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

wow, the 'no spoilers please' thing has really been abandoned by this thread, i should stop checking it

i think "no spoilers" refers to "no spoilers past what's happened on the show"

otherwise... why have a thread about a tv show

i thought i had seen something that hadn't happened on the most recent episode -- could be mistaken though

The interview with the showrunners upthread has a fairly sizable spoiler in like the first sentence.

Which was noted in the thread

TONIGHT YOU GUYS!

In the spirit of "not dead unless shown onscreen," I'm wagering that the next OMGTWIST is that Ned is still alive.

wondering what happened to Arya's 'dancing' teacher myself

my own personal theory regarding her dancing master is too spoiler-heavy for this thread. maybe some other time..

Spring 2012 to see Joffrey get some level of comeuppance.

hate u cable tv having types

RT

@tedleo

WHAT? Spring 2012!?!?!

21 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone

Wait? Spring 2012 for the next series? http://ernstmul.home.xs4all.nl/images/yahoo/28.gif

season - whatever

TOO LONG

Considering they haven't finished the scripts nor cast Stannis I'd say a year is the best you can hope for.

SHUT UP ;_;

They start filming next month.

...gotta admit I'm worried about a season-full (or more) of cheesy dragon f/x

Dragon fx looked good to me.

Yeah, I thought the dragon FX looked suprisingly good!

the sound design was great and helped to sell it a bit, but I didn't find the visuals quite convincing, which would only get worse if they're, you know, 50 times bigger.

Decent finale, not mindblowing but not really trying to be. I'm intrigued by the Arya/bastard pairing, and I loved the scene with Sansa and Joffrey.

great ep. ( *spoiler post, if you haven't watched it yet* )

i especially loved Jeor's speech to Snow. the only scene that fell flat, to me, was the one with Little Finger and Varys. what was the point of that? i was half expecting them to start making out!

this has also cemented my conviction to NOT read the books. in addition to many-another-factor - i'm enjoying not knowing what's going to happen next. seeing how they revealed Daenerys surviving the fire was just too good!

the dragons were so cute :3

final two scenes were amazing sequence to end season w/

i especially loved Jeor's speech to Snow.

Yes, that guy is awesome

the only scene that fell flat, to me, was the one with Little Finger and Varys. what was the point of that? i was half expecting them to start making out!

I thought this was cool and i dig the relationship they're setting up between the two of them. Antagonistic but with a level of mutual respect. The actor who plays Varys has been superb i think. The scene what played weirdly for me was the Grand Maester Pycelle/Ros one.

the dragons were so cute :3

I am so mad that this series has made me want dragons and direwolves as pets when it's never going to happen.

The scene what played weirdly for me was the Grand Maester Pycelle/Ros one.

should have had the word "exposition!" flashing at the bottom of the screen imo

the Baelish/Varys and Grand Maester/Roz scenes both kinda sucked - the former was a little funny at least, but felt very redundant. the later was rambling and largely pointless. (I know that was the intention, but it was a waste of valuable finale time.) Would rather have checked in w/ Cersei at some point, esp. given her reaction to Joffrey's order to execute Ned last week.

*the latter

there wasnt any exposition in that scene, was there? it was just a character moment

http://i.imgur.com/DJ5kT.gif

There was TONS of plot exposition in that scene, awkwardly wedged in around gratutious nudity.

You could get actually get a Direwolf though Nicole, they're played by a breed of dog called the Northern Inuit.

yeah, but it went on waaay too long, plus he's a character we have no reason to care about. xp

http://i.imgur.com/dx9w6.gif

tbh i can't even remember that well, my attention wandered, but it ~seemed~ like a way to give the audience some westeros history that they may need to know in the future

xp

He basically just went on about the Mad King didn't he? Who we already knew about.

exactly. redundant.

his rambling was boring and unimportant, which is why ros was bored - the point of the scene was that pycelle's doddering old man pose is just as much of a feint to make himself seem harmless as what varys and littlefinger do

Well yeah, but it just didn't need to go on that long.

yeah, probably. but i didnt think it was checking-my-watch-and-sighing-theatrically long.

i was kinda on the fence about emilia clarke for most of the season, but im pretty sold on her now. she killed it in this ep

What if Game of Thrones was a buddy comedy?

http://www.progressiveboink.com/jon/images/calvinhobbes/bill2.gif

show is so fun. episode highlights: cuckoo's nest merciful smothering < sansa keeps cool <<<< climactic dragon cheesecake.

thought the littlefinger/varys scene was brilliant, really well written. varys kills it in every scene, the faces he makes. joffrey is such a horrible little cunt. not a huge amount happened this ep but was interesting to hear stannis and renly have taken up against joffrey too. next season tho...wtf, so much shit is hitting the fan all at once, dragons, white walkers, multipronged civil war. it's a veritable smorgasbord of violence!

You ain't see nothing yet

will buy this on DVD the day it come out, even though HBO love to gouge the mans.

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Pricers are cheaper than they used to be

He's saying HBO's home video releases are expensive.