Game Of Thrones (TV)

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:11

Grim... wrote:

Game Of Thrones may be a bit much for viewing on the train.

Who plays the queen? I can't place her.

Lena Headey.

Sarah Connor from the Sarah Connor Chronicles, and she was also in 300.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

New series starts in April, I believe?

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Trooper wrote:

New series starts in April, I believe?

April the 1st apparently. I'm gagging for it as I loved the last series. I thought it would at least be alright given the pedigree of the actors and studio involved but I wasn't really prepared for just how fucking excellent it was. Even the into and music are brilliant ffs.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

She's from 300 and Sarah Conner Chronicles.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:40

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Fuck that Curio chap, he's an idiot, what's someone else got to say?

FTFY

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Hah! That'll teach me read the last page of a thread before posting.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 22:44

Ak, I've just realised there's an S01E00 - did I miss anything?

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

There is? If so, I haven't seen it.

Morte · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:08

I would think that's the pilot. I seem to recall it has a different woman playing Sean Bean's wife.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

If it's the same thing as shown here then it's just a sort of preview thing that the US networks seem to go in for to generate interest in shows. I've also seen them done just before the start of later seasons of some shows to not only whip up a bit of interest but to remind people of where the story's up to as a refresher before the new season actually starts.

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

Kissed by fire:

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:09

It's a bit bloody good this, isn't it? I just wish it wouldn't suddenly cut to "naked woman getting banged from behind" while I'm on the train.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

You should try watching Spartacus on the train

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

One of the of the things about this story, book and TV show, is that there's just tits everywhere.

You'll also see knob and flange before the series ends, plus some fair amount of gore, which never quite cuts away soon enough. Expect to see young chaps 'pulling out' then standing there, chap out, looking rather pleased with themselves (as I would be if I'd just banged who they'd just banged).

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

If Grim...'s not read the books I'm going to enjoy following his reactions on this thread.

"OH NO THEY DIDN'T, etc..."

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Grim... wrote:

It's a bit bloody good this, isn't it? I just wish it wouldn't suddenly cut to "naked woman getting banged from behind" while I'm on the train.

There's an episode later in the season where a five minute long chunk of expository dialogue is delivered by Mayor Carcetti at the same time as he graphically coaches two naked prostitutes in putting on a convincing lesbian sex show. So, that'll be fun for your fellow passengers.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:22

I don't mind, as long as I've got time to pick my Fire up and sort-of angle it away from other people. Normally it sits on a table

[edit]Are they any legal issues about playing things like that in public?

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Lucking the person next to you won't need to borrow your spare headphones to enjoy that scene

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Oh, and I'm not a table sitting commuter, can't be dealing with the foot fights. I'll inevitably find myself sitting across from a big guy, with big feet and long legs, probably engrossed in watching boobies on a kindle fire or something...

I'm a disabled and elderly seat stealer instead

Privacy and legroom.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Grim... wrote:

[edit]Are they any legal issues about playing things like that in public?

I'm willing to guess 'probably'. As long as there are no obviously underage kids around you at the time though I don't imagine it's an issue.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:27

Grim... wrote:

I don't mind, as long as I've got time to pick my Fire up and sort-of angle it away from other people. Normally it sits on a table

[edit]Are they any legal issues about playing things like that in public?

Outraging public decency?

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:23

Seen it now. Cor fuck, that was good, wasn't it?

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Dragons!

flis · **Joined:** 26th May, 2008 **Posts:** 3333

MaliA wrote:

Series 2 of the telly is, according to imdb, being aired on 15th April 2012

It starts on 2nd April at 9pm. I'll probably series link it, I'm not desperate to see it.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:57

flis wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Series 2 of the telly is, according to imdb, being aired on 15th April 2012

It starts on 2nd April at 9pm. I'll probably series link it, I'm not desperate to see it.

Ta.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

Nearly done with book 2 and just seen ep 6 but I have to make a point and ask a question... Book/series 2 spoiler below...

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Was Renly's relationship with Loras so blatant in the book? I remember getting a 'gay' vibe of the Night of Flowers (duh!) and of course (Book2) Loras freaked the fuck out when Renly died but did it ever go so far as shaving chests and blowjobs in the book?

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:40

I think it was.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6512

That bit raised an eyebrow at the Squirt homestead as well. I managed to totally forget that whole relationship if it was in the books.

I'm currently halfway through the most recent book - I still have no idea how it'll all end ( if it ever does ).

My current guess is

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Stuff beyond the wall goes a bit frisky, the Watch end up saving everyone, and Jon ends up as a sort of King of the North / Watch Commander, with DRAGONS being released on the south, and Tyrion being king over a burnt out mess of nothing.

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

It all depends on Jon's parentage, which has all but been stated directly by book 5. The implications of that will be jolly important, though of course Martin will fuck everyone over just to break our hearts plenty over the remaining two volumes, if that's what we get.

I'd keep reading book five if I were you, though.

Jon's parentage spoiler for those who've read all and missed it:

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Offspring of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryan, who were lovers, as seen in hallucinations by Danaerys. Robert Baratheon's intervention precipitated some Shakespearean tragedy of the heart and Lyanna's "Promise me, Ned" was for him to look after the child, which is why this upstanding man was willing to upset his wife by bringing a bastard home. This makes Jon Danaery's nephew and a very suitable spouse by her standards.

As a skin-changer,can he get inside a Dragon...?

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6512

Ooooh, either I missed that bit, or forgot it, or haven't got there yet. In that case, I rescind my above guess and go for something totally different!

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

Read the

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Danerys dream sequences

In whatever book they happen again, then, bearing in mind the imagery used, look for references to the same things regarding other characters in all five books. It bears out.

Or, you could just do a Google of this stuff using the appropriate words, but I'd leave that until you've finished "Dance". It's being raked and re-raked like a zen garden on the forums, and those tend to be full of spoilers.

Question for you though...

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Q: What would they need at the Wall to not only repel the Others, but man the wall for the forseeable future, given the amount of fighting men Wezteros has lost in the War of the Numerous Silly Kings?

A: The Unsullied.

"Mind control my Dragon and I'll give you a million eunuch badasses who do what they're told (and a blowjob)"

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

I've totally sucked MrsP into the TV series. She pretended to not be watching it, but when the Dothraki were speaking foreign (and the stupid DVD rip that I have failed to offer subtitles, /firstworldproblems) she was annoyed and asked me what they were talking about.

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

Horses and grass.

krazywookie · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 19:54

and that other thing that they do.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 15:45

When does series 2 air in the US?

[edit]Oh, April 1st at 9pm, so about the same time as it does here. I hoped it would be earlier.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Yeah -- there's almost no point downloading this one.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 15:51

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Yeah -- there's almost no point downloading this one.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Yeah -- there's almost no point downloading this one.

Unless you only have freeview. *cough, cough*

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 16:18

DavPaz wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Yeah -- there's almost no point downloading this one.

Unless you only have freeview. *cough, cough*

Or you're on Virgin.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

Also that. Hence your picture of the expensive and entirely none-Game-of-thrones-showing Tivo, yes?

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 16:21

DavPaz wrote:

Also that. Hence your picture of the expensive and entirely none-Game-of-thrones-showing Tivo, yes?

Yup. I watch it on my Fire anyway, so I'm not that concerned.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

Grim... wrote:

DavPaz wrote:

Also that. Hence your picture of the expensive and entirely none-Game-of-thrones-showing Tivo, yes?

Yup. I watch it on my Fire anyway, so I'm not that concerned.

Is that Gas, or solid fuel?

*chuckles to himself*

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 20:41

It's on. After Seinfeld!

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

I thought it was as slow and dull an episode as we've ever had. All glowering and no deflowering. Not sure about the castings of Melisandre, Stannis or Craster. Or Slynt.

Still, better than anyhitng else on telly, so what can you do?

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 21:56

I have complained mightily at the casting of Craster many a time.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6512

Just finished "After the Feast". Huh. Now I'm even more uncertain where this is going to end up.

Morte · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:48

Squirt wrote:

Just finished "After the Feast". Huh. Now I'm even more uncertain where this is going to end up.

Well that's you, me and probably Mr Martin as well.

Plissken · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 13:05

Any idea when Season 1 will be on UK iTunes? It is on US iTunes now, and the DVDs are out here. I just don't want the faff of switching machines/iTunes accounts.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

Series 2 is showing some serious signs of deviation from the book, so far.

Hugh · **Posted:** Mon Apr 09, 2012 22:19

God, it's slow.

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

Melisandre got them out, though. Fair play.

New characters were good - Balon and 'Yana'. I'd snog Yana. Also her out of Skins is Craster's missus, Gilly. Slynt is still shit.

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