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

I know the big spoiler that hasn't happened (and might never) in the tv show, so I'm off to the spoiler thread too.
Winds Of Winter is probably coming out at the end of this year so it won't be a safe thread forever.

so now that Stannis and daughter are dead does that mean the only living blood relative of Robert Baratheon is Gendry?

i can't remember, what happened to dany's old dothraki tribe after drogo died?

as definitively dead as jon snow appears to be (unlike stannis as it happens, maybe brienne missed eh) there is a magic woman with powers bestowed from a god who's been known to resurrect people hanging around.

Most dothraki left her after Drogo died and very few seem to have stuck around but they'd probably just be absorbed into the city, so you don't really see them.

Wonder if the high sparrow really expects Cersei to keep cooperating.

Yeah i am willing to bet melisandre does the same thing with Jon that the red priest did with flaming sword dude

Creators and Harrington said there is no return but I'm interested to see if they ever lie about this stuff and are able to keep it a secret. If it did get out that he was working on the show again, maybe the could say it's just a flashback.

I think the actor et al are being artful with this "Jon Snow is dead. Its final" stuff. Hes probably resurrected as Jon Targarean or some such

I suppose as a backup plan they could have shot his season 6 scenes already.

I hope Tormund gets more story again.

HE'S DEAD. JON SNOW IS DEAD AND WE'RE NEVER GOING TO SEE HIM AGAIN!!

*logrolls away*

No one talking about Cersei walk of shame
Seems like that should be take worthy

I think I'd be annoyed if Jon was still alive. Not sure why. As far as the 'walk of shame' didn't she do that to someone else, at least in the books?

(Certainly I knew of the practice from somewhere)

Can't recall wether she started crying before or after she passed the last peasants.

I was thinking of Eberts reaction to the Blue Velvet public nudity scene

This seems of a greater magnitude though perhaps handled more professionally than by David Lynch

No one talking about Cersei walk of shame
Seems like that should be take worthy

― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, June 15, 2015 9:11 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loved it

before the walk when she was naked in the room it was some of the clumsiest switching between head shot and body double i ever saw but then they pulled out proper tv magic during the walk itself, v impressive.

i didn't even notice it was a body double, good tv magicking. it was v intense, agonizingly dragging out forever

The outdoors part was a body double?

that would be some top notch fx

the naked body was a body double

they try to burn jon's body but they can't because he's a dragon

xpost they used a body double for the shots w/o her face

Interview with this episode's director

so according to that interview, those ARE dothraki

Jonah saying "bantering" was hilarious. He said something else amusing just after that but I can't recall it.

I also loved the Varys scene. It was funny even before the last few lines.

Not to go crazy here but is Stannis definitely dead? I feel like speculation about Jon is rife but we didn't actually see Stannis dying.

The reason I think Jon will be back is because killing people is no longer a surprise on this show, they need to bring them back to life.

ofc they are, the first over-the-shoulder shot of them was supposed to look drogo-lite

*jorah - fucking autocorrect bantering me off

if they resurrect a major character with MAGIC! on here, even/especially if it's a year later, goddamn i'm gonna have Lost jumping the shark flashbacks

Daenarys already jumped the dragon

yeah i figured jon snow cldnt die because of all the rumors of his parentage were being set up to be clarified but its cool that he did die and i hope he stays dead

melisandres whole dramatic weird vibes upon returning to castle black was perfect btw, shes so busted

The "bad pussy" but was cheesy even for dorne

Bit

she just thinks her reading of the prophecy was wrong and that jon is really her messiah

I think she realized that even her god abandons guys who burn their own kids

(xps)

lena headey was quite pregnant during filming, which necessitated the body double, it was convincingly handled though

as painful as the scene was i didn't think it was gonna inspire #takes because it makes perfect sense given the sparrows' haughty morality and views of what women are supposed to be in their rigid faith, also their focus on extreme forms of penance of course

It was kind of strange how she just appeared then nobody said anything so she just slinked off. Where will she stay? Doesn't seem like Castle Black is scoring 9.1 for service on Booking.com right now

has this kind of shaming of a royal figure ever happened in history w/out culminating in an execution?

should keep jon snow dead but devote the same about of screen time to castle black with whoever's there doing whatever they'll be doing now (wondering what to do with 5,000 wildlings i suppose)

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Where will she stay? Doesn't seem like Castle Black is scoring 9.1 for service on Booking.com right now

― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Monday, June 15, 2015 10:36 AM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah there must be better places to stay than a hotel full of rapists and your main political rival who already wanted to kill you before your latest and most kill worthy stunt

assume shell get to work seducing whoevers in charge now

I want next season to just be about Samwell on campus fighting title IX complaints

Is it not illegal for Sam to just head off to college? Like if he's taken the black etc.

nah, because he's doing that to remain in service to the night's watch

if he ran off somewhere, or served as maester to another family, now that would be desertion

splitting hairs perhaps but all the other "shocking" deaths made a lot of dramatic sense in hindsight--not sure Jon really does, with so much of his backstory (which is really interesting) left on the table and now a moot point. so I think he'll be back in some form. or at the very least his origins have a part to play.

Loved the mountain 2.0

the final shot shdve been of melisandre scooping up some of his blood in a cup

was there camera trickery going on or is whoever's playing mountain 2.0 really like eight feet tall