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

The book mostly covers the olden times and the geographies I think

"i started reading a game of thrones. when cersei is introduced, it says she's accompanied by "her younger children" because you had to know she didn't have children older than herself."

Is this a joke, or do you just rarely read?

The idea with World of Ice and Fire is that it's written by a maester during the reign of Robert. So everything any Baratheon does is amazing, etc. And also, the further away from Westeros it goes, the less certified info there is, and the more speculative and fantastic it becomes. Most of what is written on the Dawn Age, the Children of the Forrest, Yi Ti, Ib, or whatever, probably isn't 100% true. There are some info in there that forms the basis for a lot of the more elaborate fan-theories, though.

plus the maesters are corrupt liars!

there's also that he's sorting out info coming from other maesters over thousands of years and they're writing w/ their own biases too, etc, iirc

sophie turner is very pretty and she's jean grey now which means she'll get enough steady blockbuster work to do other things, could see her in keira knightly type roles in a few years or taking roles emma watson passes on. if she can sing i could see her being ariel whenever disney gets around to making a live action version of little mermaid.

That's already happening with Chloe whatsername from Kick Ass cast.

Turner's going to be Mary Shelley in Coky Giedroyc's first foray into cinema

Not convinced Turner's got the chops for a particularly long-lived career, though she'll probably get plenty of work in the next couple of years. Knightly and Watson both better actors imo.

...apart from Coky Giedroyc's other forays into cinema?

OK, first time in almost 20 years and certainly with a much higher profile than she had last time

"i started reading a game of thrones. when cersei is introduced, it says she's accompanied by "her younger children" because you had to know she didn't have children older than herself."

Is this a joke, or do you just rarely read?

― albvivertine, Thursday, 2 June 2016 02:00 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol this was bugging me all day

I guess it's just her two younger kids but I was legit confused by it.

wait this is called game of throneS but there's only really one throne that everyone's bothered about weird

Is there any way that this ends with someone actually sitting on that throne? Tommen has been sitting on it for a while now and it's doing him no good. I guess Whitewalker dude on the throne in the final frame with everyone we know bowing to him as zombies might be cool though.

i thought it was called game of thorns this whole time

That's already happening with Chloe whatsername from Kick Ass cast.

nah, that's a non-Disney Little Mermaid. The one Sofia Coppola was supposed to be directing

Robb just wanted to be King of the North so that would have been a second throne if they ever got around to making it.

Oh yeah, it is. Based on the original Hans Christian Andersen story. Just assumed it was the next live action remake from Disney after Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, Pete's Dragon et al

xp

oh there'll definitely be one along soon

Seven episode seventh season seems to have been confirmed

Well, as I suspected from the disinterest in catching up with the latest episode, my wife has given up on GoT (and doubled down on ever-better "The Americans"). I think she made the shift from "WTF!?" to "WTF?" I'll have to watch it vicariously through internet reaction. I'll have to check in with my regular folk friends to see what they think of the show these days.

During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the 37-year-old revealed that he knows how, if not when, the comic series The Walking Dead will end. When asked if he would ever consider giving that information to showrunner Scott M. Gimple so that he and his team could start bending the TV series toward a similar end point, Kirkman shut that idea down fast:

“I would never do that,” Kirkman assured the interviewer. “That’s the one thing I’m disappointed in George R.R. Martin for doing. He should have just been like, ‘Fuck you. You make it up now, I’ll get to mine when I’m ready.’”

yr not allowed to watch shows w/out yr wife?

Well, we have x number of minutes to watch y+1 number of shows, so we usually prioritize a show we like in common. The flip is that without her egging me on, I'm unlikely to watch a show like GoT myself, because if it was just me there are any number of other shows/movies she would not like that I would watch instead.

This is their TV:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/427835483_651a41b9e6.jpg

Is that the internet?

Dumont Network iirc

I'm guessing that Jaqen is testing or playing a trick on the Waif because she's too smug, aggressive and hateful.

^ thought crossed my mind as well

yeah, personal revenge seems totally contrary to the Faceless Men's whole deal. She fucked up

I can see why someone might see most of this show as part 2 of a trilogy. After the first season it's been a scramble of characters and locations, with a slow, slow, slow shift toward getting them back together for a common goal.

read book 1, didn't see any episodes until s6 - but seemed p easy to catch up w the story since everything relates directly to what happened in first book/season

Certainly that's what set events in motion. But I'm not convinced it's really gone anywhere since then, just a lot of circles.

everything after season 1 has felt like the second part in a trilogy -- still reacting to the events of season 1, with no resolution in sight.

This is a good point and pretty defensible I think. Ned's execution is the end of Act One. I think Jon's assassination was the end of Act Two, though.

not enough has been revealed about the endgame to say we're in the third act yet -- until cards are on the table, we're still in the baggy middle

So a bunch of season details got leaked by a user named "truede" and were proven right in the last 3 episodes. I won't comment on them except to say that I regret reading them.

a user, you say

a reddit user, even

Is that reveal the first pre-credit sequence scene they've done?

They've done it about two or three other times I think

hey hound

poor swearengen :(

Sansa's eyes were v pretty this episode.

"62" is a terrific punchline.

A girl will die of peritonitis

Diana rigg please dont die

nice episode.

break out the canned peaches! first ep of the season that felt legit. screen perks up every time rory mccann's on it. didn't know how much I missed him til he showed back up.

Arya walking around bleeding from guts and just getting odd looks kind of supports the Waif/Tyler Durden theory

Was wondering how she managed to survive something like that in a period before modern medicine. Thought that final twist was normal done to ensure fatality. & that whatever river that was probably wouldn't be the cleanest if it ran through a major city for the time like that seems to be.

wait there's a waif/tyler durden theory?

I can't help but notice that Arya and Theon are racing to get to Mereen and try to ally with Dany ahead of Euron, having stolen the entire Iron Islands fleet just at the time that Dany, the Unsullied and the Dothraki need ships. I really hope the plotting hasn't become THAT transparent.