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

She's from a lineage if mad rulers!

SPOILER-ish

also, to continue with my scheme, it would make sense if the end game included some kind of union of Jon (Law) and Dany (Will).

Is that a spoiler? I thought the only thing we knew about her was that she was a targaryen with claims to the throne?

Yeah, not a spoiler.

oh i was thinking more about the role of Jon's lineage in the endgame--though it's not so much a spoiler these days.

It only is if it turns out to be true!

If it isn't it'll be a much bigger shock than if it is.

Some of the fan/viewer favorite compelling characters, like Dany and Jon, have become dead ends, because they *can't* die (again) and the pot of gold at the end of their story-rainbow is just waiting for them.

They can care about things (including, possibly, each other), and once they care about things, they can suffer even if they win.

Yeah having Young Ned climb the Tower of Joy to just find his sister dead + no baby would be hilarious.

I don't think there's any way that both Dany AND Jon survive the dragons v. zombies finale

by the time they get to it, I don't think there's any way that both the cast members will live long enough

dany and john can continue the proud targaryen heritage of incest if the rumors are true

Targaryens incest[TM] is between siblings, and Dany would be Jon's aunt.

I get so bored I find myself wondering inane things. Where are the wildlings getting food? When they invade castle black and hugely outnumber the Knights watch then where are they being fed and where does the food come from? They don't have animals and can't grow anything. I know this is a fantasy show by the way.

Diana Rigg as head of the Tyrells is fucking awesome in this. Amazing performance. Grey worm is sure,y the worst performance other than that handsome chunky london accented guy who got beheaded in in dinaerys scenes the last season. Whatever happened to the guy who beheaded him btw? I forget.

I feel a bit sorry for GRRM because whatever storyline(s) he'd come up with prior, the internet has so furiously worked out All Possible Outcomes that hes kinda fucked no matter what eventuates. He's been backed into a corner by the success of the show, and I dont blame him for freezing up on completing more books tbh. Caveat: havent read the books, the language frippery frustrated me.But at this point it seems like no matter what he does (or the showrunners for that matter) someone'll go AH HA I KNEW IT.

Fucking nerds.

BTW jed OTM about Diana Rigg. She's my favourite thing in the show at this point.

Do you think by the end of this season we'll find out whether or not Ramsay is evil?

The wildlings live off fish, game and raiding. Roughage from seaweed. Same as other societies north of arable land on our planet, I'd assume.

I'm sure GRRM has a few hundred pages on Wildling foraging and feasting

I see articles pointing out that Littlefinger said "Come and see" to Robin, the phrase repeAted in Ramsey's letter to Jon

pretty sure the 'come and see' in ramsey's letter is a revelations allusion

"come and see", yeah, an uncommon phrase like that is unlikely to be a coincidence I guess.

that was probably sarcastic but i do think that it's uncommon! at least, i've never said it, apart from when i subtly advertise my email subscription series of ocular erotica

http://time.com/4340907/game-of-thrones-pink-letter-ramsay-bolton-littlefinger/

Pink Letter
Red Wedding
White Walkers
Green Day
Castle Black
Red Woman
Red Keep
Professor Plum
Greyjoy

acc to this theory how does littlefinger know that sansa escaped ramsey and that he has rickon? inside source in winterfell?

I feel a bit sorry for GRRM because whatever storyline(s) he'd come up with prior, the internet has so furiously worked out All Possible Outcomes that hes kinda fucked no matter what eventuates. He's been backed into a corner by the success of the show, and I dont blame him for freezing up on completing more books tbh. Caveat: havent read the books, the language frippery frustrated me.But at this point it seems like no matter what he does (or the showrunners for that matter) someone'll go AH HA I KNEW IT.

This was the case even before the show, though.

OK holy shit that reveal

are they foregrounding the maesters conspiracy, which has been pretty much ignored prior to this?

That was uneventful huh folks

Yeah seriously when is the plot gonna move forward sheesh I'm so done with this show

Hold the door :,,,,,(

https://twitter.com/majtague/status/734566361519804416

That was fucked up. Martin is fucked up. Had everybody out here making hodor jokes knowing full well what it meant.

that was really silly lol

now i know how star wars fans felt when it was reevaled the ewoks were badasses

the whole bit where Varys couldn't help but go capital-S Skeptic on the high priestess was terrific. as was Sansa making Baelish feel like the worthless shitheel that he is.

fairy grenade was lame especially since it had barely any effect as a delaying action

ahahaha I am so done with this horseshit

I'm on board.

me2 glad shit is finally happening hope it's all full speed ahead until the end

I'm not mad or anything. it's just nothing has any dramatic weight any more. there's nothing in particular to hope for or fear, just things happening.

oh well I guess if brienne's getting sent to the riverlands there's another thing that could happen...

(sure there was pathos in the last few minutes but that last sequence was goofy af. like, army of darkness if it didn't know it was funny.)

how about jorah off to go find the greyscale cure all by himself that's going to be amazing right

spin-off material there

i feel stupid but i think my habit of half paying attention to things has really confused me. what exactly was going on with hodor at the end?

Game of thrones thinks its primer

Also how dumb is Euron Greyjoy? Give away your best idea for what to do with the Ironborn fleet and then expect your relatives to just sit around and wait for you to murder them after you finish getting drowned! Yes, there is no way they'll steal your navy and your idea and just sail to Essos while you spit up seawater and get to wear some crown made out of driftwood.

OTOH if Yara & Theon sail for anywhere else, they completely deserve whatever's coming to them.

ah, primer indeed: http://www.vox.com/2016/5/22/11722146/game-of-thrones-season-6-recap-hodor-dies-bran-time-travel

yeah i thought it was maybe a heinlein type thing..and i guess it was.

This show lost its emotional stakes for me a few seasons ago when it became clear its ideology was primarily nihilistic and it wasn't worth attaching to any characters. Now I'm just looking to be entertained by the plot.

Good luck, translators!

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Bran and Max von Sydow rn