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

I guess I can forgive the Bran as king thing since it’s clear that Tyrion is running shit while Bran tries to warg a dragon.

Dockside: Jon kneels before King Bran

Bran: Jon for someone as handsome and able bodied as you are, you are more of a fkn cripple than I ever was HAVE FUN AT THE NIGHTS WATCH YOU PRANNET

i thought the ending was decent compared with what i was expecting, obv i was wrong abt jon snow not killing dany but at least he didn’t get to be king THANK GOD

Bran, master of stories, despite not telling anything to anyone ever

Most unbelievable moment was the GRRM-insert Sam actually finishing the damn book.

I didn’t expect Jon to do it. I’ll give them that.

not cool that everyone was talking loudly about BRAN THE BROKEN, i doubt he gave himself that nickname.

yeah i loled at that

like ok cool thanks Tyrion The Stunted

Most unbelievable moment was the GRRM-insert Sam actually finishing the damn book.

I love Brienne but girl, that calligraphy u_u

Bran: “BRB gonna go chase the dragon”

so Bran is Gossip Girl. Nice.

- so we discussed and tbh everyone thought you did good
- everyone
- oh. yeah, except the unsullied. so you gotta go to the wall.
*Unsullied get on boats and sail away forever*
- hey so can I come back now?
- what?
- I said, the unsullied all sailed away forever. can I come back now?
- I think we have a bad raven. say hi to Tormund!

the season sucked but the finale based on what was given prior was fine. now get back to preemptively being pissed about the deadwood movie.

the episode could've used some depictions of characters' immediate responses to jon's action... the dragon stuff was cool and all, but, sheeeeit

- lol at Sam trying to invent democracy
- Davos to Greyworm: "start your own house". Greyworm: "Um... about that."
- WHO ARE JON'S REAL PARENTS?! = dragon won't kill you even when you deserve it
- "You will never marry", as if Jon's not going to find a new wildling girlfriend in like two secs
- The Dothraki be like "WE CROSSED THE POISONED WATERS OF THE OCEAN FOR THIS SHIT?!"
- Bran knowing he's eventually going to be king and letting everyone get slaughtered before it happens: Littlefinger was right. "Chaos is a ladder" and all that.
- Brienne ;_;
- A direwolf got petted, like he should
- Am cool with Sansa being the queen of Northern Ireland
- Good luck discovering America, Arya!

I didn’t think there was any mystery about Jon’s real parents.

i was referring to the big deal made over his lineage mostly amounting to not much.

Arya: what's west of westeros?
DD: spinoff land

Spinoff Island

where Daario Naharis is presumably hanging out

Yeah, distinctly underwhelming.

Stuff I liked:
- Sansa being Queen in the North (even if it’s not clear wrt succession?)
- Bran still being alive (but more because I love book Bran, show Bran not so much)
- Arya being alive and retaining some of her humanity - her goodbye scene with Jon!
- Jon parting Ghost was cute as fuck
- my fave Davos still around and now master of ships
- Tyrion uncovering Jaime and Cersei even though they were hilariously unsquished and telegenic
- I did like the idea of Jon helping rebuild the civilisation north of the wall since he was the one who allied with the wildlings

Stuff I didn’t:
- basically everything with Daenerys
- lol Jon should’ve been toasted
- I’ve never really cared for Bronn so I’m like 🙄 at him being on the small council
- the small council ho-ho-ho look at this ragtag bunch of men ruling banter was shite

Oh, I liked Brienne writing Jamie’s entry in the White Book as well. That was a nice book callback I wasn’t expecting.

Also Tyrion was hand to two kings and a queen and a member of a great house, what kind of shit history omits him?!

Robin Arryn, breastfeeding poster boy.

Why is nobody talking about this glow up wtf #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/ex6W0MgPdL

— Emily Ginn (@ginn_emily) May 20, 2019

who got the Tungsten Chair?

the real tungsten chair was the boobs we saw along the way

"RIP Game Of Thrones. RIP Star Wars."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6027920/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt

The memes are quite good today.

~10 years from now~

Peasant: King Bran, we haven’t any food. The people are starving.

Bran: The people were always meant to starve.

— lil orphan abi 🌙 (@abinormalcy) May 20, 2019

From the AVClub:

There’s been talk that Game Of Thrones will be the last show that we watch this way, millions coming together to watch simultaneously and then react and discuss in real time,

Who the fuck is saying this? There will obviously be some other show that lots of people watch and talk about. Hell, around 18 million people apparently watched the series finale of The Big Bang Theory (around the same numbers iirc that GoT has been getting this season), and if I knew any of them I'm sure they'd be talking about it.

OMG I did not even clock that that was Robin Arryn sitting with everyone in the decide-a-king scene. I was in fact confused who a couple of those people were.

AVClub: Meet Julia Roberts, patron saint of not giving a shit about Game Of Thrones

These sites will print literally any GoT content.

Also Tyrion was hand to two kings and a queen and a member of a great house, what kind of shit history omits him?!

Yeah that was fucking dumb. Not to mention Catelyn’s arresting him and taking him to the Eyrie was one of the war’s inciting incidents.

And who killed Tywin Lannister in that book? Or did the Maester claim he died of dysentery?

I did laugh at Tyrion doing the Westeros version of Looking Yourself up in the Index of the latest D.C. book

I just remembered another dumb and inexplicable choice: the early scene during Dany’s fascist rally where she is surrounded by Unsullied and Jon is forced to give up his sword to approach her followed five minutes later by a scene where Jon is able to approach her alone and armed to kill her. Why show the first if you are going to have the second happen?

I only recall Jon giving up his sword when he went to meet Tyrion in his cell.

yeah I remember wondering if Greyworm was going to let Jon get near Dany with his weapons, and he did

- Bran knowing he's eventually going to be king and letting everyone get slaughtered before it happens: Littlefinger was right. "Chaos is a ladder" and all that.

Ya I woke up this morning remembering Cat saying "Bran. You're always climbing. You mustn't climb."

Oh I thought this season was generally as good as Seasons 5-7 though I do wish they'd aimed for a more effervescent finish, ten hour-long episodes etc., my issues were seasons 7/8 were more with pacing than plotting

Somebody complained upthread that the initial Schindler's List scenes were overlong but actually I thought they were super-beautiful and a nice contrast to the confusion and violence of the previous episode, made it really clear what had happened and what people thought about it

Also, I called it, or called something anyway:

(I wouldn't go so far as to say "and then Samwell invented democracy" but there might be some kind of "rule by the small council" situation).

it was kind of funny that in the end no one gave a fuck about Jon's parentage. Like nobody said, "Oh hey, Jon's next in line to the throne, isn't he?"

which is weird because that's the series' biggest split from the books

Yeah it is strange. It seemed to end up being just a plot device to drive him and Dany apart. Also ignored is Gendry's claim.

I do like the "we will henceforth make these decisions by vote" denouement but did think it strange that Bran was their final decision.

Again, my frustration with seers-in-fiction has me looking at Bran's face like "you are just as responsible for the destruction of KL, why can't people see this"

I really loved Brienne's scene with the book, we're out here complaining about Jamie's bullshit arc and she's like "nope he was the best, remember?"

It has also produced the best memes on Twitter, imho.

I like this, too:

Tyrion walks into a brothel with a honeycomb and a jackass.
Madame: What can we do for you?
Tyrion: I need a woman to lay with, for mine has left me.
Madame: Whatever for? And what's with the honeycomb and the mule?
Tyrion: My woman found a genie in a bottle, and he granted her three wishes. The first was for a house fit for a queen, so he gave her this damn honeycomb. The second wish was that she have the nicest ass in all the land, so he gave her this damn donkey...
Madame: And what about the third wish?
Tyrion: Well... she asked the genie to make my cock hang down past my knee.
Madame: Well that one's not so bad eh?
Tyrion: Not so bad!? I used to be six foot three!

Bronn being on the new small council is 100% fan service and I thank them for their deference to my wishes

so in the end was GoT just a cautionary tale about radical socialist women and how we need to have a rational patriarchy?

I think the lesson is that if you have an inscrutable magic seer, put them in charge, not the person flying the fire-breathing dragon.

Bran the Broken is kind of ableist

Maybe it's ironic, like calling a big guy Tiny.