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

there's tension around realism and how it undercuts the whole enterprise and they've had fun with that best in the show with the hound interminably trudging through dismal scenes of rural existential squalor. still think his scenes with arya were some of the best, spotting her awful psychopathic tendencies - "of course you named your sword"

Calling it: Pod kills Bronn

Will this be a new show on the Pod Save America network?

Drogo's Trap House

I kinda think Pod and Sansa will hook up.

Dany should fly over King's Landing on the way back to Dragonstone (if she didn't already - isn't it directly between her base and where the attack on the Lannisters took place?), glower at Cersei, have the dragon shit on the Red Keep etc.

Feeling like the first spin-off should be a David Simon / Wong Kar-Wai look at the sometimes morally dubious but ultimately sincere lives of the veg flingers and apprentice armorers living in Flea Bottom, yearning for some peace and quiet and maybe some tit just once in a while.

Set decades after the events of Game of Thrones, Hot Pie's Place follows Hot Pie, an aging restaurateur unsettled by the rapid pace of change in post-Ice and Fire apocalypse Westeros. Pie's politically incorrect jokes and racist rants about White Walker patrons, usually delivered to his young kitchen maid, the runaway noble Dany Snow, are by turns shocking and hilarious. Bran Stark also frequently appears as a crow.

Miniseries biopic about that one guy who boasted about how he'd give Cersei a taste of his big salami and then the reanimated Mountain showed up and bashed his head in

Surely someone has already made the Ken Burns doc on the War of Five Kings?

Made possible by the Iron Bank of Braavos, and viewers like you.

lol

Hot Pie does have a bakery IRL

Timed to coincide with the premiere of Season 7, actor Hawkey partnered with UK-based food delivery app Deliveroo to open You Know Nothing Jon Dough, a pop-up bakery that sells direwolf-shaped loaves of bread (like the one his character made in Season 4)

that guy is a known cretin

Why?

there was a rather long storyline centered around the slow, interminable movement of stannis's army right before they got owned by ramsey right

yes although I think you may have forgotten one of, if not the actual most horrible thing that has happened on the entire series in there

hot pie wisely deleted his tweet about how jon venables should be executed to appease his anger

I dont understand why theyre doing 2 short seasons. Are they still filming the last ones?

Waiting for the ILX verdict on season 7 before scoping season 8 surely?

Well, people liked the first half last season, so they made two first halves!

2 short final seasons in pretty common in prestige TV: Sopranos did it. Breaking Bad did it. Mad Men did it.

They all did it differently, though, with two half-seasons meaning that they got two years of subscriptions for the contractual prize of one season. I think Game of Thrones is doing season 7 and 8, right? And I don't entirely get what the point is of that.

According to the showrunners they're putting so many battle scenes and effects into the last two seasons that they don't have time/money to do 10 full episodes each season.

I guess that also explains why the last episode was only 45 minutes and hardly anyone cared.

Yeah, that kinda makes sense.

According to the showrunners they're putting so many battle scenes and effects into the last two seasons that they don't have time/money to do 10 full episodes each season.

More shows should follow this approach, tbh.

Seasons 5 and 6 of Game of Thrones certainly should have.

Would have been far too long though. I don't fancy a full decade of this.

Oh, do you mean making seasons shorter or splitting them into two?

I think the last two eps of this season(?) are quite long.

Wasn't there also a suggestion from hbo that each episode in season 8 would be "feature length"?

Oh, do you mean making seasons shorter or splitting them into two?

― Robert Adam Gilmour,

Shorter seasons. The amount of actual plot in 5 & 6 could've easily been squeezed into seven episodes each.

Well, yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvcrwTcA5iw

"That's a dragon, stupid!"

so good

#Branface

Varys seems like a nice dude irl.

Varys is going to put Qyburn in a box with a family of starving rodents

Probably been mentioned but is there some magical reason why the White Walkers cannot get past the wall?

They sure are taking their time otherwise

Literally the magical reason of magic being in the wall ice. They also get too seasick to take a boat.

that's a good point. There was definitely a guy, way back when, yelling DIG A MOAT. JUST DIG A BIG MOAT. CALL IT A CANAL, IF YOU MUST and all the other people at the meeting were like shut up, we voted, a wall is better.

yeah they weren't able to follow jon snow across the water that time

wish we'd had a scene in which qyburn revealed his idea for a wall

ideally by him throwing something against the wall to illustrate the concept

"walls - good for warmth, of course, but could we put them to use to, if you will, 'block' the movement of an enemy force?"

"but qyburn walls are tiny, an army can simply knock them over"

"not the wall i have in mind..."

sorry everyone

if t'were to be... transparent... our men would have sight of any magical potions projected over the top

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/saint-simons-island-tree-spirits

where's the Lorax when we need him?

Suspect the fact that both the Hound and the Mountain are now basically unkillable means they'll have a pretty crucial part to play in the eventual White Walker battle.