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

Ah, yes that theory.

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gendry can melt steel beams?

syrio

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gendry can melt steel beams?

― sarahell, Friday, June 10, 2016 4:14 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

I lol'd at T-1000 waif

So much of this ep felt especially like Bad TV Writing and Bad TV Plotting. The only part i enjoyed was the band of brothers

I enjoyed the mountain ripping that guy's head off. felt let down by the arya and blackfish plot cul de sacs but I guess those could still lead somewhere interesting.

Brienne and jamie meeting eyes tenderly was *kisses fingers* so bad

The battle CGI looked so bad too

Sorry, but I was so very happy to see all those nutty convoluted Arya theories disproved anticlimactically scene by scene. People are now apparently furious that there wasn't anything more to Arya's recklessly vulnerable stroll though town when she got stabbed. But all of the bullshit that was being theorized to justify that seemingly shortsighted mistake was just so over the top stupid imo.

Totally agree. The Tyler Durden theory was particularly irritating. So were the waif and her smirk, so I'm glad we can put all of that behind us.

a plotline has no meaningful resolution

People are now apparently furious that there wasn't anything more to Arya's recklessly vulnerable stroll though town when she got stabbed. But all of the bullshit that was being theorized to justify that seemingly shortsighted mistake was just so over the top stupid imo.

― Evan, Sunday, June 12, 2016 11:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how was it a 'shortsighted mistake'—the point was she was wounded & that being attacked by ppl who can look like other ppl is crazy-making

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.

she thought she wanted to escape & explore and become someone else (they kind of hammered this point home) and then discovered who she wanted to be really was herself.

i quite liked that plotline & i think the entire world of the faceless men is cool they just stretched it out too long imo

otherwise no problems with it

She learned to fight better and fight in the dark (and absurdly improbably withstand nasty injuries). Yeah this went on far too long, it would have been much better if they kept it short but as said before, they probably needed more Maisie screentime than makes storytelling sense and her plot couldn't move on yet because her leaving probably needs to align with a bunch of other stuff.

I'm kind of glad the extravagant theories weren't right but perhaps it was too plain.

I lol'd at T-1000 waif

lol this was exactly what i thought. the way she walked out of the actress's house and looked left and right was like she was t-1000's daughter. plus that way of kind of pointing her arms and hands sharply upwards as she mechanically sprinted after arya.

blackfish's brief appearance was a bit pointless wasn't it? like i was sure he had to get into the boat to make it worth his having been in the show in the first place. is he definitely dead? seemed strange to give him a bit of screentime then not even grant him a heroic death.

T-1000 was the immediate image but that segued quickly to assassin's creed.

another (fairly pointless) thing i wondered, i mean i know there's no real law and order in the got world, but wouldn't it have raised an eyebrow to have a child bleeding profusely on the streets while another person chases them with a knife. i mean is this just meant to happen so often that nobody does anything? i'm not sure that's even possible, like surely some kind of self-imposed order would have to exist for there to even be a primitive form of civilisation which has buildings and markets and people doing jobs?

might write a thinkpiece about it.

btw when the maester guy was whispering to cersei about his little birds etc, that's presumably wildfire they're talking about, right?

A tenet of medieval jurisprudence is that the person with the knife always has the right of way, until a person with a sword shows up.

People are now apparently furious that there wasn't anything more to Arya's recklessly vulnerable stroll though town when she got stabbed. But all of the bullshit that was being theorized to justify that seemingly shortsighted mistake was just so over the top stupid imo.

― Evan, Sunday, June 12, 2016 11:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how was it a 'shortsighted mistake'—the point was she was wounded & that being attacked by ppl who can look like other ppl is crazy-making

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, June 13, 2016 2:42 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The walking around town all vulnerable and carefree part was the mistake I was referring to. She was supposed to have realized already that she was likely being hunted.

Loved the waif's fists of determination when she ran.

tv logic but i felt pretty upset when she upturned all those fruit pedllers stock and there was no consequence

Scenes with Tyrion really testing the limits of what I'll put up with just to watch nathalie emmanuel.

i haven't been paying that much attention because these last two episodes have been so boring but where is varys going again?