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

I found it very hard to watch since I was wincing so hard I could barely see. That was some made-up "here be explication" shit.

It isn't HBO unless someone is giving backstory while getting a bj.

BADLITTLEFINGER.

Alas poor Yoren

"hmm, this littlefinger scene is pretty boring... lets make this naked chick play with the other naked chicks ass"

Carcetti's diction is very weird... Can't decide if I like it or not.

Ser Smirky McSmirksalot/Alliser Thorne -- is he the Lieut. Commander that Jon is going to steward for?

― Doctoral Who (Leee), Monday, May 30, 2011 2:57 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

nah, hes a knight but he just trains recruits. Jeor Mormont, the Lord Commander of the entire night's watch, is who jon's gonna be fluffing pillows for

littlefinger scene was Very HBO, but i liked the way he said 'play with her arse'

i thought tywin lannister's introduction was gangster as hell. skinning a stag - kinda groanworthy as a premise but in execution it was awesome. nice way to get across how methodical and unflinching he is, and from a staging perspective it was a lot more interesting to watch than just a static conversation.

i like the sort of classical feel of khal drogo waging war purely because they tried to assassinate the khalisi...thus ensuring they bring about their own worst fears.

holy shit this show. i really think i hate ned stark.

enjoying this ALOT more now than i thought i would after the first episode, would probably enjoy it more if more static expo scenes were filmed w/ field dressing in the foreground rather than some whores. are the books quick/fun reads? ie something i could plausibly pull off this summer? very very very wary of fantasy in general (very happy to leave lotr to watching the movies and that's that). also should i be rooting for the klingons this much? basically am read to see all the white people die and snow zombies isn't really the way i want to see it done, much rather barbarian hordes.

Yeah, now that the jackass has had his head melted I'd be totally up for Drogo/Daenrys winning.

The littlefinger scene was prob the first time I was annoyed by the gratuitous sex/nudity HBOness of it. I really hated that part and Laurel also otm about it earlier.

balls: after some extreme wariness about fantasy writing I have been enjoying the first book quite a bit. Definitely has helped me understand what's going on, but also a good breezy read.

Unlike other people here I am not going to read ahead of the show, though.

I might read ahead of the show if the cliffhanger is excruciating enough. Might just jump straight in on vol 2 though, sure I'll pick up any extra plot bits and pieces.

it reminded me of the first three seasons of the wire when they'd throw in a quick sweaty sex scene every now and then out of nowhere. only if instead they'd also had mcnulty thoroughly describe a flowchart of the barksdale organization while banging that waitress. every other week.

The show is good. The books are better. And i don't see why anyone who's enjoyed the show so far wouldn't enjoy the books even more.

Because you'd have to periodically look at the internet while reading them to get your lesbian fix.

books are great! i read all four over about 15 or 20 days, though i have a lot of free time. and yeah, number none otm, if you like the series i cant imagine you wont like the books

also chap no spoilers but the cliffhanger will be excruciating

max otm

I'll have done 4books in about a week but I'm sorta crazy like that

Aww damn, Amazon has a 4-vol. box for $20! http://www.amazon.com/George-Martins-Thrones-4-Book-Boxed/dp/0345529057/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306804364&sr=8-1

I'm not going to ask if I should get, because I just assume everyone is going to say yes.

littlefinger scene was Very HBO, but i liked the way he said 'play with her arse'

i thought tywin lannister's introduction was gangster as hell. skinning a stag - kinda groanworthy as a premise but in execution it was awesome. nice way to get across how methodical and unflinching he is, and from a staging perspective it was a lot more interesting to watch than just a static conversation.

― a thong of ice and fire (Princess TamTam), Monday, May 30, 2011 9:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

otm

finished the first book last week. damn, what an ending!

really psyched to see the hbo-style season finale ending with each story line getting capped off while jeff buckley's hallelujah plays in the background

will be off the chain

I didn't do the HBO GO thing last week so I just saw ep 8, which was bad-ass. Needed more Arya tho.

People who have read the books: where do you side concerning the balance between experiencing the plot cliffhangers for the first time by watching the show versus having already read the books and knowing what the darn is going on.

if you haven't read them yet, I'd wait until the end of this season at this point

btw finished feast for crows and am sorta ~pissed~ I have to wait for the next one

Laurel otm abt Carcetti's pr0n scene...stared at the ceiling til it ws over. Ffs surely there is a better way to deliver exposition. (yes yes boobs n arses is better I know)...he is so fucking crepey I cant stand it. Great, but creepy.

it's not that he's gross, it's that there's something gross abt staging an exposition scene (with a long-ass intro before the exposition even starts) around leering shots of prostitutes learning to finger one another. i mean, i hate to use a word like "gratuitous" in this day and age, but come on. at least the skinning in that pther long info-dump served a purpose, developed character in a useful way. we already know that baelish is a sleazebag whoremhonger, we hardly need spend five minutes watching him mong whores to get this point across.

I wonder if they established that whore from the north over the last couple of episodes just to have her in this scene.

roz q. exposition, the whore from the north

sort of hoping she'll show up nude in every lengthy exposition scene

hahaa
i thought this scene was hilarious!

maybe they can have her field dress a deer while nude

also that scene is really going to screw with the TBS edit

Maybe there is some kind of nude quota imposed & they had to make up the quota in a hurry

the thing I took away from that scene is that Littlefinger is going to use Expositho as his pegging specialist

I wonder if they established that whore from the north over the last couple of episodes just to have her in this scene.

― Gukbe, Wednesday, June 1, 2011 4:44 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

wondered the same thing, tbh

five minutes watching him mong whores to get this point across.

Not so much monging as polishing his wares. Even from the pov of pure, gratuitous titillation, the scene was too long and too flat. But like the Tywin scene (mentioned above) it served to underline that we're not supposed to like him. Don't know the books but the show is rather cartoonish though not in an entirely bad way.

he's not particularly trustworthy in the books either from what I remember

my wife spent a good 5 minutes after the episode ranting along the theme of "why would you trust anyone who was in love with your wife? stupid ass"

ned is really, really dumb

one of the things I loved about Martin's story was how he took the archetypal "honorable knight" of fantasy stories and showed how that character just would not work at all if up against anyone who acted even halfway rationally

(this comment is in the context of what's already been shown in the show btw)

SPOILER WARNING

can't wait until we get to see ned and jamie form crazy-haired pop sensation Jeddard

tbh that was where the books jumped the shark for me

im going to wait for dance of dragons to see how that pans out