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

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

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.

― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Wednesday, June 1, 2011 12:37 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

I think you're misremembering - we knew from the start that he dueled Brandon Stark for Catelyn's hand, a fight he had no way of winning... that seems to make it clear who he really loved.

Yeah i'm pretty sure Catelyn goes into it in some detail

Damn. One thing I'm realizing as I watch/re-read these is that elements that were suspenseful/mysterious stuck with me far more than straightfoward ones. My gut feeling about how long certain things were in flux or were "unknowns" is totally off.

anyone think episode 6 was by far the worst so far? there were so, so many moments where i sat there saying to myself, "this is what's gonna happen next" (for instance: an arrow's gonna go through that guy any minute"), and then exactly that would happen. extended even to dialogue.

[brit interloper content]: lol there's a guy called Jon Snow in this

The cast in this is great cos it provides the biggest game of "Wait, That's The Guy From" imaginable, like bearded Roger Allam and the handsome midget who dated Liz Lemon and the Arsenal fan with learning difficulties who gets killed halfway through Eastern Promises and Jerome fuckin Flynn

I like that since the first two minutes of the first episode, the only notable supernatural thing that's happened has been somebody picking up a hot egg without noticeable injury

fat guy from the tesco advert

[brit interloper content]: lol there's a guy called Jon Snow in this

Always raises a smirk. Next season they will hopefully introduce a powerful rival house lord named Huw Edwards.

Aw hell, my books came in today!

Looking at a map of Westeros in my book's frontispiece, I'm vastly amused that there's a castle named Riverrun. Is it past Eve and Adam's?

one of the lads in this was in hollyoaks i think...good career move for him.

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"

― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Wednesday, June 1, 2011 10:44 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ned is really, really dumb

― ☂ (max), Wednesday, June 1, 2011 10:44 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

took me a second to realize this wasn't a joke about Perry being married to Raggett

I'm vastly amused that there's a castle named Riverrun. Is it past Eve and Adam's?

this was all i could think of too.

Fuck not having HBO. :(

I'll see it soon enough but I really want to watch now. Hmpf.

soooon.