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

Why no love for Diana Rigg?

best main characters

rigg was top 3 multi-season tertiaries tho

Zizek weighs in, because why not

The finale combines the rejection of a radical change with an old anti-feminist motif at work in Wagner. For Wagner, there is nothing more disgusting than a woman who intervenes in political life, driven by the desire for power. In contrast to male ambition, a woman wants power in order to promote her own narrow family interests or, even worse, her personal caprice, incapable as she is of perceiving the universal dimension of state politics.

The same femininity which, within the close circle of family life, is the power of protective love, turns into obscene frenzy when displayed at the level of public and state affairs. Recall the lowest point in the dialogue of Game of Thrones when Daenerys tells Jon that if he cannot love her as a queen then fear should reign – the embarrassing, vulgar motif of a sexually unsatisfied woman who explodes into destructive fury.

But – let’s bite our sour apple now – what about Daenerys’ murderous outbursts? Can the ruthless killing of the thousands of ordinary people in King’s Landing really be justified as a necessary step to universal freedom? At this point, we should remember that the scenario was written by two men.

Daenerys as the Mad Queen is strictly a male fantasy, so the critics were right when they pointed out that her descent into madness was psychologically not justified. The view of Daenerys with mad-furious expression flying on a dragon and burning houses and people expresses patriarchal ideology with its fear of a strong political woman.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/game-thrones-season-8-finale-bran-daenerys-cersei-jon-snow-zizek-revolution-a8923371.html

Like to give a shout out to Oleanna Tyrel aka the Queen of Thorns for being the most hilarious shit talker in the 7 kingdoms

i don't know zizek, have you considered the pic forks posted above

http://i.imgur.com/z7iHD54.png

haha

yeah, I imagine there are/will be more academic papers on GoT than there were on Buffy.

She didn't sit on the throne because it was a replica made of wax.

Surely someone has truthered the physics of whether dragon fire can melt iron.

I am still annoyed about Khal being able to melt gold jewelry using an ordinary campfire.

yeah, I imagine there are/will be more academic papers on GoT than there were on Buffy.

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, May 21, 2019

never been more glad I got out of the game when i did

xpost Maybe it was a magical campfire, have you considered that?

Uhm I adore Zizek but to say her outbursts were not justified? I don't agree. (She was prone to outbursts. It was Tyrion who held her in check imo.)

10% lolz ratio minimum in the replies

just here for the memes

— Maisie Williams (@Maisie_Williams) May 20, 2019

Ha, maybe this is why Drogon torched the throne.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7BsCbwU8AAo9nd.jpg

never been more glad I got out of the game when i did

The only winning move etc.

Uhm I adore Zizek but to say her outbursts were not justified? I don't agree. (She was prone to outbursts. It was Tyrion who held her in check imo.)

i like when cersei says "ser gregor stay by my side" but it sounds like she calls him "ser wiggles" which is totally what i wd call him

did Ser Pounce survive the Daenerys genocide?

Ser Wiggles sounds like someone from Parliament’s “Gamin’ On Ya Thrones” LP

Pretty good call:

🤷🏼‍♀️ https://t.co/Sbmeedgkhp

— Gwendoline Christie (@lovegwendoline) May 22, 2019

Say what you will about the #GameOfThronesFinale, the John Hughes homage was a bold choice to end on. pic.twitter.com/kKJrJyV9d7

— Dan Olson (@FoldableHuman) May 20, 2019

As long as Drogon got to burninate the thatched-roof cottages, I'm happy.

Žižek is the worst. Always.

but also zizek is a clown. iirc he didn’t start out that way but act a fool for long enough and something something your face will stick that way

I liked this show, liked the finale, would rewatch

more ser wiggles fun:

when wiggles at last removes his helmet his little brother heaves a vast "fuck me" sigh and is clearly thinking and very nearly saying "this bad stars-wars fan service is bad and you should feel bad"

https://chaser.com.au/general-news/jk_rowling_announces_jon_snow_is_gay

I'm a little stunned they never killed off Bran. He was the worst part of the books and show and I kept waiting for him to die.

bran is the leto ii of this story

here he is saying "just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in"
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/dune/images/8/86/Sandra-yagi-god-emperor-of-dune.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190309191118

I would have preferred for the Night King to kill Bran before being stabbed by Arya, forcing humanity to find a way forward without magic seer memory bookdudes

well that's my halloween costume sorted for this year xp

Graphic depictions of Leto II are never short of amazing

omg

https://photos.travelblog.org/Photos/95057/1020114/f/9864325-Leto-II-0.jpg

Made for the 2017 Venice Beach Siyanoq Festival iirc

lonely worm just thinking baout things

looks like a big sneeze comin

Inhaled too much spice.

This is the proper turn for this thread

the sandworm has turned

*sand snake (duh)

Hello. Not really been following the thread as not been on ILX that much lately. But this is what I thought of the last episode:

It was okay. Good bits and bad bits.

Funniest bit: Arya decides she's going to do a gap yah.

Most shocking bit: Brienne not waiting for the ink to dry before closing the book

Weird postmodern moment: People chuckling about democracy

Lousy: everything to do with Jon Snow and I mean every second of time he spent on screen

Also lousy: Lots of long expository monologues on behalf of Tyrion, who even as a prisoner seems to get away with giving everyone terrible advice

Lol: Bran the Boring is king? What the hell. And also Sansa manages to jammily wangle a runner-up prize without any sort of challenge

Corny: 'Oh no Dany really isn't a nice person after all, she has scary dragon wings and her army are all dark and scary and crazy and the music is ominous DO YOU SEE?'

Again, what the hell: How did they come up with that Council at the end? A motley crew of supporting cast and people from across Westeros who didn't really get along before manage to grab the Megabus to King's Landing just so they can decide what to do with Tyrion... How did he not just get murdered by Worm Tongue in the meantime?

But I still maintain this wasn't the worst series. It was flawed, logically. It was a hot mess in many many ways. But it was still entertaining and it constantly kept me guessing. I was excited for each episode whereas a few series back, I was ready to stop watching because it felt like they were just stalling for time by making characters do the same things over and over again each episode.,

And also Sansa manages to jammily wangle a runner-up prize without any sort of challenge

I assume Charlie means from Yara for starters, who'd been promised independance by Dany herself and doesnt seem the type to just roll over when it doesnt happen.

Yara quaffing ale from an Iron Islands turret, later: "I really wanted that...independence..."

I imagine the new Prince of Dorne might have liked the opportunity also

that's what I mean. It's all 'yes let's have a united Westeros' and Sansa's like 'except the North, even if the king is Northern idk' and everyone's like 'alright fine'

The message of the show has been that power is inherently corrupting and that people with it will do virtually anything to preserve it and the very neat bow that the ending with tied up with felt like a betrayal of that.

THE END

… or is it?

ep 1 of the next* series will be arya stark landing on the iron islands in a tiny boat scudding before the wind screaming "these ones do water!" and then after her -- like that good scene in serenity, of the reaver ships coming out of the spacecloud -- millions and millions of raggedy boats bursting from the fog full of ravenous zombies from the uttermost west

*bets down now eh

Wasn't Pirates of the Caribbean series essentially a zombie pirate movie?

all films with more than a part two are zombie movies