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

It's because BB is cool and people could feasibly pull off a Los Pollos Hermanos t-shirt or whatever whereas wearing a GoT t-shirt immediately makes you look like a massive nerd.

No question that GoT is the bigger international phenomenon.

We weren't able to make our annual pilgrimage to the local Renaissance Fair this year, but when we went last year I was surprised at how little Game of Thrones stuff I saw. Or at least, how little explicitly Game of Thrones-y stuff I saw. (Most of the stuff is implicitly Game of Thrones-y.) But yeah, I didn't even think of action figures and bobbleheads and the things people collect. I'm sure that stuff proliferates, but more privately.

TeamWalt = alt right
TeamDany = antifa

wearing a GoT t-shirt immediately makes you look like a massive nerd.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 September 2017 13:33

I thought it would be like Marvel t-shirts, pretty much anyone will wear them unless they really don't like the stuff.

I think Marvel/comic book shirts have (frighteningly?) shifted over to simply being in fashion. Like, Captain America shields, like the Superman S? Just icons that people like on shirts, like an alligator or polo player or something. I'm not sure what kind of GoT shirt people could rock that wouldn't look like some tacky white camo with howling wolf against a snow capped mountain shirt.

The sigils would make good t-shirts especially House Onion.

Marvel t-shirts I see ordinary people wearing most are the ones with 60s-70s-80s art.

people who wear Los Pollos Hermanos shirts probably have a lot of crossover w/people who are into The Chive.

Definitely see more BB t-shirts than GoT, but more people have GoT action figures, bobble-heads, board games etc. I think it's the types of merch the shows' different genres lend themselves too more than anything. I'd say GoT is more popular overall - BB feels like more of a cult, albeit a very large one.

― chap, Thursday, September 7, 2017 7:13 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah also ppl feel like nerds in GoT clothes whereas BB has this kind of ~badass~ quotient but i don't think this is any measure of relative popularity, game of thrones is way way bigger

tolkieny technical* term for dragons that don't breathe fire = COLD DRAKES so that's the cameo in S8 E1 sorted

*yes yes to be supersupertechnical tolk didn't state cold drakes breathed ice merely that they didn't breathe fire (also killed dwarves so dinklage beware)

Meantime

Jon Snow Must Know Something: Kit Harington and Rose Leslie Are Engaged! https://t.co/UZU6RfCLKZ

— People (@people) September 26, 2017

aw

yay <3

Great on screen chemistry between those two in the series

<3

http://cdn01.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/harington-wedding3/kit-harington-rose-leslie-wedding-photos-04.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgY5QoZU0AACoMC.jpg

I didn't realise her Dad was an arsehole Tory before - though I guess I know they were rich/aristocratic, so I shouldn't have been surprised.

Aberdeenshire...

From BMC Injury Epidemiology: Death is certain, the time is not: mortality and survival in Game of Thrones

Of the 330 characters that were included, 186 (56.4%) had died by the end of the study period. All but 2 deaths were due to injury, burns, or poisoning, with the majority being caused by assault (63.0%) or operations of war (24.4%). The survival time ranged from 11 s to 57 h and 15 min, with the median survival time estimated to be 28 h and 48 min. The probability of surviving at least 1 h in the show was 0.86 (95% CI 0.82 to 0.89). The analyses revealed worse survival for characters who were male (P < 0.001), lowborn (P < 0.001), had not switched allegiance during the show (P < 0.001), and who featured more prominently in the show (P < 0.001). After adjusting for other factors, whether or not a character had switched allegiance during the show and how prominently a character featured in the show were revealed to be independent predictors of death.

The mortality risk is high among characters in Game of Thrones. The probability of dying within the first hour after first appearing on screen was about 14%. By the end of the seventh season, more than half of the important characters had died, with violent deaths being the most common by far. The probability of survival was worse for characters who were male or lowborn, who had not switched allegiance during the show, and who featured more prominently. There is great potential for preventing violent deaths in the world of Game of Thrones.

Heh, occupation type is coded as silk collar / boiled leather collar instead of white collar / blue collar

yes but in a world where people get resurrected all the fucking time and time is not strictly linear what is the point of mortality stats?

what is the point of any of this nonsensical show tbh

lol asking about the "point" of a tv show

To gain a better understanding about what happened during Pangaea

was in nyc last weekend and came out of a subway station to see an big billboard ad (first I'd seen) for the upcoming season and was all kinds of stoked. had p much forgotten about it. think it'll get much promotion this spring?

nah, I'm sure HBO has no interest in promoting their lone current big hit

i can't beeelliiiiiiiiiiieve this fucking wait for 6 more episodes. i know that there's a big battle and it took several lifetimes to film and it was miserable and that it will rule and all of that, but come ON

whenever I think about this show now I get "game of thrones" stuck in my head to the tune of the theme song from that movie "Scavenger Hunt" that is "play to win"

and then the image of various GoT characters in small groups trying to collect items on the list, but I have a very hazy memory of the movie and all I remember is Dom Deluise, and a neurotic woman in a french maid costume and something about a toilet ... so now my expectations of the final 6 episodes are kinda like that

GoT is one of the only fantasy epics that doesn't seem to involve a scavenger hunt for rings or Horcruxes or whatever

A year ago I thought I might not bother finishing this but now I'm looking forward to it, but I don't think I'll tune in each week because I'm sick of that palaver and wont do it again unless something really incredible comes out.

whenever I think about this show now I get "game of thrones" stuck in my head to the tune of the theme song from that movie "Scavenger Hunt" that is "play to win"

Game of Thrones is forever associated with "Game of Love" by Daft Punk since around the time I started watching Game of Thrones I also listened to Random Access Memories a lot.

♫ There is a Game of Thrones ♫

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REasBBiJm00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlR4PJn8b8I

The low quality of the last season took me from "Can't wait!" to "I guess I should watch this."

That's the exact same boat I'm in.

current odds have bran favorite to rule westeros i really hope not

https://i.imgur.com/4o0F4RG.png

i'm rooting for tormund

No option for peasant-run democracy?

it's gonna be jon or his and dany's kid, but gendry has good odds

No option for peasant-run democracy?

― DJI, Tuesday, March 5, 2019 6:04 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if westeros does adopt democracy, electing the guy who can see the future wouldn't be the worst choice.

Wait, Littlefinger is on that list, and he's dead (I think)!

there's some talk about him NOT being dead as he's been linked to being around the set for filming.

Jamie sitting on the throne after murdering his sister before she could unleash something awful, echoing his experience with the mad king.

dany + euron is my guess. i haven't bothered looking for spoilers this year.

genuinely rooting for the Night King tbh, fuck all the living people on this show except tyrion

Varys is on the list twice.

more canny maneuvering

Gendry and Sansa imo