HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones - Thread 2. There are a lot of nerds.

hey guys I was confused during that flashback Arya was watching. Did they totally recast Ned and Joffrey and Tyrion? Contract issues? Sansa's boobs were a body double's right? Show is going down the dumper.

― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, May 24, 2016 9:32 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

but within the show we're watching average citizens playacting as the characters we know, so why would the show cast the actors we know as those characters in the play instead of new actors who look kinda like them? to have sean bean playing an actor impersonating ned stark would be weird & wouldn't make any sense

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, May 24, 2016 12:16 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol my post was making fun of dog latin's questions

i assumed you were being sincere.

feel so stupid now. of course that wasn't sean bean.

i think it was sean bean

oh lol dog latin's questions must have been under the fold for me

:-)

oi LG and ryan: which set of vids do you mean? there are many many many explainer vids on youtube...

There's too many characters

it was some has bean

I think the videos were included in a DVD box

ohhhhh

i think it was sean bean

otm that's what i thought

i don't think it would have made sense to cast sean bean?

it was cool how they had jaime lannister playing ned/sean bean/actor playing sean bean guy, when bran warged back to warg into hodor. really messed with my head!

why not hes good u dont like him xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0uCWjQ6Og

tho i read a theory that was the original rob stark xpost

who better to play an actor playing sean bean than sean bean?

its the perfect role if you think abt it

I hope they reveal who Warg really is next episode.

warg is an acronym we know that much

warg is a feeling

I think the videos were included in a DVD box

yes, and narrated by the actors not some randos.

Without Any Religion, God

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1Kj8K-vlrQE/0.jpg

Oh great, was Daario recast again?

what's theon greyjoy got to do with this?

lol

one thing this show loves to do is have characters give meaningful, heartfelt speeches and then someone nearby says "yeah but you have no penis" and everyone laughs

It was weird when they did that after Cersei's speech

the ultimate own

i admit i laughed when Euron (sp?) responded to Theon's use of "galvanting" with "is that the kind of word you use when your cock has been cut off?" or something like that.

so...if they created the Others during that 2000 year war why did it take 4000 more years for the Others to become a problem? im sure there's an explanation, it's just a weird timeline.
― ryan, 24. maj 2016 17:42 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wrote a bit about this upthread, but I'm guessing the histories might be wrong. After all, they're mainly based on legends. The 4000 year peace might be self-serving from the human perspective. I hope some more info will come in book 6.

oh ok. because it definitely feels like *something* is missing from that account.

i really hope the TV show and the books have different endings

I feel like the climax of this season will obv be the revelation of whatever is going on inside the tower (which we can presume). and perhaps Dany setting sail for Westeros.

Was that guy playing the Sean Bean character the comedian guy who has appeared in Stewart Lee stuff and Nighty Night?

I think it was Sean Bean

glad we settled that now whats this abt a tower and whats going on inside

also i was just made aware of the R + L = M theory as well, which is intriguing.

The Tower of Joy is the guy from Fawlty Towers iirc

http://watchersonthewall.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Kevin-Eldon-263x300.jpg
Kevin Eldon whose name I couldn't think of earlier, if I've ever really known it.

2013 People's Sexiest Man Alive apparently

Think I've read somewhere that he's an actor rather than a comedian?

I initially assumed that the fact he was playing an actor on the show was an injoke about that but it was actually super unclear whether he was meant to be playing an actor or actual resurrected Ned Stark

a good picture of sean bean

ned's back, baby!

he was in the tower then he came out!

Seeing him alive and then beheaded again was a rollercoaster for me.

it was obviously a fake head though, think it was just their way of slyly confirming the fan theory re how he survived the execution in season 1

I thought about the earliest appearance I'd seen of Kevin had him doing a stand up routine on a show introduced by Stewart Lee.
Could be he's better known as an actor now. Wonder if we'll see much more of him & the troupe in this?

Was the actual execution of Ned Stark in season 1 fake or did they actually execute a fake Ned Stark?