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

I've often thought Dany could have disappeared from s1 until Tyrion goes to find her and you'd lose nothing

*the end of s1

I've often thought Dany could have disappeared from s1 until Tyrion goes to find her and you'd lose nothing

Enh, you could elucidate all that with Grey Worm, Missandei and some well-written dialogue.

Definitely preferable to the repetitive slog we got.

Eliminate all the characters except Ned and have the last 7 seasons be a shot of his severed head as it decays

Now we're getting somewhere.

a lot of budding screenwriters out there!

i do think there's an inherent danger in letting showrunners co-direct the final episode. it's hard enough to tell D&D that something is dumb, probably even harder when they're the co-directors. the whole auteur thing seems to work best when the auteur is really good

Well yeah, but for better or worse, the writers tried to tell a story of how the thirst for power can lead even the most well-meaning people to commit atrocious acts. And clearly the idea was to make Dany into a viewpoint character, someone whose journey and hardships and victories the viewers could identify, so that her eventual decline into despotism would hit them hard and emphasise their chosen theme. It's arguable whether they succeeded in doing what they set to do, but it certainly wouldn't have worked at all if Dany wasn't one of the main characters.

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I've often thought Dany could have disappeared from s1 until Tyrion goes to find her and you'd lose nothing
I too also think this show should have had fewer female lead characters with any agency.

hahahah!

enh, repeating the same savior arc for four seasons is a boring use of agency

can bran see the future, or just the past

Actor Isaac Hempstead-Wright, who plays Bran in the show, admitted that the scope of his character's premonitions are limited. "As I understand it, Bran can’t exactly see the future. I think he can have inklings," he told the New York Times in an interview about Season 8. For example, when he gave Arya the Valyrian steel catspaw dagger last season, he knew she'd use it for something important, but not that she'd specifically kill the Night King with it, the actor explained.

Yeah it's like when Young Ned could almost hear Bran. Maybe future Bran yells at past Bran knowing he'll get just enough of the gist.

In conclusion my spinoff idea is called The Lawnmower Bran

I too also think this show should have had fewer female lead characters with any agency.

Not buying this. Cersei, Arya, Sansa, and Brienne were the best characters. You want to turn any number of male characters into female roles, I’m fine with that. Eliminating the white savior character with a single facial expression is no loss.

Why no love for Diana Rigg?

best main characters

rigg was top 3 multi-season tertiaries tho

Zizek weighs in, because why not

The finale combines the rejection of a radical change with an old anti-feminist motif at work in Wagner. For Wagner, there is nothing more disgusting than a woman who intervenes in political life, driven by the desire for power. In contrast to male ambition, a woman wants power in order to promote her own narrow family interests or, even worse, her personal caprice, incapable as she is of perceiving the universal dimension of state politics.

The same femininity which, within the close circle of family life, is the power of protective love, turns into obscene frenzy when displayed at the level of public and state affairs. Recall the lowest point in the dialogue of Game of Thrones when Daenerys tells Jon that if he cannot love her as a queen then fear should reign – the embarrassing, vulgar motif of a sexually unsatisfied woman who explodes into destructive fury.

But – let’s bite our sour apple now – what about Daenerys’ murderous outbursts? Can the ruthless killing of the thousands of ordinary people in King’s Landing really be justified as a necessary step to universal freedom? At this point, we should remember that the scenario was written by two men.

Daenerys as the Mad Queen is strictly a male fantasy, so the critics were right when they pointed out that her descent into madness was psychologically not justified. The view of Daenerys with mad-furious expression flying on a dragon and burning houses and people expresses patriarchal ideology with its fear of a strong political woman.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/game-thrones-season-8-finale-bran-daenerys-cersei-jon-snow-zizek-revolution-a8923371.html

Like to give a shout out to Oleanna Tyrel aka the Queen of Thorns for being the most hilarious shit talker in the 7 kingdoms

i don't know zizek, have you considered the pic forks posted above

http://i.imgur.com/z7iHD54.png

haha

yeah, I imagine there are/will be more academic papers on GoT than there were on Buffy.

She didn't sit on the throne because it was a replica made of wax.

Surely someone has truthered the physics of whether dragon fire can melt iron.

I am still annoyed about Khal being able to melt gold jewelry using an ordinary campfire.

yeah, I imagine there are/will be more academic papers on GoT than there were on Buffy.

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, May 21, 2019

never been more glad I got out of the game when i did

xpost Maybe it was a magical campfire, have you considered that?

Uhm I adore Zizek but to say her outbursts were not justified? I don't agree. (She was prone to outbursts. It was Tyrion who held her in check imo.)

10% lolz ratio minimum in the replies

just here for the memes

— Maisie Williams (@Maisie_Williams) May 20, 2019

Ha, maybe this is why Drogon torched the throne.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7BsCbwU8AAo9nd.jpg

never been more glad I got out of the game when i did

The only winning move etc.

Uhm I adore Zizek but to say her outbursts were not justified? I don't agree. (She was prone to outbursts. It was Tyrion who held her in check imo.)

i like when cersei says "ser gregor stay by my side" but it sounds like she calls him "ser wiggles" which is totally what i wd call him

did Ser Pounce survive the Daenerys genocide?

Ser Wiggles sounds like someone from Parliament’s “Gamin’ On Ya Thrones” LP

Pretty good call:

🤷🏼‍♀️ https://t.co/Sbmeedgkhp

— Gwendoline Christie (@lovegwendoline) May 22, 2019

Say what you will about the #GameOfThronesFinale, the John Hughes homage was a bold choice to end on. pic.twitter.com/kKJrJyV9d7

— Dan Olson (@FoldableHuman) May 20, 2019

As long as Drogon got to burninate the thatched-roof cottages, I'm happy.

Žižek is the worst. Always.

but also zizek is a clown. iirc he didn’t start out that way but act a fool for long enough and something something your face will stick that way

I liked this show, liked the finale, would rewatch

more ser wiggles fun:

when wiggles at last removes his helmet his little brother heaves a vast "fuck me" sigh and is clearly thinking and very nearly saying "this bad stars-wars fan service is bad and you should feel bad"

https://chaser.com.au/general-news/jk_rowling_announces_jon_snow_is_gay

I'm a little stunned they never killed off Bran. He was the worst part of the books and show and I kept waiting for him to die.

bran is the leto ii of this story

here he is saying "just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in"
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/dune/images/8/86/Sandra-yagi-god-emperor-of-dune.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190309191118

I would have preferred for the Night King to kill Bran before being stabbed by Arya, forcing humanity to find a way forward without magic seer memory bookdudes

well that's my halloween costume sorted for this year xp

Graphic depictions of Leto II are never short of amazing

omg

https://photos.travelblog.org/Photos/95057/1020114/f/9864325-Leto-II-0.jpg

Made for the 2017 Venice Beach Siyanoq Festival iirc

lonely worm just thinking baout things