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

I guess it's just her two younger kids but I was legit confused by it.

wait this is called game of throneS but there's only really one throne that everyone's bothered about weird

Is there any way that this ends with someone actually sitting on that throne? Tommen has been sitting on it for a while now and it's doing him no good. I guess Whitewalker dude on the throne in the final frame with everyone we know bowing to him as zombies might be cool though.

i thought it was called game of thorns this whole time

That's already happening with Chloe whatsername from Kick Ass cast.

nah, that's a non-Disney Little Mermaid. The one Sofia Coppola was supposed to be directing

Robb just wanted to be King of the North so that would have been a second throne if they ever got around to making it.

Oh yeah, it is. Based on the original Hans Christian Andersen story. Just assumed it was the next live action remake from Disney after Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, Pete's Dragon et al

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oh there'll definitely be one along soon

Seven episode seventh season seems to have been confirmed

Well, as I suspected from the disinterest in catching up with the latest episode, my wife has given up on GoT (and doubled down on ever-better "The Americans"). I think she made the shift from "WTF!?" to "WTF?" I'll have to watch it vicariously through internet reaction. I'll have to check in with my regular folk friends to see what they think of the show these days.

During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the 37-year-old revealed that he knows how, if not when, the comic series The Walking Dead will end. When asked if he would ever consider giving that information to showrunner Scott M. Gimple so that he and his team could start bending the TV series toward a similar end point, Kirkman shut that idea down fast:

“I would never do that,” Kirkman assured the interviewer. “That’s the one thing I’m disappointed in George R.R. Martin for doing. He should have just been like, ‘Fuck you. You make it up now, I’ll get to mine when I’m ready.’”

yr not allowed to watch shows w/out yr wife?

Well, we have x number of minutes to watch y+1 number of shows, so we usually prioritize a show we like in common. The flip is that without her egging me on, I'm unlikely to watch a show like GoT myself, because if it was just me there are any number of other shows/movies she would not like that I would watch instead.

This is their TV:

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Is that the internet?

Dumont Network iirc

I'm guessing that Jaqen is testing or playing a trick on the Waif because she's too smug, aggressive and hateful.

^ thought crossed my mind as well

yeah, personal revenge seems totally contrary to the Faceless Men's whole deal. She fucked up

I can see why someone might see most of this show as part 2 of a trilogy. After the first season it's been a scramble of characters and locations, with a slow, slow, slow shift toward getting them back together for a common goal.

read book 1, didn't see any episodes until s6 - but seemed p easy to catch up w the story since everything relates directly to what happened in first book/season

Certainly that's what set events in motion. But I'm not convinced it's really gone anywhere since then, just a lot of circles.

everything after season 1 has felt like the second part in a trilogy -- still reacting to the events of season 1, with no resolution in sight.

This is a good point and pretty defensible I think. Ned's execution is the end of Act One. I think Jon's assassination was the end of Act Two, though.

not enough has been revealed about the endgame to say we're in the third act yet -- until cards are on the table, we're still in the baggy middle

So a bunch of season details got leaked by a user named "truede" and were proven right in the last 3 episodes. I won't comment on them except to say that I regret reading them.

a user, you say

a reddit user, even

Is that reveal the first pre-credit sequence scene they've done?

They've done it about two or three other times I think

hey hound

poor swearengen :(

Sansa's eyes were v pretty this episode.

"62" is a terrific punchline.

A girl will die of peritonitis

Diana rigg please dont die

nice episode.

break out the canned peaches! first ep of the season that felt legit. screen perks up every time rory mccann's on it. didn't know how much I missed him til he showed back up.

Arya walking around bleeding from guts and just getting odd looks kind of supports the Waif/Tyler Durden theory

Was wondering how she managed to survive something like that in a period before modern medicine. Thought that final twist was normal done to ensure fatality. & that whatever river that was probably wouldn't be the cleanest if it ran through a major city for the time like that seems to be.

wait there's a waif/tyler durden theory?

I can't help but notice that Arya and Theon are racing to get to Mereen and try to ally with Dany ahead of Euron, having stolen the entire Iron Islands fleet just at the time that Dany, the Unsullied and the Dothraki need ships. I really hope the plotting hasn't become THAT transparent.

I predict it will soon be revealed that Lysa Arryn was caught by Lady Stoneheart after she fell through the moon door, then rowed to safety by Gendry.

but dany has needed ships this whole time and arya is not trying to get to mereen as far as i can tell

i was trying to figure out who killed the people the hound was with but then i realized i didn't even know where he was

xpost Not Arya, he meant Enya or whatever the name of Theon's sister is, right?

Er, yeah, whatever the hell her name is. Yara. (In the books it's Asha. WTG HBO.)

Dana had at least some ships a couple of weeks ago until somebody burned them in the harbor.

Thought it was odd that they felt the need to make her gay/bi, just because she happened to be a strong woman taking on a male role? Maybe being overly critical.

the implication was that the dudes from the Brotherhood Without Banners killed McShane and co.

which would indicate a bit of a policy change since we last saw them

Yeah, the Hound even said "They're from the Brotherhood." (Assuming the same guys came back, since it happened off-screen.)

Would news of the whole Tommen/Margaery alliance with the faith have spread already? If so, maybe given their belief in the Lord of Light, the BWB would consider it their duty to wipe out anything having to do with the Seven.

The plotting has been that transparent this entire season!

the boggledness on this thread is frequently boggling to me. Disappointed we got no Sean Bean in this ep though

BTW assuming the BwoB are competent raiders and paid their first visit to recon the congregation, you'd think they'd have wondered "wait where's the big one" after slaughtering everybody else.