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

TBF it made sense that he'd check the un-trampled grass in the center of the field.

But seriously though WHERE was the ship the boy was on? Why was he still on it?

was that a ship? i thought it was just his room.

Likely scene showing Jon Snow finally being resurrected and opening his eyes will probably be the last scene in the finale.

kit harington really earning his wage by closing his eyes and then opening them ten hours later

good question, had to look that up. He was on the same ship as Jaime and Myrcella when they headed to King's Landing. So the eye stone he was painting was for Myrcella, presumably.

Which means that somehow the elder two Sand Snakes must have set sail following them (they couldn't have stowed away) on some other vessel.

questions about how characters got from one place to another make me nostalgic for Lost threads

You'd think Jaime would have at least taken him off the boat as a valuable hostage. Overall the scene could have benefited from him asking the snakes how they got there:
"We tailed the ship all the way here to King's Landing"
"When Jaime gets back to the ship he will kill you both for this"
"We're doing you a favor- don't you realize what he'll do to you now that 'someone' in Dorne murdered the princess?"
"It was YOU, wasn't it? You poisoned her! My father will have you executed for this!"
"At this point your father is already dead. Now it's your turn"

Just some similarly terribly written exposition is all I needed.

At the expense of that we instead get this little snarky sassy banter that is trying to get us to like(?) the teenage mutant ninja snakes

always down for some casual sassiness and snark in a scene that involves a teenage boy getting speared through the face

You'd think Jaime would have at least taken him off the boat as a valuable hostage.

why do you bother quibbling about shit like this at this point

the very first shot, i was like, the bad guy watchmen just leave snow's body there? for his friends to find? why? if they're willing to kill snow wouldn't they just kill his friends right then too? what kind of halfassed conspiracy is this

yes i watched this, and i probably will continue to do so, and complain about it!

I'm just saying it is something that springs to mind and becomes distracting because I don't understand the scene. I want things to make sense in the universe of the show and the narrative so I remain immersed. That one doesn't seem too picky in my opinion! Why would he still be on the ship? "Well because it makes killing off his character really convenient" Boooo

the very first shot, i was like, the bad guy watchmen just leave snow's body there? for his friends to find? why? if they're willing to kill snow wouldn't they just kill his friends right then too? what kind of halfassed conspiracy is this

I guess now they know exactly who were the most loyal to Jon?.

honestly i didn't even read the design of that scene as being on a ship so idk

xp wow they're so smart

"Well because it makes killing off his character really convenient"

gotta kills some characters somehow

xxpost Killing Jon is being spun as an act of loyalty to the Watch. Killing Jon's friends as well would have been a harder sell.

xp wow they're so smart

― goole, Monday, April 25, 2016 12:27 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Yeah but they've established that Jon's friends will likely be ambushed and killed if they leave the room, too.

dothraki doing the spanish inquisition sketch re what's better than seeing a beautiful woman naked was kinda funny, but other than that i rly hope we don't have to listen to too much of their goofy fantasy machismo this season

#notalldothraki

didn't realise it was the ships that were burning in Mereen. thanks for the tip ILX.

i caught it from the dialogue but my goodness that was some lousy CG

it seems so late in the game to be setting up this Tyrion as emergency city manager plot. Maybe he'll do such a good job that after Dani conquers the world she decides to hand the throne him before turning into white flames and melting the north

I don't really have any guesses as to where they're taking that plotline...

i think it's just a way for tyrion to regain his power while stalling that whole storyline for another 2 years until martin publishes another book the burned ships are repaired

i mean it seems inevitable that when daenerys FINALLY goes west for the final showdown, tyrion will be at her side with a bunch of power and influence and it'll set up interesting conflicts with his family and westeros in general

this is so sad

https://twitter.com/Cosmopolitan/status/724693841182384128

Ted Cruz's viral female doppelgänger is set to star in porn: http://cosm.ag/6014BmDh6

going way off the books with this twist

lol oh shit

ah well it all fits together somehow *thinkpieces*

doing porn is a route to getting a job on GoT sometimes

miss u rickon

and his direwolf, shaggydog

Candidates do very well in Westeros when they're intensely unlikeable.

Candidates do very well in Westeros when they're intensely unlikeable. unkillable

― Evan, Monday, April 25, 2016 5:08 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seen Bran in preview for next episode, have a feeling he'll connect with Jon. Hope something is revealed about that bird man's place.

That almost ecstatic expression of renewed sense of purpose and duty on Brienne of Tarth's face when Sansa formally accepted her service practically screamed that she's going to die soon.

Was thinking that. Her and Davos are probably toast.

No way, Davos and Brienne are too popular to be killed!

The end of the show is going to be all the popular characters hugging

I'm guessing Varys gets fucked up at some point. Nobody close to Tyrion makes it out of a season in one piece.

Check that, except Bronn. Where he at? Wasn't he on that boat too?

we need some congressional hearings on who was or wasn't on that boat and how fast it was going. #bronngazi

maybe the killing of the son already happened a while ago?

loooool goole

my gf points out that the kid who killed ygritte went thru puberty before filming this season

he wouldn't have killed ygritte after puberty

The last scene was pure room 237

the whole Brienne & Pod vs. a half-dozen Bolton suckers was really hard to figure out for a while until I rewound it about a dozen times and I realized the guy in charge of the dogs? That motherfucker took off the second trouble showed up. That's what they only had to murder 5 out of 6 in the party, and no dogs. Mr. Hound done R-U-N-N-O-F-T as soon as he heard steel on steel, probably before that, actually.

Watch it again. K9 handlers stay the fuck away when a hostage situation gets violent. That's SOP going way back, apparently.

This has basically become a series of unconnected vignettes of varying quality and tone, from genuinely tense and atmospheric (Sansa and Theon) to comedy skits (Dorne and the boob snakes).

I'm vaguely optimistic they'll pull out some proper exhilarating shit as they always have in the past, but for now it's lost a good deal of weight and momentum.

both dorne and the dothraki are basically new adventures of hercules. also can't believe the extent to which they've stalled the daenerys storyline, as mentioned by others itt.

last season was p crappy and rambling too. they seem a bit afraid of actually allowing the characters to do the things they want to do. a lot of stasis. like it is almost funny that they've found a new way for daenerys to be stuck somewhere for good. no doubt in the finale when she finally escapes the dothraki, she'll break her ankle or something.

http://media.vanityfair.com/photos/571938881127b91b7468ae89/master/w_900,c_limit/game-of-thrones-season-6-episode-1-ss07.jpg

state of this guy

I think the house of widows thing seems interesting. She'll probably meet new recruits there.

Feel 100% validated in all my criticisms & it’s obvious it was a lot weaker when it went away from the books.

it seems like these guys could have fairly competently pulled off a 10 episode series based on a standalone 500 pages historical fiction novel, but why the hell tackle a fantasy series if magic gives you the ickies?

tbf they said downplaying the fantasy elements was an HBO directive

It was the last ever episode of Numberblocks this week, now that's how you nail a finale.

Was it infinity? I have yet to see it. I liked the film noir one I saw a while ago.

It was a big song and dance routine about how much more fun you're going to have with numbers in the future, and about how even though you won't see any more of us here, we'll be with you for the rest of your life. It's beautiful! Can't fully explain why but I've cried both times I've watched it, and just typing this is giving me wet eyes again.

Oh and number 42 makes a cameo appearance and he's dressed like Arthur Dent.

I <3 Numberblocks.

The Goldman/Watts prequel has been cancelled.

smart thing to do here is reboot in 2022.

the fire & blood one is still in development, right? that one always seemed like it made more sense as a series anyway

they'll do a Watchmen series type deal. Pick it up fifty years after the end of the main series, have some new threat, etc.

i think the one issue lingering w/the last couple seasons of GOT is that it revealed a fundamental lack of understanding about what had made the show great in the early going, and anyone handing these guys a show where they have to come up with the stories needs to remember that. they did however pull off a genuinely fine direct adaptation in those first four seasons, with few false notes and a welcome resistance to showing too much (much like the novels kept a lot of battle action offscreen).

the first four seasons are great imo, but yeah, these guys can't be trusted to make shit up

Heads up

Casey Bloys saved a final announcement for last: HBO is ordering House of the Dragon, set 100 years before Game of Thrones.

— Joy Press (@Joypress) October 29, 2019

I know just the guys to write it.

Maybe this was well-known, but I just learned (from a video by the battlefield earth screenplay writer) that the big writing error in the first pilot was that they never mentioned that Cersei and Jaime were siblings.

Um, that's bollocks.

Jamie's very first words to Cersei in the pilot are "As your brother..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB6CFhXTt2E

(or was there another test audience style pilot)

yeah they recast a bunch of parts. also:

The title sequence was different
An extensive opening scene showing a poisoned Jon Arryn, desperately trying with his last ounce of strength to write a warning letter, but then collapsing and dying
The early design of the White Walkers was slightly different, particularly their language
Cersei burning the feather Robert left at Lyanna's tomb
Jon gets drunk at the Winterfell feast, as in the novels
More exposition between Jaime and Ned about the Mad King
An actual flashback to the Mad King killing Ned's father and older brother
A scene in the training yard with Bran and Tommen sparring, then Robb and Joffrey (from the books).
Catelyn wanting Sansa to go south, and Luwin being the one to urge Ned to go south
The Jaime/Cersei and Daenerys/Drogo sex scenes were changed

can't wait until we have GoT truthers demanding that Jamie and Cersei are related

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