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

captain save-an-arya xxp

kid has a hitlist and she's how old?

badass

http://mimg.ugo.com/201109/1/6/6/207661/cuts/hit-girl_528_poster.jpg

ygrette shooting john snow full of arrows was so good and lol

ygrette shooting john snow full of arrows was so good and lol

I was mentally yelling at her, "IN HIS PRETTY FACE DAMMIT, IT'LL STICK THAT WAY."

i find it hard to celebrate her education.

I was actually bored by the stabby, it was a lot more invigorating in the books. Also, as this is fiction, I'm less inclined to be moralistic here.

oh god Rob's body/head thing might have been more traumatising than the damn red wedding.

OTM, but IMO this was a LOT more disturbing in the book, at least how I pictured it.

I was actually bored by the stabby, it was a lot more invigorating in the books

agree

Also, as this is fiction, I'm less inclined to be moralistic here

am i taking a tone? fwiw i certainly don't see this as a question of right or wrong, just its sad bc if things had been different she might have been a girl.

BOO TO THAT ROGERMEXICO

I'm trying to avoid getting too much farther into the books, but there's a thread in teh fandoms about how Arya's storyline isn't COOL BUTTKICKING GIRL GETTING HER BUTTKICKING ON, no, she's the child soldier whose psyche has been horribly distorted by the violence she inhabits, that your aside references, but I want to revel in the former without complications! And my out is that it's a story, and I can happily wallow in my shallowness.

I would say Arya's arc is going to be a tragedy but if the alternative is her following Sansa's route then idk. Westeros just seems a shitter for all involved.

or a "shifter", I guess.

lol

Eh don't mind me, I'm just airing some percolating stuff to avoid finishing a review for something else right now.

roose bolton is gleefully evil, i loved his little scene w/walder. barely concealed contempt, humoring the old psycho, pretty pleased with himself overall.

glad the direwolf head/stark body thing was in the show.

xpost oh i have no idea what the internets have to say about any of this beyond this thread. i think i dipped in once a while back but had to flee bc too much stupid

never mind jon snow, her hair was too orangey for crows

this was a satisfactory closer/prelude but i did miss a bit of littlefinger craftiness somewhat

as epically cringe as the daenerys scene was this show knows damn well they can get away with anything if it ends with a dragon flying @ u face screeching

In that case I am glad they didn't try to get away with a whole penis chopping off scene because that technique would have made the experience even more horrifying and also confusing.

Got to have the dungeons, if you want the dragons. GRRM, he doesn't make the rules.

The rise and rise of Daenerys has been a bit too much of a walkover for me

Weird how no one has bothered to even be particular suspicious of that grey haired dude who just turned up and started hanging out with them and has so far played no discernable plot function.

Barristan Selmy? That's probably got something to do with his being pitched as a legendary ideal of nobility and heroism unfairly cast aside by King Cnut.

There was a fear from Jorah that he knew that he was spying on Dany for a time.

He's so dumpy I still have trouble buying that he is some legendary warrior. Blackfish is much more believable as a badass old guy warrior.

http://www.esquire.co.uk/women/article/4083/game-of-throness-10-hottest-women-emilia-clarke-lena-headey/?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffered226&utm_medium=twitter

note the writer.

i was hoping for Jonah Lehrer but this is arguably even better

what the

waht?

must be someone else?

yeah probably but lol if that's his secret side gig

It is someone else, I already asked Actual Simon Reynolds about it.

https://twitter.com/SimonRetromania/status/344517753526435840

https://twitter.com/SimonRetromania/status/344518277512450048

https://twitter.com/SimonRetromania/status/344521832721952769

Weird how no one has bothered to even be particular suspicious of that grey haired dude who just turned up and started hanging out with them and has so far played no discernable plot function.

Ok, serious brain fart cos I thought you were referring to Roose Bolton.

how Sibel Kekilli and Oona Chaplin are not #1 and #2 respectively I do not understand

I'm bummed out I clicked on that and gave them a page impression

There was too many boring little 1 on 1s in a row

boring little 1 on 1s are also a finale tradition and they're always my favorite, esp when they're reflecting/navel-gazey/not directly talking about the big storylines/sort of how real people talk

and god, the robb/head scene is a million times worse when i remember he's only like 14 in the books. the red wedding too, but especially that, barf

there was that point in the red wedding where he's standing in the middle and just looking at walder frey and basically going "UH. UH." like tina from bob's burgers with that look in his eyes and i couldn't stop thinking FOURTEEN YEARS OOOOOLD

No worries, he's like 15 or 16

how Sibel Kekilli and Oona Chaplin are not #1 and #2 respectively I do not understand

Because everyone has different tastes perhaps?

boring little 1 on 1s are also a finale tradition and they're always my favorite, esp when they're reflecting/navel-gazey/not directly talking about the big storylines/sort of how real people talk

― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Wednesday, June 12, 2013 3:30 AM (6 hours ago)

Yeah but with them all one after another it deflated the (potential) momentum I'd been hoping for in the finale. Though I'm aware we all needed a rest after the red wedding arguably... except I was looking for a little more resulting chaos.

tbh i'm cool with the second to last episode containing the climax and the last episode acting as an actual come-down conclusion, everyone's just used to the jj abrams "finale has to be super exciting and end on a major cliffhanger" method

http://imgur.com/gallery/11bIw

Nedder

James Stark was the winner for me.

Along with Henry

Ned. Nedder.

Neddest.

Nedderino

ashamed to have cracked up so hard at that

The Nedsterrrr! x-p

Okay you people.

THERIN GREYDUDE

i do have to admit if I didn't read the internet and this board and other boards I would be pretty clueless about the names of 50% of the characters, too.