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

Was sort f hoping sheeran would be stabbed
Otherwise, best episode in a mighty long time.

That was some good television

I suspect that I've never wanted to be anybody more than you-know-who in that cold open

puking guy #12? i've been that guy, it was awful

Wait Ed Sheeran is in this? Bloody hell.

The cold open was so good.

Also: "experience" from the Hound.

Was so hoping she was going to just cut sheerans head off

which ep were the dead father daughter from again that the hound buried

found it http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Breaker_of_Chains

another season premiere recap episode where nothing happens.

they were definitely getting ready to do things, though. definitely setting the table for things to happen

putting the pieces back on the table, like they literally did in the last scene

My brain is etched with Dany and Tyrion doing the intro to Computer Blue

"No need to seize the last word, Lord Baelish. I'll assume it was something clever."

https://media.tenor.com/images/87c447ee81a50c4e3ea1a72caa680662/tenor.gif

Who do you think you're fooling with that fucking topknot

good ep but I cringed hard at "we never did talk about Tommen" or w/ever, there must have been a thousand more graceful ways to introduce that subject

i kind of feel like pissing off Littlefinger is a plan that could backfire.

I like that the White Walkers now have at least three giants. that should make things fun.

Pilous Asbæk is so bad at this.

i have a hopeful theory that arya killing house frey was a symbolic gesture of the end of OTT rapesploitation and stupidly gratuitous female nudity on GoT, a tacit acknowledgement that the audience has grown to the point where those are bad directions to take the most popular show on television. whole lotta thick leather doublets on all the female leads in the first ep!

yeah the costume things i noticed most were the thick leather doublets and how euron greyjoy looks like he could be swaggering down camden high street

Euron Greyjoy turned into a cross between Jack Sparrow and Ian Watkins, looking forward to him getting eviscerated later this year.

I dug The Mountain's new get-up.

they're really getting on with it now, hard to think of a time on this show when the plot moved so significantly in such a short period of time. maybe this is due to them moving past Martin's books.

My brain is etched with Dany and Tyrion doing the intro to Computer Blue

― sarahell, Monday, July 17, 2017

yup yup

Euron Greyjoy turned into a cross between Jack Sparrow and Ian Watkins, looking forward to him getting eviscerated later this year.

― nomar, Monday, July 17, 2017

this too. i'm like when did iron born switch from black metal to glam?

xp to akm: I think of last season (which i mostly hated) as a mulligan to rearrange the playing field and get away from all the worst elements of Martin's storytelling.
i hope they stick to the "a little bit from every storyline" method of programming each episode; i get tired of individual plotlines when they decide to do full eps for one splinter... annual tradition of the super-expensive sfx heavy full hour battle sequence aside of course.

also i agree on the mountain helmet, very cool
http://cdn5.thr.com/sites/default/files/2017/05/screen_shot_2017-05-24_at_1.18.14_pm_-_embed_2017.jpg
http://watchersonthewall.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Mountain.jpg

god the ed sheeran scene was even worse than i could have imagined, and not just due to sheeran either, the entire casting for it was like he'd got permission to choose some stage school mates to join him.

mostly a good ep. i liked the stuff with the hound and the fire etc. poor old leper jorah still can't quite get the hint about dany. sam is still generally annoying, but the scene with the maestyr was good. i guess they're finally doing something with dany, even tho yet again she's just moved to another place to sit around for a while. also those montages they keep doing with her arriving in a place and sweeping around in a majestic manner are way overdone by now, that must be like the 10th one with the same "what if enya had been a man" soundtrack.

the pedant in me was like 'ok dragonstone is nice but where you gonna put all the horses'

"what if enya had been a man" soundtrack

so good

it's some fairly heinous grandstanding to just bung ed sheeran into an episode. i also thought the scene with that child ruler was such blatant attempts at getting gifs/retweets. been noticing that more and more with tv shows.

yeah she's dope but they're leaning on her a little too hard

I didn't mind the actors in the Sheeran scene as much as I did the scene itself. "Gee golly gosh, when I get home from the war I'm going to finally get the chance to open that charity for abused puppies. I love my wife and I love my parents and as long as I think positive and work hard, absolutely nothing will graphically murder me next episode!" We get it! Arya is learning about how some people are good! OK already! Fuck!

It's pretty unbelievable that she didn't murder Sheeran on sight after hearing him sing

If there was a tradition of murdering annoying musicians in Westeros, Sigur Ros would never have left that Joffrey wedding celebration in one piece.

Jaime could get with some other woman and father more Lannisters ... he only lost a hand, right, or did I miss something?

God that Sheeran/soldiers bit was terribly clunky, why did they keep laughing after everything they said?

With Cersei being the ruler, and having basically eliminated the judicial branch of the government, ...

THE REIGN OF TERROR WON'T END

Ed Sheeran will play Lisa’s love interest in an upcoming episode of 'The Simpsons' https://t.co/EcL9SwbqR5 pic.twitter.com/C4wNSJIUKZ

— NME (@NME) July 17, 2017

Jamie is presumably still in the Kingsguard so he has vowed never to marry. He will never father a legitimate heir (openly). Cersei isn't supposed to be that old, though, and I can't remember why she can't have more kids.

I reckon she must be coming to the end of childbearing age. Lana Heady is mid 40s iirc.

I think she still can (have kids) which is why shes trying to get at Euron even though alliance wise its a completely shit match.

Jaime's also remained faithful to his sister iirc, which is sweet of him

Lena Headey is 43. But Cersei is younger in the books, though she probably has been aged up for the show, as pretty much everyone has been.

Jamie is presumably still in the Kingsguard so he has vowed never to marry.

Considering his sister just burned hundreds of people to death and is now the monarch, I think she can easily release him from those vows, if she really wanted a Lannister 1000 year reich

im finally used to Big Bran

little bran -> big bran -> cosmic bran

is this show just going to be Mission Impossible now