HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones - Thread 2. There are a lot of nerds.

i really hope the TV show and the books have different endings

I feel like the climax of this season will obv be the revelation of whatever is going on inside the tower (which we can presume). and perhaps Dany setting sail for Westeros.

Was that guy playing the Sean Bean character the comedian guy who has appeared in Stewart Lee stuff and Nighty Night?

I think it was Sean Bean

glad we settled that now whats this abt a tower and whats going on inside

also i was just made aware of the R + L = M theory as well, which is intriguing.

The Tower of Joy is the guy from Fawlty Towers iirc

http://watchersonthewall.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Kevin-Eldon-263x300.jpg
Kevin Eldon whose name I couldn't think of earlier, if I've ever really known it.

2013 People's Sexiest Man Alive apparently

Think I've read somewhere that he's an actor rather than a comedian?

I initially assumed that the fact he was playing an actor on the show was an injoke about that but it was actually super unclear whether he was meant to be playing an actor or actual resurrected Ned Stark

a good picture of sean bean

ned's back, baby!

he was in the tower then he came out!

Seeing him alive and then beheaded again was a rollercoaster for me.

it was obviously a fake head though, think it was just their way of slyly confirming the fan theory re how he survived the execution in season 1

I thought about the earliest appearance I'd seen of Kevin had him doing a stand up routine on a show introduced by Stewart Lee.
Could be he's better known as an actor now. Wonder if we'll see much more of him & the troupe in this?

Was the actual execution of Ned Stark in season 1 fake or did they actually execute a fake Ned Stark?

or (given that this is Game of Thrones) was it a fake execution of a fake Ned Stark?

does GOT exist in the lost universe

not sure why yous are so obsessed with who's playing who, it's called ACTING, there's no reason why sean bean should play sean bean

sean bean shd play sean bean because hes been sean

I think the circei actress is the lead in miss fishers murder mysteries show from australia that my wife is obsessed with

In other news, seems like a lot pof people's suspicions itt have been confirmed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMI_HBO5FOM

Ask The Maester is live right now

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does GOT exist in the lost universe

It was noticeable that there were no polar bears north of the Wall.

Probably off gallivanting in Dorne or something.

The Cersei actress is Essie Davis, she was in the Babadook.

&does apparently play Miss Fisher in yer gf's fav rave, like.

Cersei Lannister appears in Marmaduke?

better than the other way around i guess

Essie Davis is also the short haired crew member in the last 2 Matrix films.
Do love those cheekbones.

cool they brought sean bean back to play whoever this kevin eldon character that ned stark has returned as is. is. bean.

This thread is bringing the major lols, good work all.

How long will it take Euron's 40 men and their families to make a thousand ships do you think?

you all haven't considered that turn out at a kingsmoot is comparable to that of a municipal election? This could be like 5% of the Iron Island population

If there were 5% there would only be around 800. Yes, of course I'm being stupidly disingenuous but the arithmetic on this show is ridiculous considering there were about one man to each of the ships they stole.

Although none of that was as wtf as the cock and balls close up of the young guy playing Joffrey in the play.

One man in yen gathered company to each of the stolen ships, I mean.

What a crap episode. I like that they're speeding things up, but it's so annoying and slapdash. As yet motiveless (yet not unthinking?) snow zombies not threatening and silly, like any CGI horde(or). And super lame that the huge CGI snow zombie horde is apparently the only time you ever see a number of anything gathered in one place in this show, whose every scene appears to be 2-3 people talking with 20 people standing in the background, like a stage play rather than a big budget epic. It's bad enough that they don't have enough computer money to show dragons or that the same limitations have made them take out wolves at a, er, dire pace, but why does this huge film-around-the-world production cultural juggernaut suddenly seem so cheap and backlot? And even gullible Sansa, who finally gets a chance to stand up to someone, is immediately taken advantage of in dumb fashion.

"I don't trust you anymore and should just kill you!"

"What if I told you ... your uncle the Black Adder has gathered his army to defend you?"

"He did? Oh, that's great news! OK, now go back wherever you came from."

"Um, Sansa, don't you think we should send a raven to confirm that intel?"

"Nah, what's the worst that can happen? Besides, we have not seen a raven in this show in several season, I think the raven budget has been severely curtailed."

At least we finally find out how Hodor got his name. It's the number one reason people have been watching the show, and I was convinced that wasn't going to be revealed until the very end of the last book. Now if only they would establish whether Ramsay is a bad guy or not.

RIP green nature sprite, whatever you were, whoever you were, killed by the things you somehow created for some reason to do something.

Ask the Maester:

RIP, Three-Eyed Raven. You were a bad teacher of greenseeing, my dude. If the fate of the world hinged on my ability to pass on my knowledge, I’d tell my only student, “DON’T LET THE NIGHT’S KING TOUCH YOU,” five times a day.

Did you not just read the last jillion posts, or.

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Prolly not, I just saw the episode so was avoiding the thread.

Whenever I see the wildling head guy I think of Graham Chapman in "Yellowbeard:"
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ba/13/24/ba132487cd9feaa999512e120804f2a8.jpg

I think of Tom Baker in Blackadder!

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/blackadder/images/a/a4/Redbeard_Rum.gif/revision/latest?cb=20120830144208

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/e3/75/a2/e375a267fc3d8d14986aaab42f79d4a3.jpg

How long will it take Euron's 40 men and their families to make a thousand ships do you think?

Once they have built the ship factory and assembly line I reckon they could knock out around 50 a day? Give or take a weekend or two they should be good to go in a month.

Maybe he wants them to make model ships?

It reminded me of that bit in Vikings where the lead guy was like "fuck it lets go OVER THE CLIFF with our boats!" and next thing you know theyre in Paris.

Iron Islands seem pretty light on trees, and you'd think their obsession with boats (and habit of losing battles) would have further depleted their forests. So tack on a few more months of gathering supplies, or a few more years of growing trees.

Anyway, Oliver Reed in "Baron Munchausen:"
http://www.chud.com/articles/content_images/106/BARON/bmReed.jpg

The Iron Islands are supposedly a quite big landmass all in all, so there should be a lot of trees. But they've never made particularly sense to me. They are poor areas, sparsely populated, and there really aren't that many trade routes nearby they can raid. It's as if the people of the Hebrides decided to try and conquer Scotland. Like, how?

Maybe Bran can travel back in time and tell them to plant extra trees.