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

i enjoy the wikis and explainers but what if someone put it all together while preserving the good narrative qualties is all im saying, feel like we need to explore the possibilities of fan fiction here folks

There's probably lots of scenes of mysterious horsemen in the high distance but the one that instantly came to my mind was in Berserk when Guts sees Zodd up on the far hill ominously watching the battle, that was spooky in a very similar way.

I'm not generally into brutal and cruel stories but sometimes I find something satisfying about them. I was watching a fantasy authors panel on youtube and someone said the Camber Of Culdi series by Katherine Kurtz in the 70s was way more miserable than Ice & Fire books, and I was all like "gimme some of that!"
My guess is that even though these things are prone to cheap shock tactics and sadistic author fantasies, these stories feel refreshing because we see too many characters surviving everything (I'm particularly sick of cliff edge scenes).
Also read Joanna Russ talking about how she thought people liked horror stories because even if they're completely unrealistic, the unforgiving worldview of many of them rings true to the fans. A lot of Ligotti fans just can't get enough brutal pessimism; I don't understand it when it gets to that point.

can someone explain to me quickly how the high septon suddenly has enough power to imprison the king's mother, wife and brother-in-law without any resistance

The Ask the Maester on this made a pretty good case, backed up by fake book history:

David asks, “If Cersei deputized the religious fanatics, ostensibly on Tommen’s orders, why is the king powerless to stop them? Can’t the king unauthorize Jonathan Pryce, and free the queen?”

Sure he could. Let’s pretend for a moment that Tommen is a strong, able king, and not the kitten-loving mama’s-boy punk that he actually is. Simply declaring the Faith Militant disbanded is pretty simple. Getting them to actually put down their weapons is much less so. As I wrote after Episode 4, it took three Targaryen kings, backed by the might of full-grown dragons, nearly 50 years to subdue the Faith back in the first century AC. Remember the trial of seven from Maester Aemon’s section above? The only other time that we know such a trial was invoked was when King Maegor the Cruel and six champions fought off Ser Damon the Devout of the Faith Militant and six of their champions for control of King’s Landing and, indeed, the entire realm. That trial ended with 13 dead bodies and the winner, Maegor the Cruel, in a coma for 29 days. It would take roughly another decade of off-and-on war before the Faith agreed to disband during the reign of Maegor’s successor, King Jaehaerys the Conciliator.

You could argue that since the Faith have only recently been rearmed, a sharp engagement involving the Lannister army and the City Watch could clear out the Faith Militant — at least in King’s Landing — with only a few thousand deaths. Like, a low-four-digits body count. Even if Tommen had the stomach for going down in history as Tommen the Butcher or whatever, Cersei has stacked things in such a way as to make that difficult. Tommen could send a raven to Casterly Rock, asking his uncle Kevan, who is ostensibly the realm’s Master of War, to send troops. That would require going through Pycelle — who would probably send the raven — or Qyburn, who probably wouldn’t, at least not without Cersei’s OK. Asking the Tyrells for help would make sense, but doing so would weaken his mother’s Lannister family connections and give the Tyrells a tighter grip on power. The real answer: Royal power exists in great part in the minds of those who are subject to it. It’s Cersei who has wielded that power and therefore it behooves everyone — like, on pain of death — to assume that the buck ultimately stops with her. At least for now.

Actually, Ask the Maester>the show>>>>>>>>>the books. I've really enjoyed his (?) writing, and his ability to convey tons of information in an entertaining fashion, plus under 1000 pages. Martin's writing is unfortunately not up to his world building, and the show isn't always much better, though I do appreciate how the latter cherrypicks what it needs to underscore and what it can just sort of ignore.

I do lol at the world of Daenerys, Tyrion, Varys, Jorah etc having an Uncle Kev

I've heard people say Martin writes in very different styles. I remember someone who adored Fevre Dream that couldn't get into Ice & Fire books because of the style.

tbf, Tommen did just get a PS4

is tommen bout-it bout-it for GTA 5 or is he more an MLB the show type guy

um i'm pretty sure we all know tommen's just jerkin it in there

basically like that one episode of roseanne

http://newnownext.mtvnimages.com/2013/11/Roseanne-6-7.jpg

"Potentially anything dead that’s within the range of a White Walker’s power can become a wight."

so are these the things that inexplicably attacked bran, et al when they arrived at their destination w the fairy ppl

yeah those were wights

did the books have a few pages about the undigested food that could be seen through the ribs of that little boy zombie?

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Lemon cake that could be seen through his boiled leather clothing

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Lmao

The white walkers were sick (i've forgotten what they're called in the books now lol grrm suck it) and i'm glad that only the leaders get that fake CGI eye glow

U see why they need a giant fuxking ice wall now it's because the little walls get punched thru or overthrown

I like how logical it all is

the wall is big and good

Yah

I wonder if the walkers were attracted to the dragon glass

I think they were attracted to Jon snow. He's really pretty

Ya I would white walk for him any day of the very very very long westerosi year!!!!!

wildling groucho pops up next to white walker holding a mauve mist blouse
"winter is coming... but darling YOU are no winter; let's get you into something with some color"
*offcamera arterial spray douses them*
"well, red's hardly my color but you carry it well. in fact you're carrying me well. is that my neck in your mouth or are you just glad to see me", etc etc

lol

Holy shit if this is legit
http://gfycat.com/DetailedMerryGermanpinscher

can someone explain to me quickly how the high septon suddenly has enough power to imprison the king's mother, wife and brother-in-law without any resistance

I think it's very strongly implied that Tywin was doing most of the work keeping the Lannisters propped up and without him they're pretty short on muscle, especially having been just been through a war on two fronts, and with Jaime elsewhere there's no one who might rally people. And they're in mad debt. Basically she built them up because she was isolated and weakened and that's backfired.

What am I looking at there, a dragon? xp

Pred ship

Oh please no

While jokingly broached this past ep, show has not done a great job explaining why Dragon Queen wants to rule jack shit. Like, fuck Westeros, right? If anything, this season has really shined the spotlight on all sorts of places and people who couldn't give a poop about the Iron Throne.

it's her home and the seat of her dynasty's rule. makes sense to me.

they literally made a big show of explaining why she wants to rule westeros this very ep and the answer is she doesnt

OK, so she wants to "break the wheel." Why? What does that mean?

Also, given that she is the Last Dragon (more or less), it's not like she even has a people who need a homeland. So she's just doing this to "free" Westeros? By way of her divine/dragon rule? She will rule over a free kingdom? I don't quite get it.

review chapter seven in yr screenwriting manual

"break the wheel" = marxist revolution

Dragons will probably come in quite useful during the oncoming zombie apocalypse so she's heading for power whether she likes it or not.

her idealism will be further tested

"Break the Wheel" probably means a bunch of nobles w/o heads

the process of dekulakization needs to start w/ the boltons

the fuck is that gif about?

something maybe flying in the right side of the gif that is probably just a special effects remnant but that ppl want to believe is an ice dragon

or a hidden penis perhaps

r ice dragons a thing

rice dragons: a thing

cool

rice dragon it me

SPOILER

Shaheir Jibin ‏@shaheirdesudesu 6h6 hours ago
Daily reminder that Ice dragon exists in North of the Wall.

i searched twitter for ice dragon this is how i learn things

idk if there are ice dragons but there ain't shit in that gif, b srs

this is GRRM, of course at some point there's going to be a sequence where DRAGONS OF FIRE AND ICE CLASH

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51j1Kkx4IzL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

spoiler

i dont think there shd be ice dragons i reject ice dragons