HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones - Thread 2. There are a lot of nerds.

pod person

Rachel Dratch cosplay.

I know what the ending is gonna be

Dany reaches Westeros, teams up w/Jon, Walkers are defeated. Dany realizes that she doesn't want to rule and the monarchy is dissolved, sowing the seeds of

of a democratic style of gov't.

CUT TO:

2000 years in the future. Kings Landing is a sci-fi megatropolis with flying cars and tall skyscrapers. Citizens ride hover boards and walk their pet dire wolves and miniature dragons on leashes down the street. Giant holographic billboards advertise over-the-counter grayscale medications and vacation cruises in the Summer Isles.

Two figures stand out: Littlefinger and Varys, now cyborgs, walking together and dryly musing on how dull things have become over the centuries. Suddenly a spaceship comes out of the sky and hovers over the Red Keep. Everyone waits with baited breath as the president of Westeros, Tyrion Jon Lannistark III, comes to greet the visitors. The doors to the ship open and out come five humanoids cloaked in mysterious black garments and helmets. The apparent leader walks up
to the president. "Greetings! My name is..." He pulls off his helmet. "...Benjen Stark. These are my companions Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Donatello and Raphael. We have come to make Sonic the Hedgehog pregnant with the help of Harry Potter. Hail Hydra!"

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The End

Littlefinger and Varys, now cyborgs, walking together and dryly musing on how dull things have become over the centuries.

is this a BSG reference

I'm disappointed you have to ask.

Wait when does my character show up you left out my character WHERE IS THOMAS HARDMAN

you're a shitty DM and you look stupid in that hat

here's some cognitive dissonance for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQsEzrLp1hQ

He's fantastic in the show!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtH2YSD7kNE

Of course, that's where I recognised him!

latebloomer for presnident! of thrones

Dany accepting that reclaiming the throne is not her actual destiny, but instead it is teaming up with Jon to fight the white walkers.

could she not have both?

it'll prob lean more toward the latter tho

just caught up with the show and (most of) the thread and hooooollly bejesus there are a lot of nits being picked in a manner that resembles the worst imagination of network/studio execs giving notes and wondering who'll save the cat

also a lot of just lampooning of such nitpicking and i applaud the noble efforts of all involved

i like the idea of the white walkers as a virus meant to cleanse the earth of humanity - a bioweapon that mutated out of control. not the most complex metaphor, obv, but a good one, and in keeping with the show's central idea of ultimately little factions with their ultimately little struggles ignoring the wight-elephant in the room that'll kill everything

I did wonder if the lampooning would continue over into the next episodes and everybody would be confused

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^^^ Euron during his travels in Essos.

Parts of this thread:

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Aegon tease was solid

cold hands kind of!

I hope somebody does a frame-by-frame of the Brantage sequences in this one.

Gilly cleans up nice. Loved Sam waddling out of the bedroom, then barging back in and deciding to hustle off with the family sword. You go, Tarly.

Totally called Benjen Coldhands in this thread. Also didn't someone call the Margaery / Tommen conversion?

This week's prediction for next week: Cleganebowl cliffhanger.

Question: how are they going to make it plausible when Arya drops the waif? How is that supposed to work?

Why wouldn't she have a chance?

Becoming clearer that Dany might become a villain.

With all the emphasis on undead/resurrected characters this season and with the Freys back in the mix, are they possibly setting up Lady Stoneheart?

they did mention the Bw/oB fucking with the Freys' logistics

Why wouldn't she have a chance?

The waif is a better fighter and has all the tools of the house of B&W at her disposal. Arya has Needle and, like, a candle.

Reddit is on the frame by frame game, of course: https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/4lnfd7/spoilers_everything_screenshots_of_an_event_from/

re: stoneheart, hope is alive:

oh well I guess if brienne's getting sent to the riverlands there's another thing that could happen...

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, May 22, 2016

Someone post that one lolpic of Skins-era Gilly, pls.

http://i.imgur.com/oIFt7W2.png

Parental caution: full frontal fire nozzle glands

This was Emilia Clarke's best bit of acting so far.

Looks like my Maester Swearengen prediction is coming to pass!

Little Sam is a good baby actor!

This felt like the nadir: loads of ill considered melodrama that needs another scripting pass, the reintroduction of characters no one missed, roulette wheel storytelling and swapped allegiances executed aimlessly and without obvious meaning. Gonna sign off on this show and binge through end of year to see if it picks up and for cultural touchstones but it's been a season of ashes and a deus ex machina in every plot. I doubt it's gonna hard turn back to strong storytelling in the last few lengths.

lol I gave up last ep but this one was fine. benjen wasn't quite ex machina - as an instrument of the raven he was presumably called for right?

low point for me was poor Diana Rigg being forced to explain "in this scene the high sparrow is winning, do you see?" that kinda shit never would have happened in seasons 1-3...

I think Margaery is pretending but I do think it's weird that Tommen's family can't slap him in the back of the head about this.

This was Emilia Clarke's best bit of acting so far.

are you joking? the "rousing speech" and the extras acting like cavemen was dire, i was wondering how many takes they did before going with that one. she just shouted stuff at a growing pitch.

Lol at forks realizing this is a serialized drama on television?

Benjen must have some sweet crafting stations at his base for making custom chain weapons specially designed to fuck with wights. And where did he get the horse? Is it undead too?

can someone remind me who tf the blackfish is

some guy

enjoyed the reveal that ned stark was an actor btw.

v sweet that despite all of the hardships they've been though nothing can dim jaime and cersei's love

Blackfish is Clive Russell, he has a Scottish accent and he managed to shoot the flaming arrow onto the boatgrave that was floating down the river. He escaped the red wedding.

I didn't know that the groom was prisoner. I thought they killed him too.

i vaguely remember that, though not well enough for the big reveal to not be a big reveal of some guy i didn't recognise. would have been better if they'd had him played by sean bean imo

Benjen or Blackfish?

it wouldn't make sense to have sean bean playing two different roles in the same episode
was impressed by how different he looked without the wig

so anyway did I read Arya's implicit decision-making correctly? The actress asks her "Have you always liked pretending to be other people?" and then she exits with an excuse about her father, then offscreen she apparently comes to the conclusion that the answer is nope, just in time to return and blow up the spot.

it wouldn't make sense to have sean bean playing two different roles in the same episode
was impressed by how different he looked without the wig

yeah he didn't look like sean bean at all. incredible acting.