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

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.

I'm not sure what you mean by this but the fact that you brought this game up again makes me happy.

same --- i played a lot of online myth 2 in my freshman year of college. dorf riot uber alles

goole has colonized my reactions to this show to the extent that i'm now yelling HUMANIZING MONOLOGUE!! to nobody four times an episode. they make me happy tho because i think of how happy they must make the actors.

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I played online a little bit but was a bit overwhelmed by the veterans there. CTF was nuts. However, I loved downloading plugins off of http://tain.totalcodex.net/ and combining them in all sorts of ways in singleplayer. Even had fun online playing with civil war tagsets. Definitely one of my fav games.

i used to play the WWII one. throw yr nades!

hehehe

http://www.colonizationfans.com/Images/screenshots/1/na-2.gif

yes i will watch s6.

Yes! Love it. Wonder if it still has a community. I think so, as The Tain looks like it's got some new content as far as I can tell.

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i used to play the WWII one. throw yr nades!

― 龜, Thursday, March 17, 2016 12:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yah i loved this one

http://www.vulture.com/2016/03/got-showrunners-say-they-wont-spoil-the-books.html

So weird that from this point forward the show and books will be telling different stories. But then:

"So much of what we’re doing diverges from the books at this point .... People are going to be very surprised when they read the books after the show. They’re quite divergent in so many respects for the remainder of the show."

How the fuck do they know what Martin will or won't include in future unwritten books?

I imagine they're in contact with him enough to know the outlines of what he's going to do.

Sure, no doubt. But ... he's got hundreds, thousands of pages to write over the course of several years. There is no way the guy is going to stick to whatever script he has in mind and equally hard to believe he won't crib from theirs.

equally hard to believe he won't die of a heart attack before he finishes

Maybe George actually has all the books written and he just gets off on withholding them

http://i.imgur.com/mm1Y2OI.png

Haha that's great.

I mean maybe the show won't exactly spoil the books, but I find it hard to believe that the show will vary so greatly from the endgame of the books or answers to big questions like "who are Jon snow's parents?"

HBO jumping on the Talking Dead bandwagon by bringing in the Watch the Thrones podcast guys:

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/game-of-thrones-aftershow-bill-simmons-1201744931/

I thought if UK had one surely America would too.

10k answers and no longer any spoiler issues; new season deserves a new thread, no?

As I understand it the TV show will partly be ahead, but also partly behind?

It's already that way I think

HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones - Thread 2. There are a lot of nerds.

I can’t wait to completely ignore this sh1t and just listen to Achilles last Stand

Hahaha