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

his thoughts on tiptoes are v inneresting

seriously though: critics disparaging the show for plotting missteps and tone apparently have no interest in taking a look at the source material at all?
there's a lot of "man they killed ned, what a disaster for hbo" and my understanding is that uh like everybody dies on this fucking show

seems like for season one that almost astonishingly neatly every 100 pages of the first book equaled one episode. so i assume same holds true for season two?

y'know what else had a ton of characters and no real central figure? The Wire

according to the article ned linked dinklage is signed on for SIX seasons...there are only five completed books, and grrm doesn't show any signs that he is hurrying to finish the books.

soooo i guess that means they will eventually get off the 1 book/1 season wagon?

they're going to have to do book three over two seasons definitely

Last season critics only got four episodes as well, as the reviews were decent but not terribly enthusiastic, basically saying the exact same thing (too many characters, too much exposition, not enough to latch onto) but by Episode 6 it was all coming together a treat and it just sort of barrelled beautifully towards the finale.

It also seems to miss the point of Ned's arc. It was really shocking for me when it happened, but the best thing about it (and this is similar to Boardwalk Empire last season) is that when you look back, it makes total sense. Ned was honest and noble and very likeable and human and the audience could really latch onto him, but for all those reasons he was terrible at the politics and died for it. It would seem ridiculous to expect someone else to take up the "good guy main character" mantle.

I think they'd be lucky to get 5 seasons out of this. It's hugely expensive and even as it is a pretty decent hit I'm not sure it can sustain. I seem to recall an interview with the creators who were asked about catching up with the books, and they said they had consulted with GRRM and they have an outline of how it all ends.

then again creators swearing they have an ending is always suspect these days

xp i thought that's what his son was doing, just less charismatically

but there's no way they could do the ending on the show before the books finish. there'd be a nerd uprising

re: staying power - i guess we'll know how popular this show is based on the season 2 premiere numbers and that's likely to sway how long they keep the thing going. If it gets sopranos numbers, i imagine it'll be on for ten years.

If this season is a solid improvement ratings wise and that holds up for the rest of the seasons there's no way HBO won't greenlight it through the end. That's a given unless public interest suddenly plummets.

Imagine if we're onboard for the longest running tv show ever

how great would that be

i don't want this show to ever end

i think the simpsons kinda have that one locked down
but yeah, i'd be curious to see how this changed over the course of a decade as actors got way older

i think the simpsons kinda have that one locked down

lol are you kidding?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_United_States_television_series

i thought i read they were going to start blurring the lines between the books at the end of this season, and messing a bit more with the chronology, in order to fit everything in neatly and pace the 3rd book properly

"longest running non-news/non-soap narrative show"
/pedant

sixth season is based on GRRM's LJ

longest running direwolf/incest/hodor drama

uh, meet the press, duh

peh that's boring grownup shows, we're talking about TEE VEE here forks

gonna get some good play from this
http://i.imgur.com/8ZkUi.gif

lol p sure that nyt review is some omega level trolling

nah it's a pale shadow of the one from last year

Can I put this in here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxL8SbZzM4A

http://www.vulture.com/2012/03/tv-review-game-of-thrones-season-two-review.html

MZS on Season 2.

I am so fkn stoked.

The other night I got super high and talked myself into buying the Blu-Rays for season 1 for some reason. I can't even loan them out to people because no one has a blu-ray player. smh

do you?

What a mummer's farce.

man stoked for season 2 to start. i started reading the books about a month ago and now i'm less than 200 pages from finishing them. the new season will be help me come down gently... until it finishes and i realise we are no closer to getting book 6.

Seven help me, I'm bored.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1tq0cbm5A1qbypg1o1_500.jpg

TEN MINUTES

Dinklage gets first billing now! :)

I was wondering if he would!

Not gonna check this thread till I've got my torrent tomorrow morning now. Though I broadly know what's going to happen as I've read Clash of Kings.

Two Skins actors now

LOL that was her! The infamous WS pick that will never go away? I knew it. But . . . who's the other one?

Robert's bastard with the bull helmet.

and yes, I couldn't stop chuckling about that infamous photo.

Oh, really? Do you know which skins character he was? I think I've seen every season but the most recent. Hmm.

Oh wow, I just looked it up he was Chris from the first season. He was one of my favorites. Huh!

what girl from Skins?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Lp6CnBZRsHg/SmnC_pJ3PpI/AAAAAAAAFEE/UZvGJfckmfc/s400/pictures-of-Hannah-Murray-cassie-skins-1075991_510_383.jpg

lol you couldn't help yourself, huh?

She only had one line tonight, I think.

I figured that would be her only presence in the series.

no, she'll be back

lol didnt realize THAT was the pic

i get so excited watching this with my wife because she's never read the book and i hear her comments about where she sees characters going... lol

When I saw her all I could think of was that dumb pic and I was just dying. Yeah, she's going to be a regular character iirc.

NEEDS MORE ARYA.