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

The premise of the series made me uncomfortable and there's this too http://www.villagevoice.com/2014-12-10/film/marco-polo-netflix/

marco

Are you saying there were no boobs in Marco Polo's time? There most certainly were! They did research!

http://gawker.com/5902076/snl-explains-the-nudity-in-game-of-thrones

Yeah I don't know - it just seemed like a big dumb campy epic from the first couple of episodes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i9P921aWmc

hm

Ok so I was wrong about marco polo being maybe "an OK time waster."

Catchy.

Ok so I was wrong about marco polo being maybe "an OK time waster."

― Brio2,

As in it's better or worse than OK?

have not watched it but he means worse

i gave up in episode 2, it's garbage

It is garbage but I still found it oddly addictive, the dude who plays Kublai Khan is impressive.

trailer (in rubbish quality)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMKhdDlKHNE

damn

looks pretty good

promisingly battle-filled

i like the hint at a possibly larger role for varys

More screentime. Varys and Baelish have always been the main players.

... so they'd like to think!

DOLOROUS EDD IS THE KEY, oops spoilers.

Brian Brown from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has found a phorid that beheads ants in an entirely new way.

Brown is an authority on phorids and especially the ant-decapitating, bee-killing varieties. He has discovered around 500 species of them. In the field, he lures them in by crushing ants and other insects with forceps, and watching what arrives. Some phorids feed directly off the injured insects. Others lay their eggs inside. But one species, Dohrniphora longirostrata, did something different.

Orson Lannister explained.

At least Diana Rigg is back! But fucking cam tv trailers is a real fucking "help me lord!" new low wrung for me.

I had a momentary pang, but you gotta give the people their content

!

this shd be the final season, end it like deadwood everyone rides away in carriages

end it like battlestar, everyone starts farming in peace except for the one who disappears into thin air

End it like Lost, everyone holds hands in a church.

They're going to drag this out as long as possible, don't kid yourselves.

final season split into not two but three separate parts

final season split into countless shards of web content

DOLOROUS EDD IS THE KEY, oops spoilers.

― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Friday, January 30, 2015 11:03 AM (8 hours ago)

Dolorous Ed is my favorite

https://vine.co/v/OtEDDFLm2Za

:o

ahahaha

o_O

also lol

:D

http://grapevine.is/news/2015/02/02/hafthor-julius-breaks-1000-year-old-lifting-record/

NOTHING CAN STOP ME!! NOTHING CAN BREAK ME!

looking forward to him dying of malaria or something tbh

uh, he walked five steps while supporting a half ton of weight, there are a lot of actual superheroes that can't do that and it says so in the handbook of the marvel universe
that shit is insane

I'd love to see him in the wwe someday. Mark Henry worlds strongest man yeah right

I guess there's a new trailer for this stupid show: http://youtu.be/vwRdVw82Jd8

Yeehee, can't wait. Trailer was unexcitingly vague but I'd prefer to keep it that way.

Because of general cultural momentum, I read the first book and started the second. 1) It's amazing how much the show sticks to (at least) the first book and much of the second, so far. 2) I really respect GRRM's world building. 3) GRRM is a pretty terrible writer, he said, wiping the grease from his beard as the great Horn of Aroo sounded. "Aroooooooooo," went the horn. Pyp the Dwarf was taken aback. Was that indeed the Horn o Aroo? "Aroooooooooooooooooooo," went the Horn again. Yes, thought Pyp, there could be no mistaking it. Pyp stood on his two wobbly legs, weak from mead but misshapen from birth, and faced his army of sellswords. "Tonight," he began, his voice steadily rising, greatly disproportionate to his short stature, "we ride ... to reclaim what is ours!" The sellswords and barbarians, also wiping grease from their beards, responded with a mighty clash of weapons, ringing out in the night like the cry of a great Jungle Beast, which no man has ever seen south of the Wall but which every child knows from their nightmares. To Pyp it sounded like so much gold being spilled out, the cost of procuring an army on such short notice. But if there's anything a sellsword prizes more than weapons, it's gold, and anyone able to disperse such bounty to these kingdom-free men understood too well the dangers of men who fight not for honor but for money.

And so on.

Good, but needs more milk of the poppy.

And Dorneish peppers.

And the smell of garlic wafting through the aeire.

And someone with a dagger up his butt.

Spoilers!

throwing up lemon cakes all over his chain mail

surely not just lemon cakes