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

Yeah, the show has been pretty faithful to Beric D. thus far, though that isn't exactly hard at this point.

btw, did anyone else lol @ the whole frantic Arya/Jaqen scene?

i most certainly did. i kind of liked her screaming " i want you to kill him NOW!", as it made her sound like the little kid she is, which you sometimes tend to forget considering everything she does.

The stuff w/ Jon Snow this week really sucked, esp. in comparison w/ the rest.

otm, i was also disappointed by the mechanical and rather ridiculous presentation of arya's second assassination. a big disappointment after last week's (great) episode, imo.

Yes! Very sitcomy vibe, esp. the wry way Jaqen seemed to be teasing her.

Otherwise agree on overall quality of this episode, which was also written by the same writer who did "Garden of Bones" (the other majorly dud episode this season).

arya's assassination genie is pretty sweet

big lolz on dude opening the door and then keeling over

lol yes

btw, Armory Lorch is the guy that Tywin chewed out and dismissed for being dum, right?

tough to blame the writer when she gets stuck with Robb and his nurse-love and some of the cack-handed Harendal stuff. Loved the Littlefinger looks though. Also all the Winterfell stuff was A+ and we also got Tyrion slapping Joffrey again so I can't find much to complain about on the whole.

The Sansa scene went on a bit too long and was uncomfortable to watch. I realise she was a standin for Lollys, and it wasn't exactly a pleasant scene in the book, but it was unpleasant viewing.

On the other hand, I really felt for the Stark kids when Ser Rodrik got beheaded and I really liked what we saw of Roose Bolton.

i dunno where i've seen it before for it to be a trope but i just knew ian wasn't gonna slice dude's head clean off in one go :/

big lolz on dude opening the door and then keeling over

― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 05:56 (Yesterday) Bookmark

did i miss something earlier or was this the first suggestion that assassin guy has magical powers? or was i not supposed to think that

he hasn't got magical powers, he's just pretty fucking good at killing ppl

he just shot a poison dart into guys neck

yup

oh right yeah i see the dart now

still got that done unlikely sharpish didnt he, considering the headstart killed guy had

felt it was farfetched but i am happy if they want to have unfeasibly good assassin. it's not the wire... and even that had omar and that brother mouzone cartoon.

the too-perfect handiness of the character and the ridiculous nick-of-time intervention both bugged me in this episode

you guys hate fun

it's mostly u, really. f and n are both okay.

^ couldn't help it, no offense intended

idgi

anyway awesome at murderin' dude is a kool character

no, i like it (now i see what i missed) and find it fun but the point stands you've probably got to be a little tighter with zingy "farfetched" once you've now let actual smokebaby type magic out the box

plus he has a sassy demeanour and had all that blarney about his "red god" or whatever last episode, seems like magical signifiers to me

pssst everybody, this series is based on a pulpy fantasy series

we all have our proclivities

martin definitely does some things other fantasy paperback dudes don't do, and does some things better but sometimes i feel like ppl really seriously want like aaron sorkin's "studio dragonpants on the sunset ruins of winterfell" and are basically complaining that a heavy metal album has loud guitars and guitar solos

anyway awesome at murderin' dude is a kool character

― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, May 9, 2012 6:49 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

his style of speech is v nice

a man knows

and are basically complaining that a heavy metal album has loud guitars and guitar solos

many of them in fact do!

i literally haven't understood your last few posts

lol, j/k. i get that pulpy tv series is pulpy, but don't always love all elements equally. no slam on the show in general.

I could go for more Downton Abbey crossovers. The first thing I thought of with the ginger wildlin was "oh, that's what the maid with the typewriter ended up doing"

i knew i recognised her from somewhere!

Plus Ser Richard Carlisle of course

Yeah, who is also the bad guy in Resident Evil: Apocalypse. or maybe Extinction.

I didn't make it that far into the RE series, but it sounds like you just gave me a reason to.

Don't mistake a C-list actor getting work for a stamp of previously unknown quality. They're all terrible films.

2nd one was pretty dope they blew up racoon city come on

no. i rewatched them all two weeks ago. Extinction has one decent scene, but other than that...

http://maxgif.com/mV

https://twitter.com/#!/iscoff/status/200952211533086720

2nd one was pretty dope they blew up racoon city come on

AW COME ON SPOILERS MAN.

Well I don't know how they do Apocalypses where you're from...

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3tlnjCBAF1qzdfnao1_1280.jpg

Oops, spoiler.

Nah, it's always been obvious.

well, that was an upsetting ending.

very upset over here.

Really loved this one. I'm always surprised at how much I enjoy watching these characters talk to each other. I like the way backstory informs the present.

Also it was kind of perfect that I was really getting fed up with the Harrenhal business because that castle looks like a shithole, why are important people interested, etc...and then Tywin nicely explains it all. Still not sure about Jon Snow and 'er from Downton. I think Jon Snow is kind of shit though - an idiot, really, but hopefully the 'journey' will be interesting.

Was it upsetting? Surely it's not Bronn/his brother nobody cares about. It feels quite obvious that it was those two kids on that farm.