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

my coworker said he cant wait for Jon Snow to kill Danerys in the finale. ?!?
i was like rmde dude Jon Snow hasn’t done a decisive goddamn thing in the past, what, two seasons at least. balls to that.
If anyone kills her it’ll be Sansa or Arya.

I reckon yr coworker is correct tbh

I think we should’ve all predicted this turn of events given Grimes/Elon Musk sideplot last year, tbh

A stabby ball of Jon / Sansa / Arya stuck in the doorframe.

That trailer for the last episode has somebody saying that was Emilia's final scene. Showing her walking. So I guess they probably film out of sequence or that would be too much of a spoiler?

& thinking of spoilers does GRRM look forward into the future of Westeros anywhere? I have seen reference to prehistory several times just wondering if there is anything looking forward to centuries after the current contemporary whenever that is. Though sounds like he hasn't caught up with where the tv series has.

I'm looking forward to the point where Westeros finally invents the internal combustion engine, the microwave oven and the internet.

I think they have, but that it's kept secret by the Maesters of Oldtown. That weird Sam epilogue of book four has to go somewhere!

^^^ there is a kind of iceberg plot in the deep background of the books that does involve the technological development of westeros and seemed just at the point of surfacing when they stalled. haven't seen the show since s3 but it seems to have shed it. if show euron feels somehow vestigial this is probably why.

So I guess they probably film out of sequence or that would be too much of a spoiler?

yes

It's funny to see that trailer for the making-of documentary. When the LotR films came out on DVD, accompanied by all those documentaries and extra scenes with the greenskeepers and the costume designers and the effects people, those stories were such an integral part of the whole exercise. Now, though, because I only watch things on box sets on the TV, or streamed over the internet, I don't see those extras anymore, so I haven't really seen any of the behind-the-scenes stuff.
Although I probably will buy the DVDs of GoT when the whole thing is done and you can get them all in one big lovely special edition cardboard dragon, if only so that I don't end up having to rely on the version they release in ten years' time with new effects and whatever terrible filters they will have then.

^^^ there is a kind of iceberg plot in the deep background of the books that does involve the technological development of westeros and seemed just at the point of surfacing when they stalled..

I hadn’t realized it but the plot mirror in the episode is Sandor: he knows the keep will burn and fall and Arya doesn’t need to personally take out Cersei, but he’s incapable of just letting things play out because he never made it past the damage his family did

I don't agree with this at all. Season 6 and 7 Sandor had definitely moved on. He was perfectly happy to hang around helping to build Ian McShane's sept, and only left there to rejoin the Brotherhood after some of their rogue members slaughtered the village. Nothing on-screen in season 8 indicates that he had gone back to wanting revenge on his brother no matter the cost.

It seemed to me that seeing the village slaughtered proved to him that finding peace was impossible

xp I would buy that except for the fact he goes up the stairs to confront him! Right after saying the building is coming down!

he just wanted to see his weird head

hmm, relatable

I've watched this episode now and genuinely thought it was the best since maybe season 5. The purposeless chaos in KL, characters dying without being given prestige battle death farewells, plans being useless and people being dumb, these are all good things AFAIC. The real weakness was in the few episodes leading up to it.

Jon is 100% an idiot and he didn't understand the 'gods flip a coin' thing, that was one of the best moments

It just occurred to me that the Clegane Bros falling into the fire reminded me of a flaming Denethor unceremoniously plummeting to his death in the background of a shot in The Return of the King.

I don't remember it as a background shot. My memory was that it was tracking his extremely long jog (while on fire) to the edge, and it continued to zoom out to show the battle was still happening below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i0a7RDPkM8

I was going to post that. It's pretty boring to my ears, but I was reading some comments that were all wtf re: Brad Paisley, not realizing that he is a) a secret shredder and b) at least as good a player as anyone else on that stage, and possibly better.

I was reading some comments that were all wtf re: Brad Paisley

im more like wtf dan weiss, maybe he should stop doing dead-eyed post-show interviews and take his show on the road

just read the ep 6 spoilers and hoo boy

do you mean spoilers or "spoilers" aka more fan theories?

there's been some spoilers posted on reddit that have, thus far, been pretty much correct

yeah, pretty much confirmed spoilers with not much left to the imagination

lol at "sounds like guitar center 1988"

Yeah there was a production leak of the plot points of the last two episodes and everything about episode 5 ended up being correct

yeah Paisley being a legit virtuoso is not much of a secret in my experience; he is highly regarded by many people who simultaneously hate his music.

I think it kind of is a secret! At least to those who don't listen to country. That is, I was reading comments below the video on youtube (I think) and there were all these people expressing surprise to see Paisley in with all these more traditional/recognizable virtuosos. I think it's simply that those who know hard rock dudes like Nuno/Scott Ian/Morello maybe don't listen to country. Even in the video they kind of call Brad in as an afterthought, and he gets a couple of special reaction shots. I wonder if even Morello or Nuno or Scott Ian knew Brad Paisley had serious chops? (Vince Gill is another country shredder who I bet flies way under the shredder radar, but unlike Paisley I doubt he was raised on Van Halen licks).

Meantime, the Americans are at it again (talking about other places):

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-col1-game-of-thrones-northern-ireland-20190516-htmlstory.html

A visitor has to walk only a few minutes from the hotel to reach the Cathedral Quarter, the city’s vibrant nightlife district, where you can sip elderflower cocktails along with the more traditional pints of Guinness. The city now has plenty of craic — a.k.a. fun — to offer.

thank god belfast's wildfire problems are behind it

Meanwhile

More than 400,000 sign petition for Game of Thrones season eight remake https://t.co/p2Jv1nS8YI

— The Guardian (@guardian) May 16, 2019

I think it should continue to be remade for the rest of eternity

I noticed that somebody was sharing fan edits of episodes on piratebay over the last few days.

Vince Gill is another country shredder who I bet flies way under the shredder radar, but unlike Paisley I doubt he was raised on Van Halen licks).

I always lol when I think about his feather-haired time in Pure Prairie League.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BgYbjlEKCg

This one is where it's at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fHOHfjFYBM

Peaks here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ljrPfsa50

Of all the dumb surprises merely for the sake of surprising/misleading the audience by whatever means possible, I'm probably most sad that Cersei had nothing up her sleeve? At all?

idk seems to me that most of her plans were crossbow-related

there was a plan for an even larger crossbow, but she ran out of time

This show gets worse and worse episode by episode, season by season. Expecting next week’s finale to be a big self-important hot turd

last ep the dragon takes his face off and he's Jaqen H'ghar and he goes "valor morghulis" and burns the remaining characters to death

that's way better than whatever actually will happen

clip show

bloopers

all CGI scenes replaced with sketches a la the original Neon Genesis Evangelion ending

my prediction is they're going to have jon kill dany, probably not become king for whatever reason - maybe he'll be killed for killing dany. but the goodies will end up in power - sam, tyrion, davos, brienne on kings council (altho some of these may die too) - queen sansa or some such.

Montage set to "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)."

xp. there will be really implausible, dumb, plot-holey stuff passim