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

kidnap seems like the wrong word to use, but whatevs

the thing w arya giving in to her assassin side, for me, is that i don't think it's an unbelievable development? Given what traumas she's experience and how focused she has been for so long on revenge, it seems natural to me that she would be a remorseless killer. I've said this before but I'd watch a spin-off about Arya the contract killer.

xposts

I think it would be a lot less believable really if she went back to being a tough-but-lovable kid.

girl's been self-radicalized.

agree completely. the list of fucked up shit she's experienced is v v long.

She's still lovable

Arya still my favourite character.

Keeping my fingers crossed that Sansa gives Arya a good reason to give her a smackdown

Isn't that letter of Sansa's that Littlefinger led Arya to find this week a possible reason?

Anyone got a screencap of that, I couldn't read it

Robb, I write to you with a heavy heart. Our good king Robert is dead, killed from wounds he took in a boar hunt. Father has been charged with treason. He conspired with Robert’s brothers against my beloved Joffrey and tried to steal his throne. The Lannisters are treating me very well and provide me with every comfort. I beg you: come to King’s Landing, swear fealty to King Joffrey and prevent any strife between the great houses of Lannister and Stark.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/08/game-of-thrones-sansa-letter-arya-season-7-episode-5-eastwatch

I've been listening to SOIAF audiobooks at work and some of difference from the show make me lol:

Dany: "Why would I want Unsullied? Most of them are fat."

too many olives

the captured wight has to be someone they already know...or a member of the crew itself

― Number None, Tuesday, August 15, 2017 1:07 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pretty sure benjen stark's gonna make a comeback soon too

xps that letter might as well have said "P.S. I am writing this under duress"

I want to think Arya would see through it, or at least talk to Bran about it before confronting Sansa.

But I know what show I'm watching, and if it's taking up this precious story time towards the end, it has to be leading towards a sister-sister confrontation.

http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7387254.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/MAINsister-sister.jpg

two words at the pitch meeting: ZOMBIE ROBB

As long as it's not ZOMBIE, ROB

only a dragula could defeat a dragon

BTW as a complete aside, is it just me, or does littlefingers "chaos is a ladder" speech make no sense? I've been thinking about it for ages and as an allegory it seems really clumsy?

it's not genius by any means but doesn't he just mean "while everyone is destroying each other you can manipulate things to your advantage"

it's a clumsier version of 'never let a crisis go to waste'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxlIraEV8n4

It's basically about liberalism being a superior ideology to feudalism, innit?

think you're giving him a bit too much credit there

Now I want the ending to be Littlefinger chosen as First Consul of the Westerosi, but with Lady Stoneheart (the ghost of the common people) lurking on the periphery.

hate to break it to you, but Lady Stoneheart will never live like common people

BTW as a complete aside, is it just me, or does littlefingers "chaos is a ladder" speech make no sense? I've been thinking about it for ages and as an allegory it seems really clumsy?

hmm. The metaphor works for me--it seems like one of the main theses of the series: In a rigidly hierarchical class system, the only way for a crafty commoner to ascend to nobility, (or a lower noble to ascend to royalty) is to wait for the realm to fall into chaos and to take advantage of it/be seen as indispensable. (Or in Littlefinger's case create the chaos yourself.) The ladder works because while you can climb a ladder to a higher level, you may also fall off it and crack your head open, particularly if there are other people trying to climb the same ladder at the same time.

Nothing more chaotic than a ladder. (I'm terrified of heights, so I probably do agree, actually)

It's like in Hamilton: You’re an orphan. Of course! I’m an orphan! God, I wish there was a war! Then we could prove that we’re worth more than anyone bargained for…

Ep6 leaked. Tempted.

There's been a fairly detailed Ep6 summary on Wikipedia for a few hours, so stay away from that if you're concerned about spoilers.

ignore that, I just looked and it's gone now

I'd be happy to wait but we're away next week so decided to watch it. It's much better quality than the one that leaked a couple of weeks ago.

i cracked and watched it.

ditto - til Monday then...

indeed, as you were.

Careful with leaks - I have heard tell HBO leak files with inbuilt trojan type stuff that shows them who is downloading their stuff.

i think this one should be okay - one of HBO's european arms accidentally leaked the stream and people ripped the stream

This was someone ripping the stream after HBO Norway and Spain accidentally​ put the episode up on thier platform.

Well dude next to me on train is watching it right now so I have to turn my head.

Citizen's arrest imo

the honorable thing to do here would be for HBO to release it ASAP

"Prepare to die!"

xp

Yell BEND THE KNEE and then smash his laptop shut onto his knees.

hey, at least offer him a choice.

BEND THE KNEE OR DIE

Say you've seen it already and drop fake spoilers until he swears fealty.

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hate to break it to you, but Lady Stoneheart will never live like common people

― sansa riff (sarahell), Wednesday, August 16, 2017 8:33 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

so we all pumped for westerosi suicide squad or wut?

i'm kinda on the "wut" side of that coin but whatever gets us closer to a conclusion is fine by me at this point