Hopefully they'll have the guts to subvert that by having Dani and Jon eventually foreswear the throne in favour of someone who'll be better at it, eg Tyrion or Varys.
This would be even dumber
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
A friend of mine argued that the only credible route once Jon finds out the truth about his heritage is that he feels dutybound to rule
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
Dudes it is obviously going to end with a pivot to democratic principles, that's been thematically reinforced in so many scenes at this point
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
the night king takes over and establishes zombie democracy
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
they'll end the show with the first ever general election, and in a shocking twist everyone will just vote for the loudest drunkest idiot in all of westeros because they've had enough of dynasty rule and they want someone who represents their impossible desires to say "fuck you" to the entire system
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
then the white walkers will invade again, the new drunk idiot ruler will say that all things equal, westeros should be friends with the white walkers, right, it'll turn out that the drunk idiot ruler actually owns several lucrative properties far north of the wall, and half of the voters will agree that yes, westeros should be friends with the night king, makes sense
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
Camera pulls out, whole show is just inside a snowglobe belonging to the Night King's little boy.
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
Night King is the dad to Cersei's baby
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
xp I was gonna say I hope they bring back that baby the Night King converted a few seasons ago or this is at least referred to again.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
does a wight baby grow up or does it stay eternally the same age like in interview w/ a vampire
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 20:03 (six years ago) link
wight man, wight woman, wight baby
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
they're wight btw
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
mommy's a wight, daddy's a wight, they just seem a little weird
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, August 29, 2017 12:34 PM (one hour ago)
I figure Jon and Dany will get married and rule together, William and Mary style
― sansa riff (sarahell), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
― Max-Headroom-drops-a-deuce-while-shredding (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
Ugh, Aiden Gillen to play James Joyce...
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 06:37 (six years ago) link
the alt-wight
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 09:39 (six years ago) link
the night king takes over and establishes zombie democracy― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, August 29, 2017 12:39 PM (yesterday)
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, August 29, 2017 12:39 PM (yesterday)
stuff wight people like
― sansa riff (sarahell), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
The spin-off about their flipper-babies is going to be dope.
― louie mensch (milo z), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
It'd be kinda funny if they learn that they are related, but just shrug their heads. incest wasn't really such a big taboo in feudal societies. Ned Starks parents were cousins. Daenerys' parents were siblings.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
iron throne more like incest throne
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
Anne Boleyn was beheaded because of incest accusations (ignoring the veracity of those claims).
― Leee Media Naranja (Leee), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
Iron Throne more like iron bone-time amirite
― louie mensch (milo z), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link
Technically Anne Boleyn was beheaded because adultery against the king was seen as treason, right? You're still right though, I phrased that badly. People were executed for incest, as the film Marguerite & Julien shows. (A film I'm just about to put on right now, coincidentally) But cousins, aunts, uncles, those didn't have the same taboo that they have today.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:30 (six years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/wagner-incest-and-game-of-thrones
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
there must be some more ancient magic/forestbaby stuff in store: revelations about the white walkers & more 3 eyed raven biz. mb beric & tormund will frodo & sam it into the newly vacated north to destroy the secret white walker power orb. I like how the show balances the nonsense fantasy by having characters who basically resent that they live in a nonsense fantasy world.
also as good as dinklage is in this his american-trying-to-sound-british accent is kind of ludicrous
― ogmor, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link
FB that isn't really true. depends on when in european history you're talking. consanguinity of marriage within a certain (legally varying) degree was considered a sin. dispensation had to be given (i forget which english king(s) had to have this granted) the church pushed it out to 7, until the high middle ages when the european aristocracy began to be so interrelated that the ok degree was reduced.
the disability-producing inbreeding of the habsburgs, for ex, is a later early modern phenomenon. i don't know how the church handled that! or it's earlier and not european, if you wanna look at the ptolemies. indulgence of incest for political reasons tends to be a v narrow thing i think.
― goole, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
ptolemies were european, if we're gonna be correcting each other
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
more to the pt is that it's not clear what kind of taboo incest carries in this world or what the gen pop thinks of it. sometimes it's punished heavily but without any lasting consequence, and as a narrative device the writers seem to like it. lol nothing matters!
xp well yeah. but they picked put the practice of royal incest in egypt, right?
― goole, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
yep you coulda just said pharaohs, you just happened to specifically pick the european ones
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
u ppl are gonna stop talking when da show is over, rite
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
stfy bill
― ian, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
shut the fuck... elf?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
(my friend Xtine calls it "the Elf Show")
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
trypoes
― ian, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
there are no elfs.
― ian, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
jon snow's butt
if your work considers that a problem i feel bad for you soni got something jon butt snow something about wight problems hit me
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:42 (six years ago) link
Incest in Westeros is generally thought of as taboo, but the Targaryens were powerful and in-charge and they liked incest, so who was gonna stop them really? It might have contributed to the coin flip nature of Targaryen personalities; they would either be regal and intelligent, or paranoid and a little mad.
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
If Jon and Dany decide to get married and use side by side, maybe the people of Westeros will decide that they've had enough incest after the Targs and then Lannisters and then rise up in revolt
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
xxpost internet delivers :D
yay butts yes i am tina belcher
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
would like to see a romance plot with night king and one of the mulleted zombie generals in s8 - give him some humanity
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
Tywin and Joanna Lannister were first cousins as well.
It's interesting what you're saying, goole, but I'm almost certain I could find earlier examples of noble cousins marrying in feudal Denmark, at the least.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
I thought it was already well known and established, as voodoo points out, that the Targs were fine with familial hookups.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 31 August 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
BTW can I come into the film threads and tell you to stfu?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 31 August 2017 00:13 (six years ago) link
https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FnfNeoQqwoiVPsWnv2fBlw--/Zmk9c3RyaW07aD0zODg7cHlvZmY9MDtxPTk1O3c9NzIwO3NtPTE7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-images/GLB/2017-09-01/8b798cc0-8f3f-11e7-a435-29156fd381a8_osteen-copy.jpg.cf.jpg
anyone notice how Joel Osteen looks just like Littlefinger?
― nomar, Friday, 1 September 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
sort of!
but the one i can't get out of my head is
https://i.imgur.com/OS19wzO.jpg
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 September 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
Have to admit that Eliza Dushku as a dark sorceress sounds pretty cool. Haven't seen her act since Wrong Turn, can't really assess her skills.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 2 September 2017 12:53 (six years ago) link
The problem is going to be Goyer misreading the source material as badass, awesome, epic.
― Wes Brodicus, Saturday, 2 September 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link
Is Black Company good?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 2 September 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
some of it is fantastic
other books are dumb
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 2 September 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link