are the books good?
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
YES
― Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
also: Sean Bean as Eddard Stark
FUCK YES
― Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
'good if you're a fan of the fantasy genre and are cool with the Dragonlance series' or 'good' in the general sense.
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
GOOD GOOD
― The other side of genetic power today (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING FROM ILX
― The other side of genetic power today (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
did a search for 'Game of Thrones' to see if this show was already mentioned, and saw nothing about it or the books so...no?
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
REALLY GOOD GOOD
this nerd is v v v v excited
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Anticipating "A Feast For Crows" by George R. R. Martin (Nov. 9)
― Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
George R. R. Martin
― The other side of genetic power today (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
whoops. just searched 'game of thrones'. i actually wikipediaed this ages ago when the pilot was first announced. it's coming back to me.
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
This will be awesome. I gave up on the books after the first two, but would still like to see it on teevee.
― crazy ass between (askance johnson), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Third book is probably the best.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd agree with that
― Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
ok so what's going to happen when this show becomes wildly successful and 4 years from now they run out of god damn source material
― did you mean: fart blasters? (nickalicious), Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh if they've any sense they'll get to the end of book four about two and a half seasons in
― thomp, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
also: 'they will come up with their own ending, more quickly and as validly as george r r martin manages to come up with his'
amazing that its been 4 or 5 years since i was really into these books and the next one's still not out...dude isn't gonna finish the series is he :(
it's definitely good tv series material though if they're willing to run it out long enough and don't try to cram each book into a single season (the 3rd book alone is like as long as the entire lord of the rings iirc)
― ciderpress, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
you think they ought to make it longer? u mad
― thomp, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
not necessarily make it longer, just not do 1 book = 1 season when the books are of varying length and plot complexity (4th book could be cut down by a ton for example to make room for more stuff from the 3rd book)
― ciderpress, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
They could just do more episodes for the season w/ the 3rd book. I don't see how they could split it up though.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 27 March 2010 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Gobbled up all the books on the recommendation of ILXors. I'm looking forward to the HBO show, but mostly I just want the new book! And then I guess there are two MORE of these books that he has to write, in-between blogging about the Jets and going to fantasy conventions? Sigh...
― schwantz, Saturday, 27 March 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
expected to air around this time next year, alongside the second season of Treme.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't wait for the crossover episode.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MophfvUlfI
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Saturday, 19 June 2010 11:48 (thirteen years ago) link
1 book = 1 season makes total sense
they can make that work
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 June 2010 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
also hbo shows arent always 1 season = 1 year
sopranos took long breaks
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 June 2010 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Never read the books, but pretty keen on watching this.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 19 June 2010 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
what is the point of this if the dude won't even finish the books???? Goddamn stop re-writing them already!!!
― ears are wounds, Sunday, 20 June 2010 10:29 (thirteen years ago) link
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Saturday, June 19, 2010 7:50 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
name one HBO show besides Sopranos that didn't/doesn't do a new season every year
― fantast (ico) (some dude), Sunday, 20 June 2010 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
actually, I'll name another, Curb Your Enthusiasm, but i think that's it
― fantast (ico) (some dude), Sunday, 20 June 2010 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
The Wire had a significant gap between seasons 3 and 4, but that was partly because they weren't sure if they were going to renew it.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Sunday, 20 June 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
at this point, I am wondering if it might not be better if some talented cable TV writers finished this thing for him. I am losing faith that he has any idea where he is going with these books.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Sunday, 20 June 2010 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
We should start bitching about the BSG/Lost style finalefail.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Sunday, 20 June 2010 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Turns out Tyrion is Jesus.
― schwantz, Sunday, 20 June 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
big love took a break right?
― ian, Sunday, 20 June 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
If it hasn't it needs to.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Sunday, 20 June 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Carcetti is Littlefinger
That character means nothing to me obv.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Monday, 12 July 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
FUCK YEAH THAT IS BRILLIANT!!!!!
― hot dub grime machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 July 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, that is good casting
― richie aprile (rockapads), Monday, 12 July 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
ditto
Really looking forward to this!
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
more teasing
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Monday, 13 September 2010 06:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope this starts a trend of classy TV fantasy adaptations. Someone should do Perdido Street Station (though would be fucking expensive). Do these books have monsters and magic and shit, or is it just guys fighting with swords?
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Monday, 13 September 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
They have dragons and undead.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 13 September 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
only in the first and last episodes of this season though, that saves you some money right there
― thomp, Monday, 13 September 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
perdido street station feels basically like a miniseries already! which is unfortunate in that the other bas-lag stuff wouldn't really work as further series of.
Exclusive EW pics
Martin has penned the 8th episode.
Also EW On the Set
There's a new language or something that's better than Klingon it says.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGuIhhyNX-oLooks nice and wintry
― Number None, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Wasn't the guy in the first scene of the trailer also in the Lord of the Ring movies? I guess all "serious" fantasy movies/series now have to look kinda murky with muted colours, since LotR did that. Will anyone make a colourful fantasy movie anymore?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 10:41 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah thats sean bean... ive been reading the first book and im not a fantasy guy at all but its p. good... a lot of the early parts of the story take place in a wintery shithole, which limits your color choices... plus its kind of 'gritty' fantasy and they wanna convey that style/mood...
lotr movies were pretty colorful imo, like that part where they're in elfburg and the dwarf goes AND U HAVE MY AXE... lots of stuff actually... its just the color palette changes depending on context... i mean what do you want dude, rainbows over mount doom..
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipr-wS5iBv0 (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 10:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Lookin' good.
― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 00:25 (eight years ago) link
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.’ ”
― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 14 March 2016 18:37 (eight years ago) link
"Mostly tits with the occasional dragon" more like
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 March 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
that sounds like an adult version of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2016 18:52 (eight years ago) link
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, 14 March 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
ha ha A contrast to Rome where there were always servants hanging around in the background even during the sex scenes
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 14 March 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
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
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Monday, 14 March 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
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
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 14 March 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link
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?
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Monday, 14 March 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
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
― ogmor, Monday, 14 March 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link
― 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
― 龜, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 01:42 (eight years ago) link
in that respect (small scale) it's just myth ii: soulblighter, live action version
― 龜, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 01:52 (eight years ago) link
i was thinking of vivec: monumental architecture, six people
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 02:02 (eight years ago) link
man i'm nerding out all over the early part of this thread, i'd forgotten
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 02:03 (eight years ago) link
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.
― nomar, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 02:50 (eight years ago) link
It's crazy to me that they set up a whole new unit in Spain to film...that
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 03:01 (eight years ago) link
GoT channeling borges gardens otm
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 March 2016 05:20 (eight years ago) link
― 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.
― Evan, Thursday, 17 March 2016 14:18 (eight years ago) link
all the battles in game were pretty small (like less than 100 combatants)
― 龜, Thursday, 17 March 2016 16:04 (eight years ago) link
Oh, got you. Yeah, though comparisons can be made beyond just that aspect. I think we've discussed this months ago here.
― Evan, Thursday, 17 March 2016 16:18 (eight years ago) link
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
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
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.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
xpost
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.
― Evan, Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
i used to play the WWII one. throw yr nades!
― 龜, Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
hehehe
http://www.colonizationfans.com/Images/screenshots/1/na-2.gif
― goole, Thursday, 17 March 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
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.
xxpost
― Evan, Thursday, 17 March 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
― 龜, Thursday, March 17, 2016 12:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh yah i loved this one
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2016 19:24 (eight years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2016/03/got-showrunners-say-they-wont-spoil-the-books.html
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
I imagine they're in contact with him enough to know the outlines of what he's going to do.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link
equally hard to believe he won't die of a heart attack before he finishes
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:32 (eight years ago) link
Maybe George actually has all the books written and he just gets off on withholding them
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 23:33 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/mm1Y2OI.png
― 龜, Saturday, 26 March 2016 13:16 (eight years ago) link
Haha that's great.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 March 2016 13:20 (eight years ago) link
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?"
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Saturday, 26 March 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link
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/
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:55 (eight years ago) link
I thought if UK had one surely America would too.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
10k answers and no longer any spoiler issues; new season deserves a new thread, no?
― ulysses, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
As I understand it the TV show will partly be ahead, but also partly behind?
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
It's already that way I think
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link
HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones - Thread 2. There are a lot of nerds.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 18:56 (eight years ago) link
I can’t wait to completely ignore this sh1t and just listen to Achilles last Stand
― calstars, Sunday, 7 April 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link
Hahaha
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 7 April 2019 01:07 (five years ago) link
Always a wise plan
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 7 April 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link