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

Apparently the first ep leaked?

impeach obama

He probably burned a DVD for Prince George

Was not expecting that last scene.

what was up w that

The night is dark and full of terror.

The night is dark and full of terror.

theory: melisandre is going to inhabit jon snow's corpse

she must have had more gratuitous nude scenes than any other character in this show.

it's funny, that had the feeling of one of those early season check-in episodes where nothing actually happened but there were two pretty major incidents, but they only had about 4 minutes of combined screen time. one of the great houses of westeros was wiped out and we got "remember this guy? stab. what about this kid? stab".

but...it was still good.

Dorne scenes still plagued by the inescapable feeling that you're watching a community college play

i thought the scene with brienne and sansa was memorable, but most of the rest just kind of drifted by. do we have to sit through the dothraki doubting daenerys but then slowly growing to respect her over the course of a full season again? will apprentice arya get schooled by her asshole friend for an entire season, again?

see also burning all the ships in mereen (i think that's the name of the city) which probably pushes east/west confrontation at least a season or two further out

i thought the scene with brienne and sansa was memorable, but most of the rest just kind of drifted by. do we have to sit through the dothraki doubting daenerys but then slowly growing to respect her over the course of a full season again? will apprentice arya get schooled by her asshole friend for an entire season, again?

― Karl Malone, Monday, April 25, 2016 9:26 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Likely scene showing Jon Snow finally being resurrected and opening his eyes will probably be the last scene in the finale.

yeah, my prediction is a surprise episode 7 snow revival (instead of the usual 9 or 10).

wait which house was wiped out

house martell (headed by prince doran, oberyn's grumpy older brother)

I'm guessing the next episode. They only have til night for a miracle to save them, Melisandre has gone to bed so it'll need to happen quick.

I really thought that king and his guard would get to do more. When I first saw those actors interviewed it seemed like they'd be bigger roles.

I think Jaime's scene might actually represent the biggest change, he seems like he's eager to step up and might help Cersei rule.

I hope Margaery doesn't convert to sparrow.

ohhhh for some reason i thought the sand snakes kinda ~were~ martells

Sand Snakes killing the boy on the ship... how did they get to the ship? Where was the ship?

they took the outrigger

Jorah would be good to have around is you drop a contact lens

if, that is

TBF it made sense that he'd check the un-trampled grass in the center of the field.

But seriously though WHERE was the ship the boy was on? Why was he still on it?

was that a ship? i thought it was just his room.

Likely scene showing Jon Snow finally being resurrected and opening his eyes will probably be the last scene in the finale.

kit harington really earning his wage by closing his eyes and then opening them ten hours later

good question, had to look that up. He was on the same ship as Jaime and Myrcella when they headed to King's Landing. So the eye stone he was painting was for Myrcella, presumably.

Which means that somehow the elder two Sand Snakes must have set sail following them (they couldn't have stowed away) on some other vessel.

questions about how characters got from one place to another make me nostalgic for Lost threads

You'd think Jaime would have at least taken him off the boat as a valuable hostage. Overall the scene could have benefited from him asking the snakes how they got there:
"We tailed the ship all the way here to King's Landing"
"When Jaime gets back to the ship he will kill you both for this"
"We're doing you a favor- don't you realize what he'll do to you now that 'someone' in Dorne murdered the princess?"
"It was YOU, wasn't it? You poisoned her! My father will have you executed for this!"
"At this point your father is already dead. Now it's your turn"

Just some similarly terribly written exposition is all I needed.

At the expense of that we instead get this little snarky sassy banter that is trying to get us to like(?) the teenage mutant ninja snakes

always down for some casual sassiness and snark in a scene that involves a teenage boy getting speared through the face

You'd think Jaime would have at least taken him off the boat as a valuable hostage.

why do you bother quibbling about shit like this at this point

the very first shot, i was like, the bad guy watchmen just leave snow's body there? for his friends to find? why? if they're willing to kill snow wouldn't they just kill his friends right then too? what kind of halfassed conspiracy is this

yes i watched this, and i probably will continue to do so, and complain about it!

I'm just saying it is something that springs to mind and becomes distracting because I don't understand the scene. I want things to make sense in the universe of the show and the narrative so I remain immersed. That one doesn't seem too picky in my opinion! Why would he still be on the ship? "Well because it makes killing off his character really convenient" Boooo

the very first shot, i was like, the bad guy watchmen just leave snow's body there? for his friends to find? why? if they're willing to kill snow wouldn't they just kill his friends right then too? what kind of halfassed conspiracy is this

I guess now they know exactly who were the most loyal to Jon?.

honestly i didn't even read the design of that scene as being on a ship so idk

xp wow they're so smart

"Well because it makes killing off his character really convenient"

gotta kills some characters somehow

xxpost Killing Jon is being spun as an act of loyalty to the Watch. Killing Jon's friends as well would have been a harder sell.

xp wow they're so smart

― goole, Monday, April 25, 2016 12:27 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Yeah but they've established that Jon's friends will likely be ambushed and killed if they leave the room, too.

dothraki doing the spanish inquisition sketch re what's better than seeing a beautiful woman naked was kinda funny, but other than that i rly hope we don't have to listen to too much of their goofy fantasy machismo this season

#notalldothraki

didn't realise it was the ships that were burning in Mereen. thanks for the tip ILX.

i caught it from the dialogue but my goodness that was some lousy CG

it seems so late in the game to be setting up this Tyrion as emergency city manager plot. Maybe he'll do such a good job that after Dani conquers the world she decides to hand the throne him before turning into white flames and melting the north

I don't really have any guesses as to where they're taking that plotline...

i think it's just a way for tyrion to regain his power while stalling that whole storyline for another 2 years until martin publishes another book the burned ships are repaired

i mean it seems inevitable that when daenerys FINALLY goes west for the final showdown, tyrion will be at her side with a bunch of power and influence and it'll set up interesting conflicts with his family and westeros in general

this is so sad

https://twitter.com/Cosmopolitan/status/724693841182384128

Ted Cruz's viral female doppelgänger is set to star in porn: http://cosm.ag/6014BmDh6

going way off the books with this twist

lol oh shit

ah well it all fits together somehow *thinkpieces*

doing porn is a route to getting a job on GoT sometimes

Ellis has a good eye for details there, cf Bronn abandoning his gold at the loot train to save Jaime vs him a season later being easily bribed into killing Jaime and Tyrion

I still haven't gotten around to watching the final season of this. I guess I should just not bother at this point? I'm tempted to just read the wikipedia synopsis (or the novels, I guess, if they ever come into existence)

― silverfish, Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:34 (yesterday)

If you've got low expectations (as I did), you'll probably enjoy it.

It's enjoyable enough up until the final episode which is a complete car crash.

It's not great, but it's fine. It easily hurdles over the low bar of being better than the BSG and Lost finales, at least.

The season or two before it wasn't great either. If you enjoyed those keep with it? There's stuff to enjoy regardless.

Last season is worse than having your nuts smashed in a car door, better than having them caught in a moving escalator.

I'd rather spend an eternity in hell rewatching the finale than a disappointed fan vlog about the finale

the last season isn't so bad if you think of it as a very long action movie starring actors who previously appeared on the tv show Game of Thrones

It was the last ever episode of Numberblocks this week, now that's how you nail a finale.

Oh man that Q and A session

At 3PM David Benioff and D.B Weiss #DnD started a session at the #AustinFilmFestival, I am a little late, but will live tweet as soon as I get there. #GameOfThrones

— Needle & Pen (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

Damn, what a fail-up - by their own admission seems like show really succeeded literally in spite of them.

the subtext of everything is: Will this be just for nerds? No, it will be for cools too!

Feel 100% validated in all my criticisms & it’s obvious it was a lot weaker when it went away from the books.

it seems like these guys could have fairly competently pulled off a 10 episode series based on a standalone 500 pages historical fiction novel, but why the hell tackle a fantasy series if magic gives you the ickies?

tbf they said downplaying the fantasy elements was an HBO directive

It was the last ever episode of Numberblocks this week, now that's how you nail a finale.

Was it infinity? I have yet to see it. I liked the film noir one I saw a while ago.

It was a big song and dance routine about how much more fun you're going to have with numbers in the future, and about how even though you won't see any more of us here, we'll be with you for the rest of your life. It's beautiful! Can't fully explain why but I've cried both times I've watched it, and just typing this is giving me wet eyes again.

Oh and number 42 makes a cameo appearance and he's dressed like Arthur Dent.

I <3 Numberblocks.

The Goldman/Watts prequel has been cancelled.

smart thing to do here is reboot in 2022.

the fire & blood one is still in development, right? that one always seemed like it made more sense as a series anyway

they'll do a Watchmen series type deal. Pick it up fifty years after the end of the main series, have some new threat, etc.

i think the one issue lingering w/the last couple seasons of GOT is that it revealed a fundamental lack of understanding about what had made the show great in the early going, and anyone handing these guys a show where they have to come up with the stories needs to remember that. they did however pull off a genuinely fine direct adaptation in those first four seasons, with few false notes and a welcome resistance to showing too much (much like the novels kept a lot of battle action offscreen).

the first four seasons are great imo, but yeah, these guys can't be trusted to make shit up

Heads up

Casey Bloys saved a final announcement for last: HBO is ordering House of the Dragon, set 100 years before Game of Thrones.

— Joy Press (@Joypress) October 29, 2019

I know just the guys to write it.

Maybe this was well-known, but I just learned (from a video by the battlefield earth screenplay writer) that the big writing error in the first pilot was that they never mentioned that Cersei and Jaime were siblings.

Um, that's bollocks.

Jamie's very first words to Cersei in the pilot are "As your brother..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB6CFhXTt2E

(or was there another test audience style pilot)

yeah they recast a bunch of parts. also:

The title sequence was different
An extensive opening scene showing a poisoned Jon Arryn, desperately trying with his last ounce of strength to write a warning letter, but then collapsing and dying
The early design of the White Walkers was slightly different, particularly their language
Cersei burning the feather Robert left at Lyanna's tomb
Jon gets drunk at the Winterfell feast, as in the novels
More exposition between Jaime and Ned about the Mad King
An actual flashback to the Mad King killing Ned's father and older brother
A scene in the training yard with Bran and Tommen sparring, then Robb and Joffrey (from the books).
Catelyn wanting Sansa to go south, and Luwin being the one to urge Ned to go south
The Jaime/Cersei and Daenerys/Drogo sex scenes were changed

can't wait until we have GoT truthers demanding that Jamie and Cersei are related

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

I regret to inform you all that this is not a musical.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/game-of-thrones-play-in-the-works-for-broadway-will-revive-iconic-characters-exclusive

it's early days yet, anything is possible

I'm just like Westeros
I'm short, scrappy, and morose
And I am not throwin away my shot

The hills are alive
With the howls of zombies

Nah, hmph. This is more difficult than I thought! How bout

Oh, King's Landing, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain
Where the incest blooms
In murky rooms

Needs work, but it has potential

And now, the show you've been waiting for!

‘Game of Thrones’ Jon Snow Sequel Series in Development at HBO (Exclusive) https://t.co/n38hTKV5Np

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 17, 2022

If this isn't a wacky workplace comedy called Jon Snow Knows Something then what is the point.

Wheres the Hound’s show thats my question

That one's called Dog Gone.

Sandor season one: 10 hour-long episodes of smoldering rubble slowly going cold

actually i think i could vibe with that