HBO's Game of Thrones - - Part 11

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[craigdbfan]

That Chilean actor as Oberyn Martell is looking badass.

 

[Drz]

New thread? Time to start with our lord and savior!

 

[Sawyer]

Oh gawd, don't get them started...

 

[Roose Bolton]

All for you Sawyer. All for you.

 

[Sawyer]

 

[Roose Bolton]

Yes,

 

[Drz]

Oh gawd, don't get them started...

If you want Justice, you've come to the wrong place.

 

[Hush]

I hope Tyrion FINALLY gets his beard.

 

[Drz]

Peter Dinklage is againts the beard, because it's a dwarf stereotype.

Tho him getting a beard because of what hell he has to go thru, i could buy that and so should Dinklage, no time to shave!

 

[Roose Bolton]

Didn't he have a beard in that Narnia movie he did?

 

[CapedCrusader14]

If you want Justice, you've come to the wrong place.

Favourite part of the trailer

 

[Drz]

Didn't he have a beard in that Narnia movie he did?

I can't speak for Peter Dinklage, i saw the quote on Game of Thrones wikia, it had no citation and this is what google gave me:

Dinklage was cautious during his first “Game of Thrones” meeting. In the film “Prince Caspian,” part of the “Chronicles of Narnia” series, he had played the dwarf Trumpkin and spent the seven-month shoot in Eastern Europe and New Zealand sweating under a long red beard. “It was a lovely experience,” he said diplomatically, “but it was pretty uncomfortable.” So in that meeting with Benioff and Weiss, before anyone explained “Game of Thrones” or Tyrion Lannister to him, he made a simple request: no beard, no pointy shoes. “Dwarves in these genres always have this look. My guard was up. Not even my guard — my metal fence, my barbed wire was up. Even ‘Lord of the Rings’ had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It’s like, Really?” But he learned from Benioff and Weiss that Tyrion was a different kind of fantasy little person. “He’s somebody who turns that on its head. No beard, no pointy shoes, a romantic, real human being.” And perhaps most important in getting Dinklage, who still hadn’t had that many lead roles in the years since “The Station Agent,” to sign on before the meeting was half over: “They told me how popular he was.”

 

[Reek]

Oh gawd, don't get them started...

 

[chamber-music]

 

[Lord]

In terms of the zeitgeist...I'd say ASOIAF has had a larger affect. People aren't comparing Jordan to Tolkien like they are GRRM. The fact that these large scale books are being adapted pretty faithfully to the screen is a pretty huge acomplishment IMO

That's only because of Game of Thrones's popularity and as it has been a kind of Lord of the rings for television, not due to the GRRM's books before the show came out and made him this mainstream.

 

[Roose Bolton]

No, the books were pretty huge too. Certainly not as big as they are now, but they were heavily praised for being THE modern fantasy series. The tv show's just cemented that fact.

 

[Solidus]

That's only because of Game of Thrones's popularity and as it has been a kind of Lord of the rings for television, not due to the GRRM's books before the show came out and made him this mainstream.

Ya...no. Martin's books were pretty big before hand. They are bigger now, but they were revered for quite some time.

 

[Lord]

They were as big as A wheel of Time, maybe not as big, that's what i mean, now they're even more highly regarded due to the tv show

 

[Tron Bonne]

Highly regarded and more known are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

 

[Lord]

And how am i contradicting that?

 

[Tron Bonne]

You seem to be saying that the TV show has spread the way in which the books were regarded beforehand, no? If that's not what you mean, I think you need to clarify your point some.

 

[Lord]

No, i said that the TV show has given the books much more popularity and therefore atracts more attention to this series than most other fantasy books. Before the tv show came out, the reception wasn't this one-sided, other books like Wheel of Time were getting more of that "the new Tolkien" recognition.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Ah, I see what you're saying now. Well, I can't speak about that much. I'm not big into the fantasy scene, so I don't know know what is being called what.