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

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

Did they show the statues when we went to Vaes Dothrak in S1?

yeah and they were nowhere near that size; that's part of my beef
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/gameofthrones/images/0/0d/Dothrakhorses.jpg/revision/latest%3Fcb%3D20150924094615

wow they were MUCH smaller! damn

lol indeed http://www.businessinsider.com/game-of-thrones-daenerys-vaes-dothrak-2016-4

http://brabbu.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/travelling-through-game-of-thrones-scenarios-10.jpg
lol continuity i guess

statues were recast obv

prob by daario

They just raided and stole some bigger horse statues, nbd.

hardmode vaes dothrak

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.

maybe the producers wanted it to look bigger so they made it bigger

maybe the other entrance has smaller horses

man dire wolves were just garbage-tier in this all along

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ILRYP5iV7ME/UWnVv54aYsI/AAAAAAAACIE/vW6m3DXJzH8/s1600/st-elsewhere_tommy-westphall-snow-globe.jpg

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, May 9, 2016 12:57 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah, back one episdoe, gone the next, easily could have drawn it out a bit more. but i guess drawing things out is the last thing they want to do given how many plotlines they have to wrap up

also seems weird that he came back without any, uh, impairments, other than being a bit more pale? idk i recall in the books that when dondarrion the lightning knight or w/e that is comes back it's pretty obvious that he's a zombie. like big gaping wound on his neck. or something.

having Dayne wield two swords was a total Darth Maul move (props to whoever mentioned that upthread)

lol ulysses

xp

Dondarrion looked like a zombie because he incurred injuries from actual physical combat; fortunately for Jon, he was stabbed in his torso, not his pretty face.

http://i.imgur.com/TrmsdG8.jpg

so we're just not gonna get Lady Stonheart, huh?

I thought the showrunners had already said no to that...?

So does Jon just have big, open, non-bleeding wounds?

i guess there's a lack of reference for how the logic of revivification works on the show? like it's either the Mountain or Jon Snow, at least going by the tv show? we don't have the benefit of Dondarion and Lady Stoneheart like we do in the books?

i guess this is the first season where book-readers don't really benefit from the books since it's gone so off course, now we're in the same boat as the rest of you fuckers

Dondarion was in the show

Can the reticence around Howland Reed's role at the Tower of Joy be explained solely because he stabbed a dude in the back (of the throat), and everyone was kind of embarrassed by this breach in protocol?

xxp Dondarrion was on the show a couple times, once before and once after revivifying. Also, BD and JS seem to be reborn because of religion, whereas the Mountain comes back through evil science (that's how I'm reading it anyway).

oh dang i forgot all about that

xpost ha always thought it was Howlin' Reed

I read something that suggested Lady Stoneheart is still gonna happen

Howlin' Mad Reed!

If I hadnt read all those book speculations about Ned, Howland and the jon snow thing, I'dve had no fucking idea what I was watching with the Bran flashback bit last night.

Like I dont know if its just me, but it feels like they more and more rely on people being backstory speculation nerds?

I think the Bransposition is providing exactly as much information as they want you to have

Thats a good point, given that stuff *is* just speculation. I'm terrible at going "what the hells going on?" in movies when *thats precisely the point*.

my money's on rickon to win the game of thrones

We havent heard from Littlefinger in a while...

he's in the preview for next week

Smalljon Umber is totally playing Ramsay with the offer of hostages. Ramsay's dead before the end of the season.

thought the exact same, the tone of the scene wasn't tragic or hammed up enough for osha and rickon to really be in the shit. shame about shaggz tho.

Could it be a random wolf's head? It didn't look that big.

Wtf with the fart escaping pycelle's ass when he turns and sees franken-gregor?

...I missed that! (you sure it wasnt just a chair squeak?)

fart was funny. and ya umber is totally playing ramsay. why else would he have brought osha along. she's just a rando wildling. i wonder if they know ramsay is gonna try his usually shit on her and she's gonna shiv him

def was a toot

ramsey getting got is the perfect end to this season and to begin what I hope is the fucking end of the series

I know right, like I keep telling people how stupid the show is and to please let me leave the living room or change the channel and it's like they can't even hear me. I just keep watching, unable to walk away.

http://lovelace-media.imgix.net/uploads/273/1eeff950-ed5f-0133-243e-0e1b1c96d76b.jpg

Can I ask what Lady Stoneheart's function is in the books? I mean, it sounds like a cool idea but where's the necessity in it?

Remember this is extremely spoilery

I think many book readers are asking the same question.
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That was a perfectly decent episode, I thought. It looked very handsome, and all the segments worked pretty well. Glad Arya's making some progress.

There's a couple of things with Lady Stoneheart. First of all, I guess it's just sorta cool? It's a surprise, and intriguing. Secondly, it prepares the reader for other things like it to happen, though book readers still don't know if it will happen... It also helps with remembering that there's still trouble in the Riverlands, the fact that Lady Stoneheart is rooming makes the readers more interested in what is happening there - and a lot is in the books, Jamie goes to the Riverlands, not Dorne, in the books, and Brienne is there as well. And lastly, it plays into the theme of transfiguration and fluent identity, which is one of the main themes of the books, imo. Almost every major character, that doesn't die, goes through an identity change, or a purification phase. Theon becomes Reek and Arya becomes No One, for instance. Jon Snow, obviously. This also plays into how ridiculous the feudal system is, based on an idea of immutable identity, which is broken left and right as the books goes along.