"a lannister always nukes"
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 08:21 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
and the deadthings.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
zombies. let's face it - they're zombies.
She kind of forgot about them, lol.
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
The unsympathetic characters can't win, otherwise the books wouldn't be as popular.
huh
― thomp, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
i thought those were awesome when i was thirteen
― thomp, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
so did my R.E. teacher, for some reason
pretty strong intuiting by JMP imo
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
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????"
I think SHE should write a book tbh
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
mrs Dan needs a book deal stat
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
Gotta have a Jon/Arya bamf team-up!
More seriously, I'm wondering about the possibility of a Winterfell/Klingon alliance...
― Doctoral Who (Leee), Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
also I think the Lannisters are cylons
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 June 2011 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones - will this be just for nerds? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 June 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
also Tyrion is a munckin from Oz secretly trying to get back home, and Littlefinger is really a politician from Baltimore
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 June 2011 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
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..."
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 June 2011 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, that part was killer.
― (.づ☀‿☀)づ ~da post-modernist struggle~ (.づ☀‿☀)づ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 9 June 2011 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
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
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
God her hair is like quilt batting and she's all fake-tan now -- hate this casting, hate her, hate.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
Love her
― polyphonic, Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
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
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
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 :(
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
I don't dislike the character ONE SINGLE BIT. Just the casting choice.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - LOL YEAH!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah she's a bit of a drip. hopefully she is just hard-pedaling the character's early drippiness. i like her lips!
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
She is so hot
― polyphonic, Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
xxxp And now I'm angry at that guy!
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Her lips make up for the awful awful hair.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
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
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
hmpf maybe
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
her assistant is hotter...
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
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 the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
and some quilt batting
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
eh, dunno about that; Daenerys in this last episode vs Daenerys in the first episode are for all intents and purposes radically different ppl
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know because I don't find Cersei to be attractive at all.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
Cersei is scary looking.
that gif of cersei upthread ruined any potential attraction
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
I don't find Cersei attractive either, but she's clearly MEANT to be "attractive", her face and body follow all the rules. Not that Catelyn's don't, but she's the only one who I believe as a character.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
Daenerys in this last episode vs Daenerys in the first episode are for all intents and purposes radically different ppl
oh hell yeah, the character's progressed enormously. my point was that the actress isn't really doing anything to illuminate this. she's just louder, more furrowed, less slack. it's a terribly dull performance.
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
cersei is... brittle, which is probably right.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link