Agreed that Asha/Yara is a lot different (and less attractive) to how I imagined her. The usual good job on Brienne and Margaery, though.
SPOILERSLooks like they're cutting a fairly big chunk out of Arya's story if she's going straight to Harrenhal.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
And how good is the art direction this season? Pyke castle looks incredible. Everything does.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
Considering that a big chunk of Arya's story in book 2 is wandering around the woods, I'm kinda glad they condensed it a bit.
― I cannot host as my wife hates Walker (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
was really angry at "willem"... so glad the story ended with him getting hurt badly.
will miss that dude's overegged north of england schtick.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
yara is not nearly as hot as i pictured her in the books...also she doesn't hardly look "hard" at all (she's supposed to be a salty seafaring bad-ass, she looks like blossom or something).
however i am so, so pleased with the casting of gilly that i will overlook it.
― humba (NZA), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
last night in the movie store i overheard the clerks talking about this show and one guy asked "have they got rid of the queen yet?" and oh how i laughed.
― humba (NZA), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
guys, i really don't think Asha is supposed to be that attractive in the books
― Number None, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
who wants to join my petition to get some dick into this show
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
HODOR
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
Littlefinger.
Maybe the wrong kind of dick.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
no I mean like erect penises. major missed opportunity this week.
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
arry's a girl, dude
― poxen, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
Tyrion's three-way Myrcella marriage sting wasn't in the book was it? Or if it was there were like several hundred pages of him having huge and lovingly-described feasts with minor nobles between him talking to each of the major players and I didn't really notice what was going on.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
thought that was kinda too obvious a ploy to bring down such seasoned players
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
also like what if more than one of them tells the queen, wouldve been kinda awkward
Tyrion doesn't give a shit about awkward though.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
And Cersei can't do anything against him directly at the moment, because of Tywin's bit of paper.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
you have to figure only Pycelle would be stupid enough to tell the Queen anyway
― Number None, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
Good point... It's also pretty obvious that Varys and Littlefinger are only beholden to themselves.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
then why bother testing the others, it was not a v good plan imho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
I think it was just meant to show Tyrion getting into the game of thrones but yeah, it wasn't particularly clever
― Number None, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
if jojen and meera reed (book 2 characters) aren't in the tv show i will be very upset
― humba (NZA), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
I can see them being written out.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
it was a fun lil scene
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
the myrcella thing was totally in the book iirc.
― raw feel vegan (silby), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
Tyrion's three-way Myrcella marriage sting wasn't in the book was it?
Only in the sense that one of the three plots in the book involved Tommen and not Myrcella, otherwise, yeah, in the book (and they're all laid in a single chapter, though the Pycelle payoff takes longer to uncover, IIRC).
― Trienne of Barf (Leee), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
lol Blossom was all sorts of cuet back in the day, brah! But yeah, the Asha in my head had a niftier haircut and also was the horsey sort of hott.
Anyway, I'm beginning to feel that the name change from Asha isn't so much because of the speculated similarity to Osha, but because Yara is simply a different character. Like, instead of the one Greyjoy whom I wkiw, she's just another dour, joyless (err) Greyjoy.
― Trienne of Barf (Leee), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
And I've been thinking that while I generally feel that the TV depictions of most of the characters improve markedly upon the book analogues, Asha/Yara and Renly seem like the two who've suffered the most in the adaptation. With Renly, his book self is supposed to be the Robert of 15 years ago, virile, hot, and dashing, but the TV version is so diffident and whiny that I can't buy that loads of nobles are willing to back him because they love him.
― Trienne of Barf (Leee), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 04:40 (twelve years ago) link
I think they've kind of coasted on this notion that people would rally to him because "everyone knows what Stannis is", though it might be not be adequate in the long run. He's certainly been given lesser screen time.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
the Asha in my head had a niftier haircut
Definitely this.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 08:14 (twelve years ago) link
otm about renly. also get the feel that loris tyrell isn't as hot as he's made out to be in the books.
― Jibe, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 09:19 (twelve years ago) link
Renly is pretty charming and charismatic IMO, but watching S1 before having read any of the books has coloured my perception of the character.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 09:24 (twelve years ago) link
Renly looking pretty hot this season IMO. I'm liking the Scruff look.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
in the books i always pictured stannis as henry rollins
― humba (NZA), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
Ha ha that is perfect.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
that would explain why no one likes him
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
i don't recall margaery inviting loras into their marital bed in the books but, you know, incest is best so.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
we don't actually see anything from her or Renly's pov in the book
― Number None, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
otm.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
will stannis have a later scene where he brings arya stark into a hipster tavern in westeros?
"DON'T YOU KNOW WHO THIS IS, THIS IS ARYA STARK???"
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
The books don't have a tonne of POV characters, iirc-- I mean, there are a tonne, but storylines like Davos' and Jon's almost felt overtold? I loved that Renly scene and hope there's more extrapolative stuff
― poxen, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
Davos is really our only POV in Dragonstone though. I think we could have done without Sam's POV for the Wall, but I see where some things couldn't have been told without it.
I loved this week's episode! Tyrion & the three was great, I died @ Vary's OOOH WE MUSTN'T TELL THE QUEEN. He's one of my favourites in the show without a doubt.
I'm glad they've cut out a bit out of certain timelines.
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
I think we could have done without Sam's POV for the Wall
No way, Sam is one of my favourite POV characters.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 19 April 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
#teamsamwell
― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 19 April 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
i am hoping the big [CONTROVERSIAL MODERATOR EDIT] battle with the [CONTROVERSIAL MODERATOR EDIT] is as gripping to view as to read.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 19 April 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
the big sex battle with the pizza?
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Thursday, 19 April 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
King's Landing was knee-deep in jizz and mozzarella for weeks.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 19 April 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
same thing.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 19 April 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link