HBO greenlights A Game of Thrones pilot!

[keg in kc]

EDIT: Changed the original header to mark this as the thread where spoilers are allowed (but not necessarily recommended...). Created a new, spoiler-free thread for Ice and Fire virgins...


This is awesome...

Huge, Huge News

Nov. 11th, 2008 at 10:29 PM

HBO has given the production order.

They will be filming the pilot episode of A GAME OF THRONES.

It's just the pilot so far. They'll need to see that before they decide whether to proceed with a full season's episodes. So let's all hope the pilot will kick serious ass.

It should. David Benioff and Dan Weiss did a terrific job with the script. And yes, all of you can relax, it's very faithful. Dan and David will be the executive producers for the pilot and (we hope) the eventual series.

More details when I have 'em. The news is very fresh. HBO just issued their own press release, which should be up on their website soon, if it's not there already.

Winter is coming to HBO. Hot damn.

[Hammock Parties]

Frazod WAS NOT planning on seeing a dick tonight.

[kcpasco]

Originally Posted by jspchief

I can honestly say I never once associated rainbow with homosexual in the world these books take place in.

I also never considered Loras or Renly to be gay.

If I remember correctly, I think I recall Jamie telling Loras to back off or he will stick his sword somewhere that Renly couldnt even find. So the hints were there I just wasn't expecting to be slammed with it.

[Hammock Parties]

When Boromir got stabbed in the leg at the end of the episode and fell to his knees I thought they were going to cut to an Orc firing an arrow into his chest.

[beer bacon]

Originally Posted by jspchief

I guess I missed the chapter where he shaved Renly's nipples then sucked his cock. oops, spoiler

Probably because neither Renly or Loras are PoV characters in the books.

[Jawshco]

Originally Posted by Fishpicker

the actor that played Niles is gay, obviously gay, that's what made the Niles/Daphne dynamic funny. you're not making any sense.

The actor who played Niles is Gay? What? You're ruining my world, LOL! I thought that the actors that played Bulldog and the Dad where the only gays in that village.

[Bowser]

Great episode, even with the chest shaving and the sword swallowing. (that doesn't make me gay, does it? nttiawwt) Hopefully they'll counter next week by showing Dany and the red headed whore getting the bejesus banged out of them.

Tyrion's cell in the Aerie was fantastic. Really captured the mood from the books. The whole scene with Lissa and her son (what's his name?) was completely straight out of the book.

[TinyEvel]

I haven't read one post on this entire thread but just from the title it sounds super ghey.

[kcxiv]

Originally Posted by TinyEvel

I haven't read one post on this entire thread but just from the title it sounds super ghey.

no, psn being down for so long and getting hacked was super ghey. This show kicks ass.

[NewChief]

I object more to the depiction of Loras as a conniving, power-hungry schemer than as homosexual. Though I suppose pretty much everyone in Westeros (besides Ned Stark) is a conniving schemer.

[jspchief]

Originally Posted by NewChief

I object more to the depiction of Loras as a conniving, power-hungry schemer than as homosexual. Though I suppose pretty much everyone in Westeros (besides Ned Stark) is a conniving schemer.

No doubt. Up until this point I've felt the series was pretty dead on with the book. What they've done with Loras just doesn't mesh.

[Great Expectations]

I bet GoChiefs liked this episode more now that he found some characters he can relate to.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by jspchief

No doubt. Up until this point I've felt the series was pretty dead on with the book. What they've done with Loras just doesn't mesh.

In discussion with a coworker, we think we know why they depicted Loras/Renley as they did:

Spoiler!

When Robert is killed, it gives another possible power faction that could be responsible for his murder. That doesn't explain the gratuitous shave and a BJ bit, though.

[ChiefsFanatic]

Originally Posted by NewChief

I object more to the depiction of Loras as a conniving, power-hungry schemer than as homosexual. Though I suppose pretty much everyone in Westeros (besides Ned Stark) is a conniving schemer.

I don't care that the characters are gay, either. What bothers me is the fact that the characters are not being portrayed as they are in the books. Gay men don't have to be slightly built, androgynous looking men. The actor they chose to play Loras is completely unbelievable as a Knight. His arms look like noodles, and there is no definition in his muscles.

A Knight that practiced swordsplay every day, with the heavy swords that the Knights of Westeros use, would have strong muscular arms.

In the books Renly isn't really a fleshed out character, but one thing is clear: He is a charismatic leader. The way he is being portrayed in the show makes him out to be a whiny, insecure effeminate sissy that needs to be convinced by his gay lover to stake a claim to the throne.

They might as well have made Tyrion 5'5" tall.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by ChiefsFanatic

I don't care that the characters are gay, either. What bothers me is the fact that the characters are not being portrayed as they are in the books. Gay men don't have to be slightly built, androgynous looking men. The actor they chose to play Loras is completely unbelievable as a Knight. His arms look like noodles, and there is no definition in his muscles.

A Knight that practiced swordsplay every day, with the heavy swords that the Knights of Westeros use, would have strong muscular arms.

In the books Renly isn't really a fleshed out character, but one thing is clear: He is a charismatic leader. The way he is being portrayed in the show makes him out to be a whiny, insecure effeminate sissy that needs to be convinced by his gay lover to stake a claim to the throne.

They might as well have made Tyrion 5'5" tall.

Yeah, that's a good point. One problem is that these characters are sort of flat in the book and are just described by other people and mainly on the periphery of the books. As such, they don't translate well into being featured characters.

I agree that they could have done a much better job with Loras, though. He's not convincing as a badass fighter. The episode makes it seem more like he got lucky against the Mountain than had any skill.

[Fishpicker]

I watched the last episode again because I couldn't fall asleep last night. Frazod is right, there is a Liberal agenda. when I got to the scene with Lysa and her son it, dawned on me that Lysa is the only Lady in the castle. Robert Arryn is sucking on the government teat. GRRM gives a tacit endorsement of the Nanny state.