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

totally digging this show, btw

i dislike fantasy (with some exceptions) but this is good so far.

finally watched Ep 2...after careful consideration I really don't like the Danerys scenes...want to fast forward to where she gets interesting. But otherwise loving it. Arya is pretty great huh? And the wolves were awesome this week : D

I'm willing to put up with the Danerys scenes because uh ahem

yes yes nubile boobs yay etc

yeah i remember when i read the books i didn't find Dany's storyline engaging at all until later in the series. the show hasn't really changed that yet.

see I guess I wasn't thinking about how it would look played out on tv...but I love that storyline, from go she was interesting to me...but I don't know what it is,maybe it's just that her inner life doesn't come through. Also it just becomes the "boobs" portion of the show. I dunno. Maybe it will improve as her arc develops

I like this.

also am I right in that the sex scene witnessed by lil dude was incestuous? still trying to keep the characters straight

Yep. They're brother/siter which is why the small fry had to fly.

sister

surprised to see that in tv tbh! I mean I know it's Hbo but actual depicted incest seems p rare

well evan the actors are not actually brother and sister, and they are not actually having sex

it's kind of fundamental to the series

it happened in Rome. This is old hat for HBO.

As my wife said the other night, "so apparently in this fictional continent they love the doggie style".

warning: if you are married and watch this show u will be mocked

wait, what?

My wife is totally into this show!

I mean, it doesn't hurt that she finds Dany even hotter than I do and she was hoping for more of the "seduction lesson", but, yeah, she is enjoying it so far.

mine loves it too, and she never read the books

yeah my wife loved the book and loves the show so far.

agreed that episode 2 was far better, really slowed down the pace and let you get to know the characters

joffrey is such a little fuckstick i forgot how much i hate him

rip lady the direwolf :(

would stress to those who haven't read: all the adolescent fantasy sex stuff is straight from the books, they might actually be toning it down.

wives!

tbh if my wife was watching this I'd be mocking her

I need to stay out of this thread

Yes, you do. WTF?

Sorry but seriously.

The Joffrey casting is so perfect, I hated him so much even before the scene with Arya and the butcher boy.

Yeah, the casting is amazing. That kid's face just looks so awful and snotty. I hate him so much.

My only (very minor) casting gripe is Caetlyn, I feel like she's a little bit too old. Isn't she still supposed to be like really pretty? Not that the actress playing her is ugly by any means, I just don't get the vibe implied from the book that she is supposed to be really pretty still.

I think she's kind of perfect; at this point, she's an anchor of reality in the books and seems to be functioning much the same way here, both in terms of her outlook/reactions and how she looks like a normal, attractive middle-aged woman in this casting pool of ludicrously good-looking people.

Tyrion slapping the shit out of Joffrey was the highlight of my April, and I watched the Doctor Who premiere.

MY wife's big gripes are Caetlyn's age and how bad the wigs are. Otherwise we're enjoying, though they don't really hold even a dim candle to the books.

That makes sense, I think her casting will make more sense as the series moves forward and she shows her real strength instead of just grieving mom.

Hah hah.

laurel i thought you weren't reading this thread. ;)

Couldn't resist. Soooo wishing for Suuunnday.

would stress to those who haven't read: all the adolescent fantasy sex stuff is straight from the books, they might actually be toning it down.

Disagree with this. The books have their fair share of embarrassing sex scenes but they've definitely ramped up the raunch quotient in the tv show. As far as i remember, Daenerys getting some lessons in love from her handmaid is only alluded to in the first book. They also threw in an scene with Tyrion in the first episode that wasn't in the books seemingly just to get some more boobs on screen.

Here (points to self) is another motherfucker whose wife is at least as into the books/show as he is, if not more.

Re: Dani sex scenes, I actually think the show has made them more rapey than in the book. The first time with Drogo actually has some slight tenderness to it in the book IIRC? Not in ep 1 of the show, though.

haha xpost

I guess watching Rome made me a little more immune to the gratuitous sex scenes, they don't seem as surprising really.

They definitely lezzed up the love lessons scene. I don't really get why this is surprising or upsetting to people at this point. I mean it's HBO, what the hell do you expect? I'm not going to complain because a) big deal and b) Khal Drogo's ass.

I need to reread but I thought some form of that introduction scene occurred in the books, if not as Tyrion's introduction...? The whole "the gods made up for my body by giving me a massive cock" thing I'm sure was in the books somewhere.

hmmm i remember the love lessons being pretty lezzed up and there's even more scorcery lez in later books

anyway martin always seemed creepy and rapey to me, one of the things i don't really like abt it

the thing about this being on HBO and the fact that Martin has become such a big deal is it makes people wish he wasn't - at heart- just a pulp fantasy novelist. which he is. he's not like literary fantasy, he's just a rainman level high functioning savant pulp novelist

Mr Veg hasnt read the books but is enjoying so far. Yay husbands!

Re: the Wall in the animated map credits he said "Why do they hate Scotland?" irl lols

he's not like literary fantasy, he's just a rainman level high functioning savant pulp novelist

Cosign. I've learnt to accept this fact and even view it as a strength, but this is why I put e.g. Robin Hobb on a slightly higher shelf than GRRM. And why I have absolutely no qualms about GoT possibly finding its best expression as a TV series (we'll see if that's how it turns out).

Maybe this has already been covered somewhere, but I might have missed it. Do we know how the timing for these seasons are going to work out? I mean, is season 1 going to cover the first book, season 2 book 2, etc? Because man, we're going to be left for a hella cliffhanger when they catch up with GRRM.

I feel like they're really far into book 1 already after only 2 episodes. But I haven't gone and checked in terms of page count or whatever.

Thats what I was thinking too, actually.

btw i noticed the name in the credits and looked it up! ilyn payne (the tongueless bald dude that is the king's justice) is WILKO JOHNSON of Dr. Feelgood! crazy

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/21000000/Game-of-Thrones-game-of-thrones-21095017-309-633.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rn45_OO9rk&feature=related

I remember reading somewhere that the first season will cover the first book.

There's a lot of story to tell, I think they're following the book's pacing pretty closely.

Personally I don't want book three split into two seasons like others.. just make book four half a season and give the other half to the rest of book three.

Seems by his blog that he's just done writing the new book.

yeah the first 2 seasons will be the first 2 books, they might stretch it out a bit more after that though since the 3rd book is so long and dense

and yeah new book has a release date in july iirc

I'll believe it when I'm holding it in my hands.