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

how about as an indie folksinger (which he is)

I thought this was going to be a real cost-cutting episode - apart from one brief bit of cg dragon, it was just lots of gloomy interiors. Then came the scene on the boat.

"Long sullen silences and the occasional punch in the face."

xp jesus what a douchebag

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

yet another diabolic torture method

lol

feel like cersei is way over playing her hand, alienating potential allies, setting herself up for a fall, if she and her son-king go down its over for the house they have no money, jamie and tyrion are out in the wilderness

I think she's playing her (currently poor) hand very well. She's allied herself with the a malevolent religious army, will eventually be protected by a great warrior monster, and has a bitchin castle built on top of a gold mine.

if her castle is on top of a gold mine, why are they borrowing so much money from their allies and Braavos?

the gold mine is empty yo! and shes got on her side is some unstable otherwise powerless religious extremists, those scheming ass tyrells gonna eat her for lunch

^^^ lagoon jumps straight to the point

thrones arguing better than most currently prominent fictional works why aligning yourself closely with any religion generally leads to things not being a good time

like instead of building alliances amongst the small council she just sent them all away, shes hella arrogant, noones gonna stand with her

Is the gold mine really empty? I thought it was just almost empty.

if her castle is on top of a gold mine, why are they borrowing so much money from their allies and Braavos?

The crown's debt is the Tyrells' problem now imo.

iirc its empty tywin told cersei last season

it's empty and has been for some time, which may have been tywin's only weakness (aside from not understanding that his dwarf son was his only decent thing) - he was always scrambling to make alliances and keep the lannister financial instability hidden

I guess my point is that when winter comes having a bunch of cash won't matter that much.

yup youd rather have food like the tyrells

having stuff is only important if you have the ability to defend it.

secretly hoping that cersei ends up getting hers stark style, i.e. immediately after watching what she assumes is her last living child get murdered by somebody insignificant like frey

that would be p sweet

sounds abt right

i love cersei and hope she stays with us forever but it doesnt look good for her

fanning the flames of religious extremist assassins is probably a bad look for an incestuous drunk slut

they're already challenging the legitimacy of her son!

really enjoyed this ep - agree with everyone saying stannis is a lot more likeable this year.

btw is jorah's arm the same condition that stannis's daughter has?

yes.

i call it castle-face

jorah got no luck

gonna get back dany's good graces for a little while before being banished again

feel like they haven't talked much about this, though iirc gilly said something about her sisters having it?

stannis's grammar frustration was a great moment - they are definitely pushing quite hard to make him more charismatic this season.

xpost jorah prob thinking: "what if she likes stone men? she doesn't, that's ridiculous. but what if she does?"

lol

btw sansa's outfit looks like a homemade morticia adams halloween costume

what is that giant 80's belt buckle she is wearing around her neck all the time

Interesting to see that Roose is a fucking psycho. He always seemed more dispassionate than sick.

Ramsay is such a great looking guy.

Jon Snow itching to tell that boy that he killed his girlfriend Ygritte?

I presume being touched by stone men on your clothes is okay. From the debate I've seen, apparently Jorah is already able to infect other people. Hope they were wrong. Even in a cruel fantasy world I like some little bit of fairness and fighting chances.

I do prefer it when you get episodes focusing more time on less characters.

what is that giant 80's belt buckle she is wearing around her neck all the time
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I have to figure the only reason Jorah isn't chopping off his own arm is that he needs it for the trip ahead

I feel like this is the first Ramsey episode in awhile where he wasn't chewing food and talking at the same time

I'm not sure why Stannis did nothing while Jon decided to let the wildlings loose -- didn't he just kill their leader for wanting to do that? Won't they want his head?

good episode btw

stannis is like whatever im so outta here

here u cn use my navy

I enjoyed the parallel between this week's Roose Bolton father son moment and last week's Stannis father daughter moment

So what's next weeks touching father moment?!

littlefinger & his illegitimate preteen daughter

sry

I do prefer it when you get episodes focusing more time on less characters.

Fewer.

loool

<3 Stannis's grammar pedantry.

The scenes in the ruined city were amazing.

It was funny watching this directly after the latest Mad Men where Don corrected a kid on his bad grammar a couple of times.

So the episode's title, Kill the Boy, is Westeros' equivalent saying for 'man up'?.

The director could have filmed the naked actress from a more flattering angle, rather than from the one where her you see hip bone jutting out. And setting up another jealous lover storyline, involving Sansa in the middle of it, just feels really blah. So, I hope they are not just doing that.
Though I did like Sansa's Silence of the Lambs walk down into the kennels.

Sam and Gilly bore me.

I don't think it was unflattering. Nothing wrong with a bit of jutting hipbone.

The director could've also said 'Winterfell looks really fucking cold so no I don't think she would've just been looking out of the window nude however unhinged she's meant to be'.