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

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

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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"

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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.

Have we heard anything else about the final final season being pushed out to 2019?

Seriously?

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

― 龜, Monday, August 28, 2017 11:40 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah I think qyburn is gonna be enamored of the walker's power and do something dumb

But was it ever implied that it's anything more than a regular corpse once "killed"?

to go back to something i've been marinating on, they really blew it w/the knife scene earlier this season, they completely telegraphed it when Bran dropped that "chaos is a ladder" bit (and when we barely saw him the rest of the season til the trial.) as soon as i saw him sitting there, it was like, well of course this Littlefinger shit will come out right here and now.

If they were trying to create any suspense at Winterfell, they should have pulled back on the Arya = psycho stuff, maybe just made her a bit less icy and a bit more PTSD or distant, made Sansa a bit more trusting of LF from the get go (and made LF a bit more "shocked" at what happened to her w/Ramsay), and then during this trial (if it even had to happen), maybe have Bran take a look at the knife at some point and then hold it and then, boom, it all hits him.

or maybe just handle Bran's realization better, and LF's subsequent awareness that the game is up. maybe he leaves in the night, and he's dealt with later. it seems as though he was very, very bad at recognizing when he was trapped.

No one else is concerned that Bran looked freshly shaved but have you ever wondered why they never show anyone shaving? This show is so dumb.

Joking?

Watch the very first episode if you want to see the Stark bros at Winterfell's well stocked grooming salon.

I'm still rooting for Littlefinger to win the game in the books.

she's a figure out of shakespearean or greek tragedy.

Don't forget the Dickensian aspect.

The question is what they did with Littlefinger's body (also whether Arya sliced his face off in the process) as presumably the Night King will raise more of the dead from graves south of the Wall.

so what you're saying is that undead littlefinger could still win the iron throne

Can we talk about Brienne and the Hound acting like an amicably divorced mom and dad co-parenting Arya, their Murder Baby #GameOfThrones

— Elise (@zzlaisee) August 28, 2017

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

― El Tomboto, Monday, August 28, 2017 1:14 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and turns out he had the best character arc by far in the season. like you feel it had a beginning middle end with a real build instead of a random sets of events fan servicing.

Just caught up.
Ah, the old Battlestar Galactica 'go on then, do it' still going strong then

But was it ever implied that it's anything more than a regular corpse once "killed"?

― Evan, Monday, August 28, 2017 3:16 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark

i figure it's on the table, since the current imaginations of the writers seems about as inventive as browsing /r/gameofthrones and picking the best fan fiction plots to write in