The Game of Thrones thread

[Rev. Gary (revgms)]

So HBO has the Game of Thrones series now, I haven't read the books, but the wife has, she said it will be awesome. So far not too bad, plenty of blood and ass, so there's that. IO think I might keep watching it with her.

She kept telling me there is some sort of enlightened philosophy behind it, including a charactor or something that is cool and enlightened, dunno, look forward to seeing where it goes.

Any Dudes into this, if so......

discuss.

[cakebelly]

It has been on my (unwritten) reading list for years; I told myself that I wouldn't start the series until I had acquired all the books. Funnily enough I got the complete (ebook) set the week before last but then they started running trailers for the show on HBO so I held off reading anything.

I don't know how it compares to the books (Busmum has read 'em and she said so far it is a pretty good adaptation) but I was pleasantly entertained - not sure about the ever-so-wistful actress who plays the exiled Princess (strategically married off), time will tell is she's there as just eye candy or she can really act   - but generally some good performances, all round. Nice to see Sean Penn again. Like the settings, like the effort put into detail & accents (makes a nice change) - we'll see how we go.

[hannahdude]

haven't seen it yet but...sean penn? really? huh.
i'm a dude who never saw ER, or NCIS or a reality show, im stricly on a diet of hbo and shoetime originals, guess i will check this out, 'on demand' of course, i like to control the pace if you know what i mean.
dude out.

[cckeiser]

haven't seen it yet but...sean penn? really? huh.
i'm a dude who never sae ER, or NCIS or a reality show, im stricly on a diet of hob and shoetime originals, guess i will check this out, 'on demand' of course, i like to control the pace if you know what i mean.
dude out.

Weeds!

[hannahdude]

weeds, indeed! nurse jackie too!

[cckeiser]

Yeah Nurse Jackie and The United States of Tara as well. We watch Breaking Bad too.
Sorry Six Feet Under and The Wire ended, but there is only so much they can do with them...and they did it so well.
Looking forward to Treme and Boardwalk Empire. We do not get hbo or showtime but rent them on dvd. We watch the whole season in like 3 days!

[hannahdude]

the new season of tara sucks in my humble opinion, so very annoying.
the new series thats hot right now on shotime is 'the borgia's' with jeremy irons.
also, hbo's 'rome' was awesome!

[cakebelly]

Oops! Meant Sean Bean 

[hannahdude]

yeah, 'cause i watched it last night and i didnt see no sean penn dude!

[Banjo Dude]

Yeah, a little less beating up paparazzi, little more Boromir.



So far, I have to give this show a thumbs-up.  I kinda like the Rob Zombie guy with the whole goth Mongol thing going on there.  And the king is great, but my favorite characters so far have to be the dogs. 

WHO's a good doggie bite the fuck out of that little inbred turd whiny twat? YOU are! Yes you ARE!

[hannahdude]

i cant keep up with whose who but im loving the visuals man, the colors fucking ROCK. i turn the lights off in the tv room and let all those greys and blues wash over me and im lovin it.

[A.B. Dude]

I know this is an old topic, dudes, but I enjoyed the first season. I've also read all the books up to the most current one, A Dance with Dragons.

The books are pretty damn good.

[DigitalBuddha]

Just finished watching all ten episodes of Game of Thrones; great story, some zesty coitus, great production and now waiting for HBO to do the next two books. Who will win the civil war? Will they expose that brat blond haired kid who stole the throne? Will the dead king's wife get whats coming to her?

..........did I mention zesty coitus?

[meekon5]

I have missed this completely here in the UK (I'm sure some nice TV exec will repeat it for me), but Rev Klaus absolutely swears by it. For him to recommend anything on TV is quite a recommendation (he doesn't really watch the thing most of the time).

[Caesar dude]

Is this a new type of spam??





Across this line dude.....