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

I imagine the maesters are in the books more but there's been v little hint of what they get up to in the show so far besides act like regular medieval scholars

Yeah I think most exposition on that front began and ended with Pycelle (treating Robert/John Arryn. Boasting about his role in the birth of Cersei's children. Aemon was too old to get up to much

Medieval scholasticism is definitely the model he uses but the role of maesters is supposed to be far more practical than that would suggest.

Maesters practice

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shakey's had a list of fantasy rapes going for at least a decade iirc

were the sand snakes actually awesome in the novels? Before this season started it seemed like lots of people were excited abt their presence.

They really didn't seem so to me at the time and I wasn't going to go back and read all that shit again, so I just assumed they were and I'd skimmed it.

shakey's had a list of fantasy rapes going for at least a decade iirc

get a new joke

you're criticizing someone else for monotony?

re: Sand Snakes GRRM was going for a sexy Deadly Vipers Assassination Squad only with 8 ladies, and so yes, that aspect got people excited.

they were okay, and at least not risible

i get annoyed whenever the sand worms are on screen, so lame

they are lame, but idk, i am not very upset when they are on my screen.

I quite like seeing the recap (on Thronecast) of Melisandre meeting Arya and correctly predicting her future. I never would have remembered that.

Correctly but in very vague terms.

it makes sense if they're more like functionaries or mandarins. for a show about power there's v little sense of the political landscape. there's feudalism with no real sense of class, kings with no talk of divine right/mandate of heaven (stannis's awareness of his destiny feels v personal). idk who is supposed to be actually at work enacting their small council biz & running a credit-based economy but w/e. varys is obv the best but it just feels like grrm was feeling the idea of some eunuch official archetype but rather than being a member of whole caste he just makes him a guy with a crazy back story he could write later

Always worthwhile (though rife with spoilers): http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/ask-the-maester-jon-snow-season-finale/

Good thing that the mutineers stabbed Jon in the gut and not his beautiful face.

they shouldve all made out with him as he lay dying

everybody betray me :(
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…I’m fed up with this wall.

I thought danaerys was very rude to her dragon, too. He'd been stabbed with loads of spears, rescued her, and she says 'you could at leat find some food' or something. Also, if I was trying to find out where she went it might be worth releasing the other two and following them - I imagine dragons leave a great destruction/word of mouth trail.

Ha, you imagine dragons

:(

I'm assuming they'll delve a bit more into what Maesters actually do next season when Sam becomes one?

Feels like one of the really obvious logical endpoints for the story is to have Arya kill Cersei. In fact I'll be really annoyed if that doesn't happen.

X-post. That post is going to show up for years when people death for imagine dragons. Well, until people stop likin them. So be on your best behaviour for our future indie-rock fans.

I'm assuming they'll delve a bit more into what Maesters actually do next season when Sam becomes one?

Or not. On one of the Grantland podcasts they point out how Sam's quest will likely be less Harvard and the Sorbonne and more University of Phoenix and study abroad, since there's not enough story/book/show left to allow him to go off and become a full-on Maester. They suggest he's just doing an independent study with a focus on killing White Walkers.

death for imagine dragons

Agreed

Good lord, not my day. Search, obviously. I need to stop posting in the pub.

the dragon CG was top-notch in this episode, btw fwiw

aren't there supposed to be white walkers high-footing it to the wall any moment? they're sure taking their sweet time about it. how will Samwise Gamgee ever become a maestro in that time?

I assume they're waiting for winter to fully arrive

they're on spring break right now

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I got walkers all colors man

The last Spring break in westeros lasted about 11 years, it was a time of almost unbearable suffering and privation

and boobs

Is spring break just for Americans? I've never really understood it.

coastal rumspringa for lower to upper middle class college students allowed by state/fed authorities for the shitton of disposable income they leave behind and loathed by locals for the massive mess/noise/traffic/dumbfuckery it brings

Why isn't the summer break a bigger deal?

uk equiv: young football assholes on group holiday in spain?

people have to get jobs during the summer/go home etc.

xp

how many likable people are left in westeros? it's basically Davos and Sam and Sansa and Brienne and Podrick imo.

I was going to say Jon Snow, but then I remembered that I don't like him.

he is also not so much in westeros anymore

I guess brits in Spain is similar, but I don't think that's really reserved for such a specific time of year and I think just as many working class people do that.

the tyrells are witty and fun especially olenna, i find that likable

I forgot about Hodor and Bran and that unnamed Stark scion who's out there with that feral woman iirc.

as big violent homophobes go tormund is pretty chill

When was he homophobic?

weird for a guy who in one scene tries to convince people he fucked a bear up the ass to disapprove of gay people (i can't remember when he says anything to that effect but i forget a lot of things)