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

The Father represents divine justice, and judges the souls of the dead.

The Mother represents mercy, peace, fertility, and childbirth. She is sometimes referred to as "the strength of women". Apart from human fertility, she also blesses crops with bountiful harvests. The hymn Gentle Mother, Font of Mercy is dedicated to Her praise.

The Maiden represents purity, innocence, love, and beauty. She protects the chastity of virgins, as well as protecting the innocent in general.

The Crone represents wisdom and foresight. She is represented carrying a lantern. Sometimes She is depicted as blindfolded.

The Warrior represents strength and courage in battle. He also represents people who are too lazy to google stuff themselves.

The Smith represents creation and craftsmanship. Grants workers the strength to continue their labors.

The Stranger represents death and the unknown. It is rarely prayed to.

Medicullus
Severus
Somniculosus
Verecundus
Beatus
Sternuens
Fatuus

basically anyone who still reps for the "old gods" seems likely to be a decent person in the terms of the show.

dece gods imo

xp well except the boltons

oh right. small exception there

guess it's more a north v south thing

the thing that bothered me is the fact that the Thenns shave their heads and don't wear hats. Looking at a map, they occupy the farthest north region with settlements, where presumably it is even colder than the wildling areas nearer the wall and the North of Westeros. All those people have hair, like as much hair as they can grow, and beards.

Their scars actually trap heat... yeah idk.

xpost It's more about whether your ancestors were Andals or not I think.

yeah, north/south -- Northerners are less likely to have come from Andal stock

xp re polyphonic's post.

I read that in Burrough's voice with the Material track as background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQc3T45pRWY

Surprised how few folks wear hats tbh. Hard to see pretty actor faces I guess.

the standard wildling outfit features a hooded jacket, the Stark women wore cloaks with hoods, my logic doesn't require a hat per se, but some form of head covering, which the Thenns don't appear to wear at all

yeah hats don't scan well on tv is the reason no one wears hats in the cold xp

that is of course nonsense loads of historical dramas are full of hats

the thenn are probably warm all the time from eating human flesh

it's really fatty and goes right to your forehead.

so - the more i look at that gif upthread from a few days ago – the more it looks like there's a dragon off in the distance.

― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall)

Nah. Watched that scene again last night on big TV and it's just shadows on the smoke

the dragons you don't see are the scariest

Upon rewatching I wondered if Jon, Tormund and friends constantly had their eyes on the boats in case they were all taken before they could leave.
Wondered why people were punching each other when the dead started attacking. It didn't look like they were just trying to get past each other. Maybe some were trying to restrain others from going towards the wights?

Punching each other? When was this?

when they were arguing about whether or not a scrap of tarp was actually an ice dragon

When the wights started attacking and most were leaving in boats, Jon and that wildling woman had to hit aggressors to get up towards the gate. Not clear why they were fighting. I guess either they wanted everyone to leave quickly as possible or they were wildlings who were against what Jon and co were doing generally that day.

I think they were just trying to go upstream in a frantic crowd of wildlings that were desperate to get on the boats.

BTW they were also fighting wights that had already made it past the gate.

prob just punching while the punchings good

jeez stannis not cool

https://threeheadedblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/falcor.jpg

maybe the worst episode of the series?

q to people who know westeros medicine - is jorah giving everyone greyscale?

I'm pretty sure you have to touch the infection directly.

welp that broke the episode 9 streak pretty definitively

i don't like Stannis anymore.

Not really clear on what the fire "tells" him as a result of the sacrifice...

"Show us the way"

So either they're trying to get the god of fire to say "thataway" in a literal sense, or otherwise somehow except it to show them how to win?

"OK thanks for the child sacrifice. yeesh... anyway, so what you do is take 500 men to flank up north. Then, fire some arrows over the southern ridge, cause... (etc)"

Or does it just give a vague magic 8 ball answer to their vague question? Would it just show an image of Stannis sitting in Winterfell giving the thumbs up?

i don't think it was meant to show them anything. it's a sacrifice sacrafice, that's meant to assure him victory or kill his enemies through a really bad flu or a falling satellite or something like that.

are you not entertained

brutal but gr8 episode imo

then again I've been in the tank for most of this season aside from episode 6 bc I do not pick the nits

xps upthread yes you need to be in direct physical contact with active greyscale (stannis can touch shireen's face bc her infection is gone, only disfigurement remains

I guess I'm just going by the previous "visions in the fire" stuff. Figured it worked the same here.

Xposts

the idea is that it would both provoke a precise vision and also influence the outcome. like think of it as the equivalent to juicing in sports

while also reading the opposing team's playbook and getting live advice from a genius ex-coach

respect stannis for going for the gold

at this point I know nothing - they're entirely off-book w his plotline so the following is CATEGORICALLY NOT a spoiler - but calling it now shit is gonna end real bad for stannis

that ep was p fn dire all around

i hope stannis is successful that wld really be the darkest possible turn the show cld take

never ending story otm
this one kinda sucked.
incidentally, the whole badassery of the unsullied has been pretty much completely undone by general plot pushing. These guys suck as bodyguards

they were never billed as being individually brilliant to a man the whole idea is that they're excellent as giant groups in infantry combat, they have said that from jump

some like grey worm are pretty solid in single combat but many are not bc they're used to being part of a unit, and folks seem to be getting very literalist about their whole style idgi

point being, an ambush is not really where soldiers who function best as a large collective siege weapon is going to shine and that is basically the whole idea! like it was in the alley