This thread is now an A Dance With Dragons Spoiler thread.

[Disco Pickle]

there's a LOT of story to tell and lay down.  It's all meat as far as I'm concerned and I feel they could drag just the first book out for two years if they did it right.  It did feel a bit rushed, but I was happy with it as a first episode.

also, daenerys..     

hell, for that matter, caetlyn and cerci too. 

[AFK]

I haven't watched it but I did notice it stars Boromir, I mean Sean Bean.  Seems like a role that really plays to his strengths as an actor.  But, I don't haz HBO. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

I haven't watched it but I did notice it stars Boromir, I mean Sean Bean.  Seems like a role that really plays to his strengths as an actor.  But, I don't haz HBO. 

You have the internets, right? Steal it. Teevee and movies is free now, just like software always was, didn't you get the memo?

[Jenne]

It was good.  I had to chase it around HBO because I got home too late to watch it direct from the first Eastern time feed, but once I was able to settle down and watch it, I was happy.

[Jenne]

Fur trim, big fuck-off swords, and lots if tits. Can't make heads or tails of anyone but the most obvious characters, but I'll keep watching, and get his books after I finish The Hunger Games.

My 10 year old is reading The Hunger Games.  We borrowed the book so I need to get it back to its owner asap, but let me know how it is.

[LMNO]

Better written than Twilight, darker and grittier than Harry Potter.  But it's still YA material-- I read it at the gym, so I don't have to pay full attention to it like I do to the Overcoming Bias/Less Wrong sequences.

[Suu]

I see Sean Bean and think Boromir. Fuck it.

I also don't have a TV, and I'm missing the Borgias, which, IMO, is far superior, because real life is better than fantasy. Plus, you just can't write fiction like the shit that happens in history, it's too weird.

[Jenne]

The Borgias is pretty good...they're warming up to the Cesare and Lucretia incest already.

[Jenne]

Better written than Twilight, darker and grittier than Harry Potter.  But it's still YA material-- I read it at the gym, so I don't have to pay full attention to it like I do to the Overcoming Bias/Less Wrong sequences.

cool.  The dude who let us borrow it hadn't read it yet. 

Yes, I'm THAT kind of mother: "Here kid, this will entertain you--have NO idea what you're reading, but eh, it'll keep you occupied..."

So now I have to read the Game of Thrones stuff as well, but I think I'll have my husband read it first.

[Suu]

The Borgias is pretty good...they're warming up to the Cesare and Lucretia incest already.

How many women has Pope Alexander fucked already?

[Jenne]

The Borgias is pretty good...they're warming up to the Cesare and Lucretia incest already.

How many women has Pope Alexander fucked already?

One.  Besides his kids' mother...

[Suu]

The Borgias is pretty good...they're warming up to the Cesare and Lucretia incest already.

How many women has Pope Alexander fucked already?

One.  Besides his kids' mother...

Oh, he's just getting started, then.

[LMNO]

I also don't have a TV, and I'm missing the Borgias, which, IMO, is far superior, because real life is better than fantasy. Plus, you just can't write fiction like the shit that happens in history, it's too weird.

I hope they're building up to something, because right now, it's kind of dull.  Plus, there's no nudity.


LMNO
-Thinks Spartacus should be where the bar is set; for fuck's sake, even Mildred Pierce has Evan Rachel Wood doing a full frontal.

[Luna]

Better written than Twilight, darker and grittier than Harry Potter.  But it's still YA material-- I read it at the gym, so I don't have to pay full attention to it like I do to the Overcoming Bias/Less Wrong sequences.

Yes, I'm THAT kind of mother: "Here kid, this will entertain you--have NO idea what you're reading, but eh, it'll keep you occupied..."

Heh.  My brother used to call me to ask if he should let his daughter read stuff.  HE wouldn't read it, but he knew I would.  (This is why I've read the whole damned Twilight series.  Answer:  It'll rot her brain, but there's not much you'll have to answer questions about.)

[AFK]

I also don't have a TV, and I'm missing the Borgias, which, IMO, is far superior, because real life is better than fantasy. Plus, you just can't write fiction like the shit that happens in history, it's too weird.

I hope they're building up to something, because right now, it's kind of dull.  Plus, there's no nudity.


LMNO
-Thinks Spartacus should be where the bar is set; for fuck's sake, even Mildred Pierce has Evan Rachel Wood doing a full frontal.

I see your Spartacus and raise you a Caligula.