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

And I was generally a bit underwhelmed by this episode because more big stuff seems imminent than the final episode will probably be able to handle. If all that happens is Cersei and Stannis dying, I'll be quite disappointed, because the cast really hyped up the final episode.

I forgotten about him killing the teacher but I remembered he was a horrible bastard...

You didn't forget. The nerdlink posted upthread is jumping to conclusions. Ser Meryn led the group of guards we last saw Syrio Forel fighting. We don't know what happened after that. Syrio is presumed dead, and probably is, but for all we know he's Jaqen.

Yeah, I just seen that theory on the Thronecast show tonight.

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― DJP, Monday, June 8, 2015 5:53 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like it wldve been worth considering tho

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the fighting pit!

a mad dog kept barely in check

Oh reviewerpaws. Dude's just an empty vessel through which others (Joffrey, the writers) manifest cruelty, not even a one-dimensional character like Ramsay.

Syrio is presumed dead, and probably is, but for all we know he's Jaqen.

NOOOOOO don't tell me you're one of those!!! :(

syrio is dead as heck

How apt that Dany cuts and runs when the going gets bad.

xp Yes but pretty sure in both books and show, Arya (and hence our viewpoint) runs away from the fight without knowing whether Syrio was killed or not.

Just finished this episode.

Kind of expected either Tyrion, Jorah or that beard guy to get killed by a random spear while they were watching daenerys fly away on her dragon drogon

I expected them to get during touching moment when Dany touches the dragon's cheek.

NOOOOOO don't tell me you're one of those!!! :(

― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Monday, June 8, 2015

lol no i am not. I just value precision enough to get my hackles up at "Her Braavosi sword instructor, the great Sirio Forel, saved her life then, but died at Trant’s hand." tolerate a little ambiguity, nerd. also learn to spell Syrio.

Kind of expected either Tyrion, Jorah or that beard guy to get killed by a random spear while they were watching daenerys fly away on her dragon drogon

that beard guy was killed by getting knifed though? unless you mean someone else?

Are there other giants? Where do the giants hang out?

In a show with hit-and-miss FX, the stuff they do to integrate the giant with the rest of the cast is really impressive.

This show's FX hit rate is higher than any other ever.

I think there's only one giant left now. Let's get to the real questions tho like its toilet requirements. Maybe he can lob it over the wall.

yeah I think the giant's depressed cos all his friends are dead

there was only two or three before, right? maybe he feels free from having to always spend time with them

Holy fuck. Had no idea this was happening and imagine it will be an absolute car crash:

http://www.mtv.com/news/2125668/shannara-characters-roundup/

just watched ep9 last night. i know it's just tv and who cares about special effects but looooooool at the dragon flying scene. that was terrible

"Syrio is presumed dead, and probably is, but for all we know he's Jaqen."

i watch this show but clearly not closely enough because I have no idea what this sentence means.

that beard guy was killed by getting knifed though? unless you mean someone else?

I meant the guy who was played by a different actor a couple of seasons back, whose name is completely escaping my mind

you mean Dario

"Syrio is presumed dead, and probably is, but for all we know he's Jaqen."

i watch this show but clearly not closely enough because I have no idea what this sentence means.

something to do w/ Aphex Twin i think

yes yes I got sucked in by the couple of "Stannis not being a complete cunt" scenes & i guess hadn't banked on him burning his own daughter, feel free to point and laugh :(

poor shereen
i was not prepared for that

ok I know the unsullied are more yr en masse fighting unit etc but when someone says PROTECT YR QUEEN maybe more than 3 surround her ffs?

i thought the dragon stuff was p dope, idgaf abt the effects as much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFbp1CzVW6U

Honestly, I'm not completely sure why everyone thinks this scene looks "terrible". Maybe it's because that shot of her face as she flies away has that green screen backdrop feel by default but besides that I'm not sure anything about this is objectively that badly done. I give this scene a score of "got away with it".

http://csm.info.pl/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/aphex-twin-mask-370x215.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/a2ObDsh.png

lollll

xxp it's perfectly fine, ppl just have no capacity for wonder in this jaded age smdh

i admit that i just have a problem with flying dragons. the 'daenerys rides the dragon' moment has been obvious ever since people started calling her Mother of Dragons, and i've been dreading it ever since. there's something just unspeakably cheesy about it. but that's just me. but beyond that, there's also her terrible acting. i thought it was getting a little better over the last year but now we're back to square one.

someone has betrayed you!
*makes the daenerys face*
your army has conquered a city!
*makes the daenerys face*
you're riding a dragon and it's amazing!
*makes the daenerys face*
you realized you forgot to report a substantial amount of income on your taxes! you might be in trouble!
*makes the daenerys face*

ive always thought emilia clarke basically been good - & i ride w the targaryens 4 lyfe despite the quagmire of her current storyline - but she hasn't been like, forceful since season 3 and the first few episodes of season 4. the scene w/ tyrion in "hardhome" was her first really rich scene this season and ppl could argue that stemmed more from the dialogue itself than how emilia clarke was reciting it

someone has betrayed you!
*makes the daenerys face*
your army has conquered a city!
*makes the daenerys face*
you're riding a dragon and it's amazing!
*makes the daenerys face*
you realized you forgot to report a substantial amount of income on your taxes! you might be in trouble!
*makes the daenerys face*

brb, setting this to a house beat

Perhaps maybe her face seems to be so distinctive and same-y because of her distracting cartoony eyebrow work.

xpost
these are also things that paul yells during the outro of hey jude

danerys flying the dragon reminded me of harry potter quidditching or w/e

I think the usage of cgi is probably only going to increase as the show goes on, so it might have these difficulties more often.

perhaps the actress playing daenerys will be replaced by cgi
and a house beat

Unless dragons and white walkers die off unexpectedly soon

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Emilia Clarke has always been terrible, and the dragon riding scene was the cherry on top of a turd cake.

The green screen with Tyrion watching her fly away was lolzy too.

what if she was nude all the time? just spitballin

I was wondering about the row of spikes on the dragon's back where she ended up sitting. Maybe in juveniles they're soft and bendy.

yeah was thinking like an iguana

Yah those spikes iddn't look great

I wonder if Armin Van Buuren is pissed off that the week he releases his banging remix of the theme tune is the week they burn a kid alive.

it does maybe feel like the writers are thinking "how can we top the shock of the red wedding" and Sansa / Shareen is what we got

i thought my good old friend The Maester's criticism was on point:

What bothers me about the scene is that it’s based on a character acting in a way that’s counter to how he’s been depicted all series. Stannis has been depicted as one of the greatest generals in the realm. He held the Storm’s End against a one-year siege by eating rats. So if the device that gets Stannis to the place where he’s desperate enough to burn his only daughter and heir alive2 is (1) some snow and (2) a sudden and convenient ineptitude at doing war stuff, that feels off to me. Stannis, “the greatest military commander in Westeros” per Davos, is in enemy territory, on the march toward a belligerent castle, and for some reason (i.e., to make this scene happen) he doesn’t have scouts out or watchmen guarding the camp or have his army — made up largely of professional mercenaries who themselves should know better — in the state of alertness necessary in a war. Also: Ramsay is now a ninja. I don’t buy it.

i just watched How to Train Your Dragon 2 two days ago (which sucks btw) and the dragon riding in that was more believable.

let's put our worst actor on top of a CGI dragon called drogon, what's the worst that could happen

They annoy a few ppl who like to complain about the trickiest CGI shots on TV - that is the worst that has happened.

stannis have watchmen they were mentioned in the episode even, they failed due to im guessing low morale, and snow aka winter weather has decided a lot of wars like for instance the second world war, and all the greatest military commanders in history have eventually lost usually due to overreach which is what stannis is currently doing as has been amply explained and dempstrated, the maester is subscribing to an overly deterministic world view, wldve prob called napoleons defeat in russia unrealistic