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

...and on another aside, I feel like Dondarrion's constant Jesus-ing is going to be important to the story now, somehow.

He was wielding a flaming sword in the trailer, for the book people it hardly gets more signifying iirc

oh shit I just realized that kid with Sheeran was from This is England!

Excitement at finally recognising Jim Broadbent made up for the excessive turd montage.

― nashwan, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 00:04

Always good to see Broadbent but I loved that montage.

Totally forgot about the possibility of Sansa having Ramsay's child.

Euron's gift will be Tyrion?

I did wonder about what/who Euron would kidnap and hand over (assuming thats what he meant). Tyrion makes sense. I'd thought Arya too, tho I dont suppose anyone knows where she is now.

Oh god and that citadel montage made me all pukey :( I cant stand the sight or idea of shit.

I think it was Vulture that suggested it'll be the head of Ellaria Sand - I'm buying that

Ooh yes that makes sense given she offed Myrcella (?)

Too much poop, for too long, not amused.

Also: too much cadaver. Back to gratuitous nudity please.

Maybe Euron is gonna get that dragon binding horn from the books

I did think that. Maybe there'll be a Scanners style battle between wargs and whoever is blowing the horn.

Must have been squatters at Dany's place.

oh isn't the wallbusting horn a thing in the show? i read the books recently and couldn't tell what'd been skipped, aside from obv stuff like zombieCat

yes, the wallbusting horn has shown up in the show

there are like 3 magic horns in the book tho, euron has one, sam has one, maybe frodo has one idk

Beric Dondarrion is Sherrif Dan from Fortitude.

And that his sidekick, Thoros, is Dennis Pennis.

Arya has been such a shit character for so long it totally gets on my tits. And Maisie Williams is rubbish.

No way.

Just searched to see if there's a Varys DESTROYS Red Priestess/religion video with her comeback edited out. There isn't.

i thought the scene w sheeran was great tbh

subtly done moment

You're good at this you know.

What?

Ruling.

so sheeranu is meant to be part of lannister army right?

TBH I felt a little confused as to exactly whose army they were.

So they were basically meant to be innocents. It didnt come across clearly, I guess is my gripe. I just assumed they were all rubbish actors/had bad material to work with. It was the only part that really clanged.

It was definitely a bit "clangy" -- it makes more sense in the context of the books (though yes we are past the books) where there are hundreds of pages devoted to the pointless skirmishes and devastation of the riverlands and the big swathes of land between Kings Landing and the North. I just wonder if this handful of infantry cannonfodder reappear or if they're doing an Ian McShane again

Is that bunch going to stick around if that Shane Meadows troupe actor Thomas Turgoose is somebody recognisable.
I couldn't think who it was for a while and thought we maybe had met him elsewhere in the show.
Not sure how recognisable he is really so can't exclude it being a cameo. But is it likely to be more of a part?

Disliked Sheeran's appearance because it was very "hey look who it is!" and I don't think that happened with the other guest musicians. Though I wouldn't have recognised the Coldplay guy anyway.

Was quite looking forward to Sheeran's character being eviscerated tbqh.

so sheeranu is meant to be part of lannister army right?

― 龜, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 07:21

Sheeranu?

Oovarvu!

Christ I ain't heard those phrases in years.

Good episode all in - better than most of the last season. Felt like they were teeing everything up nicely, which is good because previous season openers have been very ponderous and they can't afford to piss about any more.

Also the (in hindsight ridiculous) body count at the end of last season has enabled them to focus on the characters that really matter and they're all in broadly the right places now.

Over/under on Bran warging into a dragon?

At least one dragon is getting warged, another wighted.

The remaining one...wedgied?

if the night's king can wight one of Dany's dragons I'll be surprised and disappointed and sad, but you kinda predicted jodie whittaker so I'll go ahead and mentally prepare for that now

surely at least one dragon will die

Yeah the ice dragon/dragon wight is coming--I think it might have been foreshadowed by one of Old Nan's stories in the books? (Along with giant ice spiders)

That Ed Sheeran scene was GOT #notallmen

"Where is Melisandre now anyway?"

boobing it up in some other corner of westeros

"Arya has been such a shit character for so long it totally gets on my tits. And Maisie Williams is rubbish."

WTF

I think I might be bored of this show now. There wasn't much wrong with the episode, I just found myself not caring about any of it.

Still wouldn't be so confident they don't just screw around for an entire season, what else actually needs to happen before a massive war?

BTW - do Urine Greyjoy/Lannisters know about (a) the white walkers and (b) dragons? Can't remember if they were never told or were told and simply think it's a load of northern yokel bollocks?

I liked the episode a lot but the contrast between how much I get out of this and how much I get out of the new twin peaks is sorta glaring and damning. In previous seasons of GOT there hasn't been another show to put it into the shade to such an extent

The show is still good, though now that they've moved away from the books it's full of fan-service stuff--Arya kills the RW perps, zombie giants, more flirting between the redhead and Brienne, bad guys become cuddly, Sansa throws shade at Littlefinger, Ed Sheeran drops by Boss Hog's club to sing a song. Surely Gendry's boat will show up soon.

x-post Yeah, I watched it straight after the new Twin Peaks, which might have been part of the problem.

The Lannisters knew about the dragons, they just didn't seem to care much when everything was kicking off closer to home. They've done a pretty bad job of establishing the Iron Islanders other than Theon so who even knows what they know.

It's been clearly established over and over that most people, many highborns included, think that dragons and white walkers and giants and wights and all that stuff we've seen a lot of already do not exist.

Cersei definitely knows about the dragons, there's a scene where (I think) Varys is telling her, she just dismissed them as babies. As far as I can tell virtually everyone thinks that the White Walkers are a fairy tale.

In the Kingsmoot scene from last season, Euron's entire pitch to become king was that he knew about Dany and her dragons and wanted to marry her and offer his ships, but Theon and his sister beat him to the punch by defecting with a large part of the fleet.

In the books, Euron is a strange and evil sort of mystic who has sailed all over the world and he seems pretty abreast of all magical happenings in the world. The show seems to have turned him into yet another sex pirate, tho.

He kinda looks like a young Oliver Reed though and is basically the new Ramsay so it's all good.

Jon Snow send ravens with news of the white walkers when he came back to Castle Black, so everyone should know. I think they just didn't believe him.