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

It's funny to see ilx completely contrast reddit on almost every point. Part of the fun for me seeing reactions on the web.

Namely: https://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/6wgkl4/everything_littlefingers_actor/

hah it was so bad! "let me talk to you in alone... i can explain everything!"

think it's ok to bone your aunt if she is that hot? not sure.

some of the faces reminded me of the comedian limmy's vines

littlefinger's i mean

the euron stuff is a bit weird too. and the cersei plot. if she was always planning to agree to help, then betray the others, how did euron know to say he was leaving the minute he saw the wight? and why turn down the truce initially if your plan all along was to feign an offer of help?

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 28 August 2017 15:42

Very good points.

Initially I thought it was an awful cop-out that they didn't show Tyrion convincing Cersei but now that we know she was lying, I don't think it matters that they skipped it.

Yes, Theon's scene was badly done but I think he's an interesting character and I'm interested to see what GRR Martin does with him. Just like my feeling about Littlefinger and probably Bran too.

a lot of talk of/reference to penises/balls in this episode

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 28 August 2017 15:50

I actually liked Jaime saying "maybe it is all just cocks".

i'm starting to enjoy the bran stuff - they overegged it a bit to begin with and he just seemed comically weird, and the actor has a sort of simpering annoying voice, but i liked the new authority he's showing.

xpost i enjoy most of the jaime/bran scenes tbh.

Initially I thought it was an awful cop-out that they didn't show Tyrion convincing Cersei but now that we know she was lying, I don't think it matters that they skipped it.

Yeah, although I now wonder if she asked something of Tyrion that we aren't in on, something to get him in good again with the family. His lurking about and watching Jon go into Dany's cabin sort of hinted at that -- it's part longing for a woman he knows he could never have, part "Please don't screw this up by thinking with your dick, Snow" and part . . . something else?

There might be something else but I don't think he'd work with Cersei.

tyrion......................................................................................................................................is a cuck

i thought his lurking was more just "shit they're having sex" in the general human way

Can't see anything he'd have to gain from working with Cersei.

think it's ok to bone your aunt if she is that hot? not sure.

― akm, Monday, 28 August 2017 15:54

WINCEST

― homosexual II, Friday, 20 August 2010 20:59 (seven years ago)

So I found it interesting that Sansa and Arya (and the show v much underlined this in a brief exchange between them) totally broke Ned's northern hardman rule w/r/t littlefinger. 'The one who passes the sentence must be the one who swings the axe' right? But Sansa and arya have lined up in a lord + headsman configuration and like the laws of fictional gravity sort of demand they 'pay' for this in some way.

ya, the reddit reaction to Aidan Gillen's acting had me massively rolling my eyes.

The quote is actually "The man who passes the sentence…" so they get a pass, perhaps?

I was just disappointed that all the soldiers didnt go WAHEY! in unison as Littlefinger lay bleeding on the floor

xp to Jon --
I definitely noticed and thought about that as well -- my less pessimistic idea was that it was a symbolic gesture of solidarity/unity for the Stark girls? that is to say, they I read it as --- the sisters worked together to entrap Littlefinger, and decided together what to do about him. Since only one of them can do the physical killing it only makes sense that it would be Arya. In the sense that they are both the "starks in winterfell" their partnership is not the same as having a hired hand do the killing.

Yeah I thought about that too. The stoic burden of the sole lord reconceived as a team effort

i thought his lurking was more just "shit they're having sex" in the general human way

I read it this way too. Being the Hand, his berth on the ship is the one next door, so I figured he was just turning in and then noticed "oh, that's finally happening"

And that entire room was in on the scheme (of pretending that Arya was the one on trial)? Worst surprise party ever.

"time for the hand to get to work"

xpost

sorry

RIP Lord Baelish Haughey

no that was good LG

i thought his lurking was more just "shit they're having sex" in the general human way

An eyeroll or a smirk or something would have helped.

i thought his lurking was more just "shit they're having sex" in the general human way

I read it this way too. Being the Hand, his berth on the ship is the one next door, so I figured he was just turning in and then noticed "oh, that's finally happening"

― El Tomboto, Monday, August 28, 2017 12:20 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Or maybe they're setting up clues for a huge twist that involves what we didn't see during the rest of his meeting with Cersei... I mean there must be some specifics ironed out that "got her" to "agree" (quotes because the show runners mentioned that she was the one playing him in that exchange)

lena headey is a really bad actress, guys

i did wonder that but in the end settled on "shit they're having sex" i guess mixed with a bit of world weary "this might cause problems"

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lena headey is a really bad actress, guys

― goole, Monday, August 28, 2017 12:27 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/6wgj7y/everything_lena_headey_appreciation/

This is fun. I bet there's one for every situation.

Lena Headey is really good. I think her Cersei is good. I think some of the dialogue and situations they give Cersei are not.

so much of the last couple episodes was devoted to pairing off characters and having them spit a few wary or confrontational lines at each other. all of it was breaking the awkwardness or score-settling or reunion shit. lots of "it's good to see you again" type shit. like i've said I enjoyed this season a lot for spectacle and entertainment purposes but the different between this and the really intricate and carefully plotted first four seasons is pretty, uh, stark. but that's all due to the source material.

i am curious to see what qyburn will do with the wight in a bag's corpse. i bet he's gonna cook up some insane shit

wight hand taped to an even gianter crossbow

could the mountain become a wight? that would be some real excellent video game power up shit.

He's gonna teach it to play the Addams family theme on the organ

The Mountain already is a wight, kinda?

Missing the crucial "body parts still work after dismemberment" feature which clearly Qyburn wishes he had thought of

i am curious to see what qyburn will do with the wight in a bag's corpse. i bet he's gonna cook up some insane shit

i liked that they took time to show him visibly aroused by this fucked-up creature.

perhaps also concerned about how a crossbow might/might not work on wights and how many crossbows he'll have to burn before realising he could light the arrows.

would have been nice if he piped up during a silent part of the truce negotations... "is there... anything at all to be said for a very big crossbow?"

lena headey is a really bad actress, guys

I rag on the show and the acting a lot but this is incorrect

just painfully hard to listen to. they're all struggling uphill against this writing, but damn.

i've been inured to dinklage's terrible accent attempt at this point.

sophie turner is really good, as is anyone over the age of 55

cersei's speech after she returned from the meeting with tyrion was astoundingly bad. made marginally better by the reveal later that she was lying through her teeth, but still...

I don't live on the planet where lena headey and peter dinklage are bad at acting and sophie turner is good at acting.

you know who was actually really good this season was Coster-Waldau

i don't think there are many bad actors on this show tbh (i'm ambivalent on some), but there are miscast actors. i don't think Gillen was bad as Littlefinger, but his voice was hilarious. he went full rasp when he realized what was happening. "i'm sorry lady sansa i'm a bit confused..."

c'mon heady is really good i think. she hams it up appropriately. i think it helps that, until this season at least, i've always found her character to have some real pathos. she's a figure out of shakespearean or greek tragedy.

I don't live on the planet where lena headey and peter dinklage are bad at acting and sophie turner is good at acting.

seriously

Why does that guy from the Vale insist on wearing that same chest plate every single day? It's gross.