yes although I think you may have forgotten one of, if not the actual most horrible thing that has happened on the entire series in there
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
hot pie wisely deleted his tweet about how jon venables should be executed to appease his anger
― ogmor, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
I dont understand why theyre doing 2 short seasons. Are they still filming the last ones?
Waiting for the ILX verdict on season 7 before scoping season 8 surely?
― wtev, Thursday, 10 August 2017 13:06 (six years ago) link
Well, people liked the first half last season, so they made two first halves!
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Thursday, 10 August 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
2 short final seasons in pretty common in prestige TV: Sopranos did it. Breaking Bad did it. Mad Men did it.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 10 August 2017 13:18 (six years ago) link
They all did it differently, though, with two half-seasons meaning that they got two years of subscriptions for the contractual prize of one season. I think Game of Thrones is doing season 7 and 8, right? And I don't entirely get what the point is of that.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 10 August 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
According to the showrunners they're putting so many battle scenes and effects into the last two seasons that they don't have time/money to do 10 full episodes each season.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 10 August 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
I guess that also explains why the last episode was only 45 minutes and hardly anyone cared.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 10 August 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that kinda makes sense.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 10 August 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
More shows should follow this approach, tbh.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 August 2017 13:49 (six years ago) link
Seasons 5 and 6 of Game of Thrones certainly should have.
― chap, Thursday, 10 August 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
Would have been far too long though. I don't fancy a full decade of this.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 10 August 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link
Oh, do you mean making seasons shorter or splitting them into two?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 10 August 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
I think the last two eps of this season(?) are quite long.
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Thursday, 10 August 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
Wasn't there also a suggestion from hbo that each episode in season 8 would be "feature length"?
― wtev, Thursday, 10 August 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
― Robert Adam Gilmour,
Shorter seasons. The amount of actual plot in 5 & 6 could've easily been squeezed into seven episodes each.
― chap, Thursday, 10 August 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
Well, yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvcrwTcA5iw
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 August 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
"That's a dragon, stupid!"
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 August 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
so good
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 August 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
#Branface
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 August 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
Varys seems like a nice dude irl.
― chap, Friday, 11 August 2017 10:57 (six years ago) link
Varys is going to put Qyburn in a box with a family of starving rodents
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Friday, 11 August 2017 11:34 (six years ago) link
Probably been mentioned but is there some magical reason why the White Walkers cannot get past the wall?
They sure are taking their time otherwise
― groovypanda, Friday, 11 August 2017 11:39 (six years ago) link
Literally the magical reason of magic being in the wall ice. They also get too seasick to take a boat.
― nashwan, Friday, 11 August 2017 11:48 (six years ago) link
that's a good point. There was definitely a guy, way back when, yelling DIG A MOAT. JUST DIG A BIG MOAT. CALL IT A CANAL, IF YOU MUST and all the other people at the meeting were like shut up, we voted, a wall is better.
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Friday, 11 August 2017 12:15 (six years ago) link
yeah they weren't able to follow jon snow across the water that time
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 11 August 2017 12:16 (six years ago) link
wish we'd had a scene in which qyburn revealed his idea for a wall
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 11 August 2017 12:17 (six years ago) link
ideally by him throwing something against the wall to illustrate the concept
"walls - good for warmth, of course, but could we put them to use to, if you will, 'block' the movement of an enemy force?"
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 11 August 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
"but qyburn walls are tiny, an army can simply knock them over"
"not the wall i have in mind..."
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 11 August 2017 12:19 (six years ago) link
sorry everyone
if t'were to be... transparent... our men would have sight of any magical potions projected over the top
― kinder, Friday, 11 August 2017 13:35 (six years ago) link
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/saint-simons-island-tree-spirits
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 11 August 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
where's the Lorax when we need him?
― President Keyes, Friday, 11 August 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
Suspect the fact that both the Hound and the Mountain are now basically unkillable means they'll have a pretty crucial part to play in the eventual White Walker battle.
― Matt DC, Friday, 11 August 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
Had a mate point out that in the opening titles this season the sea around Eastwatch is frozen over and that next week's episode is called Eastwatch so I guess we may be seeing the White Walkers very soon.
― groovypanda, Friday, 11 August 2017 16:22 (six years ago) link
in the books there's a pretty good passage that mentions undead things from the oceans
― 龜, Friday, 11 August 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
i'd probably forgive all the shitty bad parts if we got a shot of euron greyjoy and his ship being pulled down by a white walker kraken
― 龜, Friday, 11 August 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
you probably wouldn't call them walkers though. white swimmers
― 龜, Friday, 11 August 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
― kinder, Friday, August 11, 2017 2:35 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lmao
― nomar, Friday, 11 August 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
white swimming.. deserves a quiet night
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 11 August 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
white swimmers esp lannister ones have caused enough trouble in this realm
― nomar, Friday, 11 August 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
and the fact they have a lot of fire in their lives
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 11 August 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
irl lol'd at that
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 11 August 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qxsCCd9jjA
― Evan, Friday, 11 August 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
irl lol bcz I'm very simple tbf
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Friday, 11 August 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
i really dislike how everyone in the daenerys storyline stands far apart from each other, like 10 to 20 feet apart, often in symmetrical formations. i get what they're trying to do, which is kind of draw attention to each individual character and their motives in relation to each other, and often to the power structure, with daenerys at the top and a few advisors (symmetrically) supporting her and all that, but it also subtly makes everything look really fake
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 August 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
I figured they were doing it just to make the scene easier to shoot and edit so that they're not all stuck together in one master shot.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 August 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
i hadn't considered that. if that's what they're doing, it would explain why most of the acting in her storyline resembles actors reading from a script, talking to a stand-in. but i kind of doubt they'd do that, right? it's one thing if you're filming spacejam and bill murray is going to have to talk to a fake marvin the martian until they fill it in with animation later, but why do it when you have real actors? i guess that would explain why they don't seem to do much walking around or interacting with their surroundings, either (talking mainly about previous seasons here, although there's elements of that in the new one, too)
i really miss tyrion in his kings landing days, having conversations with really good actors
i am really grumpy today, possible i'm overreacting
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 August 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
Some actually funny ones here if you're bored on Friday afternoon: http://www.boredpanda.com/game-of-thrones-season-7-episode-4-battle-funny-reactions
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Friday, 11 August 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link