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

I can't really tell with Coster-Waldau anymore. Jamie's character has been totally pointless since they decided to turn him into a rapist (and generally pathetic loser) for no apparent reason

he might actually have the best story arc in the books too

oh ffs still with the rapist thing? he's not. he is boring though, bc like almost everyone now he has no personal objective that sets him in any interesting opposition to anyone else we (or even better he) care/s about.

Y'all are weird. I find Jamie very intersting!

seems 2 me they're setting jaime up to be a good guy

yeah, he's just had a longer, slower character development ... he's definitely going to do something important, but it isn't obvious yet, as opposed to most of the other characters on the show.

maybe he pulls a Theon, and instead of doing "the right thing," he avoids it -- but it's just weird the way that some of you complain both about things being too obvious and being too boring (i.e. subtle).

Lena Headey was great this episode

yeah, he's just had a longer, slower character development ... he's definitely going to do something important, but it isn't obvious yet, as opposed to most of the other characters on the show.

― sarahell, Monday, July 31, 2017 11:27 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gonna add 'queenslayer' to his list of informal titles, imo

to avoid confusion, will have to space it out from 'queenlayer' on his resume

if Jamie kills her, it will be too much like a movie that already exists

Y'all are weird. I find Jamie very intersting!

― sarahell, Monday, July 31, 2017

he used to be! just needs to get an agenda and arc of his own again.

Yeah, narrative symmetry pretty obviously calls for Jaime to kill Cersei after she goes full-on Mad Queen

But it's game of thrones so maybe they'll try to invert that expectation?

I can't complain about Jamie, everything makes sense right now.

Good recovery from last week's episode. Liked Tyrion saying "I'd never do that... to you"

Hoping for an episode to focus on how dragonglass is mined, the obtaining of workers skilled in the extraction industry, and the prospect of a miner's strike!

when did bran turn into april's creepy friend orin from parks & rec?

https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/parksandrecreation/images/1/16/Orin.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111127213442

Yeah, narrative symmetry pretty obviously calls for Jaime to kill Cersei after she goes full-on Mad Queen

― Dan I., Monday, July 31, 2017 7:16 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my guess would be more along the lines of a situation where he allows eg arya to kill her

I get the sense that Indira Varma might actually be the most badly-used actor in the series but it's difficult to tell seeing as literally everything about her character and the way it's been written/directed has been entirely one-note and terrible. Superb last scene for her though, mostly down to Cersei, but what was the point of the whole Dorne plotline if that's the end of it? Either that or the showrunners finally admitted it was a turkey and did the decent thing.

The show's treatment of its non-white characters in general has been woeful, not necessarily their fates or whatever but just the sheer laziness at not bothering to give them more than one dimension. The actors playing Missandei and Grey Worm are probably better than the material allows as well.

More generally there's something faintly silly about the way in which the show has been ripping through its deadwood characters. The beginning of this season and the end of the last have been like Transformers The Movie or some shit. At least Diana Rigg got a good send-off (and the fact that the Lannisters now control the food supply, with Winterfell running out, is going to be significant).

All of which sounds like I didn't enjoy that episode but I really did, but then I've always viewed it as being hugely entertaining schlocky bollocks and don't really care whether it mirrors the author's vision or whatever.

Superb last scene for her though, mostly down to Cersei, but what was the point of the whole Dorne plotline if that's the end of it? Either that or the showrunners finally admitted it was a turkey and did the decent thing.

why would that be the end of it? even during the scene i thought it was incredibly silly of cersei to assume that not killing her enemy would mean eternal imprisonment, in a world with a diff king/queen every five minutes.

Missandei is a Hollyoaks alum. I think this is her level

she never seemed too bad until the announcement stuff, prob can blame the script.

I wish her and Dany had different accents. French would be good.

Missandei is a Hollyoaks alum. I think this is her level

she is also real bad in the fast and furious movies fwiw

I don't think the Dornish women are going yet.

Haha Davos asking Missandei what her exotic accent is like she doesn't talk in the same English RP as half of the cast

all of that stuff was so terrible. i mean i get it's just jolly scene setting and i can forgive it but still so cringey.

it's like they spent five mins answering the question "what might the onion knight say to missandei, if they found themselves having some small talk"

lol @ Orin

so much of this is now "My name is ____ and here is what happened to me in the last 6 seasons. I am in character and talking to someone I haven't met or barely know so I get to talk about things I've talked about before with different people."

the rest of the series should be Jon running into the characters he hasn't shared the screen with yet and trying to tell them about the army of the dead. Then everyone dies.

Matt DC - don't worry the authors original vision is pretty schlocky too

I liked the JRPG busywork bit where Jon is advised to have conversations with the townsfolk to find out more about Dany or whatever

Then subsequent teasing of a mission where Dany must ride out on a dragon and destroy 8/8 enemy boats

I'm looking forward to all the Stark kids being together, saying "isn't is really unlikely we would all have survived? It's odd, right?".

Sansa forgot about Bran and he was left by the tree all night. A knackered beyond repair Meera pretended not to hear his distant pleas for assistance.

bran is basically the only guy in the world that's online

Jon in some city in the south holding a cardboard sign:

THE END IS NIGH-
T KING ATTACKING!

sgt biscuit otm

I know this has been covered but what's the difference between Wights and White Walkers again?

the wights are the zombies, the white walkers are the evil blue dudes

oh hang on http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Wights
so Wights are zombie pawns and White Walkers are their magic bosses

xp thanks!

Superb last scene for her though, mostly down to Cersei, but what was the point of the whole Dorne plotline if that's the end of it? Either that or the showrunners finally admitted it was a turkey and did the decent thing.

why would that be the end of it? even during the scene i thought it was incredibly silly of cersei to assume that not killing her enemy would mean eternal imprisonment, in a world with a diff king/queen every five minutes.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, August 1, 2017 10:55 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Robin will come and save her in the knick of time or she'll use her bat-chain puller or something.

I liked the JRPG busywork bit where Jon is advised to have conversations with the townsfolk to find out more about Dany or whatever

Then subsequent teasing of a mission where Dany must ride out on a dragon and destroy 8/8 enemy boats

imo talking to everyone in town is like a JRPG, but destroying 8/8 enemy boats is more like a western RPG. maybe the writers were trying to symbolize the meeting of essos and westeros in the show

The dialogue is so lazy now in this last episode; the characters kept using anachronistic phrases (the last I remember was "failure of imagination") that made it seem like the writers aren't putting much effort anymore.

why did that tree have a face? is that just supposed to be in Bran's weirdo 3 eyed raven world or what?

that tree has always had a face.

The Trees with faces are holy for the old gods, who the North still believe in

Speaking of Robin, what happened to everyone from the Vale?

they're still at winterfell. It was one of the Vale Lords who got schooled by Sansa re: leather linings on the breastplates.

fwiw Michael Harriot's recaps on The Root have been really good in my wypipo opinion

This thread is like a GoT bucket brigade where everyone fills in each other with the details they missed while they were tweeting or taking a piss break during the episode.

Isn't that most of the tv series threads?