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

not in the least bit interested in picking a fight. just wanting to point out when someone is being a prick in the hopes they'll correct their behaviour.

― Gukbe, Monday, June 3, 2013 3:29 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

lol... get outta town

me irl during that entire scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUz9xCTOPRw

haha

havent seen the ep yet, but from the gif it looks even more brutal than the book

they left the oona character alive in the book, right?

from the huffpo interview with Michelle Fairley here: http://www.huffpost.com/us/entry/3375895/

Max Read of Gawker wrote an obsessive article about the accents on the show. Did you guys discuss who gets what accents?

Yes, absolutely. Ned was the head of the family and that was Sean Bean, and Sean’s accent is a Sheffield accent. It’s northern. Therefore, the older children were to speak the way Robb speaks, with a northern accent. But Catelyn is originally from the south, so she wouldn’t have a northern accent. And the children are educated. Some of the kids have northern accents, and Jon Snow has a northern accent. It was discussed individually with each actor about what they were expected to be.

well I dicked the URL up but whatever

whoops, a bit more.

So Arya and Sansa have educated accents because they're younger?
Yeah.

And what is Dinklage doing?
Peter? Peter’s doing English.

Just a stage English, Shakespearean English?
Yeah.

lol

cool wedding

I wondered how they would make that scene as horrifying and chaotic as it is in the book (they didn't really but the stabbing of a pregnant woman fairly distressing).

feel like they did as good a job as i could've hoped

Landscape ‏@jemapellekarin 7h
NOBODY WATCH GAME OF THRONES ITS HORRIBLE AND IT WILL MAKE YOUR SOUL CRUSH INTO PIECES AND YOU'LL BE FOREVER CRYING

Sinéad Una ‏@flowersandfolk 26m
I wanted to tweet five minutes ago about watching this weeks game of thrones. BUT I COULDN'T BECAUSE I WAS SOBBING AN OCEAN OF TEARS.

Miss Regina Felangie ‏@_Promaniac 1h
FUCK! FUCK! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
WHY THE FUCK DID I WATCH GAME OF THRONES :'(

rip wolf, it's sad you were a metaphor

I loved Walder Frey in this, but I kind of wanted him to deliver a George Bluth style "And that's why you should always keep your promises."

and thats why you should never go to weddings

Maybe Jaime can get some J Walter Weatherman style work in now he's lost the hand.

man tywin is the ultimate g i wouldnt fuck w him

And Jon ditching Ygritte was COLD.

Crows before hoes.

@redweddingtears

i will agree that people's reactions to this have been hilariously OTT. this also includes some book readers that KNEW THIS WAS COMING!!!

I thought it was very well done. (Obligatory but-as-a-reader caveats*: I wish they had done more to recreate the sense of building dread in that chapter, especially with the drums, and of course the show couldn't convey the sheer heartbreak of "No, don’t, don’t cut my hair, Ned loves my hair".) But Robb's final, pleading, "Mother" was great and Michelle Fairley was simply brilliant throughout. After she sees Robb dies she is just gone. Honestly, I was a lot more saddened than I thought I'd be.

Bran and Rickon's goodbye was very affecting as well.

also
http://25.media.tumblr.com/f57ff71c25ff0ec6264a3519cff803fe/tumblr_mntikrsVtg1rearvyo5_r1_250.gif

*I also meant to add, Roose killing Robb was a bit quick for me, thought it was more than made up for by the look he gives Cat when she sees he's wearing mail.

My two favorites from that redweddingtears account so far:

RT @gameblouses: im gladd Robb Stark is dead he was annoying & ugly

‏@BWIZ Game of Thrones this, Game of Thrones that... Yo FUCK that midget. Can't take that fucking guy seriously.

Oh and:

@victoriaanava im seriously balling right now. why game of thrones why!?!

the look he gives Cat when she sees he's wearing mail.

YES.

If Reddit existed in Westeros Jorah would be posting about being friendzoned right now.

Hahaha

http://25.media.tumblr.com/19fe7f8578c746c5e54cd07c709cb527/tumblr_mnsvecPJLi1qc1a0go1_500.gif

but!
http://24.media.tumblr.com/1a8dc59903431fe03b63a40ae7a1ba73/tumblr_mntiqalQz51qh5buco1_400.gif

I don't know the name of the actor who plays Roose, but he was Amazing in this scene.

i cried about rickon and bran, but not cat and robb. seriously, i guess its time i start rooting for the winning team. GO LANNISTERS!

If I ever get round to buying the GoT board game I'm totally going to be the Lannisters every time I play.

I'm more passive aggressive, so I'd be a Tyrell.

i love the way the roose actor only uses his eyes but conveys so much. yeeeah i'm a rascal, what ya gonna do?

http://i.imgur.com/L5hGXMf.gif

l-r, didn't read the books, read the books, didn't read the books

(i haven't read the books by the way)

If I ever get round to buying the GoT board game I'm totally going to be the Lannisters every time I play.

Lannisters are tough because you're more or less surrounded to start the game. Tyrell or whoever else that is in the south is the way to go!

the only saving grace of all of it was that Arya didn't somehow find her way into the hall to witness the carnage

that last scream of Catelyn's that just chokes off into helpless silence was amazing, she's such a good actress

And Jon ditching Ygritte was COLD.

Crows before hoes.

― ...also i'm awesome (Nicole), Monday, 3 June 2013 12:48 (2 hours ago) Permalink

lmao

nicole LOOOL

frey dude looks alot like willie nelson to me which adds a touch of the absurd

#crowsbeforehoes would totally be trending if not for, you know

http://winteriscoming.net/2013/06/red-wedding-reactions-caught-on-tape/

Frank Ocean wrote, “smh. red wedding was too hectic.” (smh means “shaking my head.”)

or sydney morning herald

GAME OF THROOOOOOONES

yeah, it was too hectic

there was just too much going on there, they should have slowed things down there and made it less exciting, maybe split that scene out over a few episodes, or maybe have a character hide behind a table for a few minutes and talk about what was happening and why it was so unexpected and scurry

smh at the way they did that

My wife, not in the book reading contingent but probably a more rabid fan of the TV series than I am, had a pretty great reaction. At the shot of Caetlyn looking up at the band, her hand shot over and grabbed my arm with a white knuckle grip, "what the fuck is going to happen?". Then she let out a muted scream when the guy went after Talisa. Later she claimed it wasn't as "devastating" as the Ned Start season 1 scene, but it seemed to get a pretty visceral reaction from her.

Somehow, despite all the groundwork they did with the song "The Rains of Castamere" (Cersei's discussion of it, Thoros singing it, playing it at the end of the battle of Blackwater episode, Tyrion talking about it, using it as the Lannister leitmotif in the score, using it as the TITLE of the episode ... I still didn't know what song they were playing. Haha.

Mr Veg was laughing at me by the end, I yelled NO when robb & catelyn were first hit, then a series of NNOOOOOOs when Robb's wolf and Robb got it, and then just a quiet mournful 'oh no' with Catelyn's ending

I cannot wait to find out how the bedding went.