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

Ha I assumed Littlefinger had found Roberts bastard in the rowboat

i mean cerseis misdeeds dont really fall under the heading of lancels sins, also everyone knows that cersei is gnarly as hell rumors re incest are public knowledge, lancel is important not as an informant but as a witness, but mostly from a storytelling standpoint it wld be weird to have the plot explicitly explained one way but then have another secret unreferenced plot happening in the background, sort of a tree falls in the forest type of scenario, maybe it happened that way in the books? idk

lancel's sins: roofied king for cersei, committed incest with cersei

wait did lancel bang cersei too

Plenty of times.

I think Littlefinger's boy is someone else entirely.

cld be but he also encountered lancel when he came into town so u know hes got lancel on the brain, if im wrong abt this i blame the bad show

I figure that when Littlefinger saw Lancel he knew that the religious freaks already had evidence that Tommen was Jaime's son and would eventually move against the Lannisters. So it's a good thing his people picked up Gensry somewhere so that he could come back to Kings Landing and marry Margery

Gendry ffs

but gendry is just a bastard

A bastard to lead the many against the few

have a feeling the many r gonna be crushed in short order

Yeah but more likely Littlefinger has that guy who testified against Margery and her brother and is about to make him disappear

like these religious fanatics dont really have any power, littlefinger and the tyrells r gonna win

cld se that xp

surprised there's no talk about the awesome scene in dorne with bronn and the boobs

it was kinda funny - on-purpose funny for once - and we got jerome flynn's wonderfully tuneful voice, not bad imo

Just realised Tommen must be freaking out and could command soldiers to kill all the sparrows.

Meryn Trant is the commander now, right? And out of town.

Somebody else will probably be fulfilling his duties.

they addressed that. cersei reminded him that if they attack the sept Queen Marge and Ser Loras would likely be killed.

soldiers cld just waltz in there and take them back sans bloodshed tommen just cant do it cause hes a dumb lil kid

i don't think soldiers are good at the doing-things-without-causing-bloodshed

who is the toughest warrior who is actually still in town and not in prison.

xp tbf in westeros it's quite hard for anyone to do anything without causing bloodshed, may as well just go for it.

i figured cersei was trying to make tommen buy into the idea of the sparrows having an authority and importance beyond just something which she was bestowing upon them. except then they lock her up and suddenly they actually do.

like obvs cersei sent jamie away cause if he was there hed just knock on the door w a few kingsguard and be all hi excuse me but what r u doin and the whole thing wld be over

Jorah's fighting was pretty good and convincing.

haha i liked how dani was still 100% p.o.ed at him

xxxposts yeah where i wrote "addressed" i shoulda wrote "handwaved" but i think the implication was the sparrows would kill the hostages

he was all haaay

and she was like ffs srs

like obvs cersei sent jamie away

IIRC Jaime sent Jaime away.

http://i.giphy.com/xTiTnjflQXNizOOw5q.gif

Nice to see Al Pacino as a slavedriver.

like obvs cersei sent jamie away cause if he was there hed just knock on the door w a few kingsguard and be all hi excuse me but what r u doin and the whole thing wld be over
--lag∞n

I think you're overrating the abilities of a one handed man a bit is all, albeit largely bc nothing motivates anyone like religious fury

also the remaining kingsguard are largely useless

when people were saying at the beginning of the season that religion was going to start playing a bigger part on the show, I didn't know that meant religious dudes were going to take over and put everyone in dungeons

http://i.imgur.com/EEqqwlP.jpg?1

i mean... http://i.imgur.com/EEqqwlP.jpg%3F1

Also i'm glad Melissandre vs Shireen is maybe going to be a thing

I can see varys stumbling onto gendry in volantis

This show has totally turned into of Game of Goth. Someone should do a parody in the style of Hammer.

http://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSMZkJBbbth5l1D1VvShEFOQ9l7NoQdKB7PyYl7OFKHuz6_VLJ0

Repent, Lanisters!

Goddamit.

http://sinsofcinema.com/Images/Twins-of-Evil/Twins-of-Evil-Blu-Ray-1.jpg

he was all haaay

and she was like ffs srs

irl lol

I think you're overrating the abilities of a one handed man a bit is all, albeit largely bc nothing motivates anyone like religious fury

― slothroprhymes, Monday, May 25, 2015 6:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its more abt authority than physical might, kings landing is basically experiencing a power vacuum cause the king is a little kid and the hand of the king is impulsive and cruel, i may be giving the show too much credit tho

"I dreamed that I was old!"

Easily the best of the season, gives me hope they'll pull it round.

The piling on of misery is just wearing, tho.

its more abt authority than physical might, kings landing is basically experiencing a power vacuum cause the king is a little kid and the hand of the king is impulsive and cruel, i may be giving the show too much credit tho

― lag∞n, Tuesday, May 26, 2015 4:44 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Too much credit? I mean it's pretty clear that's what they're going for. The scenes in King's Landing have always explored power dynamics on some level.

They haven't done too much heavy signposting here but #occupybaelorscrypt has been pretty on the nose.

In a similar vein to what you were saying, Jamie as somebody that administers violence as his day job would have instinctively understood why arming the faith militant is an insanely bad idea when they draw from a much larger and less controllable recruiting pool (poor people) than the Kingsguard and gold cloaks (people the crown can afford to pay).