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

please link!

Yes pls

This one?

https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/bdwuse/spoilers_extended_my_night_king_is_not_stupid/

Yep thats the one! It blew my mind.

omg i want to watch that happen

Esp Cercei. "Valonqars hands around her pale throat" eh.

oh shit

if that theory holds, and with valonqar meaning "little brother", i have two questions -- just whose little brother is it, and how long does one have to be dead before the night king can no longer raise you.

i like that theory

Kind of lol that we’re making it through the entirety of GoT with two threads when we had like 80 Lost threads

one going theory is jamie killing her but its arya wearing jaimes face, i dunno about that tho

I hope there isn't too much faceless-man shit in this season. that was always my least favorite bit of magical lore in the show

does Euron count as a little brother ...

Unless of course in the final episode Arya takes off her face and reveals she's been Sean Bean all along xp

just whose little brother is it, and how long does one have to be dead before the night king can no longer raise you.

― omar little, 18. april 2019 02:22 (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tommen

read that as
MY night king is not stupid

Nothing but respect for My Night King

my night king brings all the boys to the yard etc

The valonqar part of the witch's prophesy didn't actually appear in the series, only in the books. In the series she just prophesied the deaths of Cersei's children, not her death. So it'd be a bit weird if the writers would bring that up all of sudden, several seasons after the prophesy scene happened. "Guess what, the witch prophesied other things too, but we cut those out back then..."

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/17/18412156/george-lucas-game-of-thrones-got-season-8-hbo-final-behind-the-scenes-jon-snow-daenerys-targeryen

According to a 17-minute behind-the-scenes video that HBO released on YouTube, Lucas was hanging out on the Game of Thrones set while director David Nutter was directing the season 8 premiere. The former Star Wars director was sitting by Nutter’s side while they were filming a scene with Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). Nutter asked Lucas to speak to Harington and Clarke about their performances.

So the scene we've been unfavorably comparing to an awkward couple hanging out in a secluded area in a Star Wars movie.. might have had some direction from George Lucas?

This is amazingly funny

Just wait until the Ewoks show up.

“I don't like snow. It's cold and frosty and irritating and it gets everywhere."

the waterfall scene WAS lucas-esque; explains a lot

I don't like sand snakes

omar otm

hold me like you did on the shores of moat caillin

does Euron count as a little brother ...

He sure as hell looked younger than Balon.

The Night King always has an expression on his face that reminds me of Linus Van Pelt

I've been rewatching etc. etc. and the serious is AIR TIGHT, there are some serious missteps but largely it is kind of amazing that 80 hours of televisions or whatever could be built upon two enormous secrets-- i.e. Robert's rebellion was built on a lie, one of the boringest main characters is a product of that lie, and they've left hints and moments back to the beginning that verify that this is of course the case

what is not air tight is arya threatening sansa in ep 7 to mislead the viewers toward the efficacy of littlefinger, damn this was a bad writing decision

Very excited for the next seven episodes to be perfectly frank

*series, not serious

only 5 more episodes, not 7! and yes, the arya/sansa thing from last season was terrible writing - only makes sense insofar as fooling viewers

Oh shit that’s right! Only five. Ok

the misdirection was bad, but the littlefinger comeuppance was delicious

his entire shtick was fully dependent on no one ever comparing notes

But mostly in the show, his shtick is a lot better in the books. It was bad writing for several seasons.

I've decided the most in-character thing for this show to do is kill off Jon Snow tonight or next week

The order-of-deaths seems to be less deliberately disorienting as the series has gone on. I don't think I've been surprised by a death in a while

I was just reading the Vegas pools on the odds of "who's gonna die" and "what's gonna happen" and it looks like anybody who believes the "Night King Is Not Stupid" theory could stand to make some $, as the prospect of Cersei going undead is higher (if you believe that theory) than Vegas odds would predict

i've decided the most in-character thing for this show to do is kill off Jon Snow tonight or next week

it would have been in seasons 1-3 character, and glimpses of the show since. but not so much in character for the show's current state of Game of the Thrones Day at the Ballpark in all 30 baseball stadiums

They really should have Arya suddenly get hit by lightning just to remind everybody what they're watching

if there's no major gratuitous death tonight, someone is not doing their job.

Snow tells Danny his true parentage and she immediately murks him

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

wtf

that was extremely boring

absolutely trolling with how boring that was

"we only have six episodes left, so one of them should definitely be a bottle episode in Winterfell that's only dialogue, and nothing that moves the plot forward at all"

five! four now lol

oh lol I misread that

Looking forward to all the stupid characters becoming surprised when the bodies of the crypt massacre the people hiding there...

UNLESS the theory about him heading direct to King's Landing pans out. I am looking forward to it playing out that way. Hopefully.

this show has gotten insanely corny

I hope they don't rush into the battling next week, we viewers need at least one more hour of preparation