling thats what they were talking abt tho prob just a slight misunderstanding

Come to the Spoilers thread if you wanna know who the not dead character is

http://i.imgur.com/wLkC0wX.gif

r/gameofthrones much Leee?

By the way this is informative:

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/ask-the-maester-game-of-thrones-season-4-finale/

<_<

Or I guess the proper response is a tip o' the fedora?

Answers about the wall here also:

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/ask-the-maester-the-history-of-the-wall-invasion-strategies-and-maester-aemon/

No worries Leee I am also very bored at work.

Still waiting for the Gawker Morning After

As soon as I saw that we were getting a Daenaerys scene I skipped right through. This entire show is better if you just skip the entire sets of characters and entire civilizations you don't care for. Also... Makes the show much much shorter.

That blonde wig chick drives me nuts. I can't tell you how little I care about her or her storyline. A eunuch perving on a bathing woman is a strange encapsulation of why this subplot is so boring.

so i just watched this series from episode one over the last ten days or so. good that i can do other stuff with my time now.

yeah do we know what happened to osha and rennick? weren't they heading to castle black, which bran & co are now presumably miles and miles beyond?

also, has anyone in the history of westeros ever died of natural causes?

Cat's dad.

also, has anyone in the history of westeros ever died of natural causes?

― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

had to look it up but according to the game of thrones wiki:

Bran arranged for Osha to bring Rickon to the holdfast of Greatjon Umber, the Lord of Last Hearth and the head of House Umber. Lord Umber was a loyal ally of the Starks. This arrangement also suited Osha because she was unwilling to travel to the north with Bran and company due to the threat of the White Walkers.

so presumably rickon and osha are chilling with the Umbers.

i have no idea who the umbers are but cool, glad to have that explained without going on a spoiler-ful google search of my own.

they're just some loyal vassals of house stark, or i guess were vassals of house stark since there basically is no house stark anymore. back in season one when that one big dude kinda talked down to Robb when the war was beginning and Robb's wolf ended up biting the guy's finger(s?) off, that dude was Greatjon Umber i think.

ahhh that guy.

feels a bit like my wild binge on this show has desensitized me to, well, everything. if i commit any inhumanly monstrous acts over the next couple of days i'm pinning the blame entirely on grrm.

Guns don't kill people, GRRM does.

at least if i try to crush someone's skull with my hands they'll probably come out of it okay.

the end of this season seems remarkably open-ended, i'm not really sure what i should be anticipating. tyrion's off somewhere to do something, arya likewise, king's landing's in unpredictable turmoil (handy for the tyrells, i suppose), stannis and jon will be chilling together till the white walkers appear, bran will keep chomping down the peyote...

I think that's the best way to get into the show honestly. I did two seasons in one or two days and I wanted more. Unfortunately, season 3 was new and pretty expensive and I didn't have internet. I ended up turning to the streets. Going up to strangers asking "Hey man you got any season 3? Maybe a minute clip? I'll even take deleted scenes"

things got dark, lonely..

ha. yeah tbh i'm not even sure how much i like the show, but nevertheless i couldn't stop putting on episode after episode.

Is Melisandre old enough to be Jon Snow's mother? That was a weird look she was giving him.

can anyone remember exactly what Caitlin and Ned have said about Jon's mother? have there been any hints at all about who she might be?

Ned refused to tell Cat who she was, Cat surmised it was a whore.

there's a ton of hints in the book by this point but they haven't really carried any of them through to the show. all we know show-wise is that ned came back from fighting in robert's war with baby jon, told cat that jon was his bastard son and refused to tell her who the mother was.

a lot of discussion *around* this topic on this thread at the start of the season. still feel like the show is dropping the ball on this though. and the historical context more generally!

this is the popular theory fwiw seems like its prob true http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/548862/20140421/game-thrones-history-jon-snow-spoilers.htm

i dont actually know whether i'm allowed to expound on that in this thread, since jon's parents havent been revealed yet in the books so everything beyond what i just posted is technically just speculation, but there's a very well-supported theory that is a lot more obvious to Book Readers who have a better grasp of the backstory

yeah. I don't think melisandre necessarily knows what Jon's whole deal is, but I think she sees a that there is *something* important about him.

Don't forget that Melisandre claims to be able to prognosticate the future in her flames *hint hint*

shes totally gonna bone the hell out of jon snow

she's gonna bone the hell INTO him

o sht

****POSSIBLE SPOILERS****

isn't there a theory that Jon might also be who melisandre thinks Stannis is? (or perhaps who she is manipulating him into thinking he is)

Nah

There was a line on the show this season from Oberyn that some fans took as a hint about Jon Snow's parentage