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

I also like the idea that when fighting an enemy with piercing blue eyes, that people would find a blue color much sooner!

Wow, they fucking nailed that Dothraki/Drogon attack. I know I'm doing my share of lame comments as well, but this show still nails the iconic parts of this story when it matters.

The cavalry riding through the fire. That was stunning.

So where was Dickon's Dad in all this? I forgot to give a shit about where he was going and for what purpose.

He was headed to the rear to flog the cart drivers at the end of the line.

Littlefinger's face when Bran said "Chaos is a ladder" was so good.

"Your people can't fight."

You've got fucking dragons mate.

Bronn has to be the most athletic dude in the history of westeros to make that diving horse tackle. I'd draft him as my free safety

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pretty sure they wouldn't have jaime saved from an epic flaming death just to drown from a plunge into a pond.

guys they are setting up a parallel -- do you see -- in that other episode Theon saved himself by jumping in the water and his dick got cut off in a previous season -- now it's Jaime who is missing a hand and couldn't operate the giant crossbow jumping in the water!

I'm almost willing to bet the follow up scene will be Bronn dragging Jaime out of the water downstream somewhere, avoiding capture but being all alone. As implausible as it would be for Bronn to drag a fully armored guy to a distant shore it seems to me like the most likely story driven outcome.

Also, she would have lost zero Dothraki if she just burned all the Lannister army without them charging? Seems kinda like dumb battle tactics to me. She only just learned that they have anti-dragon missiles. Otherwise it's kind of invincible...

I was like 'don't burn the convoy, steal their food at least'. I was kinda hoping Drogon was gonna liquify the gold bars though.

Yeah, I wasn't clear on whether or not the stuff they burned was the food they talked about Cersei taking earlier? I guess not.

so:

-dany is gonna get drunk with power and torch the countryside + win - then white walkers overrun the wall and she will have a humbling moment before pivoting to face them?
-will sansa put the hit out on arya?

why would sansa try to get rid of arya?

anyway that battle sequence set the record for most stuntmen set on fire in one scene

http://io9.gizmodo.com/game-of-thrones-decided-to-set-even-more-people-on-fire-1795862159

bad vibes from the look sansa gave arya while she was sparring and (minor spoiler) i think sophie turner said sansa was going to do something bad this season, and wouldn't that be just the perfect twist?

I expected a false charge from the Dothraki - they'd get just outside of arrow range (Westeros archers seem to not be up to English longbowman standards) while she swooped in with the dragon. Does seem pretty pointless to get them killed breaking the lines she was just going to torch anyway.

i guess the more popoular theory is that sansa will enlist arya to kill carcetti

Arya: we have a lot to catch up on. How's your life been

Sansa: trash, you?

Arya: same

[awkward silence]

Sansa: btw Bran is nuts now

— wikipedia brown (@eveewing) August 7, 2017

last night dany became presidential

If we have dragons, why cant we use them?

petroglyphs in cave so fucking stupid

totally ridiculous. dragonstone is the new dorne, almost everything that happens there is stupid/funny. i also like how they didn't show any shots of davos or missandei since the cave had to be both the cave of faintly expositional history and the cave of smouldering sexual chemistry. they couldn't have done much more to show jon/dany romance is coming short of showing him with a visible boner. like 3/4 separate setups for that.

when the dragon toasted a load of men it felt like a payoff the promise of which had kept me watching the show this whole time. the whole battle scene was great and what was nice was that i didn't think a big scene like that was coming this episode, in previous seasons the battles have been on the way for a while.

loved the arya/brienne scene too.

so is this the end of the giant crossbow of innovation or was this meant to show what a great idea it is so let's build more?

they'll build a bigger one

"my queen - imagine if you will... a slingshot, a child's toy you might say, of course, but what if that slingshot was in fact extremely huge? and capable of throwing very large rocks indeed. what then? bring it in men"

lol at the queen of dragons thinking it's a good idea to hop out of the ride and attempt to singlehandedly pull a ten foot arrow out of her pet's body in the middle of a massive battle. mastermind!

I keep reading recaps where they say Jamie was rushing forth to try to finish off the dragon, when it seemed pretty fucking obvious he was going to try to kill Dany

I assume recappers are barely watching the show though

is the dragon going to be okay? i'm guessing a dragon heals fairly well.

also why did she leave the other two dragons at home? do they need someone to be riding them to be used effectively?

i assume dragons will be okay since that one dragon took a bunch of spears at the gladiator pit and seems fine

it would definitely have been cool to have a river of molten gold. i think i remember that from a neal stephenson book

xpost yeah but I didn't see a GIANT crossbow in that case

yeah the ingenious thing about a giant crossbow is it fires far bigger bolts

it's simple but brilliant

pretty neat how the giant crossbow is able to be operated by just one person. the same as every other massive piece of siege weaponry, basically

yeah it definitely had more of a rocket launcher vibe

The 14-minute behind the scenes video is worth watching. you might want to plug your ears when emilia clarke starts talking about riding a dragon though

lmbo at Davos remembering the difference between less and fewer because of Stannis bring pedantic like years ago

Were the wagons that were burnt containing food and other supplies that will be significant later?

I never thought Sophie Turner was a bad actress, and I've gotten used to Kit Harrington, but Emilia Clarke is still derpy. http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ccz6h9CR1qbypg1o1_r1_250.gif

when the show is as good as it was last night some of u guys sound hyper pedantic & cynical

i cant believe this fantasy world had a cave with drawings on it, something that actually exists in our real world, how farfetched

xp - pretty sure the burnt contents of the wagons will be significant later!!

I don't know about everybody else but I my pedantic cynicism is schtick

you can suspend disbelief and also expect some kind of internal logic - that said i mostly just enjoy gently mocking this show - it is a bit silly is all. the cave paintings as an idea are of course totally plausible, i can't speak for others but i mocked them because they looked so stupid. the entire cave scene was p funny.

i cant believe this fantasy world had a cave with drawings on it, something that actually exists in our real world, how farfetched

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, August 7, 2017 1:39 PM (seven minutes ago)

seriously -- some of you find the weirdest things to be bothered by

I think localgarda and dayo are important contributors to this thread

it was mildly fucked up learning that the cave drawings are meant to resemble the geometric patterns that we've seen the white walkers arrange dismembered bodies in, i.e. the white walkers learned about those shapes from the people of the forest, who created them

Euron Greyjoy's battleship(s?) seem a bit fantastic, with their massive iron (tank-like) enclosures affixed to the lower part of the ship... how many ships are in his fleet? 1000? shit seems a bit advanced--with ultra-accurate, firebomb hurling catapults, battering ram/spear -type thing, and a deck-crushing, see-sawing gangplank... seems a bit far-fetched.

hope the next weapon is a mechanical dragon and this thing goes pacific rim

wagons were just filled with food and grain and shit. It's important because people need to eat. The gold made it to Kings Landing though, they made sure to mention that, although a lot of people seemed to have missed it.

cave paintings were stupid because of their convenience to the plot. parachuted in. oh dany doesn't believe in white walkres, oh by the way here are ancient paintings conveniently proving the existence of white walkers in a cave underneath her ancestral homeland. by the way the paintings look really fucking stupid