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

do people watch this show for the realistic swordfights?

― 龜, Monday, May 16, 2016 3:48 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Exactly. All that matters is that it holds a sense of risk and tension. It shouldn't be designed to satisfy fencing professionals or medieval arts experts. If you want it to be realistic, have the larger party all run at their enemies with swords pointed forward until those enemies are helplessly and pathetically overwhelmed, all while various fighters with throats already cut reel around on the ground gurgling horribly. Is that the kind of exciting "epic" showdown we want to watch on TV? Should we celebrate its realism at the expense of theatrics? A happy in-between is probably best.

Agreed with Robert.

re Rickon. Did Theon confess to Sansa what he'd actually done? I seem to recall him confiding to someone but might be mistaken.

theon told sansa the truth, yes

Rewatched and this time I noticed that when Brienne enters, Tormund is agape.

Glad to see Sansa meets Littlefinger in the next episode. Bran surrounded by white walkers.

best line of this was "this is good soup"

best shot was maister whoever taking a full 10 secs to shuffle out of a room

So much throat stabbing in GoT currently. I swear an average of two throats get stabbed per episode.

Dany's shit at the end was quite exciting but only about a fifth as exciting as when she killed the Masters in season 3.

i found jon and sansa's reunion weirdly touching, not that it was particularly well done or that i even remember their interactions before, but five whole seasons having passed since they were last onscreen together lent some serious weight to it

Yeah it was nice.

liked the way jorah couldn't resist gawping up at naked dany

dany needs some fireproof clothing if she plans on making a thing of this superpower

Apparently (according to the HBOGO thing after the show) Jon and Sansa had NEVER been on screen together before.

And NO CAPES (x-post)

TBH this was an episode that I felt like I "noticed" the sets in a way I hadnt before. There was a scene with Daario and Jorah running around some narrow streets in wherever Dany was holed up, and my immediate thought was "lol this looks like a Star Trek episode".

Feeling pretty cheap these days. Wonder what thy're saving the money for...

contracts w/ the principals have presumably ballooned big time, is one thing

But the show must also be raking it in so yeah maybe we're up for some major CGI scenes ala Hardhome (which would have cost a bomb to make).

I don't think there's any part of HBO revenues that are directly tied to GoT

How do shows this big afford to do what they do then? I mean someone must be budgeting for it.

(that may be a massively dumb question sorry, I dont know much about how cable tv works)

Just coming in here to quote myeself and go nahnahnah for a sec

Pfffft. Daenerys is the liberator. She's not "getting rescued." She'll get all of those crazy widows to bow before her and march on whoever stands in their way.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, May 10, 2016 5:25 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also hoping Daenerys never gets fireproof clothing.

Good episode with lots of moments though. Ramsey's letter was pure ether by horseback.

well let me walk that back - they probably make money on GoT through merchandising, DVD sales, etc.

but it's not like the superbowl where revenues are tied directly to viewership numbers - there are no ads! that's the whole premise of HBO, innit? you pay a monthly subscription fee and you get ad-free prestige TV programming.

LOL well you do if you're american. We dont/cant. So we all just pirate the damn thing :P

GoT prob keeping a lot of subscribers around bc their other dramas aren't really setting the world on fire rn

I'd happily pay per episode, but Fox have their claws in the AU rights, so the only way to see GOT is to have to pay for premium cable at like $50 a month. Fuck that noise.

Here in Vietnam, HBO is a standard cable channel, not a premium channel, but the version they show is heavily edited, so... not a whole lot of point in watching on TV

God an edited GOT there'd be nothing left of!

how would they do the climactic moment from last night's episode? like just a text box explaining what happened?

black bars over her boobies?

Last night's episode is a cliffhanger?

How so?

Keeping with the censored Vietnam showing theme - there wouldn't be any shot of her naked, so we wouldn't know whether she survived the fire or not.

Oh, right. Yeah or they're all bowing to the magical floating head in a surprise twist for her character.

I thought Emilia Clarke said she was never going to get her kit off on GOT again?

Also GRRM said that her surviving Drogo's funeral pyre would be a one-time magick thing re: her resistance to fire.

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Then nothing is true!

I thought Emilia Clarke said she was never going to get her kit off on GOT again?

"Clarke wrote: “I feel now… I should clarify my statements, if for nothing else than for posterity. In drama, if a nude scene forwards a story or is shot in a way that adds insight into characters, I’m perfectly fine with it. Sometimes explicit scenes are required and make sense for the characters/story, as they do in Westeros. If it’s gratuitous for gratuitous sake, then I will discuss with a director on how to make it more subtle. In either case, like a good Mother of Dragons, I’m always in control.”

I'm not mad.

I haven't seen that many people burned alive by great whites since the Station nightclub fire

Yikes

Can taps aff really be described as getting your kit off?

If I understand you correctly, yes.

Something bothering me about the last ep.:
Littlefinger tells Robin that Sansa was kidnapped & escaped to Jon and that it's time for the Vale to 'join the Freys'.
So I assume Littlefinger is going to team up with the Freys to wage war against Ramsay...

I feel like there is a scene here missing. Like, I guess the Freys (and everyone) knows that Ramsay murdered Roose's wife? And I guess they can see right through his lie about her being poisoned, which he was telling people in the previous ep.? It's not really clear what people in Westeros know about the Winterfell situation or how they know about it.

I thought he said it was time for the Vale to join the fray?

he says "join the fray" - an expression meaning to take part in something, usually implying the thing is violent or involves a load of lairy men.

xpost otm

Ahh I wondered about that, but then decided I heard 'Freys'. Makes way more sense though.

Enter the freys

Yeah, I was a bit confused as well. It's not particularly good writing.

Join the Freys of Benteros
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