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

xp or the javelina - "a small hog but you don't eat it!" - it would blow his mind

But the granular details that might sounds boring on paper—geography, travel, diplomacy, and training—are actually a big part of what made Game of Thrones interesting in the first place, and I've begun to miss them. There’s a reason that every episode opens with a sweeping pan over a map that includes key locations like King’s Landing and Dragonstone.

i didn't realize frederik b wrote for GQ

i think GRRM made a pact with benioff and weiss that the TV show would get the big stupid hollywood happy ending and he would get to do the smart thoughtful "makes u go hmm" ending for the books. if he ever gets to publishing another page that is

Why didn't Sansa send Arya to Kings Landing in her stead?

emilia clarke is SO SO BAD
it's not like the dialogue or plotting helps but she's just not a good actress or even an okay actress
the dragons are my children my babies six years of raising them and when one of them unceremoniously dies she makes a face like someones wearing the same coat at the met gala
and then with no lead up she's suddenly super hot for jon snow
really want to hurry up and get to the part where bran writes the coca cola jingle

Final shot predictable from the start but also cool.
Benjen was total eye-roll.
I liked how the whole zombie pile-on begun with a bored Hound. And I also enjoyed the dragon guts going everywhere.
Given everything's happening at lightning speed now how come they haven't mined and forged more dragonglass swords?
Night King seemed to step through that fire ok. Do the wights just have to kill humans by normal means and only a White Walker can zombify you?

How many dragons did she actually bring? Did she leave one at home?

The writers did redeem themselves slightly as last week I was complaining that they set off without even bringing a bin bag, but they did at least bring a small sack.

also tormund <3

i didn't realize frederik b wrote for GQ

― Karl Malone, Monday, August 21, 2017 3:42 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Frederik has never been this concise

Anyway the point that it's shifted from process oriented narrative to plot point check marks is otm

they needed to drop something of Benjen following them earlier. like a solitary character keeping pace with them, someone whose face we didn't see. And there needed to be a moment of explanation at the end, not just hi and bye.

also missed an opportunity w/the third dragon, who was brought north too. Should have swooped in and Jon should have flown the damn thing back to the wall. Daenerys could be worried about her missing dragon and Jon Snow, and imagine the big fucker flying back piloted by him! better than, "oh look a horseman...."

good moment to prove some Targareyen bonafides.

what would a "process oriented narrative" look like at this point in the story? ... give me something better to compare it against.

it won't happen but it would be a neat twist if the show wrapped up and the new GRRM books ... take place after the events of the show.

i didn't realize frederik b wrote for GQ

― Karl Malone, 21. august 2017 22:42 (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not yet, but in time.

I did lol at the inclusion of 'geography'. I regretted having written geography was exciting almost immediately, but hey, I'm not alone!

important question! does the anti-white walker magic built into the Wall extend into the airspace? Couldn't the night king and his elite white walker commandos fly their zombie dragon over the wall and start zombifying the Westerosi?

and then with no lead up she's suddenly super hot for jon snow

There's supposed to be something in pheromones that tells us when a person is too similar to us, genetically, right?

Maybe it works differently for her family.

i think i've read that when people don't know they're related it can manifest as physical attraction.

Important CHAINS update: On rewatch there was a jetty by the lake with some chains on it.

https://image.ibb.co/iUfjNQ/got_chains_source.jpg

and then with no lead up she's suddenly super hot for jon snow

dude, there's been several episodes of lead up! Plus the whole common-as-fuck thing where a friend says, "hey, he's totally your type and he's way into you." and at first you're like, "no, he's totally wrong for me." and then a bit later, with the seed planted, you think, "hmmm....maybe he isn't that wrong after all."

Couldn't the night king and his elite white walker commandos fly their zombie dragon over the wall and start zombifying the Westerosi?

spoiler, but that's the next episode

season 8 is the night king working to set up a representative democracy

Less common when it's your nephew tbf

season 8: the night king invents literal twitter, and sends a constant stream of ravens to everyone remaining in Westeros complaining about everyone who criticizes his rule.

Less common when it's your nephew tbf

― Number None, Monday, August 21, 2017 2:39 PM (fifty-three seconds ago)

Targaryens have no taboo about incest so ...?

No it's only cool if it's your brother/sister

Anything else is weird

How many dragons did she actually bring? Did she leave one at home?

When Viserion gets hit and starts to dive, you briefly see Rhaegal in the background making an Irish goodbye

kinda apt that the dragon named after her anti-heroic piece of shit brother gets turnt

Things the NK realizes later while in the shower...

Esprit de corpse

dude, there's been several episodes of lead up!

anyway my more important point was that dany is a shit mother

Let's look at the other mothers on this show:

Catelyn Stark: dead, number of dead children: 2 of 5
Cercei Lannister: alive, number of dead children: 3 of 3
Lady Olenna: dead, number of dead children: 2 of 2 (maybe she had more, but they were already dead), number of dead grandchildren: 2 of 2 (maybe she had more, but they were already dead)
Lysa Arynn: dead, number of dead children: 0 of 1
Lady Tarly: alive, number of dead children: 1 of 3
Gilly: alive, number of dead children: 0 of 1

Dany's not looking so bad in comparison

Now both Dany and Lady Tarly are both alive, and at 1 of 3 in the dead children department, but Dany didn't essentially disown one of her remaining 2 children, as Lady Tarly did with Sam. So really, Dany's at the top of list with only Gilly ahead of her, and Gilly's child isn't even able to walk yet. So, I would conclude based on these facts, that Dany is a pretty solid mom.

kinda apt that the dragon named after her anti-heroic piece of shit brother gets turnt

― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, August 22, 2017 8:0

*cough*
And yes I'd remembered someone here'd predected dragon-wighting and I'd agreed so it was little suprise to me. A neat touch perhaps that it was Viserion it happened to? Revenge of the dead brother. haha.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, August 21, 2017 2:01 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*cough* otm!

:)

Re lady Tarly - was it really her doing turning Sam away, or Lord Tarlys? Its a foggy memory but when Samwell went back to visit them briefly his mother at least seemed sympathetic and cowed, but it was some time back and I cant recall.

you were right, she pretty much let her husband get rid of her son, but doesn't that make her a "bad mum"? That she didn't defend her child?

Compared to Dany, who was pressured to sell off one of her children, but she had him kill a bunch of horrible people instead, and kept her child.

oh and I forgot two of the most shit moms on the show:

Mrs. Stannis Barratheon: dead, number of dead children 1 of 1
Ellaria Sand: alive, number of dead children 4 of 4

Dany got involved with witchcraft while pregnant, which turned her unborn child into a lizard, iirc.

geez, won't somebody think of the unborn babies!

Mrs Stannis is the worst of the lot, burning her damn kid at the stake, wth.

well, she hung herself afterwards, so there's that

Let's look at the other mothers on this show:

she had zero reaction to one of them being unnecessarily murdered

wait what? how are you drawing that conclusion?

because emilia clarke's "my baby is dead" face and her "this guy won't bend the knee" face looks the same

I don't consider Danaerys to be a Real Mom :o

basically if you don't act exactly like the dad from Broadchurch then you as a parent just DON'T CARE

i just hope my mom looks a little more upset than that when i'm killed by an undead lord

The dragon that actually laid the eggs Drogon and co hatched from finally returns next week for a fatal custody battle.

i just hope my mom looks a little more upset than that when i'm killed by an undead lord

what if she tries to keep a brave face to the public, and makes polite small talk about politics, food and the weather? Would that make her a bad mom?

are the public in this case a 30 million overnight viewership, a stadium full of zombies, a few dead redshirts, a ragtag bunch of mercenaries and wight-in-a-bag or like my uncle gene? Because okay if latter but if former i want some emotion.

What about Jeff the IT guy?