I don't know why HBO decided to put out a new Game of Thrones season 2 trailer so quickly after the last one, but this new one is so good I want to take it back behind the middle school and get it pregnant (apologies to Tracy Jordan). Seriously, if there weren't less than a month until the first episode, I'd probably riot, because I cannot possibly wait an extra minute for this thing. The other, goofier videos are after the jump.
• First up, Disney's Game of Thrones...
Thanks to Greg B. for the tip.
• ...followed by The Simpsons' GoT opening credit homage from last night's episode.
Both of these are clever and well done and the Simpsons one especially is very cool. However, I think I'll ignore them to go watch the new official trailer a few hundred more times. (Via Geekosystem)
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Personally, I felt insulted when I saw the Simpsons GoT intro, as in keep your fat, yellow hands away from anything that spells quality; I don't what it associated with your shit.
The Simpson's btw, there is something magical about that show, I really don't know how each season can be so incredibly fucking shitty yet the following season is somehow even worse, and it's been like this for what, 10 years? Can that turd already...
oh man, now i have read the books post season 1 and know whats instore for characters like tyrion and jaime i am waaaaaaay more amped for season 2.
Interesting, with regards to the trailer. I may have to track down the first season, or, better yet, just wait until it all concludes and buy the entire production on Blu-Ray. I can imagine myself buying the first season now and becoming all junkieriffc for the second season to be released, too. Though it's good to see or hear Florence and the Machine are replacing Enya, at least in this one instance, when it comes to fantasy music. I remember laughing when I first watched the Lord of the Rings and realized some of the tracks were New Age.
What the Funk! i just watched, nee LISTENED to the new GoT Trailer. Is it just me or do they try to compete with the incredible goosebumpy Hobbit Dwarf Chants. Anyway my goosebumps got goosebumps!Trailer on repeat
Was this the episode of the Simpsons where Lisa gets raped and Maggie is thrown into a fire to burn to death, while Bart is tortured by Slideshow Bob, who's won the lottery and risen to become mayor of Springfield?
No, this is the one where Mr. Burns rapes Maggie in revenge for the prior theft of Bobo, his beloved teddy bear, Principal Skinner is revealed to be breast-feeding from the corpse of his mother; and the Dwarf Moe Syslak has risen to prominence by throwing the boy King Nelson's classmates into the nearby Nuclear silos.
It aired the same time as the episode of GoT where Maester Luwin made Bran write "I will not warg into the class hamster". Or was it the one with "Asshai is not pronaunced ass-high"?
I can't wait to fantasise about punching Joffrey and having sex with Daenerys (at the same TIME!!!) again after all these months. Also, Tyrion motherfuckers, Tyrion!
Aaaaaaahhh!!! Must have new GoT season now!!
I was afraid reading the books would turn me off from watching the show, but it's not the case... it's just made it worse.
It looks like they're going to address one of my only complaints from last season, that the show kind of skipped on a lot of the war scenes (to be fair... the book glosses over many of them too, but I felt the show went into even less detail).
That Simpsons opening was legitimately more entertaining than the episode it was attached to...Though to be fair, the episode was going good until the third act hit & they felt the need to explain the entire joke/satire/premise to us. Ugh. Every time they try to force topicality these days, I die a little bit.
Also, was that first in the opening a reference to Bart and the Beanstalk? Seriously, that, they remember?
I saw the Disney before the real one over the weekend. Talk about being bemused.
The Simpson's one rocks!
