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

what's weird is he did a show in ireland where he played corrupt former irish prime minister charles j haughey, and littlefinger has basically been charlie ever since.

I can't recall the delivery, but it was a really well-written speech, that said so much about the character. The show rarely does that.

it was a good piece of script, i watched it again yday and i think tbf part of why i found it a bit ott was that it showed other scenes and used his speech as a voiceover.

my favorite created for the show was that season 1 convo between cersei and robert, brilliantly played by both actors and shining a depth on cersei that we never get to see in the books, even in (or especially in) her POV chapters.

i love this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTgiPmG7OLE

^ Might be a good joke if at some point you see the same box in the background at Dragonstone at some point. I assume he just left the wizard to die when he left King's Landing though.

Is the Cersei/Oberyn scene in the books? That was one of her best also.

ha yeah that's one of the best

srsly guys how are you sleeping on rory mccann?

is it bc he doesn't have big speeches?

I think I forget about him cause he is absent for long stretches, he's quite good though

i mentioned him!

his scenes are really the only thing I look forward to right now. would have been very happy if they'd spun off a season of just him and Arya wandering the riverlands like medieval Big Daddy and Hit-Girl

This episode was hard to watch, but also fantastic. If you have to do away with some side characters played by some of your best talent, this is the way to do it.

I just can't handle how fast everything is wrapping up. Like we spent how many years of characters traveling and traveling and now people just jump from one place to another in seconds. Although I did like some of that at the end. Like jumping to the aftermath of Lannister vs Tyrell.

game of thrones is good again

i liked the dual tracks of cersei/jaime dealing with killers of their children

yeah this was good

they'll be alright if they aim at the flashing red spot on the dragon's back

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I don't think I've ever thought about a dragon's anus prior to this post.

How is DRAGON ANUS not already a metal band? Or anything? Get on the stick, civilization.

we've already got goblin cock, i think we're all set

easily the best one of the season even if it doubled down on the show's most irritating element, Jon and Dany and their supposed charms

Tapeworms cause the dog to dragon anus which ruins the carpet.

xxp

writers pretty explicitly saying winter is climate change huh

yeah to the extent that I groaned a bit

aren't all seasons technically climate change?

🤤

I was glad the Cersei / whatsername scene was legit disturbing and not just another torturefest

was it? never cared enough abt whatsername for it to have any oomph

lovedthe quick pivot from YAY BRAN YOURE ALIVE to "um welp i gotta go, um, check the grain yep bye"

yeah sheesh bran stop triggering yr sister you fuckin weirdo

Three eyed ravens aren't allowed to have emotions or a personality, I guess.

calling your sister beautiful in the worst possible context is definitely a sort of personality

three eyes raven is a fkn buzzkill

I dunno being plugged into the tree internet for a long time is bound to fuck your brain up

the staging of the Red Priestess leaving Dragonstone was super awkward but I did like seeing Varys uneasy

The beatitudes of bran is gonna get old fast
Emelia clarke is painful to watch act

yeah Clarke and Harington as scene partners is fucking rough

Davos carrying some good acting weight in the throne room imo

so hamfisted... "and then that one time you came back from the de... OH WE WON'T TALK ABOUT THAT"

It's good that they are barreling along and doing what the tv version has always done best. But I'm watching mostly to get a glimpse of what GRRM intends to do, and I think it's safe to say that we won't get any of this nonsense.

writers pretty explicitly saying winter is climate change huh

looooool

misandei is really bad too - real amateur drama feeling off her "announcements".

there was a lot of childish/needlessly vulgar writing in this ep - euron's "finger in the arse" and tyrion's "impregnate the bitch".

i mean i know it's got but felt a bit camp/ridiculous

"she is the queen's most trusted exposition recapper"

I lol'd at Euron's crass line, somewhat guiltily

i often think Clarke is bad too but at the same time it works because isn't the character supposed to seem a little callow and unconvincing? there's a little more complexity to her at least than jon snow, who so far comes off as the typical paper thin self-serious fantasy protagonist.

xp - Euron and Davros were the heroes of this episode. It seems odd to me to cringe at his crass challenge of Jamie, and Tyrion's line, in the context of an episode that was heavy on the "let me describe in graphic detail ways in which we were prepared to torture you to death" speeches.

also lol at Sam's modern explanation of how he solved a problem by reading the manual and following the instructions.

"give me ten good men and I'll impregnate the bitch" is a pretty strange saying

sure, but I prefer strange sayings to things like Littlefinger giving Sansa a lecture about how she needs to see everything all at once, and then, wow what a coincidence, Bran shows up at the door!

felt like that juxtaposition was intentional? like littlefinger doesn't really see anything at once - he's just a creepy pos w/ a weird crush on a girl who he sold to a violent rapist and he thinks he's really wise. bran otoh can actually see everything and what that looks like is not being some smarmy shit but being psychologically fractured and alienated. neither are good models for sansa who this week reminded me so much of a stark - not the stark black sheep (who has dreams of becoming a pretty princess) but that kind of cold, pragmatic, black & white starkness but w/ a more earned wisdom than her naive father.