HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones - will this be just for nerds? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

so - the more i look at that gif upthread from a few days ago – the more it looks like there's a dragon off in the distance.

― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall)

Nah. Watched that scene again last night on big TV and it's just shadows on the smoke

the dragons you don't see are the scariest

Upon rewatching I wondered if Jon, Tormund and friends constantly had their eyes on the boats in case they were all taken before they could leave.
Wondered why people were punching each other when the dead started attacking. It didn't look like they were just trying to get past each other. Maybe some were trying to restrain others from going towards the wights?

Punching each other? When was this?

when they were arguing about whether or not a scrap of tarp was actually an ice dragon

When the wights started attacking and most were leaving in boats, Jon and that wildling woman had to hit aggressors to get up towards the gate. Not clear why they were fighting. I guess either they wanted everyone to leave quickly as possible or they were wildlings who were against what Jon and co were doing generally that day.

I think they were just trying to go upstream in a frantic crowd of wildlings that were desperate to get on the boats.

BTW they were also fighting wights that had already made it past the gate.

prob just punching while the punchings good

jeez stannis not cool

https://threeheadedblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/falcor.jpg

maybe the worst episode of the series?

q to people who know westeros medicine - is jorah giving everyone greyscale?

I'm pretty sure you have to touch the infection directly.

welp that broke the episode 9 streak pretty definitively

i don't like Stannis anymore.

Not really clear on what the fire "tells" him as a result of the sacrifice...

"Show us the way"

So either they're trying to get the god of fire to say "thataway" in a literal sense, or otherwise somehow except it to show them how to win?

"OK thanks for the child sacrifice. yeesh... anyway, so what you do is take 500 men to flank up north. Then, fire some arrows over the southern ridge, cause... (etc)"

Or does it just give a vague magic 8 ball answer to their vague question? Would it just show an image of Stannis sitting in Winterfell giving the thumbs up?

i don't think it was meant to show them anything. it's a sacrifice sacrafice, that's meant to assure him victory or kill his enemies through a really bad flu or a falling satellite or something like that.

are you not entertained

brutal but gr8 episode imo

then again I've been in the tank for most of this season aside from episode 6 bc I do not pick the nits

xps upthread yes you need to be in direct physical contact with active greyscale (stannis can touch shireen's face bc her infection is gone, only disfigurement remains

I guess I'm just going by the previous "visions in the fire" stuff. Figured it worked the same here.

Xposts

the idea is that it would both provoke a precise vision and also influence the outcome. like think of it as the equivalent to juicing in sports

while also reading the opposing team's playbook and getting live advice from a genius ex-coach

respect stannis for going for the gold

at this point I know nothing - they're entirely off-book w his plotline so the following is CATEGORICALLY NOT a spoiler - but calling it now shit is gonna end real bad for stannis

that ep was p fn dire all around

i hope stannis is successful that wld really be the darkest possible turn the show cld take

never ending story otm
this one kinda sucked.
incidentally, the whole badassery of the unsullied has been pretty much completely undone by general plot pushing. These guys suck as bodyguards

they were never billed as being individually brilliant to a man the whole idea is that they're excellent as giant groups in infantry combat, they have said that from jump

some like grey worm are pretty solid in single combat but many are not bc they're used to being part of a unit, and folks seem to be getting very literalist about their whole style idgi

point being, an ambush is not really where soldiers who function best as a large collective siege weapon is going to shine and that is basically the whole idea! like it was in the alley

*are going

This one got me

u crazy for this one, stannis

i mean, it's as classic as classic gets, but iirc things didn't work out great for agamemnon

i hate dorne

this episode was laughably bad. what has actually happened this season? p much nothing and even the massive ep last week was just the white walkers doing something.

the dragon riding looked awful and was just cheesy generally. and yeah, dorne is just a farce, did they really have to do all that just so the prince of dorne goes to westeros?

most storylines are just going around in circles, like just as arya is about to do something she ends up in one eyed-jack's, daenarys is still just dealing with the same shit of how to rule, over and over again. stannis is stuck where he is so onion knight has to go back to castle black to ask for another episode's worth of an alliance with the knight's watch. presumably that'll happen so they get to actually have something happen in the finale.

worst season so far by a long way.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2015/06/08/game-of-thrones-season-5-episode-9-review-the-dance-of-dragons/

this review is absolutely hilarious - from the amazing opening punchline all the way through.

Lol at that review "You guys ruined Stannis for me!"

Maybe Stannis can go on a quest with some misfit and we'll forgive the child murder like with the King Slayer

...who returned to King's Landing only to rape his sister-lover in front of the cold corpse of his nephew-son...

So do we really think Jorah gave Daenerys a House In Valyria?

Lol at that review "You guys ruined Stannis for me!"

it's the way they keep going back to it over and over. it reads like an onion opinion piece entitled "I will never accept the sacrifice of Stannis's daughter".

I’m getting angrier as I write. It’s a thoroughly cruel and stupid decision on the part of Weiss and Benioff. The worst they’ve made in the entire show’s run. If I were more prone to rage-quitting, I might rage quit now and be done with this nonsense. As it stands, well, I still enjoy the show quite a lot. I still like what they’ve done, changes and all, even if I hate this change.

And besides, I’m a critic first and foremost and a fan second in this role. As a fan, I will swallow this bitter pill and move forward. As a critic I can do little more than shake my head at the utter horror not just of this scene, but of the showrunners’ decision. What a joke.

time to move on. or is it...

Perhaps his death will be one of the few happy things we get this season, which has become so utterly bleak thanks to the stupid, stupid decision of the show’s writers to have Stannis kill his own daughter.

Granted, Stannis killed his own brother, but he had no real fondness or love for his siblings. The only place his cold exterior ever chipped and melted was in the presence of his daughter, and he let the Red Priestess kill her. But I digress.

later

I kind of like this change, minus a few quibbles with the whole lack of basic security measures thing. It’s certainly a better change than Shireen being murdered by her father at the stake

What did you think of the episode? Am I overreacting to Shireen’s death?

i mean i get that it was a horrible scene but the fact was this episode was too shit for it to have the impact it deserved.

jesus fucking christ Game of Thrones this might have been .... too much.

charge it to the game

ya this ep was unflaggingly brutal maybe they r just gonna punish us the rest of the way, we are bad we like dragons and deserve to suffer

not sure where the rest of the season is headed, also thought this was a bummer ep, but wasn't surprised by the daughter sacrifice. i actually thought that scene was well done, given that it seems they could have gone deeper into the image. people getting sad over stannis is pretty funny, remember how he chopped davos' fingers off? and sired a demon that murdered his own bro? cmon dudes

yeh stannis was introduced as a madman in thrall to some kind of bloodthirsty god, i suppose the fact his god is real and has effects has made that seem like less of a negative thing but it's still been there

stannis is good stannis is very old testament