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

I found myself being concerned about the quality of Arya's cockles and clams which she seemed to cart around all day in the sun. One character in the brothel said they were "fresh", which I found hard to believe. Anyway, that brothel scene was not only ugh but didn't really go anywhere. I expected Arya to be drafted into service by the madam when that guy kept wanting someone younger. But no, she was shooed out and that was that.

i was a bit surprised to see dany's husband unceremoniously killed, i assumed his timid chump thing was a cover for some association with the rebels but nop there he is getting stabbed up without even a hint of resistance

Or maybe he was a rebel but got stabbed up cause they think he's annoying too

lol

Also the way they built up Bronn's punishment over two scenes - and it turned out to be a punch in the nose?

seems like ppl are glossing over the pedo brothel scene bc of their outrage over the stannis daughter auto-da-fé, but if ever there was a time to complain about needless cruelty towards women in fiction that would seem to be it.

idk but am hoping that dorne is just over now, that cersei's kid comes home and jamie too (or they both die) and nobody ever speaks of dorne again

xp you can't get as many easy #takes written out of that scene, salon writers v bummed today

it was a defensible scene at first (yeah these dudes would prob go to a foreign brothel), then pointless/OTT bc it's like "well of course this person we established as a blindly loyal sadistic little shit has to ALSO be a pederast before arya can kill him"

that said, it does track w/ why he was so eager to be sadistic to sansa at joffrey's command back in season 2. it was ALWAYS meryn trant doing that, not any other kingsguard knights

but nah we didnt really need to see that and it was uncomfortable af

dorne sounded great when it was presented as a paradise of free-thinking hedonists, but maybe oberyn was the only fun one among them

xp prob just trying to remind you that he's a shitty dude since there are so many other minor shitty dudes that he could easily be a shitty tree lost in the shitty forest

Game of Shitty Forests

a friend of mine tuned into GoT for the first time ever for this episode and was like "uh, no".

nothing like the penultimate episode of a serialized drama in its fifth season to find out if a tv show is for you

tbh, this show rarely registers as entertainment with me anymore.

I like to wait for shows to end and then watch them backward to see all the characters rise from the dead

except for the characters who actually rose from the dead... they will unrise back to living.

giant vs mountain

can someone explain without spoilers what Arya's doing and who the people coming off the boat were (Gatiss is Iron Bank guy but can't remember the others)?

Mace Tyrell of the lollipop guild was there to negotiate finances. Sent by Cersei and accompanied by Meryn fucking Trant.

The bigwig is Mace Tyrell and the other guy is the guy who helped kill Arya's sword-fighting teacher in season 1. I assume she wants to kill him or something.

xp

Gatiss is Tycho Nestoris.

ok thanks!

also thanks to that link
Arya is side-tracked from her quest to poison the Thin Man by a familiar face: Meryn Trant. Trant, you may recall, is one of the viler of Joffrey’s King’s Guard (now Tommen’s King’s Guard.) He was the perfect lackey to Joffrey’s cruelty, a mad dog kept barely in check, and the knight who showed up to take Arya prisoner when Ned Stark was arrested. Her Braavosi sword instructor, the great Sirio Forel, saved her life then, but died at Trant’s hand. He was one of the first on Arya’s ever-burgeoning to-kill list.

Meryn Trant is on Arya's list but not on a girl's list. a girl is going to wash out of faceless man school.

genuine lol ^

prob just trying to remind you that he's a shitty dude since there are so many other minor shitty dudes that he could easily be a shitty tree lost in the shitty forest

I have completely forgotten who that guy in the brothel was.

he's still meryn trant

Shit he's been in every season without having registered with me in any major way at all. I thought that honour was reserved for random wildlings and interchangeable members of the Night's Watch.

this show excels at the "remember this completely unremarkable character? well NOW you should!" switcheroos

why do you watch it then

that's no way to talk about the true heir stannis

Meryn Trant is on Arya's list but not on a girl's list. a girl is going to wash out of faceless man school.
― resulting post (rogermexico.)

why do you watch it then

I don't anymore, I just read this thread

why if meryn is the true test, seems pretty coincidental that this thin man likes his oysters at that exact dock, a girl might be getting set up for her true path

What if

can't help but think of the thin man as "Mr. Vanilla Oysters"

this show excels at the "remember this completely unremarkable character? well NOW you should!" switcheroos

― Οὖτις, Monday, June 8, 2015 4:42 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they're not completely unremarkable at all tho

I didn't camp out on the Mad Men thread and ask people "why are you so enamored of smoking sexist and racist white people" for years so I don't fully understand the mindset of people who do that on the threads of shows they don't watch

each thread gets the morbs it deserves

the cast is hugely unwieldy at this point, that yr supposed to recall minor characters who bored you to tears a couple seasons ago because now they are all of a sudden thrust into the center of the action is v lolzy

Mad Men would occasionally bring back random minor characters too, but there I think they did a much better job of being careful about framing those characters' roles in the show and making sure they were all both recognizable and distinctive

(btw DJP when I said I stopped watching it I meant as of two weeks ago)

It does seem crazy that he's been in 16 episodes, but then again he rarely speaks.

nothing like the penultimate episode of a serialized drama in its fifth season to find out if a tv show is for you

lol

Still don't recognise Meryn Trant's name or face or remember anything he's done.

i've literally never been bored by game of thrones

the dorne stuff is definitely of lesser quality than other scenes, but GoT has previously demonstrated the ability to take seemingly meaningless interactions and turn them to key plot elements. i also think they just haven't really found the right voice for those characters yet, doesn't mean they won't in episodes to come.

same goes for the bran quest stuff in seasons past, wasn't my favorite but not unenjoyable. by nature GoT is a big, varied show.

How did greyscale infect Shireen via a toy if you can only catch it if you touch the infected area.

teddy ruxpin with real human skin

nothing like the penultimate episode of a serialized drama in its fifth season to find out if a tv show is for you

― Clay, Monday, June 8, 2015 3:48 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

clapping my hands at correct use of penultimate here

can't they just interrogate all the blacksmiths and find out who's making those masks. where do those masks come from there's an awful lot of them maybe they fell off a truck??

clapping my hands at correct use of penultimate here

incorrect tho