a girl can now take AP Chemistry
― ulysses, Monday, 9 May 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link
the poisons stuff was to train acuity in touch, smell etc. to go along with the daredevil sonar fighting
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Monday, 9 May 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
I like how the evil maester was able to co-opt varys entire spy network by giving little kids candy
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 9 May 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link
When you see people constantly show up to a thread for years to pick it apart and/or complain about it, that means we're all fans that are deeply invested in the story and hold it to high standards. When it doesn't meet expectations we get upset at it and we keep watching it.
ILX also has this superiority thing where we all want to remind each other that we don't find the writing or acting satisfactory. However, even reddit can't stomach the sand snakes for instance.
― Evan, Monday, 9 May 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
they're bad! Badly acted, badly written and very silly.
― ulysses, Monday, 9 May 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
I think theres been quite a few people who say it sucks and they don't know why they keep watching.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 9 May 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
I agree that young Ned was perfectly fine. I was wowed by the guy who played Dayne, though -- double-handed long-sword ninja! Except he's supposed to have a single huge broadsword in the books, but whatevs, the show version is clearly a player.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Monday, 9 May 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
I laughed. I don't know if you intended the level of grave seriousness and torment I imagined.
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Monday, 9 May 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, May 9, 2016 12:44 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Cause they feel guilty about the fact that they're invested?
And yes the sand snakes are objectively terrible I wasn't saying anything contrary to that.
― Evan, Monday, 9 May 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
the dialogue is just really exceptionally bad this season. the scene where onion knight was talking to jon and telling him he needs to fight on was terrible. tyrion being bored w/ worm dude. sam having boring chit-chat on stormy boat. brann having boring arguments w/ tree-man. cercei and jaime having boring attempts to join the council. head sparrow giving boring speech about virtue to tommen.
― Mordy, Monday, 9 May 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
Are you going to watch the next episode?
― Evan, Monday, 9 May 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
yeah, i've already seen all the other episodes - i'm pot committed at this pt.
― Mordy, Monday, 9 May 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
they could have gotten a lot more mileage out of Jon Snow's return tbh, like more of a reaction from the wildlings and certainly some kind of reaction from Alliser and co. i was looking forward to a moment where they bring them out for execution and their executioner is...whoa Jon Snow omgwtf. or some single moment where his return is more of a big deal. i am totally cool with him coming back but i think they sort of fucked it up a bit. looking forward to the bastard and whoever joins him facing off against the Bolton crew though.
― nomar, Monday, 9 May 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link
i'm personally enjoying Bran and the ghost of christmas past and their tour of old timey westeros. i thought the ned casting was good, he had the bean look.
― nomar, Monday, 9 May 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
like more of a reaction from the wildlings
Hey Tormund's pecker zinger was plenty good!
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Monday, 9 May 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
Yeah it was really weird that they didn't react much to the reborn Jon.
I did like how Tormund looked like he was about to fall asleep during the execution.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 9 May 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
Tormund's Peckerzinger is Finland's #1 Cookie
― ulysses, Monday, 9 May 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
Nothing on this thread is as bad as the S6 season premiere open thread on Balloon Juice: https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/04/24/winter-is-coming-2/
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Monday, 9 May 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
I stopped watching this show around last season and only check this thread to make sure I'm not missing anything lol
― Οὖτις, Monday, 9 May 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link
― nomar, Monday, May 9, 2016 12:57 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Agreed, all a bit rushed and anti-climactic. Not upset with it really, just kind of surprised. Even up until the end when Jon exits the scene more like he needs to take a shit really bad and less like he handed over the responsibility of lord commander over to his very best still living friend (besides Sam). I'm aware they were showing how that execution was the last straw for him but the "I died technically so this is allowed" loop hole should have maybe been a bit more accented?
― Evan, Monday, 9 May 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
Jaime and Cersei are totally going to have Ser Strong kill everyone on the Small Council. Kevan should have kept his ideas to himself.
Smalljon Umber is totally playing Ramsay with the offer of hostages. Ramsay's dead before the end of the season.
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Monday, 9 May 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
What makes it so significantly bad to you / how does it stand out? Isn't it just (arguably) one of many occasional clumsily written and acted scenes?
Oh man, two baby shots? No revelations except that "Old Town Is The Most Beautiful City In Westeros".
I hate this show.
I watched the first season, was transfixed. I read the first three books, and realized in Book 2 that I had no interest in Daenarys or Jon Snow and started skipping their chapters. I read online that Books 4 and 5 were bad, so I didn't read them and decided to let HBO read them for me.
I've gone from "caring about all but one character" to "not caring about any". All of the potential plot seeds that were sown in Book 1 went nowhere. Too many competing mythologies and religions rubbing up against each other.
I privately hold that GRR Martin is a faker, he's Dan Brown without an ending, that there is no arc in place, that he's been winging it, and that there will be no resolution to this series. The show will be cancelled next season and no further books will be published. All the cool theories that people've come up with online (i.e. Arya will band together with White Walkers and there will be a climactic battle of ice zombies vs. dragons) seem cool but unplausible given GRR Martin's glacial pace and feeling that we're treading water. I watch the show now to complain about it and to watch it expire, or perhaps settle into an long-running ecumenically written soap opera.
I did notice that the score changed dramatically this past episode and believe the budget was possibly cut for this season.. I think more perceptive people have noticed similar things about the CGI
― fgti, Monday, 9 May 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
congrats to Eddison on his new position, btw
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 9 May 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
i suspect we will remain at the wall for a bit next episode (looked like sansa was arriving there in the preview?) but i suspect we won't see it again until the white walkers overrun it at some point.
― nomar, Monday, 9 May 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
Xpost score for season 1 was cheap sounding and dimwitted, iirc he did a lot better for season 2 and 3 but I haven't noticed it much these last few, other than the incessant fucking taiko drums, and L Shankar style violin whenever we are overseas
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Monday, 9 May 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
I'm so glad Natalia Tena / Tonks / Osha is back on the show btw.
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Monday, 9 May 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
Yeah but she's in nightmare city now :/
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 9 May 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
I privately hold that GRR Martin is a faker
You have failed this adverb
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Monday, 9 May 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
That's probably true about GRRM TBH.
― Matt DC, Monday, 9 May 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
how the fuck did they make those big ass stallion sculptures btw?please note i don't actually want an answer to that question
― ulysses, Monday, 9 May 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link
magic!
― Οὖτις, Monday, 9 May 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
the way they scale in this shot they are fucking gargantuan and kind of impossible to imagine how they would be erected (especially by a nomadic tribe... that has a capital city?)http://static6.techinsider.io/image/571fddbe52bcd022008bf1c5-1920-1080/vaes%20dothrak%20overview%20season%20six%20game%20of%20thrones.png
― ulysses, Monday, 9 May 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
where's waldo bonus points for the one white lady in that shot
― ulysses, Monday, 9 May 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
why did umber even bother to bring osha w/rickon?
― dynamicinterface, Monday, 9 May 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
Some of the things in this shot are small..
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 9 May 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
Isn't Vaes Dothrak where they also bring all their slaves and captives? presumably at some point some Khal got the idea to raid him some braavosi caravans or something and bring back some ore, a few sculptors and architects, et voila
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Monday, 9 May 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
Did they show the statues when we went to Vaes Dothrak in S1?
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 9 May 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
yeah and they were nowhere near that size; that's part of my beefhttp://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/gameofthrones/images/0/0d/Dothrakhorses.jpg/revision/latest%3Fcb%3D20150924094615
― ulysses, Monday, 9 May 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
wow they were MUCH smaller! damn
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 9 May 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
lol indeed http://www.businessinsider.com/game-of-thrones-daenerys-vaes-dothrak-2016-4
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Monday, 9 May 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
http://brabbu.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/travelling-through-game-of-thrones-scenarios-10.jpglol continuity i guess
― ulysses, Monday, 9 May 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
statues were recast obv
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 9 May 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
prob by daario
― ulysses, Monday, 9 May 2016 19:34 (seven years ago) link
They just raided and stole some bigger horse statues, nbd.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Monday, 9 May 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
hardmode vaes dothrak
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Monday, 9 May 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
If pulling explanations out of our asses helps, then perhaps ancient Dothraki cultures were more advanced, and all that remains to show for it are those giant statues.
― Evan, Monday, 9 May 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
maybe the producers wanted it to look bigger so they made it bigger
― ulysses, Monday, 9 May 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link
maybe the other entrance has smaller horses
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 9 May 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
man dire wolves were just garbage-tier in this all along
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 9 May 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ILRYP5iV7ME/UWnVv54aYsI/AAAAAAAACIE/vW6m3DXJzH8/s1600/st-elsewhere_tommy-westphall-snow-globe.jpg
― ulysses, Monday, 9 May 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link