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

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

also the fact the scene simultaneously seemed like they might be about to have sex

Does seem pretty pointless to get them killed breaking the lines she was just going to torch anyway.

These dudes are there to fight and kill ppl. It would probably be insulting their manhood to not let them fight.

all the scenes with characters who've never met before just like shooting the shit are terrible but kind of endearingly so - like you know you're in deep when you can tolerate and even enjoy this recurring davos/missandei chit-chat

xpost it was cool when they stood on their horses and fired arrows

"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"

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, August 7, 2017

Fetchez la vache!

the davos/missandei chit-chat is great -- it comes off less cringe-y than the Dany/Jon scenes

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

― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, August 7, 2017

+1 loved this. no one else i was watching with caught it so i felt very alone

i think one of the that lent GoT a sense of scale was the time that was allowed to elapse between various threads of the plot before they were picked up again. you'd go five episodes, episodes, a whole season or two, before something would be picked up again and allowed to bloom. as we hurtle towards the finish i feel like more and more plot threads will only have one or two episodes worth of breathing at most before they're picked up/amplified/resolved etc. introducing chekhov's dragon cannon in ep. 2 and having it used in ep.4 and the cave paintings were p. bad examples of this

also all the scenes at dragonstone make it feel like there are 5 people total living on this massive island, who while away their days handwringing about existentialism. waiting for drogot

i feel a bit conflicted about the pacing - like people keep saying it's hurtling forward but say the opening 10/15 minutes of this ep was sort of just faffing around - it's just v mixed up at the moment to me - huge leaps forward like dragons roasting people in this giant battle mixed with scenes that zoom in on a moment to try and establish character or build relationships.

in the last 2/3 seasons i felt like the formula was: big event in s1, nothing happens for 7 eps, huge final two episodes.

xpost lol

Do you think that Sansa will marry Littlefinger, get his title, then have him killed?

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.

― dan selzer, Monday, August 7, 2017

I def missed that. Iron Bank guy was like "we're all in for the next joint venture... as soon as the gold gets here." And afaik that was the last i heard of it. When was the arrival confirmed?

right before the attack iirc

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

― 龜, Monday, August 7, 2017 3:57 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dont think its weird at all that there might be these kinds of paintings in the caves where people would mine the one weapon that could be used against the white walkers

like, that's why jon is there in the first place

i think one of the that lent GoT a sense of scale was the time that was allowed to elapse between various threads of the plot before they were picked up again. you'd go five episodes, episodes, a whole season or two, before something would be picked up again and allowed to bloom. as we hurtle towards the finish i feel like more and more plot threads will only have one or two episodes worth of breathing at most before they're picked up/amplified/resolved etc. introducing chekhov's dragon cannon in ep. 2 and having it used in ep.4 and the cave paintings were p. bad examples of this

― 龜, Monday, August 7, 2017 4:03 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree w/ this but its also a reality of the box the show painted itself into...its all supposed to resolve in a handful of episodes! So as far as I'm concerned I'm looking for them to do the best possible job they can w/in this constricted space, and considering that face, last night's episode was strong af solid five stars

painted yourself into a box is my fav mixed metaphor

which leaves only the premise "the paintings look really fucking stupid" -- and that's idk, what should they have looked like?

xps re what happened to the gold - yeah I was wondering that too? Thought they were deliberately showing blazing wagons o'bounty

this was awesome though. Kind of surprised Arya actually turned up at Winterfell. <3 'fewer'