Game of Thrones - HBO part 2 - Part 1

[ChickenScratch]

Well Baratheon is his name. Not like he could ever hold the throne with the Lannister name, that would be openly admitting he's not first in Robert's line of succession.

 

[chamber-music]

IGN casts season 2 of GoT:

http://tv.ign.com/articles/118/1181314p1.html

Rachel Weisz as Melisandre?

And who is Rosemund Pike?

Rosamund Pike is a British actress. She played a Bond girl in Die Another Day, Karl Urbans sister in Doom, Johnny Depp's wife in The Libertine and Bruce Willis wife in Surrogates.

She has also apperaed in An Education, Fracture and Pride And Prejudice
She will be playing Andromeda in Wrath Of The Titians as well.

 

[smashmode]

well dang

 

[Paroxysm]

Christopher Eccleston would totally make a wicked Stannis and Robert Carlyle was born to play the Onion Knight!!!!

 

[BlackLantern]

does IZ also hate henry cavill and christian bale casting for batman and superman because fans favored both chocies? lol

in a majority of cases, the fans don't know s***....let's be honest here

If I remember correctly, this is Kit Harrington's (Jon Snow) first screen role. Where his qualifications at? Hmm? (sarcasm, i'm not serious, I'm on your side, SouLeSS) He's been in plays, but that's about it.

Who cares how many actresses they auditioned, it's just satisfying that they got someone who can at least fit the physical description of the role. It would have been disappointing if they had to change the character to fit a certain actor just because they're high profile.

 

[chamber-music]

This may be Kit Harrington's first role besides theatre but he graduated one of the best Drama schools in Britain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_School_of_Speech_and_Drama

The list of former students alone is impressive

 

[Speedball]

This may be Kit Harrington's first role besides theatre but he graduated one of the best Drama schools in Britain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_School_of_Speech_and_Drama

The list of former students alone is impressive

I wasn't putting him down at all. I dunno if you're taking what I said the wrong way, but just clarifying it from my side.
He's a well trained actor and it's pretty impressive that this role, which he'll probably have for awhile, is his first.

 

[Poeman]

Kit Harrington is perfect as Jon...Humble and very likeable character

 

[El Bastardo]

He plays a stick-in-the-mud like Ned, with less fire than Robb has. To that, yeah, Harrington does a great job, but it's not exactly an energetic and demanding role. I'm not underselling it, and I like Jon as a character in the books to begin with, but the actor does very little to win me over.

In conversations with people I know (friends, my local comic store owner, and one of his friends, primarily), I formed a list of who I considered the best castings and portrayals for the series as a whole. It was meant to be a top five in no particular order, but after the four I came up with, I didn't really care for a fifth.

Again, in no particular order: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister, Iain Glen as Jorah Mormont, Aiden Gillen as Petyr Baelish, and Richard Madden as Robb Stark.

 

[chamber-music]

I wasn't putting him down at all. I dunno if you're taking what I said the wrong way, but just clarifying it from my side.
He's a well trained actor and it's pretty impressive that this role, which he'll probably have for awhile, is his first.

Its cool it wasn't directed at you or anyone in particular I was just putting it out there

 

[smashmode]

Salon with a rave review, according to Westeros, no spoilers (And upon reading it myself, no spoilers):

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2011/07/10/a_dance_with_dragons

I couldn't stop reading Martin because my desire to know what was going to happen combined with my absolute inability to guess what would happen and left me helpless before his sorcery. At the end, I felt shaken and exhausted.
I can't recall the last time a work of science fiction or fantasy had that kind of effect on me. I'm almost glad that it will be years before I have to do this all over again. Because it will take me years to recover.

 

[Buford The Sly]

Salon with a rave review, according to Westeros, no spoilers (And upon reading it myself, no spoilers):

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2011/07/10/a_dance_with_dragons

We'll definately have to discuss ADWD in the books thread. Tommorow can't come fast enough.

 

[Poeman]

Gonna get it on my Kindle, first purchase on it!

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Please discuss ADWD in the book section. I just finished Game of Thrones last night. I really enjoyed GoT, very excited to start Clash of Kings and meet Stannis and read something where I don't really know what's going to happen.

 

[Raiden]

Well Baratheon is his name. Not like he could ever hold the throne with the Lannister name, that would be openly admitting he's not first in Robert's line of succession.

I've always wondered about this: since Lannisters are so unbelievably wealthy in Westeros, to the point King Robert had to borrow money from them, is there a reason why the Lannisters didn't just fund a huge army and usurp the throne for themselves, or contested against Robert & Ned after that Mad King died? Is it because of what Tywin said about preserving the reputation of their family name?

 

[Spidey-Bat]

I think a reason why they didn't was because it would have to be Tywin, the former Hand of the King, to assume the throne. And if he did, his heir would be Tyrion since Jaime couldn't succeed him as he's in the Kingsguard. Instead they just had Cersei marry Robert and get power that way. If they had tried to usurp the Throne after Robert, it would be them against the Baratheons, Starks, Arryns, Tullys, and probably Tyrells. Not good odds even for the wealthy.

 

[Siby]

There is only reason the Lannisters don't contest the throne is because they are jerkwads. Everybody in the seven kingdoms would rise up against them and even they don't have enough money to fight all the kingdoms.

 

[Speedball]

I wanna see a huge cat-fight between Cersei and Margaery for the title of queen. Margaery finally gives up the sweet , loving demeanor and tears out Cersei's extenstions.

 

[ChickenScratch]

I've always wondered about this: since Lannisters are so unbelievably wealthy in Westeros, to the point King Robert had to borrow money from them, is there a reason why the Lannisters didn't just fund a huge army and usurp the throne for themselves, or contested against Robert & Ned after that Mad King died? Is it because of what Tywin said about preserving the reputation of their family name?

A couple already touched upon it but Robert is the one who claimed the throne that night, not Jamie when he was clearly sitting in the throne with the crown right there. He lacked boldness.

Also it's way too easy to have Tryion as king if something goes wrong, and nobody wants that right. A half man, an imp ruling over whole men? There would be open revolt and the Lannisters might end up in the same fix the Targeryans are.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Also, it was mentioned much earlier here but I'll point it out anyway, Robert is a descendent of Targaryens, so he had some claim to the throne, while the Lannisters have none whatsoever.

 

[El Bastardo]

There is only reason the Lannisters don't contest the throne is because they are jerkwads. Everybody in the seven kingdoms would rise up against them and even they don't have enough money to fight all the kingdoms.

This has nothing to do with anything.

Also, it was mentioned much earlier here but I'll point it out anyway, Robert is a descendent of Targaryens, so he had some claim to the throne, while the Lannisters have none whatsoever.

That was me.

 

[Raiden]

A couple already touched upon it but Robert is the one who claimed the throne that night, not Jamie when he was clearly sitting in the throne with the crown right there. He lacked boldness.

Also it's way too easy to have Tryion as king if something goes wrong, and nobody wants that right. A half man, an imp ruling over whole men? There would be open revolt and the Lannisters might end up in the same fix the Targeryans are.

Yeah, I thought Jaime could've tried to claim the throne back then, but maybe it was due to youth or lack of ambition that he did not contest the throne after the Mad King died. As the king he could've done anything he wanted, even though he was a Kingsguard. As for Tyrion as king...I think neither him nor the kingdom would want to see it happening.

Also, it was mentioned much earlier here but I'll point it out anyway, Robert is a descendent of Targaryens, so he had some claim to the throne, while the Lannisters have none whatsoever.

I get it, but they could've usurp the throne even if they lack any claim to it, although facing the might of other houses' armies would've been far too expensive for even Lannisters' gold.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

They could have tried to, but there was no chance of it happening let alone succeeding with Robert on the throne or fighting for it.

 

[ChickenScratch]

Lets not forget that the people love Robert. He not only usurped the mad king, but he treated his people fairly well.

 

[mr. peasant]

They could have tried to, but there was no chance of it happening let alone succeeding with Robert on the throne or fighting for it.

Plus, it's simply not their style. Look at their current situation... Cersei is regent to the next king (effectively making her the ruler), who in truth is actually a Lannister even if he doesn't know it, Tywin is the Hand (the second most powerful person in the kingdom) and leading the armies of the royal loyalists (thereby best in position to reward his closest allies) and Jaime is Lord Commander of the Kingsguard. Seems to me the Lannisters are already in charge in all but name.