geebs i think the other thread was started 5 seconds ago because of your complaint, so dont feel dumb that you missed it
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
take it in here, guys
THE GAME OF THRONES/ASOIAF SPOILER THREAD (WARNING: SPOILERS)
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
that's what we're talking about.
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
just thought it should be linked in here for others who just look at their bookmarked threads.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
that was a good un
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 16 April 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
nice, reasonably subtle, good balance. and Natalie Dormer.
Speaking of which, I don't see it online but SNL did a sketch about a 13 year old boy consulting on the show to add boobies.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Monday, 16 April 2012 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
no Daenerys tho :(
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 16 April 2012 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
That's probably a good thing at this stage, the crossing the red waste part of the story is pretty dull. Can't wait for the House of the Undying though!
Really excited to see Brienne - friends in the US said she was fantastic.
― gyac, Monday, 16 April 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
i'm going to go ahead and assume the "House of the Undying" is a band that will be playing midway through an episode; not unlike Saturday Night Live or the Young Ones.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 16 April 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
reasonably subtle
Hmmmm
― Number None, Monday, 16 April 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
The actress who plays Asha Greyjoy disturbs me. She is so odd.
― polyphonic, Monday, 16 April 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I guess she's "Yara" on the show for some reason.
― polyphonic, Monday, 16 April 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
i read somewhere that they thought viewers would confuse her with Osha, so they changed her name
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 16 April 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
O_O @ Brienne skying over Cat.
― Trienne of Barf (Leee), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
where do i apply to marry margaery tyrell.
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
proclaim yourself king and she'll do the rest
― poxen, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
i already did :(
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
In retrospect, she was probably a pretty big reason I managed to make it through a season and a half of the Tudors.
I also remember when The Other Boleyn Girl movie came out, she e-mailed into Mark Kermode's radio show on the BBC to correct him on his historical inaccuracies. Not that he had any idea who she was.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
I was pretty stoked to see Ann Boleyn chick in this now.
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Agreed that Asha/Yara is a lot different (and less attractive) to how I imagined her. The usual good job on Brienne and Margaery, though.
SPOILERSLooks like they're cutting a fairly big chunk out of Arya's story if she's going straight to Harrenhal.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
And how good is the art direction this season? Pyke castle looks incredible. Everything does.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
Considering that a big chunk of Arya's story in book 2 is wandering around the woods, I'm kinda glad they condensed it a bit.
― I cannot host as my wife hates Walker (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
was really angry at "willem"... so glad the story ended with him getting hurt badly.
will miss that dude's overegged north of england schtick.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
yara is not nearly as hot as i pictured her in the books...also she doesn't hardly look "hard" at all (she's supposed to be a salty seafaring bad-ass, she looks like blossom or something).
however i am so, so pleased with the casting of gilly that i will overlook it.
― humba (NZA), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
last night in the movie store i overheard the clerks talking about this show and one guy asked "have they got rid of the queen yet?" and oh how i laughed.
― humba (NZA), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
guys, i really don't think Asha is supposed to be that attractive in the books
― Number None, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
who wants to join my petition to get some dick into this show
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
HODOR
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
Littlefinger.
Maybe the wrong kind of dick.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
no I mean like erect penises. major missed opportunity this week.
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
arry's a girl, dude
― poxen, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
Tyrion's three-way Myrcella marriage sting wasn't in the book was it? Or if it was there were like several hundred pages of him having huge and lovingly-described feasts with minor nobles between him talking to each of the major players and I didn't really notice what was going on.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
thought that was kinda too obvious a ploy to bring down such seasoned players
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
also like what if more than one of them tells the queen, wouldve been kinda awkward
Tyrion doesn't give a shit about awkward though.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
And Cersei can't do anything against him directly at the moment, because of Tywin's bit of paper.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
you have to figure only Pycelle would be stupid enough to tell the Queen anyway
― Number None, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
Good point... It's also pretty obvious that Varys and Littlefinger are only beholden to themselves.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
then why bother testing the others, it was not a v good plan imho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
I think it was just meant to show Tyrion getting into the game of thrones but yeah, it wasn't particularly clever
― Number None, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
if jojen and meera reed (book 2 characters) aren't in the tv show i will be very upset
― humba (NZA), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
I can see them being written out.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
it was a fun lil scene
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
the myrcella thing was totally in the book iirc.
― raw feel vegan (silby), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
Tyrion's three-way Myrcella marriage sting wasn't in the book was it?
Only in the sense that one of the three plots in the book involved Tommen and not Myrcella, otherwise, yeah, in the book (and they're all laid in a single chapter, though the Pycelle payoff takes longer to uncover, IIRC).
― Trienne of Barf (Leee), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
lol Blossom was all sorts of cuet back in the day, brah! But yeah, the Asha in my head had a niftier haircut and also was the horsey sort of hott.
Anyway, I'm beginning to feel that the name change from Asha isn't so much because of the speculated similarity to Osha, but because Yara is simply a different character. Like, instead of the one Greyjoy whom I wkiw, she's just another dour, joyless (err) Greyjoy.
― Trienne of Barf (Leee), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
And I've been thinking that while I generally feel that the TV depictions of most of the characters improve markedly upon the book analogues, Asha/Yara and Renly seem like the two who've suffered the most in the adaptation. With Renly, his book self is supposed to be the Robert of 15 years ago, virile, hot, and dashing, but the TV version is so diffident and whiny that I can't buy that loads of nobles are willing to back him because they love him.
― Trienne of Barf (Leee), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 04:40 (twelve years ago) link
I think they've kind of coasted on this notion that people would rally to him because "everyone knows what Stannis is", though it might be not be adequate in the long run. He's certainly been given lesser screen time.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
the Asha in my head had a niftier haircut
Definitely this.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 08:14 (twelve years ago) link