Game of Thrones (HBO)

Woolen_Horde · 2012-04-02T10:01:08.000Z

Telefrog:

Exactly my thoughts. The scene did seem to make them a little too familiar with each other for just regular Khaleesi to outrider interaction. I can definitely see them using him instead of Darrio later.

I think they were more showing the bloodrider bond.

Plus, anyone want to see Pyke?.

The effing Dutch got episodes 1 and 2 on HBO Go.

Telefrog · 2012-04-02T10:05:29.000Z

Woolen Horde:

The effing Dutch got episodes 1 and 2 on HBO Go.

Well, they’ll still be Dutch. Also, watching episode 2 isn’t that great of an advantage now because you’d have only other Dutch to discuss it with and you’d have to wait TWO WEEKS for episode 3.

Woolen_Horde · 2012-04-02T11:28:30.000Z

Holy God, Ghost
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5866/jop1q.png

Sabotai · 2012-04-02T11:35:45.000Z

Telefrog:

Well, they’ll still be Dutch. Also, watching episode 2 isn’t that great of an advantage now because you’d have only other Dutch to discuss it with and you’d have to wait TWO WEEKS for episode 3.

Thanks, I feel warm inside.
HBO just launched here and it is part of their promotion to get subscribers; costs $ 20 per month, so I’ll probably wait for the DVD set.

Jason_Townsend · 2012-04-02T11:42:17.000Z

jg93:

I haven’t read Clash of Kings in years - but I don’t remember Janos Slynt killing all of Stark’s bastards - was that actually in the book?

aCoK spoiler

He was in charge, but it was his right-hand-man, Allar Deem, who did the actual killing in the book. It also wasn’t shown, Tyrion gets the details from Slynt over a nice dinner.

[QUOTE=jg93;3091617]What about Cerci having the guards threaten Littlefinger?

spoiler

Nope.

None · 2012-04-02T15:27:32.000Z

Woolen Horde:

Holy God, Ghost
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5866/jop1q.png

Lawd have mercy! Shaggydog is going to be terrifying.

HRose · 2012-04-02T17:13:14.000Z

I took the map on HBO and assembled it: http://loopingworld.com/misc/westeros.jpg

BEWARE. It’s a 7Mb jpg 5700x3700

mono · 2012-04-02T18:36:27.000Z

HRose:

I took the map on HBO and assembled it: http://loopingworld.com/misc/westeros.jpg

BEWARE. It’s a 7Mb jpg 5700x3700

Very cool, thanks!

Woolen_Horde · 2012-04-03T09:20:03.000Z

Ratings are in.

Season premiere set the mark for highest ratings for the series yet, just shy of 4 million, which also beat Mad Men Sunday night by a million. Very impressive, especially when you consider AMC is a basic cable channel with a far larger footprint than HBO, which is premium cable. GOT was also the top show on cable that night by a large margin.

The Season 2 premiere is also 74-percent higher than the season 1 premiere.

On SkyAtlantic, it got 500,000+ in the UK, which blows away what Mad Men got in its season premiere (<100,000).

Growing ratings, incredible social buzz, rave reviews, pop-culture phenom (when The Simpsons parodies you, you know you’ve made it), and a ton of Emmy love.

HBO isn’t canceling this any time soon. Especially now that it’s scrambling to fill the gigantic hole in its schedule created by some incredibly bad Luck.

Tin_Wisdom · 2012-04-03T09:30:07.000Z

Woolen Horde:

The Season 2 premiere is also 74-percent higher than the season 1 premiere.

Wow, that’s really impressive. I questioned their decision to wait to release the BluRay/DVD versions of Season 1 until Spring (as opposed to Xmas), but maybe the rash of GoT-viewing parties the last few weeks caused a huge upswing in subscribers/viewers.

Woolen_Horde · 2012-04-03T09:35:04.000Z

Tin Wisdom:

Wow, that’s really impressive. I questioned their decision to wait to release the BluRay/DVD versions of Season 1 until Spring (as opposed to Xmas), but maybe the rash of GoT-viewing parties the last few weeks caused a huge upswing in subscribers/viewers.

I actually wonder if those parties hurt the ratings. At the viewing party I was at, there were a good 12-13 adults there. Even factoring in the couples, you’d figure HBO lost about 4 or 5 TVs right there for the 9pm numbers.

The 3.9 million number is just for the 9pm showing, btw. I’ve heard if you add in the repeat viewing numbers it goes higher. (The Hollywood Reporter says that the total for all three broadcasts was 6.3 million.) And it goes even higher once you add on demand, DVR, and HBO Go.

I’m sure there’ll be an HBO press release soon that trumpets all of this, along with the Season 3 greenlight.

jason · 2012-04-03T11:04:55.000Z

The parties would matter if that was how they did their ratings. But Nielson doesn’t use actual numbers. It uses a sample size of homes with their equipment and extrapolates to the population of TV owners. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielson_Ratings

To get the just under 4 million viewers number, it means that around 3 and 1/3 percent of Nielson equipped homes were watching Game of Thrones. They estimate there are 115.9 million TV equipped homes, so 3 and 1/3 percent of 115.9 is just under 4 million.

Razgon · 2012-04-03T11:21:09.000Z

Havent HBO said repeatedly they aren’t going to scrap this before the end? Of course, I can imagine if it was a financial disaster they’d go against that anyways.

Pogo · 2012-04-03T11:46:36.000Z

Telefrog:

Well, they’ll still be Dutch. Also, watching episode 2 isn’t that great of an advantage now because you’d have only other Dutch to discuss it with and you’d have to wait TWO WEEKS for episode 3.

No, it’s in English.

I’m satisfied with waiting two weeks for Episode 3.

Teiman · 2012-04-03T11:49:36.000Z

I have to say that I have watched the first season 2 times, and I feel the urge to watch it again another time. And I am not a fan of the books ( I stooped reading on some random book, I forgot what one ).

Having watched the first episode of seasion 2 make me happy. But I hate to wait a whole week for another episode. I normally download from the internet complete seasions of tv series to watch all episodes one after another.

jg93 · 2012-04-03T12:35:42.000Z

Razgon:

Havent HBO said repeatedly they aren’t going to scrap this before the end? Of course, I can imagine if it was a financial disaster they’d go against that anyways.

I’ve never once seen this and I follow GoT news pretty closely. It really doesn’t make sense for them to do so, or if it was the plan, to announce it.

And this show is far from a financial disaster for them. Huge ratings, huge over-seas sales, and the best selling discs they’ve ever made.

Telefrog · 2012-04-03T13:02:00.000Z

Pogo:

No, it’s in English.

The viewers are Dutch.

Pogo · 2012-04-03T13:02:41.000Z

There are no borders.

Charlatan · 2012-04-03T14:42:49.000Z

Pogo:

There are no borders.

That’s not true, when I watch on my iPad, there’s borders all around the image!

mono · 2012-04-03T16:10:11.000Z

Razgon:

Havent HBO said repeatedly they aren’t going to scrap this before the end? Of course, I can imagine if it was a financial disaster they’d go against that anyways.

What end? The book series isn’t complete, and given the pace of the author, it may be forever open ended. At least GRRM’s supposedly filled in HBO execs w the basics of how the story wraps up, so if he keels over, they can finish the series. I’ve only read the first book, but I find the HBO series to have improved upon its source material. HBO writers completing the series would probably turn out pretty well.