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

ew.

ha he's gonna get revived like Deathklok's cook in Metalocalypse

I'm sure the red lady would praise his skills of unmushing eyeballs and unparalleled dentistry.

Just wanna say this was the most well-shot episode I can remember. The lighting in particular was brilliant throughout.

I'm sure the red lady would praise his skills of unmushing eyeballs and unparalleled dentistry.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, June 3, 2014 9:35 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

His whole head was smushed.

that scene really popped

eye eye eye

I was just annoyed that Prancer/Dorn dude/whatever his name is didn't finish off the Mountain when he had the chance

idiot

now we're all fucked, way to go

tyrions face though

i thought he was going to puke

Does he puke in the book? He does in that comic posted above.

p sure the mountain died tho, I guess he still wins cause the other guy died first

Spoiler, perhaps, but yeah, he pukes in the book. The comic is very faithful to the book-version.

prob figured two puke scenes was too much

wise to leave that out of the show. i think if they had tyrion puke on screen some viewers may have literally thrown up as well.

That's exactly why they should've put it in at the very end.

Tyrion projectile vomiting and cutting immediately to black woulda been pretty awesome it’s true

Maybe Oberyn will get revived and still insist on The Mountain confessing in the right manner.

Tyrion projectile vomiting and cutting immediately to black woulda been pretty awesome it’s true

i would prefer a "Stand By Me" stile vomiting dominoes effect – where Tyrion vomiting triggers Cerci to vomit onto Pycel, who vomits onto Tywin, who sneers - while the entire crowed vomits on one another in a horrible cascading tidal wave of puke, so astonishing we almost forget we just watched Oberyn get his head squashed like a grape.

Would have also liked for the unlucky stable-boy to have gotten half his head chopped off. Also from the comic and book.

I felt like there was a lot of mirroring of earlier scenes/dynamics going on:

obv. this tragic trail-by-combat mirrored the comic one with Bron

Sansa lying to save LF mirrors Shae lying to condemn Tyrion

Bolton's relationship with his bastard mirrors Ned's relationship with his

oh yeah, and once again Arya and the Hound showing up right around the time one of Arya's relatives in murdered--first tragic, then laffs

Forgot to talk about that, is Littlefinger and Sansa just about to bump into Arya and Hound? It would be nice to see the sisters together and I can imagine Arya causing Littlefinger trouble. Is that guard not likely to tell that the sister is there or is Littlefinger keeping Sansa a secret from his guards?

x-post: Yes, the show is very much repeating itself, and it's becoming more and more ridiculous. You're absolutely right.

idg the thing w Roose - is he Jon Snow's brother?

"Snow" is just the last name given to any bastard in the North.

Yeah no-one else knows it's Sansa except the three people she told. Presumably LF will prevent Sansa and Arya from reuniting somehow. Brienne probably doesn't know what she looks like either right?

Oh wait Robin knows it's Sansa too but LF has wisely already sent him packing ha

btw u guys take this show too srs it is not a srs show

Truest words.

"Snow" is just the last name given to any bastard in the North.

lol is this the actual answer wtf

yeah theres a bastard last name for every one of the 7 kingdoms

Flowers: The Reach
Hill: The Westerlands
Pyke: Iron Islands
Rivers: The Riverlands
Sand: Dorne
Snow: The North
Stone: The Vale of Arryn
Storm: The Stormlands
Waters: The Crownlands

lol

yeah I forgot about that whole bullshit Snow descriptor

Mr Veg broke it down for me last night & he was all 'it's in the books there's a whole long section' and I was like 'yeah I probably skimmed that part' lol the whole book is just long sections

lol

Hi I'm Sandy Snow, tropical bastard

Hi Veg, who are your other favorite characters on the show.

those bastard name sound like mls team names to me.

I like Jon Snow mostly just to look at and because he's always wrapped in fur coats

But my actual favorites are Arya, The Hound, Tyrion (obv), Brienne and Jaime. I used to hate Jaime but I've turned a corner on him since he got his hand chopped off.

Arya my # 1 - she's my homegirl

Just saying you were very prescient about your fondness for Oberyn.

those bastard name sound like mls team names to me.

― ryan, Tuesday, June 3, 2014 12:02 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sporting Sand United of Dorne

Ladies and Gentlemen please welcome your favorite minor league baseball team, The North SNOWS!!!

oh wow I forgot that I predicted Dorn-dude's untimely demise

*clutches Arya tightly* YOU CAN'T HAVE HER

i love the bastard last name detail!

yeah it's cool

I love it bc it's great shorthand to let you know where a character comes from and their likely sense of self and their place in the world. And it's also effective wrt how westeros operates, like this sin of the father passed into the child who has to bear the burden while the one who did it gets off scot free.

agree the show is not v serious which is why all the rape stuff feels off. feels semi-cartoonish like a group of 13yos playing d&d except that ppl get raped to death&children get incinerated, which harshes the buzz imo & for no obv purpose.

king robert was semi-assassinated by that guy keeping him lubricated, khal died from an infected wound from a duel, both half marks at best, not really any sense of the capriciousness of fate/nature. these ppl have no technology or magic, they should be scared of all this shit they can't control but they're not even v religious. neither bob b nor khal d would make it onto the natural causes section on this great list - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_of_the_British_Isles_by_cause_of_death - highlights include henry I, who died of"food poisoning from eating "a surfeit of lampreys"" & james I of scotland who was assassinated in a monastery, "He attempted to escape his assailants through a sewer but, three days earlier, he had had the other end of the drain blocked up because of its connection to the tennis court outside."

they're not even v religious

Not so sure I'd agree with this, religion plays a huge part in their world!

xp Cat's father Hoster Tully dies of old age. That's the only one I can think of, though.

religion plays a huge part in their world!

for the majority of the characters on the tv show this is not really readily apparent