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

So the burning of Stannis' daughter held off winter just long enough for Jon Snow to take Winterfell. Good job Lord of Light!

BTW, a nice touch in the last episode was how they showed us all these white birds flying out of the Citadel, as Sam and Gilly are arriving, and then showed one flying towards Winterfell a little later, and then finally reveal the significance as Sansa and Jon are finishing up their chat on the parapets.

surprised she didnt make that argument xp

no a great conperson

BTW, a nice touch in the last episode was how they showed us all these white birds flying out of the Citadel, as Sam and Gilly are arriving, and then showed one flying towards Winterfell a little later, and then finally reveal the significance as Sansa and Jon are finishing up their chat on the parapets.

Somehow missed all of that, damn.

Heh:

HBO: What animal would be on your house banner?
Bella Ramsey: A tiger, or an elephant, or a monkey. Actually, a lion! I hate decisions!

wow she sounds super smart for a 12yo

she gives me the vibe of the girl who will go to college at 16 and act in a lot of overemotive theater

So Anne Hathaway?

nerdier

Anne Allthaway?

RIP Ramsay :'(

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lol nice reference

Ha yes good one :)

http://i.imgur.com/kA2TKWQ.gif

Fantastic

The librarian in that scene was Frank Hvam, very locally famous Danish comedian. Weird casting for a lot of Danes.

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

― El Tomboto, Monday, June 27, 2016 3:19 PM (1 week ago)

quite surprising to me that westeros has so many books, bet most of them are dead boring

mostly just dupes of the satanic verses

Books are catalogued Feast Description 1-400,000

haha!
I am on p122 of the first book. There have been a lot of meals described

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

― El Tomboto, Monday, June 27, 2016 3:19 PM (1 week ago)

― El Tomboto, 4. juli 2016 21:51 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, sorry!

See you in 2021 for season 7!

I found the conversation upthread about whether or not GoT is fantasy mostly quite clueless. It is definitely 100% fantasy. It has a somewhat different and rather more interesting approach to character and morality to most of the Tolkien-esque heroic fantasy from which it draws, but that doen't make it not fantasy by any means.

Anyway, killer finale.

different but 100% the same makes sense

Yes, it actually does. You build a house out of vinyl, it would be different from all other houses, but still 100% a house.

would sound better than other houses

everyone in the world: i usually dont like shit with dragons and swords but i like this
nerds: ahhh nooo this really freaks me out for some reason

everyone is the world: i usually dont like shit with dragons and swords but i like this therefore it must not be fantasy.
nerds: Yes it is. Some fantasy is really good, we've been trying to tell you.

Plus, I said it was different to most Tolkien-esque heroic fantasy. This is only one kind of fantasy.

Game of Thrones is 100% nerd, even though it was stitched together from the skins of cool people

game of thrones is mostly scifi if were being honest

game of thrones is mostly scifi if were being honest

― lag∞n,

Haha bollocks.

http://www.goldlabel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Martin-Starr-Party-Down.jpg

post-fantasy

Is that a younger Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley? xp

That's Martin Starr from the well pre-SV (and probably ultimately superior) Party Down.

lol younger Gilfoyle

I think you mean older Haverchuck

Martin Starr debating hard sci-fi with that woman in Party Down is probably the funniest thing I've ever seen on TV. As well as his attempt to point out that Jim Morrison didn't write the lyrics to "Light My Fire".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCqjR1gHyIQ

I know this show is really popular but I've been surprised by how often I hear supermarket workers talk about it and people I know who I never imagined would like it.

Sullivan: Oh, Gilbert! You and your world of topsy-turvydom. In 1881, it was a magic coin; and before that it was a magic lozenge; and in 1877 it was an elixir.

Gilbert: In this instance it is a magic potion.

Taystee drops a "Winter is coming" in the latest season of Orange Is The New Black.

Hoping Cersei will respond in kind with "trust no bitch".

would sound better than other houses

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, July 5, 2016 2:14 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

warmer, too

cut down on your electric

The actress they got to play Lyanna in the last episode actually looked quite a lot like Emilia Clarke in her scene. Theories ahoy!

everyone in the world: i usually dont like shit with dragons and swords but i like this
nerds: ahhh nooo this really freaks me out for some reason

This is the TV equivalent of nerds throwing tantys because Normal People all play games not but theyre not REAL gamers.

http://www.nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/milestones-grrm.jpg

Quite like this picture

This is the TV equivalent of nerds throwing tantys because Normal People all play games not but theyre not REAL gamers.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, July 6, 2016 1:25 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah it's the classic nerd backlash pattern: lamenting the lack of respect or appreciation for a treasured show/genre/movie/book/band/whatever but flipping out when it actually receives some