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

Yeah I mean, destroying the main religious monument of the continent (is it?) surely would have ripple effects across the continent and hit the masses pretty hard. it's the kind of detail, or even choices Martin and the producers are making that I somewhat dislike: if they were to focus less on yet house drama and more on the havoc the houses are unleashing selfishly on the populations, then the whole story would have been more poignant to me, perhaps. However that's a personal inclinaison that I'm not going to force on everyone and I can get behind with the directions they are going eg. setting up for epic stuff throughout an entire season.

yeah after six seasons, i still dont' understand their basic infrastructure; who picks up the garbage? who do they call to do the plumbing? are the grocery workers unionized?

fun episode. good music.

kinda confused about the "portentous dramas" thread subplot but i'm guessing it's not about some premonitory element of the plot and more about misspelling pretentious?

to be fair you get more of a sense of the everyday world in the books

o man, i'm gonna watch it. last one, so excite.

It's just about the drama often seeming to be aiming at seeming portentous tbh, word has other meanings

Actually I guess it doesn't rly, I've never seen "portentous" used in a way that wasn't at least a little ironic.

i guess - like gloomy, foreboding, etc i just don't get why that's a bad thing

Who would have thought the maesters library had so many books. Seemed like an awful lot for a society where only high nobolity knows how to read and write. Seems like they just wanted to go for some kind of star wars galacitc senate jedi library big grand shot. But too many books.

my immediate thought was probably a lot of census records and grain requisition receipts but I bet there are some cool books in there too

Who would have thought the maesters library had so many books. Seemed like an awful lot for a society where only high nobolity knows how to read and write. Seems like they just wanted to go for some kind of star wars galacitc senate jedi library big grand shot. But too many books.

― 龜, Tuesday, June 28, 2016 3:32 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSwBEq1zz4k

The library looked like the one from Dark Souls!

Wait ,has it been established that only nobility know how to read?

lol, arya's all, "try the cock. it's the best part."

Anyone spot this?

https://media.giphy.com/media/xT8qAX6tTFxQptAOha/giphy.gif

a "church" abruptly shoehorned in

LOL shoehorned in it was in the first fucking episode and like every single episode ever. Not that it's been a primary source of tension or drama (at least not like in the books), but the contrast between the Old Gods and the New Gods, between the godswoods/godtrees and the Church of the Seven, has been present since day one.

NOT TO MENTION THE LORD OF LIGHT WHICH IS PRETTY GODDAMNED IDEOLOGICAL

what am i looking at in that gif

Sean Bean is waving

Kristofer Hivju is one of the Hotel aliases that Sean Bean uses

It seemed at the start (of the book/TV series) that the religions managed in piece; the north talked to trees, the South had the Seven, and it was mostly okay with the spheres of influence that had been carved out. But the ideological implications of those beliefs have been unfolding and conflicting all the time (I.e only one of them relies on a priesthood). It's not central to the plot, but it's certaiy not ephemera.

(Not to mention trial by combat which has been a major plot point)

still don't get what's in that gif?

tho doesn't take a genius to know who "john bradley" is.

Stark banner back on Winterfell.

Yeah

https://media.giphy.com/media/xT8qBagPHmahtoirgA/giphy-downsized-large.gif

jon could've won a bloodless battle if he'd just made fun for ramsay for that bolton banner being a bit 'on the nose'

Not sure if this has been mentioned upthread. Bryan Cogman responds to the teleportation issues:

https://twitter.com/b_cogman/status/747542462311260160

Best finale they've done by far.

The most fun criticisms/questions for me are still around the Faceless assassins. Can Arya only pose as women? Can they be animals too? Maybe a human but with a dire wolf's face?

More seriously, did Arya steal that woman's face before leaving Braavos? Or did she kill the woman already there at the Twins and slice her face off while also doing the brothers Frey?

well, we last saw her in the face-hanging room, so she probably stuffed a few faces in her travel bag before peacing out

She probably has a little carrying case full of faces she took with her. Comes with a strap and a microfiber cloth inside.

Also a mesh pocket on the side for a water bottle

There is no ideology associated w the lord of light fwiw

Xxp

i'm guessing she killed that woman for her face but that doesn't eliminate the possibility of the travel-ready face case you know

(xp)

I thought that Sansa was secretly happy with Jon's ascension to the throne because it also blocked off Littlefinger's, difficult to tell really.

Also my immediate take from the flashback scene was that Jon was actually Robert Baratheon's son but I hadn't really slept in several days by that point. Was it intentionally vague?

Awesome episode anyway, amazing shifting of deadwood throughout.

at this pt the tower of joy stuff seems entirely reliant on paratextual information - if you didn't know about r+l=j theory i don't know how you could make any sense of what it is or what it is supposed to mean

yeah i was kinda thinking the same -- the only real information delivered in that scene is that jon snow is lyanna stark's son, not ned's. it's definitely not clear who the father is

seems doubtful she would've been worried about robert killing his own kid

I don't know why they held off on naming Jon's father. Seems pretty easy to figure out based on other stuff the show has told us about Lyanna. I guess they want to save up another reveal for next season.

They were p affectionate, maybe Ned's the father

http://i.imgur.com/RO2AGbS.gif

You know what I think would be cool? Next season opens up with an entire episode flashback to Rheagar. Via Bran or not.

looks likely - starting the next season with Dany's attack on King's Landing already in full swing would be great too (and ending with White Walkers reaching the Wall finally?)

I mean ending the season opener with that btw

nah Walkers won't breach the Wall until close to end of next season

looking forward to Baby Sean Bean ripping off his mask to reveal he is actually Orson Bean

Sean Bean Cobain

Wasn't it mentioned in the episode that Dany Kru will start off by attacking Casterly Rock so that the Lannisters have nowhere to run to? Given it's Tyrion's by birthright they might be holed up there for a while.

hes mr bean