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

can't something good happen to someone - like i dunno jaime's hand grows back or cersei meets an old college friend?

whole ep was just bad things happening and then here's a rape with a neutered tortured man forced to watch.

― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Monday, May 18, 2015 2:33 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But when Jaime had two hands he was an evil Disney prince.

But yeah the episode was pretty dark and hopeless feeling.

Jaime and Bronn sneaking around the Dorne gardens was cartoonish. Having them immediately locate his daughter/niece made the already small set feel smaller and any tension was lost as well. Then, to top it all off we get the horrible everything of the sand snakes showing up at the same time:

http://i.imgur.com/UPcmC7b.gif

i guess killing and murder and death are kind of cornerstones for drama. rape is not a plot device in the same way, if you go back to your shakespeare or whatever there's killing everywhere but rape tends to be deployed to characterise someone as a true villain, relative to murderers.

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So far everything about Dorne not named Oberyn has been goofy as all hell.
Is it me or did Elaria Sand's accent grow even more outrageous this season from last?

Yeah Dorne seems like a v silly Aladdin sidebar

new adventures of hercules imo

Also that was probably the single worst fight they've ever staged, and this comes after the ridiculous Sons of the Harpy ambush.

Jaime and Bronn sneaking around the Dorne gardens was cartoonish

for what was painted as a suicidal mission it was sure going pretty smoothly, they just wandered in and had the bad fortune that the sand snakes were also there doing... whatever they were doing. bronn singing was a nice bit of fan service for we robson & jerome fans tho.

Also that was probably the single worst fight they've ever staged

― SCHLITZ MIXED BAG (Sparkle Motion), Monday, May 18, 2015 3:06 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Again:

http://i.imgur.com/UPcmC7b.gif

no I've left it up in my browser since you posted it - really, really bad

i agree, that was a stunningly dumb fight, poorly staged and occasionally nonsensical blocking and some clumsy editing in a desperate attempt to make up for it.

sigh are we really nitpicking fight scenes again

"nitpicking"

r we karate chopping fight scenes again

Maybe I've seen too many good fight scenes lately and this is pennance

that fight scene was shitty is all

i think the problem is that the show is showing its seems more often this season than ever before. maybe this means they blew their budget on the second half of the season? i hope so!

seams, christ!

like the only reason why that gif exists is bc someone took the time to pause it and capture it with the intention of being like, "see? SEE?!!! I SHOWED YOU, THRONES GUYS!" like what a brave truth-to-power stance against HBO gif-maker-person has made by isolating a shot that i and many ppl prob barely noticed!

I hardly think so. I was watching it last night and caught that sloppy shit.

We're mourning the inclusion of Xena: Warrior Princess meetings Ninja Turtles characters/acting/choreography invading our beloved and refreshingly gritty fantasy epic.

But I liked the Jorah/Tyrion scene. Made me miss old man Mormont. That dude was solid.

tbf it was not a great scene of action but i only really am thinking that upon rewatching, when the moment played for the first time the story situation was of greater import to me - which, for me, is the ultimate barometer for this sort of stuff

Well again, had I not read the books I would have no real understanding of who the hell the sand snakes are and why they just popped up at that moment. The development of Dorne as a land has been a lot of shorthand, very choppy.

that collection of girl ninjas are all pretty uninteresting and their last scene on the show was similarly badly blocked and played.

that i would agree with, the dorne part - like it's established who they are sort of, but in brief scenes one of which was very basil expositionish, as ppl pointed out

i liked areo hotah getting a baller moment against jaime tho

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totes shit blocking 100%

The whole Sand Snakes narrative is terribly acted and written, and a silly gif of awkward larping kind of sums the entire thing up.

Speaking of Dorne: in the opening credits the little snake climbing up the pole looks so corny and bad. Even worse than the Titan of Braavos.

alexander siddig (great brit charactor actor, what a surprise) has been effective in his brief scenes as doran, but they are really brief.

Dorne would even benefit from a nice shot of the city, right now it feels like the whole thing is being shot in the courtyard of a nursing home.

Sand Snakes seem like some toy company's attempt to introduce new action figures through the show

after the 2nd sand snakes scene i agree with crits of the acting, but the writing is literally no different than any other self serious character on the show, of which there are many

The whole Sand Snakes narrative is terribly acted and written, and a silly gif of awkward larping kind of sums the entire thing up.

New display name, thanks

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More Siddig would be a major help. Most of the Dorne chapters are just his musings anyhow, seems like there's a lot to pull from.

Well again, had I not read the books I would have no real understanding of who the hell the sand snakes are and why they just popped up at that moment.

Wasn't it just last week that they had that long scene with the Sand Snakes getting a pep talk about swooping down on Myrcella and killing her in repayment for Oberon's death?

Maybe - I may have been distracted with a lot of 'what the hell did she just say' or 'why is she talking like that' etc. I guess with a show this big one scene per storyline is all you're gonna get. I just thought it was sketchy.

Awkward Larping would be a really cool band name, if it wasn't so geeky

its redundant

Wait why wasn't Areo Hotah surprised to see Jaime Lannister? I'm just realizing he didn't seem phased at all by this.

He's ready for anything.

areo hotah is a superchill norvoshi warrior dude, basically as close as you get to having unsullied levels of cool calm collected w/o being enslaved, mentally broken and castrated

is that the secret to being stress free and confident?

uh no, grey worm does not seem to be having a good time and not just bc of the stab wounds currently healing, missandei showing up for comfort prob only does so much.

even before that he seemed depressed a lot

wld be cool if grey worm turned out to have a hot throbbing peen

SURPRISE

tbf i dont think he's said for that reason even, just generally glum, it probably really sucks in meereen and everywhere else in slaver's bay

*sad

on the plus side, adewale akinnuoye-agbaje is back home at HBO. hope he and his merry band of slavers get a spinoff.

"The dwarf will live until we find a suitable cockmerchant."