Okay, so: Why didn’t Rhaenys just torch the royal family and the whole Green crew?[Laughs long and hard.] I know! The temptation is there, right? In the end, she makes a bigger choice. We see that at the moment with what’s going on in Ukraine; to choose not to destroy is the better choice. That’s an important thing for us all to remember right now.
[Laughs long and hard.] I know! The temptation is there, right? In the end, she makes a bigger choice. We see that at the moment with what’s going on in Ukraine; to choose not to destroy is the better choice. That’s an important thing for us all to remember right now.
it's true that i had not considered the ukraine angle
― Karl Malone, Monday, 17 October 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
what else would be responsible for rising gas prices in the riverlands?
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
I enjoyed the episode. The foot thing was def a “wtf - why couldn’t this just be incest” moment. I liked the ending - tho they were obviously milking the moment a little much. I was wondering - do they store their battle armour in a locker by their dragons?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 17 October 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
Saw half a dozen "Larys CK" joeks today and loled more than once
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
the argument of "i don't care about any of these characters" gets hand waved away as fatuous but the more damning problem here is that I don't care about this especially violent fairy tale or the grandiose stakes or this shows propensity for perversion and vivisection in lieu of thoughtful character development. as garbage watching goes, it's compelling for cheap thrills, melodrama and the best production values money can buy. but if literally everyone in the whole show were to die in the next episode, so what? they'll all be replaced by a full english breakfast of new niece-fucking actors or older BAFTA-winning actresses, likely all named aegyon and vanyra.Creator press pap like "to choose not to destroy is the better choice. That’s an important thing for us all to remember right now" would be laughable if it weren't blatantly offensive as an attempt to rhyme a real human rights violation with a pantomime where the "good guy" murders thousands of innocent bystanders with a fucking dinosaur. peak teevee used to be a bit more peak as i recall.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 04:53 (one year ago) link
- ignatius j. reilly
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 13:31 (one year ago) link
oh for the days when a man could safely talk shit about the incest dragon show without being accused of middlebrow snobbery
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
last episode leaked btw
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 22 October 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
i can wait!
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Saturday, 22 October 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
― barry sito (gyac), Saturday, 22 October 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
i'll refrain from spoiling but it's quite a bit more of the same.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 23 October 2022 07:29 (one year ago) link
sounds good
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Sunday, 23 October 2022 12:21 (one year ago) link
now excuse me while i spend what little time I have on this earth harrumphing and “coxcomb!”-ing through a show i dislike
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Sunday, 23 October 2022 12:29 (one year ago) link
Mr Belvedere?
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 23 October 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
harrumph
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Sunday, 23 October 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
streaks on the china never mattered before who cares?
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 23 October 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
Jace and Luke bringing strong Ari and Uzi vibes in this new one
https://media.guestofaguest.com/t_article_content/gofg-media/2017/10/1/49766/lxyphjgl.jpg
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 24 October 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
one thing I don't totally buy...I feel like Alicent knows her kids totally suck. I feel like she'd be like "yeah sure, no, you be queen, my kids are terrible."
― dan selzer, Monday, 24 October 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
i'm still betting on a peace deal in this show, probably in season 2, episode 2, "let bygones be bygones"
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 October 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
After being pretty lukewarm on this all season, I thought the finale paid off well. Did in fact make me want to see the next season. Especially the prospect of dragon warfare.
On Alicent's kids my question is just, why are they such terrible kids? Their parents weren't psychopaths or anything, it's just kind of stipulated that they both turned out as assholes.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 24 October 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
A big part of it is that they are the long awaited male heirs of Viserys, but then they have to always defer to Rhaenyra and her bastard children. On top of that, Aegon just seems to have been born fairly worthless, and Aemond has a chip on his shoulder for being bullied when he didn't have a dragon and for being parted from his eye once he stole a dragon for himself.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 24 October 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
it's implied that aegon neglected his children with alicent and favored his grandchildren with rhaenyra. and alicent spent decades convincing them that rhaenyra would murder them if she ever became queen.
helaena seems like a sweet girl, tho
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 24 October 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
*viserys neglected his children with alicent, d'oh
also realizing that my post implies even greater incest than was already happening haha. need some coffee
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 24 October 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
did the show ever explain who Erryk and Arryk are? I haven't been able to figure out why we are supposed to see them as important in this thing.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 24 October 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
It's such a nice detail how Rhaenys never once bows to Rhaenyra. No one questions her on it, either, there's a silent understanding that giving her shit for it would be unfair and disrespectful. All conveyed subtly, no dialogue, just with Eve Best giving that little smirk of hers pic.twitter.com/NOta4SyMZ1— Nix 🇺🇦 (@SnowyNix) October 22, 2022
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 24 October 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
*how much bigger
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 24 October 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
Helaena is cool btw, she’s clearly a prophetic dreamer like Viserys.That ending shot was great, really enjoy Emma D’Arcy.
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 24 October 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
yes, but I'm under the impression that they are supposed to be very important characters and the reason for that is not particularly clear so far
xp
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 24 October 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
yes, but I'm under the impression that they are supposed to be _very important characters_ and the reason for that is not particularly clear so farxp
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 24 October 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
erryk defected to rhaenyra, arryk stayed with aegon.
feel like they serve a thematic purpose to illustrate the silliness of the power struggle - the two sides of the conflict are so similar that literal identical twins wind up on opposite sides!
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 24 October 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
erryk was aegon's personal protector and grew so disgusted with the idea of him becoming king that he defected. arryk was all like "is rhaenyra that much better?" and "we swore an oath!"
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 24 October 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
that, and there's a chance they're going to sleep with each other
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 October 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
And now
A century before @GameofThrones, there was Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire, Egg.Executive produced by George R. R. Martin, Ira Parker, Ryan Condal, and Vince Gerardis, A Knight of the #SevenKingdoms: The Hedge Knight has received a straight to series order. #StreamOnMax pic.twitter.com/MRPUke5Upt— HBO Max (@hbomax) April 12, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
FINISH THE FUCKING BOOKS imho
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 19:31 (one year ago) link
not gonna happen
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 19:33 (one year ago) link
Oh dan m, such a sweet and simple naive faith you have
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 19:36 (one year ago) link
point: cool, maybe
counterpoint: this is approaching marvelesque levels of oversaturation
contrapunto: the bonfire of nerd rage is stoked for another decade, yaaay
― bloompsadaisy (cat), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link
I'm no sweet summer child, that's for sure xp
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 20:20 (one year ago) link
Oh ye of little faith. He said just last week that he's 75% done with Winds of Winter so I'm sure it'll be just a few short years until we finally get to see it.
― groovypanda, Thursday, 13 April 2023 05:50 (one year ago) link
it's like elaborate performance art, makin us all ~~~really think~~~ about our need for definitive endings in fiction, and our desire to impose them on real lyfe as well, the decades-long build up of a narrative itch that will never be scratched by its happilyeverafter
― bloompsadaisy (cat), Thursday, 13 April 2023 11:44 (one year ago) link
They should adapt "Shovel Knight" next.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 April 2023 11:46 (one year ago) link
I predicted next year, 2024. for the new book awhile back, but I've given up hope on that front.
gap between #2 and #3 was 1 yeargap between #3 and #4 was 5 yearsgap between #4 and #5 was 9 years
so I predicted 13 years for the next gap... putting us at 2011 + 13 = 2024
but if he's publicly stating 75% done, well, so not gonna happen
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 13 April 2023 14:27 (one year ago) link
"75% done" does not mean that the remaining 25% will take the amount of time that is implied by the previous 75%.
I was 75% done writing a novel in 1993. You know what? It's still 75% done.
― doja catharsis (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 13 April 2023 14:38 (one year ago) link
oh exactly, that’s why I’ve given up on 2024
honestly I don’t think we’ll ever see it. but as long as we don’t end up with Brandon Sanderson being dragged in to finish it…..
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 13 April 2023 15:54 (one year ago) link
Funny that this is from a film released in 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwa6xgIZCv8
― omar little, Thursday, 13 April 2023 16:17 (one year ago) link
If we get to 2026, the gap between #5 and #6 will be more than the gap between #1 and #5 xpsBut yeah, if it ever turns up great, if it doesn't, well I guess most people are past caring nowWhat are the other big series that are also stuck in limbo?Gentleman Bastards and Kingkiller Chronicles spring to mind (last instalments on both of those also 2011) - any others?
― groovypanda, Thursday, 13 April 2023 21:57 (one year ago) link
Annnd here we go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ8H5gqGA34
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 December 2023 20:59 (five months ago) link