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

Why?

there was a rather long storyline centered around the slow, interminable movement of stannis's army right before they got owned by ramsey right

yes although I think you may have forgotten one of, if not the actual most horrible thing that has happened on the entire series in there

hot pie wisely deleted his tweet about how jon venables should be executed to appease his anger

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

Waiting for the ILX verdict on season 7 before scoping season 8 surely?

Well, people liked the first half last season, so they made two first halves!

2 short final seasons in pretty common in prestige TV: Sopranos did it. Breaking Bad did it. Mad Men did it.

They all did it differently, though, with two half-seasons meaning that they got two years of subscriptions for the contractual prize of one season. I think Game of Thrones is doing season 7 and 8, right? And I don't entirely get what the point is of that.

According to the showrunners they're putting so many battle scenes and effects into the last two seasons that they don't have time/money to do 10 full episodes each season.

I guess that also explains why the last episode was only 45 minutes and hardly anyone cared.

Yeah, that kinda makes sense.

According to the showrunners they're putting so many battle scenes and effects into the last two seasons that they don't have time/money to do 10 full episodes each season.

More shows should follow this approach, tbh.

Seasons 5 and 6 of Game of Thrones certainly should have.

Would have been far too long though. I don't fancy a full decade of this.

Oh, do you mean making seasons shorter or splitting them into two?

I think the last two eps of this season(?) are quite long.

Wasn't there also a suggestion from hbo that each episode in season 8 would be "feature length"?

Oh, do you mean making seasons shorter or splitting them into two?

― Robert Adam Gilmour,

Shorter seasons. The amount of actual plot in 5 & 6 could've easily been squeezed into seven episodes each.

Well, yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvcrwTcA5iw

"That's a dragon, stupid!"

so good

#Branface

Varys seems like a nice dude irl.

Varys is going to put Qyburn in a box with a family of starving rodents

Probably been mentioned but is there some magical reason why the White Walkers cannot get past the wall?

They sure are taking their time otherwise

Literally the magical reason of magic being in the wall ice. They also get too seasick to take a boat.

that's a good point. There was definitely a guy, way back when, yelling DIG A MOAT. JUST DIG A BIG MOAT. CALL IT A CANAL, IF YOU MUST and all the other people at the meeting were like shut up, we voted, a wall is better.

yeah they weren't able to follow jon snow across the water that time

wish we'd had a scene in which qyburn revealed his idea for a wall

ideally by him throwing something against the wall to illustrate the concept

"walls - good for warmth, of course, but could we put them to use to, if you will, 'block' the movement of an enemy force?"

"but qyburn walls are tiny, an army can simply knock them over"

"not the wall i have in mind..."

sorry everyone

if t'were to be... transparent... our men would have sight of any magical potions projected over the top

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/saint-simons-island-tree-spirits

where's the Lorax when we need him?

Suspect the fact that both the Hound and the Mountain are now basically unkillable means they'll have a pretty crucial part to play in the eventual White Walker battle.

Had a mate point out that in the opening titles this season the sea around Eastwatch is frozen over and that next week's episode is called Eastwatch so I guess we may be seeing the White Walkers very soon.

in the books there's a pretty good passage that mentions undead things from the oceans

i'd probably forgive all the shitty bad parts if we got a shot of euron greyjoy and his ship being pulled down by a white walker kraken

you probably wouldn't call them walkers though. white swimmers

if t'were to be... transparent... our men would have sight of any magical potions projected over the top

― kinder, Friday, August 11, 2017 2:35 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

white swimming.. deserves a quiet night

white swimmers esp lannister ones have caused enough trouble in this realm

Suspect the fact that both the Hound and the Mountain are now basically unkillable means they'll have a pretty crucial part to play in the eventual White Walker battle.

and the fact they have a lot of fire in their lives

white swimming.. deserves a quiet night

irl lol'd at that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qxsCCd9jjA

irl lol bcz I'm very simple tbf

i really dislike how everyone in the daenerys storyline stands far apart from each other, like 10 to 20 feet apart, often in symmetrical formations. i get what they're trying to do, which is kind of draw attention to each individual character and their motives in relation to each other, and often to the power structure, with daenerys at the top and a few advisors (symmetrically) supporting her and all that, but it also subtly makes everything look really fake

I figured they were doing it just to make the scene easier to shoot and edit so that they're not all stuck together in one master shot.