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

going to be pretty hard keeping 5000 wildlings onside w/out jon snow kicking about

The murderboob economy was booming this ep, with the boob sector advancing in the Kings Landing market, while murder made big gains on the Braavosi index.

cersei's CGI face

So are they going to kill one Stark per season? Is that how this works?

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

got excited for a sec that there was some Veep/GoT crossover happening that I was unaware of

lots of angry nerds on the twitters complaining that a pregnant lead actress didn't want to spend an extended amount of time walking around naked for their amusement

Do the Night's Watch really need to deal with Wildlings now? Now that they've got their land I think they won't need anyone's help anymore.

I didn't notice the cgi on Cersei at all!

If Dani had been nude last week we probably wouldn't have noticed the shitty dragon riding CGI

wait which Stark did they kill in seasons 2 and 4?

starks dead only on odd seasons

Starks can't die in years where the Giants win the world series.

so can we merge the two (spoilers/non-spoilers) threads now or what

no they might tell us about some letter Ramsey wrote

if GRRM is smart he will put out the next book just ahead of the next season and make a bajillion more dollars

we don't really believe stannis is dead, right? it doesn't make sense to do the cut-away just to reveal that yes, actually he did die there we just didn't feel like showing it

xpost I'm kidding. It's not actually a spoiler anymore, but book readers have apparently being speculating for 10 years about who actually wrote a letter supposedly from Ramsey that Jon received right before he died. It said something like "My army has destroyed Stannis' army. I demand you hand over the lady Melissandre. Also my wife and my Reek are missing, give them back to me." After last night it seems likely that Ramsey actually sent it.

stannis is dead. haven't you seen enough gore?

are we allowed to speculate openly about Jon now? I'm curious if in addition to wolves he might have other...affinities...that only one other character has shown.

maybe he'll come back next season as the dreaded Ser Stoneheart

worgs into wolves, has Hodor-sized cock

^^^exactly

i hope Davos sticks around, i like him. maybe there will be more adventures w/him and melisandre, havent had one of those since the renly takedown in s2.

also re stannis, why'd they rush out to confirm that kit isn't going to be in the next season, that jon is 100% for sure dead, and then not discuss stannis. i'm telling u it's very suspicious he is still alive i believe stannis 4eva.

After learning a few more spoilers today (nothing massive but I probably shouldn't have read Arya's wiki entry) I realise it really isn't safe for me even though I already knew some other bigger spoilers that haven't been on the tv show.

he gets sent elsewhere in the books and gets "entrusted" with another mission. pretty sure Davos will return next season.

xxp - do you think that at the moment Brienne is gonna kill stannis, sansa and theon appear and disrupt the execution?

are we up to speed now w/the books?

no but i think brienne is not exactly trustworthy to carry out a cold-blooded execution

They should have somehow engineered it so that Sansa and Theon land on her as she's about to land the final blow.

i do wonder about the possibility of characters being brought back because that whole deal in season 3 w/beric and his crew would be a really, really odd side story to not bring back. i assume in the books it was used as a tablesetter for lady stoneheart?

an odd story to not revisit, i should say

still don't get why anyone would think Renly had a right to be king

bc he was kind to them and they were an ugly duckling

because everyone hates Stannis basically

he does have the exasperated look of a sitcom patriarch

Book SPOILER: Most of book four especially takes place in the Riverlands, in the region most harmed by the War of Kings, and while Beric and crew doesn't play a big role, they loom heavily over the proceedings. Show has removed all those stories, thereby also removing the most potent thematic layer in the whole series, kinda.

xp if max wright had set fire to andrea elson on ALF

sacrifices his daughter to the lord of light and STILL he can't beat the boltons, nothing goes right for this poor guy!

The disappointment of saving a daughter for years waiting for the perfect moment, only for it to be a waste.

cersei's new golden guy going to have some good storylines, I know it.

looked to have a real bad hypertension problem going on underneath that helmet.

i think the mountain zombie does indicate that Jon Snow might also return from the dead

and then they can fight

why is mountainstein any evidence? You're already got the lord of light extra lives cheat code. No need to look beyond that.

Also Jon may have a cousin who burned herself up and came back with dragons

I'll accept Jon Snow coming back to 'life' only if it is as a wight

just narrative proximity.

i hope joffrey comes back

Do we know Robert Baratheon is dead? It didn't happen onscreen.

next season should just be all the dead characters wandering around in purgatory

"oh, you're dead too?"
'well, I might be reincarnated as a wolf, not sure yet"