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

Training >>> magic

Lady Mormont’s last stand was nice

even in death jorah gets this like side body hug

— raandy (@randygdub) April 29, 2019

I’m kinda pissed that this dumb show blew its wad so early. Three episodes left of squabbling over a chair I guess.

kinda didn't understand why dany and jon were just flying around doing nothing for a while?

No idea. They were having trouble seeing everything like the rest of us?

Almost everyone survived

was gonna say, was it just me or was it super dark and I couldn't tell who died and who didn't -- apart from the super obvious ones

I don’t think the manichean zombie battle counts as “blew its wad” - this show has hardly ever been about its exotics. Now we can go back to scenes set during the daytime and having more than one thing to talk about

Killing gilly but not qween of dwagons is a bummer

let me be the first to say: the Night King *is* stupid

otm

In hindsight, the critical problem with the “the night king is not stupid” theory was that the night king is stupid

Weird frame rate stuff with the dragon riding and occasional zombie attacks, probably woulda looked better on a ps pro

am i maybe wrong that gilly gets got in the crypt?

You are maybe wrong. They were extra deliberate about showing when speaking roles got killed, as usual. I think they want us to be worried about her.

Hooray three more episodes of Cersei sipping wine while Euron leers over her shoulder. >:(

If you build up an ancient supernatural threat over the course of a show you have to save that for last, or next to last, unless you have something better up your sleeve.The very first episode back in Season 1 opened with a white walker horror sequence, after all.

X-post

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/04/game-of-thrones-who-died-winterfell-grey-worm-edd-beric-lyanna-jorah-melisandre

Rewound and rewatched, unclear if woman hauled off by her feet at 1.03 is gilly or not? Obvs you are right that would be a severely ignominious send off so i suppose its unlikely.
Gotta admit that i was really hoping night king kills everyone and this becomes cersei vs night king battle royale. Not too excited to see this play out as is.

I didn’t get why, once they came out of hiding, the dragons weren’t just frying shit constantly.

Also seeing the night king strutting around all casual just felt wrong; his mannerisms made me imagine a high school coach on a mythical 80s sitcom who calls everyone “guy” and was played by character actor James Rebhorn
https://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_960w/Boston/2011-2020/2014/03/24/BostonGlobe.com/Obits/Images/rebby.jpg

Also wanna point out that danys “think i’ll just park this dragon in a field of undead” strategy was the dumbest shit move in an episode packed with dumb shit moves

(Also known as the “we have enough fx budget for just one dragon for the final four episodes” stratagem)

Gilly and little sam are alive, they’re standing in that final shot in the crypts

Yeah I’m unsure of the fate of Dragon #2, seems like a dumb thing to have Jon become a dragon rider just so he can...almost kill the wight-dragon.

Then again, the post-books era of this show has been full of dumb things

Now who’s “wasting his time” calibrating his TV?

— John Siracusa (@siracusa) April 29, 2019

not as dumb as Jon rushing in to attack night king through a pile of dead bodies ... seriously, this guy should not be allowed to make his own battle decisions ever

I didn’t get why, once they came out of hiding, the dragons weren’t just frying shit constantly.

not as dumb as Jon rushing in to attack night king through a pile of dead bodies ... seriously, this guy should not be allowed to make his own battle decisions ever

is zombie-animated dragon fire hotter than regular, living dragon fire? or something else?

The Night King's dramatic hubris and love affair with the cameras was his undoing in the end.

A classic rise and fall story

Dragon's gotta eat to generate inexhaustible fire blasts, no? it was my impression that the dragons at Winterfell were maybe not getting enough calories?

Ugh. Leftovers.

28 Thrones Later
Game of the Living Thrones
Deus Ex Machinarya

I think GRR Martin set up too many threads and he couldn't sew it without a brute force tidy-up situation with a deus ex machina and that's what this was, and they probably couldn't have done it better

I will say that with all the money on heaven and Earth to make the greatest score history has ever seen, Ramin Djawadi still composes like Philip Glass if he was hungover and late for a lunch meeting

Oh and the show runners and writers and the actor herself gave Melisandre a wonderfully emotional end, probably the best moment in the episode imo was the look of hope and confusion she did the prayer thing

was gonna say, was it just me or was it super dark and I couldn't tell who died and who didn't -- apart from the super obvious ones

Nah. I had to turn the brightness up for some scenes

Trash. I love how the big battle they have been setting up since S1E1 ends in a single episode (one in which they spend the first 10 minutes picking around) with no deaths of any consequence. Everyone has known Jorah was going to die saving Dany for at least four seasons and Grey Worm is a redshirt that got a few (too many) lines. Makes you think that Jon was a big idiot for running around scaring everyone for six seasons with talk of the end of the world.

picking = dicking

Grey Worm is still alive, isn't he?

Yes

I’m glad the highly predictable endgame battle is not actually the endgame

Episode was great btw

Grey Worm is still alive, isn't he?

Oh, thank god.

Guys I want a Thrones game so fuckin bad.

I want to be in the shit trying to hold off white walkers, then have to fall back to the ramparts and to defend the castle, and then have a stealth section dodging wights in the library, and then slither my way to the godswood to kill the Night King.

the general reaction of "not enough characters died" is pretty lol

Battle sequences about as legible as a Brakhage film.

Yeah, as far as big budget GoT tentpole battle eps goes, this was pretty weak and deflating. Big sense of "that's it?".

I feel like I would have had no trouble with the look of the ep if I'd been watching on a nicely calibrated television instead of via a shitty Crave stream on my desktop.

so does this episode qualify as climate change denialism y/n

I'd had a few beers when I watched it and the TV wasn't great in the hotel where I am, but I am glad to see I wasn't the only one kind of confused at times.

Like, the white walkers created a storm to confuse the dragons? And this led to all those bits where they were just flailing around the sky? I guess it was clear but also a very GOT solution, like we need the battle to go on for a while, how can we prevent this character and the dragon being in it without anything significant happening? All their writing for the last three or four seasons seems to be about how to avoid having to use the tiny two minutes of plot they've managed to come up with. Like they don't place obstacles in front of their characters that require development or change so much as stick them in deep freeze or press pause.

I also missed the first ten minutes but as far as I can tell, nothing of any importance happened since I have yet to hear any mention of a bit I didn't see.

It’s not that not enough characters died, per se, it’s that the stakes of the entire Night King story feel so small because it was inconsequential, unexplained, and meaningless.

mostly just a lot of silent buildup/ominous portent xp