there is a subplot to mance and friends north of the wall where they are trying to find a legendary horn that will bring the wall down when it is blown. there are other related bits of lore scattered but that is the main thrust of it
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 27 June 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
night king gon get that horn
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 June 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
Sam's got it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqSdHokQZ8g
― Dan I., Monday, 27 June 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
Jaime going to add Queenslayer to his curriculum vitae imo, has prophetised by witch (Mel?) in the hut a couple seasons ago.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 27 June 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
skipped last couple seasons, watched the last two episodes - the ascendance of various redemptive female figures made me think maybe there is something thematically going on about the age of men passing before an age of women, altho Jon Snow's continual presence obfuscates that a bit, so maybe not.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
also show is still best described as expensively gratuitous ie tons of money spent in the service of a ton of narratively/structurally unnecessary gore/violence/nudity it gets p tiresome
― Οὖτις, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
The part where the little kids stab Pycelle to death was pretty gratuitous (not money-wise, but just unnecessary). Like, just becuase these kids do some spying for Qyburn doesn't mean they are up for shivving a dude.
― schwantz, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
Pycelle was a threat to Qyburn ... now Qyburn can have his job.
― sarahell, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
Sam's got it:
― Dan I., Monday, June 27, 2016 1:39 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
omg whatd he do w it
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I just mean the part where suddenly the kids are these cold-blooded killers.
x-post
― schwantz, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
maybe Qyburn gave them drugs like the child soldiers in Africa?
― sarahell, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
What, like these drugs? https://youtu.be/nUPbLrANM8U?t=1m44s
― Evan, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
Pycelle is a creep and the kids hated him imo
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
That poor prostitute that Pycelle waved off is never gonna get paid now. ;_;
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
xpost yeah but why wouldn't he ask? i guess he is stupid. feel like the "the king in the north" chant could have gone on a bit longer. like maybe they could have all kept chanting it and then gone outside and walked around for a while, with more people joining in, until they eventually tired themselves out.
feel like the "the king in the north" chant could have gone on a bit longer. like maybe they could have all kept chanting it and then gone outside and walked around for a while, with more people joining in, until they eventually tired themselves out.
^^^ one
Would like to see this worked up as an outtake for the dvd box.
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
was there any other decipherable dialog from sis to Sean other than "Protect Him. Promise Me Ned"? We knew the "Promise Me Ned" part already
― sarahell, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
it was hard to hear her. i replayed it three times.
― akm, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
All I heard was "can never find out."
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
After a few more muffled words, closed captioning revealed that Lyanna said to Ned: “If Robert finds out, he’ll… You know he will Ned. Promise me you’ll protect him. Promise me.”
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
she said "this guy jon snow sucks lol no one can ever find out"
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
"always remember you are ned"
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
"your name is sean bean the actor"
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 June 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
"which one are you again? stannis?"
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 27 June 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
"my goal is to bone all of the kings"
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 June 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
where did arya get that lady's face and how did it make her a foot taller
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 27 June 2016 19:40 (seven years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Monday, 27 June 2016 19:09
There's definitely some of that in there but that's not a good description.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 27 June 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
http://cdn.hoboken411.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Jon-Lovitz-I-am-a-thespian-merely-acting.jpg
― Οὖτις, Monday, 27 June 2016 19:45 (seven years ago) link
jon: "just wish our old friend wall could talk, some of the stories he'd tell!!"
wall: "THE KING IN THE NORTH"
laughter.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:25
Then the wall goes "Scoobydoobydooooooooo!"
Episode ends.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 27 June 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
I know you guys are all into your maps and plotholes and shit but really this show exists entirely for one thing: money shots involving the inflicting of violence. It's about on the level of b-level gore movies in that way, it's just dressed up in ren faire finery and cgi
― Οὖτις, Monday, 27 June 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
(I say this as a fan of b-level gore movies btw)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 27 June 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
"That kid took King's Landing too fucking literal." - from a Reddit thread, made me lol
Any predictions for next season? Lannister-saga wraps up in four episodes (Jamie kills Cersei, fights for Dany, who is crowned)? Strange alliance between the Brotherhood, White Walkers and the House of Black and White? Everybody is dying until Samwell saves the day? The next season is the last one, right
― fgti, Monday, 27 June 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
are there not two more seasons?
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 27 June 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
no to literally all of that
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 27 June 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
Just all an excuse for violence? That doesn't sound like this show.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link
my prediction for next season is a single 24 hour event with bloody corpses being beaten over and over by mallets while we are all clockwork oranged to the screen, as shakey floats above weeping for us
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
that's not how money shots work
I'm laughin not cryin
― Οὖτις, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link
gore starved GoT-watching idiots are released into a lightless pit to gnaw insatiably on flesh and only shakey can see that they are really eating themselves. from his seat in the heavens he swings the light of star upon them so they may see the truth and be freed
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
Many xps
Yeah, music was great although I was half expecting Simon Bates to start doing a voice over
― groovypanda, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
that star? Sean Bean
xp
― Evan, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
this show exists entirely for one thing: money shots involving the inflicting of violence
pretty sure most of my coworkers who follow this show and enjoy it immensely, and my wife, would thoroughly disagree, because they always find this aspect of the show to be the hardest to watch.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Monday, June 27, 2016 3:47 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wake up sheeple
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 27 June 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
I mean that you analogize it to splatter films and then parenthetically admit to being a fan of splatter films - this doesn't immediately make you realize you might be projecting just a bit?
― El Tomboto, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
Meet the new Lord Commander of the Nights Watch: Jaime Lannister!
― sarahell, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
Frederik I can't believe you didn't bring up the best cameo of the season, native son Frank Hvam as the Citadel's receptionist
― El Tomboto, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
I don't think projection has much to do with it - when the major plot points of a show all, over and over again, involve someone being raped/disemboweled/dismembered/whatever in gratuitous fashion it seems pretty obvious that all this other architecture built into the production is being used to build up to those moments, which then shock or titillate the audience to varying degrees, and in turn lead to more such incidents... seems pretty self-evident that it's what the show is structured around/"about". Desire for power = violence, that's what it's about. Which is not particularly deep or interesting and is largely why I find the show tiresome.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
at least with cheapo gore movies there's often a sense of fun and a lack of pretense, here there's none of that.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
....
― El Tomboto, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
Which is not particularly deep or interesting
i'm not particularly sure either benioff or weiss consider their show to be particularly "deep" or have ever genuinely posited it as such in public statements. it's evident they think the characters are deep, which in various instances they are, certainly not all.
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 27 June 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Monday, June 27, 2016 4:02 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not mad
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
because they always find this aspect of the show to be the hardest to watch
also generally people love watching things that are "hard to watch", dunno how you missed this
― Οὖτις, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link