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

it translated fine to tv until they ran out of books!

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, May 5, 2019 9:57 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There were a lot of things in the books that the show didn’t even try (stoneheart, arstan is really barristan, etc)

Wonder if we'll actually see Winds of Winter sometime in the next 12 months.

I can't actually remember where the last book finished and where the show took over

Jon stabbed to death, Dany escapes the attempt on her life at the fighting pits & lands in the great grass sea confronted by the Dothraki Horde

I’m kind of enjoying the nerd meltdown over the destruction of their pet theories.

Me too. Reddit is a vale of butthurt tears over ep3.

Alyssa's butthurt tears, preeminent geological feature of the Vale

keep forgetting about the vale tbh

yeah Lord Royce kinda disappeared during the battle last episode

lmao

Lopping Missandei's attic off

term 'butthurt' is so stupid

my main thing is why was that 78 mins long

Not even gonna try to defend this week’s episode.

A high stakes fleet of ships traveling without scouts, and with two dragons who don’t spot a hostile fleet of ships in the area.

Remember when Jaime’s character development had more or less reached its final form and then they just decided he never actually developed?

can't wait to see the wealth of memes spawned by the awkward banquet

Tyrion, my dude, your sister’s humanity was replaced by a bag of sand ~seasons ago~ keep up ffs

I'm letting myself be spoiled before watching this cos it sounds like its just heading towards a complete train derailment at this point lol.

That was a smelly casserole

Gwen Christie gave a good performance at least!

Lots of talky talk, virtually none of it interesting or timely; zombie apocalypse is gonna be this season’s high point for sure.

I feel like they did Brienne dirty this ep? she deserved a little better in the writing than what ultimately boiled down to a teen cliché

but Gwen Christie was great nonetheless
love her

can i get a gif of Podric’s adorbs drunken grin

Remember when Jaime’s character development had more or less reached its final form and then they just decided he never actually developed?

― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Sunday, May 5, 2019 11:32 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I figured it was obvious that he was being vague and what he meant was that he was going back down there to kill Cersei...

crossbow technology is extremely scalable

make a ~0.5*kings_landing_size crossbow and destroy kings landing imo

*looks over the blueprints carefully*

yes, that will take 400 pieces of wood and 12 hours

so second to last episode is now a big dumb (physical) battle for kings landing, and then a final episode to say goodbye to everyone, i guess

Final scene will be king/queen butt wiggling down into that throne to gasp chorus imo

just a real wigglefest after many bigger crossbows and the gasps the gasps will be deafening

Were Dany and friends going to King's Landing directly? I thought they were stopping by Dragonstone first?

why did theh wait for dragons to build the ultimate antiboatvweapon in this world of boat wars

at this point i'm mostly here in case they kill dany as that will hasten a more palatable endgame that does not involve forcing myself to watch emilia clarke sorta kinda almost act.

and yeah, most of the BIG TACTICAL SURPRISES and storyline points are all very labored and nonsensical though i am sure lots of the internet would like to explain that if you just read this essay

"Dany kinda forgot about the iron fleet...."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8K9XuPrXko&feature=youtu.be&t=350

meh, 5.50 here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8K9XuPrXko

Starting S8 because I finally signed up HBO Now, the CGI of Dany and Jon riding dragons looks like absolute dogshit.

qyburn's big crossbow has proved genius in the end

Tormund is the only good character on this show.

My favorite moment of the episode is Qyburn acknowledging that the screams of burning children is “not a pleasant sound.” Spoken like someone familiar with the screams of burning children.

This show is batting .000 this season.

I figured it was obvious that he was being vague and what he meant was that he was going back down there to kill Cersei...

Lol, if this is the case, the writers will have torn a hole in the fabric of stupidity/time.

Even though Dany is a true idiot in using the world's only living flying helicopter gunships, how did Euron and company get so good at shooting moving targets with a ballista from a range of at least a mile when there was literally no way for them to practice?

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— Damon (@Sylar_tv) May 6, 2019

why didn’t they simply crossbow amelia clarke and her other dragon when they were right there at the gate that’s what I would have done to win the game of thrones

i did wonder was everyone going to die in that scene

I liked this episode. Since the seasons overtook the books the show has gone to sketch pad mode but at least yesterday moved events on. Tbh when they announced the last two seasons episodes the butthurts should have read the runes and started rereading the books from the beginning again.

Question for those that follow cable politics. Expensive or no, this show is obviously a huge success and moneymaker for HBO. Few of the actors seem to have much else going on. What's the big hurry? Why burn through the books so fast, why truncate the final season? From what I've read of the plot this season is like they were suddenly given a hard deadline and told to wrap it up ASAP, just hurtling forward, everything be damned.

How is it that “butthurt” has entered into usage for any situation involving a “dissatisfied consumer”

surely the actors' contracts run out after this season (and should have run out earlier, but HBO broke the last season into two chunks) and if there were to be a 9th season the main player would demand steep raises. Better to just start making prequels with unknowns from HBO's biz standpoint.

Xp, i think the cast was a) ready to move on, b) starting to age out, c)demanding more money
So they’ll reboot x 3 and hope the magic sticks to at least one

when the main talking point afterwards is "how did no one in filming, editing, or any other stage of post-production notice the starbucks cup in the shot" you know you made a great episode of television