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

Confirmation that even my wife, who has never read a sentence of the books, is hooked: at the final scene she shouted out, "we have to wait another WEEK for the next episode? Fuck you HBO". I lolled heartily, she has no idea what she is in store for.

is this show suspenseful? i can't tell.

The ending of this week's was pretty suspenseful, particularly for someone new to the story.

Very fun show.

The jousting scene was the BEST!

^^^^ totally lived up to my expectation

and Catelyn's ambush in the tavern at the end played out beautifully

Samwell is A+, they cast him well. I love the wall boys so much.

welp i just finished the first book

shit got pretty nuts at the end there

soooo we're like halfway through the first book, yeah? -ish? should i bother to start reading? it seems long and i don't have ~that~ much free time.

kinda torn between wanting to know NOW exactly how ham it gets and savoring the madness as it unfolds.

btw found the HBO 'guide' to be v helpful in keeping track of who's who

also kinda dont want to read hundreds of pages of stuff i've just seen

if ur like me you will end up making free time to read it

its kinda slow going at first but it really picks up ~200 pages in and its worth it even if youve already seen the tv show

& its not exactly a "hard read" either, you could finish it over an intense weekend

hmmmm

i need a good page-turner

good thing i live two blocks from a used book store

DO IT

thing is, yer gonna wanna read the second book as soon as the first season of the tv show is over, so you'd better read the first book now so you don't miss anything small..

also, in the book during the jousting scene (from sansa's POV) Sir Hugh is just "some knight from the vale." and his death is less obviously diabolical.

Didn't strike me as diabolical, but I'm guessing it's cuz the hand went asking questions?

i think u mean ser hugh

Viserys Targaryen is growing on me a bit.

I just finished book 1 on sunday...O_O

Found that reading along with the tv show sped me up, because I had a picture of everything, characters etc

HODOR

I'd like to claim credit for this one, but actually my girlfriend noticed it(she's a fanatic about the books). If you look at the credits, particularly the animals engraved on the bands around the sun, you'll see that they tell the story of Robert Baratheon's war against the Mad King in Heraldic form... It's a nice geeky touch.

man I think reading might just be worth it to clarify things in the backstory. It took the HBO guide to figure out ~why~ the mad king killed the Starks and why Jaime Lannister wasn't really respected for icing the guy.

jaime is outright loathed and mocked for killing aerys iirc.

the books are a little bit more expository but not much--you dont quite get the whole story of the uprising until midway through and even then its partial and in pieces

Oh yeah they haven't played that up but every man's hand is against Jaime now, because Mad King or no Mad King, Jaime is an oathbreaker.

Yeah Jaime's entire fame rests on the fact that he killed his king while he was a sworn member of that king's personal bodyguard. The king in question might have been mad, but that sort of thing is not going to give you a good name with anyone who hears about it. Anything else he does in the future is going to have to be pretty special if he's going to live that down.

yeah. i mean it took me until today to figure out that there WAS a king's guard, and that he was part of it (and why he wore that special armor). normally i'm pretty good about piecing together backstory, but the pace has been pretty quick and it's hard to keep up

read da books dog. you can always skim the parts you've seen if you get bored.

evan you wont regret reading the books

going to the store right now

I dont think u should read the book gbx

i do! im canceling ur vote aerosol

All those pages? Come on man , just think this through

not going to read the books now because I like watching the TV show and having no idea what's coming.

I thought the way the king asked the lannister dude how he killed the mad king was pretty telling about the disdain that's felt towards him.

books are just gay tv programmes

reading the books has made me even more psyched on watching the tv show

also cozen otm

thx to cozen bye

~btw~

this show has totally made me go back and pick up where i left off amidst book 4

when I first started in with the books I was bored with the endless description of the armor but then i got really into it. i think seeing the "Arms and Armor of the Habsburg Empire" traveling exhibit around the same time raised my interest.

also, the sumptuous meals described made very hungry

mark my words gbx, you'll catch yourself saying HODOR for no reason when you're alone

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omg

HA!

BTW about to watch this weeks episode - eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

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