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

kinda cracked up when bran did the "yes, he made this thing to help me get around" bit
"he calls it a 'wheeled chair'; i call it a 'hodor'"

but the worst part about her ordeal is that not only did Bran not seem to grasp the enormousness of what she’d sacrificed for him, neither did showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.

What a weird thing to write. They obviously appreciated it since they wrote the lack of appreciation as the text of the very scene being discussed.

I doubt that's her last scene. Seems like a pointless article.

i liked how sansa was like "he has... visions" - her tone and demeanour making it clear she meant "yes bran is back, but he is a weird creep now"

I thought all of the dialogue was shockingly bad and overwritten in this episode, but the dragonfight made up for it.

that p much sums up the entire seven seasons

What a weird thing to write. They obviously appreciated it since they wrote the lack of appreciation as the text of the very scene being discussed.

I have a feeling these tv writers watch the show sort of like a lot of ilxors do

Somehow missing huge chunks of detail then complaining as if it's the show's fault?

exactly

I do wonder if we're going to get to meet old Howland Reed at any point.

I wonder if we'll ever get to see the dragons in action. Some cave painting would be cool too.

Davos & Jorah as a retired couple would be the best neighbors ever imo

lol. davos coming around with his homemade mead.

What a weird thing to write. They obviously appreciated it since they wrote the lack of appreciation as the text of the very scene being discussed.

I think the point is that they did a bad job of it: she got barely a couple of sentences of "hey how about a thank you" when she deserved to get to say a whole lot more than that. I did feel somewhat the same at the time.

Enh, it was pretty clear pretty quickly that there was no getting through to galaxy bran

I guess for a character who's been around so long and was a part of at least one iconic sequence, she didn't really get to have much depth

But at this point anyone who isn't part of the endgame is going to get killed off or shuffled out the door with a gift certificate

The Meera actress does a good job on the whole.

On 2nd viewing, I felt like Bran's silent response to "you died in that cave" was tacit acknowledgement, and then when he looks back out the window he's perhaps mildly sad at the loss of his humanity. But I'm reading way too much into that.

I hope RAG is correct that we'll see her again. Although I wouldn't put it past this show to just kill a bunch of northern supporting cast in a gut-wrenching montage of Night King conquest.

On 2nd viewing, I felt like Bran's silent response to "you died in that cave" was tacit acknowledgement, and then when he looks back out the window he's perhaps mildly sad at the loss of his humanity. But I'm reading way too much into that

I got that impression on first viewing.

the bran plot line has been the most consistently bad part of the show. playing on the audience's sense of just desserts by finding new and surprising ways to be astonishing cruel to its characters has been a big part of this show's m.o.

What happened to the Meera is John's sister theories?

I think she said everything very succinctly. Most important point being that Bran might not even exist anymore, just a surveillance system that looks like him.

She stars in The Levelling and its supposed to be very good, anyone here seen it?

I like Bran's parts. The vision/raven thing is interesting and his settings are nice.

What happened to the Meera is John's sister theories?

There was no 2nd baby in that Tower of Joy flashback.

Even if the theory is correct in the books, I see why the showrunners would toss it out.

you guys watch this show twice? is that rewarding?

I forsee a strong possibility of a lot of frustrating evasion of Bran's condition. It's understandable they're afraid of finding out how much he knows right now (maybe he'll bring up that he's seen every dump you've taken and all your sexual activity) but they're fighting wars so it seems inevitable they'd want to know the full extent of his capabilities within a few days of his return. He could make things much easier and I guess more people will try to kill him if they find out what he can do.

/freefolk is a subreddit for GoT enthusiasts who don't mind spoilers

led me to this link which contains fairly detailed plot summaries for all of this season's episodes:
http://green-chili.blogspot.dk/2017/03/got-season-7-episode-guide.html?m=1
^^interesting stuff, if you don't mind spoilers

More or less jumped ship, but I am surprised they are burning through plot so quickly, what with truncated seasons and limited source material. You'd think they'd be taking their time.

Anyway, I'd probably tune in again if there just an episode of the dragons chilling, hunting, doing dragon things. Kind of like a pet-cam.

but I am surprised they are burning through plot so quickly, what with truncated seasons and limited source material.

do you mean the opposite? with truncated season & limited source material its not at all surprising that they're wrapping things up more quickly

at least Josh in Chicago's posts in this thread have gotten shorter

lol

lol @ "galaxy bran"

^^^

Elsewhere people are calling him Dr. Branhattan

xpost I meant I'm surprised they're burning through everything so quickly rather than stretching it out as long as they can.

That's what dragons are for

History of the ballista the real world version of the giant anti-aircraft/dragon crossbow, which apparently dates back to the 4th century BC
http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/tv/a27520/game-of-thrones-ballista/

I don't like the show's writing any more, but hey, dragon battle, I'm OK with that.
Brienne-Arya fight was also good. Didn't really need another "chivalric fighting is bullshit" reminder but it was fun to watch.

Something's deeply wrong with the King's Landing weapon development process when no one feels able to ask the simple question "should we make this out of something less flammable than wood?"

Thinking today that no one involved in the war seems to care much either way about Winterfell/the North these days. But it's a good base for a Lannister army that's getting decimated everywhere else so maybe they'll try to take the castle at some point. Basically I can see Jaime's story ending with his getting killed by a White Walker arriving in the middle of a completely avoidable siege.

A couple of seasons ago I would have said Winterfell is way too far away and that Moat Callin alone makes it strategically difficult to use as a base, but at this point they'll probably show up within five minutes of the next episode...

Given the amount of time we've spent watching Pod being trained, I'm expecting him to have a kick ass sword fight at some point.

Also, I wonder when the untouched but leaderless armies of Dorne will show up.

Perhaps Pod will lead them?

Nah, probably a snake

Yeah, there are still five snakes left we haven't even met yet! Exciting!

I'm not sure they exist in TV Westeros.

watch out for snakes

I think Oberyn mentions eight daughters at one point, but they never alluded to any more than three after that. Still, there's a possibility we're not even half way through the Dorne-plot!

at this point they'll probably show up within five minutes of the next episode...

I for one am really angry at the lack of scenes of armies tramping across camp various bits of Westeros, perhaps if they had a few more scenes of Dany and Tyrion talking to one another in a field we'd get a sense of quite how far they're travelling.