Game of Thrones

[Internet Apex]

I stayed up until 4 watching the entirety of the first season today. Holy f'n ballsacks.

I would echo everything everyone said already and add my own bits:

Queen Brotherfucker looks like she's trying squeeze out a fart all the time. She has one face - the fart face. I was hoping the last episode would just be 45 minutes of her finally experiencing the relief that only a good bit of flatulence can bring. I would also like to see her naked a few more times.

Joffrey is an epic fagatard. Could they have cast a better person to play the incest love child of two smarmy fucks like the Lannister Twins? His face looks like he might have spent 10 or 11 months in gestation instead of the requisite 9. Killing Ned was about the dumbest fucking thing anyone could have done for a billion reasons and I'm glad he did it. His death is going to be glorious. I was thinking Sansa was going to just leap to her own death when she looked down after having been forced to view her own father's head on a spike but she went for the kill. I liked the moxie but it doesn't make up for her being a spoiled shit up until then.

I was sad to see Khal Drogo die. That dude was manlier than ten Dick Butkii.

Dany is a psycho and now she has dragons. DRAGONS! I was waiting for dragons and I got them. Glorious. Her brother's death was the best thing ever on tv, death wise. That was as creative a death as I've ever heard of.

I just about like all of the Starks. It's funny how the fair-haired Lannisters are mostly evil pricks, even the Imp is a slimy scumbag who somehow ends up still likeable, whereas the dark-haired Starks are all about honor and family. No incest in the Stark family while the Lannisters apparently can't get their juices flowing unless they share the same last name. Usually the light = good and the dark = bad in traditional storytelling. Just found that interesting.

Oh yeah - Lady Stark's sister and her little dipshit son are the worst. I hope they get overrun by those scumbags to whom Tyrion promised the Vale. I expect to see them get theirs in the end, creepy fucks.

Yes indeed. And the Wight Walkers in the woods are the worst evil of all. Very interesting.

[R-V]

I stayed up until 4 watching the entirety of the first season today. Holy f'n ballsacks.

I would echo everything everyone said already and add my own bits:

Queen Brotherfucker looks like she's trying squeeze out a fart all the time. She has one face - the fart face. I was hoping the last episode would just be 45 minutes of her finally experiencing the relief that only a good bit of flatulence can bring. I would also like to see her naked a few more times.

Joffrey is an epic fagatard. Could they have cast a better person to play the incest love child of two smarmy fucks like the Lannister Twins? His face looks like he might have spent 10 or 11 months in gestation instead of the requisite 9. Killing Ned was about the dumbest fucking thing anyone could have done for a billion reasons and I'm glad he did it. His death is going to be glorious. I was thinking Sansa was going to just leap to her own death when she looked down after having been forced to view her own father's head on a spike but she went for the kill. I liked the moxie but it doesn't make up for her being a spoiled shit up until then.

I was sad to see Khal Drogo die. That dude was manlier than ten Dick Butkii.

Dany is a psycho and now she has dragons. DRAGONS! I was waiting for dragons and I got them. Glorious. Her brother's death was the best thing ever on tv, death wise. That was as creative a death as I've ever heard of.

I just about like all of the Starks. It's funny how the fair-haired Lannisters are mostly evil pricks, even the Imp is a slimy scumbag who somehow ends up still likeable, whereas the dark-haired Starks are all about honor and family. No incest in the Stark family while the Lannisters apparently can't get their juices flowing unless they share the same last name. Usually the light = good and the dark = bad in traditional storytelling. Just found that interesting.

Oh yeah - Lady Stark's sister and her little dipshit son are the worst. I hope they get overrun by those scumbags to whom Tyrion promised the Vale. I expect to see them get theirs in the end, creepy fucks.

Yes indeed. And the Wight Walkers in the woods are the worst evil of all. Very interesting.

And here I was thinking it was WHITE Walkers the whole time. Wight is much more frightening.

One thing I like about this show that I don't think has been mentioned is they deal REALISTICALLY with the fact that a big metal sword is a heavy fucking object and can't be twirled around like an umbrella as you prance from tree to tree. Even the big dudes with heavy beards who drink muscle mead all day wield those things deliberately and with max effort when they are beheading another guy with a beard.

And CT, if you're reading this, there are now FOUR people watching this show. Eat me raw.

[Internet Apex]

I stayed up until 4 watching the entirety of the first season today. Holy f'n ballsacks.

I would echo everything everyone said already and add my own bits:

Queen Brotherfucker looks like she's trying squeeze out a fart all the time. She has one face - the fart face. I was hoping the last episode would just be 45 minutes of her finally experiencing the relief that only a good bit of flatulence can bring. I would also like to see her naked a few more times.

Joffrey is an epic fagatard. Could they have cast a better person to play the incest love child of two smarmy fucks like the Lannister Twins? His face looks like he might have spent 10 or 11 months in gestation instead of the requisite 9. Killing Ned was about the dumbest fucking thing anyone could have done for a billion reasons and I'm glad he did it. His death is going to be glorious. I was thinking Sansa was going to just leap to her own death when she looked down after having been forced to view her own father's head on a spike but she went for the kill. I liked the moxie but it doesn't make up for her being a spoiled shit up until then.

I was sad to see Khal Drogo die. That dude was manlier than ten Dick Butkii.

Dany is a psycho and now she has dragons. DRAGONS! I was waiting for dragons and I got them. Glorious. Her brother's death was the best thing ever on tv, death wise. That was as creative a death as I've ever heard of.

I just about like all of the Starks. It's funny how the fair-haired Lannisters are mostly evil pricks, even the Imp is a slimy scumbag who somehow ends up still likeable, whereas the dark-haired Starks are all about honor and family. No incest in the Stark family while the Lannisters apparently can't get their juices flowing unless they share the same last name. Usually the light = good and the dark = bad in traditional storytelling. Just found that interesting.

Oh yeah - Lady Stark's sister and her little dipshit son are the worst. I hope they get overrun by those scumbags to whom Tyrion promised the Vale. I expect to see them get theirs in the end, creepy fucks.

Yes indeed. And the Wight Walkers in the woods are the worst evil of all. Very interesting.

And here I was thinking it was WHITE Walkers the whole time. Wight is much more frightening.

One thing I like about this show that I don't think has been mentioned is they deal REALISTICALLY with the fact that a big metal sword is a heavy fucking object and can't be twirled around like an umbrella as you prance from tree to tree. Even the big dudes with heavy beards who drink muscle mead all day wield those things deliberately and with max effort when they are beheading another guy with a beard.

And CT, if you're reading this, there are now FOUR people watching this show. Eat me raw.

I think it is White Walkers. I don't know what I was thinking. I do like the sauce. Remember when Jon Snow slew the WHITE Walker in Mormont's chamber? He grabbed the lantern out of the old man's hand and flung it at the thing, thus killing it the only way possible. Well, he messed his hand up something awful in the process and has to recover from the injury over the course of several chapters. He can't wield his bastard sword the way he would like to and he even grips it awkwardly with his left hand when pulling it out (||) for the rest of the guys who want to get a look at it. So yeah, there's a lot of talk about swords and masonry and fighting skills in teh book that get overlooked in the show. Even the Imp kicks a little ass at the battle rather than just getting run over after his speech.

yay?

[Internet Apex]

DPD.

If you dig this show, I highly recommend the books. They won't spoil shit for you. The show and the books are meant to be used in tandem, I'm quite sure. Because there is information and subtext in each that compliment the other. TPex has read the whole thing so far and said the show just enhances the reading because it gives new information and aids the imagination. I agree. This whole series is more fun than midget porn.

[R-V]

DPD.

If you dig this show, I highly recommend the books. They won't spoil shit for you. The show and the books are meant to be used in tandem, I'm quite sure. Because there is information and subtext in each that compliment the other. TPex has read the whole thing so far and said the show just enhances the reading because it gives new information and aids the imagination. I agree. This whole series is more fun than midget porn.

Just finished Clash of Kings. I second the book recommendation, they're the balls. They actually make me look forward to the show even more as opposed to making me butthurt that I've been spoilt.

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Can't wait to see if/how they show Tyrion's exploits at the end of book 2.

[Canadouche]

DPD.

If you dig this show, I highly recommend the books. They won't spoil shit for you. The show and the books are meant to be used in tandem, I'm quite sure. Because there is information and subtext in each that compliment the other. TPex has read the whole thing so far and said the show just enhances the reading because it gives new information and aids the imagination. I agree. This whole series is more fun than midget porn.

Bump.

I read most of the books before the first season finished.  The interesting part was how much of the latter books are established in the first novel/series - stuff I thought was just a throw-away action in Book 1 came to bear by Book 3 or 4. 

Hey - maybe we won't have 5 years until the next book.  That'd be nice.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Game Of Thrones is back on April 1.

No fool.

[Slaky]

Anyone?

[Tonker]

Game of Thrones?  Game of Shite, more like.

[Internet Apex]

Game of Thrones?  Game of Shite, more like.

Huh?

[R-V]

Game of Thrones?  Game of Shite, more like.

Huh?

Huh is right. I blew through all 5 books in between seasons and agree with Apex's point (I think it was Apex?) that the book and the show are great compliments to each other. Yes, the show will most likely follow the main plot points of the book so you will be spoiled, but the show just adds another layer to what you read - several characters (Littlefinger, Varys, Joffrey) are given more screen time than they get in the books. The mass execution of the bastards was barely mentioned in the book. This isn't just a line-by-line adaptation, they're doing their own thing with the show and it's just as entertaining.

[Internet Apex]

Game of Thrones?  Game of Shite, more like.

Huh?

Huh is right. I blew through all 5 books (||).

Fixed. And I agree with RV's agreement with my original statement.

[Slaky]

Game of Thrones?  Game of Shite, more like.

Huh?

Huh is right. I blew through all 5 books (||).

Fixed. And I agree with RV's agreement with my original statement.

David Huh?

[Internet Apex]

A couple of comments on the first episode. Danaerys is hotter than eleven dicks - even in her current all-fucked-up state. I want her on my television as often as possible.

The scene with Tyrion and Cersei was a failure compared to the exchange in the book. He ends up getting her so enraged that she slaps him around a bit when he delivers the truth to her in the small council chamber. I waited all year for that scene and was sadly disappointed in it. They made up for it a little bit when Cersei slaps Joffry - that was not in the book. But Cersei's character is changing rapidly in the show, which I understand due to time constraints.

The adventures of the Night's Watch north of the wall are terrifying. I didn't read as far as they got in that episode. They hit ahead a bit with that storyline.

ExPex II took all the books when she moved out so I don't have any more spoilers after next week. I want to grab the books and just keep reading but I don't have any fucking time to read shit like that because World War II and the Great Depression are too fucking interesting. So there I am. 

[Canadouche]

I'm really enjoying the actors they've picked for these roles. Like the bastard blacksmith, the preggers wildling daughter-wife was an actress on the British version of 'Skins,' and knowing how that role develops I'd say she's perfect for it.

I always do a double take when I overhear co-workers talking about the show and expressing interest in the books. Makes me glad that the story seems to have legs... maybe HBO will actually support it all the way through.