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

Remember all those theories that Bran was going to go back in time and drive the Mad King mad with whispers? He probably made Dany crack so he could have the throne. The best player wins.

during Tyrion's "stories" speech when he said "and Bran became the three eyed raven" I expected at least half of them to say what the fuck are you talking about

i guess once the star wars and sequel casting is done that's when we can expect a more steady stream of actors talking shit about this season?

xpost It's a bit like, "You know who'd make the best President? This guy who says he was abducted by a UFO and turned into the Great Tuning Station."

I also liked the final scene of the Jon and the wildlings entering the same woods as the Night Watch folks in the beginning of the very first episode. However, since everyone on the internet seems to be coming up with these fanficcy scenarios of how they would've fixed season 8, I also wanna present my idea of how the that ending could've been even better:

The final scene. The Wildlings are about the enter the woods. Jon stops to gaze at them, turns at Tormund, and says:

"At least we won the war against the dead. These woods are safe now."

Tormund smiles, but then all of a sudden something jumps from behind the trees and attacks him! The camera reveals the attacker: it's a wight! In fact it's the same little girl wight who attacked the Nights Watch patrol in that very first scene!

Jon runs to help Tormund, and as he's doing that, in the distance we see a shadowy figure on horseback. The camera begins to zoom on the figure... It's a White Walker! Then we see it has horns like a crown... But it's not the Night King, as we now see that it's a woman! The camera pans on her face, and... It's Ygritte!

"You know nothing, Jon Snow."

Fade to black. End titles.

was Joffrey a symptom or an aberration

Not sure the Night's Watch did still exist and thought the implication was Jon was supposed to re-instigate it. It felt vague to me whether he was going beyond the Wall permanently with the free folk too - maybe just escorting them because of his deep Tormund love

i think he was permanently heading north of the wall, but i only say that because of the long shot of the wall/gate closing behind him as they left. it seemed very "this is the last glimpse he'll ever have of the south of the wall"

not just the shot of the wall, but also the shot of jon looking toward the closing gate

I'm sure Jon told the Night's Watch guys that he was gonna go check if the Wights are really all gone brb

What’s the over/under on how many kids Sam and Gilly wind up with? I bet it’s gonna be in the teens.

I did enjoy that Jon talked to both his sisters before he got around to bowing for the King, who looked at him like a bug

I was impressed that even though I kept looking for the moment when Jon was going to kill Dany, being determined not to be surprised by the obvious thing that was definitely going to happen, it was exactly when I groaned at that stupid overwrought kiss that they decided to do it.

I had the same question about the nights watch and I think we're to assume that greyworm was ok with this because he just didn't fucking know who they were or what they were for, so he was like "yeah sure send him up there" and they were all snickering behind their hands knowing he'd just to hand out with his snow hippies.

just go hang out. goddamn I cannot type.

I got the impression the Night's Watch is now the keeper of harmony between the kingdoms and the people beyond the wall. For now, that'd mean helping the wildlings reestablish their home, right?

This show really went downhill for me after I learned that Benioff's dad was a Goldman Sachs chairman.

Arya is actually travelling to the new world to sell low grade mortgage backed securities backed by the Iron Bank

Arya taking all her genocide knowledge to an undiscovered continent

tyrion's "keeper of the story" speech very strange when apparently anyone with halfway decent calligraphy gets to edit westerospedia and sam dumps a tyrion-free galley proof on his lap.

dude that isn't westerospedia that's kingsguardopedia

you can all go see the new Joanna Hogg film now

Speaking of Joanna, I'd put Tyrion in the book for killing Joanna Lannister alone!

I'd watch a west of Westeros if it happened.

Dany with Drogon's wings spreading out behind her really was an all time geekout awesome shot I can't believe they'd never attempted it before (that I can recall?).

I liked this piece on the shift in storytelling style in the last couple seasons

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/#

dude that isn't westerospedia that's kingsguardopedia

you can all go see the new Joanna Hogg film now

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, May 20, 2019 2:13 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

man, i was choosing between that and high life on saturday and i picked high life like a dummy

Wait did Jamie scribble the "yo they call me kingslayer" bit himself?

ya right above where Brienne wrote FUCCBOI

Lotta people saying, hey, fuck this "he has a great story" shit, Arya has a more interesting story than Bran. But I mean Jon was not only a rightful heir, he was also brought back from the dead! That's a pretty good story.

Rightful heir doesn’t mean much unless you’ve got some force behind that.

Just saying. His whole back story is interesting enough that it comprised a significant part of the show. And ... he was brought back from the dead! Lol that he was such a boring character even being brought back from the dead does not put him on the top tier of interesting stories.

This whole shiw was about how force matters, except when it doesn't (ice zombies, dragons ...).

Wait did Jamie scribble the "yo they call me kingslayer" bit himself?

― Philip Nunez, Monday, May 20, 2019 3:02 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for the first couple decades Jaime was on the Kingsguard, Ser Barristan was the Lord Commander--he wrote the Kingslayer stuff

Character in book: The REAL king is the teller of stories. Even if sometimes he hasn't got time to finish telling his stories

Also, he's super hot, here is his number

Bran went to all that trouble to warg into Drogon, melt the iron throne and conveniently drop Dany in the sea, and then Jon just admitted he killed her. You'd be fumimg

Why aren't Westeros' new millennial leaders having children? Are boomers to blame?

too busy with their Dornish lemon toast

also I guess winter is going, now? I thought it was meant to last years

Along with the profound existential threat posed by the night king, the threat of the longest winter in memory turned out to be another dud. There was barely even any snow on the ground and thick green foliage on the trees in the background during the election scene

What was the point of the last Varys raven note writing scene(s) if it didn't do anything for the story?

xpost Maybe "winter is coming" was just a misreading of "Snow is coming." And then at the end of the show he leaves.

yeah there was a very obvious shot of a 'green shoot' poking through the snow beyond the wall iirc

xxp maybe Bran doesn't have warging-through-time powers after all, just warging into ravens to read the mail

warging peace

Along with the profound existential threat posed by the night king, the threat of the longest winter in memory turned out to be another dud. There was barely even any snow on the ground and thick green foliage on the trees in the background during the election scene

night king dead = no endless winter

pretty standard fantasy stuff tbh

I thought this was the second best episode of the season, after episode two. Some of it even made thematic sense. I could see the books building to Daenarys getting stabbed by Jon Snow, that she would be the last in the line of people like Ned Stark, Robb Stark, Jon Snow (who got better), who tried to lead and change and got killed for it. I still can't see her becoming an insane murderous tyrant, and it ruins everything. It's like the writers don't know the difference between Robespierre and Napoleon.

I had assumed that they were taking big jumps into the future, but the night king explanation makes sense. I guess.

It was dumb but I enjoyed it. I’d watch a pirate queen Arya spin-off.

"I'd watch a west of Westeros if it happened."

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