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

I'm halfway through S5 (and watching weekly now), rewatching clips from the first season (after the Cersei/Robert exchange above) the dropoff in quality is shocking. Entire episodes in the middle season are passing without a single memorable thing happening. All of Dany's plotline in Esseros is a big 'who cares.'

just like the books

Yeah I found myself glazing over in those bits in the books. Cept for that weird bit with the priests where she's in some kind of labyrinth with endless doors... did they even do that bit in the show? I dont recall it.

Yes, that was in season 2 where Drogo made a surprise cameo.

I actually think that Ryan Broderick tweet isn't "fucked up" at all, it's kind of adorable tbf

I watched seasons 1-4 in a binge over a month or so, so I forget a lot of the early stuff.

All of Dany's plotline in Esseros is a big 'who cares.'

― louie mensch (milo z), Thursday, August 24, 2017 4:02 PM (one hour ago)

It's Essos, and also, you're rong.

It's so easy, you're Ronstadt

on the next, very special, episode of game of thrones:

Daenerys Targaryen: I have dragons
The Night King: Bitch me too! The fuck #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/P5rDToQuoS

— la loba (@vickto_willy) August 21, 2017

tattoos are horrible

Kind of missing Theon and Yara now. Alfie Allen deserves a bit more credit.

Yara kinda disappeared completely, no? Are we supposed to assume she dead?

I think we're supposed to be shocked and pumped up when she appears again in the next episode or sometime next season. But I'd guess there's almost no chance that she's just dead. If they did, that was an awful ending for her character!

she's with euron somewhere, getting tortured probably.

end of this season will be a big ol' battle w/Euron vs the unsullied and--from the sea--a small but surprisingly effective fleet guided by Theon. maybe a dragon will show up?

they gotta clear the decks a bit more to have some focus on the night king/night dragon/wight calvary vs everyone thing.

poisoned sand snake daughter makes an amazing recovery and kills everyone to take the iron throne, remember i called it

does the fact they didn't show them actually dying mean there's a chance they're not dead? seems unlike got to imply a grizzly death when it could show it.

I really doubt they're dead

There's no way sand snake daughter is alive. Sand snake mother is probably alive.

Ded inside tho.

Hercules will save her

even when they show people dying they bring them back! everybody's a marvel universe style schrodinger's cat

Remember- she wasn't dying though. Just the daughter.

i think i can guess but just to confirm - benjen's not going to come back as a whitewalker, right? because he's already dead? or something? because if he winds up as a zombie mini-boss in the final season that's gonna add a whole layer of wtf-ness to his sudden appearance and pointless death

what i wanna know is, why didn't benjen get on the horse with jon, what did he hope to achieve by staying behind

holding off the horde ?

i want to know more about this ice king and his friend. they have cool clothes. who made the clothes? do they eat?

I said it way back but I'm disappointed they gave the white walkers clothes and made them show emotions etc. Now they're just the "bad guys". I wouldn't be surprised if the first sound the night king made was an evil laugh during the wall collapse.

I wish they stayed this alien, humanoid personification of a deadly storm that was set on mindlessly wiping out humanity via an undead horde.

I liked when they looked more like this:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4Pjs9HxQ8H0/hqdefault.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/f5/72/de/f572de7cf3f71c40b35a19e1211d4932.gif

This is corny to me:

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/gameofthrones/images/7/7d/WhiteWalker_s5e8.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150602122300

Oops those were way bigger than I thought they'd be

OTM tho, I forgot they were topless nutters initially.

Benjen should reappear as a wight alongside Hodor, would be more interesting.

Hopefully get to see the Night King just fly over the wall and south for a bit doing some damage but the Wall magic probably extends upwards into space. Watching them test this out for a while from greater and greater height might be funny.

they def dark crystal-d the walkers out and it doesn't help
that x-men armor doesn't look very useful, show them desiccated pecs

in sort of related vibes

https://deadline.com/2017/04/eliza-dushku-star-the-black-company-series-adaptation-david-goyer-im-global-1202076367/

OTM re Walker Fashion. imma guess it's mostly a concession to budget but yeah, night king has gotten hella corny.

If you're going to dress them up, at least make them look like they're wearing human armor that was forged thousands of years ago. That would make more sense.

it is extremely important that the character called the Night King have a sensible wardrobe and not be too corny

Does he even know that is what he's called? "Bahaha, to these cunts I'm just Gary."

the theon sequence in this episode was insanely bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itv0SoMFZ7E

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

well. I guess we're getting there. one way or another

...several other sequences were just as bad, it turns out

I gotta say finally seeing baelish get it and and end of the sibling rivalry is really satisfying.

"you've got no balls and the jokes on ME?"

the actual nadir of this episode was theon getting in that little quip "that insult wasn't even good" or w/ever literal moments after he's supposed to be fretting over his sister's life, wtf

lol at dude telling theon twice, stay down i don't wanna have to kill you and then he gets beaten to death by an unrepentant eunuch on the loose
season's over yay. except for memes and hot takes i don't have to think about this any more for awhile

"When enough ppl make false promises words stop meaning anything and then there are no more answers only better and better lies" --Jon Snow

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) August 28, 2017

jfc end this life

i thought a lot of that episode was good.

i understand the eyerolls at the sidequest to get the wight but i thought the payoff in kings landing was compelling. and i enjoy jaime's continued arc, seeming to head toward redemption by finally fucking off from cersei's weird games.

i didn't realize that a weakness of the wall, made of ice, is dragon ice, but oh well.

oh, and i meant to mention, cersei's secret decision to betray daenerys and jon snow (and jaime) by making a false promise to send troops north was gripping - deceitful, flying in the face of honor, and true to character.

given that the wall has already been breached, though, kings landing may be the best defenses left standing?