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

The Book Club is up on Netflix, features the Hound in a "Literary Hunk" role

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCGk_k_lQm4&feature=related

So, that last three minutes was fucking terrifying. (The other 61 weren't bad either.)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m52sowtOPk1qzq8p5o2_500.gif

I worry about zombies, though the dead horse looked awesome. White Walkers (I guess that's what they were?) with their ice swords (I guess they were ice swords?) looked fucking awesome though. I hope Samwise is okay.

Dany's middling arc this season paid off with all that dragon shit being awesome as hell.

Not sure I really understood what's going on with Arya.

Brienne was the shit. Spin-off with her and Jamie wandering the roads please.

Don't care about Robb but hope somehow the inbred creepy Twins guy causes a ruckus.

Theon's scene with the Maester was fantastic. Little ol' Alfie stopped smoking we and really delivered there.

I want to know who the hell torched Winterfell.

inbred creepy Twins guy

fwiw, Walder Frey isn't into inbreeding, he just gets around a lot.

It's so pervasive I just assumed.

man book 2 is the only one I've really read and the thing I was looking forward to most was the house of the undying and it got like six minutes of screen time and left out most of the creepy vignettes that I was hoping for.

yeah, the house of the undying was definitely a bit anticlimactic after all the buildup. did like the white walkers, though. good episode, overall.

i'm wondering about the size of winterfell these days. i originally got the idea that it was a pretty substantial settlement, but ever since, it's seemed like a courtyard or two and a couple buildings. it's seemed especially tiny in the last few episodes. then when the kids were leaving, it looked MASSIVE, like it would house thousands. how could a city that big possibly be held by 20 men, even with its army away?

and who the hell burned it? where are the 500 northmen?

SEASON 3 AWAITS

yeah... i mean the northern soldiers were under orders to let any of theon's soldiers go free if they surrendered, and they had his body with them, so it's not hard to imagine them getting away easily. otoh, if they burned the city before leaving, you'd think that would complicate things. idk.

That's a cliffhanger, apparently. I both appreciate how they dealt with it but am also understanding that it's a bit confusing.

I don't know anything about the House of the Undying in the books, but I thought it was great here. The portent of the Red Keep broken down and overrun with the Winter, the walk north of the Wall. And the fact that, somehow magically, Dany got a genuinely moving scene with Drogo that gave her character something to achieve this season other than WHERE ARE MY DRAGONS. Also the Dragons kicking ass was awesome and fuiud.

Yeah, while that House of the Undying scene didn't meet my expectations based on the book, I thought it was really enjoyable and made up for her mediocre shitshow all season.

And by shitshow, I just mean that until last night hers was easily the least enjoyable plotline and I had almost dreaded her scenes. But, man, that was a pretty sweet payoff.

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Locking Ducksauce and Hollyoaks girl in the vault was cold.

Thought the White Walkers looked amazing.

Lots of moving scenes this episode - Luwin dying, Dany and Drogo, Tyrion and Shae.

I wonder if people who haven't read the books entirely got what was going on under the surface of Jon and Qhorin's fight.

it got like six minutes of screen time and left out most of the creepy vignettes that I was hoping for.

I was hoping for a glimpse of mad king Aerys at least.

I wonder if people who haven't read the books entirely got what was going on under the surface of Jon and Qhorin's fight.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, June 4, 2012 10:19 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seemed p obvs

man whats up w/sansa she needs to gtfo, jeez girl

I wonder if people who haven't read the books entirely got what was going on under the surface of Jon and Qhorin's fight.

My wife didn't initially, but she pretty much figured it out by the end of the episode.

yeah that was kind of awkwardly handled in that qhorin's line that explains his plan was way back in episode 8

so am I gonna have to wait another 8 months until this is out on DVD or what? I want to see it now!

Ways to die:

http://www.jest.com/video/175131/ways-to-die-in-game-of-thrones-season-2

so am I gonna have to wait another 8 months until this is out on DVD or what? I want to see it now!

― Moodles, Monday, June 4, 2012 1:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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feel bad for the half man

ya... from his highest point to his lowest in 2 eps. kind of crappy of his father to, essentially, take the credit for Tyrion's work and then turn his back on him.

it looked like when he appointed him hand his dad was starting to come around to the fact that half man had game

so, the white walkers...
awesome: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m535afxe4K1qfv91lo2_250.gif, http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m535afxe4K1qfv91lo7_r1_250.gif
a bit much: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m535afxe4K1qfv91lo6_r1_250.gif

are the white walkers the guys on the horses and then theyve got a zombie army is that it

That's what I thought. horsemounted ice sword dudes ftw. i don't want to be reminded of The Walking Fucking Dead.

don't tell whiney

ya... from his highest point to his lowest in 2 eps. kind of crappy of his father to, essentially, take the credit for Tyrion's work and then turn his back on him.

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, June 4, 2012 10:38 AM (54 minutes ago)

yeah, i was a bit surprised by this

it looked like when he appointed him hand his dad was starting to come around to the fact that half man had game

― lag∞n, Monday, June 4, 2012 10:40 AM (54 minutes ago)

meant to quote this too

lol at him riding in on a horse to accept his appointment as hand

just so everyone knows grandpa is the real boss

and shitting on the floor!

He's called Samwell, not Samwise (hobbit gardener).

differences not worth noting

I always assumed that Martin intended him as a riff on Samwise.

i'm wondering about the size of winterfell these days. i originally got the idea that it was a pretty substantial settlement, but ever since, it's seemed like a courtyard or two and a couple buildings. it's seemed especially tiny in the last few episodes. then when the kids were leaving, it looked MASSIVE, like it would house thousands. how could a city that big possibly be held by 20 men, even with its army away?

― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Monday, June 4, 2012 1:45 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark

its a castle, not a city

xp samwise is tolkein's ideal of a salt of the earth type who loves his master and knows his place. samwell is the effeminate son of a powerful noble. but they are both fat and short tho.

its a castle, not a city

okay, but in the last ep it was shown to be enormous. like the size of a small walled city. aren't there quite a few people living within those walls? like, not just the royal family and their staff, but a settlement of sorts? this is the impression i've gotten, anyway...

btw wtf is little finger up to, that guys sneaky

creeping on Sansa, methinks.

didnt he say at one point that he basically wanted to be king

that seems to be the central theme here: everybody wants to be king or queen

winterfell is supposed to be a castle with a small village of sorts within its outer walls iirc