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

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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.

the House Umber dude is a captive of the Freys, iirc -- he's a tall gray-haired dude that's played by one of "those guys that are in lots of things". The present giver could be a relative? Don't think it's Rickon unless they're radically changing things from the books again ... which is possible.

sarahell, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 07:09 (seven years ago) link

Did Benioff and Weiss watch the scene in The Force Awakens where a father and son meet at the halfway point of a narrow bridge above a vast chasm, which ends with the father falling to his death, and think, 'damn, don't we have the same scene in our next season?'

painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 10:28 (seven years ago) link

A similar scene, I should say. Brothers, instead of father and son, in GoT's case.

painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 10:30 (seven years ago) link

You're right, it's Smalljon Umber, the heir, according to a bunch of GoT wikis. And who is dead in the books, apparently.

bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 12:03 (seven years ago) link

i enjoyed this week's ep p well, but i do think this show has prob slid into being a kind of walking dead "why do i watch this" compulsion. last season was p crap as i recall.

max von sydow was good.

i also liked that they put that little shit who stabbed jon snow in the cells.

japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 12:21 (seven years ago) link

I think it's pretty obvious why you watch this - to see Ramsay get murked

bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 12:26 (seven years ago) link

don't feel as keen for him to die as i did with joffrey. tbh would prefer sam to die.

japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 12:33 (seven years ago) link

lol who?

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link

you had me doubting his name was sam there. he is still alive, right? on the way... somewhere, with tilly.

japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link

there's gonna be some lol-some dysfunctional Tarley family action

sarahell, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link

haha yes he's still alive, just hasn't been seen or heard from since Commander Jon sent him to Oldtown to get his PhD

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link

he's headed to Maesterville to figure out if there's a way to defeat the ice zombies and will end up dealing with his overbearing dad

sarahell, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link

I hope that happens this season, should be pretty cool

sacral intercourse conducive to vegetal luxuriance (askance johnson), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link

Since Euron didn't turn out to be played by Ian McShane, he's got to be Old Man Tarly, which is gonna rule.

pratt truss it (dan m), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link

nope he's a priest, James Faulkner is Sam's dad

Clay, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link

yeah mcshane was in the news a while back dropping spoilers and it is clear from that who he plays. it is only a bit part.

Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link

FUCK

pratt truss it (dan m), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 21:09 (seven years ago) link

McShane is the priest that saves the Hound iirc

sarahell, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link

Is Richard e grant coming up in this or did I dream that?

scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link

I thought McShane was going to be that magic-loving maester that Sam bumps into.

Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link

MARVYN THE MAGE

ogmor, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link

Priest that saves the Hound? Spoiler?

Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 22:21 (seven years ago) link

It's just a book theory. People want the Hound to be saved. Nobody knows.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link

The Hound is dead.

Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link

it will be conclusively resolved by the show ala robert strange

ogmor, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link

*strong

I'm tired

ogmor, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link

Is Richard e grant coming up in this or did I dream that?

He is - hes the one *I* was hoping'd be Sams dad but apparently his is also a bit part, playing the head of some troupe of fucking travelling mummers, wtf.

Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 23:14 (seven years ago) link

i thought common folk having a good time was forbidden in westeros

Well you can have a good time but a resurrected warmonger of one stripe or another will have your brains in the next scene

bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 02:51 (seven years ago) link

I did like that peasant guy telling the story about how he got his huge wang out and waved it at Cersei.

Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 03:19 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, oddly enough! It was trivial, vile, and stupid, but the actor's plummy delivery actually kind of saved it. I'll wait and see whether that has some kind of orthogonal plot implication for Ser Strong & the King's Landing commoner uprising situation; it could also just have been included just so we have an idea what Strong is capable of, to set up the kingsguard pantswetting scene that followed.

bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 03:32 (seven years ago) link

One thing about this show that has changed over the years is that I definitely look for the Chekhov's Gun in every scene. I think that's less a testament to my "plot detective" skills as it is their increasing efficiency at covering a truly massive amount of story information within a different medium and in very limited time.

bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 03:38 (seven years ago) link

maybe Thoros of Myr will come across that dude's corpse lying in its own drunken piss and resurrect him, and it'll turn out he really does have the biggest johnson in Westeros, and Azor Ahai, oh my

bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 03:41 (seven years ago) link

lol

Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 04:11 (seven years ago) link

that's not "plummy"

conrad, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 06:17 (seven years ago) link

that whole scene was p weird, had the feeling of a kind of stereotypical football yob

japanese mage (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 10:14 (seven years ago) link

hi thx for great thread! i watched this and it's pretty good, esp if you are a bit confused like me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bltw7dIO_V8

video2000, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 12:27 (seven years ago) link

sorry if this has been asked before but, did anyone find the Zombie Mountain's introduction a bit... abrupt? Last I remember seeing him, he was still pretty much being operated on, now he's just following Cersei around and she's all 'nbd'? Did I miss something?

TARANTINO! (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link

Pycelle introduced him to Cersei when she completed her walk of shame in the final episode of last season.

groovypanda, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:10 (seven years ago) link

i'm p sure you mean qyburn

dynamicinterface, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:20 (seven years ago) link

can someone remind me who all the Dorne people were in the last episode and what relation they are to the prancing guy who got his head busted in?

kinder, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:29 (seven years ago) link

His girlfriend and various daughters of various lovers. The guy who got stabbed was his brother Doran.

Evan, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:50 (seven years ago) link

Did I miss something?

he picked her up and carried her in the season finale

Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:03 (seven years ago) link

I liked how Tyrion spent all that time confirming that the dragons were cool with Missandei and then decided to go in alone with only a terrified Varys as backup.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:35 (seven years ago) link

And why did he ask to be punched in the face if he had an idea like that again? It went fine!

I am using your worlds, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link

He's so going to get punched in the face.

TARANTINO! (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link

It was a really stupid risk.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:30 (seven years ago) link

needed to go down like that to maybe support ~a theory~ i guess?

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link

Ah yeah a workmate floated that theory y'day, it hadnt at all occurred to me (but I havent read the books). Makes hella lot of sense tho.

Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 23:38 (seven years ago) link


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