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

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.

the best set pieces (bastards, hardhome) aren't bad. they're just not what made the show good.

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

many of the setpieces were excellent imo but i prob agree with this - maybe it's the volume of characters but the show can't seem to stop these total clunker episodes where characters just pop up like puppet versions of themselves to get us from one week to the next minus any actual event. don't mean a battle or whatever, just like anything that might move beyond the show's deep and fearful stasis.

he knows nothing, iirc

could they not have resurrected her instead

Thought this episodes was still a lot more fun than the opener - the sea battle had a good sense of sudden chaos (nowhere near Hardhome quality obviously but at this point it can only be an efficient footnote compared to what they're building to).

I feel like I've seen the same couple of pics of the Night King/white walkers in online articles, reviews, campaign ads etc. a thousand times but they get so little screen time, rightly or wrongly, just an unusual imbalance even for a show of this scope and scale.

I feel like I've seen the same couple of pics of the Night King/white walkers in online articles, reviews, campaign ads etc. a thousand times but they get so little screen time, rightly or wrongly, just an unusual imbalance even for a show of this scope and scale.

i guess they have no dialogue - but also this show will never do anything apart from drag out its few mysteries for as long as possible. scared to make a decision about what anything is or what's going on.

Christ, you all sound like "the simpsons went to shit after season 8!" nerds.

i still like the show, but it's felt different since they left the books behind

best way for this show to end would just be the white walkers inexorably marching forward, destroying everything, thanks for watching!

sean bean wakes up in bed with suzanne pleshette

many of the setpieces were excellent imo but i prob agree with this - maybe it's the volume of characters but the show can't seem to stop these total clunker episodes where characters just pop up like puppet versions of themselves to get us from one week to the next minus any actual event. don't mean a battle or whatever, just like anything that might move beyond the show's deep and fearful stasis.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, July 25, 2017 10:42 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or literally sit around a table and talk about how bored they are with each other (tyrion, grey worm and whatsherface multiple times)

Yeah that storyline last season was dire.

i think what i figured out is that if u spend yr first 7 seasons telegraphing the ending to me once we get there i'm not going to care much about seeing it play out

i finally watched the second episode. localgarda sums up my feelings well upthread. lol at the giant fucking crossbow, i mean sad lol. i don't spend much time worrying about what's in the books and what isn't since i haven't read any of them, but that was one point where i was like "this must be something they made up on their own because this is incredibly stupid"

also, let's say you have a giant fossil/skeleton of a legendary, historical dragon hidden in beneath your castle. then your trusted advisor reveals the ultimate secret - it is possible to shoot at a giant dragon with a giant fucking crossbow. you smirk. then you test out the crossbow ON THE PRICELESS DRAGON SKELETON. what the fuck was that cersei?!

this might have been discussed upthread, but did all the dorne sisters die? please, please, please, please. i was fist pumping my way through that battle

i like GoT though

they took the cool horn from the books and made it crossbow with the orange rubber suction cup

also i like to imagine that for all of euron's scenes there some guy piloting a drone that's 1,000 feet away so euron can look at it and maintain his mad distant eye stare

but did all the dorne sisters die? please, please, please, please.

Aw, but one of the sand snakes was lovely Tyene? And maybe still alive?

I can't express how much I dislike Euron. Acting wise, I mean - obviously as a character he's a bastard, but he's just the worst character. The Iron Isles were a mistake.

the unsullied are gonna invade casterly rock next week, that should be cool to see

Dunno how they're going to do this given that we don't know anyone on the inside of Casterly Rock and we only know one of the Unsullied and no one gives a shit about him.

*thinking emoji*

Also, I don't think the Unsullied can take Casterly Rock without Dragons. Even with Dragons, I'm not sure, it wasn't taken during Aegon's conquest. The whole thing is rather stupid.

How are the Unsullied getting to Casterly Rock (as it's on the West coast of Westeros whereas Dragonstone is off the Eastern one)?

The answer would've been "using Yara's fleet" but now I'm not sure what the answer is.

Movie magic?

tyrion will def be there which will be the character focus. as for how it happens, in the books they talk a lot about how tyrion was in charge of the sewers at the rock and even tho they've already had one city taken that way i wouldn't be surprised if that was the direction they went again. and yeah they will suddenly just be there.

fairly sure there was a grey worm looks at secret cave bit in one of the trailers

Take the river upstream to the westerlands and march south

Google 1 map, nerds

They have like 12 episodes to fit in probably 4 or 5 more wars. I don't really care at this point about mph realism.

Well, the writers seem to feel the same way.

Thank god

The only way I'll watch this again is if someone tells me they launch Tyrion onto the back of a dragon with a giant crossbow.

i was thinking they'll find some way to put the mountain on the crossbow bolt and get him on the back of one of the dragons. because that would be epic win

my expectations are currently in the region of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD86VnvyXKg

i'd love if they'd showed the r&d meetings in which westeros's greatest minds decided on "a crossbow, but bigger"

dunno what was funnier, the stupid crossbow or the maester saying "we noticed that arrows pierced the dragon before, so that got us thinking"

The way the crossbow was presented was dumb, but it would have annoyed me way more if dragons were basically invincible and required some sort of magic to take down. I like that they are just going to throw a bunch of huge bolts (I assume that they are going to build hundreds of these) at the dragons and probably succeed in taking at least one down.

It's weird though that the ballista is only now being invented in Westeros.