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

Where? Not here

http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/episodes/6/60-60-the-winds-of-winter/synopsis.html

http://www.makinggameofthrones.com/production-diary/got-connections-ned-promise-tower-of-joy-infographic

One thing I did ponder: was the wildfire cache always under the sept like that specifically, or did someone move it there?

thanks gukbe

trayce, that cache was there from before the show even started - it was placed at the orders of the mad king, and his intent to use it (along with other caches around town! still there, presumably!) was why Jaime got the nickname

Also I have to assume Qyburn and his birds had to knock open at least a couple of bricked-up passages to find that shit, if it were as easy as they made it seem in the episode, somebody else would have discovered it in the intervening period (at least 20 years in Westeros-time)

QUESTION: how do GoTverse people measure years if winter isn't annual?

Oh I knew the cache had always existed under the city, I just wondered if it had always been conveniently under the sept.

..but if theres more than one cache that would explain it dur.

El Tomboto
Posted: June 29, 2016 at 6:28:02 PM

QUESTION: how do GoTverse people measure years if winter isn't annual?

same way we do is my understanding

"winter" isnt about the sun its magical

Search out the cgi breakdown of the battle of the bastards

so I guess the maesters at the Citadel got some astronomy going on and are checking the angles and shit

if that's the case and they have knowledge reaching back centuries or even millenia, couldn't they just be like "yo this is going to be one of those zombie seasons"
actually nevermind I know how this shit works out, once they built the wall, anybody who wanted to bring up "zombie season" was told to STFU or we can enroll you in a nice community college for animal husbandry, you savvy?

i was thinking the maesters dont really have any idea how bad the winter will be just like the farmers almanac

It's called THE WALL son it does what WALLS DO, STOP THINGS do you know how much that wall COST it will NOT FAIL it does what it says on the tin and THEN SOME if you mention whatever that thing you just said again I might have to just make you the new maester for the dreadfort, working for boltons, DO YOU UNDER STAND

So the burning of Stannis' daughter held off winter just long enough for Jon Snow to take Winterfell. Good job Lord of Light!

BTW, a nice touch in the last episode was how they showed us all these white birds flying out of the Citadel, as Sam and Gilly are arriving, and then showed one flying towards Winterfell a little later, and then finally reveal the significance as Sansa and Jon are finishing up their chat on the parapets.

surprised she didnt make that argument xp

no a great conperson

BTW, a nice touch in the last episode was how they showed us all these white birds flying out of the Citadel, as Sam and Gilly are arriving, and then showed one flying towards Winterfell a little later, and then finally reveal the significance as Sansa and Jon are finishing up their chat on the parapets.

Somehow missed all of that, damn.

Heh:

HBO: What animal would be on your house banner?
Bella Ramsey: A tiger, or an elephant, or a monkey. Actually, a lion! I hate decisions!

wow she sounds super smart for a 12yo

she gives me the vibe of the girl who will go to college at 16 and act in a lot of overemotive theater

So Anne Hathaway?

nerdier

Anne Allthaway?

RIP Ramsay :'(

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S04E21/1243057.jpg?b64lines=IFlFQUgsIEknVkUgQkVFTiBTVEFSVklORwogJ0VNLCBURUFTSU5HICdFTSwgU0lOR0lORwogT0ZGLUtFWS4=

lol nice reference

Ha yes good one :)

http://i.imgur.com/kA2TKWQ.gif

Fantastic

The librarian in that scene was Frank Hvam, very locally famous Danish comedian. Weird casting for a lot of Danes.

Frederik I can't believe you didn't bring up the best cameo of the season, native son Frank Hvam as the Citadel's receptionist

― El Tomboto, Monday, June 27, 2016 3:19 PM (1 week ago)

quite surprising to me that westeros has so many books, bet most of them are dead boring

mostly just dupes of the satanic verses

Books are catalogued Feast Description 1-400,000

haha!
I am on p122 of the first book. There have been a lot of meals described

Frederik I can't believe you didn't bring up the best cameo of the season, native son Frank Hvam as the Citadel's receptionist

― El Tomboto, Monday, June 27, 2016 3:19 PM (1 week ago)

― El Tomboto, 4. juli 2016 21:51 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, sorry!

See you in 2021 for season 7!

I found the conversation upthread about whether or not GoT is fantasy mostly quite clueless. It is definitely 100% fantasy. It has a somewhat different and rather more interesting approach to character and morality to most of the Tolkien-esque heroic fantasy from which it draws, but that doen't make it not fantasy by any means.

Anyway, killer finale.

different but 100% the same makes sense

Yes, it actually does. You build a house out of vinyl, it would be different from all other houses, but still 100% a house.

would sound better than other houses

everyone in the world: i usually dont like shit with dragons and swords but i like this
nerds: ahhh nooo this really freaks me out for some reason

everyone is the world: i usually dont like shit with dragons and swords but i like this therefore it must not be fantasy.
nerds: Yes it is. Some fantasy is really good, we've been trying to tell you.

Plus, I said it was different to most Tolkien-esque heroic fantasy. This is only one kind of fantasy.

Game of Thrones is 100% nerd, even though it was stitched together from the skins of cool people

game of thrones is mostly scifi if were being honest

game of thrones is mostly scifi if were being honest

― lag∞n,

Haha bollocks.

http://www.goldlabel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Martin-Starr-Party-Down.jpg

post-fantasy

Is that a younger Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley? xp