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

the other suggestions were Terminus (from The Book of the New Sun), Wolfsbane (which I assume is just a Stark reference), and there's another one that shouted over which I can't quite hear

I think reading the books before watching the show is probably not the best way to appreciate the show.

Martin is some kind of master of pulling off contradictory feelings in his readers of "nothing is happening / everything is happening."

He settled on "Widow's Wail", didn't he? Something like that anyway.

choked on pigeon's pie? murder most fowl ; )

When someone shouted "stormbringer" to name the sword, surely that was a Moorcock/Elric reference? I can't recall the other suggested names.
--Robert Adam Gilmour

GRRM wrote this ep so my money's on yes

He settled on "Widow's Wail", didn't he?

And then the episode ended with one

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Terminus might be the coolest name for a sword I've ever heard. I assume those references weren't in the book. I'm generally not fond of fannish references but somehow I didn't mind it in the show.

It's "Terminus Est" to be precise

they have latin in Westeros?

I hate this show sometimes

I mean, the season thing makes no sense fr instance

oh wait you were referring to Wolfe. dude's a whole different ballgame from Martin imho

yeah I guess in the Game of Thrones universe it's just some drunk guy screaming gobbledygook

entire season just jaime chasing after those sneaky icelandic villains

sigur ros are white walkers iirc

white wankers more like

my greatsword U DAED

I call mine STABBY

they have latin in Westeros?

They speak English, which is influenced by latin

anyhow as someone who knows whodunit i thought they did a good job of being honest enough about who actually dunit while at the same time providing plenty of red herrings

I mean, the season thing makes no sense fr instance

― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, April 15, 2014 7:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its magical fwiw

Latin is also magical fwiw

otmious

it's magical! "fwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiwiw"

also these fuckn dragons amirite? i mean COME ON

You can do some hand wavey stuff about dragons and magic and I wont mind too much. When u posit that a world with irregular seasons would still have regular plants and animals as we know them I think you're just being stupid. Maybe this is handled more explicitly in the books or something.

Shakey Mo Collier Draws Line In Sand

i'll permit this much magic but not a drop more

For all we know in the "real" version of the world that the show portrays everyone is a ten foot tall amoeboid creature that speaks in hormones, but it's all translated back into a understandable form to us.

Sorry, shouldn't have spoiled the ending of book seven like that.

unrelated, but I noticed with some amusment that margery's wedding dress was the least booby thing she's worn in the entire show

Yeah, I hated it.

He settled on "Widow's Wail", didn't he? Something like that anyway.

Guh, I interpreted that as "Widow's Whale," and I've bloody read the books.

Widow's whale tail

I think what is mostly bothering me about the irregular seasons is that everyone knows that winter is coming, and yet they are all using their resources on these bullshit wars. So the populace should have realized they will all probably starve to death, and should be in an uproar, but they're all so passive.

I think only the old heads remember what the last winter is like

It's like as far away as WWII

so totally unrealistic that the nation would waste its time + resources on bullshit wars instead of imminent climate disaster

Nothing like a good bullshit war to keep populations passive.

Maybe the root material cause for the war was the failure of the houses to adequately prepare for averting starvation during the long winter, forcing them to shift at the last minute into pillage mode, also to try to grab what they could of Westeros's temperate regions.

So the Stark House's motto is 'Winter Is Coming', which is a pretty sensible, albeit glass-half-empty slogan. Do they change it during winter to 'Summer Is Coming'?

Winter Was Coming

"Winter Came"

New slogan: everyone gets $600 back on their taxes

LOL!

everyone knows that winter is coming, and yet they are all using their resources on these bullshit wars. So the populace should have realized they will all probably starve to death, and should be in an uproar, but they're all so passive.

imagine!

oh mordy did already carry on

you have to remember that there is a well-funded group that has a financial interest in suggesting that Winter is NOT coming, reminding everyone that Winter has come and gone in cycles for hundreds of millions of years, that the citizens of Westeros have nothing to do with it and should not worry about it at all.

Lannisters == Kochs? (Pity that the Kraken sigil belongs to the Greyjoys.)

Wasn't there something like the old age of magic caused the seasonal irregularities?

I was under the impression that the winter isn't as bad in all parts of Westeros. Dorn stays warm all the time right?

"the florida of westeros"

In the 1970s National Geographic used to run articles about how Summer was coming