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

nagl frederik B

Can't wait to deliver a giant TOLD YOU SO in a year or so.

Basically, the plot is complete nonsense. So absolutely anything can happen. And when Benioff & Wise are left to their own devices, odds are think up something that involves the sexual degradation of women. I've seen the show, folks.

Although I did like the one guy who shouted a very audible 'FUCK OFF' during Cersei's walk of shame.

Do the Lannisters have literally no control over the populace of Kings Landing now? I'm still confused as to how all that stuff managed to happen without the king's guard rushing in and doing something about it, especially when during Joffrey's reign, no one would have stepped out of line at all.

wonder if that lady is gonna kill the dorne king next, i mean shes gonna be in a lot of trouble once he finds out right

― lag∞n, Tuesday, June 16, 2015 11:35 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

at first i was like "whuh" because i thought she was drinking her own poison to commit suicide when i watched originally but totally forgot about that whole antidote business lol

Frederik, why are you watching this since it's obviously annoying you?

xpost yeah i didnt catch that either oops

Frederik B can you not

yeah i thought she was killing herself too which wldve been p cool but then she just took the antidote and walked away all smug smh

Do the Lannisters have literally no control over the populace of Kings Landing now? I'm still confused as to how all that stuff managed to happen without the king's guard rushing in and doing something about it, during Joffrey's reign, no one would have stepped out of line at al

There was a scene in S2 maybe when Joffrey and Sansa got stuck in the middle of King's Landing and the population went mental at them, the Hound and Tyrion had to bundle Sansa out of there. So I think they've always been basically hated by the proles.

Also Cersei built the religious fanatics up in the first place order to compensate for a general lack of allies/muscle elsewhere, so maybe the King's Guard isn't what it used to be.

But they've got a resurrected killing machine now so she should be able to regain that iron fist pretty easily.

King's Guard is just like 7 dudes isn't it

well 6 now post-Ser Merren

one of them is a big frankenstein tho

x-posts: I'm invested in the show because I'm invested in the books. I like the world and I want to know where the story is going. In a year, the show will be spoiling everything that is happening in the story, and it will do so incompetently, and with extra added misogony. Yay.

In that way, this isn't like all other tv-shows, which I just don't watch when they go bad.

u love it u love it so much u almost cant stand it

oh Fred just admit it

more info than you needed: http://time.com/3921066/cersei-game-of-thrones-history/

x-posts: And I'm sorry, I'll leave you to it, but I can't take all the speculation over the nonsense in Dorne and Winterfell seriously. Trying to figure out motive and what will happen next. Well, the showrunners aren't competent enough to have thought it through! It's like watching people watching a monkey throw paint on a canvas, and discussing who it's supposed to look like.

if even DJP didn't get my joek I am going to cry

i got it & i loled :)

*whew*

was it an annoying joke

been caught stealing an annoying joke once

Can we talk about how disturbingly exhilarating it was to see Arya kill Meryn Trant?

^^^

I did appreciate how they added the reminder of how bad he was first. Because without those extra two minutes of the known child raper beating little girls with a stick I would have been all, jeez, Arya, chill out a little with the eye-gouging.

It was pretty good. For a minute I thought the other girl who works for many faced God was there and she would kill him.
On the other hand I don't know why Arya revealed her identity after he had been stabbed so many times. It didn't seem like a person in that condition could understand anything being said.

shes still an assassin IN TRAINING remember!

magic is p much by definition unexplained. idk what concept of magic as a distinct force anyone in this world cld have given they clearly have no recognisable conception of science (or mb any convincing explanation of the cosmos). how/why wld they differentiate certain animals as magic or w/e

also if we're waiting for receipts is the lannister daughter DEFINITELY dead bc i'm going to remain sceptical

rankings in order of least to most likely dead

1. jon snow
2. stannis
3. myrcella

On the other hand I don't know why Arya revealed her identity after he had been stabbed so many times. It didn't seem like a person in that condition could understand anything being said.

I think she needs the ritual to make her murders OK -- we saw a similar thing when she killed Polliver(?) by repeating what he said about Lommy -- so that it was as much for her own sake as it was to agonize Trant.

Well, now that The Mountain is alive again, Qyburn might be looking for a new project

xxp

Also, there was a brief discussion on characters with (seemingly) impervious plot armor like Tyrion and Dany -- but I don't think anyone mentioned our favorite little girl psychopath assassin. Didn't GRRM say that Arya was his wife's favorite character, meaning that there's no way she's going to die any time soon?

There is an established system of science (Maesters/Old Town), it just happens to be at odds with most notions of magic. I presume it will be quite a significant theme in Sam's story going forward.

xps

Didn't GRRM say that Arya was his wife's favorite character, meaning that there's no way she's going to die any time soon?

is she the only remaining female character that hasn't been raped, besides Brienne(?)

do you really want a list

i can't tell if you're joking but margaery, melisandre, ellaria, off the top of my head...

I imagine the maesters are in the books more but there's been v little hint of what they get up to in the show so far besides act like regular medieval scholars

Yeah I think most exposition on that front began and ended with Pycelle (treating Robert/John Arryn. Boasting about his role in the birth of Cersei's children. Aemon was too old to get up to much

Medieval scholasticism is definitely the model he uses but the role of maesters is supposed to be far more practical than that would suggest.

Maesters practice

http://circleofeducation.com/site/assets/uploads/14-The-Magic-of-LearningLMSZ.jpg

shakey's had a list of fantasy rapes going for at least a decade iirc

were the sand snakes actually awesome in the novels? Before this season started it seemed like lots of people were excited abt their presence.

They really didn't seem so to me at the time and I wasn't going to go back and read all that shit again, so I just assumed they were and I'd skimmed it.

shakey's had a list of fantasy rapes going for at least a decade iirc

get a new joke

you're criticizing someone else for monotony?

re: Sand Snakes GRRM was going for a sexy Deadly Vipers Assassination Squad only with 8 ladies, and so yes, that aspect got people excited.

they were okay, and at least not risible

i get annoyed whenever the sand worms are on screen, so lame

they are lame, but idk, i am not very upset when they are on my screen.