The latest — and hopefully the final — trailer for the upcoming season of “Game of Thrones” arrived over the weekend, and for the first time, HBO is making use of a contemporary pop song to market the show, specifically Florence and the Machine. Personally, I like Florence and the Machine. But you know what? Florence and the Machine sounds about 4,000 times better when its accompanied by George R.R. Martin’s characters, snippets of what we can expect from season two — romance, war, swords, incest, violence, dragons, boobs! — and of course, Peter Dinklage. If there’s one thing that the trailer truly demonstrates about the second season it’s that, before it’s over, we’re going to hate Joffrey even more. You don’t treat Sansa like that without consequence.
Don’t make Tyrion open up his hand again, son.
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For your consideration: Tyrion to TWD to bitch slap Carl; Shane to Westeros to kick Joffrey’s ass and, naturally, take the iron throne. :: thinking :: Rick’s basically Eddard, isn’t he? F*ck.
Florence and GoT are such a perfect combination. If this isn’t the best trailer I’ve ever seen, it’s damn close.
GET HERE FASTER, APRIL.
My nephews 3rd birthday is April 1, yet I’m more excited for GoT. I’m a terrible uncle.
My 21st birthday is April 1st, yet I’m more excited for GoT. I’m a terrible alcoholic.
There are two battle scenes in Clash of Kings that I’m just straight-up gonna jack off to. Just thought y’all should know.
I think everyone who has read ACoK is ready to j-off during those battle scenes. Get the lotion and and jack rag ready for those scenes. Actually forget jacking off to those scenes, take your wife/fiancee/girlfriend and take her right there in front of the tv Dothraki style.
Not to be that guy, but if you read the books you will hate Joffrey more than you do on the show. Conversely, you will love Arya more in the books.
I can’t wait until Arya destroys everyone and becomes king, while telling everyone “I’m a queen!”
By the way, that’s not a spoiler. I haven’t read anything. Ever.
Joff is the entitled little douchebag to end all entitled little douchebags. I wish they’d show a different scene with Sansa, because that one breaks my heart every time.
Also, Arya is the BEST. Ever.
Joffrey truly is the worst, but there is no way they take that scene to its conclusion given the actress who plays Sansa is 16.
Completely agree. Reading the books, I found myself skipping ahead to Arya’s chapters because I wanted to know what was going to happen and I didn’t want to have to wade through 20 pages of Catelyn dialogue to get there.
Agreed. The other day I figured out that Arya really is the most bad-ass character in the books.
April is suddenly way to far away. Maybe this will motivate me to finish book 5…. but it is dragging. Why are they still on a river boat? Fuck me.
Also 0:42… any non-spoliery guesses on what part of ACoK that is?
Book 5 does drag, but it picks up some towards the end.
I’m nearly done with book 5. It’s definitely dialed up the awesome for last 200 pages or so, but I’ve been depressed for a day b/c of a death I did not coming. Ever.
Yeah, I don’t recall the scene at 0:42 in the trailer being in the book. I expect it is there to further dramatize Joffrey’s power-crazed callousness – having men fight to the death for his amusement is mentioned in the book. Not that we don’t see enough of Joffrey’s shenanigans to hate him enough as it is.
I think those fights on the city walls are supposed to be the tourney for Joffrey’s Nameday. At first in previous trailer I thought it was the riot, but in this one you see there’s attendance cheering. We’ll see if I’m right pretty soon, the tourney should be in episode two in all logic.
Oh, just wait. JUSSSST WAAAAIT. /is that woman.
I don’t know how I’d react if I met the guy playing Joffrey in real life.
Carl from The Walking Dead is the worst child actor of all time.
Awesome. Tyrion makin’ with the threat talk!
(Ceremonials is a pretty good album)
Seriously, I got chills when Tyrion delivered that line at the 01:19 mark.
I don’t know why, but I always imagine that Tyrion is seconds away from gargling up some wine like Frank Reynolds in every scene. Sure, he’s delivering awesome bitch slaps and deeply cutting lines, but he’s also so shitfaced, like, you have no idea.
Sansa is the worst. I’m on ACoK now and just like in the first book, every time I click to a new chapter and I see “SANSA” I fucking cringe. Catelyn chapters might be a lot of old lady rumination, but Sansa chapters are just her being a useless bitch for 10 pages.
I changed my opinion about her in AFFC, you have to like a certain other character she spends a lot of time with, but I think in the end she’ll have a pretty interesting arc overall, even with the lame start.
ENOUGH WITH THE TRAILERS!! Give us the damn season already!!