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

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.

How could I forget the scene when Cersei pulled out of the Winterfell accord?

still, a bit odd that anyone could just waltz on in and see the big board.

― sarahell, 18. juli 2017 00:59 (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I figured there was maybe a small garrison/skeleton staff who understandably fled at first sight of big fuck off warfleet plus dragons.

Stannis took his entire family with him, though; the former residents would have been wiped out in Robert's Rebellion, and Melisandre had burned all the non-believers; I think it's fair to say Dragonstone was completely abandoned. I think Dany herself is the last living person with ties to the place.

It's not entirely logical though. George RR Martin also made sure to have a subplot explaining what happened with Dragonstone afterwards, so it's not unnatural to wonder why it wasn't garrisoned.

Silent alarm went off when they opened the gate. Security firm will show up to check it out within 8 months.

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

― or at night (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:56

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.

― President Keyes, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:56

I'm A LOT less pumped for Game Of Thrones but my loving of Twin Peaks doesn't have much to do with it. How many other expensive tv shows would be allowed that kind of unique vision?

I think Keyes is right. This show is just going to get more pandering, even if they removed all the sex and nudity.

Silent alarm went off when they opened the gate. Security firm will show up to check it out within 8 months.

― President Keyes, Tuesday, July 18, 2017 11:44 AM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you look closely a solitary raven departs as soon as the door is forced open

you mean Bran

Kellogg's Raven Bran

lol

http://m.startribune.com/ed-sheeran-deletes-twitter-account-after-polarizing-game-of-thrones-cameo/435181433/

That kind of sucks, if true.

don't panic, he's back already apparently

phew

Varys has got a great tan hanging out with Dany and all on their voyage over.

With sparing Umber Girl and Karstark Boy, Jon is making sort of the same mistake as he did before when he was Lord Commander -- i.e. allying with a despised people over the objections of the rest of the existing power structure -- though obviously he's not going to get Julius Caesared for it this time.

Tyrion, Missandei and Grey Worm look like X-Men tbrr

https://fsmedia.imgix.net/be/da/64/9a/12ee/4bb7/b3a2/289b56973360/daenerys-tyrion-missandei-varys-and-grey-worm-in-game-of-thrones-season-7.jpeg?auto=format%2Ccompress&w=700

i don't think there's enough time for much in the way of machinations and loyalty-switching at this stage of the game, it seems to be like the rest of it will be a pretty straightforward run: finishing off the conflicts south of the wall, uneasy alliances in order to defeat the Night King's army of the undead after that. my only theory is that at some point next season Cersei will become the Night Queen, just a full evil power-up. But that might be too ridiculous...maybe.

the ice queen becomes THE ice queen

They've done a pretty bad job of establishing the Iron Islanders other than Theon so who even knows what they know.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, July 18, 2017 2:34 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

other than making them come off as bitch ass losers?

And Varys looks like a Minecraft villager

xps

i don't think there's enough time for much in the way of machinations and loyalty-switching at this stage of the game,

the description for the next episode says "Jon faces a revolt" so idk?

Finding it odd that they would put any recognisable actors in what was ostensibly an Ed Sheehan cameo. Is even a very small bit part in GOT a step towards Hollywood from Shane Meadows TV or something?

Quite enjoyed that episode so looking forward to seeing the rest of the season.