HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]

[The_Bloody_Nine]

she has a bit boyish look, which is good for the role. I bet Hinds as Mance will be awesome.

[Anal Bleeding]

more and more new characters to confuse and spread the plot lines out until it is all a jumbled mess with loose ends that will never be resolved.
just like fat george does in the books to make more money.

[The_Bloody_Nine]

more and more new characters to confuse and spread the plot lines out until it is all a jumbled mess with loose ends that will never be resolved.
just like fat george does in the books to make more money.

why you care about it then?

[Overdriven]

Standard every season 'We are in Iceland and its COLD' video:

LOVE Ygritte.

[Anal Bleeding]

so what you can find snow anywhere.

[Oberyn]

so what you can find snow anywhere.

That's just geographically innacurate 

[okiN]

That's just geographically innacurate 

Your spelling is inaccurate, ZING!

[Oberyn]

Your spelling is inaccurate, ZING!

Your face is inaccurate.

[Anal Bleeding]

this fucking show is making nerds mainstream I hate it.

[Oberyn]

this fucking show is making nerds mainstream I hate it.

You prob weren't a fan of the LOTR trilogy then. Nerds already mainstream bro, sorry.

[Anal Bleeding]

the movies were shit. is you were a fan of the books growing up you were a nerd, but the movies made that shit mainstream.

[okiN]

Nerds aren't mainstream, and they never will be. Mainstream co-opting aspects of nerd culture doesn't mean they want the nerds themselves.

[Smoothrich]

the movies were shit. is you were a fan of the books growing up you were a nerd, but the movies made that shit mainstream.

The movies were fantastic dude.  The books are a boring slog because Tolkein was a sperg obsessed with minutiae and language.  He was also an unrepentant racist. 

Jackson made an epic trilogy more in the vein of Lawrence of Arabia then anything.  Sweeping landscapes, giant battles, one of the best soundtracks by Howard Shore I've ever heard.

Game of Thrones series is as just of high quality.  Its not about making nerds mainstream.  Its just telling a story that is honestly pretty fucking awesome, the first three books are some of the best drama filled with epic set pieces I've read.  Much like LOTR when it was made cinematic, which improved it tenfold.  Hopefully the writers can adapt and fix many of the flaws in GRRM's later work because he  kind of sucks now.

[Tears of Destiny]

He was also an unrepentant racist.

Not sure I agree with you on that.


http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Racism_in_Tolkien's_Works


Seems like just another case of looking for patterns because you want to see them.

[Smoothrich]

Not sure I agree with you on that.


http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Racism_in_Tolkien's_Works


Seems like just another case of looking for patterns because you want to see them.

He was an early 20th century Englishman.  You don't think he had a Eurocentric worldview, reflected heavily in his work?  The subject matter speaks for itself.  Heroic white race of men.  Brown "eastern" people corrupt by evil with no culture that are faceless enemies.  Black people are literally subhuman savages created as a slave race to serve their masters.

I'm sure tolkeingateway.net is entirely unbiased in creating a page with 5 times more content refuting racism then exploring it, when it is a debated and contested issue still in some circles.