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

i heard the whole thing is off the rails now anyway

i know mastodon got a mention already for the music, did anyone clock their cameo as wildlings? :D

https://twitter.com/mastodonmusic/status/605433220256034816

i may work "you know nothing angst kid" into my posting repertoire

those articles are spoiler-free i think - they're done as a kind of review of each episode.

xpost to poly

i've read several and am fairly sure there were no spoilers

dunno if y'all watched the animated histories - i thought they were really cool. prob mentioned here already but a good background to the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSuXBVv4ppY

Tormund is becoming a favourite of mine, he's pretty cool. Hope he tells more stories about getting it on with animals.

I thought it was a pity they killed off the wildling woman chief - seemed a good character.

http://morningafter.gawker.com/a-closer-look-at-the-insane-battle-from-last-nights-gam-1708160269

I mean this stuff is pretty good too, I gueeeess

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen was good in the role. There was one scene where all of a sudden she spoke Danglish, which kinda fitted the role, but I'm allergic to Danglish. I've spent years learning not to speak Danglish. And it's everywhere at the moment, Hannibal, The Duke of Burgundy, and now Game of Thrones. It freaks me out.

I thought she was going for an almost Irish accent at one stage. Like a Danish person doing an English person's Irish accent.

aw jeez oi fookin hate thenns

is there any chance they'll have her back as zombie confronting her kids? in tv language they did leave that open.

if they don't do it i will be very disappointed

so keep that in mind, GoT writers, you could be letting at least one fan down

hehe... anyone got any thoughts on what ramsay might do?

die in a fire, hopefully :D

He is a horrible prick but I am enjoying the performance (albeit slightly less since someone posted his crap indie song here)

is there a Ramsey scene where he isn't eating something?

Ramsay's twenty good men are literally his backing band and some roadies

He's going to rock Stannis within an inch of his life

i want stannis to fuck his shit up

I quite enjoy Ramsay too. He seems confident about his 20 men plan but it would be funny if it went horribly wrong. It would be interesting to finally see Stannis as a credible threat to all the other rulers.

I fear he will get to kill Davos but hopefully the latter gets to do him some severe damage in the process (would rather have Brienne finish him off).

I'm worried Stannis is going to die, that chat with Melisandre where she reassured him of her visions was basically "got myself a new boat, called the Live Forever"

hahah I just said that exact bit when the wildling woman was telling her kids she'd see them shortly

damn, was hoping the giant would become a white walker giant and jon snow would be like 'oh fuk'

Stannis is super dead, the touching father/daughter bonding this season is the giveaway

I still think Reek will do in Ramsay as the only possible way to get people to stop hating his fucking guts

Am I the only who misses Bran? I miss Bran. Bran was dope.

I still think Reek will do in Ramsay as the only possible way to get people to stop hating his fucking guts

nah hes too far gone

Sansa will stick him with that corkscrew she collared.

i hope yr all wrong abt stannis

i can't believe we have to go back to that dorne story

the illustration of the night's king here is so terrifying

http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Night%27s_King

eternal lol at the fanart on game of thrones wikis

i forget whether Dorne ppl are pro-Dany or anti-Dany

The Mad King treated Elia Martell poorly so Dorne is probably not inclined to like her, but philosophically I think they're compatible.

The wall was built explicitly for white walkers--If humans lived north of it before the long night and bran the builder, they were not considered a threat on the order of the walkers. But as the walker threat dissipated and the number of wildlings grew (through migration mostly), the wall became more of a protection against the wildlings. The gift is largely unoccupied because wildlings raid it!

ya, i'm pretty afraid Stannis is toast. or worse. possibly even his daughter.

wait what did the Mad King do to her? She was his daughter-in-law iirc. Dead Lannister patriarch had one of the Clegane boys murder her and her babies.

i hope stannis sacrifices his daughter to lord of light that wld be the best plot development since ned got his head chopped off

wait what did the Mad King do to her?

jaime overheard the mad king violently raping her on the reg iirc

that was the mad king's actual wife, rhaenys iirc, not elia - not that it's any less hideous

I had it wrong I guess!

The Martells themselves were enraged with the murder of Elia and her children. Oberyn wanted to continue the war and champion the cause of Viserys Targaryen, the only surviving Targaryen prince, but Doran Martell, who had succeeded his mother as ruler of Dorne, knew that they were not strong enough and made his peace.

yeah elia was aerys ii's wife

wait no she was the daughter in law

hard to keep these people we've never actually seen straight sometimes u know

anyways dorne folks mostly just despise the lannisters

reasonable stance to be sure

keeping this shit straight is a goddamn nightmare even on a casual level

you guys are lucky they totes eliminated the kettleblacks and the family with the daughter who got raped and brain damaged during the kings landing riot

it was interesting during the Dany/Tyrion chat than when he was listing the powerful families he did not mention the Martels, who would be the most sympathetic to her right to the throne.