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

I forgot about her white savior complex, though.

oh come on now

savior complex in general yes, i think her #checkyourprivilege issue has to do with class and shit more than (fictional) nationality.

but that argument doesnt create #clicks the way the right headline and a screenshot of the end of "mhysa" does, which is why it was created, let's be honest here

If only progressives had a queen to take on the ruling class

why the latter was created, i mean xp self

lol slothro only consumes internet media that is pure

there are definite parallels between Dany and Rachel Dolezal

come on man how you gonna be mad at some mild clickbait pokes, obviously i read plenty of that shit myself i read grantland and espn xp

*slothrop

there are definite parallels between Dany and Rachel Dolezal
― let he who has not approved of the ronaldinho bottle opener cast the (sarahell)

feel like this could go in truth bombs, pvmic, solitary posts that sum up, privilege is a meme, etc etc

the fact that you consider that stuff to be clickbait says a lot about you

*sigh* i was referring to the like "10 things" posts those sites make, like comparing athletes to thrones characters stuff or w/e, i'm totally a sucker for that doesnt mean i dont feel guilty sometimes

but yea sure file such a conflict under like, not liking lil B as stuff that makes me hopelessly out of touch at 27, rmde

that was a good dodge you're very accomplished

mom always said i'd impress the kids at school somehow

i think someone already posted the ask the maester thing but that dude and mallory rubin did another one w/ some interesting speculation on s6, especially w/r/t those leaked casting descriptions, prophecies etc. http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-game-of-thrones-book-symposium-a-spoiler-filled-discussion-of-the-season-finale-and-predictions-for-season-6/

I just saw a facebook link comparing GOT characters to houses that supposedly looked like them. Do wonder how long it took to compile a suitable database and what else could have been done with the time.

Maybe headlines generate using SEO. Got to get the click traffic for those GoT HGTV fans.

w/r/t those leaked casting descriptions, prophecies

Some kid who write GoTs fan fictiongoing into a trance and typing, dead eyed: "The wolf shall lie down with flayed man, and Euron Greyjoy shall be featured next season."

Interesting that the iron throne didn't make an appearance all season.

on loan to Empire

shoutout to stannis today

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CICKU1mWoAAfBly.jpg

nice day for back yard barbeque

:(

mom isn't gonna make it the cookout after all

she's hanging out in the woods

(sorry)

did this thread go there yet, good

Love this stuff
https://vimeo.com/132571771

also please note: no ice dragons

Maybe they used computers to erase them!!!

Pred ship?

Well just started watching this, up to S1E7. Pretty amazing! The villains are a bit OTT but they certainly inspire hate at a first glance. It's kind of like a soap opera with a lot more killing.

Daenerys is the main reason I'm watching, after seeing a clip of her with a couple dragons. Holy shit that episode where she eats the horse heart and then they dumb that molten gold onto her sniveling brother's head. I was getting sick of his shit. The Dothraki storyline is definitely my favorite.

I did enjoy Tyrion using his trial to tell as many off-color jokes as possible. Can see why Peter Dinklage is a fan favorite.

I did see the South Park before this, so every time the theme song starts I think back to that and LOL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjzC2DRgEo4

I started reading the books on vacation last week, I'm about halfway through Clash of Kings right now. Enjoying it, and it's fast reading because I know what's going to happen for the most part, but goddamn people are spot on about Martin's prose being painful reading.

The Dothraki storyline is definitely my favorite.

I think this makes you unique

dan m have you read genre fiction previously Y/N?

Yes, but not a whole lot. Most was probably Dragonlance type books in middle school.

http://www.livenation.com/artists/136195/rave-of-thrones

well he certainly puts the prose of dragonlance (not to mention wheel of time, shannara) to shame, no? GRRM is no jack vance-- he's not even my favorite active doorstop fantasy writer-- but IDG this notion that his writing is painfully bad

I prefer JiC's fake GRRM prose tbh

I haven't read the book but p much every excerpt I've seen is just head-smackingly painful, idk how people slog through 1000s of pages of that garbage

for the descriptions of boobs

agree it is both bad and above average for the genre

Hah.

you mean dragon eggs

I guess the badness kind of comes and goes in waves? idk, I'll be chugging along totally fine and then there'll be a series of passages that stop me in my tracks, then I can continue on like no big deal. Definitely better than Dragonlance, but that's just the majority of might & magic style fantasy stuff I've ever read.

GRRM's prose is totally fine and adequate, I mean he's not like "a stylist" or whatever, but I think that's probably good thing considering the vast bulk of this thing.

A lot of people here can slog through all sorts of comics, sitcoms, cartoons, films. Tough bastards.

to be fair there are not a lot of real prose stylists writing high fantasy (even vance only dabbled in that genre for 3 books)-- writers of that bent have tended more toward gray-area lit-fantasy (Wolfe, Crowley, Blaylock, etc)

I haven't read the book but p much every excerpt I've seen is just head-smackingly painful, idk how people slog through 1000s of pages of that garbage

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, July 15, 2015

hmm could it be the passages excerpted are typically the lolsiest?

no, there's all kinds of excerpts all over the net

it's just a story.