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

I'm not sure why Stannis did nothing while Jon decided to let the wildlings loose -- didn't he just kill their leader for wanting to do that? Won't they want his head?

good episode btw

stannis is like whatever im so outta here

here u cn use my navy

I enjoyed the parallel between this week's Roose Bolton father son moment and last week's Stannis father daughter moment

So what's next weeks touching father moment?!

littlefinger & his illegitimate preteen daughter

sry

I do prefer it when you get episodes focusing more time on less characters.

Fewer.

loool

<3 Stannis's grammar pedantry.

The scenes in the ruined city were amazing.

It was funny watching this directly after the latest Mad Men where Don corrected a kid on his bad grammar a couple of times.

So the episode's title, Kill the Boy, is Westeros' equivalent saying for 'man up'?.

The director could have filmed the naked actress from a more flattering angle, rather than from the one where her you see hip bone jutting out. And setting up another jealous lover storyline, involving Sansa in the middle of it, just feels really blah. So, I hope they are not just doing that.
Though I did like Sansa's Silence of the Lambs walk down into the kennels.

Sam and Gilly bore me.

I don't think it was unflattering. Nothing wrong with a bit of jutting hipbone.

The director could've also said 'Winterfell looks really fucking cold so no I don't think she would've just been looking out of the window nude however unhinged she's meant to be'.

might've had the central heating up full blast

Basking in the heat from Roose and Walda's own vigorous lovemaking next door.

I've always been curious about how they cast the Frey women and the girl Theon slept with on the boat. The Frey women are always regarded as ugly by other characters and Theon told the girl not to smile because he didn't like her teeth.

Also in Mad Men when Megan says some people disliked her teeth. How did they bring that up with the actress?

Part of the job to suck shit like that up I guess. Sure Jessica Pare knows she's extremely attractive despite the teeth.

But Don Draper and some ilx people love her teeth.

Also, in the case of Jessica Pare it seems like the Mad Men scene about the teeth was based on the appearance of the actress and not that they had a casting prerequisite for someone who had teeth not everyone would like.

For the Frey women I wonder if it was as simple as "we're looking for unattractive women"?

Some of them probably perfectly attractive IRL.

she did seem to have a particularly prominent hipbone. maybe it was just the shot.

looking forward to a thrilling climax at meereen as daenerys gets a mortgage.

xpost i've always wondered how people cast that kind of thing - i guess after a while "yeah i can do ugly" just becomes part of your actor's cv.

people probably failed an audition for those parts and agonised about not being ugly enough or being ugly but not "interesting ugly"

Some of them probably perfectly attractive IRL.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 12:52

Yeah, I have to be told by the plot that they're supposed to be ugly.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InformedAttractiveness

Hannah Murray, who plays Gilly, who SNL made fun of a few weeks back for being unatractive, lights up the screen as a teenage girl in Jeppe Rønde's Bridgend.

Also, the discussion reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdQyofgKSx0

xpost

she was also one of the main characters in the Belle and Sebastian twee epic God Help the Girl, in which she was convincingly cute, although no amount of CGI could possibly fix her horrendous singing

She's Cassie in Skins!

shhh don't tell the GoT producers, they think they cast someone ugly

Also played a hot but screwed-up teenager in Skins.

xposts

hollywood ugly just another form of beautiful

seems unfair discussing hannah murray where nakhchivan won't see it. just start a thread w/ an oblique title about her. he'll be trapped there like a jurassic mosquito in amber.

Back when I wasn't really committed to Game Of Thrones I was watching it for Hannah Murray. Also,I might regret saying this but the first time I seen her in Skins, I cried because she's so beautiful (not joking at all, I also cried watching Debora Caprioglio).

What's Nakhchivan said about her?

She's Cassie in Skins!

had no idea this was the same actress :o

surely someone who was in As If is now in GoT but WHO - the blonde brothel dude perhaps

Haven't noticed anyone from As If, but there is another Skins alumni (Gendry) and a couple from Hollyoaks (Missandei and that handmaiden who got locked in the vault).

Plus Hizdahr is one of the ones from Plebs, isn't he?

pip mugged mark corrigan in peep show.

I think Grenn was in Hollyoaks too actually.

Bronn of the Blackwater prevented Britpop from gaining chart dominance and is one half of the NXT tag team champions

Don't know if the Stannis guy ever gets involved in those 2:28 long Youtube interviews with bottom-tier entertainment websites where they ask what's in store for us in the upcoming season and get told "I can't tell you, I'll get shot ha ha you'll have to wait and see", but if he does, he should do them entirely in character

didn't realise stannis had got shirty about less/fewer before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFAnMzA5YCU

aha. i'd expect no less from someone known for his 'literate' indie rock

http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo1ni6rEp01qzg8t0o1_500.jpg

still kind of a dick move considering that Davos just learned how to read, probably isn't going to encourage him to become an English professor

i had that public enemy shirt in jr high

PF bears a striking resemblance to Maury Povich right there

stannis... you are... .... .... not the father of dragons!

has there been any explanation of what the brotherhood without banners are doing? you'd think a gang of immortal magic-wielding rebels would be able to have some kind of impact on things

I really doubt the show will pick up that narrative again, considering how things are going

unless it goes off book I guess.. the producers said theyre not going there with the plot line I cant mention without spoiling shit, so yeah. =\

good episode marred by a predictable brutal and unnecessarily mean spirited ending imo

i haven't read the books; but from what i'm to understand, what we saw was the cute n cuddly version.