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

he didn't ride out with them

i don't think?

man how dark was this show on everyone's TV? Jorah rode out with them and in fact started out leading the charge, but there was a specific shot in the charge that did show him being passed by many dothraki en route to the dead army.

so he probably was lagging a bit behind by the time they were getting massacred up front

i watched it during the daytimne and it was hard to filter daylightout, as a result, I could see maybe 25% of the screen.

weirdly the night parts were ok for me, it was the snowstorm shit with the dragons i was having a bit of trouble with

That stuff was meant to be confusing

yeah i guess i just think there was another level of ugly visual clutter with the confusion in the way those parts were shot and the characters framed that made it a bit more difficult than it should have been. the parts w/the NK rocketing out of the clouds below and taking some shots at them, and later them plunging down into the clouds were vv beautiful though.

off topic but i can't read NK without thinking NK Jemisin and it's driving me nuts

Yeah, Jorah rode out. There were then lots of riderless horses shown returning before one with Jorah on looking dejected.

No-one said a word to him though, which was odd xps

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so what you're saying Karl is that the white walkers were SJWs?

no, but i can guarantee a horde of dead creatures led by NK Jemisin would have done a lot better in battle with than CGI face guy

The trenches were a good idea. Was idly thinking how you'd defend against an enemy like that and a series of concentric barriers that funnel them into kill zones is clearly the way to go.

one of the many "but why did THAT happen?" moments of the episode was wondering how they intended to set the trenches aflame. were they just counting on melisandre to cast Wall of Fire and roll a 20?

― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Monday, April 29, 2019 1:36 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the dragons. but they couldn't see the signal.

― ryan, Monday, April 29, 2019 1:37 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ugh this shit drives me nuts: all of the goofy-looking elements of premodern war -- loud uniforms, big drums, trumpets and cymbals, huge flags that people would die to keep upright -- were to keep people organized and communicating. the whole thing hinged on a guy waving a torch? come on man

Next week the dragons attack King's Landing but are soundly defeated by seasonable fog.

One thing I havent seen anyone comment on here or on reddit/twitter is the idea that "aw everyone important survived dammit" isnt a cert. We didnt see how badly off people were after all the wights dropped dead, aside from I think Jon, Melisandre and Dany?

Is it not possible some people are mortally wounded and will end up dying next ep early on?

eh, I think that's unlikely.

next ep is a half dozen takes on the hospital bed scene from the end of ROTK, except all the hobbits are sad humans and the person in the bed dies

a late-discovered wound would be a cool storyline, but these writers are interested in cruelty to children, not to the fans

All the characters will eventually die when you think about it

Maybe at the end it can do a little white text on black screen explaining where they went to college etc

bran was the most sullen freshmen at evergreen stage college :P

state :P

The Night King is married north of the wall.

He STILL doesn't like Valyrian steel!

Bran is Donnie Darko and I want a "Mad World" cut of that cheesy climax.

Oh god.

Trying to think of further uses for Bran now. Hope we see Bran observing moments in Cersei's past to try and gain an advantage. Maybe he will check out those elephants. Presumably he won't have any need to warg a dragon now.

Has the Martin timeline looked into the future of these kingdoms much or would that have been seen as too much spoiler?

Watched the with on Apple TV on a 10-year-old 32 inch telly, it all seemed fine. There were some dark & confusing bits but it seemed like they were clearly meant to be confusing "thick of the battle" type moments?

I mean, compared to the bright daylight mess of every Marvel movie conclusion, everything here seemed pretty legible and easy to follow.

The dragon stuff was extremely difficult to follow but that seemed more a direction problem than lighting.

Completely baffled by some of the reactions to the battle on the ground though. It wasn’t that confusing (yes Jorah was in the charge?!?!) and to the extent it was it was pretty clearly a (legitimate, effective) stylistic choice.

Sam fending off wave after wave of zombies

maybe it was my viewing environment, but it seemed like every time they cut to him, another character was saving his ass, and he seemed just about to eat it the last time?

I will retract my complaints if the next ep opens with his weepy deathologue

(yes Jorah was in the charge?!?!)
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I didn't see how he survived when it seemed like pretty much everybody in that charge appeared to be automatic cannon fodder or corpse fodder or whatever.

he dropped back in the formation, then rode back ...

important update: I was behind a porsche with a truncated misspelling of "khaleesi" on the license plate yesterday

did not see whether daenerys was driving

Jorah led the charge initially, then there was a specific shot of him being passed by faster dothraki riders, who then rode up to the lead. So he got points for bravery for leading, then got himself an escape hatch.

(yes Jorah was in the charge?!?!)
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I didn't see how he survived when it seemed like pretty much everybody in that charge appeared to be automatic cannon fodder or corpse fodder or whatever.

― Stevolende, Wednesday, May 1, 2019 9:21 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark

a number of the riders from that charge came retreated and came back to the lines looking deflated

If you turn the brightness all the way up on the shot with Arya and Sansa observing the Dothraki charge from winterfell, you can see that Jorah is only rising at 95% speed

Unfortunate typo there but still an impressive rise %, all considering

btw there's a split second, marking the gear shift from 'we are charging' to 'we are dying', where you see the foremost Dothraki rider suddenly come up against the zombie giant, an 'ulp' moment where he is clearly looking up at something much larger than himself

can't believe no one has mentioned Insane Clown Posse and Juggalos and that Jorah wasn't in the front of the dothraki line the whole time in this thread

woop woop Dothraki

haha

Jorggahlos

Khal Faygo missed the boat to Westeros and now rules the Great Grass Sea

obligatory "Nedden Stark" joke goes here

fukkin maesters how do they work

legit lol at Khal Faygo

same

Sorry gotta link this one here

https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/comments/bjkyln/so_we_go_into_hbo_and_tell_them_bran_has_an_idea/

I still don't get why people are so upset about Bran not using some super magical powers, because...

A) Bran's powers have been shown to be fairly limited. He can see the past, and he can warg into animals, maybe humans too, though Hodor may have been a special case. It's never been implied he could warg into wights (who have no mind to take control of), including the wight dragon, or into the White Walkers. (If he had that ability, surely he would've used it when the wights were about to kill him and his friends when they were beyond the Wall.) So, what were people expecting, that Bran would pull some never-before-seen offensive magic out of his ass to kill the Night King. Wouldn't that have been a total deus ex machina ending, much more so than the current one is?

B) The good guys' plan was clearly laid out in the previous episode: use Bran as a bait so the Night King will personally come into the Kingswood, then kill him. Okay, dragonfire didn't work like they thought it wood, but they know Valyrian steel can kill the White Walkers. And Bran could probably sense Arya running into the Godswood, armed with a Valyrian steel dagger Bran had given to her. So in the end everything more or less went according to the plan, one that was suggested by Bran himself. What else should Bran have done, since his plan worked?