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

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u r just making everyone feel very terrible for towards you

6 seasons in and no indications about how even the most basic institutions actually function - we've had a few scenes about the bank (mostly just to establish the Lannisters are in debt), a handful of scenes about the maesters (they have books! crazy), a "church" abruptly shoehorned in to provide a conflict for Cersei. Really the institution we know the most about is the Night's Watch. This show is hardly the Wire.

[temples fingers] perfect

is there a way to hide individual topics on sna

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I don't intend for all this to sound mean, I like Οὖτις quite a bunch (apart from this thread and when he says RDJ is particularly notable as Iron Man and George Clooney would be an ideal Dr Strange) but I've built up these images and scenes of him turning all weird when he gets onto the topic of Game Of Thrones, inspired by his comments on it. I'll feel silly (or sillier) if I've posted about this before.

Οὖτις sits in the living room with a bunch of people, the television announces Game Of Thrones is coming on, everyone but Οὖτις leaves in a hurry as he grimly mutters "murderboobs" with a darkening expression. He watches with a wide eyed disgusted sneer that occasionally has a hint of a fascinated leering smile as he chants "murderboobs murderboobs MURDERBOOBS!" louder and louder as the show goes on. The neighbours whimper in their beds and say to each other "Its happening again! Please talk to him, I'm too frightened to... although he usually seems so nice".
Οὖτις goes to bed after the show. He sleeps a few hours and then suddenly wakes with a terrifying livid grimace saying "murderboobs!"
He turns on the television to see the Spartacus series. Back to chanting "murderboobs murderboobs MURDERBOOBS!" with a judgemental glare that doesn't hide his sadistic fascination.

Next week he passes a building holding a tournament of the latest Mortal Kombat game, he gets that look again, goes in, watches the game and chants "murderboobs!" until he frightens away all the players, audience and organisers.

lol nice slashfic

xxp i don't think so - would kinda undo the agency she's finally developed to fall back into littlefinger's thrall

― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, June 27, 2016 4:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh i didn't think jho was right about this either BUT now I think it might make sense as a twist—my thought is we are v much expected to think she is loyal to jon & her betraying him to littlefinger could be one of those classic GoT twists...also i think her turning to littlefinger could very MUCH be about her agency, she chooses the person who she sees as more apt to survive in a world where she's seen so many Good People die for believing in good things, incl members of her family

but idk, i still lean towards thinking she's not trying to betray jon

i could see a situation where they have a fundamental disagreement rather than a betrayal. like jon is focused on the north and the wall, while sansa thinks they should attack king's landing (maybe bc they now have more numbers and presumably the lannister army is a shell of its former self) as part of an admittedly justifiable revenge move. maybe littlefinger convinces her this is the right play bc of this horde coming in from across the sea, and she heads south. which will bring together a kind of interesting conflict on three fronts in king's landing, while jon snow deals with preparing for the war vs the night king. sansa might do this bc she feels like there's time to take king's landing easily and then return north to do battle w/the white walkers. idk. there are a lot of ways the jon and sansa thing can go, i don't think an outright betrayal would be one of them necessarily.

They way they framed it seemed more like, she's afraid of how Peter "sitting in the corner looking salty making plots" Baelish might sabotage Jon if he doesn't get what he wants and feels inclined to follow him on that account.

Just reading up thread to catch up, I'm lolling away to myself that anyone would be confused at how varys got to that ship "so fast". Um, time passed, guys. He went to Dorne, and in the meantime, Jon gathered the houses in the north (or did everyone think they all teleported to winterfell, as well? lol), and then SOME TIME PASSED when we saw all the ships sailing off to battle.

As my partner said "what did they want, a spinning fucking clock to make it obvious?"

There should be a clock, like on 24. For drama.

6 seasons in and no indications about how even the most basic institutions actually function - we've had a few scenes about the bank (mostly just to establish the Lannisters are in debt), a handful of scenes about the maesters (they have books! crazy), a "church" abruptly shoehorned in to provide a conflict for Cersei. Really the institution we know the most about is the Night's Watch. This show is hardly the Wire.

― Οὖτις, Monday, June 27, 2016 5:49 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

Jon's as passionately honourable as Ned was, Sans a may remember how well that worked out.

Yeah I mean, destroying the main religious monument of the continent (is it?) surely would have ripple effects across the continent and hit the masses pretty hard. it's the kind of detail, or even choices Martin and the producers are making that I somewhat dislike: if they were to focus less on yet house drama and more on the havoc the houses are unleashing selfishly on the populations, then the whole story would have been more poignant to me, perhaps. However that's a personal inclinaison that I'm not going to force on everyone and I can get behind with the directions they are going eg. setting up for epic stuff throughout an entire season.

yeah after six seasons, i still dont' understand their basic infrastructure; who picks up the garbage? who do they call to do the plumbing? are the grocery workers unionized?

fun episode. good music.

kinda confused about the "portentous dramas" thread subplot but i'm guessing it's not about some premonitory element of the plot and more about misspelling pretentious?

to be fair you get more of a sense of the everyday world in the books

o man, i'm gonna watch it. last one, so excite.

It's just about the drama often seeming to be aiming at seeming portentous tbh, word has other meanings

Actually I guess it doesn't rly, I've never seen "portentous" used in a way that wasn't at least a little ironic.

i guess - like gloomy, foreboding, etc i just don't get why that's a bad thing

Who would have thought the maesters library had so many books. Seemed like an awful lot for a society where only high nobolity knows how to read and write. Seems like they just wanted to go for some kind of star wars galacitc senate jedi library big grand shot. But too many books.

my immediate thought was probably a lot of census records and grain requisition receipts but I bet there are some cool books in there too

Who would have thought the maesters library had so many books. Seemed like an awful lot for a society where only high nobolity knows how to read and write. Seems like they just wanted to go for some kind of star wars galacitc senate jedi library big grand shot. But too many books.

― 龜, Tuesday, June 28, 2016 3:32 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSwBEq1zz4k

The library looked like the one from Dark Souls!

Wait ,has it been established that only nobility know how to read?

lol, arya's all, "try the cock. it's the best part."

Anyone spot this?

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a "church" abruptly shoehorned in

LOL shoehorned in it was in the first fucking episode and like every single episode ever. Not that it's been a primary source of tension or drama (at least not like in the books), but the contrast between the Old Gods and the New Gods, between the godswoods/godtrees and the Church of the Seven, has been present since day one.

NOT TO MENTION THE LORD OF LIGHT WHICH IS PRETTY GODDAMNED IDEOLOGICAL

what am i looking at in that gif

Sean Bean is waving

Kristofer Hivju is one of the Hotel aliases that Sean Bean uses

It seemed at the start (of the book/TV series) that the religions managed in piece; the north talked to trees, the South had the Seven, and it was mostly okay with the spheres of influence that had been carved out. But the ideological implications of those beliefs have been unfolding and conflicting all the time (I.e only one of them relies on a priesthood). It's not central to the plot, but it's certaiy not ephemera.

(Not to mention trial by combat which has been a major plot point)

still don't get what's in that gif?

tho doesn't take a genius to know who "john bradley" is.

Stark banner back on Winterfell.

Yeah

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jon could've won a bloodless battle if he'd just made fun for ramsay for that bolton banner being a bit 'on the nose'

Not sure if this has been mentioned upthread. Bryan Cogman responds to the teleportation issues:

https://twitter.com/b_cogman/status/747542462311260160

Best finale they've done by far.

The most fun criticisms/questions for me are still around the Faceless assassins. Can Arya only pose as women? Can they be animals too? Maybe a human but with a dire wolf's face?

More seriously, did Arya steal that woman's face before leaving Braavos? Or did she kill the woman already there at the Twins and slice her face off while also doing the brothers Frey?

well, we last saw her in the face-hanging room, so she probably stuffed a few faces in her travel bag before peacing out

She probably has a little carrying case full of faces she took with her. Comes with a strap and a microfiber cloth inside.

Also a mesh pocket on the side for a water bottle

There is no ideology associated w the lord of light fwiw

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i'm guessing she killed that woman for her face but that doesn't eliminate the possibility of the travel-ready face case you know

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