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

errrr did they skip the execution? because that's pretty much the whole thing there, I gotta say

i think the execution says a lot about that particular family and that particular people living in the north, but didn't really seem to speak to the exiled king or the real party king or any of the other groups. which idk having not read the book i can't comment with any authority.

= 'these are the sorts of bad decisions that acting honourably leads you to'

I think there's also the pressure on those who DO act honorably to make even become even more vigilant/observant when standards seem to be loosening all around them -- ex Robert's slack court in the South. The whole world is putting N. Stark in this position, and he's becoming more alone every day.

(Sorry about the mis-read there, was revising in a hurry.)

yo thomp...

i think it's funny that, at this point, anyone would have any faith in george r.r. martin's ability to plot a novel in a way that would result in any kind of satisfying experience for the reader

Ah right, you may have a point there.

at this point -- you mean one episode in (and it gets better) or you mean considering the corpus of material he's already written?

alllll my wolves stay real
stark don't think these political deals
gonna feed your seeds
and pay your bills because they not

(xxp)

George got a little bit of love and thinks's he's hot

mordy, sorry, that was in response to the thing about whether it will turn out in book five, six, or seven that theon has some reason for having been there

hey guess what

http://images.hitfix.com/photos/503754/game-of-thrones-daenerys_article_story_main.jpg

winter is busting a nut all or ya face

That photo is the wrong color, on the tv her hair is a woolly yellow-blond that looks like someone hid the undyed roots with cornstarch and powder bleach. I'll be delighted, though, when the character gets to a place where she makes that resolute a face ALL the time.

sarah connor IS cersei lannister

Sky Atlantic fan show (probably not for people who already know the books and stuff, it's pretty beginner-y... might be of interest? It's an iTunes podcast, too):
http://skyatlantic.sky.com/game-of-thrones/

Whoops: http://skyatlantic.sky.com/game-of-thrones/thronecast

ha "thronecast", sounds like they're broadcasting from a toilet

podthrone

You Shit Or You Die

Urine is Coming

Haven't read the books, loved the first episode.

Already so much shit going down!

Finally got to watch the first episode. From the talk of things the wedding scene was going to be some grand cheese ball of central focus, but a few quick flashes to dry humping I can take. I thought the episode was solid -- some stiff dialogue about who is who and what is what was necessary and they got through the exposition fairly effectively here. Some more to come, no doubt, but once we get a few episodes into this I think the characters will make for compelling viewing by themselves. All the actors seemed very well cast. Sansa was perfect.

I agree-- this episode had pilot-itis where they have to give you a tidbit of everyone involved but a meal of none. And I do trust the characters will get to stretch out a bit starting in the next coupla.

Agree with reservations about the Daneirys actress-- not so much physically but the tone of her performance-- the somnambulist/frightened rabbit thing. Didn't seem right.

My only outright beef is with the music. Cheap, generic, dull. I understand that they fired their original composer (Stephen Warbeck) vcery late in the game, so that Ramin Djawadi had scant time to do his job, but this just sounds like stuff you'd hear on an electronic RPG or a History Channel special on Vikings. In other words, they need to fire their composer again pronto. All the painstaking, beautiful execution on so many other fronts and they think people won't notice this half-assed crap?

I think the frightened rabbit thing is is the right look for her so far.. what was entertaining about the character in the book was how she came off as frightened, unsure, dulled by suppression, but then had moments when provoked where she exploded and found her powers.

^^^

I think its totally okay for her to be a frightened rabbit at this point, her future is so unsure and her supposed protector is a creep!

OK so maybe frightened rabbit is apt but what about the weird sleepwalker affect?

To let the camera linger on her ass better, iirc.

Eh it's predicable "pretty, scared girl" stuff, it's fine, not going to ruin the show for me. But as a young woman who had never known anything else I imagined her being a lot more affect-less, that she would have figured out how to hide her fear by now -- this is how her whole life has been.

I actually think the sleepwalking thing is the right direction.

Maybe its because I just finished rereading the book before I watched this, but she comes across as still pretty fearful, at least prior to the wedding and up to her deflowering.

I defer to anyone who's read the books more recently than about 4 years ago! Damn it.

There is still some awkwardness about her, thats for sure, but I don't think the fearful thing is the problem just yet. We'll have to see how she evolves over the next few episodes, thats for sure.

Fair enough. Anyone else hate the music as much as me?

Didn't even notice it, not one second of the music made any impression on me. Will be paying much closer attn this week, though, now that you've mentioned it.

I really dug the 'spooky' two-note theme during the opening scene

That's an interesting point, the opening scene was well scored. Increased my bummerz regarding what followed musically. Maybe this composer is better at creepy/textural/semi-ambient scoring than other aspects.

It sounded to me like most of the score was a few acoustic instruments augmented by synths imitating an orchestra, which is always NAGL in my opinion (if you're gonna do a synth score then fucking OWN that fact!)

Ok so what historical racial analogue are the Klingon guys supposed to be? Because it's pretty clear they're supposed to represent some non-Euro Other, but they still got a white guy to play the bossman.

Mongols, maybe.

Not everything in fantasy has to have a direct analogue.

Anyway, the guy who plays Khal Drogo is Hawaiian. So he is actually a non-Euro.

'Ok so what historical racial analogue are the Klingon guys supposed to be?'

the french

The dry humping raves during Louis XIV were legendary

ha ha

It's a good point though - I keep seeing historical analogues for everything in the show - the Great Wall, Genghis Khan, Wars of the Roses - distracting. Better that than analogues to some other fantasy material though.

daenerys = omar etc

omar little?

Anyway, the guy who plays Khal Drogo is Hawaiian. So he is actually a non-Euro.

Stand corrected! (Was thinking he had a really nice tan.)

He is also married to Lisa Bonet as I learned last night. Weird!

Throw the kid out the window and whatevs, but force the death of that poor wolf!!! fucking hate the Lannisters.

Totally into this now, btw.