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

not everyone puts as much thought as Tolkien into these things

― Number None, Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:27 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

def one of the winning qualities of GOT imho

i get super annoyed by the "fantasy land = generic UK at some unspecified point in non-history" cliche
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OTMFM. Just once I'd like a fantasy land where everyone speaks in thick Bronx accents

ay, look at dem fuckin dragons

wintuh's comin'

Kind of a terrible idea but It sort of worked in Last Temptation,

lol, i mean i get that that's what the genre's built on, what fantasy fans want. they want knights in shining armor and european-style castles and fire-haired maidens in green velvet dresses with vaguely celtic-y gold needlework around the collar - plus magic and dragons and all. nothing wrong with all that, but it does get a little old.

honestly, i find the praise for GoT's approach to the genre a little odd. seems to me that martin's stripped away the most interesting parts of the genre (mythic simplicity, the creative licence granted by magic, imaginative world-building) in favor of its most humdrum aspects (melodrama, faux-britishness).

antidote to all of this ^ is of course Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea

I pretty much stand aside when the conversation turns to how different ASoIaF is from all those other fantasy books (which a right-thinking individual need never consider reading). I know I'm not gonna change any minds on that front...

ive never read any of these fantasy books but i have seen a lot of the movies and contedizers delineation of GOTs violation of genre taboos is needless to say extremely wide right

well I'd hesitate to go so far as to say it's a ~deconstruction~ of the genre, but on of its quality that I really love is the way it's examining the inherent bullshit within the notions of honour and heroism in this world and, maybe, by extension, the genre as a whole. being really extreme but if the genre norm is Excalibur this is more interested in being Lancelot Du Lac.

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i agree that GoT doesn't deconstruct the genre. to present a gritty, amoral alternative to the shining, golden heroes we find in the the most naively idealistic sort of fantasy fiction is certainly a valid approach, but it's hardly novel at this point.

also, i don't find the television series at all averse to traditional notions of honor, decency and heroism. the characters seem pretty clearly to break down into "good guy" and "bad guy" groups based on their possession of these qualities.

but varys basically broke it down to an extent when he talked to ned when he was jailed below the castle in season one.

So yeah this week's. Fuck BB King's House Of Undying, I'm tired of waiting for it. Don't care anymore.

omg yes @ this; driving me crazy.

would watch an entire season of Tyrion & Varys

the accents only really bugged me when like Renly and Stannis, brothers, have totally different regional accents

Next week's episode looks promising, at least!!

Written by Martin, directed by Neil Marshall of Dog Soldiers/The Descent. Should be a good 'un alright

Gettin' that Helm's Deep feelin'.

oh shit, i totally forgot it was Neil Marshall.

Written by Martin, directed by Neil Marshall of Dog Soldiers/The Descent. Should be a good 'un alright

!!!

I love Doomsday, it is such a batshit crazy movie.

omg yay didn't know that

http://www.drexel.edu/now/features/archive/2012/May/Vampires-Thrones-Hobbit/

The course, simply titled “A Game of Thrones,” will explore the differences and similarities between the first book in the series and the first season of the HBO series based on it. It will be offered through the Pennoni Honors College on Thursday afternoons from 2:00 to 4:50. It promises to be just as epic as the tale it focuses on.

omg I'm totally forwarding that to my father-in-law (he graduated from their engineering program)

Vampires-Thrones-Hobbits

Vampire thrones Hobbit, full story at 11.

Vampire Thrones for Hobbits, $9.99 one day only

Mixtape for after you get hardthroned

a solid liberal arts education.

kingslayer finally escaping only to wind up in what looks like the same cage only moments later did not help.

― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Monday, May 14, 2012 12:05 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm way behind here but ya wtf was up with THAT?

"you just have to DIE for me to escape!" *executes cunning escape* *is still captured 5 minutes later*

they left out the other 53 escape attempts, during one of which jaime distracted a guard by dressing as a beautiful lady and hitting him on the head with a frying pan

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would watch an entire season of Tyrion & Varys

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:11 AM Bookmark Like Love Give Virtual Blowjob

^^

celebrity judges on westeros got talent

Is that Tyrion mural real?!

no, photoshopped.

It'll be real soon.

Just finished a first listen to the soundtrack release for Season 2, and I'm glad to be able to say it's much better than the half-assed, cheapish sound design droney junk Djawadi provided for season 1. (I know, he was hired at the last minute so time constraints etc and yes he did come up with a damn catchy Main Title). This time there are some real signs of compositional life as he puts his main theme through a number of highly contrasting variations, and the instrumentation feels much less like something you'd hear over an early edition of Baldur's Gate. I still wish they hadn't hired someone from the Hans Zimmer stable though. Christian Henson would've been so awesome on this project based on what he did for Black Death. Anyway, season 2 CD is solidly worth hearing though nowhere near great.

I didn't even know they released soundtrack albums for this.

the theme song is the best

I can't tell if he rerecorded a more organic (less synthetic) version of the theme song for the S2 CD or if it just sounds better to me bcuz the subsequent tracks are better.

for those of you that don't frequent the blue oyster cult thread, BOC is currently using the game of thrones title theme as their "taking the stage" music

weilding a Steinberger of Valerian steel

lol

http://i.minus.com/iYhh0Af8OIkUo.gif

perfect

I get the theme song to this show stuck in my head for days at a time. It's really starting to annoy me.

This has already been posted upthread, needs reposting for posterity

(silverfish this might make things worse for you)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t92ukx0A2fk

(Game of thrones opening sung by Sansa, Arya and Bran)

nearly as good as this:

http://youtu.be/25KABvPbq-U

Oh by the way, the CD includes 'Rains of Castermere' performed by popular indie recording artist The National. (but written by show composer Djawadi)