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

yeah, pretty much confirmed spoilers with not much left to the imagination

lol at "sounds like guitar center 1988"

Yeah there was a production leak of the plot points of the last two episodes and everything about episode 5 ended up being correct

yeah Paisley being a legit virtuoso is not much of a secret in my experience; he is highly regarded by many people who simultaneously hate his music.

I think it kind of is a secret! At least to those who don't listen to country. That is, I was reading comments below the video on youtube (I think) and there were all these people expressing surprise to see Paisley in with all these more traditional/recognizable virtuosos. I think it's simply that those who know hard rock dudes like Nuno/Scott Ian/Morello maybe don't listen to country. Even in the video they kind of call Brad in as an afterthought, and he gets a couple of special reaction shots. I wonder if even Morello or Nuno or Scott Ian knew Brad Paisley had serious chops? (Vince Gill is another country shredder who I bet flies way under the shredder radar, but unlike Paisley I doubt he was raised on Van Halen licks).

Meantime, the Americans are at it again (talking about other places):

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-col1-game-of-thrones-northern-ireland-20190516-htmlstory.html

A visitor has to walk only a few minutes from the hotel to reach the Cathedral Quarter, the city’s vibrant nightlife district, where you can sip elderflower cocktails along with the more traditional pints of Guinness. The city now has plenty of craic — a.k.a. fun — to offer.

thank god belfast's wildfire problems are behind it

Meanwhile

More than 400,000 sign petition for Game of Thrones season eight remake https://t.co/p2Jv1nS8YI

— The Guardian (@guardian) May 16, 2019

I think it should continue to be remade for the rest of eternity

I noticed that somebody was sharing fan edits of episodes on piratebay over the last few days.

Vince Gill is another country shredder who I bet flies way under the shredder radar, but unlike Paisley I doubt he was raised on Van Halen licks).

I always lol when I think about his feather-haired time in Pure Prairie League.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BgYbjlEKCg

This one is where it's at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fHOHfjFYBM

Peaks here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ljrPfsa50

Of all the dumb surprises merely for the sake of surprising/misleading the audience by whatever means possible, I'm probably most sad that Cersei had nothing up her sleeve? At all?

idk seems to me that most of her plans were crossbow-related

there was a plan for an even larger crossbow, but she ran out of time

This show gets worse and worse episode by episode, season by season. Expecting next week’s finale to be a big self-important hot turd

last ep the dragon takes his face off and he's Jaqen H'ghar and he goes "valor morghulis" and burns the remaining characters to death

that's way better than whatever actually will happen

clip show

bloopers

all CGI scenes replaced with sketches a la the original Neon Genesis Evangelion ending

my prediction is they're going to have jon kill dany, probably not become king for whatever reason - maybe he'll be killed for killing dany. but the goodies will end up in power - sam, tyrion, davos, brienne on kings council (altho some of these may die too) - queen sansa or some such.

Montage set to "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)."

xp. there will be really implausible, dumb, plot-holey stuff passim

all CGI scenes replaced with sketches a la the original Neon Genesis Evangelion ending

― Simon H., Friday, May 17, 2019 12:50 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

more shows need to run out of money

Dany, Drogon, Jon and Arya all sit down at a table in an NJ diner. Dany looks to her right, cut to black. Credits.

the original plan was to end it with peter falk reading to fred savage, but peter falk's passing threw a wrench, and this season has been a clumsy attempt to change course.

xp
Arya outside trying (with little success) to tie up her horse.

ends with an airplane flying overhead, and it turns out that have been living in the present all along.

Probably covered already but were those bursts of wildfire we saw around Kings Landing during the rampage just random hidden barrels going off that no-one knew about? Weird detail to chuck in.

winter is coming, because their entire universe is in a snow globe on Sean Bean's desk.

I think they're just what was left over from the Mad King that didn't get used to sink the Sept.

Neighbours show up at the park and ask if the LARPers can keep the noise down.

"Forget it, Jon. It's Westeros."

Still shaking my head that the man who managed to stave off hordes of the undead with one hand got chumped by a cartoon pirate who conveniently washed up on shore just in time (seems like no one ever drowns in Westeros). I suppose the writers' argument would be that a major character getting an ignoble end is in keeping with the show, but for me it felt more like when the AI cheats in a video game. You'd also think a metal hand would be more useful in a fist fight...

Jon Snow wakes up from a nightmare in bed with Suzanne Pleshette.

The main characters gather at the Winterfell courtyard, snowflakes fall gently upon them, camera zooms back, then we see Winterfell is actually inside a snowglobe held by Rickon.

(Snow globe joke made above)

Jaquen and Melisandre walk through modern-day Times Square.

Jon Snow rides far north of the wall, to the realm of early people (or whatever), where he discovers the disembodied torso of the Statue of Liberty. "You fools!" he cries. "I ... don't know what this is, but couldn't you have told me about it earlier? It seems important."

The Statue of Liberty opens its eyes and speaks (voiced by Cate Blanchett). "Because I *am* important, Jon Snow. Yes, Jon Snow. I have been watching you. You look like you have many questions."

"I do" says Jon Snow.

"Then by all means, Jon Snow. Approach me and my knowledge will be your knowledge!"

"Thank you, Lady Liberty." Jon Snow slowly walks to the Statue and climbs to her ear.

"So what is it you wish to know?" asks the Statue of Liberty.

Jon Snow leans into her ear and whispers.

"Ah!" says the Statue, her eyes going wide. "A question for the ages! Those wise enough to ask have earned the right to know. Listen, Jon Snow. Listen to my truth!"

With a rumble the knowledge of the universe rushes through him like a gust of wind, illuminating all that he does not know and heightening all that he does know. He's left breathless, eyes wide with shock.

"What now, Jon Snow?" asks Lady Liberty. "You are possessor of all the wisdom in the universe! What will you do with your newfound power!?"

"This!" cries Jon Snow. And the last Dragon, hidden behind a hill, rises up at Jon Snow's psychic command, spreads its wings and shoots a blast of liquid flame to the statue.

"No!" cries Lady Liberty, dissolving into a pile of steaming, molten metal.

"Why did you do that?" ask Tor, stepping out from behind a tree.

"Why?" asks Jon Snow, taking a drag from his cigarette. "Because I fucking hate talking statues."

He flicks his cigarette into the snow.

"Fuck this place," he says. "Let's get out of here."

"To where?" asks Tor.

Jon Snow turns and looks him directly in the eyes.

"I have no idea, my friend," he says. "I have no idea. But wherever we go, we're going to get there ... together."

Tor smiles. "Together."

"Together," says Jon.

"So then what are we waiting for?" asks Tor, with a chuckle. "Lead the way!"

Jon smiles, turns to toward the sunset, and strides forward. Tor, chuckling, follows.

Camera pulls back and up on a crane. "Walk of Life" by Dire Straits plays.

The End

Dany: "And I'll miss you most of all, Scarecrow."

Picture fades to black & white; She wakes up in her bed in Kansas.

Rosebud was a sleigh(er)

sub-westercustos

so we can't watch it until Monday night which means I have to effectively stay off the entire internet for all of Monday

^^me, every week. I live in Asia, which means GoT airs on Monday mornings for me when I'm at work.

I've accepted that I won't be able to completely avoid spoilers - I work in news so not being on Twitter isn't an option, and it's impossible to mute every single word/hashtag related to the show. (I knew about the coffee cup way before I saw the episode).

I'm in Aus, the only proper way to get this show is on Foxtel and fuck that so yeah I have to wait too.

*bcs fuk foxtel

https://entertainment.theonion.com/game-of-thrones-showrunners-disappointed-with-how-qua-1834843021

OTM. Show’s been dead in the water for a while now and the fact that this last episode which actually, finally showed the spark of what made the show compelling in the first place pissed off the current fan base shows what’s left.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/17/upshot/game-of-thrones-imdb-ratings.html

https://i.imgur.com/Ue49FBQ.png

i kind of assumed this is how fans feel about most shows, but they have a lot of counterexamples in the article (e.g. mad men and sopranos were both steady, office and veep had really popular final seasons, etc.)