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

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"

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ned is really, really dumb

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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.

all quiet?!

stunned into silence by hodor's cock.

he was shockingly pale.

Haven't seen it, we rescheduled for tonight instead!

how long is the wait for more? stuff had just started happening and now it's over.

you don't mean the 1st season is over do you?!

2 more episodes still to go.

shitty cliffhanger imo. rest of the episode was good tho.

enh I think the ended it "quietly" just to set the stage for the madness to come

the bravosi's fight was spot on; the show catches the tenor of the book v.well I think

i really hope he survived.

ah cool okay, two more eps, i had it in my mind that it was 8 eps this season.

having not read the book yet, this is the first episode where I felt like they were making huge plot jumps. where did these bravosi people come from? what was up with the guy losing his fingers and being cool with it? stuff felt super condensed.

when will they kill that breastfeeding brat?

like the way rob is stepping up to the plate.

i assumed the dude who lost his fingers is just supposed to be a bit of a lovable mental case. there's one in all these sort of shows/films. no doubt later on he'll behead someone and chuckle to himself. he's the gimli!

really hope he survived.

Unless they're being deliberately contrary, in pretty much all TV/film ever, if you leave a fight behind before seeing if the good guy dies, it means they didn't.

that's what i was figuring.

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that was by far the best episode so far. they really put their foot on the gas.

yeah i think its just getting better and better. loved the snappy pace.

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lol

Is THAT Stannis?

yeah, another point where it seemed like things were overly condensed. i'm like, "little brother? what?"

have they even referred to Rickon by name on the show yet? he had the camera pan on him for like a second in the first episode and this is the first time he's appeared since then. kind of a fumble on their part, even if he doesnt do anything

yeah, having read the books it's kind of easy to take this stuff for granted. Rickon has probably baen mentioned once or twice, maybe even shown in passing in the first episode, but that raise eyebrows for sure. The thing with Lord Umber losing his fingers and then laughing about it--he is kind of a blustery tuff guy, also drunk, but he does respect displays of power to some degree, and while the wolf attack may not have been that intentionally it has a similar effect. xp

the finger thing is similarly glossed over in the book, but as much as anything its sort of supposed to show what northmen are like, i.e., hard as fucc

Bummed that Ser Barristan didnt strip all the way down to his long johns when they dismissed him
from the kings guard like in the book

Also no way is that Rickon. He looks as old as Brann!

Tyrion's merry men SO otm. Shagga is aces.

Otherwise like the way they are moving the story along. Exciiiiting!

i like any line in this show zinging theon (sigh) about being a prisoner.

This is so fucking gripping right now.

yeah am really mad to see more of it. a week is too long.

anyone else (who hasn't read the books) think those hill vikings getting involved in the battle will be what sparks ned's crazy sister in law to get involved too, since she doesn't want them ending up armed by the lannisters?

those lannister nuclear warheads could really ruin the vale

"a lannister always nukes"

i was thinking that the viking/barbarians would wind up leading a small chunk of the Lannister army to the Vale only to get killed in what i'm to understand is a very easily defensible chunk of land (probably assuming that the soldiers from the vale would be heading south aswell).

THIS POST IS ALL CONJECTURE

My wife hasn't read the books; her current theory re: the story runs as follows:

- The unsympathetic characters can't win, otherwise the books wouldn't be as popular.
- The only sympathetic characters at the moment are the Starks and Daenerys, ergo one of them must win.
- In order for the Starks to win, either Ned has to escape or he has to die so one of his children can avenge him.
- Cersi can't be killed, at least not right away, or else Joffrey would be exposed and there would be no "game of thrones".

Her current theory is that Ned and all of the legitimate Stark children are going to die and Jon Snow is going to sweep through the Lannisters in revenge, ending up as the winner of the "game of thrones" who will have to deal with a returning Daenerys and her child.

and the deadthings.

zombies. let's face it - they're zombies.

She kind of forgot about them, lol.

The unsympathetic characters can't win, otherwise the books wouldn't be as popular.

huh

Her words, not mine! I was thinking of bringing up Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever as a counterexample except for that I can't think of anyone I know who read those books who actually liked them (lol)

i thought those were awesome when i was thirteen

so did my R.E. teacher, for some reason