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

But they are so few and far between.

i know... honest im just on my phone in betewen the fight scenes. i have no idea whats going on in the show anymore or how its different from the books

When the violent noises start you look up?

yuyp

Were you watching the Spartacus tv series?

Whats that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus_(TV_series)

It initially looked like a shoestring budget version of 300, I thought it looked terrible but a lot of people said it was great silly fun and surprisingly engaging (but people said that about 300: Rise Of An Empire and they were wrong).

Spartacus >>>>>> GoT

Cool man i'll check it out

i don't like action scenes or fighting scenes when they get too corny or goofy i like it when they have just the right amount of gravitas which is why i still watch GoT

Look forward to lots of manly laughter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2hgQLlUWGo

i like when ppl r slaughtered at weddings

from that pov this is the best show ever

goon you gotta see new jack city

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you've got red on you, jon snow

jeez hbo spoiler tag plz

he's just resting

Not that it's surprising, but once you start bringing characters back to life, even in a world with thousands of snow zombies, then nothing really matters, does it? I only read the first couple of books, but it sounds like the show skipped/avoided the bizarro Lady Snowbrain or whatever plot, right? Just reading descriptions of that made no sense to me. So however he's brought back, assuming he is, and there is no reason not to assume he will be, then what the hell? Is he going to fight Zombie Mountain? Parley with the snow zombies? Bring all his ample dead family back, too?

maybe he's just going to "chill"

zombie Jon Snow will be extremely sexual, calling it now

Well, yeah.

sexy zombie jon snow is gonna be THE halloween costume for 2016

bloodied man buns and leather jerkins all along the bushwick horizon

oh yeah i forgot he was deaded

HBO: We Did It For the Watch

starting the second episode of this, seems like a naturalistic lord of the rings or something

i feel like this would maybe be better with wizards in it

this is like downton abbey meets breaking bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuH3tJPiP-U

Lookin' good.

Ian McShane:

“You say the slightest thing and the internet goes ape. I was accused of giving the plot away, but I just think get a fucking life. It’s only tits and dragons.

They asked me if I wanted to do Game of Thrones and I said, 'Sure, I’ll be able to see my old pals Charlie Dance and Stephen Dillane’ and they said, 'No, we’ve killed them off.’ I wasn’t sure whether I could commit, but then they said it would only be for one episode, so I said, 'So that means I must die at the end of it. Great, I’m in.’ ”

"Mostly tits with the occasional dragon" more like

that sounds like an adult version of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

i've been rewatching s1 for some reason and this criticism of goole's

the nobility were hardly ever alone. they were surrounded by their relatives, their staff, their households. the show is underpopulated. everyone seems to be in transit or being abducted between one of like five places, wouldn't they just run into each other in the middle?

really is funny: there's a scene where sean bean and carcetti are walking in a vast garden containing not a single other living soul save the identically dressed attendants raking the gravel, about 50% of whom carcetti points out as spies for one or other of the three people who walk in the garden and scheme. it's like borges.

ha ha A contrast to Rome where there were always servants hanging around in the background even during the sex scenes

king robert's fatal hunting party is also literally four people: the king, his ineffectual squire, his gay brother who hates hunting, and an old guy

unrelatedly, boy do people in this show do that thing where they walk away from the other guy in the scene and the other guy asks a weighted question and the first guy stops walking while a shot of his unhappy face captures his smug, blurry interlocutor over the shoulder

anyway i expect i'll be all caught up by the end of this week

otoh Literally every scene in a royal palace is characters scheming so if there were a bunch of servants hanging around the internet would be complaining about how dumb the characters were for talking in front of them and so unrealistic and totally took me out of it

not sure there's a better moment in s1 than when a conversation between carcetti and the eunuch (pretty sure this guy is the most reliable actor in the show btw) goes on and on and on with each line more pregnant with dramatic hostility than the one before it, until finally they get out of it by having renly bound in and yell WHAT ARE YOU TWO CONSPIRING ABOUT?

will doubtless return to this with my tail wagging eager for more punishment

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

this is a killer for charades btw

i've been rewatching s1 for some reason and this criticism of goole's

the nobility were hardly ever alone. they were surrounded by their relatives, their staff, their households. the show is underpopulated. everyone seems to be in transit or being abducted between one of like five places, wouldn't they just run into each other in the middle?

really is funny: there's a scene where sean bean and carcetti are walking in a vast garden containing not a single other living soul save the identically dressed attendants raking the gravel, about 50% of whom carcetti points out as spies for one or other of the three people who walk in the garden and scheme. it's like borges.

― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Monday, March 14, 2016 2:57 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah the sense of scale is really small, way less than what i expected based on reading the books. maybe my mental imaginarium has been too influenced by the LotR movies idk

in that respect (small scale) it's just myth ii: soulblighter, live action version

i was thinking of vivec: monumental architecture, six people

man i'm nerding out all over the early part of this thread, i'd forgotten

the worst small scale shit in GoT was Dorne, which is apparently not a kingdom but a resort in its off season with some sand dunes over a nearby hill.

It's crazy to me that they set up a whole new unit in Spain to film...that

GoT channeling borges gardens otm

in that respect (small scale) it's just myth ii: soulblighter, live action version

― 龜, Monday, March 14, 2016 9:52 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm not sure what you mean by this but the fact that you brought this game up again makes me happy.
I've always drawn connections between the game and the series as well but I'm not sure why the scale is relevant.

all the battles in game were pretty small (like less than 100 combatants)

Oh, got you. Yeah, though comparisons can be made beyond just that aspect. I think we've discussed this months ago here.