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

LSH is a big book spoiler that hasn't happened in the show yet (and may not happen at all).

The leader of those horsemen was in the brotherhood w/o banners in previous seasons. Thoros of Myr.

he was neither in previous seasons nor thoros of myr (paul kaye). he's supposedly lem lemoncloak

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7b/33/bc/7b33bc398042947455e63fe391207fc7.jpg

Yeah, indeed that was not Thoros of Myr.

I just learned that Podrick is not Gendry and feel like the series is ruined for me. I've been so worried for Podrick every time someone who might want to kill one of Robert Baratheon's bastard sons has been nearby. Bah.

i had that confusion for a while too, my mental image of gendry is still just podrick

Haha that one is an understandable confusion as they are eerily similar looking, but in general this thread gets characters so confused I'm not sure how any of you can keep track of this show at all. It can be hard enough even when you can tell everyone apart.

my mistake of thoros
gendry/podrick messes me up too

It can be hard enough even when you can tell everyone apart.

I honestly don't get this. I have never been confused about who is who and why they work for whomever on this show, and I'm half in the bag most Sunday evenings when we watch it.

I was trying to be sympathetic. I like looking up supplemental details about certain characters or locations (though I haven't gone as far as actually reading the books), so I'm not sure whether certain scenes would have confused me if I had not read up on the context outside of what the show explains.

I have never been confused about who is who and why they work for whomever on this show, and I'm half in the bag most Sunday evenings when we watch it.

That's what you do. You drink and you know things.

i def thought it was gendry in the ep. 8 preview

(obv it isnt)

i do wonder if he'd come back in some capacity, if only as an added complication for someone

Guys all the blonde people are Sean Bean and the dark haired ones are CLive Owen. This isn't difficult.

That's what you do. You drink and you know things.

yeah I was so jealous when he said that

thought clive "king in the north" owen would be in it for longer tbh

seems like too much of a coincidence that gendry would set off in a boat east of westeros and then a few years later "euron" appears on a boat from the west.

gendry also had a secretary named euron

Gnedry

End = Ned ...or so we thought (Euron = you're on)

"Ned, you're on"

Ned Stark is back

Gendry was Chris from Skins so I've never had the Podrick confusion.

lol for once i'd be delighted if the obsessives are right

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Ah, yes that theory.

....?

gendry can melt steel beams?

syrio

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gendry can melt steel beams?

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i mean he is a blacksmith ain't he

It helps that her face is classic "suddenly someone behind me is talking to me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qxkj9JWOWQ

So what's this theory then? I see the silhouette. Whose is it supposed to be?

syrio

oh okay, I'm fine with that I guess.

Another character hardly anyone remembers returns!

I'd bet he makes another appearance as a vision, but having him actually return would be very silly.

Well with this guy I always did wonder what exactly happened in that fight. They can't really bring him back without some sort of horrible "I've been watching over u ALWAYS cause u're SPESHUL" scene though. So I'm kind of hoping they don't.

"Now go meet your destiny, guuuuuuurl!"

Not really! It was always established that he was from Braavos, so it's not that farfetched he'd be there. The surprise would be merely that he's alive.

Hung with some regular folk neighbors (that is, casual TV watchers, not fanboys, though generally genre fans) and it was neat to hear the (not neat) categories they all fell into. One hasn't been watching the show at all, but brought up the fate of the "Wheel of Time" series as a concern. Another read all the GRRM books and is thus invested in seeing the show through, though he has some concerns, too, not least that it seems to have a long way to go despite not much show left. Another was sort of frustrated like me with how the show has backed itself into a corner; he was more annoyed by all the dangling subplots and secondary characters. Last week hung with another friend who is maybe more typical of the show's general fan base: not a genre fan, hasn't read the books, doesn't read the gossip or rumors, just enjoying the ride. She seems invested for the long run, but is sort of watching it like a mindless soap opera. Don't think she even knows there is a (as yet) finite number of episodes.

And like the show itself, as the story twists and turns toward its inevitable conclusion, all these factions will converge for one final battle!

"brought up the fate of the "Wheel of Time" series as a concern."

as in, GRRM will probably die before he finishes it?

Do you think he has a duty to finish it? Is he doing something wrong if he just says 'fuck it'?

xpost Yeah, I think that was his gist.

I'm sure we've talked about this here before, but obviously GRRM has no duty to do anything, and certainly if he dies, he'll have no regrets. But if he fails to finish the series it just seems like a missed opportunity, given he's been openly striving toward a alleged end-point. Definitely a fumbled opportunity if/when he lets the show lap his own series by a few years, though a fascinating experiment nonetheless having the adaptation precede the source material.

I do think it's possible that he won't finish it. I doubt he's making much progress on book 6 right now, and I don't think he'll finish it in 7 books.

Book Seven will just be a password for HBO Go

The idea of watching a couple of bloodbaths on this show tonight is making me nauseous.

Won't it be more treading water until the big battle?

my gut says the mountain v. sparrows and riverrun are tonight, winterfell next week

mountain is going to at least mess up a small group of militant sparrows tonight, yes.

It's in the episode trailer and the season trailer, so, yeah.

Man they trolled us Stoneheart truthers hard. Kinda have to admire the perverse dedication to setting up all the elements needed to introduce LSH into the story at this point and still not have her show up. Even more respect if they're

So Arya's arc proved to be...pointless? What did she learn that she didn't when she left Westeros? How is she a different person? Is she just slightly more ruthless and cunning now? Very irritating.

Did we really need another "Tyrion tries to make jokes" scene? Also lmao at the obvious budget skimping.

Ok, no more complaints. I actually enjoyed this ep mostly.

Oh sorry for the unfinished paragraph at the top there. This is what I meant to say:

Even more respect if this is a fake out and she actually does show up in episode 10