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

Priest that saves the Hound? Spoiler?

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

The Hound is dead.

it will be conclusively resolved by the show ala robert strange

*strong

I'm tired

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

lol

that's not "plummy"

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

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

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?

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

i'm p sure you mean qyburn

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?

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

Did I miss something?

he picked her up and carried her in the season finale

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.

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

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

It was a really stupid risk.

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

yup

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/game-of-thrones-confirmed-tyrion-theory_us_5726f98ae4b0b49df6ababa8

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.

Tyrion would make an excellent dragon jockey

it would be kinda sweet if daenerys, jon snow, and tyrion all ended up being dragon heroes at the end because it would add some additional mystery and suspense to the ending - would they turn on each other in a last-minute bid for power, or cooperate together in power, or dismantle the power structure together entirely (ie the "breaking the wheel" that daenerys mentioned at some point in season 5)

as one of the millions of people who correctly predicted (inside their head, not publicly) that the final shot of the episode featuring jon snow's revival would end with him opening his eyes in terror followed closely by a blackout and the credits, i just want to note at this early point that i hope the last shot of the last episode of game of thrones is a non sequitur cut to the red woman exposing her boobs one last time for no reason

Withered or still in the flush of hottness?

imho "breaking the wheel" will involve the end of magic / supernatural stuff, like the elves & wizards leaving Middle Earth at the end of the Third Age

xpost doesn't really matter, just one last flash of any sort would be appropriate

whats confusing to me that these characters are all children of some seriously fucked up people that we're supposed to like? or something? I guess the key is theyre all breaking with the past and making something new..

Jon's parents aren't bad!

depends on who you think his parents are!

Yeah and the Starks were all decent people werent they?

Relatively

I miss the Hound now. Would be great if he came back but his last scene was great.

Thought this episode was a lot better at Getting Things Going, though there is still so much character juggling happening that there is no easy way to fit everything into each episode. You can tell they really need to tie up a lot of loose ends to get everyone facing the right direction for whatever they have in mind, but that's not a bad thing, as long as they keep the pace up.

I thought this and the last one seemed a little more TV-y, in terms of pace, beats and punchlines, which is probably for the best, since it is TV.

depends on who you think his parents are!

I was trying to be coy here, but whoever his parents are, none of them were sociopaths or psychopaths on the order or Aerys or Tywin.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Maisie_Williams%2C_Sophie_Turner%2C_Alfie_Allen%2C_Richard_Madden_and_Kit_Harington_%28cropped%29.jpg

I just recently learned that Theon is Lily Allen's brother.

they all look years younger than they ever did on the show, did reading the books as preparation rob them of their youthful innocence

Who is the guy on the far right?

kit Harrington innit?

Yeah totally

http://youtu.be/Sr2Grfi3lFg