mgbfan

Do we know who is playing Stannis yet?

MrX

Martin mentioned he hasn't even seen any audition tapes for Stannis yet.

Just watched those videos, the woman reading for Melisandre looks perfect but her delivery is awful

Liked that the guy reading for Davos

superdeluxe

I was checking IMDB, I guess that guy was in the TUdors.

The woman reading for melisandre has done 3 acting gigs in her career.

superdeluxe

I got 2 programs running that will capture #gameofthrones hashtag tomorrow as well as saving all mentions of Game of Thrones. I think I might run a save program for all mentions of stark or ned.

MrX

So the opening should change tonight with The Twins and possibly Riverrun added to the map.

MoviePage

Ned seeing Arya, and then more importantly not seeing her -- best change from the books so far? I think yes.

GreenMonkey

No kidding. It had to be quite the shocker for folks that expect the typical heroes-get-the-bad-guys LOTR type fantasy.

IMO Killing Ned in book 1 would be like if JRR Tolkien had Frodo killed in Bree and Samwise carrying the ring It was such a shocker when I read it the first time.

MrX

I've seen a couple of people who think the Drogo scenes were just a swerve to make people think he was going to die instead of Ned, and he'll be fine next week

superdeluxe

Yes? Almost like he was with peace that Arya would not see him die.

MoviePage

It also allowed him to see her one last time, and presumably gave him a little peace knowing that she's (relatively) safe for the moment. Very nice touch that added a great deal of extra emotion.

This scene playing out visually had far more of an impact on me than it did in the book. It really packed a wallop.

Tommy Ceez

Visually I think Sean Bean did a great job of showing Ned as the ultimate fish out of water in Kings Landing, and the complete lack of understanding of how this could be happening came across better on screen than in the book

superdeluxe

Stannis is getting name dropped ALOT in the show, I wonder if the show is going to get another B-Lister to portray Stannis.

Groucho

I'm guessing that Stannis is definitely a role they are going to offer to known actors, rather than audition for.

What I'm really wondering about is how they are going to handle Jamie, since he's MIA for most of the second book. It would be a shame to replace him with a different actor, as that greatly diminishes the impact of his character arc. One option, I suppose, is to accelerate his story and move some of the stuff from book 3 into book 2.

JasonF

If they were smart, when they put Nikolaj Coster-Waldau under contract, they said something like:

"We'll need you for filming full time in 2011, then for a week or two 2012, then back to full time for 2013. So feel free to line up a project or two for the time between Season 1 and Season 3.

Oh, and we're going to need to amputate your hand if that's OK."

sven

Probably. Why waste money on such a boring character? They'd be better off spending some money on Davos.

Alvis

I'm actually hoping the series will be popular enough so that all the books get made. Maybe that would light the fire under Martin's ass that would be necessary to get him to finish the last two books (hope he doesn't up the number of volumes again) in a more timely fashion (less than 5-6 years between books).

Alvis

Has then been made into a shirt yet?

superdeluxe

Yeah...that was actually the Teefury deal last thursday I think.

MrX

Martin mentioned on his blog yesterday that we could start hearing about season 2 casting this week. He said they have 5 or 6 people that they are finalizing deals for.

Season 2 starts shooting next month.

Pharoh

Why cut out Pod?

JasonF

Because that scene with Shae, Tyrion, and Bronn would have been too creepy if it had been Shae, Tyrion, Bronn, and Pod?

ckw4b

I loved reading the reactions to Ned's death from those who hadn't read the book.

On the Facebook GoT page, some people are threatening to quit watching the series because HBO killed their favorite character, not realizing the series is based on a book.

mgbfan

From the main thread

Well he's sort of got it right.

starman9000

Larry, guy that flipped out in the other thread, is the guest I was complaining about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owf6D...feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOoA1OtcNjM&NR=1

If they kill Drogo next week, I'm done!

starman9000

It's fantastic how some of them will settle down a tish before next week and then be all up in arms again about Drogo.