A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Dinner]

I won't get to see it until 8pm pacific standard time.

Hell, since the eastern feed will start playing at 5pm PST (in 30 minutes) it will probably be available on the internet before it even airs locally.

[regexcellent]

I am a fan of Margaery Tyrell's cleavage.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Bumped over the 2005 threads.

[Dinner]

I rather liked last nights episode though they did make Joffrey out to be even more a little pervert than he was in books while some how making Margaery Tyrell more human and less like a calculating *****.

[Hauldren Collider]

I can't be the only one who's just waiting to see Rose Leslie get naked.

[Guynemer]

One of the upcoming episodes is called "Kissed By Fire", so I imagine you will get your wish.

I never saw Margaery as a manipulative *****, really. Extremely ambitious and, yes, manipulative, but she seems to believe in the catch-more-flies-with-sugar route, which is a welcome change from the standard Lannister douchebaggery.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, but when the Lannisters are intelligent (ie, not Cersei or Joffery) they tend to do well by their catch flies by vinegar route.

[Lord Avalon]

I thought the Lannisters use their gold to buy up all the flies, then sell them at a higher price, which if you can't afford, they can give you a loan at "reasonable" rates.

[regexcellent]

Show Marg is better than book Marg for sure.

And yeah, Rose Leslie

[Dinner]

I can't be the only one who's just waiting to see Rose Leslie get naked.

It can be said with great assurance that "I'd hit it! "

[/Ted Striker]

[Dinner]

http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/02/technology/game-of-thrones-piracy/index.html?source=cnn_bin

The Game of Thrones season premier set new records for the amount of times a show was pirated. Surprisingly, the country with the largest number of pirates was the UK though maybe that's not so surprising given that HBO didn't release the show in the EU until a day after it's North American release so maybe the series' UK fans just didn't want to wait the extra 24 hours. If HBO wants to cut down on piracy maybe they should do a world wide release all on one day.

[Dinner]

but HBO programming president Michael Lombardo told Entertainment Weekly recently that the network sees the piracy of "Game of Thrones" as a sign of success more than a problem.

It seems HBO has the right attitude and they should try to cash in one the popularity of the series by doing a bunch of merchandising deals.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Seen the first episode now.

Good stuff-

Ciaran Hinds.
"Suspiciously Ginger" Stark is blossoming into a good little actress. She's pulling off the child/woman stuff nicely, and continues the show's great track record with young talent.
Continuing the policy of "no dialogue from the Dothraki HorseyHorseyBastards". Just having them lying around and groaning works nicely.
Dinklage and Charles Dance scenes. Two quality actors duking it out.

Dodgy stuff

The senior Starks are still a weak link. We're still only getting monotone acting from them. That's not a problem when they're against less intimidating support, but when EmoSulk Snow was in a scene with Ciaran Hinds he might as well have been a prop.

[Krill]

FWIW the scene with Emosulk Snow and Ciaran Hinds was fairly different to how it was portrayed in the book.

[Guynemer]

The point stands. As the show goes on, it is becoming apparent that Kit Harrington may not be up to the task of being the ostensible Hero Of The Tale. Not only is he not as good an actor as Hinds or Leslie, he also lacks charisma.

I thought Liam Cunningham was great is his scenes last week.