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

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

pissed i have to wait two weeks

must be a role somewhere in the books for paz de la huerta

NO

I checked - nothing for her. Nothing at all.

check paz de la hater here

lol

she could do a fair taena merryweather. looks of hookers to cast too. maybe one of the dornish.

she should have played sansa

she could def be a dornish chick. let her be the red vipers girlfriend

biter

biter! i hardly know er

she could be a horse

I don't remember that it was common knowledge at this time in the story that Littlefinger DID love Catelyn Stark! Iirc, you're kept in suspense for a while about whether he loved Catelyn or her sister, in their youths, and he claims at one point to have slept w both of them but you immediately disbelieve that of Catelyn so that just leaves Lysa...it's not early as clear as the show has made it.

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

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, June 1, 2011 9:39 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark

thats actually not unlikely - hbo execs are known for strongly 'encouraging' this kind of content - i wouldnt have thought it necessary with this source material, but there you go