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

:D

Definitely the best episode so far, quite possibly because it had the most added scenes. Felt a lot less stiff.

need more Arya

She's probably had as much screen time as anyone!

i am greedy, she is my favorite :)

i think part of the reason this ep worked so well was that it pretty much stuck to action in king's landing and the eyrie; brief visit to winterfell, no dothraki stuff, no wall stuff. not that i don't really like the stuff on the wall, but to keep shifting the scene does take some momentum out of each episode.

Yeah i agree. It is a problem in a show with so many characters in disparate locations.

every time arya is on screen i think, as if for the first time, "wow, you are a terrible actress"

:I

Whaaa? I think she's great!

It's interesting that you say that and this is followed up by Treme. Just thinking about how Simon has to force himself to write really tight "anecdote" scenes to pack in all the people and situations he wants to do; Thrones, being all notional period stuff and supposedly needing that much more exposition, has to abbreviate a lot and yet still ends up spending probably far too much time in each set

That was to ian, you crossposting fuckers

xxpost to rogermexico: cut your throat, traitor! raaaaghhh! (run at you sword aloft)

Arya is too pretty. In the book they keep calling her horse-faced.

eh, martin kind of softens it, shes supposed to look like bryanna stark, who is supposed to be beautiful

or whatever neds sister was called

lyanna

the poor horse!!

(does anyone think the horse is ned stark)

When a horse gets its head chopped off, that's ham to me.

― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, May 16, 2011 7:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

remind me to never have dinner at your house

lol

most fucked up thing in series so far happens in book 3. enjoy!

― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, May 13, 2011 11:07 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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most fucked up thing in series so far happens in book 3. enjoy!

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this really is pretty brutal

aww that's years away. guess i'll have to read the books.

yeah i had to put the book down. i am "processing it."

i guess i'm on board with this now, to the point where i just frustrate my way through the series-prolonging bits of useless exposition by looking forward to the next cool bit of business with tyrion or arya or w/e. that stephen king-style soap opera plotting, where you get a bunch of disparate threads going, and don't really have to advance any of them much, cuz suspense takes over whenever you're away from the most appealing characters. hope this continues long enough to see the current cast and plot threads completely upended.

just finished the third book after marathon reading sesh, goddamn some crazy shit happens

^_^ yes, yes it does

The prospect of watching the crazy shit happen on the TV show after having read it alraedy and BEING STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SERIES AS IT IS...it's like I'm hanging on two cliffs at once, and frankly it's exhausting.

i mean like holy shit. i sort of wonder if the showrunners at hbo are plotting everything out or just taking it one season at a time

That said, I re-purchased the trade version of Book 2 yest so I can re-read. lol @ self

halfway through book 2
ILX is lucky to make the grade, I may quit life just to read READ READ

1/4 of the way through the fourth book and i am beginning to see why ppl are so frustrated with martin. the iron islands?? who gives a shit about this??? are the dornishmen italian or like turkish or what?? how are they even on the same continent???????

also he loves courtly intrigue but he doesnt really seem to care about actual politics? there are at least 3 major institutions (the citadel, the septons, and the nights watch) in the 7 kingdoms that would irl be big non-aristocratic power bases but instead they are totally apolitical??? chyeah right

still this guy can plot an epic fantasy like a m-f'er

at this pace he should be done in 10 years, right? its like 5 years between each book?

Well, he BETTER be done in, let's see (my guess at the HBO schedule):
1 year for GoT.
1 year for CoK
2 years for SoS
1 year for FFC
2 years for DoD

So he has 5 years (need a year lead-time for production) to get the 2nd to last book done, and then 1 or two years for the last book.

So 5-7 years, I guess.

theyre gonna need to hurry up some of those seasons if they want to make sure the kids dont age

you guys really think HBO will keep this thing going for 7 seasons??

I expect some condensation of the story; also I expect that after this season they will just shoot continually to avoid aging issues with the kids

The viewership has been climbing every week, so the outlook is pretty good:

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/05/17/game-of-thrones-ratings-climb/

although onset of puberty could be a neat explanation for some things later on

hope those kids end up being good ass actors, at any rate

its funny reading this knowing that its a tv show too -- it kind of makes sense actually, esp. given that martin's background is in tv writing. the last few chapters of every book have a very "hbo season finale" feeling

so i think i just figured something out

but i won't post it because if i'm right it'll be spoil-y

also is it sad that i'm actually like "aw sweet i have years of entertaining television to look forward to"

Not sad! You could post your theory in one of the book threads, but then you would get a spoilered...

also he loves courtly intrigue but he doesnt really seem to care about actual politics? there are at least 3 major institutions (the citadel, the septons, and the nights watch) in the 7 kingdoms that would irl be big non-aristocratic power bases but instead they are totally apolitical??? chyeah right

― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:19 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also thinking about this -- during the targaeryns reign there was no other political force besides the targaeryns, because they had dragons, and no one else did. and so the context of the books is sort of "the fall of the house targaeryn," and the scramble for power vacuum to be filled, and martin is obviously on-point w/ the way aristocrats jockey for power. and hes _almost_ there toward books 3 and 4 in terms of showing the political power of the nights watch, not to mention the political power of religion w/r/t the (possible spoiler?) lord of light. but i still feel like hes not really grasping the way these institutions would actually wield power. like lol you think the maesters are really going to spend their lives "serving" for thousands of years? you mean, the only guys on westeros who know how to heal people and read? hmm sure

i think the maesters are a bunch of ineffectual academics/advisors who have advanced as far as capable under a fairly strict caste system.

also he loves courtly intrigue but he doesnt really seem to care about actual politics? there are at least 3 major institutions (the citadel, the septons, and the nights watch) in the 7 kingdoms that would irl be big non-aristocratic power bases but instead they are totally apolitical??? chyeah right

― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:19 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark

w/o spoiling anything, the septons & citadel are totally political

we should take this to the feast for crows thread though, which is where all the booktalk seems to congregate:

Anticipating "A Feast For Crows" by George R. R. Martin (Nov. 9)