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

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?

or (given that this is Game of Thrones) was it a fake execution of a fake Ned Stark?

does GOT exist in the lost universe

not sure why yous are so obsessed with who's playing who, it's called ACTING, there's no reason why sean bean should play sean bean

sean bean shd play sean bean because hes been sean

I think the circei actress is the lead in miss fishers murder mysteries show from australia that my wife is obsessed with

In other news, seems like a lot pof people's suspicions itt have been confirmed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMI_HBO5FOM

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does GOT exist in the lost universe

It was noticeable that there were no polar bears north of the Wall.

Probably off gallivanting in Dorne or something.

The Cersei actress is Essie Davis, she was in the Babadook.

&does apparently play Miss Fisher in yer gf's fav rave, like.

Cersei Lannister appears in Marmaduke?

better than the other way around i guess

Essie Davis is also the short haired crew member in the last 2 Matrix films.
Do love those cheekbones.

cool they brought sean bean back to play whoever this kevin eldon character that ned stark has returned as is. is. bean.

This thread is bringing the major lols, good work all.

How long will it take Euron's 40 men and their families to make a thousand ships do you think?

you all haven't considered that turn out at a kingsmoot is comparable to that of a municipal election? This could be like 5% of the Iron Island population

If there were 5% there would only be around 800. Yes, of course I'm being stupidly disingenuous but the arithmetic on this show is ridiculous considering there were about one man to each of the ships they stole.

Although none of that was as wtf as the cock and balls close up of the young guy playing Joffrey in the play.

One man in yen gathered company to each of the stolen ships, I mean.

What a crap episode. I like that they're speeding things up, but it's so annoying and slapdash. As yet motiveless (yet not unthinking?) snow zombies not threatening and silly, like any CGI horde(or). And super lame that the huge CGI snow zombie horde is apparently the only time you ever see a number of anything gathered in one place in this show, whose every scene appears to be 2-3 people talking with 20 people standing in the background, like a stage play rather than a big budget epic. It's bad enough that they don't have enough computer money to show dragons or that the same limitations have made them take out wolves at a, er, dire pace, but why does this huge film-around-the-world production cultural juggernaut suddenly seem so cheap and backlot? And even gullible Sansa, who finally gets a chance to stand up to someone, is immediately taken advantage of in dumb fashion.

"I don't trust you anymore and should just kill you!"

"What if I told you ... your uncle the Black Adder has gathered his army to defend you?"

"He did? Oh, that's great news! OK, now go back wherever you came from."

"Um, Sansa, don't you think we should send a raven to confirm that intel?"

"Nah, what's the worst that can happen? Besides, we have not seen a raven in this show in several season, I think the raven budget has been severely curtailed."

At least we finally find out how Hodor got his name. It's the number one reason people have been watching the show, and I was convinced that wasn't going to be revealed until the very end of the last book. Now if only they would establish whether Ramsay is a bad guy or not.

RIP green nature sprite, whatever you were, whoever you were, killed by the things you somehow created for some reason to do something.

Ask the Maester:

RIP, Three-Eyed Raven. You were a bad teacher of greenseeing, my dude. If the fate of the world hinged on my ability to pass on my knowledge, I’d tell my only student, “DON’T LET THE NIGHT’S KING TOUCH YOU,” five times a day.

Did you not just read the last jillion posts, or.

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Prolly not, I just saw the episode so was avoiding the thread.

Whenever I see the wildling head guy I think of Graham Chapman in "Yellowbeard:"
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ba/13/24/ba132487cd9feaa999512e120804f2a8.jpg

I think of Tom Baker in Blackadder!

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/blackadder/images/a/a4/Redbeard_Rum.gif/revision/latest?cb=20120830144208

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/e3/75/a2/e375a267fc3d8d14986aaab42f79d4a3.jpg

How long will it take Euron's 40 men and their families to make a thousand ships do you think?

Once they have built the ship factory and assembly line I reckon they could knock out around 50 a day? Give or take a weekend or two they should be good to go in a month.

Maybe he wants them to make model ships?

It reminded me of that bit in Vikings where the lead guy was like "fuck it lets go OVER THE CLIFF with our boats!" and next thing you know theyre in Paris.

Iron Islands seem pretty light on trees, and you'd think their obsession with boats (and habit of losing battles) would have further depleted their forests. So tack on a few more months of gathering supplies, or a few more years of growing trees.

Anyway, Oliver Reed in "Baron Munchausen:"
http://www.chud.com/articles/content_images/106/BARON/bmReed.jpg

The Iron Islands are supposedly a quite big landmass all in all, so there should be a lot of trees. But they've never made particularly sense to me. They are poor areas, sparsely populated, and there really aren't that many trade routes nearby they can raid. It's as if the people of the Hebrides decided to try and conquer Scotland. Like, how?

Maybe Bran can travel back in time and tell them to plant extra trees.

tormund mostly reminds me of pirate steve from dodgeball

There aren't many trees in the Hebrides either.

I have a crazy fan theory regarding the Iron Islands, so bear with me here. I believe that they're subtly implying there are even MORE men and trees somewhere off screen. If my theory is true, they'll have at least double the 40 men shown on the screen or more, and if the tree part is true as well they'll be able to build those ships after all. I wonder if Yara and Theon knew about this or if they were placing their bets on it taking hundreds of years for 40 men to build 1,000 boats out of imported wood. If so, hoooo man they're in for a BIG surprise!

I'm not sure Euron literally meant 1000 ships. I doubt they even have room for all that.

I was also hoping Euron would just drown or fail ridiculously.

We've been a bit short on hubristic chumps lately so he's a very welcome presence, especially as they Iron Islands have been 100% tedious every other time they've appeared.

I like Euron, but I wish there were more opportunities for him to say "brutha" like he did in his first scene. the whole "lets just rebuild our fleet while they get a few months (at least?) head start" thing is odd though.

Actor playing Euron was also in that c4 show about a stag weekend where a bunch of lads and the stag went to shoot stags on a stag hunt. Can't remember the name of it.

100% treeless more like. Xp

xpost I was sooooo hoping he would drown, to keep with the contemporary comedy beats of this season. Would have been too conspicuously hilarious for the show to pull off, though.

"Drink! Drink deep of the Drowned God! Let him into your lungs! Accept the salt until your blood turns saline! Breath! Drink and breathe, and die, so that you might live forever!! And now ... rise again!"
...
(clears throat) "And so I say ... rise again!!!!"
(Nudges his motionless body with his foot)
"Aw, shit. Where are Yara and Theon?"
"They fled, my lord, along with all of our boats and our legion of invisible extras."
"Dammit! Fucking Kingsmoot, I thought this shit was supposed to work. Well, I guess it was worth a shot. Now let's build some boats!"

I think the lack of trees on the Iron Islands means that someone used them all to build a 1000 ship fleet and is hiding it in their bathtub

"Now build me a bathtub! The biggest bathtub the world has ever seen! The Iron Born will be a joke no longer!!!!"

I quite like the scenes there, it's a pretty cool place. I liked the bridge scene.

theyre all so depressed and bitter and wear drab clothing