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

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?

filing him under "dead redshirt"

http://s1.r29static.com//bin/entry/191/340x408/1838048/image.png

"It’s a heartbreak," she told Entertainment Weekly. "Not only losing it but having that being given to the other side. "My dragon could not have died for nothing, so this is now so important," she continued. "For the first time, you’re starting to see her defenses broken."

so much pathos

let's assume Jeff is a co-worker of your mom that reports to her, and she is the first female manager at the company they work for.

my mom is retired so this is not a scenario that i'm ever going to have to worry about.
http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5340/56/16x9/960.jpg

or, let's say, as one of those popular commentary blogs does, Dany is Hillary Clinton, and she's talking to her potential Secretary of Defense, would she be all blubbery about it, or would she want to remain composed and tough in order to continue to keep the confidence and respect of the guy in question?

if one of hillary clinton's dragons died and she didn't tear up a little, i would be a little disturbed by it
i feel pretty sure that clinton would have deployed those dragons considerably more intelligently.
thus far dany has taken these things out for a spin twice; the first time she got one of them stuck in the neck with a giant crossbow bolt and the second time one of the giant unkillable super creatures got killed in one hit. she doesn't seem very good at this.

maybe hire a wartime consigliere or get one of those robot jockey things that the UAE guys use to race camels
just know your limitations is all i'm saying

Dude, you are basing this off of her conversation with Jon, which is a different dynamic. We don't know whether she bawled her eyes out in the privacy of her room, punched a pillow, drew a picture of her dead dragonchild to later have made into a locket that she will wear close to her heart once she gets back to civilization.

Also, if she were a man, and some enemy force killed one of her children, would she be teary and sad, or would she/he be steely-eyed, "I will join with you to decimate the motherfuckers that murdered my son!" ... in the context of Westeros, and not some contemporary First World cultural norms.

I agree with the thinking that most of this season's problems are a result of the showrunners trying to cram two 1500 page books worth of stuff into two shortened seasons

My question is: why did they feel the need to rush the ending? Rapidly rising actor salaries? Showrunners getting bored?

I would think that HBO would want to milk the cash cow for as long as they could, so what gives?

eh, negotiating with the principal actors for another couple of seasons of work could turn that cash cow into a bear fairly quickly

so guys which character duo in the show do you think sarahell & ulysses just emulated

All is redeemed by this gif of the wight-in-a-bag raising its head upon hearing the dragon.

― nashwan, Monday, 21 August 2017 13:09

part of the pleasure of some of these plot twists is imagining how these guys will explain it. i predicted that Benioff would say something about how "it's a whole new ball game" or "the night king just evened the score" now that he has an ice dragon, but he went with "The Night King now has his own weapon of mass destruction."

― nomar, Monday, 21 August 2017 18:09

if I were the night king and his dudes I woulda just chucked javelins at them while they were sleeping

― 龜, Monday, 21 August 2017 20:09

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

― Evan, Monday, 21 August 2017 20:40

hope qyburn never finds out about the javelin - "a big crossbow bolt but you throw it!" - it would crush him.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 21 August 2017 21:28

really want to hurry up and get to the part where bran writes the coca cola jingle

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 21 August 2017 22:00

Laughed at all these. Good work.

Didn't Thoros teach anyone else how to revive? Would have come in handy.

If GRR Martin can finish the books, the decline of the show is going to be great for him. I want to read his version now.

xp i was going for joffrey

obsidian is pretty fragile in real life, yeah? Fractures easily. Maybe DRAGONGLASS is much more durable and steel-like

Melisandre: alive, number of dead smoke babies 0 of 1

Why didn't Hilary send her dragons to Wisconsin

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

the only way they could have done more lead-up for this would be if it had a scene of her in her quarters with posters of jon snow everywhere, and she then turned to the camera and said "yes, i am hot for jon snow" - they've prob had to set aside about 5/6 minutes of her staring lovingly at him since clarke's face-acting is so inefficient.