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

Sam's got it:

― Dan I., Monday, June 27, 2016 1:39 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg whatd he do w it

Yeah, I just mean the part where suddenly the kids are these cold-blooded killers.

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maybe Qyburn gave them drugs like the child soldiers in Africa?

What, like these drugs? https://youtu.be/nUPbLrANM8U?t=1m44s

Pycelle is a creep and the kids hated him imo

That poor prostitute that Pycelle waved off is never gonna get paid now. ;_;

xpost yeah but why wouldn't he ask? i guess he is stupid.

feel like the "the king in the north" chant could have gone on a bit longer. like maybe they could have all kept chanting it and then gone outside and walked around for a while, with more people joining in, until they eventually tired themselves out.

^^^ one

xpost yeah but why wouldn't he ask? i guess he is stupid.

feel like the "the king in the north" chant could have gone on a bit longer. like maybe they could have all kept chanting it and then gone outside and walked around for a while, with more people joining in, until they eventually tired themselves out.

Would like to see this worked up as an outtake for the dvd box.

was there any other decipherable dialog from sis to Sean other than "Protect Him. Promise Me Ned"? We knew the "Promise Me Ned" part already

it was hard to hear her. i replayed it three times.

All I heard was "can never find out."

After a few more muffled words, closed captioning revealed that Lyanna said to Ned: “If Robert finds out, he’ll… You know he will Ned. Promise me you’ll protect him. Promise me.”

she said "this guy jon snow sucks lol no one can ever find out"

"always remember you are ned"

"your name is sean bean the actor"

"which one are you again? stannis?"

"my goal is to bone all of the kings"

where did arya get that lady's face and how did it make her a foot taller

also show is still best described as expensively gratuitous ie tons of money spent in the service of a ton of narratively/structurally unnecessary gore/violence/nudity it gets p tiresome

― Οὖτις, Monday, 27 June 2016 19:09

There's definitely some of that in there but that's not a good description.

where did arya get that lady's face and how did it make her a foot taller

http://cdn.hoboken411.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Jon-Lovitz-I-am-a-thespian-merely-acting.jpg

jon: "just wish our old friend wall could talk, some of the stories he'd tell!!"

wall: "THE KING IN THE NORTH"

laughter.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:25

Then the wall goes "Scoobydoobydooooooooo!"

Episode ends.

There's definitely some of that in there but that's not a good description.

I know you guys are all into your maps and plotholes and shit but really this show exists entirely for one thing: money shots involving the inflicting of violence. It's about on the level of b-level gore movies in that way, it's just dressed up in ren faire finery and cgi

(I say this as a fan of b-level gore movies btw)

"That kid took King's Landing too fucking literal." - from a Reddit thread, made me lol

Any predictions for next season? Lannister-saga wraps up in four episodes (Jamie kills Cersei, fights for Dany, who is crowned)? Strange alliance between the Brotherhood, White Walkers and the House of Black and White? Everybody is dying until Samwell saves the day? The next season is the last one, right

are there not two more seasons?

no to literally all of that

Just all an excuse for violence? That doesn't sound like this show.

my prediction for next season is a single 24 hour event with bloody corpses being beaten over and over by mallets while we are all clockwork oranged to the screen, as shakey floats above weeping for us

that's not how money shots work

I'm laughin not cryin

gore starved GoT-watching idiots are released into a lightless pit to gnaw insatiably on flesh and only shakey can see that they are really eating themselves. from his seat in the heavens he swings the light of star upon them so they may see the truth and be freed

Many xps

Yeah, music was great although I was half expecting Simon Bates to start doing a voice over

that star? Sean Bean

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this show exists entirely for one thing: money shots involving the inflicting of violence

pretty sure most of my coworkers who follow this show and enjoy it immensely, and my wife, would thoroughly disagree, because they always find this aspect of the show to be the hardest to watch.

I know you guys are all into your maps and plotholes and shit but really this show exists entirely for one thing: money shots involving the inflicting of violence. It's about on the level of b-level gore movies in that way, it's just dressed up in ren faire finery and cgi

― Οὖτις, Monday, June 27, 2016 3:47 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wake up sheeple

I mean that you analogize it to splatter films and then parenthetically admit to being a fan of splatter films - this doesn't immediately make you realize you might be projecting just a bit?

Meet the new Lord Commander of the Nights Watch: Jaime Lannister!

Frederik I can't believe you didn't bring up the best cameo of the season, native son Frank Hvam as the Citadel's receptionist

I mean that you analogize it to splatter films and then parenthetically admit to being a fan of splatter films - this doesn't immediately make you realize you might be projecting just a bit?

I don't think projection has much to do with it - when the major plot points of a show all, over and over again, involve someone being raped/disemboweled/dismembered/whatever in gratuitous fashion it seems pretty obvious that all this other architecture built into the production is being used to build up to those moments, which then shock or titillate the audience to varying degrees, and in turn lead to more such incidents... seems pretty self-evident that it's what the show is structured around/"about". Desire for power = violence, that's what it's about. Which is not particularly deep or interesting and is largely why I find the show tiresome.

at least with cheapo gore movies there's often a sense of fun and a lack of pretense, here there's none of that.

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Which is not particularly deep or interesting

i'm not particularly sure either benioff or weiss consider their show to be particularly "deep" or have ever genuinely posited it as such in public statements. it's evident they think the characters are deep, which in various instances they are, certainly not all.

I'm laughin not cryin

― Οὖτις, Monday, June 27, 2016 4:02 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not mad

because they always find this aspect of the show to be the hardest to watch

also generally people love watching things that are "hard to watch", dunno how you missed this

I find this show fun, gore films too seldom are, Braindead an obviously fun exception.

thread derailer poll
frederik: continuity errors
josh: unclear on human behavior
shakey: basic challops

i'm not particularly sure either benioff or weiss consider their show to be particularly "deep" or have ever genuinely posited it as such in public statements.

Fair point, maybe I shouldn't go expecting depth where there's none intended. Although portentous dramas like this tend to make gestures towards depth/seriousness (cf. white savior + slaves subplots, impending climate-related catastrophe etc.) - they have to draw the viewers in and make them feel something important is at stake, after all.

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SHAKEY U DONT UNDERSTAND THE SHOW AT ALL STOP IT

enlighten me!

First you must confess!

is it just that you guys don't want to admit that sexiness/violence/gore (and the ultimate combo: sexual violence!) aren't central to the show's appeal here idgi it's like the raison d'etre for this show. Fantasy is for ADULTS now!

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lol Evan