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

weddings on westeros are accompanied by a "bedding ceremony" where the bride and groom have their clothes stripped away and are carried naked to bed by the guests after the reception. so that's sure to be exciting.

Showrunner interview now live. Spoilers like crazy, obv.

Madden interview, similarly.

man twitter is goin nuts right now

haha i knew the internet was gonna fucking explode over this

Via a certain trending topic, I saw this post on Twitter from an hour ago:

@Letigzz 47m
The Hangover left me disappointed, good thing I get to come home to watch Game of Thrones.

...think I'll check in on her later.

doors shutting, rains of castemere, good setup. then brutally stab talisa in the stomach. damn, it was all so brutal.

that was really well executed

Execution, yes.

well um so that's what everybody was tripping over huh
good call on the ending

So hey, Edmure's bride was pretty hot after all!

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What, you don't think she was pretty?

i have ptsd from all that jiggery pokery jesus wept

sweet jesus.

that was gutting and insanely well done

Gutting, yes.

Yeah, I especially thought the Rickon/Bran separation has a lot of pathos, and given Natalia Tena's stature on the show, I kind of hope we'll get peeks at the Adventures of Osha and Rickon.

And Jon ditching Ygritte was COLD.

the gf and i were laughing at that one. then the laughter stopped.

shanking oona was cold as hell

http://i.imgur.com/NaDBK5n.jpg

https://twitter.com/RedWeddingTears

lol at people who have DEEP EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS with this show but haven't taken the time to read the books

ya, what assholes.

here's your grand guignol gif, click through at your peril
http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/229/files/2013/06/massgif.gif

giving forks the benefit of the doubt and assume he's joking.

but if he isn't, he might want to learn about how people view and take in media and art.

holy living fuck

um guk, did you click on Canks' twitter link? because here's how some people are viewing and taking in media and art:

Alex Mastin ‏@mastinalex 5h
If George Martin was in Auburn right now I'd stab him in the heart.

Trafalgar Chelsea ‏@_ToraoLaw 3h
I'M SHAKING. I'M CRYING. I'M BROKEN NOW. ROBB STARK MY BABY.

Mrs. @eab2940 ‏@selfishlady 4h
I have given birth twice to 8 & 9 pound babies. Watching Robb Stark die hurt more than both times combined.

Abby Larumbe ‏@deaditebaby 4h
I want to vomit and cry on everything... #gameofthrones

J ‏@JosiahhDaniel 2h
I can't believe what I just saw on game of thrones. Saddest day in my life

sepinwall's recap curiously hateful of the deceased characters

I clicked the link but to suggest that people don't care about the characters because they didn't read the books is pretty fucking stupid.

yeah, you're misreading me.
i'm suggesting that if your commitment to the teevee show is such that the death of a major character affected you more than both your children's births, it is an odd thing that you have somehow not gotten around to reading the source material
or more to the point, lol internet and geek fandom and everything but casually threatening an author with a stabbing because he killed off your fave character is nagl

no doubt that the general geeky violent reaction is dumb as hell, but to link that to "not reading the books" is still pretty fucking stupid.

i dunno, it's always odd to me when people bond with episodic television show characters to the point when they are wrecked when characters die? Especially on shows where the deaths of major characters is part of the NASCAR like attraction? And especially especially when it's been an open secret for like thirteen years?

yeah, you're misreading me.
i'm suggesting that if your commitment to the teevee show is such that the death of a major character affected you more than both your children's births, it is an odd thing that you have somehow not gotten around to reading the source material
or more to the point, lol internet and geek fandom and everything but casually threatening an author with a stabbing because he killed off your fave character is nagl

― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Monday, June 3, 2013 3:07 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

wow it's almost as if people on the internet use hyperbole as an affect

i think the wrecked part comes largely from the fact that the starks have been presented as the more narratively traditional "good guys" in a show that is generally bereft of them, and that sort of centering group of characters has just largely been decimated in the most brutal fashion imaginable.

like the zero hope, nightmarish fate that is usually reserved for peripheral gray hat characters.

sure; that's a good part of what makes the show interesting and has been present since episode one when the incest twins pushed a kid out of a building

any form, whether it be tv or film or literature, has the power to create emotional investments. True, GoT does seemingly pride itself on the destruction of main characters, though it's not alone amongst television shows to do so. You say it's an open secret, but some (including me) managed to avoid that spoiler for the last four years. I made a conscious choice to not read the books after i was a hundred or so pages into the first one because I saw the ep where Ned died and thought, "I think I'd enjoy having this as a TV series to look forward to for a number of weeks every year rather than a book".

Go ahead and make fun of the absurd reactions of some of the fans on the internet, but don't condescend because they didn't read the books and thus couldn't "really care". Books and TV are different media, and they allow for different experiences.

xp and i suppose hyperbole beats jaded irony as an affect but I'll take vanilla all the same

guk, honestly, i quit reading the books after the first one for exactly the same reasons and i am not on some turn up my nose at people who can't read hrumph hrumph shit here; touchy crowd tonight

i am not on some turn up my nose at people who can't read hrumph hrumph shit here

lol at people who have DEEP EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS with this show but haven't taken the time to read the books

I don't think it's being touchy to suggest that you're being condescending in the wrong ways. By all means, mock those who are being ridiculous about it, but for goodness' sake mock them in the right way. We have to have standards, after all.

catelyn's helpless throat-slitting of walder frey's wife was an A+ moment. this show, man.

i am not on some turn up my nose at people who can't read hrumph hrumph shit here

lol at people who have DEEP EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS with this show but haven't taken the time to read the books

in any case, yeah. good episode and prob the best season thus far.

not in the least bit interested in picking a fight. just wanting to point out when someone is being a prick in the hopes they'll correct their behaviour.

was talking to jordan

not in the least bit interested in picking a fight. just wanting to point out when someone is being a prick in the hopes they'll correct their behaviour.

― Gukbe, Monday, June 3, 2013 3:29 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

lol... get outta town

me irl during that entire scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUz9xCTOPRw

haha

havent seen the ep yet, but from the gif it looks even more brutal than the book