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

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

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.

mordy u r smart but this is nonsense. a plot without stakes is just a series of events.

Nah like I don't care too much about any of the characters but I still want to see dragons and ships and zombies and shit go nuts

shit went pretty nuts this night, also don't know if this is more or less nihilistic than other drama shows.

i dont get a nihilistic vibe from the show--in fact most of the protagonists that die seem to demonstrate a Point of some sort that's still developing.

though frankly if things end on a nihilistic note i'd probably respect its singularity of purpose (if not enjoy it).

i liked the hodor reveal

Hadn't even thought through the fact that it means Bran can possibly warg into things or affect other people in the past. Maybe he was the voice speaking from the fire when Varys got fixed. Who the fuck knows.

I feel kinda smug now because the white walker origin reveal is exactly what I thought it would be

Dope episode, imo

Are we supposed to know who the little green wood nymphettes are?

the one rad episode a season - so insulting, so effective

So it took Littlefinger 10 episodes to get from Winterfell to the Vale, but then the episode after that he's back at Molestown? At this point I'm half expecting it to be foreshadowing for Littlefinger to be a warg of some sorts, able to turn himself into an eagle or whatever. Who even controls Moats Callin at this point?

The twist at the end of this episode has apparently been confirmed as coming from GRRM. Pretty amazing, imo.

Oh, right, Littefinger says he's troops are at Moats Callin. My bad.

she shdve killed him

This was directed by Jack Bender, which is probably why the ending felt a bit like Lost

Feel sad for Hodor but aside from the warging and time travel it's so much like the cannibal in Death Line who repeats "Mind the doors" endlessly.

Don't see the nihilism either. I don't see that the stakes or principles of enjoyment have changed since the beginning.

The visualization of the Children Of The Forest is really jarring. Why the tv science fiction alien race bumpy face? Why the Green Goblin grenades?
Am I right that they created White Walkers to save the trees and it didn't go too well? I wasn't expecting a great origin story but I don't like this one as it currently seems to stand.

It's a bit screwy. According to the legends, the Children were the first people of Westeros. When the men came from Essos, they fought them bitterly, called upon magic to smash the landbridge connecting Dorne to Essos, flooded the Neck making it that much tougher getting to and from the North (which is why Moats Callin is so important, god dammit, and why Littlefinger shouldn't just turn up in Molestown proclaiming that he's taken the place). The White Walkers came during the Long Night, and was fought by men and children together. So. Something is off with the legends if the children actually created the walkers, though I suspect that is the case in the books as well. It makes a twisted kind of sense, and I think one of the Bran visions could be seen as hinting at it. Notice also how the walker is created in a land without snow, credence to the theory that they might have something to do with the strange way the seasons pass in the land.

There was a lot of history on the show, I also liked the story that the faceless men came from the mines of Valyria and founded Braavos. I'm not sure how that jibes with the books, but it's a nice story.

And that final sequence might be the best thing the show has ever done.

Oh yeah.. Kevin Eldon! Most surprising appearance so far.

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So are Theon and crew going to sail to Dany with 20 ships to strike a fellowship before Euron and his 1000 ships arrive?

i like the twist, but they didnt really set it up at all did they? who knew there were significant number of men loyal to theon's sister? no one really spoke up for her when the crazy uncle showed up. and how did they all sneak off during the drowning/coronation?

those ships seemed to matter quite a lot, you'd think they would be protected!

Yeah that was all a bit convenient for them, but for the sake of moving things along I'm OK with it.

so he held the door long enough for bran to get dragged what 30, 40 feet into the snow? they'll never get him now

It happens in the book as well, but... The whole thing is massively overcomplicated in the books, and the show streamlined it which left in a bunch of plotholes. Story of the last few seasons, kinda.

i was hoping the uncle wld just drown and everyone wld be all welp

Remembering the book now and remembering how there were like a dozen different plots of different characters all on their way to be Dany's husband. Glad the show is ignoring most of them.

Yes, that was a major WTF for me. As powerful as that scene was, it ultimately shows Hodor's purpose in life was to give a person dragging another person through deep snow maybe a football field of distance ahead of a super nimble undead army?

I guess next episode will probably just cut to them holding their lead but still.

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Is Bran going to be trapped in trance state or something? Seems like he should have woken up given the minor racket.

Normally you have to click "eject" before disconnecting.

I kine of wondered if he hadn't already disconnected. On one hand, Hoder only did things like that when Bran was warged into him so you'd think he was in there, but on the other hand we want to believe that this was Hoder's whole life's purpose (at least since Bran went back and put that in his head, literally). I'm assuming Hoder was being a hero on his own at the end there, with a lot of mystical prompting past and present of course.

how many direwolves are left ?

2 technically(?) Arya's ran off, right? Otherwise there is Jon's.

I guess next episode will probably just cut to them holding their lead but still.

Nah. Next episode Coldhands / Friendly Zombie Benjen is going to have to show up and save them from certain death AGAIN. you watch.