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

Thrilling ep. P sure the Mountain was having his abominable undead way w the Septa, btw.

yeah that's what i thought.

Does Daenerys stand at attention on the bridge all the way across the ocean voyage. Or were they sailing into something that the camera cut away from before we saw.

this too! lol.

great to see ned stark back, looking forward to seeing how his story pans out from the tower and finding out who his new kid is.

Bran is just outside the wall

the music for the opening bombing was amazing. and the sense of fear and dread, in general. the kids killing pycell was cool too, as a sign of how horrible this new regime could be.

sansa's "explanation" to jon snow was really stupid. "sorry i didn't tell you". "you should tell me in future, i'm sure you had your reasons for doing this strange and stupid thing but what's done is done they are not important now"

would have liked some white walkers, though maybe they've exhausted all the interesting reveals about them now.

btw can a mod fix the typo in the thread title

Does Daenerys stand at attention on the bridge all the way across the ocean voyage. Or were they sailing into something that the camera cut away from before we saw.
Would think there would be much better things to be doing with her time.

― Stevolende, Monday, June 27, 2016 9:45 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They were just posing all cheesy for the sake of that epic final scene. I wouldn't read into it.

Similarly the unsullied ship had them all standing at attention. Not because it made sense but because we understand they're robotic individuals. Looked pretty stupid to me but these were minor details.

sansa's "explanation" to jon snow was really stupid. "sorry i didn't tell you". "you should tell me in future, i'm sure you had your reasons for doing this strange and stupid thing but what's done is done they are not important now"

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, June 27, 2016 10:02 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah seriously. Guess they had no interesting reason beyond Sansa being flawed. "Lots of soldiers died perhaps needlessly because we didn't have critical hypothetical leverage to play up for the sake of pre-battle negotiations and stalling, but oh well just make sure you let me know these things next time k? Don't worry I'm not mad. Love you, sis. Seriously take Mom and Dad's room- it has the TV."

uh u guys see sansa and littlefinger exchanging meaningful glances in that final scene they obvs gonna conspire against jon, not telling him is obvs part of an emerging pattern of sansa going for self, lol this thread being full of complaining abt travel times and like standing on boats but u cant understand the plot

that looked more like Sansa not being satisfied with Littlefingers reaction to Jon being made king.

xpost yeah but why wouldn't he ask? i guess he is stupid.

feel like the "the king in the north" chant could have gone on a bit longer. like maybe they could have all kept chanting it and then gone outside and walked around for a while, with more people joining in, until they eventually tired themselves out.

sansa may have made a betrothal deal with littlefinger to place jon on the iron throne, leave the north for her, too? don't see her as the betraying her half-brother kind, not after all the horrible shit that's gone down past few years in their fam

littlefinger shdve done a dance

would be good if he shouted it and everyone looked at him like "nah" and stopped.

if he just ran his hand through his hair and sort of mumbled king of the north

sansa does not trust jon, why? cause hes a lil bitch who doesnt listen and runs out into battlefields all by himself

didn't have the cgi budget to show us the littlefinger futterwacken, sad imo

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^ For Fred

rip tommen

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Thanks Evan. Feel much better now :)

so they revealed Jon Snow's parentage but did it in such a way that i wonder if the significance of his father was lost on the majority of the audience. i said this several seasons ago probably but i really think they dropped the ball on the backstory elements. i still support flashbacks. Rhaegar is barely a presence at all in the show.

it's already established that ned is his father. the show jumped forward 9 months after he arrived at the tower.

lol

can't believe they used a third actor for ned stark as a dad. or a fourth or whatever it was.

the bloody bed was played by sean bean

bean as the baby looked pretty old but still incredibly like a real baby

just a lil wink n a nod to fans of the first season

tho nothing like jon snow, still it was a nice touch. fathers become sons.

xpost yeah those who noticed v pleased

i think they kept the paternity vague on purpose. presumably there will be a pt 2 reveal that will be more deliberately expositionary wrt rhaegar. otoh, if this was supposed to be the full reveal then yeah they fucked up.

they are prob getting away with a lot due to fans reading up on the internet.

she whispered something we couldn't hear, seems p intentionally vague, tho i don't know what the purpose of that vagueness would be unless we have a big sean bean reveal coming next season

not sure if it's been mentioned but the music in this ep was really good

tho nothing like jon snow, still it was a nice touch. fathers become sons.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, June 27, 2016 11:37 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its all obvs foreshadowing to when jon is riding his dragon and yells at danny "hey theres winterfell" then leans over to get a better look and falls off crashing through the castle all the way down to the crypt where he lands in neds tomb and one of the dire wolves is there but it takes off its face to reveal arya who says "thats his dad"

*the wolf is voiced by sean bean

no doubt someone else will try and claim they knew that would happen

its an essential part of nerd culture which i wldnt trade for the world

I do gotta say, credit to writers/director for at decent misdirection in the Arya/Walder Frey thing. For just a minute I thought that Jaime, sufficiently disgusted at the idea that he and Frey are anything alike, had enlisted the help of the girl with the come-hither eyes to get shit done. It's actually funnier now to realize that Arya was looking at Jaime like HOLY SEVEN I MAY GET A TWO-FER HERE.

the waitress was super hot kinda fucked up that it was arya

https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/747455599122669568

xp I know, later I thought how glad I was that neither Jaime nor Bronn tried to get with her.

Jaime playing Barney Stinson to Bronn's Ted Mosby also A++.

https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/747455599122669568

I literally tweeted "Wildfire can't melt steel beams #GoTtruth" about five minutes after the scene aired last night. >:(

bronn def the most likable character on the whole dang show

I literally tweeted "Wildfire can't melt steel beams #GoTtruth" about five minutes after the scene aired last night. >:(

― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Monday, June 27, 2016 11:57 AM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=Wildfire%20can%27t%20melt%20steel%20beams&src=typd

yeah well shut up

loll

honestly fewer results than i had imagined

this was a v good finale imo

so...that little faraway look Tyrion gives in that scene with Dany...we are to presume he just realized he's falling in love with her?

cersei with all the power she wants but absolutely nothing to hold onto it for other than a lifetime of accumulated rage is gonna go really poorly for king's landing for all of like, 2/3 episodes before it no longer matters and dragons burn the city to goddamn ashes lol

the scene was almost awkward. i thought she was going to hug him. or kiss him on the top of the head.

also wasn't she furious with him like one ep ago?

xpost