didn't she land on dry ground and they jumped into a snow pile?
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 2 May 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
i was thinking there would be some focus on "king's blood" as being special and as a foreshadowing of future revelations but other than showing her sponging him down for a weird amount of time that didnt happen.
― ryan, Monday, May 2, 2016 12:28 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark
Waiting For Gendry
― 龜, Monday, 2 May 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
i believe there was a snow pile down there, plus feet first vs head first
― nomar, Monday, 2 May 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
xp i don't think we saw what they jumped into at all and the clear implication was that they'd rather commit suicide than deal with psycho mantis again
― ulysses, Monday, 2 May 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
a john snow pile
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 May 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
the greyjoy/iron islands shit feels a bit removed from the main action but it's awesome doom metal action, polar opposite of the cafe del mar court intrigue poisoning sullen teen BS of dorne.
― nomar, Monday, 2 May 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
ya iron islands r tite
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 May 2016 16:52 (eight years ago) link
whos the guy who pushed the king off the bridge its his brother? whats the deal
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 May 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
his name is like euchalele or something
― 龜, Monday, 2 May 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
eunuchalele actually
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 2 May 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link
euron the crow's eye, he crazy, i like y'all's suggestions better though
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 2 May 2016 17:00 (eight years ago) link
eunuch ukulele
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
idk why the karstarks would prefer to ramsay to roose
― dynamicinterface, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
the show has three key supporting characters who are eunuchs a fourth might be pushing it
― nomar, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
also is max von sydow's name really just 'three eyed crow' ?
― dynamicinterface, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
need to balance it out with a guy who has four dicks imo
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
well it would make sense because eunuchs come in pairs
― 龜, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
the show has a bunch of Starks but that didn't stop them from bringing in Car-Starks
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 2 May 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
are car starks just starks who drive cars
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link
really missing concepcion's ask the maester pieces this season
― dynamicinterface, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
karstarks seem deeply unchill, their dead leader killed a couple lannister kids in S3, which seems more a ramsay move than a roose move.
― nomar, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
p sure it's kars in westeros but yes that's the main difference
― dynamicinterface, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
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apparently u cn receive them via the ringer newsletter theres a link to one upthread
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
― dynamicinterface, Monday, May 2, 2016 1:03 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the book sez it's brynden rivers, i think, i wouldnt be surprised if they brought it up at some point
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 2 May 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
books say that Hodor's real name is Walder too, not Willis as in the show
― pratt truss it (dan m), Monday, 2 May 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
whatutalkinabout walder
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link
Karstarks' name is explained as basically some Starks that took control of the Karhold & made a portmanteau
― pratt truss it (dan m), Monday, 2 May 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link
I think Ramsay was giving the Karstarks a chance to climb up over the other big Northern houses.
Jaime killed Rickard Karstark's sons (both of them?), and he was hellbent on avenging the loss of his heirs, it was pretty consistently characterized (perhaps more so in the books).
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Monday, 2 May 2016 17:13 (eight years ago) link
xpost they already have a Walder tho
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 2 May 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
subplot of the shit in the north is people who have been pissed at the starks for decades or centuries finding their chance to take revenge
― nomar, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
I find it best not to pay attention to the North stuff too closely
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 2 May 2016 17:15 (eight years ago) link
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― lag∞n, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:15 (eight years ago) link
xps thx for the tip
― dynamicinterface, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:15 (eight years ago) link
So in the "next on..." clips this week, they show a guy (pretty sure it's the lord of House Umber, the other big northern house that was mentioned being allied with the Boltons) telling Ramsay "I've brought you a present" - I guarantee it's Rickon Stark.This means that Ramsay doesn't have to march on Castle Black, he can just send word he's got Rickon hostage and then Jon and Sansa will march on Winterfell. As foretold etc. etc.
Still wondering if/when we'll get to see Littlefinger again, or what role he has left to play.Melisandre is also totally expendable now, I think? Obviously she might want to stick around to see what happens next but her main plot function has now been satisfied.
Also I like that the dragons were penned up in something like a garage - one little door for people, some other bigger door elsewhere for the dragons?
Lastly for now - I think the Ironborn role has to be to serve as the replacement fleet to get Daenaerys & Co. to Westeros. Possibly a little too neat that we burned her armada in Ep. 1 (why exactly, btw? what do the Sons of the Harpy care about keeping them from leaving? I haven't figured that one out) and then in Ep. 2 we re-introduce a seafaring pirate culture that was almost completely absent for a season & a half.
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Monday, 2 May 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
I've heard they've altered book names just because they're too close to existing show characters and it would be confusing. Hence Willis.
― Evan, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link
The real identity of the three eyed crow is an unsolved mystery in the books as well, so I'm guessing they won't give it away right now. But yeah, Brynden Rivers is the most common guess (who is from the prequels and all. It's complicated, it seems)
― Frederik B, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
Melisandre is also totally expendable now, I think? Obviously she might want to stick around to see what happens next but her main plot function has now been satisfied.
Yeah, she already reached her boob quota in episode 1. xxp
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Monday, 2 May 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
Melisandre presumably will have her faith restored and would fall into some kind of similar role she did with Stannis? Maybe not so manipulative going forward though. Just a guess.
― Evan, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
can't wait for legendary mercenary swordsman Willis to show up
https://media.giphy.com/media/gk6r53AIv3wf6/giphy.gif
― nomar, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
Another silly thing about the plot in the north is Ramsay killing Wanda Frey, and pretty openly, when like half his army is Freys. At least in the book it seems that way.
― Frederik B, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:24 (eight years ago) link
Melisandre is possibly one of the most powerful and useful characters if she is happy to keep resurrecting people. I've always believed that some of the much older characters will be revived.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link
seems like a longshot to redeem melisandre.. she burned a little kid alive!
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 2 May 2016 17:33 (eight years ago) link
davos giving her a peptalk was really funny to me
― call all destroyer, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
having bringing back ppl from the dead be a thing seems bad from a storytelling pov, like time travel
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link
the whole "jon snow is really dead" stuff makes me thing it's gonna be a semantic thing--he's gonna be "dead" according to some kind of logic--what is dead may never die?
― ryan, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
At this point, what "jon snow is really dead" stuff are you referring to?
― Evan, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
the logic would be, he entered into contract with Night's Watch, LLC that was binding until death
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 2 May 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link
2x "whatchoo talkin' bout, Willis?" jokes in recaps so far
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Monday, 2 May 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
Oh yes, I believe "his watch has ended".
Found that shaving the 3 eyed raven made his character look less like a mystical tree wizard and more like a senior citizen who fell in a hole and got himself trapped during a stroll through the park.
― Evan, Monday, 2 May 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link
i am really enjoying hating this even more this season! it's so dumb, everyone in it is dumb.
the trouble with a show full of shocking surprises is that the end effect is that you're never shown anything important. all of the thinking and acting that makes anything happen is all happening off screen. instead of tyrion and the eunuch having another unfunny conversation about castration (does george rr martin know the difference between cock and balls btw), why don't we take a look at whoever it is burned the boats? you know nobody is going to expend any effort to figuring it out. besides saying "we're trying to find who did it"
― goole, Monday, 2 May 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link