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

Yeah it's crazy, its like the moon door might have actually come directly from the source material.

iirc in the source material it is an actual door not a big gaping hole in the floor you might accidentally step into while reading email on your iPhone

Depiction of the Moon Door is no problem for me, quite a fan of bad guys in general having Jabba's-Palace-style trap-doors in the floor through which underlings can be thrown at a moment's notice.

Easy way of telling if someone is trustworthy or not is if they have a moon door in their crib.

Yeah it's crazy, its like the moon door might have actually come directly from the source material.

oh ok it's from the books so it can't be bad writing

Sure it can be bad writing by GRRM, your post just made it sound like it was a conscious decision for the TV show for visual reinforcement of the implied threat. I was just responding to that aspect.

Depiction of the Moon Door is no problem for me, quite a fan of bad guys in general having Jabba's-Palace-style trap-doors in the floor through which underlings can be thrown at a moment's notice.

it's ridiculous but kinda awesome and campy too. definitely on the sillier end of things for a show so enamored with nihilistic violence

xp - did not mean to imply that with my post, i am not a book-bro so didn't realize the depiction was different in the first place

Tommen isn't an interesting character at all but as the kid who would be king it wouldn't have hurt for the show to have reminded us that he existed every now and again.

I'm pissed they decided to age up Tommen because (not really a spoiler) my favorite part of the li'l kiddo's rule was how childishly excited he was to sign his name on whatever royal documents were set in front of him.

The Mountain/Viper fight might have benefited from some bystander carnage.

so the mountain def dies in the books? seems okay in the show? just wounded.

Yes, he is.

"grrm's world is like medieval europe except no one ever dies of sickness or through mundane yet"

Except Khal Drogo?

Loved Tyrion asking for books about morons.

Still not getting how the moon door is bad writing. Why wouldn't you have one? I wouldn't be surprised if some real castles did have something similar.

I was under the impression The Mountain died.

Keeping my fingers crossed for Cersei getting a satisfying death but I doubt it will be as good as Joffrey or Lysa's.

I was very fond of Oberyn (I'd like to see that actor in other stuff) and that was difficult to swallow but it's a welcome change after endless streams of unconvincing survival in so many stories. Peter Jackson's King Kong and Hobbit are terrible for that and even for a kid's film Pixar's Up really takes the piss (as a child it would have upset me because I'd think it was a lie and that the "real" characters all fallen to their deaths. I hated The Labyrinth because I knew the "real" good guys all drowned in shit or lived an unspeakably horrible life of smelling so terrible that they couldn't stop vomiting. I don't know if most children are like that but I could never brush off any morbid implication, all heroes really fell off the cliff edge and died), it's a real pet hate of mine.

My brother assures me that there is a string of amazing things just about to happen. I'm excited.

Cersei needs to outlive pretty much everyone including all her kids as max punishment

So did LF and Sansa bang or what? He reached a creepy peak last night with "the first time I saw you you were just a child" but that shot of her as silhouette with the sun flashing behind her was superb.

Jesus Christ, the punch followed by the teeth scattering across the floor. Just the sound effect alone!

I can handle almost anything gore-wise, but teeth are always a real sore spot.

That gummy scream - fucked me up good.

"grrm's world is like medieval europe except no one ever dies of sickness or through mundane yet"

Didn't Robert Baratheon die from being gored by a wild boar while hunting, though it took him several days to die, so presumably it got infected?
(Might be remembering this wrong...)

man i was away from my computer for a couple weeks and was very disappointed that there was only one episode waiting when i returned, uncool

btw u guys take this show too srs it is not a srs show

This show is boring now isn't it.

Severed heads not really cutting it for me any more especially when they happen at 'totally unexpected' moments.They should rename it Yawn of Yawns.

Only joking, it's still good. I guess what I found strange about the whole Oberyn thing is that I didn't really get that he was necessarily supposed to be a sympathetic character. At least when he was introduced, he came off as a bit of a sleazeball so I was surprised when immediately people started rooting for him.

And yeah, that was totally a Princess Bride tribute, wasn't it?

Maybe they feel like me that all those feel wish fulfilling happy stories need to be corrected? Maybe we'll get to see a Jennifer Connelly lookalike drown in shit; talking dogs, an old man and little boy fall off mountains and several other bleaker versions.

I doubt it will happen but there is still time for Oberyn's wife to run screaming to his side and revive him with the Lord Of Light.
Thinking about it more, with White Walkers, the whole Ice/Fire thing, maybe rebirth on either side will eventually become a bigger thing? Reborn Ned Stark fighting white walkers? Doubt it, but I'm sure the Lord Of Light stuff will become central because it has been proven real even if it isn't what the worshippers think it is.

I still predict that some of the Lannisters will eventually be killed by the Stark children. I think this story has wish fulfilment too. Imagine Tywin seeing Arya again.

Meant to say "feel good" in first line.

I doubt it will happen but there is still time for Oberyn's wife to run screaming to his side and revive him with the Lord Of Light.

Well I guess he'd have a few more holes in himself to play with.

Lord of Light would have to be an expert taxidermist to help Oberyn out...

ew.

ha he's gonna get revived like Deathklok's cook in Metalocalypse

I'm sure the red lady would praise his skills of unmushing eyeballs and unparalleled dentistry.

Just wanna say this was the most well-shot episode I can remember. The lighting in particular was brilliant throughout.

I'm sure the red lady would praise his skills of unmushing eyeballs and unparalleled dentistry.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, June 3, 2014 9:35 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

His whole head was smushed.

that scene really popped

eye eye eye

I was just annoyed that Prancer/Dorn dude/whatever his name is didn't finish off the Mountain when he had the chance

idiot

now we're all fucked, way to go

tyrions face though

i thought he was going to puke

Does he puke in the book? He does in that comic posted above.

p sure the mountain died tho, I guess he still wins cause the other guy died first

Spoiler, perhaps, but yeah, he pukes in the book. The comic is very faithful to the book-version.

prob figured two puke scenes was too much

wise to leave that out of the show. i think if they had tyrion puke on screen some viewers may have literally thrown up as well.

That's exactly why they should've put it in at the very end.

Tyrion projectile vomiting and cutting immediately to black woulda been pretty awesome it’s true

Maybe Oberyn will get revived and still insist on The Mountain confessing in the right manner.

Tyrion projectile vomiting and cutting immediately to black woulda been pretty awesome it’s true

i would prefer a "Stand By Me" stile vomiting dominoes effect – where Tyrion vomiting triggers Cerci to vomit onto Pycel, who vomits onto Tywin, who sneers - while the entire crowed vomits on one another in a horrible cascading tidal wave of puke, so astonishing we almost forget we just watched Oberyn get his head squashed like a grape.

Would have also liked for the unlucky stable-boy to have gotten half his head chopped off. Also from the comic and book.

I felt like there was a lot of mirroring of earlier scenes/dynamics going on:

obv. this tragic trail-by-combat mirrored the comic one with Bron

Sansa lying to save LF mirrors Shae lying to condemn Tyrion

Bolton's relationship with his bastard mirrors Ned's relationship with his

oh yeah, and once again Arya and the Hound showing up right around the time one of Arya's relatives in murdered--first tragic, then laffs

Forgot to talk about that, is Littlefinger and Sansa just about to bump into Arya and Hound? It would be nice to see the sisters together and I can imagine Arya causing Littlefinger trouble. Is that guard not likely to tell that the sister is there or is Littlefinger keeping Sansa a secret from his guards?

x-post: Yes, the show is very much repeating itself, and it's becoming more and more ridiculous. You're absolutely right.

idg the thing w Roose - is he Jon Snow's brother?

"Snow" is just the last name given to any bastard in the North.

Yeah no-one else knows it's Sansa except the three people she told. Presumably LF will prevent Sansa and Arya from reuniting somehow. Brienne probably doesn't know what she looks like either right?

Oh wait Robin knows it's Sansa too but LF has wisely already sent him packing ha