Like, the guy who sees the witch birth a demon ghost vagina assassin? He's still very distrustful of her, but I think if I had seen that I'd not only be slightly wary of crossing her but probably get on board with her agenda.
Hmm maybe I am a bit judgmental but I don't want to be on team witch shadowbaby ghost assassin.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
Nor would I! But I might change my mind were things like that to actually, you know, exist.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:33 (ten years ago) link
People can believe in stuff and still be against it. Just because these gods are proven to exist doesn't mean that everybody suddenly starts worshiping them. People might think that the interests of the gods do not align with their own, especially if the gods like human sacrifices.
― silverfish, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
I like max's post office analogy
― polyphonic, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
How is the demon ghost vagina assassin visually described in the book? Like was everyone picturing:
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly0hjeza891qc88cb.jpg
when they read the book?
― Evan, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
It's literally described as a shadow in the book.
― lego maniac cop (latebloomer), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
It's a shadow that looks like Stannis, not like a baby.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
It's a lot more surreal and creepy in the book but "inky cloud monster" was probably to easier to pull off visually.
― lego maniac cop (latebloomer), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
xpost No, Daenyrs is much further east now. She used to be in one of the west coast cities, Portland maybe. She went east with the the Dothrakhi (to Topeka). And now she's gone further south and east. Like she's in Tampa now, perhaps.
― If you tolerate Bis, then Kenickie will be next (ithappens), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
Where is King's Landing? Spain? England?
I loved how everyone was all "I don't know what I saw that night," but we're all like, yeah you do, it was an inky cloud monster. Where's the confusion?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
King's Landing is in Mumbai, basically
― DJP, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
If only the characters could hear the narrator!
― polyphonic, Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
But they were in the room with it when it happened! The other guy saw it birthed!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
At least no one is looking at the dragons and muttering "I don't know what I saw."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
I think there's just a comical lack of communication in Westeros.
"Why didn't you tell me you saw a ghost vagina demon assassin baby?!??!"
"You never asked!"
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
Onscreen they have to show it as a shadowy thing that you're supposed to be paying attention to, because there's no way to replicate the sensation of something that flickers in the corner of your eye but is hard to see when you look right at it, or whatever mystical invisibility qualities you can think of.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
Dragons are a major part of the spoken history of Westeros and shadow babies aren't. It's a thing that's been done once or maybe twice (maybe during Robert's Rebellion? I think?). Dragons flew around in the sky and rained fire on cities. A little easier to become a part of the universal consciousness.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
And yet the dragons are still mostly a curiosity when encountered, even though these little dudes can still do some damage
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
I grant you that people should be like "holy shit I saw a dragon" but we are also not privy to every utterance or thought of any of these characters.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
Dany's dragons are also still pretty small (all things considered; none of them are the size of the skulls piled up at King's Landing) and everyone's last memory of dragons as a going concern was as sickly housepets, so it's not too shocking/unexpected that many people who encounter Dany's would assume they aren't as powerful as they are
― DJP, Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
The dragons have only killed one dude in a public setting so far so it makes sense that until now they were just a curiosity to those who haven't read their history (aka almost everyone in Essos), but anyone who knows what a fully grown dragon is capable of either covets them or fears them.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
Who you gonna call?
http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/photo/07/large/07415.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
But they were in the room with it when it happened!
have you never in your life doubted your own senses? doubted someone else's? even living in a time when magic was thought possible i reckon people would find your protestations of "a ghost came in and did it, i saw him" pretty weak.
― ✌_✌ (c sharp major), Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
which they did.
― gyac, Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
or like... saw something shocking you had trouble recalling properly?
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 20 June 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
we're getting into tuomasian not-understanding-human-beings territory here
http://25.media.tumblr.com/1dc0f54cd60de7fae2cdefb586a13353/tumblr_moo2lcRro31qzmowao1_500.jpg
― kenjataimu (cozen), Thursday, 20 June 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
whoa, guess he just has two dubplates of him saying "hodor" over and over again?
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 20 June 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
no
― max, Thursday, 20 June 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
i think he plays regular records
The only thing more ridiculous than me not getting this is you guys pretending these (awesome!) cartoons follow any rules of real human behavior.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 June 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
*spoiler*
the entire game of thrones story takes place over an eighteen-hour period, and all of it is also mario's dream
http://i.imgur.com/eibDKlM.jpg
― Z S, Thursday, 20 June 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
Disappointed? Well GRRM doesn't OWE you anything!
― Evan, Thursday, 20 June 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
I apologize for talking to you
― polyphonic, Thursday, 20 June 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
all you people are silly.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 20 June 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
Think I'll go back to only posting links no one asked me to post
― polyphonic, Thursday, 20 June 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
please post all the links.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 20 June 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
Lol just met Roose Bolton
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Thursday, 20 June 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
Better sleep wi' one eye open
― Third Rate Zoo Keepers With Tenth Rate Minds (Windsor Davies), Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
man wears motherfuckers like a cloak
― Third Rate Zoo Keepers With Tenth Rate Minds (Windsor Davies), Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
Genial IRL.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
I wonder if he knows he is the subject of many "old man feels" on Tumblr. It's only a matter of time before they discover Fergus's Wedding.
― gyac, Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
Just spent a solid thirty minutes staring at maps of Westeros and Essos. I need help.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
Need directions?
― Evan, Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link
The khalasar did so much damage in the village of the lhazareen that instead of going like 30 miles south to Slaver's Bay, they instead walked thousands of miles through the red waste to get to Qarth, and then took a boat back to Slaver's Bay? Why not turn around and go to Matarys or Volantis?
Also why were they so far south in the first place. Weren't they originally going to Vaes Dothrak before Drogo got sick? I guess they had some pillaging to do but it seems like a lot of work for such a seemingly insignificant village.
I wonder what it is about the Smoking Sea that makes it smoking.
House Bolton lives in a place called Dreadfort and no one thought it was a bad idea to ally with them?
I wonder what the terrain is like west of the Shadow Tower.
Etc.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
Yeah Bolton's whole thing screams "villan" a little too much.
― Evan, Thursday, 20 June 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
I wonder what it is about the Smoking Sea that makes it smoking.volcanoes
― gyac, Thursday, 20 June 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link
started when it was a teenager; keeps trying to quit but somehow life always gets stressful at exactly that point
― ✌_✌ (c sharp major), Thursday, 20 June 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
― Evan, Thursday, 20 June 2013 23:00 (25 minutes ago) Permalink
that's just Roose being Roose
― lego maniac cop (latebloomer), Thursday, 20 June 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
ZS I think you mean it's all Daario's dream.
― Lynyrd Cohen (Leee), Friday, 21 June 2013 01:49 (ten years ago) link