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

Anticipating "A Feast For Crows" by George R. R. Martin (Nov. 9)

George R. R. Martin

Anticipating "A Feast For Crows" by George R. R. Martin (Nov. 9)

whoops. just searched 'game of thrones'. i actually wikipediaed this ages ago when the pilot was first announced. it's coming back to me.

This will be awesome. I gave up on the books after the first two, but would still like to see it on teevee.

Third book is probably the best.

I'd agree with that

ok so what's going to happen when this show becomes wildly successful and 4 years from now they run out of god damn source material

tbh if they've any sense they'll get to the end of book four about two and a half seasons in

also: 'they will come up with their own ending, more quickly and as validly as george r r martin manages to come up with his'

amazing that its been 4 or 5 years since i was really into these books and the next one's still not out...dude isn't gonna finish the series is he :(

it's definitely good tv series material though if they're willing to run it out long enough and don't try to cram each book into a single season (the 3rd book alone is like as long as the entire lord of the rings iirc)

you think they ought to make it longer? u mad

not necessarily make it longer, just not do 1 book = 1 season when the books are of varying length and plot complexity (4th book could be cut down by a ton for example to make room for more stuff from the 3rd book)

They could just do more episodes for the season w/ the 3rd book. I don't see how they could split it up though.

Gobbled up all the books on the recommendation of ILXors. I'm looking forward to the HBO show, but mostly I just want the new book! And then I guess there are two MORE of these books that he has to write, in-between blogging about the Jets and going to fantasy conventions? Sigh...

expected to air around this time next year, alongside the second season of Treme.

Can't wait for the crossover episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MophfvUlfI

1 book = 1 season makes total sense

they can make that work

also hbo shows arent always 1 season = 1 year

sopranos took long breaks

Never read the books, but pretty keen on watching this.

what is the point of this if the dude won't even finish the books???? Goddamn stop re-writing them already!!!

also hbo shows arent always 1 season = 1 year

sopranos took long breaks

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name one HBO show besides Sopranos that didn't/doesn't do a new season every year

actually, I'll name another, Curb Your Enthusiasm, but i think that's it

The Wire had a significant gap between seasons 3 and 4, but that was partly because they weren't sure if they were going to renew it.

at this point, I am wondering if it might not be better if some talented cable TV writers finished this thing for him. I am losing faith that he has any idea where he is going with these books.

We should start bitching about the BSG/Lost style finalefail.

Turns out Tyrion is Jesus.

big love took a break right?

If it hasn't it needs to.

Carcetti is Littlefinger

That character means nothing to me obv.

FUCK YEAH THAT IS BRILLIANT!!!!!

yeah, that is good casting

ditto

Really looking forward to this!

more teasing

I hope this starts a trend of classy TV fantasy adaptations. Someone should do Perdido Street Station (though would be fucking expensive). Do these books have monsters and magic and shit, or is it just guys fighting with swords?

They have dragons and undead.

only in the first and last episodes of this season though, that saves you some money right there

perdido street station feels basically like a miniseries already! which is unfortunate in that the other bas-lag stuff wouldn't really work as further series of.

Exclusive EW pics

Martin has penned the 8th episode.

Also EW On the Set

There's a new language or something that's better than Klingon it says.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGuIhhyNX-o
Looks nice and wintry

Wasn't the guy in the first scene of the trailer also in the Lord of the Ring movies? I guess all "serious" fantasy movies/series now have to look kinda murky with muted colours, since LotR did that. Will anyone make a colourful fantasy movie anymore?

yeah thats sean bean... ive been reading the first book and im not a fantasy guy at all but its p. good... a lot of the early parts of the story take place in a wintery shithole, which limits your color choices... plus its kind of 'gritty' fantasy and they wanna convey that style/mood...

lotr movies were pretty colorful imo, like that part where they're in elfburg and the dwarf goes AND U HAVE MY AXE... lots of stuff actually... its just the color palette changes depending on context... i mean what do you want dude, rainbows over mount doom..

Well, not necessarily, of course it depends on the story... It's just that every recent live action fantasy seems to have had a similar muted colour palette as LotR, as if gritty fantasy was suddenly the only choice. For example, based on the trailer the Avatar The Las

Well, not necessarily, of course it depends on the story... It's just that every recent live action fantasy seems to have had a similar muted colour palette as LotR, as if gritty fantasy was suddenly the only choice. For example, based on the trailer the Avatar The Last Airbender movie has the same kind of look even though the source material is actually quite colourful and fun.

have you read the books? if there is one story that needs to look "gritty", it's this one.

So is each season going to be one book?

God, I hope not. To me the best way to do it would be to break it down and rearrange in a linear timeline. Jump around between characters, like any good television drama with a ton of characters tends to do.

It's just that every recent live action fantasy seems to have had a similar muted colour palette as LotR, as if gritty fantasy was suddenly the only choice.

yes because there have been so, so many live action fantasy movies recently

still lolling at "muted color palette of LotR"

It's not fantasy, it's HBO

A decent little write-up about the 10-minute making of that premiered and also the branding of the show.

not sure there's a better moment in s1 than when a conversation between carcetti and the eunuch (pretty sure this guy is the most reliable actor in the show btw) goes on and on and on with each line more pregnant with dramatic hostility than the one before it, until finally they get out of it by having renly bound in and yell WHAT ARE YOU TWO CONSPIRING ABOUT?

will doubtless return to this with my tail wagging eager for more punishment

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

this is a killer for charades btw

i've been rewatching s1 for some reason and this criticism of goole's

the nobility were hardly ever alone. they were surrounded by their relatives, their staff, their households. the show is underpopulated. everyone seems to be in transit or being abducted between one of like five places, wouldn't they just run into each other in the middle?

really is funny: there's a scene where sean bean and carcetti are walking in a vast garden containing not a single other living soul save the identically dressed attendants raking the gravel, about 50% of whom carcetti points out as spies for one or other of the three people who walk in the garden and scheme. it's like borges.

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yeah the sense of scale is really small, way less than what i expected based on reading the books. maybe my mental imaginarium has been too influenced by the LotR movies idk

in that respect (small scale) it's just myth ii: soulblighter, live action version

i was thinking of vivec: monumental architecture, six people

man i'm nerding out all over the early part of this thread, i'd forgotten

the worst small scale shit in GoT was Dorne, which is apparently not a kingdom but a resort in its off season with some sand dunes over a nearby hill.

It's crazy to me that they set up a whole new unit in Spain to film...that

GoT channeling borges gardens otm

in that respect (small scale) it's just myth ii: soulblighter, live action version

― 龜, Monday, March 14, 2016 9:52 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm not sure what you mean by this but the fact that you brought this game up again makes me happy.
I've always drawn connections between the game and the series as well but I'm not sure why the scale is relevant.

all the battles in game were pretty small (like less than 100 combatants)

Oh, got you. Yeah, though comparisons can be made beyond just that aspect. I think we've discussed this months ago here.

I'm not sure what you mean by this but the fact that you brought this game up again makes me happy.

same --- i played a lot of online myth 2 in my freshman year of college. dorf riot uber alles

goole has colonized my reactions to this show to the extent that i'm now yelling HUMANIZING MONOLOGUE!! to nobody four times an episode. they make me happy tho because i think of how happy they must make the actors.

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I played online a little bit but was a bit overwhelmed by the veterans there. CTF was nuts. However, I loved downloading plugins off of http://tain.totalcodex.net/ and combining them in all sorts of ways in singleplayer. Even had fun online playing with civil war tagsets. Definitely one of my fav games.

i used to play the WWII one. throw yr nades!

hehehe

http://www.colonizationfans.com/Images/screenshots/1/na-2.gif

yes i will watch s6.

Yes! Love it. Wonder if it still has a community. I think so, as The Tain looks like it's got some new content as far as I can tell.

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i used to play the WWII one. throw yr nades!

― 龜, Thursday, March 17, 2016 12:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yah i loved this one

http://www.vulture.com/2016/03/got-showrunners-say-they-wont-spoil-the-books.html

So weird that from this point forward the show and books will be telling different stories. But then:

"So much of what we’re doing diverges from the books at this point .... People are going to be very surprised when they read the books after the show. They’re quite divergent in so many respects for the remainder of the show."

How the fuck do they know what Martin will or won't include in future unwritten books?

I imagine they're in contact with him enough to know the outlines of what he's going to do.

Sure, no doubt. But ... he's got hundreds, thousands of pages to write over the course of several years. There is no way the guy is going to stick to whatever script he has in mind and equally hard to believe he won't crib from theirs.

equally hard to believe he won't die of a heart attack before he finishes

Maybe George actually has all the books written and he just gets off on withholding them

http://i.imgur.com/mm1Y2OI.png

Haha that's great.

I mean maybe the show won't exactly spoil the books, but I find it hard to believe that the show will vary so greatly from the endgame of the books or answers to big questions like "who are Jon snow's parents?"

HBO jumping on the Talking Dead bandwagon by bringing in the Watch the Thrones podcast guys:

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/game-of-thrones-aftershow-bill-simmons-1201744931/

I thought if UK had one surely America would too.

10k answers and no longer any spoiler issues; new season deserves a new thread, no?

As I understand it the TV show will partly be ahead, but also partly behind?

It's already that way I think

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

I can’t wait to completely ignore this sh1t and just listen to Achilles last Stand

Hahaha

Always a wise plan