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

perfect

I get the theme song to this show stuck in my head for days at a time. It's really starting to annoy me.

This has already been posted upthread, needs reposting for posterity

(silverfish this might make things worse for you)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t92ukx0A2fk

(Game of thrones opening sung by Sansa, Arya and Bran)

nearly as good as this:

http://youtu.be/25KABvPbq-U

Oh by the way, the CD includes 'Rains of Castermere' performed by popular indie recording artist The National. (but written by show composer Djawadi)

that was better for the 60 seconds i thought they were singing "funky game of thrones"

Serious LOLZ at that deal with it gif!

lol between the sing along and that pic of them goofin off upthread it seems like the kids are having a good time on set

wkiw arya

lol between the sing along and that pic of them goofin off upthread it seems like the kids are having a good time on set

― lag∞n, Friday, May 25, 2012 7:23 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or are being deeply traumatized by the things they've seen and burying it beneath laughs and lols

u mean like their dad beheaded

stuff like that

or are being deeply traumatized by the things they've seen and burying it beneath laughs and lols

i always figure this is the case when i see happy children

I get the theme song to this show stuck in my head for days at a time. It's really starting to annoy me.

It plays on a constant loop in my head when I am reading the books.

well that's convinced me to never read the books

The National track is actually pretty nice.

Yeah I really, really wanted to hate it, but it was actually not bad.

For reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn2l2_v6Ur8

would totally buy a comp of self-serious indie bands doing all the big songs from the books. Though I guess there's prob not enough w/ lyrics for more than an EP.

Berninger's baritone suits the tone particularly well, imo. I don't think I'd want to hear, say, Of Montreal's take.

I'd hear of Montreal do the "a bear, a bear, a bear" one maybe!

ha i was gonna ask who to play the bear and the maiden fair

Kanye might kill it.

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

Nancarrow-esque and answering the question in the thread title ably.

that hard drive thing is very rad.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4lh90JlNj1qf3uw1o1_400.png
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4lh90JlNj1qf3uw1o2_500.png

ooh deary me
theon greyjoy's in his bedroom smoking weed

I don't understand...

Theon is played by Lily Allen's brother, who is also the subject of that song.

i r slow

No wozzas.

tbf that factoid is just for nerds

so all of that happened

and yet it still felt anticlimactic. What gives?

I think had Cersei killed her kid and herself and were left dead on the throne, it probably wouldn't have felt that way. I guess nobody of note died in that battle (is Stannis still alive, then?), and maybe that's what I was expecting. It seems to have resolved the larger Stannis season arc by, largely, leaving everything "as it was".

it thought Tyrion died?!

no way, just took an arrow to the knee more or less

amaz!
also that floppy drive thing is epic.

I think we would have seen more of Tyrion actually dying than just that unbelievably brutal slash across the face.

Lena Headey dialing up drag queen mode to the max is the best thing about this episode.

Stannis pimp as hell too.

But I am pretty sure that Tyrion doesn't get an arrow to the knee.

it's a nerd reference
i'm just saying his adventurer days got cut short but he ain't dead by any means

I just want to know what happened to Stannis. If that isn't dealt with next week, I'll be pretty annoyed. I'm guessing his second-in-command is alive, and I'm assuming that dude's kid didn't make it out.

I know there were budget constraints and the battle narrowed (which is fine, I think it actually worked really well), but I did get a pretty big thrill out of that green explosion ripping apart the fleet. Well done. Some good Neil Marshall gratuitously violent inserts in the battles as well.

I am glad to know that I am not in fact a nerd. xp

battle scenes often looked as though executed with a comically small cast, but it was nice to finally see something big and dramatic really happen. even if it did leave things much as they were before. certain tyrion isn't dead. guessing he lost a bit of blood and acquired a nice scar. love dinklage, but man that accent...

i'm guessing you're pulling my kneee leee, but if not:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-took-an-arrow-in-the-knee

Hah, no, I was serious. (I haven't gamed in forever, like, what is this "skyrimming," it sounds like a sex thing, why can't kids play GoldenEye anymore, and everyone playing on PHONES, what's with that.)

"Any man dies with a sword free of blood, I'll rape his corpse!"

The guy who plays the Hound is fantastic.