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

Like, the guy who sees the witch birth a demon ghost vagina assassin? He's still very distrustful of her, but I think if I had seen that I'd not only be slightly wary of crossing her but probably get on board with her agenda.

You're thrown off by not being thrown off?

Magic hasn't been re-introduced to the worlds of most of the major characters in the story. The only major characters who have seen magic are in the far east, the far north, or the handful of people who saw the shadow baby.

I mean I grant you that it's a little odd that Brienne isn't like "so btw Jamie I saw a shadowbaby and it killed Renly"

xxxp no one other than king robert considered dany a threat prior to the dragons, robert was in love w/ ned's sister who got captured by dany's older brother and got killed, so he had personal/emotional reasons for going after the exiled targ kids even though they weren't threats at the time

Like, the guy who sees the witch birth a demon ghost vagina assassin? He's still very distrustful of her, but I think if I had seen that I'd not only be slightly wary of crossing her but probably get on board with her agenda.

Hmm maybe I am a bit judgmental but I don't want to be on team witch shadowbaby ghost assassin.

Nor would I! But I might change my mind were things like that to actually, you know, exist.

People can believe in stuff and still be against it. Just because these gods are proven to exist doesn't mean that everybody suddenly starts worshiping them. People might think that the interests of the gods do not align with their own, especially if the gods like human sacrifices.

I like max's post office analogy

How is the demon ghost vagina assassin visually described in the book? Like was everyone picturing:

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly0hjeza891qc88cb.jpg

when they read the book?

It's literally described as a shadow in the book.

It's a shadow that looks like Stannis, not like a baby.

It's a lot more surreal and creepy in the book but "inky cloud monster" was probably to easier to pull off visually.

xpost No, Daenyrs is much further east now. She used to be in one of the west coast cities, Portland maybe. She went east with the the Dothrakhi (to Topeka). And now she's gone further south and east. Like she's in Tampa now, perhaps.

Where is King's Landing? Spain? England?

I loved how everyone was all "I don't know what I saw that night," but we're all like, yeah you do, it was an inky cloud monster. Where's the confusion?

King's Landing is in Mumbai, basically

I loved how everyone was all "I don't know what I saw that night," but we're all like, yeah you do, it was an inky cloud monster. Where's the confusion?

If only the characters could hear the narrator!

But they were in the room with it when it happened! The other guy saw it birthed!

At least no one is looking at the dragons and muttering "I don't know what I saw."

I think there's just a comical lack of communication in Westeros.

"Why didn't you tell me you saw a ghost vagina demon assassin baby?!??!"

"You never asked!"

Onscreen they have to show it as a shadowy thing that you're supposed to be paying attention to, because there's no way to replicate the sensation of something that flickers in the corner of your eye but is hard to see when you look right at it, or whatever mystical invisibility qualities you can think of.

Dragons are a major part of the spoken history of Westeros and shadow babies aren't. It's a thing that's been done once or maybe twice (maybe during Robert's Rebellion? I think?). Dragons flew around in the sky and rained fire on cities. A little easier to become a part of the universal consciousness.

And yet the dragons are still mostly a curiosity when encountered, even though these little dudes can still do some damage

I grant you that people should be like "holy shit I saw a dragon" but we are also not privy to every utterance or thought of any of these characters.

Dany's dragons are also still pretty small (all things considered; none of them are the size of the skulls piled up at King's Landing) and everyone's last memory of dragons as a going concern was as sickly housepets, so it's not too shocking/unexpected that many people who encounter Dany's would assume they aren't as powerful as they are

The dragons have only killed one dude in a public setting so far so it makes sense that until now they were just a curiosity to those who haven't read their history (aka almost everyone in Essos), but anyone who knows what a fully grown dragon is capable of either covets them or fears them.

Who you gonna call?

http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/photo/07/large/07415.jpg

But they were in the room with it when it happened!

have you never in your life doubted your own senses? doubted someone else's? even living in a time when magic was thought possible i reckon people would find your protestations of "a ghost came in and did it, i saw him" pretty weak.

which they did.

or like... saw something shocking you had trouble recalling properly?

we're getting into tuomasian not-understanding-human-beings territory here

http://25.media.tumblr.com/1dc0f54cd60de7fae2cdefb586a13353/tumblr_moo2lcRro31qzmowao1_500.jpg

whoa, guess he just has two dubplates of him saying "hodor" over and over again?

no

i think he plays regular records

The only thing more ridiculous than me not getting this is you guys pretending these (awesome!) cartoons follow any rules of real human behavior.

*spoiler*

the entire game of thrones story takes place over an eighteen-hour period, and all of it is also mario's dream

http://i.imgur.com/eibDKlM.jpg

Disappointed? Well GRRM doesn't OWE you anything!

The only thing more ridiculous than me not getting this is you guys pretending these (awesome!) cartoons follow any rules of real human behavior.

I apologize for talking to you

all you people are silly.

Think I'll go back to only posting links no one asked me to post

please post all the links.

Lol just met Roose Bolton

Better sleep wi' one eye open

man wears motherfuckers like a cloak

Genial IRL.

I wonder if he knows he is the subject of many "old man feels" on Tumblr. It's only a matter of time before they discover Fergus's Wedding.

Just spent a solid thirty minutes staring at maps of Westeros and Essos. I need help.

Need directions?

The khalasar did so much damage in the village of the lhazareen that instead of going like 30 miles south to Slaver's Bay, they instead walked thousands of miles through the red waste to get to Qarth, and then took a boat back to Slaver's Bay? Why not turn around and go to Matarys or Volantis?

Also why were they so far south in the first place. Weren't they originally going to Vaes Dothrak before Drogo got sick? I guess they had some pillaging to do but it seems like a lot of work for such a seemingly insignificant village.

I wonder what it is about the Smoking Sea that makes it smoking.

House Bolton lives in a place called Dreadfort and no one thought it was a bad idea to ally with them?

I wonder what the terrain is like west of the Shadow Tower.

Etc.

Yeah Bolton's whole thing screams "villan" a little too much.

I wonder what it is about the Smoking Sea that makes it smoking.
volcanoes