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

I'm glad that the show made Daario foine instead of some weirdo with a blue beard.

No cute little "...now you have 10,000 men" line?

dany's new suitor has space face (like eric roberts-esque). as in I cannot truly contemplate it.

Oh it turns out it's an amazing magic dagger, let's leave it here and run away.

― Evan, Monday, 20 May 2013 15:21 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

this ffs

was so excited for the possiblity of zombiebro finally eviscerating that fat fuckin feeb as well

Oh it turns out it's an amazing magic dagger, let's leave it here and run away.

― Evan, Monday, 20 May 2013 15:21 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

this ffs

this. going to be so annoyed if he suddenly has it again next episode.

that's a part of the book lore, right? so yeah, i think they're either going back or we'll see more of that magic dagger crystal stuff soon.

magic dagger crystal stuff is obsidian

p sure this was stated explicitly in the show whenever he picked the thing up

Woah Daario - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJjCKLC6yLU

p sure this was stated explicitly in the show whenever he picked the thing up

i thought he just said he didn't know what it was. (trying to not conflate book stuff here)

Now I want Daario to rap on the show.

the only thing I can think of to rhyme with "Khalisi" is "greasy"

Yeezy?

fo' sheezy

"can't leave the throne alone the game needs me"

too perfect that this is that dude's day job

i thought he just said he didn't know what it was. (trying to not conflate book stuff here)

― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, May 20, 2013 8:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no he definitely says it's obsidian in the show

That was hands down the best uncomfortable wedding scene I have ever seen.

lol

I agree actually, Dinklage got the tone pitch-perfect - death-inducing levels of shame and mortification, tempered by the only emotion stronger, viz. an all-consuming hatred of his family for putting him through this (and everything else), all wrapped up in a lovely blanket of being a bit too drunk. Great acting

"can't leave the throne alone the game needs me"
--stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover)

ballin' post imo

do all the white walkers look like that sven vath one or was he just particularly hot for annoying dweeb after spying him behind that rock last season?

Dinklage was awesome in the entire wedding scene... threatening Joffrey, the spitting... and his deranged laughter - all fucking classic!

ya hes the best

btw did we already discuss the fact that the actress who plays melisandre is a dutch pop star?

Lots of pop stars on this show

more of an actress turned pop star i would say

priestess of light (entertainment

do all the white walkers look like that sven vath one or was he just particularly hot for annoying dweeb after spying him behind that rock last season?

― ... (LocalGarda), Monday, May 20, 2013 6:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OK yeah wait how in the night full of terrors did Sam escape that march of white walkers end of last season?? I definitely thought that was his semi-off-screen demise. Why would they have left him alone? He was surrounded by the end of that shot.

Was this already discussed?

just like everyone else, they don't take him seriously
BUT THEY'LL LEARN. THEY'LL ALL LEARN

By the way if that Cersei smackdown on Loras was anything to go by I am looking forward to her wedding even more.

Joffrey and Sansa was genuinely chilling as well, especially now we've established that Tyrion isn't going to be having sex with her any time soon.

what's going to happen with the evil leeches?

i figure all those characters dying is unlikely but maybe sickness or some kind of control of their behaviour? that would set up some insanity.

they will all suffer a slight itch.

in the books they get ingrown hairs but i like the slight itch idea too

They lose a lot of odd socks.

The 7 kingdoms crumbled as the small folk had but one mismatched sock to keep them warm with the onset of an endless winter.

Finally caught up last night.
"welp, guess I won't be needing this badass obsidian dagger anymore." whaaaaaaaaaaat the everloving fuck is wrong with that dude, seriously.

drunk tyrion is the best. cersei's face when margery grabbed her arm was awesome.
dany's new rapping dude is whoa p cute. weird looking, but handsome.

Cersei's face is that same sour squint it always is imo

xpost Yeah, kinda relieved they Daario is at least a slightly believable love interest for Dany, the description of him in the books (SPOILERS BUT RLY) are just so horrific, it's like the ultimate giveaway as to what a nurrd GRRM really is. "Ahhh, I know exactly the sort of guy that a stunningly beautiful and independent and strong-willed young queen with armies and kingdoms and dragons would be into" yeahhhh not rly George

*SPOILERS BUT NOT RLY

Holy shit, ridiculous typo, sorry guys

I enjoyed that typo

yeah Daario seems more in-keeping with her Dothraki husband's steez, and she gets the added bonus of conversation

i love melisandre.

the description of him in the books (SPOILERS BUT RLY) are just so horrific, it's like the ultimate giveaway as to what a nurrd GRRM really is. "Ahhh, I know exactly the sort of guy that a stunningly beautiful and independent and strong-willed young queen with armies and kingdoms and dragons would be into" yeahhhh not rly George

That's what I meant by the blue beard comment upthread -- Daario's description sounded sooo ridiculous in the book that I could not understand how anyone could be attracted to him, let alone Daenerys.

she's a teenager tbf

so... i *shouldn't* dye my beard blue?

there was definitely a part of me that felt like GRRM came up with Daario after sitting through a friend's slideshow of a Burning Man trip

http://i.imgur.com/l6ilnOV.jpg

i kind of give grrm credit for being a bit wacky and not taking the obvious-good-looking-dude route like the show has. without thinking about it too hard, having grown up in an exotic play (relative to westeros) she might have more elaborate fantasies about what her dream date looks like.