HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones - will this be just for nerds? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

i didn't completely understand the interaction between cersei and the...guy who i recognize but can't remember really. seems like he was hinting at some sort of move he could pull to get her out of there?

he was being kinda coy

Is there a suggestion that Frankenmountain might be ready to go pretty soon

o right he did say something abt the maester right

i didn't completely understand the interaction between cersei and the...guy who i recognize but can't remember really. seems like he was hinting at some sort of move he could pull to get her out of there?

― Karl Malone, Monday, June 1, 2015 10:41 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

qyburn, her disgraced former maester dude. him saying there's a way out is p much telling her "uhhh youre fucked you should probably confess," but saying "the work continues" is qyburn-code for "your zombie guardian is almost ready"

that said even a frankenclegane could prob be defeated somehow i highly doubt that it just singlehandedly kills all of cersei's 9 zillion enemies

Trial by combat?

Can imagine Qyburn sitting on Mountain's shoulders and throwing dangerous chemicals.

somebody's been playing bloodbourne

Trial by combat is such an unfair advantage for the people who have access to giant grunts

really enjoyed seeing cersei licking water off the floor. she is the worst, i hate her.

lol

Cersei scene made me think of KISS's "Lick It Up" so that was some kind of positive. The battle scene was a pleasant surprise, although I don't think they shot it very well - all those abrupt/jump-cut shots of people bludgeoning each other, that's not how you do a well-orchestrated battle scene imo

i think the point was that it was m/l a one-sided bloodbath rather than a battle

sure

why can't zombies go in the water?

maybe they dissolve.

they should just walk along the ocean floor underneath the boats then when the boats arrive at their destination the zombies just walk up out of the water behind them "oh hai"

it chills them to the bone ha ha

Rules

if a dude (the night's king) who only needs to go flicka the wrist to raise fresh dead from the fields solely as a parting troll gesture wanted to kill everyone then and there, he prob would have

its seems like the white walkers r gonna be hard to defeat only dragons prob cld do it

i bet dragon glass, valarian steel, and dragon fire all kill white walkers

seems like normal fire should work on the normal zombies tho

isn't there another valyrian blade out there? who has it? jamie? or bronn or brienne? i can't really remember.

Xpost #killallwhitewalkers

jamie and brienne each have ones that were melted down from the very big sword i think

brienne and jon have them, jaime took the one that was supposed to be joffrey's i think, a handful of other lords have them

tyrion had a valyrian steel dagger but its prob long gone

eddard's valyrian sword was melted down into 2 by twyin and he gave them to jamie and joffrey. jamie gave his to brienne, and i guess tommen has joffrey's now.

they will prob need another sword or two

And valyrian steel is a special kind of... treatment of normal steel? Folding process? A totally different set of alloys?

it's magic! since the doom of valyria no one knows how to make more.

white walkers stuff was intense & v v dope

it's like "welp, it was a p good plan Jon Snow but here let me show you exactly how fucked you are"

they used to build shit in westeros - now they're importing steel from the east.

winter is winter

valyrian steel obv made of dragons duh

you can probably kill white walkers by throwing Stone Men at them

And valyrian steel is a special kind of... treatment of normal steel? Folding process? A totally different set of alloys?

the only thing stopping them from killing the undead was the lack of a way of making sharp enough swords

iirc it's forged in dragon fire

does a have a real world counterpart where during the middle ages smelting techniques were more advanced in parts of asia than europe and the steel was imported and v expensive and a big tech advantage for those who had it

asian dragons are significantly better for forging steel than european ones

yeah that scene where jon snow turned the zombie king to dust felt historical

Why did it take them like ten minutes to be like "maybe we should go grab that bag of dragon glass stuff!"

Also, do you think the giant grabbed that bag?

did anyone notice the wildling that was chest deep in the freezing water by the dock, helping with the boat(?), before the whitewalkers even appeared? he was just hanging out in the water, holding the boat steady

this show crazy

giant gets to the wall and falls down dead of hypothermia

Nights Watch dig a 2ft deep moat in front of the wall and the White Walker threat is averted.

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the battle takes place at Hardhome, where the Wildlings have retreated after the earler battle at the Wall. so...the whitewalkers and the undead horde had to travel from the west to get to Hardhome, right? and no one saw them until they were about a mile away, avalanching down a mountain? come on guys you gotta send a scout or two out, this is embarrassing for you

everyone too focused on the pretty jon snow

psh yeah you send scouts to "the haunted forest" xp

i'll grant that the haunted forest is too scary to send scouts too. but what about the top of the mountain range that overlooks hardhome a mile away, or the piece of land east of scurry forest where the bays pinch in from the north and south? frankly, i'm beginning to think this entire show is just made up