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

I thought it was very well done. (Obligatory but-as-a-reader caveats*: I wish they had done more to recreate the sense of building dread in that chapter, especially with the drums, and of course the show couldn't convey the sheer heartbreak of "No, don’t, don’t cut my hair, Ned loves my hair".) But Robb's final, pleading, "Mother" was great and Michelle Fairley was simply brilliant throughout. After she sees Robb dies she is just gone. Honestly, I was a lot more saddened than I thought I'd be.

Bran and Rickon's goodbye was very affecting as well.

also
http://25.media.tumblr.com/f57ff71c25ff0ec6264a3519cff803fe/tumblr_mntikrsVtg1rearvyo5_r1_250.gif

*I also meant to add, Roose killing Robb was a bit quick for me, thought it was more than made up for by the look he gives Cat when she sees he's wearing mail.

My two favorites from that redweddingtears account so far:

RT @gameblouses: im gladd Robb Stark is dead he was annoying & ugly

‏@BWIZ Game of Thrones this, Game of Thrones that... Yo FUCK that midget. Can't take that fucking guy seriously.

Oh and:

@victoriaanava im seriously balling right now. why game of thrones why!?!

the look he gives Cat when she sees he's wearing mail.

YES.

If Reddit existed in Westeros Jorah would be posting about being friendzoned right now.

Hahaha

http://25.media.tumblr.com/19fe7f8578c746c5e54cd07c709cb527/tumblr_mnsvecPJLi1qc1a0go1_500.gif

but!
http://24.media.tumblr.com/1a8dc59903431fe03b63a40ae7a1ba73/tumblr_mntiqalQz51qh5buco1_400.gif

I don't know the name of the actor who plays Roose, but he was Amazing in this scene.

i cried about rickon and bran, but not cat and robb. seriously, i guess its time i start rooting for the winning team. GO LANNISTERS!

If I ever get round to buying the GoT board game I'm totally going to be the Lannisters every time I play.

I'm more passive aggressive, so I'd be a Tyrell.

i love the way the roose actor only uses his eyes but conveys so much. yeeeah i'm a rascal, what ya gonna do?

http://i.imgur.com/L5hGXMf.gif

l-r, didn't read the books, read the books, didn't read the books

(i haven't read the books by the way)

If I ever get round to buying the GoT board game I'm totally going to be the Lannisters every time I play.

Lannisters are tough because you're more or less surrounded to start the game. Tyrell or whoever else that is in the south is the way to go!

the only saving grace of all of it was that Arya didn't somehow find her way into the hall to witness the carnage

that last scream of Catelyn's that just chokes off into helpless silence was amazing, she's such a good actress

And Jon ditching Ygritte was COLD.

Crows before hoes.

― ...also i'm awesome (Nicole), Monday, 3 June 2013 12:48 (2 hours ago) Permalink

lmao

nicole LOOOL

frey dude looks alot like willie nelson to me which adds a touch of the absurd

#crowsbeforehoes would totally be trending if not for, you know

http://winteriscoming.net/2013/06/red-wedding-reactions-caught-on-tape/

Frank Ocean wrote, “smh. red wedding was too hectic.” (smh means “shaking my head.”)

or sydney morning herald

GAME OF THROOOOOOONES

yeah, it was too hectic

there was just too much going on there, they should have slowed things down there and made it less exciting, maybe split that scene out over a few episodes, or maybe have a character hide behind a table for a few minutes and talk about what was happening and why it was so unexpected and scurry

smh at the way they did that

My wife, not in the book reading contingent but probably a more rabid fan of the TV series than I am, had a pretty great reaction. At the shot of Caetlyn looking up at the band, her hand shot over and grabbed my arm with a white knuckle grip, "what the fuck is going to happen?". Then she let out a muted scream when the guy went after Talisa. Later she claimed it wasn't as "devastating" as the Ned Start season 1 scene, but it seemed to get a pretty visceral reaction from her.

Somehow, despite all the groundwork they did with the song "The Rains of Castamere" (Cersei's discussion of it, Thoros singing it, playing it at the end of the battle of Blackwater episode, Tyrion talking about it, using it as the Lannister leitmotif in the score, using it as the TITLE of the episode ... I still didn't know what song they were playing. Haha.

Mr Veg was laughing at me by the end, I yelled NO when robb & catelyn were first hit, then a series of NNOOOOOOs when Robb's wolf and Robb got it, and then just a quiet mournful 'oh no' with Catelyn's ending

I cannot wait to find out how the bedding went.

great-uncle's absence...

Only one more episode this season, sigh

Grey Worm has sick fighting skills and he moves with such grace. I hope there is more of him in the next season.

sick epi

http://i2.cdnds.net/13/15/618x411/odd_you_know_nothing_jon_snow.jpg

You know, leave it to TMZ

http://www.tmz.com/2013/06/03/game-of-thrones-throat-cutting-oj-simpson-witness-michael-baden/

On the bright side, at least Gareth from The Office got offed.

^aha!

For real, I don't know what they were expecting rolling up into Walder Frey's castle like he would be all nbd that Robb dissed him. Still, the slaughter was shocking. I expected hostilities and draw swords, but...damn. Catelyn's desperation at the end was affecting. At first I found her annoyingly long-suffering & righteous, but reading the first book made me appreciate her a lot more.

It will never happen, but part of me wishes Tyrion will turn Sansa into sex freak. I mostly just want to see more Tyrion sexy scenes. I fear for he & Shae, though. Also, please more Petyr Baelish & Viserys.

omg i can't begin to imagine what kind of kinky sansa/tyrion fanfic is out there. or if there is none, you need to write some.

there are not enough NOs in the world

I want to see Littlefinger hanging out in the Eyrie with Cat's sister and the milky lad.

http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Tyrion%20Lannister*s*Sansa%20Stark/works

;_;

oh god some of those stories are truly revolting ;_; i can tell w/o even reading them

I want to see Littlefinger hanging out in the Eyrie with Cat's sister and the milky lad.

― polyphonic, Monday, June 3, 2013 5:19 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes

http://archiveofourown.org/works/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&work_search[query]=littlefinger%2Flysa

this is truly the work of Satan

I think maybe it's just that I want Sansa to become interesting and stop being such a dumbo.

sansa is pretty much a typical teenaged girl. she was soooo stoked at the promise of being betrothed to loras. she's wising up slowly. in season 1 she was truly awful.

isn't gareth an eagle now? like, do wargs stay in the animals if their bodies get offed?

i far prefer the joffrey/sansa/tyrell/tywin stuff to this week's gang, though now most of them are dead i guess there won't be as much about them.

still obv a good episode, i think the hype had made me expect something weirder, or an entire episode of shocks, i wasn't spoiled beforehand but knowing something crazy was going to happen deflated it a bit.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/oh-shit-i-totally-forgot-that-happens,32673/