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

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also if davos gets killed in the big battle next week i'll be pissed, he's a top 3 likable character for me.

nomar, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:21 (seven years ago) link

That's why he'll probably die.

Evan, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link

i'm not entirely unconvinced LSH won't make an appearance, the jaime and edmure conversation felt like some kind of setup beyond the scenes immediately following. also dang i never knew edmure had it in him, ballsy to go at the kingslayer like that.

nomar, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link

also yeah davos is probably toast :/

nomar, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link

If Davos dies I hope they have time for an autopsy, otherwise everyone will assume he's coming back

Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 13 June 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link

LSH would be a little much in a season that already has one major resurrection and another major reemergence. It would be both of those things at once and a bit excessive right now.

Evan, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link

LSH should be abandoned entirely imo as it thus far has been

if davos dies i fuckin riot

if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 13 June 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link

LSH has either been hiding around quietly for a long time now or she is a pile of bones at this point.

Evan, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link

Wouldn't be shocked if she makes an appearance in the season finale, at the very end, and then we have to wait until the next season for anything to happen. Jon Snow redux. After all, this is still television, where the easiest and most obvious thing to do is often the choice that is made.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link

There has been a shitload of character deaths though and only two (?) have come back from the dead. (We never knew the fate of The Hound).

What was the rumour that Cersei & Qyburn were talking about? Or do we not know yet?

groovypanda, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link

p sure that about hiden caches of wildfyre. presumably there is some being kept underneath the sept

dynamicinterface, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link

why does everyone keep saying we didn't know the fate of the hound? didn't preacher dude say pretty explicitly that he found him in really bad shape and nursed him to health? or am i making that up?

jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 13 June 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link

Because we only found that out a week ago?

Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 13 June 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link

For a season and a half whether he was deD or nt was up in the air

Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 13 June 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link

Didn't know Hound was alive or dead, didn't know if Benjen was alive or dead, didn't know if Bronn was ever coming back, Jon Snow back from the dead, Mountain back from the dead, Beric is back from the dead. Probably forgetting a couple.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link

The Hound was left for dead, and didn't appear for several seasons. I mean, no, we never saw the body, but it's not out of the ordinary to say that he's come back from the dead. Benjen returned from the dead as well, btw. That's four characters in eight episodes whos deaths were 'fakeouts'. Is that a better way of saying it? Also, I fear/hope the Blackfish might soon join them.

Frederik B, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link

Benjen was never dead, was he? Pretty sure he was just missing North of the Wall.

groovypanda, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link

I never thought that Benjen was dead (or rather, that his story was over). If it wasn't expected that he would come back at some point, he would have never been in the show to begin with.

silverfish, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link

Wait Hound, Snow and Benjen

Who is the 4th? Arya?

Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 13 June 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link

You can't be serious about Bronn

Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 13 June 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link

Arya's almost dying but then somehow killing the Waifinator bothered me way more than the Hound or Jon coming back

silverfish, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link

as far as implausibilities go

silverfish, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link

Mountain, Snow, Benjen, Hound.

Frederik B, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link

For what it's worth I always assumed The Mountain wasn't ever necessarily dead, just as close as possible before being engineered into Frankenstein's monster.

Evan, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link

ned stark

germane geir hongro (s.clover), Monday, 13 June 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link

Benjen was missing since the very beginning and only had a few brief cameos in flashbacks so it's not really comparable with Jon et al

groovypanda, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link

they also pulled edmure out of a dungeon where he's apparently been kept since the red wedding

geometry-stabilized craft (art), Monday, 13 June 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link

Arya's almost dying but then somehow killing the Waifinator bothered me way more than the Hound or Jon coming back

― silverfish, Monday, June 13, 2016 4:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Arya was pretty fucked up but probably executed a sick riposte to the waif's knife lunge in the dark Zatoichi style, given she was blind for a bit.

Evan, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link

Mountain was returning all of last season, not this one

Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 13 June 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link

did like the move with slicing the candle off and then the cut away. thought that was pretty deft as this stuff goes.

germane geir hongro (s.clover), Monday, 13 June 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, no Bronn doesn't count, any more than the return of Gendry would be a surprise. But Beric, as I noted, is also back from the dead. Resurrected by Thoros of Myr (thanks internet!). In fact, I think he's been killed twice, by the Mountain and by Arya. Blackfish offscreen death dubious, but then, Stannis didn't get the honor of getting killed onscreen either.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link

??? The Hound kills Beric on screen, the other time(s) he died were merely explained to the audience as having happened prior to the introduction to the Brotherhood

Evan, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link

Mountain returned definitively in episode ten of season 5. Hound returned in episode 7 of season six. That's eight episodes.

Frederik B, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link

Sorry, I think I misread him as one of Arya's prior victims (there have been a lot of people killed on this show). Anyway, he's been killed 6 times or something.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link

Yeah but that's just his thing

groovypanda, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link

I think this season is the show spending the capital it earned by killing off a ton of characters in the few several seasons

Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 13 June 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link

Do you think the waif underwent the blindness lesson? I expect Arya could put out the candle and zatoichi her. does the waif know of arya's sword training in winterfell?

― remove butt (abanana), Tuesday, May 31, 2016 6:20 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I called that one.

I don't know why Thoros and Beric are still around. And the show mentioned Cat in two different scenes this episode. I don't see LSH happening this late in the game.

remove butt (abanana), Monday, 13 June 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link

Steadicam shot of the actress walking backstage was pretty cool i thought

Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Monday, 13 June 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link

How was Arya able to finally defeat waif if she'd been getting her arse kicked so badly by her all the other times previous?

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:28 (seven years ago) link

She used a trick and her life depended on it. The stab wounds and all the falling are a different story.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 13 June 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link

That Mountain tho. That club couldnt even deal with him right now!

Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link

I cackled with glee at that Mountain bit with the faith militant, even tho I hate Cersei

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:48 (seven years ago) link

cersei is my favorite. lena headey plays her with such hammy glee it's infectious. "I choose violence" was amazing even if the previews spoiled it.

ryan, Monday, 13 June 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link

was hoping lancel would get it

http://static.tumblr.com/b1a4c7ab06a39c376e63dac3ec7508ee/ut1vugq/gV5mp49go/tumblr_static_lancel.gif

nomar, Monday, 13 June 2016 23:51 (seven years ago) link

cersei is my favorite. lena headey plays her with such hammy glee it's infectious. "I choose violence" was amazing even if the previews spoiled it.

― ryan, Monday, June 13, 2016 6:50 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link

i gotta say that as a medico i was pretty skeptical of arya's completely miraculous recovery --- as dayo said upthread, she should've died of peritonitis p quickly

jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link

she actually died and was brought back

nomar, Monday, 13 June 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link

tempted to read the resurrections and implausible survivals as a play on "the gods have a purpose for you" (i.e., George RR Martin has plot points that involve you). you ain't done until the story is finished with you.

ryan, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link

I'm not a medico and even I was finding Arya's sudden leap out of bed dubious. I saw that stab, right in the bowel and with a real twist!

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 00:24 (seven years ago) link

"in a season full of real twists the one delivered to arya's gut was the most unexpected"

nomar, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link


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