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

I mean, sure, but do they need to be dead to just leave them behind? Wait what am I asking, this is GoT.

those were the two sand snakes on the prow. they were wearing sand snake clothes. one was hanging from her own whip. one was impaled on her own spear.

Yeah when put like that it makes sense.

Having watched this episode I'm not convinced that being flayed alive is really a price worth paying for another crack at getting out of the friendzone.

esp considering by the time he gets back Jon and Dany will be at it for sure

randall tarly was great in this ep i thought. he's samwell's daddy right?

Yep. And the kid is the reason he sent Sam to the wall, to get him out of the line of succession.

You guys Samwell's brother is named Dickon. DICKON.

speaking of sea battles, isn't dickon ("...dickon...?") the guy with the crazy arms from black sails?

and so he is
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2584392/?ref_=tt_cl_t8
these are his crazy arms
http://cdn-maf0.heartyhosting.com/sites/muscleandfitness.com/files/media/black-sails-tom-hopper-content_1.jpg

I did laugh at that. I'm

Argh Zing xpost

this i far and way the most avidly I've watched a show that p much blows

close, i would counter with the last few seasons of mad men

I think the show has entered into dumb action territory, but that's fine, it had to at some point. The sea fight scene was very impressive.

also unsullied sex with incredibly hot woman whose name I can't remember was cool

i still think that the show is good, but i agree with everyone that it's been a lot more fan-servicey with payoffs that feel less earned since they passed the books

there are still things this show does that nothing else on TV can touch, but it would be cool if they did them more than once or twice per season

re: sea fight, we didn't even really see any kind of naval battle! just arrrgh viking pirates boarding, matey
re: sullied unsullied, i was just thinking man, we have 420 minutes of screen time this season and this is what we're doing

the frame rate was all weird/messed up during the sea fight or was that just me?

it's cool that they had sex and all but Grey Worm and Missandei really are an excruciatingly boring pair. I guess he's dying in the next couple of episodes though

maybe they were doing a bit of the post-saving private ryan/"heat of the battle" trick of editing out every other frame?

yeah it looked kind of sped up and jittery. I thought it was horribly shot tbh

also unsullied sex with incredibly hot woman whose name I can't remember was cool

She is beautiful but always has the same concerned "I'm acting!" look on her face which drives me nuts.

I've been told many times I look like Reek. Never watched this show but take it that's not a great thing?

are you missing a penis?

Yeah that's what I mean

I've been told his story

at least your name isn't reek

it's weird people would say Reek and not Theon Greyjoy.

Theon "Reeky McNoDick" Greyjoy

Dickon Tarly's brother, Dickoff

whenever i see a Game of Thrones piece on Gizmodo from Rob Bricken i wonder if it's a nom de plume inspired by the legit Stark boys.

xp - waiting for Dickon to meet up with Theon (same joke)

i thought this was up there with the worst episodes in the entire seven seasons. firstly, because it seems they're going to pause the plot, stretch out boring scenes, have interlude events etc etc. secondly, anytime anyone from dorne is on screen it is just like new adventures of hercules. thirdly, it generally felt like new adventures of hercules. fourthly, the terrible weirdly framed sea battle which felt like it had been condensed beyond all possible intelligibility, needless hot pie/wolf scene. the wastefulness of plot in this show is beyond belief - not surprising tho, they obv have to do their eight seasons to ensure everyone involved is a multi-millionaire but of any big tv series in recent memory this is the one that least merits that much airtime. for the amount of plot and the ridiculous stretching they do, it prob could have had 4/5 seasons comfortably ended everything. i enjoyed last week's ep but it would be a very familiar pattern for the first ep of a season to be good and then 7/8 shit/nothing happens episodes before a final duo that advance the plot.

like when this show is good it's good in the way a blockbuster movie can be good, when it's bad it's just a bunch of people talking deeply involved meta rubbish.

the crossbow scene was ludicrous. like "i've hatched a really clever plan to deal with these dragons. the greatest minds have built... a fucking huge crossbow"

I liked hotpie/wolfpack and would not have wanted to lose it for more plot hits

i understand the value of some exploration of the various characters or whatever but this ep repeatedly gave me this feeling of "why am i watching this"

and like surprise surprise there's a good argument for dany not attacking king's landing. "a season and a half could die if you move this quickly my queen"

I was unhappy that Surviving Sand Snake had grown her hair. Felt out of character. Nice hair though it was.

local garda otm in pretty much every point
i've said it before but when you bring back jon you jump the shark. even grmm hasn't figured out how to fix it yet!

hey guys this show sucks

also the fucking stupid scene with theon/yara/dorne queen. i mean i guess the bar isn't high for lesbian scenes in fantasy tv shows but they keep plumbing new depths, the script, the acting, the direction of every lesbian scene with yara is worse than a porno.

I didn't recognize the Solid Surviving Sand Snake with long hair. I do think this episode earned some goodwill by at least killing off a few sand snakes.

there's only 8 eps this year so i'm thinking they put their foot on the gas soon enough--the unsullied are gonna invade casterly rock next week, that should be cool to see

the big action setpieces are not what made this show good when it was good

agreed, and a lot of the best character-driven scenes, especially in the first season, were not directly taken from the books.

so i'm not sure what exactly has changed, but it does feel different

battle of the bastards set piece was p good.. especially the long shot of jon on the front lines but on second viewing I just couldnt let go how unbelievably stupid jon is to let it all happen (by getting duped by ramsey just like he was warned about) in the first place.

i think it's been established that jon is super brave, but very dumb

he knows nothing, iirc

I think the books sorta sold the death of Jon Snow because it has thematic resonance. So many characters go through a kind of personality death in that stretch - a lot of their POV chapters begin having other names, ie Theon becomes Reek, Arya becomes Mercy, Sansa becomes Alayne - so it would make sense that Jon dies literally. Also because it's the only way he can get out of his vows. It died when it became a cliffhanger for six years and counting.