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

I'm sure Jon told the Night's Watch guys that he was gonna go check if the Wights are really all gone brb

What’s the over/under on how many kids Sam and Gilly wind up with? I bet it’s gonna be in the teens.

I did enjoy that Jon talked to both his sisters before he got around to bowing for the King, who looked at him like a bug

I was impressed that even though I kept looking for the moment when Jon was going to kill Dany, being determined not to be surprised by the obvious thing that was definitely going to happen, it was exactly when I groaned at that stupid overwrought kiss that they decided to do it.

I had the same question about the nights watch and I think we're to assume that greyworm was ok with this because he just didn't fucking know who they were or what they were for, so he was like "yeah sure send him up there" and they were all snickering behind their hands knowing he'd just to hand out with his snow hippies.

just go hang out. goddamn I cannot type.

I got the impression the Night's Watch is now the keeper of harmony between the kingdoms and the people beyond the wall. For now, that'd mean helping the wildlings reestablish their home, right?

This show really went downhill for me after I learned that Benioff's dad was a Goldman Sachs chairman.

Arya is actually travelling to the new world to sell low grade mortgage backed securities backed by the Iron Bank

Arya taking all her genocide knowledge to an undiscovered continent

tyrion's "keeper of the story" speech very strange when apparently anyone with halfway decent calligraphy gets to edit westerospedia and sam dumps a tyrion-free galley proof on his lap.

dude that isn't westerospedia that's kingsguardopedia

you can all go see the new Joanna Hogg film now

Speaking of Joanna, I'd put Tyrion in the book for killing Joanna Lannister alone!

I'd watch a west of Westeros if it happened.

Dany with Drogon's wings spreading out behind her really was an all time geekout awesome shot I can't believe they'd never attempted it before (that I can recall?).

I liked this piece on the shift in storytelling style in the last couple seasons

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/#

dude that isn't westerospedia that's kingsguardopedia

you can all go see the new Joanna Hogg film now

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, May 20, 2019 2:13 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

man, i was choosing between that and high life on saturday and i picked high life like a dummy

Wait did Jamie scribble the "yo they call me kingslayer" bit himself?

ya right above where Brienne wrote FUCCBOI

Lotta people saying, hey, fuck this "he has a great story" shit, Arya has a more interesting story than Bran. But I mean Jon was not only a rightful heir, he was also brought back from the dead! That's a pretty good story.

Rightful heir doesn’t mean much unless you’ve got some force behind that.

Just saying. His whole back story is interesting enough that it comprised a significant part of the show. And ... he was brought back from the dead! Lol that he was such a boring character even being brought back from the dead does not put him on the top tier of interesting stories.

This whole shiw was about how force matters, except when it doesn't (ice zombies, dragons ...).

Wait did Jamie scribble the "yo they call me kingslayer" bit himself?

― Philip Nunez, Monday, May 20, 2019 3:02 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for the first couple decades Jaime was on the Kingsguard, Ser Barristan was the Lord Commander--he wrote the Kingslayer stuff

Character in book: The REAL king is the teller of stories. Even if sometimes he hasn't got time to finish telling his stories

Also, he's super hot, here is his number

Bran went to all that trouble to warg into Drogon, melt the iron throne and conveniently drop Dany in the sea, and then Jon just admitted he killed her. You'd be fumimg

Why aren't Westeros' new millennial leaders having children? Are boomers to blame?

too busy with their Dornish lemon toast

also I guess winter is going, now? I thought it was meant to last years

Along with the profound existential threat posed by the night king, the threat of the longest winter in memory turned out to be another dud. There was barely even any snow on the ground and thick green foliage on the trees in the background during the election scene

What was the point of the last Varys raven note writing scene(s) if it didn't do anything for the story?

xpost Maybe "winter is coming" was just a misreading of "Snow is coming." And then at the end of the show he leaves.

yeah there was a very obvious shot of a 'green shoot' poking through the snow beyond the wall iirc

xxp maybe Bran doesn't have warging-through-time powers after all, just warging into ravens to read the mail

warging peace

Along with the profound existential threat posed by the night king, the threat of the longest winter in memory turned out to be another dud. There was barely even any snow on the ground and thick green foliage on the trees in the background during the election scene

night king dead = no endless winter

pretty standard fantasy stuff tbh

I thought this was the second best episode of the season, after episode two. Some of it even made thematic sense. I could see the books building to Daenarys getting stabbed by Jon Snow, that she would be the last in the line of people like Ned Stark, Robb Stark, Jon Snow (who got better), who tried to lead and change and got killed for it. I still can't see her becoming an insane murderous tyrant, and it ruins everything. It's like the writers don't know the difference between Robespierre and Napoleon.

I had assumed that they were taking big jumps into the future, but the night king explanation makes sense. I guess.

It was dumb but I enjoyed it. I’d watch a pirate queen Arya spin-off.

"I'd watch a west of Westeros if it happened."

WestofWesterosWorld

I dont understand why everyone's mad because of Tyrions "Bran has the best story" thing. He didnt mean "Bran's story arc was awesome hes the best!" he meant he had *everyone in the words stories stored in his mind*.

Generally though, this was a bit of a load of auld bollox. Drogon burning the throne. Good god.

What should've happened:

Sailing west for some number of months, they see a statue on the horizon. As they near, they realize it's on an island, and the statue is a woman bearing a torch, and the name of that island: Ellis Island.

-CUT TO BLACK-

Trayce otm x2. This season was bad but also frequently misinterpreted in some very weird ways

As soon as the throne got melted it was pretty obvious that they'd have to choose a king with the vision to bring his own seat

haw!

I dont understand why everyone's mad because of Tyrions "Bran has the best story" thing. He didnt mean "Bran's story arc was awesome hes the best!" he meant he had *everyone in the words stories stored in his mind*.

i just thought it was unbelievably corny

On that I think we all agree.

When Jon and Tormun went back norf, I'd take Tuomas's caper one step further and say they shoulda been confronted in the forest by Benjen and Lady Stoneheart.