What the hell is Game of Thrones and why should I care?
12.
Schlemizel
Hodor sounds like a potential prize on some Skinamax version of Lets Make A Deal.
“I’ll take whats behind the ho door Monty”
13.
Gozer
@Punchy: It’s like sci-fi medievally stuff, but with more fucking.
14.
Mr Stagger Lee
Are you ummm well endowed as Hodor? I thought you were more of a Maester Pycelle myself.
15.
Heliopause
I’m not interested in Game of Thrones and If this is truly an “Open Thread” I can talk about anything. Yet this is a Game of Thrones open thread. The head, it spins.
16.
arguingwithsignposts
@Heliopause: It’s the Anne Laurie style of open thread. There’s a topic, but you don’t have to follow it.
The big guy in the picture is named Hodor. He has a one word vocabulary: Hodor. No matter the instance, the circumstance, or the occasion all he says is “Hodor”. Thought there was a chance the entire thread might be nothing but Hodor responses. To which you nicely contributed.
I can’t wait until next week for next episode. Also, they’ve run out of Iron Throne beer in NYC. Should’ve bought more when I had the chance.
30.
Walker
Just finished watching on delay. I was wondering how they were going to handle the disguised Selmy. The decision to do away with Arstan Whitebeard and reveal him at the beginning right away definitely works. But that creates other spoilerishy problems that I am not sure how they are going to resolve.
@Punchy: From a similar fantasy and revenge tragedy, an explanation, such as it is:
“Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That from her working all his visage wann’d,
Tears in his eyes, distraction in’s aspect,
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!
For Hecuba!
What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? What would he do,…”
From Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2, the “Hecuba Soliloquy,” whic ends of course with “…the play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.”
GoT is not Shakespeare, but it is very good in creating vivid characters and having those characters play out their lives with the themes of power, abuse of power, pride, ambition, sex, sexual violence, and sexual repression in a setting not very different than Elsinore Castle.
40.
mapaghimagsik
Meet the actor at a con. Congratulated him on getting to lug a kid on his back for *mumble* books.
Really nice guy. Seemed pleased as punch to be there.
MazeDancer
Hodor!
jon
Hodor?
Redshirt
HODOR!
jon
Things didn’t go as planned once you left Bartertown, eh?
MikeJ
Hodor‽
(Don’t know what this means, but I’ll keep up the streak.)
Redshirt
Hodor hodored the hodored hodorelly. “Hodor?”, Hodor hodored. “HODOR!” hodored the hodor, then hodor.
Redshirt
@jon: Hodor should run Bartertown. Do a fine better job than Auntie or M/B.
jon
Master Hodor run Bartertown!
MikeJ
Bartertown sounds like a place where you can pay a doctor with a chicken. Las Vegas? Wasn’t Sue Lowdon in NV?
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Two Hodors enter, one Hodor leaves.
Punchy
What the hell is Game of Thrones and why should I care?
Schlemizel
Hodor sounds like a potential prize on some Skinamax version of Lets Make A Deal.
“I’ll take whats behind the ho door Monty”
Gozer
@Punchy: It’s like sci-fi medievally stuff, but with more fucking.
Mr Stagger Lee
Are you ummm well endowed as Hodor? I thought you were more of a Maester Pycelle myself.
Heliopause
I’m not interested in Game of Thrones and If this is truly an “Open Thread” I can talk about anything. Yet this is a Game of Thrones open thread. The head, it spins.
arguingwithsignposts
@Heliopause: It’s the Anne Laurie style of open thread. There’s a topic, but you don’t have to follow it.
So, Duke loses!! hahahahaha!
Redshirt
@Heliopause: You can talk about ANYTHING related to Game of Thrones! Totally open!
Turgidson
@Punchy:
Not sure. Let’s ask Sully what he thinks.
evap
I can’t believe I have to wait a whole week for the next episode.
Needs more dragons!
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Ham, scalloped potatoes and asparagus for dinner — pretty much the only way either of us celebrates Easter these days.
I asked G to wait until after dinner to watch GoT. I remember last season.
Jeff(the other one)
any gratuitious sexposition?
MazeDancer
@jon:
The big guy in the picture is named Hodor. He has a one word vocabulary: Hodor. No matter the instance, the circumstance, or the occasion all he says is “Hodor”. Thought there was a chance the entire thread might be nothing but Hodor responses. To which you nicely contributed.
@Redshirt: Hodorily hodored!
Soonergrunt
@Jeff(the other one): Not as much as there should have been.
max
I fancy my fantasy self to be like the faceless man, but more than likely, I’m this guy:
Yeah, but I bet Hodor knows where his mustard is.
So an episode that more finishes off the last season, than rolls into a new one. But Stannis needs to get his head out of his ass.
And I’d rather like Tywin if he wasn’t so damn much like his grandson.
max
[‘Of course his grandson had none of Tywin’s redeeming qualities.’]
MikeJ
@MazeDancer:
I was disappointed nobody noticed my interrobang.
Redshirt
@MazeDancer: Hodorific!
Citizen_X
@jon:
That’s next to Mortville, isn’t it?
khead
Dude looks like a dead Merle to me.
PsiFighter37
I can’t wait until next week for next episode. Also, they’ve run out of Iron Throne beer in NYC. Should’ve bought more when I had the chance.
Walker
Just finished watching on delay. I was wondering how they were going to handle the disguised Selmy. The decision to do away with Arstan Whitebeard and reveal him at the beginning right away definitely works. But that creates other spoilerishy problems that I am not sure how they are going to resolve.
srv
@Punchy:
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering
– G’Kar on Star Trek
Redshirt
@srv: I LOL’d.
May the Force let you Prosper.
Bonnie
This guy has a decent head of hair; or, is it a toupee.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@srv: I was about to do a serious WTF. Well played.
MazeDancer
@MikeJ:
I was impressed how you went along with it despite no pre-existing hodor Hodor.
Phoenician in a time of Romans
That’s KING Hodor, rightful heir to the Iron throne. Or so I’m betting George Martin will reveal…
Redshirt
GRRM IS HODOR
joel hanes
GRRM is a three-eyed raven
sherparick
@Punchy: From a similar fantasy and revenge tragedy, an explanation, such as it is:
“Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That from her working all his visage wann’d,
Tears in his eyes, distraction in’s aspect,
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!
For Hecuba!
What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? What would he do,…”
From Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2, the “Hecuba Soliloquy,” whic ends of course with “…the play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.”
GoT is not Shakespeare, but it is very good in creating vivid characters and having those characters play out their lives with the themes of power, abuse of power, pride, ambition, sex, sexual violence, and sexual repression in a setting not very different than Elsinore Castle.
mapaghimagsik
Meet the actor at a con. Congratulated him on getting to lug a kid on his back for *mumble* books.
Really nice guy. Seemed pleased as punch to be there.
chris
Can’t wait for this….
http://www.theonion.com/articles/game-of-thrones-season-3-opens-with-every-characte,31882/