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― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 April 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
Jaime, OTOH, was going through a redemption of sorts due to the revelation of extra information about the circumstances behind his murder of Aerys and his journey with Brienne; anti-heroes and reformed scoundrels aren't supposed to rape their sisters, that's a fundamental violation of American storytelling rules.
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Monday, 28 April 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
Most of that outcry was a "how dare you make me like this rapist" reaction IMO as opposed to people actually objecting to the seeming escalation of the depiction of rape on this show.
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Monday, 28 April 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link
I super-disagree with that, maybe it's just the (tumblr) circles I travel in but the reaction I saw were "this is the worst of an increasingly disturbing number of decisions to depict gratuitous violence against women."
― reddening, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
I am talking more about my perception of the mainstream reaction to that scene than anything else.
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Monday, 28 April 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
i was pretty taken aback by the white walker ritual stuff i guess from the books i never would have assumed they had a culture/society/religion or anything, basically i read them as high functioning zombies basically
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 April 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
It's fairly well-established in the books that while the wights are the (high-functioning) zombies, the actual Others/WWs themselves are culturally distinct (think of the circle of innards they make in the prologue -- don't remember if that happened in the books or the show only).
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Monday, 28 April 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
felt like whole baby sequence was trolling
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 April 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
especially at the very end when the babys eyse went blue and it turned toward the camera like LOL OWNED
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 April 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
I guess maybe the idea is that we were expecting the white walkers to be motivated by kind of ghostly evil compulsions, rather than just some sort of evil race with a culture/home.
― Evan, Monday, 28 April 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
Wasn't that the EXACT white walker
Presumably all the younger ones are Craster's sons. There might be a family resemblance.
― Congratulations! And my condolences. (Sanpaku), Monday, 28 April 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
motivated by kind of ghostly evil compulsions
no other motivation really makes sense imo
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 April 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
can we get some kind of arnold-as-mr. freeze/white walker mash up somehow?
― ian, Monday, 28 April 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
the white walkers turn out to be actually the good guys?
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 April 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
They understand the threat that climate change poses to the planet.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Monday, 28 April 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
i am ze vite valker ... remember ze name for it iz ze chillink sount of your dooooooom
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 April 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
+1 for getting sick of all the gratuitous rapeyness. We get it. Move it to off-camera.
― schwantz, Monday, 28 April 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, April 28, 2014 6:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
think the trailer for Damon Lindelof's new show before the episode was key to the direction GoT wants to go with this mythology shit
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 28 April 2014 20:04 (ten years ago) link
sure fuckin hope not, that thing looks ridiculous
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 April 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link
So is the baby gonna stay a baby or is it gonna grow
If white walkers can grow then why don't the horses just grow a new face
― 龜, Monday, 28 April 2014 23:36 (ten years ago) link
Wizard (named Sam).
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Monday, 28 April 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
Er... Because the horses are not white walkers. Xpost
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 28 April 2014 23:38 (ten years ago) link
Yah... they're white gallopers!!
― 龜, Monday, 28 April 2014 23:38 (ten years ago) link
the horses choose not to?
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 April 2014 23:39 (ten years ago) link
The horses are wights. They died and the white walkers are able to bring them back. I think.
― mizzell, Monday, 28 April 2014 23:43 (ten years ago) link
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:10 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
I think I totally missed this part in the books
― 龜, Monday, 28 April 2014 23:45 (ten years ago) link
It's entirely possible I'm mixing up the show and the books, tbh.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Monday, 28 April 2014 23:55 (ten years ago) link
No reason to have an entire episode of setup for every story, followed by a peak for every story, then setups, on and on. It's plagued the series since the beginning; give a payoff to one or two of the many story lines each week while setting up the others. It's really not hard.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, April 28, 2014 12:27 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ugh, it's like an accepted thing now esp in Critically Acclaimed Hour-long Dramas that an episode is either allowed to be setup or payoff. like 80% of the episode reviews on the avclub include the line "this was a transitional episode, but..."
part of it is lazy viewership most of it is these shows/media/promotional material training us to only give a shit about different-colored weddings
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 01:56 (ten years ago) link
i think there was an entire season worth of breaking bad episodes that were described as "transitional"
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 01:57 (ten years ago) link
are there gonna be more different colored weddings tho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link
brown wedding
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 02:12 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAZQaYKZMTI
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 02:13 (ten years ago) link
https://p.gr-assets.com/75x/scale/books/1348793736/5994288.jpg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 03:00 (ten years ago) link
Man, the Tyrrells are good. When it comes to scheming and machinations everyone else in this is an amateur by comparison, no one even suspects them of anything. Maybe the Spider does, but he's slipping.
I don't understand/can't remember the motivations of anyone who mutinied beyond the wall or what they're intending to gain from this. Doesn't help that I glaze over the snow scenes when there aren't White Walkers around, because the only main characters are involved are John Snow and Sam and they are both terrible and boring.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 11:22 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah when did Ghost get caught
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 11:23 (ten years ago) link
I don't understand/can't remember the motivations of anyone who mutinied beyond the wall or what they're intending to gain from this.
They are all just stupid ruffians who were sick of being in the Night's Watch and wanted to do some drinking and raping for a bit.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 11:29 (ten years ago) link
I totally called the necklace thing last week! but then it looked like a red herring.
― kinder, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 12:07 (ten years ago) link
Those north of the wall ruffians are new, not in the books
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 12:29 (ten years ago) link
it would be cool if the show started diverging wildly from the books and turned into a totally different story
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 12:36 (ten years ago) link
like if you were martin wouldnt you want a second shot, everyone says the fourth and fifth books blow anyway
also itd be cool to freak out and confuse everyone who read the books
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 12:37 (ten years ago) link
newsflash art is whatever u want it to be nerds
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 12:38 (ten years ago) link
Is Tommen supposed to old enough to get someone knocked up yet?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
Tommen is supposed to be eight (and he was in s2 iirc). In the book he gets married to Margaery (who is 16) but it's supposed to be years before he's considered old enough to consumate his marriage.
Thankfully the show ignored all that and gave us the straight up paedo vibes!
― gyac, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 12:49 (ten years ago) link
i guess it is spoilery to talk about any story thread not being in the books because you know nothing of actual consequence can happen. and as a viewer that realization kind of balances out the fun of the novelty and leaves a net 'meh'. i will say that they did need to do something, the show has to care about regular screen time for all the major characters in a way that the books didn't. and the mutineers at crasters are not really new, they are just forgotten about as the story progresses elsewhere. i think repurposing an existing element is pretty smart, and by doing so they are clearly trying to keep a rein on the introduction of wholly new things.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 12:52 (ten years ago) link
*viewer who has read the books
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 12:53 (ten years ago) link
highlighting the paedo vibes of mediaeval-style political royal marriages is not necessarily inappropriate. i thought it was a well done scene.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 12:57 (ten years ago) link
except for the part the show itself and many of the viewers seem unaware of the creepiness of that scene.
― gyac, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 12:59 (ten years ago) link
he seems to be 12 or 13 in the show
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 13:00 (ten years ago) link
lagoon this isn't art this is nerd shit
But yeah I'm kind of hopeful that the show ppl can maybe correct some of the flaws of the last 2. I'd love to see the sequence recut to be chronological
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 13:00 (ten years ago) link