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

DO IT

thing is, yer gonna wanna read the second book as soon as the first season of the tv show is over, so you'd better read the first book now so you don't miss anything small..

also, in the book during the jousting scene (from sansa's POV) Sir Hugh is just "some knight from the vale." and his death is less obviously diabolical.

Didn't strike me as diabolical, but I'm guessing it's cuz the hand went asking questions?

i think u mean ser hugh

Viserys Targaryen is growing on me a bit.

I just finished book 1 on sunday...O_O

Found that reading along with the tv show sped me up, because I had a picture of everything, characters etc

HODOR

I'd like to claim credit for this one, but actually my girlfriend noticed it(she's a fanatic about the books). If you look at the credits, particularly the animals engraved on the bands around the sun, you'll see that they tell the story of Robert Baratheon's war against the Mad King in Heraldic form... It's a nice geeky touch.

man I think reading might just be worth it to clarify things in the backstory. It took the HBO guide to figure out ~why~ the mad king killed the Starks and why Jaime Lannister wasn't really respected for icing the guy.

jaime is outright loathed and mocked for killing aerys iirc.

the books are a little bit more expository but not much--you dont quite get the whole story of the uprising until midway through and even then its partial and in pieces

Oh yeah they haven't played that up but every man's hand is against Jaime now, because Mad King or no Mad King, Jaime is an oathbreaker.

Yeah Jaime's entire fame rests on the fact that he killed his king while he was a sworn member of that king's personal bodyguard. The king in question might have been mad, but that sort of thing is not going to give you a good name with anyone who hears about it. Anything else he does in the future is going to have to be pretty special if he's going to live that down.

yeah. i mean it took me until today to figure out that there WAS a king's guard, and that he was part of it (and why he wore that special armor). normally i'm pretty good about piecing together backstory, but the pace has been pretty quick and it's hard to keep up

read da books dog. you can always skim the parts you've seen if you get bored.

evan you wont regret reading the books

going to the store right now

I dont think u should read the book gbx

i do! im canceling ur vote aerosol

All those pages? Come on man , just think this through

not going to read the books now because I like watching the TV show and having no idea what's coming.

I thought the way the king asked the lannister dude how he killed the mad king was pretty telling about the disdain that's felt towards him.

books are just gay tv programmes

reading the books has made me even more psyched on watching the tv show

also cozen otm

thx to cozen bye

~btw~

this show has totally made me go back and pick up where i left off amidst book 4

when I first started in with the books I was bored with the endless description of the armor but then i got really into it. i think seeing the "Arms and Armor of the Habsburg Empire" traveling exhibit around the same time raised my interest.

also, the sumptuous meals described made very hungry

mark my words gbx, you'll catch yourself saying HODOR for no reason when you're alone

truthbomb

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omg

HA!

BTW about to watch this weeks episode - eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

week's

I want max to send me the screeners RIGH NOW

great ep, tho i thought the scene between dany's blonde pervy brother and the concubine chick went on for too long and was really weird. tho i guess they need these expositional scenes to fill in backstory stuff.

You're right, I got a very draggy feeling with that scene too.

thought last week was better, a whole lot of exposition-dumping this week. About ready to stop meeting new characters and start seeing 'em get into action of some kind (as in the last couple of minutes.)

Oh man that jousting scene was brutal, y'all are bloodthirsty folk. Remind me never to get on your bad sides.

lol loving "Why Do They Call You Littlefinger" Arya. Ned Stark is kinda dumb though! Is this the first time we've seen his right-hand man in a speaking capacity?

Last scene with Lady Cat was some righteousness though.

Oh man that jousting scene was brutal, y'all are bloodthirsty folk.

Brutal but awsome!

I kinda couldn't figure out what happened -- was that splinter in the guy's throat from the lance itself, or did it happen when he was falling off the horse?

ie: is this a dangerous sport that can lead to your death or is the mountain just a particularly violent and disturbed fighter (as is indicated by Littlefinger's story to Sansa)? Also, why did Littlefinger tell Sansa that story? Was he trying to freak her out?

is this a dangerous sport that can lead to your death or is the mountain just a particularly violent and disturbed fighter (as is indicated by Littlefinger's story to Sansa)?

both?

Also, why did Littlefinger tell Sansa that story? Was he trying to freak her out?

to warn her about the cleganes, i think, both the mountain and the hound? in the book the hound tells her the story himself

my word, that recipe site

i think i suddenly stopped liking the books the fifth or sixth time someone ate an olive; that, i think, is what did it for me

i. the Mountain's lance slipped under an improperly fastened gorget and impaled him

ii. Littlefinger's motivations for most things he does tend to be rather oblique

I got the sense it was more a malfunction than intentional. People seemed pretty horrified and if the Mountain was known for killing his jousting partners presumably they would've known what to expect. Kinda a mirror to the Dothraki festival where they also kill ppl but they're all pretty cool with it. It makes a nice counterpoint that no matter where you are -- among the Dothraki or in the capital city, people are killing other ppl for pretty much no reason. The only difference is the civilized veneer applied in the capital.

^ Yeah I thought definite armor malfunction.

Sir Hugh was Jon Arryn's squire. Jon Arryn who was Ned Stark suspects was poisoned....