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

aren't all seasons technically climate change?

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I was glad the Cersei / whatsername scene was legit disturbing and not just another torturefest

was it? never cared enough abt whatsername for it to have any oomph

lovedthe quick pivot from YAY BRAN YOURE ALIVE to "um welp i gotta go, um, check the grain yep bye"

yeah sheesh bran stop triggering yr sister you fuckin weirdo

Three eyed ravens aren't allowed to have emotions or a personality, I guess.

calling your sister beautiful in the worst possible context is definitely a sort of personality

three eyes raven is a fkn buzzkill

I dunno being plugged into the tree internet for a long time is bound to fuck your brain up

the staging of the Red Priestess leaving Dragonstone was super awkward but I did like seeing Varys uneasy

The beatitudes of bran is gonna get old fast
Emelia clarke is painful to watch act

yeah Clarke and Harington as scene partners is fucking rough

Davos carrying some good acting weight in the throne room imo

so hamfisted... "and then that one time you came back from the de... OH WE WON'T TALK ABOUT THAT"

It's good that they are barreling along and doing what the tv version has always done best. But I'm watching mostly to get a glimpse of what GRRM intends to do, and I think it's safe to say that we won't get any of this nonsense.

writers pretty explicitly saying winter is climate change huh

looooool

misandei is really bad too - real amateur drama feeling off her "announcements".

there was a lot of childish/needlessly vulgar writing in this ep - euron's "finger in the arse" and tyrion's "impregnate the bitch".

i mean i know it's got but felt a bit camp/ridiculous

"she is the queen's most trusted exposition recapper"

I lol'd at Euron's crass line, somewhat guiltily

i often think Clarke is bad too but at the same time it works because isn't the character supposed to seem a little callow and unconvincing? there's a little more complexity to her at least than jon snow, who so far comes off as the typical paper thin self-serious fantasy protagonist.

xp - Euron and Davros were the heroes of this episode. It seems odd to me to cringe at his crass challenge of Jamie, and Tyrion's line, in the context of an episode that was heavy on the "let me describe in graphic detail ways in which we were prepared to torture you to death" speeches.

also lol at Sam's modern explanation of how he solved a problem by reading the manual and following the instructions.

"give me ten good men and I'll impregnate the bitch" is a pretty strange saying

sure, but I prefer strange sayings to things like Littlefinger giving Sansa a lecture about how she needs to see everything all at once, and then, wow what a coincidence, Bran shows up at the door!

felt like that juxtaposition was intentional? like littlefinger doesn't really see anything at once - he's just a creepy pos w/ a weird crush on a girl who he sold to a violent rapist and he thinks he's really wise. bran otoh can actually see everything and what that looks like is not being some smarmy shit but being psychologically fractured and alienated. neither are good models for sansa who this week reminded me so much of a stark - not the stark black sheep (who has dreams of becoming a pretty princess) but that kind of cold, pragmatic, black & white starkness but w/ a more earned wisdom than her naive father.

earlier, we were discussing the quality of actors and one that was mentionned that I think is doing a very fine job is Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.

nothing can save Clarke and Turner.

http://i.imgur.com/kRougHi.jpg

ACTING

I can't really tell with Coster-Waldau anymore. Jamie's character has been totally pointless since they decided to turn him into a rapist (and generally pathetic loser) for no apparent reason

he might actually have the best story arc in the books too

oh ffs still with the rapist thing? he's not. he is boring though, bc like almost everyone now he has no personal objective that sets him in any interesting opposition to anyone else we (or even better he) care/s about.

Y'all are weird. I find Jamie very intersting!

seems 2 me they're setting jaime up to be a good guy

yeah, he's just had a longer, slower character development ... he's definitely going to do something important, but it isn't obvious yet, as opposed to most of the other characters on the show.

maybe he pulls a Theon, and instead of doing "the right thing," he avoids it -- but it's just weird the way that some of you complain both about things being too obvious and being too boring (i.e. subtle).

Lena Headey was great this episode

yeah, he's just had a longer, slower character development ... he's definitely going to do something important, but it isn't obvious yet, as opposed to most of the other characters on the show.

― sarahell, Monday, July 31, 2017 11:27 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gonna add 'queenslayer' to his list of informal titles, imo

to avoid confusion, will have to space it out from 'queenlayer' on his resume

if Jamie kills her, it will be too much like a movie that already exists

Y'all are weird. I find Jamie very intersting!

― sarahell, Monday, July 31, 2017

he used to be! just needs to get an agenda and arc of his own again.

Yeah, narrative symmetry pretty obviously calls for Jaime to kill Cersei after she goes full-on Mad Queen

But it's game of thrones so maybe they'll try to invert that expectation?

I can't complain about Jamie, everything makes sense right now.

Good recovery from last week's episode. Liked Tyrion saying "I'd never do that... to you"

Hoping for an episode to focus on how dragonglass is mined, the obtaining of workers skilled in the extraction industry, and the prospect of a miner's strike!

when did bran turn into april's creepy friend orin from parks & rec?

https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/parksandrecreation/images/1/16/Orin.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111127213442

Yeah, narrative symmetry pretty obviously calls for Jaime to kill Cersei after she goes full-on Mad Queen

― Dan I., Monday, July 31, 2017 7:16 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my guess would be more along the lines of a situation where he allows eg arya to kill her

I get the sense that Indira Varma might actually be the most badly-used actor in the series but it's difficult to tell seeing as literally everything about her character and the way it's been written/directed has been entirely one-note and terrible. Superb last scene for her though, mostly down to Cersei, but what was the point of the whole Dorne plotline if that's the end of it? Either that or the showrunners finally admitted it was a turkey and did the decent thing.

The show's treatment of its non-white characters in general has been woeful, not necessarily their fates or whatever but just the sheer laziness at not bothering to give them more than one dimension. The actors playing Missandei and Grey Worm are probably better than the material allows as well.

More generally there's something faintly silly about the way in which the show has been ripping through its deadwood characters. The beginning of this season and the end of the last have been like Transformers The Movie or some shit. At least Diana Rigg got a good send-off (and the fact that the Lannisters now control the food supply, with Winterfell running out, is going to be significant).

All of which sounds like I didn't enjoy that episode but I really did, but then I've always viewed it as being hugely entertaining schlocky bollocks and don't really care whether it mirrors the author's vision or whatever.

Superb last scene for her though, mostly down to Cersei, but what was the point of the whole Dorne plotline if that's the end of it? Either that or the showrunners finally admitted it was a turkey and did the decent thing.

why would that be the end of it? even during the scene i thought it was incredibly silly of cersei to assume that not killing her enemy would mean eternal imprisonment, in a world with a diff king/queen every five minutes.

Missandei is a Hollyoaks alum. I think this is her level

she never seemed too bad until the announcement stuff, prob can blame the script.

I wish her and Dany had different accents. French would be good.