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

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

now explain the writing

Just want to share the opposite of an ilx hivemind opinion. Not because I actually have any strong opinions myself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/comments/bm315f/for_all_the_criticism_of_the_show_this_year/

actually the writers cut down the trees to make dialogue out of them

she's been OK this season. I've never been able to shake the idea that she was miscast to begin with.

the whole showdown at the end with cersei was so shitty looking, it reminded me of the castle scenes from monty python & the holy grail

https://i.imgur.com/Ge46CsJ.jpg

OTM

https://i.imgur.com/oNLxb9H.jpg

and i just have to disagree with the reddit post about emilia clarke being a good actress in that final scene. i mean, if she can't pull off an angry face when her best friend in the show gets ruthlessly murdered for no reason...

i should go on their thread and let them know what i think. i mean, people on game of thrones messageboard threads love when people argue that the actors in the show are bad, right?!?

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

They are, but I think filming in Dubrovnik had become unmanageable, partly because of all the tourists who now flood Dubrovnik because of Game of Thrones.

they shoulda started a GOT tourist exchange program where they served as background players

i thought daenarys looked great in that final scene - mostly her outfit and hair. she seemed v imperial looking almost like a character out of legends of the galactic heroes.

have we discussed how Jon was a shitty dog parent in the last episode?

nope, but otm. daenarys also loves to send her children into dangerous situations, but there's probably a lot of peer pressure for her to do so

Clarke looks the part (maybe a little too diminutive) which is most of what's required but I've never felt she was terrible. Her callowness, whether intended or not, fits with my idea of the character.