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

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
everything is at steak

could've been foreshadowing wordplay

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could've been foreshadowing wordplay

― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, May 17, 2016 7:01 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

given some of the in-jokes I feel like definitely the case

I've never actually watched GoT on HBO here, but I have seen movies on HBO where they cut whole scenes for sex/violence and the movie makes no sense as a result. Continuity is the last of the priorities here

I just tried to google to see if someone explained exactly what gets cut in Vietnam, but all I found was a story about Emilia Clarke getting punched by a Vietnamese prostitute on vacation here

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Best thing about this episode was how many of the characters are now pointing back towards the centre again, as opposed to drifting further and further away from one another. I give Ramsay another five episodes max.

I actually cheered when Littlefinger reappeared.

I actually cheered when Littlefinger reappeared.

My girlfriend shuddered! Yeah it was good to see a proper villain again, though his scene was maybe a little pointless? Other than reminding us him and Robin are still alive, all it did was forecast that the knights of the Vale may be riding to aid Jon Snow, which would probably have been better as a surprise reveal later down the line imo.

No, we needed that scene to set up *why* he's suddenly reappearing in the north in the next episode

thought it was an unusually neat, succinct and exposition-free reminder of how/why p.bae can mobilize the vale. it has been a season's worth of episodes since we were last there after all.

Yeah it's more important to establish that Littlefinger knows which way the wind is blowing than it is to show some dudes we don't know turning up as reinforcements.

well he set up the whole premise, didn't he? It isn't just that he knows which way the wind is blowing, he built the windmill, as it were.

It's classic switching sides, isn't it? Unless he was playing a very long game marrying Sansa off to the Boltons. I can't really remember what his motivation was for that.

my recollection of the episode when he was at winterfell is that he got a glimpse of how much of a psycho ramsay actually is and was surprised, and i am sure that is the line he is giving sansa in their convo in the preview for next ep, but it fits much better with his character than he knew all along and that the plan was to drop sansa in the shit and then come and 'rescue' her/the north.

his stated motivation was to tie together the north and the vale, which would be a powerful bloc.

xp - long game of course.

So I know this has been the subject of speculation for years, but it seems just as likely that Littlefinger (not Ramsey) sent Jon that letter to ensure that the Wildling army would assist him in an attack on Winterfell

no not really

Matt DC otm, i've always been on board with this show but i'm preferring it now that everyone now has their sights set on either winterfell or king's landing again. the iron islands is doing its own thing right now but i suspect that's just to set up their move back to the center as well. hoping next episode jon snow stops in at a tavern in the north and finds benjen stark, gendry, blackfish, and the revived hound just hanging out sharing a pitcher of ale.

There wouldn't be any reason Ramsey wouldn't send that letter himself, therefore a twist like that would do nothing for the story.

xxp

xxxp Has that letter happened in the books then (to generate years of speculation)? As Jon's story in the books has got no further thannthe point he was stabbed by members of the Night Watch.

The letter was in the books prior to Jon getting waxed.

xxp we are talking about someone who sent a dad his son's dick in the mail.

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I don't understand why Gendry hasn't been in this fwiw - I'd be much more invested in his story than I am with half the characters here.