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

his motive being .... ?

Joffrey needs a motive to be an asshole? That's some Season 2 shit, as a wise lady once said.

Why would Joffrey pay an assassin to kill someone when he doesn't even get to watch? Totally out of character.

Beats me but that's what people think happened in the book.

In the show, it's an open question (but it was probably Littlefinger).

why would joffrey have done it in the tv show? what possible reason would he have? it had nothing to do w/ him at that point

wasn't what's-his-name calling the shots in King's Landing at the time?

ok moving on

I'm betting Qyburn put his prototype Scorpion on a wagon to Highgarden and back because he has a better idea (this is a guy who is basically the neutral evil version of Samwell, he is always having some scary ideas) and that better idea is a variation on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwacha

Who needs to aim for the head when you can fill the sky with bolts? You say drakaris, I say MLRS.

wasn't what's-his-name calling the shots in King's Landing at the time?

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, August 7, 2017 8:28 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The assassination attempt took place in the north

Bronn laughing at Dickon was good. Just three episodes to go in this season so I imagine they will be pretty packed.

I dont understand why theyre doing 2 short seasons. Are they still filming the last ones?

still writing the last ones, more like

watched this a second time, still missed the Davos fewer / less bit, sadly, but when Davos and Jon are walking down and run into Missandei right before Theon shows back up, doesn't it seem like maybe Davos (re?)discovered the stash of good brandy on Dragonstone? He's all gregarious and a little bit of a dick!

definitely davos drunk in that scene. also he says "think i gotta change sides on this one" or "am i allowed to change sides?" or whatever it's a little too ferris bueller looking into the camera and talking for me

Yes my one criticism w this ep was davos' lines were corny

can't wait for him and jorah to meet up and get loaded and trade tales of withered boners for dany & missandei

why can't they just make out and then move to Narth

Davos & Jorah as a retired couple would be the best neighbors ever imo

Speaking of changing sides, my money's on Bronn doing just that in short order.

yeah they seem to have set that up nicely - might not happen next week, but probably before the season is out.

We still have to get to the battle where Beric, The Hound et al. are flailing away in the snow, with full-on sword fire FX

One other thought, I look forward to the "next on..." preview cuts becoming more and more Mad Men as the final resolution approaches, i.e. giving so little plot information that they become complete non sequiturs

I dont understand why theyre doing 2 short seasons

it's a budget thing

isn't it also a way to keep the actors under contract for basically an extra season?

yeah just dragging the thing out til they get those spinoffs up and running

I agree with this

https://www.theringer.com/game-of-thrones/2017/8/7/16107158/game-of-thrones-spoils-of-war-meera-reed

She risked her life, watched her brother die, watched Hodor die, dragged Bran across a frozen tundra, drank rabbit’s blood, and all she gets is a half-hearted “thank you”?!

Didn't she make most of these points herself?

It's like doing a think piece on Littlefinger: "You know, when you think about it chaos is sort of like a staircase, or a ladder maybe."

kinda cracked up when bran did the "yes, he made this thing to help me get around" bit
"he calls it a 'wheeled chair'; i call it a 'hodor'"

but the worst part about her ordeal is that not only did Bran not seem to grasp the enormousness of what she’d sacrificed for him, neither did showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.

What a weird thing to write. They obviously appreciated it since they wrote the lack of appreciation as the text of the very scene being discussed.

I doubt that's her last scene. Seems like a pointless article.

i liked how sansa was like "he has... visions" - her tone and demeanour making it clear she meant "yes bran is back, but he is a weird creep now"

I thought all of the dialogue was shockingly bad and overwritten in this episode, but the dragonfight made up for it.

that p much sums up the entire seven seasons

What a weird thing to write. They obviously appreciated it since they wrote the lack of appreciation as the text of the very scene being discussed.

I have a feeling these tv writers watch the show sort of like a lot of ilxors do

Somehow missing huge chunks of detail then complaining as if it's the show's fault?

exactly

I do wonder if we're going to get to meet old Howland Reed at any point.

I wonder if we'll ever get to see the dragons in action. Some cave painting would be cool too.

Davos & Jorah as a retired couple would be the best neighbors ever imo

lol. davos coming around with his homemade mead.

What a weird thing to write. They obviously appreciated it since they wrote the lack of appreciation as the text of the very scene being discussed.

I think the point is that they did a bad job of it: she got barely a couple of sentences of "hey how about a thank you" when she deserved to get to say a whole lot more than that. I did feel somewhat the same at the time.

Enh, it was pretty clear pretty quickly that there was no getting through to galaxy bran

I guess for a character who's been around so long and was a part of at least one iconic sequence, she didn't really get to have much depth

But at this point anyone who isn't part of the endgame is going to get killed off or shuffled out the door with a gift certificate

The Meera actress does a good job on the whole.

On 2nd viewing, I felt like Bran's silent response to "you died in that cave" was tacit acknowledgement, and then when he looks back out the window he's perhaps mildly sad at the loss of his humanity. But I'm reading way too much into that.

I hope RAG is correct that we'll see her again. Although I wouldn't put it past this show to just kill a bunch of northern supporting cast in a gut-wrenching montage of Night King conquest.

On 2nd viewing, I felt like Bran's silent response to "you died in that cave" was tacit acknowledgement, and then when he looks back out the window he's perhaps mildly sad at the loss of his humanity. But I'm reading way too much into that

I got that impression on first viewing.

the bran plot line has been the most consistently bad part of the show. playing on the audience's sense of just desserts by finding new and surprising ways to be astonishing cruel to its characters has been a big part of this show's m.o.

What happened to the Meera is John's sister theories?

I think she said everything very succinctly. Most important point being that Bran might not even exist anymore, just a surveillance system that looks like him.

She stars in The Levelling and its supposed to be very good, anyone here seen it?

I like Bran's parts. The vision/raven thing is interesting and his settings are nice.

What happened to the Meera is John's sister theories?

There was no 2nd baby in that Tower of Joy flashback.

Even if the theory is correct in the books, I see why the showrunners would toss it out.

you guys watch this show twice? is that rewarding?