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

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

pretty strong intuiting by JMP imo

i thought those were awesome when i was thirteen

I tried to read them around age 16, at the height of my miserable teen period, and my main reaction was "if I think the main character is this much of a whiny dick, how must he come across to people who are actually happy????"

pretty strong intuiting by JMP imo

I think SHE should write a book tbh

Mr Veg tried to get me to read Thomas Covenant, I read the first book & declared "this guy's an asshole & you cant make me read any more of these." Too rapey and just, no.

mrs Dan needs a book deal stat

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.

Gotta have a Jon/Arya bamf team-up!

More seriously, I'm wondering about the possibility of a Winterfell/Klingon alliance...

also I think the Lannisters are cylons

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

also Tyrion is a munckin from Oz secretly trying to get back home, and Littlefinger is really a politician from Baltimore

so, episode 8 fekkin rips! my favorite yet by far. have settled into loving the characters i love (arya and her "dance instructor", tyrion, jon snow and sam, catelyn, lord varys, bran), tolerating the rest. am warming to daenerys due to increased kick-assed-ness, though she's still dull as dirt.

best moment: the long, slow upward pan after sam's "i hope the wall's high enough..."

yeah, that part was killer.

am warming to daenerys due to increased kick-assed-ness, though she's still dull as dirt.

Amazing looking woman also. And Drogo is just supremely badass.

I am still trying to figure out why a post containing the conjecture of someone who hasn't read any of the books warranted a reposting of the spoiler rules

am warming to daenerys due to increased kick-assed-ness, though she's still dull as dirt.

God her hair is like quilt batting and she's all fake-tan now -- hate this casting, hate her, hate.

Love her

I am still trying to figure out why a post containing the conjecture of someone who hasn't read any of the books warranted a reposting of the spoiler rules

Yeah, idgi either. Way to ruin this thread by posting completely wild ass guesses about where the plot may go. If thats now considered a spoiler, can we go back and delete all the posts about "I can't wait to see (X) show up"?

But on a lolzier note:

http://i.imgur.com/IYe0f.jpg

this is a spoiler in a vague general way: danerys has plenty of badass still to attain and her procession from scared catatonic incestuous rape victim to actual powerful autonomous queen (in a story whose other queen is a sociopath) is rad and you guys should cut her some slack cuz she's had a hard life. for example, the guy who introduced me to these books called her a slut :(

I don't dislike the character ONE SINGLE BIT. Just the casting choice.

x-post - LOL YEAH!

oh yeah she's a bit of a drip. hopefully she is just hard-pedaling the character's early drippiness. i like her lips!

She is so hot

xxxp And now I'm angry at that guy!

That could have pertained to what DHL said too but I actually meant it for The Dink ad.

DLH your friend sounds like a winner.

Her lips make up for the awful awful hair.

THE HAIR IS SO BAD

xxp he was 17 so we should probably cut him some slack too although not as much as we cut dany

hmpf maybe

her assistant is hotter...

Well at least at 17 he still has time to grow up into someone way more awesome than he is now. He should get started on that, imo.

yeah, i object less to the character than the actress. emelia clarke is gorgeous, but the daenerys remains a complete cypher due to the fact that the actress is practically a walking mannikin. i gathered that D was scarred and near-catatonic in the beginning, but it's not like great depths have opened in clarke's performance as the character has blossomed. love the idea of daenerys and can see as how she'd be a great character if portrayed in a more interesting fashion, but so far, she's just a face & body.

and some quilt batting

eh, dunno about that; Daenerys in this last episode vs Daenerys in the first episode are for all intents and purposes radically different ppl

Honestly all the women cast so far bore me except Cat Stark. The others are all coded for "attractiveness" in way that substitutes thousand-yard stares and blow-job mouths for acting.

I don't know because I don't find Cersei to be attractive at all.

x-post You really think so? I don't know - that seems a little harsh. I don't think she's awful, I'm just offended by the horrid dye job.