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

i found some of the scenes hard to watch but then the glorious ending really tied it all together, the lowest of lows to the highest of highs

http://25.media.tumblr.com/1d03871ae82b593a03f8e942a3253da2/tumblr_mloipeass81qf7pvco1_500.gif

lolz

haha joffery is so dumb but no one has had the stomach to flatter him for more than like 5mins at a time before

great ep, first time I've really thought the woman who plays danaerys is pullin off badass ancient desert dragon queen

that was the third episode of this show i've ever seen and she's the only character i like

dude u should watch the first two seasons this weekend

my gf is trying to get me into it, i can't last much longer

i had forgotten about the "mother tongue" thing, def badass

yeah I've read the first 2 books and during that speech I was like, oh RIIIIIGHT Valyrian

idk, even though I wasn't a huge fan of the actress at the beginning, I've always had a soft spot for her character. Completely remaking herself from the terrified slave of crazy brother into this awesome Dragon queen-ruler-commander is awesome

Agree about Conleth Hill, that scene about his castration was close to perfect.

And yeah, Dany really coming into her own now.

lady olenna is a great new char

the look cersei gave her when chatting was golden

Amazing episode, so many wow moments in there.

I get the feeling that Cersei visibly losing influence within King's Landing is very bad news indeed for Tyrion and Shae in ways I can't really imagine just yet.

Olenna and Margaery together are terrific characters, totally playing everyone so far. No one else in the show understands the value of good PR.

Catching up today. Mira Reed is kind of rrrobyn-ish.

:D

Consigning the praise, amazing episode. Daenerys totally vamping for the camera at the end though.

in the best possible way

This is kinda lolsy

http://video.vulture.com/video/Daenerys-Targaryn-Gets-an-Exten

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0422/grant_r_upsofthrones.jpg

haha

Of course the UPS facility is in Flea Bottom.

yeah, same as everybody else really: this is shaping up to be the best season

Theon is the Pete Campbell of this show, I will never tire of watching people inflict physical pain on him.

Ooh, who'd be Don? Peggy? Roger?

Tyrian has a bit of the Roger about him.

Tyrion actually, isn't it. Oops.

Arya is Peggy.

otm

Was gonna say Ned was Don, but he was actually more like Lane.

Yes. Totally.

Ooh, who'd be Roger?

Pretty much half the dudes in this are idiot manchildren who are in their position purely as a result of stuff their dad did.

Jaime is Don.

Making Cersei Betty?

These mostly don't work at all with the exception of Arya as Peggy which is totally OTM.

Stannis = Duck Phillips.

Maester Pycelle = Teddy Rumsen

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/24/us-moldova-crisis-idUSBRE93N0PA20130424

too much time on GoT

I caught "The Last Legion" when flipping channels, which was awful, but noticed a ton of actors that are also in GoT. I wonder why.

Owen Teale, James Cosmo, Ian Glen, Thomas Sangster, Robert Pugh and Nonso Anozie.

They're pretty bad in it, too.

That last one was a good ep and had a humdinger of an ending, which helped people come away from it buzzing, but it wasn't 'best ever' material for me. Not every story thread was that strong this week, especially Theon's, which ended up with his character back where he was - in every sense - three weeks ago. I hope this was for a good reason, because otherwise everything that has happened to him this season has been pointless.

Still, really liked: Tywin castigating Cersei for not controlling Joffrey; Varys meeting his match with Diana Rigg; shit getting real with Dany, her dragons and her slave army - which you could see coming, but it came sooner than I expected, as did the showdown at Craster's Keep.

Most of the other story threads trod water a little, but the most pointless bit was a whole scene dedicated to a discussion about Podrick's prowess yet again.

ooh yeah I liked the Night's Watch massacre, that was p crazy

Come on, the Podrick thing is clearly going somewhere, he's the new most popular dude at the centre of massive spy network. They're not just putting in a few scenes about him having an enormous penis for lolz.

They're not putting in any scenes about him having an enormous penis, actually

Motion of the ocean, maybe

My friend told me that the Podrick stuff isn't even in the book?

no it's not, but i also feel pretty sure it is going somewhere more significant

i mean, somewhere specific, #nospoiler

it bothers me now how much each character has basically a single type of situation they're in, and then they react in a particular type of way to that situation and you think something's changed but basically they end up in the same type of situation again and react the same way again and over and over. there's like no genuine character movement at all, just the same tropes repeating themselves.

i mean nonetheless this creates plenty of entertaining scenes, but...

In the books Podrick Payne is 12