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

yeah that seemed dumb to me as well

danerys having a child will tie the dothraki ppl to Viserys's cause (the reclamation of the throne by the Targaeryens.) Don't see how any possible repercussions (by a people who are afraid to crossing the ocean) is any worse than the foreseen 'dothraki coming to burn our towns' scenario.

Oh man this is getting fantastic, time for tombot bullets

1. King Fat is like the SADDEST GUY I mean seriously between his first and last dialogue scenes in this ep the dude has basically the absolute worst life on the planet, all this motherfucker has for joy is booze and eats, and he's already the king so he can't even dream except of his own kingdom's dissolution, it is laid out, his life SUCKS

2. My main worry about this piece of teevee is that nothing bad happens for Dinklage. Never mind the character, SPOILERS I know his guy outlasts most of the rest END SPOILERS I just want our man in the small costumes to get through the whole series. I mean if I was a betting man Tyrion would be the eventual benevolent dictator and pops to some kinda westeros republic, but to do that right, P.D. needs to survive to be in his fifties, little men are high insurance, anxiety happens.

3. DUDE the monologue about five vs. one is GREAT. Oh shit now it's every man for himself in the seven kingdoms? What? Libertarianism happened and now you have to worry about everyone who's not a libertarian coming after number one with a halberd! This show just got political. LOL RON PAUL, tell me how you would deal with a horde of horse lords.

4. Carcetti is an extraordinarily unboring agent of wordy exposition. I'm excited to see where Prezbo and Marlo show up. There ought to be some room for black Wire alumni in all this, I mean, they did it for Thor.

tombot let me just say that it's a pleasure to see you and i'm glad you're on-board for this shit.

also re point 3, Robert is being fairly practical--of course if there's an invasion he can't have his lords fighting their own wars with one another--his lack of a unified military seems to be a big problem for him, so much that he seems to take it a personal defect.

to the daenarys/dothraki threat question:

If she bears an heir to the dothraki, that heir means a claim to ALL OF THE SHIT EVERYWHERE

If she is killed with her child, in the usual poisonous fashion, prior to the child's coming of age, then that represents WHOOPS OH WELL, try again with a real horse lady, stick to what you know.

Frankly the fact that she is alive and well overseas means little - the fact that she is bedding down with a high ranking army commander means that she may command terrifying leverage. It's all about risk, like a sixteen year picking up carpool rides versus a sixteen year old piloting a brand new Superleggera.

yeah loras/renly threw me for a loop though. nice touch

also re point 3, Robert is being fairly practical--of course if there's an invasion he can't have his lords fighting their own wars with one another--his lack of a unified military seems to be a big problem for him, so much that he seems to take it a personal defect.

Oh I don't disagree with his pragmatism. I'm just pointing out that his status and approach is due to the fact that he finds himself in charge of a libertarian wet dream, the "accidental democracy" where he's been put in charge only so far as he's not pissing off anybody else too much, and unification is beyond his imagination.

If he were clever instead of just being depressed all the time, he would encourage the Dothraki threat (maybe even fund it) because a clear and present foe would provide him the opportunity he needs to unify the kingdoms and prove his worth as an emperor.

I realize this is all already said and done in made-up books by a fat dork. Still.

I keep forgetting how O_O these books are: the breastfeeding weirdo prince, the horse beheading...

breasfeeding Prince Robert is one of the creeeeepiest and most unsettling things to me.

If he didn't turn that shit up to eleven his books wouldn't be an HBO money pit starring people who have starred in other real stuff

well yeah, but I guess getting caught up in the reading of it you forget how freaky-deaky it all is..I honestly dont think of the books like that, but they are

and it's pretty much "abandon all hope etc etc" for any horselovers from now on...kinda downhill from here

I forgot about the breastfeeding and have been dreading Lysa Arran's appearance since the very first episode where Catelyn reads her letter, but seriously how psychologically scarred is that child actor going to be?

Also, those cliffside cells in the Eyrie are WAY too climb-able on the outside. There should be perfectly smooth stone joinery and about 50' more of sheer wall above instead of some nice brick arches and a convenient rooftop.

i spent the whole episode wondering if that kid was sucking on her real boob or if they made some kind of fake boob

i did think the show did a great job of showing how unstable lysa arryn is and how creepy the eyrie/vale are

It has to be fake because otherwise hello, is this Child Protective Services?

Also because it's way too...full to be natural.

they made a fake boob

the fact that the kid had a milk moustache was a... nice touch

it was rad that they put the trapdoor on the floor instead of the wall

i wonder if HBO has a bunch of prosthetics left over from Tell Me You Love Me

says a lot about how ott the whole episode was that nobody's even mentioned the full frontal wang yet

I don't know how I feel about the Door of the Moon or whatever it's called. I liked it being in the wall, more of a head-fuck when it turns out to be a door to no-where.

Ian, doesn't Renly look an amazing amount like Mike C@mpb3ll from the MNDC?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXGZcBlLcGE

the guy on the right is Bronn http://i.imgur.com/WKuCI.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RgOm_WJKpE

Just found out Alfie Allen is playing Theon Greyjoy on Game of Thrones.. Weed is Coming.
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have seen fake boob lady cutting about glasgow

also this show rules

enjoyed Ned & Jaime swordfight, wish it had been a little longer

kinda bummed they took out the climb up to the Eyrie...I mean, pacing wise I understand, but it added to the weird flavor of that place

kinda bummed they took out the climb up to the Eyrie...I mean, pacing wise I understand, but it added to the weird flavor of that place

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yeah really wanted to see the weird system of elevators

this ep was good shit, but i'm not call it ham until someone 'major' dies unexpectedly

When a horse gets its head chopped off, that's ham to me.

if they hew as closely to the books as they have so far, the season finale is going to own so hard

and it will be all kinds of O_O

:D

Definitely the best episode so far, quite possibly because it had the most added scenes. Felt a lot less stiff.

need more Arya

She's probably had as much screen time as anyone!

i am greedy, she is my favorite :)

i think part of the reason this ep worked so well was that it pretty much stuck to action in king's landing and the eyrie; brief visit to winterfell, no dothraki stuff, no wall stuff. not that i don't really like the stuff on the wall, but to keep shifting the scene does take some momentum out of each episode.

Yeah i agree. It is a problem in a show with so many characters in disparate locations.

every time arya is on screen i think, as if for the first time, "wow, you are a terrible actress"

:I

Whaaa? I think she's great!

It's interesting that you say that and this is followed up by Treme. Just thinking about how Simon has to force himself to write really tight "anecdote" scenes to pack in all the people and situations he wants to do; Thrones, being all notional period stuff and supposedly needing that much more exposition, has to abbreviate a lot and yet still ends up spending probably far too much time in each set

That was to ian, you crossposting fuckers

xxpost to rogermexico: cut your throat, traitor! raaaaghhh! (run at you sword aloft)

Arya is too pretty. In the book they keep calling her horse-faced.

eh, martin kind of softens it, shes supposed to look like bryanna stark, who is supposed to be beautiful

or whatever neds sister was called