"The things i do for love" Game of Thrones is here

[W. R. Logan]

I enjoyed it a lot.
I'm with the Stark Block, who you fighting for?

[soggy]

I always saw Stannis as a larger man, a Knight - he seems a bit timid, not as sure as he is in the books

Ryder Block all the way!

[radiator]

Amazing, amazing television!

I've only just realised that during the opening credits of each episode, the relevant house sigils appear next to the various actor's names - a direwolf next to Kit Harrington who plays Jon Snow, a mockingbird for Aiden Gillen/Littlefinger, and so on.

When it gets to cast and crew, things get a little weirder - apparently they're allowed to choose their own sigil so you get things like ostriches turning up - and the one for the shows producers Weiss and Benihoff has two skulls, mirroring the logo for Bighead Littlehead - presumably the production company they own (the proper logo for which appears at the end of each show).

Brilliant!

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

... a direwolf next to Kit Harrington who plays Jon Snow....

The Direwolf is the Sigil of the House of Stark. Jon Snow is not a Stark.

MAJOR BIG-TIME SPOILER:[spoiler]He might be a Targaryen[/spoiler][spoiler]http ://awoiaf. westeros.org/index.php/Jon_Snow/Theories#Lyanna_Stark (remove spaces)[/spoiler]

[Mudcrab]

Yes he is, he's just a bastard Stark, hence the white wolf he got.

Is it just me or has the music got slightly more arsom too?

[mygrimmbrother]

Thoroughly enjoyed the new season opener. Kind of agree that Stannis should be a bit more imposing, but he's certainly a mean and moody bugger. Carice van Houten as Melisandre is just perfect casting though - 'for the night is dark and full of terrors', delivered in that cute dutch accent, awesome.

If anyone's interested, I'm celebrating the return of hte show on my portrait blog this week (and possibly the week after - there are so many great characters). So far I've done Tyrion and Joffrey. Link in the sig!

[flip-r mk2]

Late to the party once again, just watched the 1st five episodes of series 1, why didn't anybody mention how arson this is 

filip

[TordelBack]

... why didn't anybody mention how arson this is

Should be plenty of [very minor spoiler] [spoiler]arson[/spoiler] in the second season! 

[Devons Daddy]

Season 2!!!!
bloody hell outstanding.
why they do not sell it instantly on iTunes is madness,

it only encourages other means of viewing. but as a show, SEASON 2 is as good as season 1. which says it all.

[Keef Monkey]

Have read the first two books, but am only now getting through season 1, truly fantastic tv. I can't get away with how high the production values are. My only concern is how they'll manage to pull it off as things get bigger, because even by book 2 there are things I can't see them getting across on a tv budget. Hopefully they do!

[brendan1]

Season 2!!!!
bloody hell outstanding.
why they do not sell it instantly on iTunes is madness,

it only encourages other means of viewing. but as a show, SEASON 2 is as good as season 1. which says it all.

They don't sell it instantly on i-Tunes for obvious reasons.

[TordelBack]

They don't sell it instantly on i-Tunes for obvious reasons.

They hate money?  'Cos it's available to download for free in 10 different formats and resolutions an hour after it airs.  Don't see how adding a profit-making legitimate version would hurt anything other than failed attempts to segment markets by geography. 

[brendan1]

Well, blood-sucking leeches that nick everything they want for free off the internet are a discussion worthy of a thread in itself. I've made my views clear; they're cunts and they're ruining everything and they need fucking locking up/ fined/ removed from access to any broadband.

But it's a bigger issue, so let's deal with this one: the reason they don't put it onto i-tunes straight away is still obvious, and still wouldn't address the aforementioned blood-sucking leeches that would nick it for free anyway.

[TordelBack]

The desire to watch something in a format and at a time of your choosing doesn't automatically equate to an appetite for thievery.  Everything that's on iTunes is available by illegal torrent, and yet still many, many people are happy to pay for it.

[radiator]

Here's a comic that might strike a chord with a few:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

FWIW, I torrented all of series one of Game of Thrones. I also later bought the book and the Blu-Rays. I will do the same with series two. Does that make me a 'blood-sucking leech', or could it be that the issue is a bit cloudier than your rather simplistic, reactionary world-view would suggest?