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

I don't think she was in the books.

Huh

Incredibly convincing [to americans]

The guy who isn't Vargo Hoat seemed like he was kinda shooting for Brummie

i think actually it's not that bad, but it's not a modern accent. it's 100 years old, which is why it sounds weird, but i suppose it makes sense for the character.

a good article!

my favourite accents to listen to on this show are: sean bean (obviously), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (not necessarily "good", but nice to listen to) and liam cunningham, who does a beautiful durham/northumbria thing.

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god, ygritte's real accent is amazing

ygritte show accent is p much straight manc, or more specifically lancashire manc suburbs. i know ppl who sound a lot like that

roz was a whoo-er in the north that was chummy with theon iirc but didn't get any further along than that

I would like to point out that people generally adopt accents from their peers not their parents according to studies

i think she's going for lancashire yeah, but it's not quite right to me.

southern lancashire in partic.

i mean not that it matters. this is a terrible show about wizards that i don't even like and i only watch because everyone else does and i never post on this thread although the episode last week was good and i liked it when they blew up the boats.

but i like the febrile energy of max's article

As an American all I get is a southern gentleman out of littlefinger in a few random words and am nodding along blankly to all the other accent stuff you're all going on about.

It's a bit Welsh, I thought? Or am I not hearing it right? It is a very strange accent.

Well it'll be like one emphasized word per every three lines that give me that impression.

i think part of the problem is he's clearly reaching for a deeper voice than he naturally has, plus he seems like like he's not naturally an accent guy

welsh would be "correct" in some sense, since he's from the vale and theoretically vale accents = welsh

i think in a weird way his accent is worse or more distracting than dinklage's, because he seems to have something specific in mind that he's trying to do, where as dinklage hardly bothers these days

I had no idea Dinklage's was so weak. USA! USA!

from what i can tell dinklage's "accent" is basically just dropping his Rs and opening up his As a little bit

it's Victor Meldrew I think

Americans will get that reference

did littlefinger do all that growling stuff in earlier seasons? i've definitely noticed it more this season.

"and opening up his As a little bit"

Had to double take

Ronan called him Irish Dracula and now that's all I can think of any time he speaks.

I think Dinklage is just doing Stewie from the Family Guy.

hah!

did littlefinger do all that growling stuff in earlier seasons? i've definitely noticed it more this season.

Yeah I think it's been getting more pronounced the further in we've gone. Don't recall thinking anything in particular about Gillen's accent in the first series.

i think in a weird way his accent is worse or more distracting than dinklage's, because he seems to have something specific in mind that he's trying to do, where as dinklage hardly bothers these days

― caek, Monday, May 6, 2013 7:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

shifty character = shifty accent maybe?

for all we know this could be a middle earth type deal where in the reality of the story the common tongue sounds nothing like english but for our convenience it does

/nerd

They're on a predator ship.

heh

for all we know this could be a middle earth type deal where in the reality of the story the common tongue sounds nothing like english but for our convenience it does

/nerd

― lego maniac cop (latebloomer), Monday, 6 May 2013 22:00 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah like Ned Stark's first name is actually like Weenwo or something

Littlefinger is probably from Aerilon

it's Victor Meldrew I think

― random accies memories (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 6 May 2013 20:41 (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol otm

davos is probably the secret weirdest accent in the show, like uh why get a very irish guy to be very geordie

iain glen p much talks the same irl besides being strikingly camper

check out the osha actress irl on youtube btw, woof

I recently learned that Sibel Kekilli (Shae) used to be in the pornographies

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osha actress was in About A Boy and I still think, "good on her, doing more things". Although she was in Harry Potter as well now that I think of it.

Also realised last night that the torturer of Theon is from Misfits, which puts that show at 2, tying it with Skins.

cool ep, boss speech from littlefinger which i hereby vow never to paraphrase irl

ricky n bianca at the end didnt feel so cheesy mainly cos as soon as you see the show lay it on thick with hope now then you immediately wince for the expected tragedy

have literally no idea abt theon's torturer ("bolton's bastard"? when was he previously referred to?) but those scenes are boring now, get on with it

oh and bring the podrick subplot back for the love of god i cant handle any more of jon snow muff diving

srsly thought he was gonna save her by jamming his tongue in the ice or something

Misfits, which puts that show at 2, tying it with Skins.

― Gukbe, Tuesday, May 7, 2013 12:59 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

uh, and Hollyoaks

If they weren't in the very last scene of Hollyoaks before Channel 4 news, I never saw them.

Nathalie Emmanuel was in Misfits and Hollyoaks

Aaah, I get it now.

no but Daenerys's previous maidservant was also in Hollyoaks

I don't actually watch it that much honest

The one who was locked in the big empty vault at the end of S2? Tbh I figured there would be some ex-Hollyoaks actors being fed into the minor-role-nudity machine.

srsly thought he was gonna save her by jamming his tongue in the ice or something

― r|t|c, Monday, May 6, 2013 8:05 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this shouldve happened

did jon snow introduce Cunnilingus to just the wildlings, or some larger part of the seven kingdoms?

economics of GOT

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/17/goldbugs_in_westeros_house_tyrell_is_richer_than_house_lannister.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/18/lannister_subprime_lending_the_king_owing_you_money_spells_trouble.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/22/economics_of_ice_fire_iii_the_market_for_dragons.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/06/wildling_egalitarianism_why_bad_weather_leads_to_more_economic_equality.html