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

It did definitely feel this was one of the only episodes where there was anything memorable or noticeable about the score

The only other bit of non-title-theme music from the whole show I could hum is that doomy refrain that plays when something sinister is being done in the name of the Lord of Light

Everything else about this episode was obviously completely, mind-destroyingly incomprehensible, just colours and shapes, sad really

hey c'mon I have more important things to put my energy into than trolling a bunch of fantasy nerds

― Οὖτις, Monday, June 27, 2016 4:58 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u folx have your RenFair visits all planned during the hiatus?

― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Monday, June 27, 2016 5:28 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u guys need to do better! the shows obvs too big to just appeal to nerds (answering the question in the original thread title) its not even that fantasy, i for one have never read a single fantasy book and dont generally enjoy the genre in any form, the show is basically political, its an extremely trashy fun political show, thats like the whole thing abt it, now go forth and troll with this superior knowledge

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it's Shakespeare history play + Dynasty + dragons & ice zombies. It's okay if you don't like these things. I don't like the movies of child molester Woody Allen. To each their own.

also accurate, that said, the clawed-hand way folks like that hold onto their takes basically means forget it folks, it's challopstown

the movies of child molester Woody Allen are def bad (except many of the older ones)

they are all bad because he is a child molester and that means they are all about child molestation when u rly think about it.

the show is fantasy through and through. it's very much in keeping with the genre. just admit you like fantasy!

thats very untrue and hardcore fantasy ppl r the first to say it thats even how i found out knowing nothing really abt the genre myself

they are all bad because he is a child molester and that means they are all about child molestation when u rly think about it.

― sarahell, Monday, June 27, 2016 5:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

especially sleeper

also bananas

xp - that was a particularly dull movie by a child molester. I prefer the movies of child molester Roman Polanski to those of child molester Woody Allen

its true the movies of child molester Roman Polanski are superior to those of child molester Woody Allen

so glad we agree on the ranking of movies by child molesters!

do you think Sansa's gonna get together with Littlefinger and try for the Iron Throne?

ya

polanski would be the superior pederast based on chinatown alone, throw repulsion in there and shit's like game over

sean bean would have been better in manhattan

xxp i don't think so - would kinda undo the agency she's finally developed to fall back into littlefinger's thrall

and maybe they could have called it sheffield and made it there

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would argue the show is hardcore fantasy with sprinkle of medieval political intrigue for flavor and not vice versa.

the cinema of pederast Polanski decimates that of kiddie fiddler Allen like those dragons did the Slavers' fleet

if woody allen made game of thrones who would tony roberts play

would argue the show is hardcore fantasy with sprinkle of medieval political intrigue for flavor and not vice versa.

― ryan, Monday, June 27, 2016 5:54 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ppl who know seem to say that most fantasy is abt good vs evil heroes who go on quests and so forth it is literally a fantastical version of humanity while also holding extreme fascination with the transcendent power of magic and fairies it is very escapist in nature, where this show everyone is just kinda petty and hopeless and very not heroic and the magical aspects operate on the same level as the human ones it is thought to be a self aware deconstruction of the genre casting escapist fantasies in a harsh cynical light, also grimm said its based on the war of the roses, another way to think abt it is cld u easily rewrite it to leave out all the magical stuff i think u p much cld, tho it wld be less interesting because of the way it comments on the genre

kiddie raper polanski's film 'the pianist' was probably better than anything underage quasi-incest merchant woody allen has made in decades.

xp

fair enough! though deconstruction of genre still = genre. but yeah some of the strongest elements of it are those "critical" parts. but a lot of my favorite stuff that Martin has done here is very Arthurian and eschatological as well. It's a very interesting meld, really.

seems like it uses a lot of tools from the fantasy toolbox but for purposes that are pretty different from most fantasy

idk if u deconstruct it... is it still... there, lol jk like ya obvs its fantasy but its pretty atypical, and its very political, also has a ton of action which i doesnt move me as much, also i didnt read the books which r prob more fantasy espcailly as far as the world building aspect

i did actually try to listen to the books on a drive across country and cldnt do it fwiw, so many boiled leather doublets

the stuff abt the history and culture and castles and economics and so forth was p tite but so many meals and exclaiming to wade through to get it

the big sticking point is that magic is real in this world. that's sort of the baseline criterion and it passes easily.

yeah a bunch about food, kinda like the movies of child molester woody allen.

imagine having to eat a meal with child molester woody allen he is so gross i bet his chewing is hella loud

bet pederast Polanski chews more quietly, also his wife got stabbed while pregnant, so he wins for having a dead baby.

pederast polanski is def cultured in a low key way im sure he has excellent table manners

i am sure Local Garda would want to know how Sean Bean rates among these

bean has no time for eating he's in got so much

Guys can you take the rape and dead child talk elsewhere please? This has no place in a thread about Game of Thrones.

actually a lot of people dont realize game of thrones was initially conceived as a dramatic retelling of the manson family saga, sean bean plays manson

nuh-uh, Renly plays Manson

little finger is polanski, a pile of puke on the ground is woody allen

There's all sorts of fantasy. Ice & Fire is a fairly traditional approach but unusual perhaps for a bestseller.

the show is basically political

sorry I was away for a bit but ... no. It's true politics is about power, but that's not ALL it is; it's about systems, ideologies, policies, institutions, social organization, methods of control. And this show is very much *not* interested in those things. At best they're tangentially addressed, at worst they're entirely ignored or glossed over. It's a power struggle, yes, but that doesn't make it political any more than two apes fighting for alpha male status is political.

many xposts

would argue the show is hardcore fantasy with sprinkle of medieval political intrigue for flavor and not vice versa.

^^^much more accurate (I assume "hardcore" indicates murderboobs)

ur wrong it is about those things!

it's about systems, ideologies, policies, institutions, social organization, methods of control. And this show is very much *not* interested in those things.

you suck at watching tv

also u can def have politics w/o yr dumbass laundry list, ever heard of office politics smart guy, but anyway thats just an aside GOT is def ripe institutions and ideologies and so forth

tbf he hasn't watched this show much

GOT is def ripe institutions and ideologies and so forth

lol Daenerys is the only character with an ideology, the rest are all guided by clan-allegiance and or personal drive to power

ever heard of the character ned stark portrayed by the actor sean bean i think youll find if u check him out that hes pretty ideological