xp - Euron and Davros were the heroes of this episode. It seems odd to me to cringe at his crass challenge of Jamie, and Tyrion's line, in the context of an episode that was heavy on the "let me describe in graphic detail ways in which we were prepared to torture you to death" speeches.
― sarahell, Monday, 31 July 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
also lol at Sam's modern explanation of how he solved a problem by reading the manual and following the instructions.
"give me ten good men and I'll impregnate the bitch" is a pretty strange saying
― Number None, Monday, 31 July 2017 22:25 (six years ago) link
sure, but I prefer strange sayings to things like Littlefinger giving Sansa a lecture about how she needs to see everything all at once, and then, wow what a coincidence, Bran shows up at the door!
― sarahell, Monday, 31 July 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
felt like that juxtaposition was intentional? like littlefinger doesn't really see anything at once - he's just a creepy pos w/ a weird crush on a girl who he sold to a violent rapist and he thinks he's really wise. bran otoh can actually see everything and what that looks like is not being some smarmy shit but being psychologically fractured and alienated. neither are good models for sansa who this week reminded me so much of a stark - not the stark black sheep (who has dreams of becoming a pretty princess) but that kind of cold, pragmatic, black & white starkness but w/ a more earned wisdom than her naive father.
― Mordy, Monday, 31 July 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
earlier, we were discussing the quality of actors and one that was mentionned that I think is doing a very fine job is Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
nothing can save Clarke and Turner.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 31 July 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kRougHi.jpg
ACTING
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 31 July 2017 22:42 (six years ago) link
I can't really tell with Coster-Waldau anymore. Jamie's character has been totally pointless since they decided to turn him into a rapist (and generally pathetic loser) for no apparent reason
he might actually have the best story arc in the books too
― Number None, Monday, 31 July 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
oh ffs still with the rapist thing? he's not. he is boring though, bc like almost everyone now he has no personal objective that sets him in any interesting opposition to anyone else we (or even better he) care/s about.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 31 July 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link
Y'all are weird. I find Jamie very intersting!
― sarahell, Monday, 31 July 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
seems 2 me they're setting jaime up to be a good guy
― 龜, Monday, 31 July 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
yeah, he's just had a longer, slower character development ... he's definitely going to do something important, but it isn't obvious yet, as opposed to most of the other characters on the show.
― sarahell, Monday, 31 July 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
maybe he pulls a Theon, and instead of doing "the right thing," he avoids it -- but it's just weird the way that some of you complain both about things being too obvious and being too boring (i.e. subtle).
― sarahell, Monday, 31 July 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
Lena Headey was great this episode
― nomar, Monday, 31 July 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
yeah, he's just had a longer, slower character development ... he's definitely going to do something important, but it isn't obvious yet, as opposed to most of the other characters on the show.― sarahell, Monday, July 31, 2017 11:27 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sarahell, Monday, July 31, 2017 11:27 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
gonna add 'queenslayer' to his list of informal titles, imo
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 31 July 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
to avoid confusion, will have to space it out from 'queenlayer' on his resume
― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 31 July 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link
if Jamie kills her, it will be too much like a movie that already exists
― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 31 July 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link
― sarahell, Monday, July 31, 2017
he used to be! just needs to get an agenda and arc of his own again.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 31 July 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
Yeah, narrative symmetry pretty obviously calls for Jaime to kill Cersei after she goes full-on Mad Queen
― Dan I., Tuesday, 1 August 2017 00:16 (six years ago) link
But it's game of thrones so maybe they'll try to invert that expectation?
― Dan I., Tuesday, 1 August 2017 00:17 (six years ago) link
I can't complain about Jamie, everything makes sense right now.
Good recovery from last week's episode. Liked Tyrion saying "I'd never do that... to you"
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link
Hoping for an episode to focus on how dragonglass is mined, the obtaining of workers skilled in the extraction industry, and the prospect of a miner's strike!
― sarahell, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link
when did bran turn into april's creepy friend orin from parks & rec?
https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/parksandrecreation/images/1/16/Orin.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111127213442
― Many men scream death (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 02:45 (six years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, July 31, 2017 7:16 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my guess would be more along the lines of a situation where he allows eg arya to kill her
― gbx, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 03:33 (six years ago) link
I get the sense that Indira Varma might actually be the most badly-used actor in the series but it's difficult to tell seeing as literally everything about her character and the way it's been written/directed has been entirely one-note and terrible. Superb last scene for her though, mostly down to Cersei, but what was the point of the whole Dorne plotline if that's the end of it? Either that or the showrunners finally admitted it was a turkey and did the decent thing.
The show's treatment of its non-white characters in general has been woeful, not necessarily their fates or whatever but just the sheer laziness at not bothering to give them more than one dimension. The actors playing Missandei and Grey Worm are probably better than the material allows as well.
More generally there's something faintly silly about the way in which the show has been ripping through its deadwood characters. The beginning of this season and the end of the last have been like Transformers The Movie or some shit. At least Diana Rigg got a good send-off (and the fact that the Lannisters now control the food supply, with Winterfell running out, is going to be significant).
All of which sounds like I didn't enjoy that episode but I really did, but then I've always viewed it as being hugely entertaining schlocky bollocks and don't really care whether it mirrors the author's vision or whatever.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 08:45 (six years ago) link
Superb last scene for her though, mostly down to Cersei, but what was the point of the whole Dorne plotline if that's the end of it? Either that or the showrunners finally admitted it was a turkey and did the decent thing.
why would that be the end of it? even during the scene i thought it was incredibly silly of cersei to assume that not killing her enemy would mean eternal imprisonment, in a world with a diff king/queen every five minutes.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 09:55 (six years ago) link
Missandei is a Hollyoaks alum. I think this is her level
― Number None, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 10:24 (six years ago) link
she never seemed too bad until the announcement stuff, prob can blame the script.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 10:54 (six years ago) link
I wish her and Dany had different accents. French would be good.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 10:59 (six years ago) link
she is also real bad in the fast and furious movies fwiw
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 11:06 (six years ago) link
I don't think the Dornish women are going yet.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 11:18 (six years ago) link
Haha Davos asking Missandei what her exotic accent is like she doesn't talk in the same English RP as half of the cast
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 11:43 (six years ago) link
all of that stuff was so terrible. i mean i get it's just jolly scene setting and i can forgive it but still so cringey.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 12:36 (six years ago) link
it's like they spent five mins answering the question "what might the onion knight say to missandei, if they found themselves having some small talk"
lol @ Orin
― kinder, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:07 (six years ago) link
so much of this is now "My name is ____ and here is what happened to me in the last 6 seasons. I am in character and talking to someone I haven't met or barely know so I get to talk about things I've talked about before with different people."
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link
the rest of the series should be Jon running into the characters he hasn't shared the screen with yet and trying to tell them about the army of the dead. Then everyone dies.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:16 (six years ago) link
Matt DC - don't worry the authors original vision is pretty schlocky too
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
I liked the JRPG busywork bit where Jon is advised to have conversations with the townsfolk to find out more about Dany or whatever
Then subsequent teasing of a mission where Dany must ride out on a dragon and destroy 8/8 enemy boats
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:42 (six years ago) link
I'm looking forward to all the Stark kids being together, saying "isn't is really unlikely we would all have survived? It's odd, right?".
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 14:02 (six years ago) link
Sansa forgot about Bran and he was left by the tree all night. A knackered beyond repair Meera pretended not to hear his distant pleas for assistance.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
bran is basically the only guy in the world that's online
― ogmor, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
Jon in some city in the south holding a cardboard sign:
THE END IS NIGH-T KING ATTACKING!
― Evan, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
sgt biscuit otm
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
I know this has been covered but what's the difference between Wights and White Walkers again?
― kinder, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
the wights are the zombies, the white walkers are the evil blue dudes
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
oh hang on http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Wightsso Wights are zombie pawns and White Walkers are their magic bosses
xp thanks!
― kinder, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
Superb last scene for her though, mostly down to Cersei, but what was the point of the whole Dorne plotline if that's the end of it? Either that or the showrunners finally admitted it was a turkey and did the decent thing.why would that be the end of it? even during the scene i thought it was incredibly silly of cersei to assume that not killing her enemy would mean eternal imprisonment, in a world with a diff king/queen every five minutes.― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, August 1, 2017 10:55 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, August 1, 2017 10:55 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Robin will come and save her in the knick of time or she'll use her bat-chain puller or something.
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
imo talking to everyone in town is like a JRPG, but destroying 8/8 enemy boats is more like a western RPG. maybe the writers were trying to symbolize the meeting of essos and westeros in the show
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
The dialogue is so lazy now in this last episode; the characters kept using anachronistic phrases (the last I remember was "failure of imagination") that made it seem like the writers aren't putting much effort anymore.
― Leee Media Naranja (Leee), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link