yo thomp...
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
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
― thomp, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
Ah right, you may have a point there.
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
at this point -- you mean one episode in (and it gets better) or you mean considering the corpus of material he's already written?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
alllll my wolves stay realstark don't think these political dealsgonna feed your seedsand pay your bills because they not
(xxp)
― c( ☠_ ☠ )ↄ (Lamp), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
George got a little bit of love and thinks's he's hot
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
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
― thomp, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
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
― dearth of the hipster (Lamp), Thursday, 21 April 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 21 April 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
sarah connor IS cersei lannister
― calstars, Thursday, 21 April 2011 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
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/
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
Whoops: http://skyatlantic.sky.com/game-of-thrones/thronecast
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
ha "thronecast", sounds like they're broadcasting from a toilet
― it always seems to have dick smith in it (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 21 April 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
podthrone
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 21 April 2011 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
You Shit Or You Die
― last name ever, first name gjetost (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 21 April 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
Urine is Coming
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 21 April 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't read the books, loved the first episode.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Friday, 22 April 2011 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
Already so much shit going down!
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Friday, 22 April 2011 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― abcfsk, Friday, 22 April 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― last name ever, first name gjetost (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 April 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― abcfsk, Friday, 22 April 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
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!
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 22 April 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
OK so maybe frightened rabbit is apt but what about the weird sleepwalker affect?
― last name ever, first name gjetost (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 April 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
To let the camera linger on her ass better, iirc.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 22 April 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Friday, 22 April 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
I actually think the sleepwalking thing is the right direction.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Friday, 22 April 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 22 April 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
I defer to anyone who's read the books more recently than about 4 years ago! Damn it.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Friday, 22 April 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 22 April 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Fair enough. Anyone else hate the music as much as me?
― last name ever, first name gjetost (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 April 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Friday, 22 April 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
I really dug the 'spooky' two-note theme during the opening scene
― Brakhage, Friday, 22 April 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
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!)
― last name ever, first name gjetost (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 April 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Saturday, 23 April 2011 07:00 (twelve years ago) link
Mongols, maybe.
― abcfsk, Saturday, 23 April 2011 09:07 (twelve years ago) link
Not everything in fantasy has to have a direct analogue.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Saturday, 23 April 2011 09:25 (twelve years ago) link
Anyway, the guy who plays Khal Drogo is Hawaiian. So he is actually a non-Euro.
― Number None, Saturday, 23 April 2011 09:57 (twelve years ago) link
'Ok so what historical racial analogue are the Klingon guys supposed to be?'
the french
― thomp, Saturday, 23 April 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
The dry humping raves during Louis XIV were legendary
― Brakhage, Saturday, 23 April 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
ha ha
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 23 April 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Brakhage, Saturday, 23 April 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
daenerys = omar etc
― abcfsk, Saturday, 23 April 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
omar little?
― I'm just shillin, like bob dylan (Edward III), Saturday, 23 April 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
Stand corrected! (Was thinking he had a really nice tan.)
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Saturday, 23 April 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
He is also married to Lisa Bonet as I learned last night. Weird!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Saturday, 23 April 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Gukbe, Monday, 25 April 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
This one was good. Makes a world of difference spending some time with characters interacting instead of chop-chopping through plot.
― abcfsk, Monday, 25 April 2011 09:48 (twelve years ago) link
this is some camp-ass crap
― thomp, Monday, 25 April 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
why is a grown-ass man playing jon snow
why is tyrion still addressing him as though he was a fourteen year old
why can none of these people act
when does carcetti show up
― thomp, Monday, 25 April 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
He shows up in the next episode but I think it's better for everyone if you just stop watching.
― abcfsk, Monday, 25 April 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link