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

we need half an episode to explain the current political situation among the commoners in King's Landing

you just know that Cersei spun that entire thing as "they mysteriously blew themselves up shortly after they humiliated me. terrible tragedy."

eh, just tell them the angry, jealous god of the Faith of the Seven decided to punish the false-worshipers with cleansing green fire, people always believe that kind of shit

green fire can't melt steel beams, Debra

i just realized dany could've stayed across the sea and rule over a continent of incredible beauty and power that needed her intervention to end slavery etc and instead she decided to go to westeros to rule over a bunch of dead assholes.

She was sure they'd be greeted as liberators

Have we gotten any hints at how Cersei is doing as queen? I mean, maybe she's doing a great job and no one gives her any credit. Her illegitimacy is primarily implied to be because she's been mean to the protagonists, right?

(I mean, other than mass murdering religious fanatics and other ruling class schemers...)

maybe building the giant crossbow spurred economic growth and provided good jobs to working class citizens of Kings Landing

giant crossbow factory an economic, social boon to king's landing society

also we don't see how well the Golden Company mercenaries are interacting with the locals -- they could be a boon for the local economy, or they could be doing what mercenaries tend to do which is start fights and rape

A boon for the King's Landing sex industry is my guess.

otoh there could be massive public works projects she has implemented that vastly improve the quality of life for the poorest citizens

xp - i bet gambling industry is also doing well due to the presence of the guest workers

or she could have rounded up all the children in Flea Bottom of unknown parentage and put them in cages somewhere outside the city ... i feel like these are things missing from the current season

Cersei strikes me as more of a shock doctrine devotee than a Keynesian tbh.

calling the poorest neighbourhood in the city "flea bottom" is a little bit on the nose

more like on the butt

Cersei telling the population about a caravan of foreigners surely

Come to take all the sell sword and whoring jobs

she's already brought in a bunch of foreign sell swords! Under the H1B visa -- Have 1 Blade

She invited Tyrion to the Red Keep to talk about infrastructure initiatives.

she's already brought in a bunch of foreign sell swords! Under the H1B visa -- Have 1 Blade

― sarahell, Tuesday, May 7, 2019 9:34 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*applauso*

Indeed worthy of a citizen_kane_clap.gif.

the recoil from a ballista that could have gone that distance at that speed would have destroyed the deck of the ship that fired it.

source: i've read the master and commander books.

it was maddening bullshit

i want hard fantasy

i can only imagine the counter measure they come up with for the crossbows will be equally ridiculous

It'll be a dragon that shoots dragons at boats.

there's also the small matter of they could have shot a giant crossbow at Dany and killed her right then and there

It's just like Cersei to follow the basic rules but not the spirit of a parley

more bitching - won't Cersei's human shield strategy make it more difficult to shelter and feed everyone in the red keep? wasn't their grain supply incinerated by the dragons a couple weeks/months before? I say they should just siege king's landing, blame Cersei and starve everyone into submission.

also feel like Dany's 'we must push ahead in spite of all common sense' strategy reeks of Stannis' game plan and we all know where he ended up.

I say they should just siege king's landing, blame Cersei and starve everyone into submission.

this was literally the plan until euron killed the dragon

Yeah they did pretty much say theyd surround and starve the red keep off til they all cried uncle.

required by law to post this every once in awhile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCqjR1gHyIQ

one of the best episodes

one of the best shows

that's the show that should've run for 8 seasons

https://www.cracked.com/article_26374_um-whatE28099s-up-with-kingE28099s-landing-game-thrones.html

Season 1:

https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/7/7/4/696774_v1.jpg

Season 8:

https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/7/7/2/696772_v1.jpg

Winterfell looks completely different as well I'm sure.

Admittedly that was burned down and rebuilt.

Kings Landing forgot to moisturize

The article surmises that maybe Euron clear-cut the forest to build more ships, but the geography is still preposterously inconsistent.

Did they specifically say the parley was at King's Landing? I have no idea why Cersei would go elsewhere, but...

(It doesn't look anything like Casterly Rock, either)

As has perhaps been made abundantly obvious by now, Game of Thrones partially abandoned the "real world" King's Landing shooting location of Dubrovnik, Croatia, this season. As many sharp-eyed bloggers pointed out, much of King's Landing in season eight was filmed instead in Spain.

The article surmises that maybe Euron clear-cut the forest to build more ships, but the geography is still preposterously inconsistent.

― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, May 8, 2019 8:13 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think any other explanation other than "they're half-assing it" is too generous with this season

Spent too much on zombies iirc.

Seriously though, given how poor everything has been done, I assume they got rid of the Night King quickly to save on zombie costs.

Also the real reason why the battle was so dark.

I hear they set the series in medieval world because they couldn't afford car chases

The article surmises that maybe Euron clear-cut the forest to build more ships, but the geography is still preposterously inconsistent.

Not only did he clear-cut the forests, but he also ordered everyone to eradicate any trace of the ecosystem, to transport all of the soil and remaining plant matter to another area of the continent, and then cast a spell that makes the forest ecosystem do a time lapse of several years and turn into a desert