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

I don’t think this, because I never really bought his “redemption arc”, book or show. He strives for goodness, but he can do good things while still being a bastard.

I 100% laughed at him saying “Cersei always said I was the stupidest Lannister”, though.

I cannot imagine his arc concluding (lol) like this in the books though

he's definitely killing Cersei for one thing

100%, but he’s probably crying as he does it

for sure

Also this is amazing

#Jaime still has his right hand in #GOTS8E5 😂 WTF???#GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/z9eXD0wKwM

— Game Of Thrones (@GameOfT57476878) May 13, 2019

it was hilarious that they couldn't think of anything better for the show's most compelling villain to do than...stand and look out a window

No that was a behind the scenes image or something. It's not in the actual episode.

xp

her see, Cersei

it was hilarious that they couldn't think of anything better for the show's most compelling villain to do than...stand and look out a window

otm. 'what if the battle didn't have any twists or turns?'

Or no, someone saying the image was flipped. Anyway, the bash-GoT economy is booming right now so be wary of scams.

xposts

Yeah just saw it’s a promo image, still extremely funny

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxZOVQLHX6s/

Also why would Euron give a damn about killing Jaime when he killed a dragon

― gyac, Monday, May 13, 2019 3:53 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's proudest about killing those two sand snakes

We're all proud of him for that

I will be amused if the next episode's coup ends with Jon T. in power and now he's showing early signs of a taste for torching people

It's good to catch it in early stages

Varys deserved more than that this season.
kind of hoped DI Brandyce (the KL random mum who didn't get through the big door at the start) would kill Cersei. As a symbol of how you need to look after your peasants or something.

this aged well

https://www.thecut.com/2019/04/elizabeth-warren-review-game-of-thrones-season-8.html

there's a bemusing/horrifying deluge of 'what got teaches us about irl politics' articles and tweets

Also extremely funny as everyone said that Euron hit Rhaegal in motion but about a million huge crossbows couldn’t bring down Drogon. Def some stormtrooper aiming going on there.

― gyac, Monday, May 13, 2019 9:47 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I couldn't see what happened to Rhaegal in the major battle, dark action and glare on the screen I think but I thought he had been hurt and was needing to recover. Which made him more vulnerable. Tried to go back and rewatch the scene in the battle but couldn't find it in the time I had spare.

Still did seem pretty asymmetrical. & Drogon just seemed pretty invulnerable this episode and was breathing a lot more fire than I've seen previously. Did assume there was some point at which it would exhaust itself and need to recover strength and fire wouldn't just continually be able to be created without a rest. Also continually flying, did think there would need to be some output input correlation and it would need to be at least fed to keep energy up.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/game-of-thrones-the-bells/#!

When the actress first learned Cersei would be one of many casualties of Dany’s mass destruction, Headey wasn’t completely thrilled. “I wanted her to have some big piece or fight with somebody,” she says. However, after discussing the scene with co-star–on-screen sibling Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, the actress warmed to the idea of Cersei dying in her brothers’ arms. “The more we talked about it, the more it seemed like the perfect end for her,” says Headey. “They came into the world together and now they leave together.” In fact, the actress explains, “It’s maybe the first time that Cersei has been at peace.”

a scene of drogon devouring party pack after party pack of fiery doritos locos tacos to land another Demolition Man-style cross-promotion

When the actress first learned Cersei would be one of many casualties of Dany’s mass destruction, Headey wasn’t completely thrilled.

one thing that seems to be coming out in the wake of this is that lots of the actors have been pretty annoyed with how their characters turn out (emilia clarke and conleth hill, esp, i think)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA7UQOYskas

Ha, came here to post that!

LOL yeah I knew what that would be before I even clicked on it.

As for me, I've always viewed Dany as a potential despot, and expected her to do exactly what she's done. I never saw her method of conquering as particularly heroic, particularly once she torched the Tarlys (horrid as Sams dad was).

I cant see how theyre really going to resolve a lot in one more episode. I want to know whats going to happen with Sam, with Bran, with Sansa/Jon/Arya, with Brienne, to Winterfell, to Kings Landing, and oh btw maybe the rest of Westeros could stand to be shown for 5 mins for some reactions ? Or are we supposed to think people are taking tea in Highgarden utterly none the wiser that they almost died at the hands of a bunch of zombies?

and we're back to the donnie darko mad world reaction montage

As I said last time, urrgh nooooo.

Still waiting for a GoT battle scene that doesn't have Jon Snow staring helplessly into space for five minutes.

Yeah when a bunch of soldiers under Jon's command started slaughtering surrendering, unarmed men and he just sort of spent 30 seconds doing an "oh jeez" Fargo protagonist look or whatever I was kind of thinking maybe he could have stepped up a little bit more there

I found myself wondering how Nelson "Bighead" Bighetti might have handled the situation, it seemed in that kind of ballpark to me

The crossbows going from the deadliest thing in all of creation to being completely useless did feel jarring, reminded me of Dark Knight Rises where Bane completely batters Batman and then later on a recently-crippled Batman just beats Bane without really doing anything different because the script just required him to suck at that point

Also WWE 50/50 booking. Nobody ever gets over with that shit buddy

haven't seen S 8 yet only started S 7 but Arya is my hero

I can’t remember the last time so many people bothered to make a distinction between the thematic/narrative idea being good and the *execution* of that idea being bad (ie, the problem isn’t what happened it’s how we got here).

except for the moronic, childish “they betrayed my feminist icon khaleesi” dead enders.

Dany: I ask for so little. Just let me rule you and you can have everything that you want.
Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave.

*world falls down*

#GameOfThrones

well shit.... pic.twitter.com/1BZizwdsIa

— Lord Gaspy of House Stark (@OnFireGaspy) May 13, 2019

my main takeaways were

1. cersei was silent for almost the whole episode. where the fuck are her plans, where are the tricks, where is anything to upset my expectations? why did they do nothing with one of the biggest characters in the whole saga?
2. implying that if john just got over the incest ickyness, he would magically heal the crazy woman's uncontrollable emotions is just terrible optics. No way they earned the character turn for daenerys.
3. it was impressive how danny learned some basic military tactics from episode to episode, and the lannisters lost all sense of aim. i guess she did that by sitting in a room by herself and having a big think, so fair do's to her for the self improvement i guess?
4. i don't give a shit about any of the characters any more? john is a moron, danny doesn't make any sense any more... i just dont see much to look forward to in the final episode?

a shame.

Maybe Missandei was giving her shitty military advice and left to her own devices Dany is competent.

One dropped thread that they could have closed in this episode: Tyrion and Jaime had a farewell scene where they talk about their history together, and Jaime AGAIN doesn't mention that Tyrion's first wife was for real and not a prostitute Jaime hired.

implying that if john just got over the incest ickyness

Is that all his reservation was, though? My takeaway was that Dany was his *queen* but he realised that was all it was, and he didnt actually lerv her. Not enough to justify the shit she was starting to brew up anyway.

**cue Meatloaf**

i generally have no idea how much time has passed in the show, from episode to episode and season to season, but how long has it been since he last saw ygritte? a few months? when jon and daenerys were smooching for the final time, i was thinking "wow, he really had much more chemistry with ygritte. how long has it been, maybe a couple months?", and maybe that's what jon snow was thinking too

like.. a year? years? it’s impossible to tell

Yep the chemistry between Jon/Dany was non existent. I just couldnt ship em.

Where's the Iron Throne itself? Underneath a mountain of Red Keep rubble? How she gonna sit on it?

xxxp this might be a little bit of an unfair comparison given that the actors are married irl (but I agree!)

https://screenrant.com/game-thrones-how-much-time-passed/

six to seven years according to this

XP it’s OK, there’s a much more stylish throne in Dragonstone.

Also extremely funny as everyone said that Euron hit Rhaegal in motion but about a million huge crossbows couldn’t bring down Drogon. Def some stormtrooper aiming going on there.

I mean one of the dragons was literally lame and straight out of another battle so I broadly buy that it would have easier to take down. Quite enjoyed how easily they destroyed those shitty crossbows this time round.

I don't really expect well rounded characterisation from GoT but Cersei was particularly badly served by the writers this season. I wanted to see her go full Hitler in the bunker. Not giving her a proper scene with Tyrion was perhaps a mistake as well.

But in general the whole horrors of war thing was so well done that I didn't care that much about the rest of it. Only Arya showed any heroism at all which I suppose was the point of having her break the revenge cycle.

She wasn't even in the episode but things are really not looking good for Sansa at this stage.