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

re: Econ Fantasy:

The Neal Stephenson Baroque Cycle is kind of what you mean, but more historical fiction than fantasy...

http://i.imgur.com/w91PEsP.jpg

so embarrassing when you're doing a marketing presentation and you've accidentally included a slide from your grotesque death scene

wkiw

"Really funny guys, but can we please get back to these Q3 numbers now?"

I really want a fantasy novel by someone into economic history.

As a relative of an economist who has written exhaustive family histories almost entirely from an economic history viewpoint, no you do not. There is dry, there is bone dry, there is desert, and then there is economic history in narrative form.

As a companion piece or an appendix to which the main narrative refers, sure. That would TOTALLY flesh things out. But you do not want an economist telling you bed time stories.

The Neal Stephenson Baroque Cycle is kind of what you mean, but more historical fiction than fantasy...

― schwantz, Thursday, April 17, 2014 11:14 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p much every NS book has some kind of econ nerdery in it, the dude is hella into that stuff

I just want ASOIAF without dragons and undead and that kind of thing. It would be just as compelling without it. (yeah, I know, check out my original and important opinions, but still)

can't agree with this. the whole point is that magic and the supernatural are slowly but surely seeping back into an unsuspecting world.

I do agree with dowd, because for me ASOIAF was about the political integration of the world and the way actions rippled out.

to clarify I thought it'd be interesting to see someone who'd created a world from the bottom up so that it felt plausible, I don't want a novel written like a geography textbook

itt WOLF HALL the book by hilary mantel and the upcoming hbo/bbc miniseries based on the same

Feel like the economics (ok, not how it works in regards to agriculture feeding the cities other than the Martell's lording it over everyone) but it feels like the Lannisters being in debt is burbling under the surface. Is the Iron Bank a real thing or just a metaphor for war costs?

it is a real thing

Where does Bronn keep all his gold??? Hmmm

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Wow, i had to look at that for a full minute to carch that

Carch carch carch

haha, i was all staring at dude's belt looking for clues to murder

someone explain it to me like I'm five

oh wait nvm

lol

pls explain

Jaime got a new hand in the 1st ep

Oh, lol, forgot about that. Man, he's exploiting that on set, huh?

yall acting like takeout coffee isnt a commentary on the unsustainability of late capitalism and the death if magic smh

Cheap coffee at royal wedding just showing the financial strains the war has put on the Lannisters

wasn't he the only person not in costume for that magazine cover a while back? maybe that's his thing now

don't worry, cameron diaz and kate upton will straighten him out

That's an outtake from a promo shot of the Purple Wedding, in the broadcast shot he's wearing 30+ lbs of plate armor.

set up ep zzz

final scene was kinda cool

Whoa man how were you double dipping

hah i watched it at halftime / part of 3rd quarter

setting up some awesome-seeming shit tho.

Good to know that the Iron Bank is actually a real thing in Bravos and not just a metaphor. Been setting up that for a while.

Also Jamie wau. :(

Apparently the rapey aspect was not faithful to the book.

I didn't remember it at all.

so it was just more HBO skin dropping for no reason? that shit is starting to make hbo shows hard to watch.

Well, to be fair, I don't think the "point" of that scene was to be titilating, as much as uncomfortable and creepy as hell. Not sure why the hell they added it, maybe just trying to amplify in a short period the awkwardness that developed between Cersei and Jamie since he came back?

they should just rename this show MURDERBOOBS imo

very awkward time for Cersei to get pregnant imo

will it force her to marry gaybro?

(also: I loved their tart exchange at the wedding- "you'll never marry her" / "neither will you"- that was some lolgay SASS right there)

I was thinking that Kingslayer raping his sister next to the dead body of their incestuous child was probably the most lurid thing I've ever seen on TV and it clearly wasn't even a major plot point.

Glad Davos is back though, he's a dude.

"a celebration of life in the midst of death" said no one, ever

Kingslayer raping his sister next to the dead body of their incestuous child

tbf this sounds like a perfectly normal thing to expect from medievel royals

I liked Obreon of Dorn(sp?)'s mid-orgy agitprop stump speeches in favor of bisexuality

Cool map action

http://quartermaester.info/

^ lol, i was thinking about sharing that but figured it had already surfaced here. super helpful!

I hope Podrick does his sex magic on Oberyn's paramour while the latter watches with increasing annoyance.

Do they ever explain why wildlings don't just travel around the wall by boat?

it would get them too close to water and spoil their fundamental dirtiness