they needed to drop something of Benjen following them earlier. like a solitary character keeping pace with them, someone whose face we didn't see. And there needed to be a moment of explanation at the end, not just hi and bye.
also missed an opportunity w/the third dragon, who was brought north too. Should have swooped in and Jon should have flown the damn thing back to the wall. Daenerys could be worried about her missing dragon and Jon Snow, and imagine the big fucker flying back piloted by him! better than, "oh look a horseman...."
― nomar, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
good moment to prove some Targareyen bonafides.
― nomar, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
what would a "process oriented narrative" look like at this point in the story? ... give me something better to compare it against.
― sansa riff (sarahell), Monday, 21 August 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
it won't happen but it would be a neat twist if the show wrapped up and the new GRRM books ... take place after the events of the show.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
i didn't realize frederik b wrote for GQ
― Karl Malone, 21. august 2017 22:42 (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not yet, but in time.
I did lol at the inclusion of 'geography'. I regretted having written geography was exciting almost immediately, but hey, I'm not alone!
― Frederik B, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
important question! does the anti-white walker magic built into the Wall extend into the airspace? Couldn't the night king and his elite white walker commandos fly their zombie dragon over the wall and start zombifying the Westerosi?
― sansa riff (sarahell), Monday, 21 August 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
and then with no lead up she's suddenly super hot for jon snow
There's supposed to be something in pheromones that tells us when a person is too similar to us, genetically, right?
Maybe it works differently for her family.
― louie mensch (milo z), Monday, 21 August 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
i think i've read that when people don't know they're related it can manifest as physical attraction.
― ryan, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
Important CHAINS update: On rewatch there was a jetty by the lake with some chains on it.
https://image.ibb.co/iUfjNQ/got_chains_source.jpg
― nashwan, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
dude, there's been several episodes of lead up! Plus the whole common-as-fuck thing where a friend says, "hey, he's totally your type and he's way into you." and at first you're like, "no, he's totally wrong for me." and then a bit later, with the seed planted, you think, "hmmm....maybe he isn't that wrong after all."
― sansa riff (sarahell), Monday, 21 August 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
Couldn't the night king and his elite white walker commandos fly their zombie dragon over the wall and start zombifying the Westerosi?
spoiler, but that's the next episode
season 8 is the night king working to set up a representative democracy
― Karl Malone, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
Less common when it's your nephew tbf
― Number None, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:39 (six years ago) link
season 8: the night king invents literal twitter, and sends a constant stream of ravens to everyone remaining in Westeros complaining about everyone who criticizes his rule.
― sansa riff (sarahell), Monday, 21 August 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
― Number None, Monday, August 21, 2017 2:39 PM (fifty-three seconds ago)
Targaryens have no taboo about incest so ...?
― sansa riff (sarahell), Monday, 21 August 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
No it's only cool if it's your brother/sister
Anything else is weird
― Number None, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
How many dragons did she actually bring? Did she leave one at home?
When Viserion gets hit and starts to dive, you briefly see Rhaegal in the background making an Irish goodbye
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 August 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
kinda apt that the dragon named after her anti-heroic piece of shit brother gets turnt
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 21 August 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
Things the NK realizes later while in the shower...Esprit de corpse
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Monday, 21 August 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
dude, there's been several episodes of lead up!
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 21 August 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
anyway my more important point was that dany is a shit mother
Let's look at the other mothers on this show:
Catelyn Stark: dead, number of dead children: 2 of 5Cercei Lannister: alive, number of dead children: 3 of 3Lady Olenna: dead, number of dead children: 2 of 2 (maybe she had more, but they were already dead), number of dead grandchildren: 2 of 2 (maybe she had more, but they were already dead)Lysa Arynn: dead, number of dead children: 0 of 1Lady Tarly: alive, number of dead children: 1 of 3Gilly: alive, number of dead children: 0 of 1
Dany's not looking so bad in comparison
― sansa riff (sarahell), Monday, 21 August 2017 22:52 (six years ago) link
Now both Dany and Lady Tarly are both alive, and at 1 of 3 in the dead children department, but Dany didn't essentially disown one of her remaining 2 children, as Lady Tarly did with Sam. So really, Dany's at the top of list with only Gilly ahead of her, and Gilly's child isn't even able to walk yet. So, I would conclude based on these facts, that Dany is a pretty solid mom.
― sansa riff (sarahell), Monday, 21 August 2017 23:00 (six years ago) link
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, August 22, 2017 8:0
*cough*And yes I'd remembered someone here'd predected dragon-wighting and I'd agreed so it was little suprise to me. A neat touch perhaps that it was Viserion it happened to? Revenge of the dead brother. haha.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, August 21, 2017 2:01 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 August 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
*cough* otm!
― sansa riff (sarahell), Monday, 21 August 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
:)
Re lady Tarly - was it really her doing turning Sam away, or Lord Tarlys? Its a foggy memory but when Samwell went back to visit them briefly his mother at least seemed sympathetic and cowed, but it was some time back and I cant recall.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 August 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
you were right, she pretty much let her husband get rid of her son, but doesn't that make her a "bad mum"? That she didn't defend her child?
― sansa riff (sarahell), Monday, 21 August 2017 23:09 (six years ago) link
Compared to Dany, who was pressured to sell off one of her children, but she had him kill a bunch of horrible people instead, and kept her child.
― sansa riff (sarahell), Monday, 21 August 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
oh and I forgot two of the most shit moms on the show:
Mrs. Stannis Barratheon: dead, number of dead children 1 of 1Ellaria Sand: alive, number of dead children 4 of 4
― sansa riff (sarahell), Monday, 21 August 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
Dany got involved with witchcraft while pregnant, which turned her unborn child into a lizard, iirc.
― Frederik B, Monday, 21 August 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
geez, won't somebody think of the unborn babies!
― sansa riff (sarahell), Monday, 21 August 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
Mrs Stannis is the worst of the lot, burning her damn kid at the stake, wth.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 August 2017 23:35 (six years ago) link
well, she hung herself afterwards, so there's that
― sansa riff (sarahell), Monday, 21 August 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 21 August 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
she had zero reaction to one of them being unnecessarily murdered
wait what? how are you drawing that conclusion?
― sansa riff (sarahell), Monday, 21 August 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link
because emilia clarke's "my baby is dead" face and her "this guy won't bend the knee" face looks the same
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 21 August 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link
I don't consider Danaerys to be a Real Mom :o
― nashwan, Monday, 21 August 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link
basically if you don't act exactly like the dad from Broadchurch then you as a parent just DON'T CARE
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 August 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link
i just hope my mom looks a little more upset than that when i'm killed by an undead lord
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 21 August 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
The dragon that actually laid the eggs Drogon and co hatched from finally returns next week for a fatal custody battle.
― nashwan, Monday, 21 August 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
what if she tries to keep a brave face to the public, and makes polite small talk about politics, food and the weather? Would that make her a bad mom?
― sansa riff (sarahell), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
are the public in this case a 30 million overnight viewership, a stadium full of zombies, a few dead redshirts, a ragtag bunch of mercenaries and wight-in-a-bag or like my uncle gene? Because okay if latter but if former i want some emotion.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 00:05 (six years ago) link
What about Jeff the IT guy?
― sansa riff (sarahell), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
filing him under "dead redshirt"
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
http://s1.r29static.com//bin/entry/191/340x408/1838048/image.png
"It’s a heartbreak," she told Entertainment Weekly. "Not only losing it but having that being given to the other side. "My dragon could not have died for nothing, so this is now so important," she continued. "For the first time, you’re starting to see her defenses broken."
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 00:13 (six years ago) link
so much pathos
let's assume Jeff is a co-worker of your mom that reports to her, and she is the first female manager at the company they work for.
― sansa riff (sarahell), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
my mom is retired so this is not a scenario that i'm ever going to have to worry about.http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5340/56/16x9/960.jpg
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 00:16 (six years ago) link
or, let's say, as one of those popular commentary blogs does, Dany is Hillary Clinton, and she's talking to her potential Secretary of Defense, would she be all blubbery about it, or would she want to remain composed and tough in order to continue to keep the confidence and respect of the guy in question?
― sansa riff (sarahell), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link
if one of hillary clinton's dragons died and she didn't tear up a little, i would be a little disturbed by iti feel pretty sure that clinton would have deployed those dragons considerably more intelligently.thus far dany has taken these things out for a spin twice; the first time she got one of them stuck in the neck with a giant crossbow bolt and the second time one of the giant unkillable super creatures got killed in one hit. she doesn't seem very good at this.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 00:21 (six years ago) link
maybe hire a wartime consigliere or get one of those robot jockey things that the UAE guys use to race camelsjust know your limitations is all i'm saying
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 00:23 (six years ago) link
Dude, you are basing this off of her conversation with Jon, which is a different dynamic. We don't know whether she bawled her eyes out in the privacy of her room, punched a pillow, drew a picture of her dead dragonchild to later have made into a locket that she will wear close to her heart once she gets back to civilization.
― sansa riff (sarahell), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 00:25 (six years ago) link