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

the thirteen were SO CRINGE

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 01:41 (6 minutes ago)

I definitely cringed a little at "Xaro Xhoan Daxos". I mean it's fine on the page...

they're going insanely overboard with the sex and violence too. Most of which is not on the page

this one was probably the worst of the series. exposition was clunky and they couldn't even hang it on some decent thematic thread. obv i am crazy excited about next week, because I always am.

This was the last ep sent to critics (at least in the initial review package), which is the same as last year, and iirc it was about episode five where it became less about establishing everything and more about shit kicking into gear. I'm hoping this season follows that same rhythm, but with so much new crap i dunno.

xposts

I really don't think they are. There seems to be a lot less sex at least, at least as far as pointless nudity goes (only real case of sexposition all season was greyjoy in the ship iirc).

Violence is brutal, yes, but in times of war it makes sense that the worst excesses of a culture comes out.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/22795/game-of-thrones-to-english-premier-league-converter&usg=AFQjCNGyNhPuv7-hhWfL5LGer903S3TF_w

nn did you see this btw!

I mean stuff like the Joffrey scene. Look we know he's a psychopathic little shit already

I'm loling at Rooney as Ramsay Bolton r|t|c

Yeah, but this psychopathic in a different way. I thought it was the best scene of the episode.

I definitely cringed a little at "Xaro Xhoan Daxos". I mean it's fine on the page

okay, how on earth did they decide to pronounce this

at this point i barely know the names of anyone so this thread could explicitly spread spoilers like crazy; i'm happily clueless

I wonder if we're going to get the Bloody Mummers this season.

I definitely cringed a little at "Xaro Xhoan Daxos". I mean it's fine on the page

There are times in the books where the names come dangerously close to turning into Dr. Seuss names.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ytgwvmkb1r7mymoo1_500.png

i invoke sumai

poor Elladred, missing out.

This was the last ep sent to critics (at least in the initial review package), which is the same as last year,

Critics got six eps last year! I expect that semi-major characters will start to bite it starting next episode (I haven't read the books; I'm just guessing) and they want to hold onto that as long as they can...

Walter, your expectation is correct.

So... being careful not to spoil... in the books, Arya becomes Roose Bolton's cup-bearer at Harrenhal, not Tywin's, correct? This is a BIG change from the book and I'm not sure where they'll head with it...

um that is very much a spoiler though

we have a spoiler thread fyi

I don't think a departure from the book is a spoiler.

its not a departure from the book, his post references stuff that hasnt happened yet

except that it won't happen now, because Tywin is at Harrenhal instead

he was there in the book too iirc...

lol, MOD CLEAN UP NEEDED AISLE 5. all this needs to go!

i have copied the original spoilery post to the spoilers spoilers spoilers thread.

feel like people should just read the goddamn books

spoiler police brutality imo

fuck reading the books i want the SURPRISE of television

its not a departure from the book, his post references stuff that hasnt happened yet

― ciderpress, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:48 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

except that it won't happen now, because Tywin is at Harrenhal instead

― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:49 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sorry! What Gukbe said there was my reasoning as to why it wasn't a spoiler. Will talk on the other thread.

feel like people should just read the goddamn books

are you serious here?

one presumes not

Anyway, fave line from latest ep: "Is he a ham?"

was sad not to see Renly's peach that Stannis obsesses over forever though

"is he a ham" was fantastic.
wife won't read the books. she says she thinks they will be "too gory" THANKS HBO BRO

anyone with the first season blu-ray? are there lots of extras like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac09EeMmS1Q&feature=g-vrec&context=G22f3ee9RVAAAAAAAAAQ

cool!

welp, just ordered that.

according to the poster that is from the press kit and is a preview of the Blu-Ray feature. kind of thought HBOGo would mean I wouldn't have to bother buying the set but damn, if that's the kind of extras they've got.

wait the new gods are 6k y/o - thats not v new!

okay, i'm starting in w season 2 tonight, after saving up episodes for a while. thought i might be lost & playing catch-up for a while, cuz i remembered almost nothing about what'd been going on, but no, it's all come back. very enjoyable, too. do find myself bothered by the same thing that bugged me most last season: everyone on this show is complete idiot. no one behaves with even a trace amount of political sense or tact. funniest thing is that those who seem as though they're supposed to be the most wily (petyr baelish, for instance) are the most catastrophically stupid in this regard. "knowledge is power" my ass.

but that's the very magic of the show!

im not enjoying this season as much, i think maybe because the watching all in one sitting is especially good for game of thrones idk

then u dont think abt it too hard

for sure. i mean, i read the first three books in a couple of weeks. thinking hard was at a minimum. highly satisfying.

yet i still feel the anguish of waiting a week for each new ep

prob by the end when everyone gets their head cut off i will like it as much tho

oh man your mind will be BLOWN when you get to the ________ !!!!!!!

not that i know but that's what basically everyone who has read the books says about the show

i have been reading the spoilers thread i must admit

frankly i prob wouldve just read the wikipedia summaries of all the books by now except that theyre not even finished so whats the point

have tried real hard to avoid all spoilers. so far, i've managed to protect my virtue* from the taint of undesired knowledge. did read one thing abt tyrion that i hope doesn't happen, but i gather it lies beyond this season.

* ignorance