HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones - Thread 2. There are a lot of nerds.

good question, had to look that up. He was on the same ship as Jaime and Myrcella when they headed to King's Landing. So the eye stone he was painting was for Myrcella, presumably.

Which means that somehow the elder two Sand Snakes must have set sail following them (they couldn't have stowed away) on some other vessel.

questions about how characters got from one place to another make me nostalgic for Lost threads

You'd think Jaime would have at least taken him off the boat as a valuable hostage. Overall the scene could have benefited from him asking the snakes how they got there:
"We tailed the ship all the way here to King's Landing"
"When Jaime gets back to the ship he will kill you both for this"
"We're doing you a favor- don't you realize what he'll do to you now that 'someone' in Dorne murdered the princess?"
"It was YOU, wasn't it? You poisoned her! My father will have you executed for this!"
"At this point your father is already dead. Now it's your turn"

Just some similarly terribly written exposition is all I needed.

At the expense of that we instead get this little snarky sassy banter that is trying to get us to like(?) the teenage mutant ninja snakes

always down for some casual sassiness and snark in a scene that involves a teenage boy getting speared through the face

You'd think Jaime would have at least taken him off the boat as a valuable hostage.

why do you bother quibbling about shit like this at this point

the very first shot, i was like, the bad guy watchmen just leave snow's body there? for his friends to find? why? if they're willing to kill snow wouldn't they just kill his friends right then too? what kind of halfassed conspiracy is this

yes i watched this, and i probably will continue to do so, and complain about it!

I'm just saying it is something that springs to mind and becomes distracting because I don't understand the scene. I want things to make sense in the universe of the show and the narrative so I remain immersed. That one doesn't seem too picky in my opinion! Why would he still be on the ship? "Well because it makes killing off his character really convenient" Boooo

the very first shot, i was like, the bad guy watchmen just leave snow's body there? for his friends to find? why? if they're willing to kill snow wouldn't they just kill his friends right then too? what kind of halfassed conspiracy is this

I guess now they know exactly who were the most loyal to Jon?.

honestly i didn't even read the design of that scene as being on a ship so idk

xp wow they're so smart

"Well because it makes killing off his character really convenient"

gotta kills some characters somehow

xxpost Killing Jon is being spun as an act of loyalty to the Watch. Killing Jon's friends as well would have been a harder sell.

xp wow they're so smart

― goole, Monday, April 25, 2016 12:27 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Yeah but they've established that Jon's friends will likely be ambushed and killed if they leave the room, too.

dothraki doing the spanish inquisition sketch re what's better than seeing a beautiful woman naked was kinda funny, but other than that i rly hope we don't have to listen to too much of their goofy fantasy machismo this season

#notalldothraki

didn't realise it was the ships that were burning in Mereen. thanks for the tip ILX.

i caught it from the dialogue but my goodness that was some lousy CG

it seems so late in the game to be setting up this Tyrion as emergency city manager plot. Maybe he'll do such a good job that after Dani conquers the world she decides to hand the throne him before turning into white flames and melting the north

I don't really have any guesses as to where they're taking that plotline...

i think it's just a way for tyrion to regain his power while stalling that whole storyline for another 2 years until martin publishes another book the burned ships are repaired

i mean it seems inevitable that when daenerys FINALLY goes west for the final showdown, tyrion will be at her side with a bunch of power and influence and it'll set up interesting conflicts with his family and westeros in general

this is so sad

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going way off the books with this twist

lol oh shit

ah well it all fits together somehow *thinkpieces*

doing porn is a route to getting a job on GoT sometimes

miss u rickon

and his direwolf, shaggydog

Candidates do very well in Westeros when they're intensely unlikeable.

Candidates do very well in Westeros when they're intensely unlikeable. unkillable

― Evan, Monday, April 25, 2016 5:08 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seen Bran in preview for next episode, have a feeling he'll connect with Jon. Hope something is revealed about that bird man's place.

That almost ecstatic expression of renewed sense of purpose and duty on Brienne of Tarth's face when Sansa formally accepted her service practically screamed that she's going to die soon.

Was thinking that. Her and Davos are probably toast.

No way, Davos and Brienne are too popular to be killed!

The end of the show is going to be all the popular characters hugging

I'm guessing Varys gets fucked up at some point. Nobody close to Tyrion makes it out of a season in one piece.

Check that, except Bronn. Where he at? Wasn't he on that boat too?

we need some congressional hearings on who was or wasn't on that boat and how fast it was going. #bronngazi

maybe the killing of the son already happened a while ago?

loooool goole

my gf points out that the kid who killed ygritte went thru puberty before filming this season

he wouldn't have killed ygritte after puberty

The last scene was pure room 237

the whole Brienne & Pod vs. a half-dozen Bolton suckers was really hard to figure out for a while until I rewound it about a dozen times and I realized the guy in charge of the dogs? That motherfucker took off the second trouble showed up. That's what they only had to murder 5 out of 6 in the party, and no dogs. Mr. Hound done R-U-N-N-O-F-T as soon as he heard steel on steel, probably before that, actually.

Watch it again. K9 handlers stay the fuck away when a hostage situation gets violent. That's SOP going way back, apparently.

This has basically become a series of unconnected vignettes of varying quality and tone, from genuinely tense and atmospheric (Sansa and Theon) to comedy skits (Dorne and the boob snakes).

I'm vaguely optimistic they'll pull out some proper exhilarating shit as they always have in the past, but for now it's lost a good deal of weight and momentum.

both dorne and the dothraki are basically new adventures of hercules. also can't believe the extent to which they've stalled the daenerys storyline, as mentioned by others itt.

last season was p crappy and rambling too. they seem a bit afraid of actually allowing the characters to do the things they want to do. a lot of stasis. like it is almost funny that they've found a new way for daenerys to be stuck somewhere for good. no doubt in the finale when she finally escapes the dothraki, she'll break her ankle or something.

http://media.vanityfair.com/photos/571938881127b91b7468ae89/master/w_900,c_limit/game-of-thrones-season-6-episode-1-ss07.jpg

state of this guy

I think the house of widows thing seems interesting. She'll probably meet new recruits there.

The house of widows is one of those things that could be great in theory but probably won't be in practice. The Dorne stuff at least got rid of a load of deadwood characters and might actually lead to a war.

If John Snow is really did then Davos is effectively our eyes and ears around the Wall now, if anything he's likely to be more prominent this year. John Snow probably isn't dead though.

I can't remember how Arya went blind but marooning her hundreds of miles away from everyone else was a terrible narrative decision.

'You'll just have to sit here and wait' seems to be the M.O. for so many character arcs right now. WTF is going on in this show? Those white walkers had better pull their fingers out.

it's one thing isolating main characters, but they give them this one basic simple goal and then have them frustrated in every attempt to achieve it, it's like they've found that having one character trying to bounce the same ball off the wall for three seasons is the easiest way to deal with so many storylines at once, cos you just see them and instantly know nothing in their plotline has changed.

they've had a whole season of dorne being annoyed, arya getting beaten up and failing tests, a few seasons of daenerys going from triumph to setback. are there no ideas in the writers room or something?

(or was there another test audience style pilot)

yeah they recast a bunch of parts. also:

The title sequence was different
An extensive opening scene showing a poisoned Jon Arryn, desperately trying with his last ounce of strength to write a warning letter, but then collapsing and dying
The early design of the White Walkers was slightly different, particularly their language
Cersei burning the feather Robert left at Lyanna's tomb
Jon gets drunk at the Winterfell feast, as in the novels
More exposition between Jaime and Ned about the Mad King
An actual flashback to the Mad King killing Ned's father and older brother
A scene in the training yard with Bran and Tommen sparring, then Robb and Joffrey (from the books).
Catelyn wanting Sansa to go south, and Luwin being the one to urge Ned to go south
The Jaime/Cersei and Daenerys/Drogo sex scenes were changed

can't wait until we have GoT truthers demanding that Jamie and Cersei are related

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I regret to inform you all that this is not a musical.

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it's early days yet, anything is possible

I'm just like Westeros
I'm short, scrappy, and morose
And I am not throwin away my shot

The hills are alive
With the howls of zombies

Nah, hmph. This is more difficult than I thought! How bout

Oh, King's Landing, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain
Where the incest blooms
In murky rooms

Needs work, but it has potential

And now, the show you've been waiting for!

‘Game of Thrones’ Jon Snow Sequel Series in Development at HBO (Exclusive) https://t.co/n38hTKV5Np

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 17, 2022

If this isn't a wacky workplace comedy called Jon Snow Knows Something then what is the point.

Wheres the Hound’s show thats my question

That one's called Dog Gone.

Sandor season one: 10 hour-long episodes of smoldering rubble slowly going cold

actually i think i could vibe with that

did anyone watch a knight of the seven kingdoms? i have to say i quite enjoyed it, the vibe seems to be like ambling around in a videogame, light humour, bit of heart to it. nothing too epic but that's part of the charm.

yeah i find it amusing.

funny that one of the last posts in here is about the Jon Snow sequel that was greenlit and the latest news is that Kit Harrington thinks playing Jon Snow ruined his career

enjoyed it too

some chat here:
All Series Must Die (Which Is Why There Are New Ones) -- The Game of Thrones Series Spinoffs

Remember when they made an episode that was the culmination of the mega-popular series, and they decided to make it a black screen? What a fucking joke.