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

Everyone in the Seven Kingdoms is excited about the NFL playoffs.

The wildlings and the men of the Night's Watch and even some northmen are all pulling for the Giants, of course. But in the Vale of Arryn and the Mountains of the Moon, they're Falcons fans.

The Lannisters are cheering on Detroit, even if the lion is the wrong color, but some of the smallfolk of Lannisport on its western bay are fond of those 49ers. The High Septon and all the septa and septons and devout of the realm are for the Saints.

The butchers and tanners of King's Landing and Oldtown are behind the Packers, the smiths and armorers are with the Steelers. At the Citadel of Oldtown, the archmaesters and the Conclave are all about the Ravens, but across the narrow sea the khals and Dothraki horselords are screaming and whistling for the Broncos. In Volantis, the tigers are Bengals backers; the elephants are rooting for whoever plays the Bengals.

Nobody anywhere knows what a 'Texan' is, but a few Dornishmen might support them anyway, just to be perverse.

One commonality unites all the Seven Kingdoms, and the lands beyond. Everyone everywhere hates the Patriots, and Evil Little Bill.

marshawn lynch, wildling mode...

Ted Hendricks was definitely from beyond the wall

that livejournal can't be real, right? because if it was wouldn't it be flooded with posts urging grrm to get the fuck back to work already

its real, he posts to it CONSTANTLY

i believe he deletes those posts

Tim Tebow, the worst quarterback in the National Football League

No longer Alex Smith!! ^_^

this trade is a mummers farce. do the jets really must needs tebow?

lmao brownie

Haha, GRRM is a massive dork. No surprise I guess.

I had no idea Bronn was in Robson & Jerome until now, I never heard their music but I remember the NME and Melody Maker hating them sooo much.

best to remain ignorant

It seems wise.

Imagine two mediocre singers doing Unchained Melody. Now you have it exactly.

gross

Extensive Dinklage interview:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/magazine/peter-dinklage-was-smart-to-say-no.html

dinksclusive

As if I didn't love that man enough already. Great stuff, thanks Ned!

Clearly a dude.

good piece.

I've had a crush on him since Station Agent. He's the best.

SHUT IT DOWN.

:D

But just 10 days after moving, Dinklage was back in Brooklyn, playing a “bitchy barista” in “A Case of You,” a small-budget romantic comedy written by his friend, the actor (and “I’m a Mac” pitchman) Justin Long.

i would love to see this

Somewhat scathing review in the New York Times still considers this a show for Dungeons and Dragons fans and no one else.

Also fans of Expository Whoring obv

sexposition(tm)

his thoughts on tiptoes are v inneresting

seriously though: critics disparaging the show for plotting missteps and tone apparently have no interest in taking a look at the source material at all?
there's a lot of "man they killed ned, what a disaster for hbo" and my understanding is that uh like everybody dies on this fucking show

seems like for season one that almost astonishingly neatly every 100 pages of the first book equaled one episode. so i assume same holds true for season two?

y'know what else had a ton of characters and no real central figure? The Wire

according to the article ned linked dinklage is signed on for SIX seasons...there are only five completed books, and grrm doesn't show any signs that he is hurrying to finish the books.

soooo i guess that means they will eventually get off the 1 book/1 season wagon?

they're going to have to do book three over two seasons definitely

Last season critics only got four episodes as well, as the reviews were decent but not terribly enthusiastic, basically saying the exact same thing (too many characters, too much exposition, not enough to latch onto) but by Episode 6 it was all coming together a treat and it just sort of barrelled beautifully towards the finale.

It also seems to miss the point of Ned's arc. It was really shocking for me when it happened, but the best thing about it (and this is similar to Boardwalk Empire last season) is that when you look back, it makes total sense. Ned was honest and noble and very likeable and human and the audience could really latch onto him, but for all those reasons he was terrible at the politics and died for it. It would seem ridiculous to expect someone else to take up the "good guy main character" mantle.

I think they'd be lucky to get 5 seasons out of this. It's hugely expensive and even as it is a pretty decent hit I'm not sure it can sustain. I seem to recall an interview with the creators who were asked about catching up with the books, and they said they had consulted with GRRM and they have an outline of how it all ends.

then again creators swearing they have an ending is always suspect these days

xp i thought that's what his son was doing, just less charismatically

but there's no way they could do the ending on the show before the books finish. there'd be a nerd uprising

re: staying power - i guess we'll know how popular this show is based on the season 2 premiere numbers and that's likely to sway how long they keep the thing going. If it gets sopranos numbers, i imagine it'll be on for ten years.

If this season is a solid improvement ratings wise and that holds up for the rest of the seasons there's no way HBO won't greenlight it through the end. That's a given unless public interest suddenly plummets.

Imagine if we're onboard for the longest running tv show ever

how great would that be

i don't want this show to ever end

i think the simpsons kinda have that one locked down
but yeah, i'd be curious to see how this changed over the course of a decade as actors got way older

i think the simpsons kinda have that one locked down

lol are you kidding?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_United_States_television_series

i thought i read they were going to start blurring the lines between the books at the end of this season, and messing a bit more with the chronology, in order to fit everything in neatly and pace the 3rd book properly

"longest running non-news/non-soap narrative show"
/pedant

sixth season is based on GRRM's LJ

longest running direwolf/incest/hodor drama

uh, meet the press, duh

peh that's boring grownup shows, we're talking about TEE VEE here forks