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

tolkieny technical* term for dragons that don't breathe fire = COLD DRAKES so that's the cameo in S8 E1 sorted

*yes yes to be supersupertechnical tolk didn't state cold drakes breathed ice merely that they didn't breathe fire (also killed dwarves so dinklage beware)

Meantime

Jon Snow Must Know Something: Kit Harington and Rose Leslie Are Engaged! https://t.co/UZU6RfCLKZ

— People (@people) September 26, 2017

aw

yay <3

Great on screen chemistry between those two in the series

<3

http://cdn01.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/harington-wedding3/kit-harington-rose-leslie-wedding-photos-04.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgY5QoZU0AACoMC.jpg

I didn't realise her Dad was an arsehole Tory before - though I guess I know they were rich/aristocratic, so I shouldn't have been surprised.

Aberdeenshire...

From BMC Injury Epidemiology: Death is certain, the time is not: mortality and survival in Game of Thrones

Of the 330 characters that were included, 186 (56.4%) had died by the end of the study period. All but 2 deaths were due to injury, burns, or poisoning, with the majority being caused by assault (63.0%) or operations of war (24.4%). The survival time ranged from 11 s to 57 h and 15 min, with the median survival time estimated to be 28 h and 48 min. The probability of surviving at least 1 h in the show was 0.86 (95% CI 0.82 to 0.89). The analyses revealed worse survival for characters who were male (P < 0.001), lowborn (P < 0.001), had not switched allegiance during the show (P < 0.001), and who featured more prominently in the show (P < 0.001). After adjusting for other factors, whether or not a character had switched allegiance during the show and how prominently a character featured in the show were revealed to be independent predictors of death.

The mortality risk is high among characters in Game of Thrones. The probability of dying within the first hour after first appearing on screen was about 14%. By the end of the seventh season, more than half of the important characters had died, with violent deaths being the most common by far. The probability of survival was worse for characters who were male or lowborn, who had not switched allegiance during the show, and who featured more prominently. There is great potential for preventing violent deaths in the world of Game of Thrones.

Heh, occupation type is coded as silk collar / boiled leather collar instead of white collar / blue collar

yes but in a world where people get resurrected all the fucking time and time is not strictly linear what is the point of mortality stats?

what is the point of any of this nonsensical show tbh

lol asking about the "point" of a tv show

To gain a better understanding about what happened during Pangaea

was in nyc last weekend and came out of a subway station to see an big billboard ad (first I'd seen) for the upcoming season and was all kinds of stoked. had p much forgotten about it. think it'll get much promotion this spring?

nah, I'm sure HBO has no interest in promoting their lone current big hit

i can't beeelliiiiiiiiiiieve this fucking wait for 6 more episodes. i know that there's a big battle and it took several lifetimes to film and it was miserable and that it will rule and all of that, but come ON

whenever I think about this show now I get "game of thrones" stuck in my head to the tune of the theme song from that movie "Scavenger Hunt" that is "play to win"

and then the image of various GoT characters in small groups trying to collect items on the list, but I have a very hazy memory of the movie and all I remember is Dom Deluise, and a neurotic woman in a french maid costume and something about a toilet ... so now my expectations of the final 6 episodes are kinda like that

GoT is one of the only fantasy epics that doesn't seem to involve a scavenger hunt for rings or Horcruxes or whatever

A year ago I thought I might not bother finishing this but now I'm looking forward to it, but I don't think I'll tune in each week because I'm sick of that palaver and wont do it again unless something really incredible comes out.

whenever I think about this show now I get "game of thrones" stuck in my head to the tune of the theme song from that movie "Scavenger Hunt" that is "play to win"

Game of Thrones is forever associated with "Game of Love" by Daft Punk since around the time I started watching Game of Thrones I also listened to Random Access Memories a lot.

♫ There is a Game of Thrones ♫

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REasBBiJm00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlR4PJn8b8I

The low quality of the last season took me from "Can't wait!" to "I guess I should watch this."

That's the exact same boat I'm in.

current odds have bran favorite to rule westeros i really hope not

https://i.imgur.com/4o0F4RG.png

i'm rooting for tormund

No option for peasant-run democracy?

it's gonna be jon or his and dany's kid, but gendry has good odds

No option for peasant-run democracy?

― DJI, Tuesday, March 5, 2019 6:04 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if westeros does adopt democracy, electing the guy who can see the future wouldn't be the worst choice.

Wait, Littlefinger is on that list, and he's dead (I think)!

there's some talk about him NOT being dead as he's been linked to being around the set for filming.

Jamie sitting on the throne after murdering his sister before she could unleash something awful, echoing his experience with the mad king.

dany + euron is my guess. i haven't bothered looking for spoilers this year.

genuinely rooting for the Night King tbh, fuck all the living people on this show except tyrion

Varys is on the list twice.

more canny maneuvering

Gendry and Sansa imo

Reading that list is a good prep for reminding oneself what the hell was going on when we last heard from GOT. What the hell was going on anyway?

Nephew-Aunt fuckin, undead ice dragon iirc

genuinely rooting for the Night King tbh

Yeah, someone has to put a stop to this dialogue.

Rooting for Arya or the Night King. The show was terrible last season.

Show was never better as when and should have continued as Arya and the Hound wandering a war-torn countryside getting into adventures like Lone Wolf and Cub.

the medieval brutality and hopelessness and absurd but compelling cruelty of the first four seasons seems very far away now, it's definitely turning into Avengers: Westeros at this point. I did enjoy last season, the scope and spectacle is just a good time imo, but it's not nearly the same show.

otm, though of course a decent chunk of those first 4 seasons was a total slog

maybe and yet it all felt part of a carefully thought-out narrative that was closing off any means of escape for so many characters we liked in ways that were really actually shocking and not in ways that seemed cheap or unearned.

no I agree with that. two very different feelings and the former was rarer. but the thought of watching s2 again with no fast forward option fills me with dread

glad to hear i'm not alone in thinking last season felt like padding and soap opera. Perhaps in closing they'll step up their game to the heights of s3 and s6... if i'm remembering correctly.