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

It's more the "We are working on a...solution" then returning later to the crossbow, rather than just saying "dragons? Got a big crossbow".

ideally he'd have written down 12' on a napkin to indicate the size of the crossbow, leading to later confusion.

that would be about right though? certainly a Stonehenge scenario would enliven things a bit!

would make more sense if he was utilizing wildfire again, like rigging it up to the crossbow to explode inside the dragon or something.

Is the arrow made of any special material like Dragonstone or anything or is it just a really big and sharp arrow?

the mundanity of dragons being killed w ballistae fits the end of magic theme, i like it

I'm going assume that most of King's Landing's scientists and engineers were executed for heresy by the Sparrows and this big crossbow was the work of the sub-par minds who were left alive.

Isn't the crossbow guy the same guy who resurrected the Mountain? I know when I do something really good at work I just phone it in for a bit and coast through on the goodwill and that's exactly what's happening here.

Was it the Dragonlance books where their solution was to get the dragon to chase you down a specially constructed, ever narrowing corridor until the dragon gets stuck and can then be stabbed with aforementioned lances through holes in the wall?

A giant crossbow certainly seems a lot easier.

xpost he jotted "Make it Bigger" on a ravenst-it note and sent it down to R&D.

They'd have to make loads of the big crossbows and fire enough of them at once as the Harpy Ultras did. No doubt we'll see a thousand of the things have been made by either next episode or the one after.

Was it the Dragonlance books where their solution was to get the dragon to chase you down a specially constructed, ever narrowing corridor until the dragon gets stuck and can then be stabbed with aforementioned lances through holes in the wall?

A giant crossbow certainly seems a lot easier.

― groovypanda, 27. juli 2017 15:50 (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, that, but also some special kind of lance iirc

Like a normal lance. Only bigger.

xpost he jotted "Make it Bigger" on a ravenst-it note and sent it down to R&D.

important to get the right message across to the staff too.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iuFeDAzAyLY/UuFuzC4MuSI/AAAAAAAAP6o/bATkVKu5aow/s1600/paul-ince.gif

the other stupid thing about the crossbow is that surely the issue is whether it'll pierce the dragon's leathery skin - not "as proven here, this bolt will smash the dragon's exposed cheekbone once we peel the skin off"

dragon hide is strong enough to block most arrows when the dragons are fully grown, but i think drogon and co. have some growing still to do.

and the arrows and spears in the fighting pit in meeren did seem to harm him and slow him down a bit

i need a supercut of all the appearances of direwolves this season. the SFX behind them is really bad

sorry since the inception of GOT

i guess if it pierces his skin tho it's not like "we need to test if this will smash bone"

xpost

The last 50 posts make GoT seem like what people who have never watched GoT probably think the show is like

they are finally right

the show may be inexorably building to a boring finish, but who does ilx think should finish sitting on the throne? seeing cersei hang on would be fun but i'd really like to see the show see through its hero-punishing tendencies, have all the rival leaders whittle each other down, dragons get bolted, armies depleted, last hopes fail & have them go for a full on horror white walker permanent winter victory w viewers left with the looks of abject crushing despair on jon & dany's faces as everything comes unstuck

Maoist uprising or gtfo

my ideal would be dany/jon/tyrion "winning" midway through the final season, followed by a series of unspeakable, unforeseen horrors

hmm. I'm guessing after everyone else dies/gets magicked away Tyrion is left as ruler, muttering to Varys stuff about creating a democracy

I haven't read much fantasy since I was a kid so maybe it's change, but endings have always been a problem in the genre because it's often, like, a bunch of pre-ordained prophecies coming true. somehow that's not dramatically interesting. I actually think Tolkien did pretty well with LOTR, the melancholy passing of an age. If GOT has balls it'll do something similar: an incipient modernity, or some whole new order--and not just a return to a peaceful monarchical rule.

Fred otm

Clearly the correct answer is Magic Talking Dragon.

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/petes-dragon-slice.jpg

oooh, the final surviving dragon bellowing "no!" Ceasar-style then eating Dany in the series finale would rule

closest we were going to get to a maoist uprising was the sparrows

Daenerys won't end up on the throne, my guess is she realizes she's needed back on the other side of the sea, to rule there in a new peaceful kingdom w/o slavery.

jon doesn't want the crown in the north, doubt he wants the seven kingdoms.

Sansa and Arya, nah.

my money is on a dark horse candidate, someone who is completely decent and everyone likes and respects but no one has thought of as a leader despite their leadership qualities. I'm gonna bet it on 100-1 longshot Davos.

x-posts: I think GRRM might be planning to do something like that in the books, but I don't think Benioff and Weiss understands what he's getting at. I read someone who said it felt as if the show was making Westeros 'safe for aristocracy', which seems correct.

laugh at me when the red woman immolates him in episode 6.

Melisandre will take the throne. as her first act she will call everyone in kings landing to the throne room and then disrobe

given that there are only about half a dozen significant characters who aren't noble-born things don't seem well set up for sudden turn to democracy

In episode 1 of this season Jon Snow said: "I will not punish a son for his father's sins, and I will not take a family home away from a family it has belonged to for centuries" That made me think the show runners don't really get what GRRM is trying to say about feudal society.

my money is on a dark horse candidate, someone who is completely decent and everyone likes and respects but no one has thought of as a leader despite their leadership qualities. I'm gonna bet it on 100-1 longshot Davos.

― nomar, Thursday, July 27, 2017 3:53 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mothafuckin gendry

fuck i forgot about gendry

he satisfies none of those criteria except dark horse, but he is a legit baratheon.

(poor word choice there)

the show runners don't really get what GRRM is trying to say about feudfood.

Thought he was an illegit baratheon

nomar if davos bites it, i will never forgive you

Apparently, these are the current odds on gambling sites for who will be on the iron throne at the end of season 7. Can't find them for the end of the series.

Cersei Lannister -250
Daenerys Targaryen +250
Jon Snow +450
Petyr Baelish +1500
Tyrion Lannister +1500
Gendry +1500
Bran or Benjen Stark +2000
The Night King +2000
Arya Stark +2000
Sansa Stark +2000
Euron Greyjoy +2000
Jaime Lannister +2200
Theon Greyjoy +5000
Davos Seaworth +6600
Varys +6600
Yara Greyjoy +6600
Samwell Tarly +10000
Jorah Mormont +10000
Lyanna Mormont +10000
Qyburn +15000
Ellaria Sand +20000
Sandor or Gregor Clegane +20000
Brienne of Tarth +20000
Tormund Giantsbane +25000
Olenna Tyrell +25000
Missandei +25000
Melisandre +30000
Jaqen H'ghar +30000
Grey Worm +30000
Bronn of the Blackwater +30000
Podrick Payne +30000
Daario Naharis +30000
Gilly +30000
Meera Reed +30000

I don't know anything about gambling though, so don't know how much money I'm going to make if I decide to bet $10 on Bronn (well, most likely $0).

Fred otm. Lots of stuff about how the royals are always fucking over the regular folks in the realm. It's called "Game" of Thrones. Maybe Dondarrion leads an uprising after Free Folk/Night's Watch, and random Northerners are forced to take on the White Walkers themselves?

No way is Cersei out before this season's end

man i hope it's the night king. gimme ten bucks on him.

if the showrunners have their say they'll probably make Lyanna Mormont the queen

should just be a disembodied set of boobs on the throne at the end imo