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

Xpost Yeah, sure, but it didn't gain me any more sympathy for the poor guy whose horse was linked to this three-wheeled carriage of a subplot.

yeah hodor moment had pathos but no drama - nothing changes bc of his death other than bran has to find another way to get around

It establishes Bran's power

Is warging on the same skill tree as greensight? Is it a critical dependency that one be able to warg before you can do the past-viewing stuff? Or is Bran unique in that he can warg AND greensee, or whatever the technical term is?

Not all wargs can greensee, but I think most or all greenseers can warg.

We may never know.

Ask the Maester calls it the Treeternet. Saw another "The Little Benjen That's Cold" pun. Like these GoT puns.

Jojen was a greenseer, but I don't think he could warg.

No, but both are skills almost exclusive to Northerners.

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Jojen was a greenseer, but I don't think he could warg.

― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Wednesday, June 1, 2016 4:59 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

this was a good song

Original Get Back lyrics or KLF outtake, iirc.

It establishes Bran's power

― Evan, Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Sure, but that's kinda exactly my point. Not that it wasn't a moment but it wasn't really Hodor's moment.

Would have been stronger frankly if it had leaned less on the pathos and more on "holy shit bran just traveled to the past and killed a motherfucker in the present"

pretty sure euron can't warg but apparently he can maybe greensee

whaaaa?

is that from the new book chapter that just came out or something

Every time I see "greensee" I can't help but think "goatse."

I think of greensleeves.

Alas.

they do call him "crow's eye" hmm hmm

Wasn't that just because he's wrinkly around his eyes?

https://madeinmyr.wordpress.com/2015/02/21/a-black-eye-shining-with-malice-thoughts-concerning-eurons-black-magic-and-potential-dark-powers/

i've been going down the awoiaf.westeros.org rabbit hole p much all day today and is grrm explicitly writing all of this shit or what? he might be able to finish the books if he spent less time detailing the inhabitants of Sothoryi or whatev.

i mean i read the first 3 books like 6 times when i was a tyke and i don't recall any of this stuff. is all of this info in later books? is anyone fact checking this wiki? are the authors fibbing?

http://direct.westeros.org/images/3/35/World_of_ice_and_fire.JPG

there's a whole book of that shit cowritten by martin, published in the last cpl years

good to know i guess. westeros seems unspeakably lame and ignorant by comparison to these other lands. i wonder why dany even gives af.

Most of the Euron stuff begins in A Feast for Crows so the first three books wouldn't tell you much

i always kinda assumed Euron would be an unreliable narrator but it's on the wiki so i guess it checks out

Which things on the wiki seem unreliable to you

none of it specifically. it's just a shit load of information that seems completely unnecessary to the overall story and if euron is the only source for this info i would suspect cause he seems to be full of shit.

but i now assume that the book clay mentioned covers all of this and more!

The book mostly covers the olden times and the geographies I think

"i started reading a game of thrones. when cersei is introduced, it says she's accompanied by "her younger children" because you had to know she didn't have children older than herself."

Is this a joke, or do you just rarely read?

The idea with World of Ice and Fire is that it's written by a maester during the reign of Robert. So everything any Baratheon does is amazing, etc. And also, the further away from Westeros it goes, the less certified info there is, and the more speculative and fantastic it becomes. Most of what is written on the Dawn Age, the Children of the Forrest, Yi Ti, Ib, or whatever, probably isn't 100% true. There are some info in there that forms the basis for a lot of the more elaborate fan-theories, though.

plus the maesters are corrupt liars!

there's also that he's sorting out info coming from other maesters over thousands of years and they're writing w/ their own biases too, etc, iirc

sophie turner is very pretty and she's jean grey now which means she'll get enough steady blockbuster work to do other things, could see her in keira knightly type roles in a few years or taking roles emma watson passes on. if she can sing i could see her being ariel whenever disney gets around to making a live action version of little mermaid.

That's already happening with Chloe whatsername from Kick Ass cast.

Turner's going to be Mary Shelley in Coky Giedroyc's first foray into cinema

Not convinced Turner's got the chops for a particularly long-lived career, though she'll probably get plenty of work in the next couple of years. Knightly and Watson both better actors imo.

...apart from Coky Giedroyc's other forays into cinema?

OK, first time in almost 20 years and certainly with a much higher profile than she had last time

"i started reading a game of thrones. when cersei is introduced, it says she's accompanied by "her younger children" because you had to know she didn't have children older than herself."

Is this a joke, or do you just rarely read?

― albvivertine, Thursday, 2 June 2016 02:00 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol this was bugging me all day

I guess it's just her two younger kids but I was legit confused by it.

wait this is called game of throneS but there's only really one throne that everyone's bothered about weird

Is there any way that this ends with someone actually sitting on that throne? Tommen has been sitting on it for a while now and it's doing him no good. I guess Whitewalker dude on the throne in the final frame with everyone we know bowing to him as zombies might be cool though.

i thought it was called game of thorns this whole time

That's already happening with Chloe whatsername from Kick Ass cast.

nah, that's a non-Disney Little Mermaid. The one Sofia Coppola was supposed to be directing

Robb just wanted to be King of the North so that would have been a second throne if they ever got around to making it.

Oh yeah, it is. Based on the original Hans Christian Andersen story. Just assumed it was the next live action remake from Disney after Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, Pete's Dragon et al

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oh there'll definitely be one along soon

Seven episode seventh season seems to have been confirmed

Well, as I suspected from the disinterest in catching up with the latest episode, my wife has given up on GoT (and doubled down on ever-better "The Americans"). I think she made the shift from "WTF!?" to "WTF?" I'll have to watch it vicariously through internet reaction. I'll have to check in with my regular folk friends to see what they think of the show these days.