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

Plenty of big moves in this episode. I like the Greyjoy home a lot. Surely it wouldn't be hard to kill off the sparrows now. Tyrion's risk with the dragons was unconvincing.

jon snow revive was too early

Why? I'm glad they didn't drag that one out.

Who is the cousin Jaime said he killed?

big moves, bad dialogue, felt forced

When he was in a cell being held by the Starks.

Alton Lannister. Jaime killed him to get out of his captivity in season 2.

A funny mention, since there definitely is a bunch of kin-slaying going on this season.

I kinda like watching this show again after it caught up to the books. It's pretty clear that George RR Martin is much more concerned with the rules of his word than the Benioff and Weiss. Which is okay, of course, but I do scratch my head a bit if Ramsay Bolton can get away with killing his father, brother and (step)mother, without his men rebelling.

But I still liked the episode more than I liked the last few I watched.

So Melisandre was able to reanimate Jon because she had lost her faith, right? There was something in that Brotherhood w/o Banners storyline about how a priest lost his faith and then somehow woke the dead iirc

i think she was able to reanimate jon because kit harrington is pretty popular

Yeah. I'm not sure if they intended any sort of connection between corpse-revival-powers and loss-of-faith. I'm assuming a coincidence unless they reiterate it somehow. For instance, the Brothers priest guy was still able to revive their guy even after his faith was restored the first time it worked.

I don't think the power gets revoked if your returns

Thoros then confesses how he had always had a large lack of faith in the Lord of Light and never took his duties seriously because of them, until the day that Gregor Clegane killed Beric, his friend, and Thoros was called upon him to revive him. When he saw that it worked, Thoros's faith was restored.

So you're saying there's a trial membership to get you hooked?

i was thinking there would be some focus on "king's blood" as being special and as a foreshadowing of future revelations but other than showing her sponging him down for a weird amount of time that didnt happen.

Yeah it would have been a little stronger if the "king's blood" had been a more significant element in the scene. I agree it certainly seemed that way with all of the sponging.

p funny how the show ppl were so adamant abt saying he was dead and not coming back and no one believed them and then he only stayed dead for less than two eps

real quality cliffhanger they pulled off there

alliser thorne's no good very bad day is about to get worse

stoked for jamie to kill the sparrows

they probably shouldn't have said anything. i think the fact that melisandre was there at the end of the season was the problem, like if she'd shown up at the beginning of this episode that would have been better for a cliffhanger. they should have kept him dead and brought back robb stark, complete with dire wolf head. that would freak out the squares even more.

i have real beef with the idea that whatshername the kennel sadist girl falls off the castle wall and is hella dead but sansa and reek leap off a 60 foot embankment and are taking off on foot unharmed

didn't she land on dry ground and they jumped into a snow pile?

i was thinking there would be some focus on "king's blood" as being special and as a foreshadowing of future revelations but other than showing her sponging him down for a weird amount of time that didnt happen.

― ryan, Monday, May 2, 2016 12:28 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

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i believe there was a snow pile down there, plus feet first vs head first

xp i don't think we saw what they jumped into at all and the clear implication was that they'd rather commit suicide than deal with psycho mantis again

a john snow pile

the greyjoy/iron islands shit feels a bit removed from the main action but it's awesome doom metal action, polar opposite of the cafe del mar court intrigue poisoning sullen teen BS of dorne.

ya iron islands r tite

whos the guy who pushed the king off the bridge its his brother? whats the deal

his name is like euchalele or something

eunuchalele actually

euron the crow's eye, he crazy, i like y'all's suggestions better though

eunuch ukulele

idk why the karstarks would prefer to ramsay to roose

the show has three key supporting characters who are eunuchs a fourth might be pushing it

also is max von sydow's name really just 'three eyed crow' ?

need to balance it out with a guy who has four dicks imo

well it would make sense because eunuchs come in pairs

the show has a bunch of Starks but that didn't stop them from bringing in Car-Starks

are car starks just starks who drive cars

really missing concepcion's ask the maester pieces this season

karstarks seem deeply unchill, their dead leader killed a couple lannister kids in S3, which seems more a ramsay move than a roose move.

p sure it's kars in westeros but yes that's the main difference

really missing concepcion's ask the maester pieces this season

― dynamicinterface, Monday, May 2, 2016 1:05 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

apparently u cn receive them via the ringer newsletter theres a link to one upthread

also is max von sydow's name really just 'three eyed crow' ?

― dynamicinterface, Monday, May 2, 2016 1:03 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the book sez it's brynden rivers, i think, i wouldnt be surprised if they brought it up at some point

books say that Hodor's real name is Walder too, not Willis as in the show

whatutalkinabout walder

Karstarks' name is explained as basically some Starks that took control of the Karhold & made a portmanteau

idk why the karstarks would prefer to ramsay to roose

I think Ramsay was giving the Karstarks a chance to climb up over the other big Northern houses.

karstarks seem deeply unchill, their dead leader killed a couple lannister kids in S3, which seems more a ramsay move than a roose move.

Jaime killed Rickard Karstark's sons (both of them?), and he was hellbent on avenging the loss of his heirs, it was pretty consistently characterized (perhaps more so in the books).