Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.

Andrew ,'Damage'


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sumi - Apr 18, 2011 5:50:08 am PDT #3302 of 7424
Art Crawl!!!

Thank you.


sumi - Apr 18, 2011 7:43:10 am PDT #3303 of 7424
Art Crawl!!!

GoT Preview.


le nubian - Apr 18, 2011 8:08:35 am PDT #3304 of 7424
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Vortex,

maybe I'm forgetting some blond people then! I must admit, I was a little lost with all the characters. I need to go to the HBO site.


sumi - Apr 18, 2011 8:19:44 am PDT #3305 of 7424
Art Crawl!!!

The Lannisters are the Queen and her brothers.


§ ita § - Apr 18, 2011 11:53:28 am PDT #3306 of 7424
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

OMG, I totally called the incest wrong. I mean, I thought those two should be sleeping together because they were pretty, but I totally thought it was the Targaryens whose nookie I'd heard about.

A bit eyerolly at the bare-breasted drumming barbaric brown-skinned people. They aren't all non-white, but it seems that's where all the non-whites are.


sumi - Apr 18, 2011 12:24:01 pm PDT #3307 of 7424
Art Crawl!!!

Well, historically the Targaryens married each other - as in Ancient Egypt. (In the book, I believe that Viserys makes some comment to that effect in about the timeframe we've seen of the Targaryens so far.)


§ ita § - Apr 18, 2011 12:26:52 pm PDT #3308 of 7424
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Well, at least my incest-dar isn't entirely broken.

Good god, Coster-Waldau looks perfect. I totally get what they're going for character-wise just looking at the angle of his jaw.

The hair is pretty wack. Lena would look so much better if her hair didn't look so exhausted. It's a shame, because the set and costuming is exquisite.


erin_obscure - Apr 18, 2011 2:02:43 pm PDT #3309 of 7424
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

In the book the Targaryens married sister to brother to maintain a pure bloodline (a la ancient Egypt.) The Lannister twins' incest, otoh, is perceived by the other characters as an abomination. Not to mention treason.


sumi - Apr 18, 2011 4:35:36 pm PDT #3310 of 7424
Art Crawl!!!

Yeah, but I bet in Cersei's mind the Lannisters are as good as if not better than the Targaryens.


§ ita § - Apr 18, 2011 5:50:56 pm PDT #3311 of 7424
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The Lannisters have a throne. I'm sure that ups their cred substantially. Even if the guy is a Kingslayer. Which they haven't mentioned yet.