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

Varys seems like a nice dude irl.

Varys is going to put Qyburn in a box with a family of starving rodents

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

Literally the magical reason of magic being in the wall ice. They also get too seasick to take a boat.

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.

yeah they weren't able to follow jon snow across the water that time

wish we'd had a scene in which qyburn revealed his idea for a wall

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?"

"but qyburn walls are tiny, an army can simply knock them over"

"not the wall i have in mind..."

sorry everyone

if t'were to be... transparent... our men would have sight of any magical potions projected over the top

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/saint-simons-island-tree-spirits

where's the Lorax when we need him?

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.

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.

in the books there's a pretty good passage that mentions undead things from the oceans

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

you probably wouldn't call them walkers though. white swimmers

if t'were to be... transparent... our men would have sight of any magical potions projected over the top

― kinder, Friday, August 11, 2017 2:35 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

white swimming.. deserves a quiet night

white swimmers esp lannister ones have caused enough trouble in this realm

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.

and the fact they have a lot of fire in their lives

white swimming.. deserves a quiet night

irl lol'd at that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qxsCCd9jjA

irl lol bcz I'm very simple tbf

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

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.

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

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

white swimming.. deserves a quiet night

What a brilliantly formed joke.

Surely you mean "Braavos on this but..."

Surely I did

explain why most of the acting in her storyline resembles actors reading from a script, talking to a stand-in

they are talking to emilia clarke, so basically, yes, that is what is going on

it was a longshot casting decision and initially you could believe in it but now it's like, wow, she is terrible

and I am not one to complain about the acting on this show, as this thread attests, I think

white swimming.. deserves a quiet night

bravo on this but surely you mean "wight swimming...deserves a quiet white"
/whitesplaining
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, August 11, 2017

"white swimming... deserves a quiet wight..."

fixed that for you. gold master, ship it!

that was like an entire book's worth of incidents in a single episode

i was gonna say, for the first time ever this show needs to slow down

not complaining, but this is the most i've looked forward to grr martin finishing those damned books, because i feel like the however many hundreds of pages we just saw will play out better in greater detail and slower mo on the page

i enjoyed that episode quite a bit, but yeah, i would have liked some of those scenes to be twice as long and spread out over a couple episodes.

+ gendry!
- i don't like the fan service inside jokes, like davos making a joke about gendry still rowing a boat

My wife did mention that she thought he was grabbing an oar when he showed Davos his hammer

tbh i could do without another 'escape from beyond the wall' episode

so the show wants us to think that littlefinger has outsmarted arya but smart money is arya still being two steps ahead

On tonight's episode of game of thrones, a ragtag bunch of ex-hotshots defy 7 seasons worth of attrition and storyline slog to meet up serendipitously in the course of 15 real life minutes and an estimated 1 hr of westerosi time

but you gotta admit the crew heading north of the wall is pretty sweet

Loved, LOVED the seven samurai heading north.

Everything bad about the last two seasons feels so irrelevant right about now

"kidnap a wight who infects everything it kills" seems like a bad plan to me tbh

All those dudes have had no good plans, that's why they're the squad