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

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never been more glad I got out of the game when i did

The only winning move etc.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link

Uhm I adore Zizek but to say her outbursts were not justified? I don't agree. (She was prone to outbursts. It was Tyrion who held her in check imo.)


but also zizek is a clown. iirc he didn’t start out that way but act a fool for long enough and something something your face will stick that way

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 23:33 (four years ago) link

i like when cersei says "ser gregor stay by my side" but it sounds like she calls him "ser wiggles" which is totally what i wd call him

mark s, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link

did Ser Pounce survive the Daenerys genocide?

omar little, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link

Ser Wiggles sounds like someone from Parliament’s “Gamin’ On Ya Thrones” LP

the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link

Pretty good call:

🤷🏼‍♀️ https://t.co/Sbmeedgkhp

— Gwendoline Christie (@lovegwendoline) May 22, 2019

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 00:52 (four years ago) link

Say what you will about the #GameOfThronesFinale, the John Hughes homage was a bold choice to end on. pic.twitter.com/kKJrJyV9d7

— Dan Olson (@FoldableHuman) May 20, 2019

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link

As long as Drogon got to burninate the thatched-roof cottages, I'm happy.

jmm, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link

Žižek is the worst. Always.

human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 07:42 (four years ago) link

but also zizek is a clown. iirc he didn’t start out that way but act a fool for long enough and something something your face will stick that way


Heh. You have a point

nathom, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 08:45 (four years ago) link

I liked this show, liked the finale, would rewatch

Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 12:13 (four years ago) link

more ser wiggles fun:

when wiggles at last removes his helmet his little brother heaves a vast "fuck me" sigh and is clearly thinking and very nearly saying "this bad stars-wars fan service is bad and you should feel bad"

mark s, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 12:34 (four years ago) link

I'm a little stunned they never killed off Bran. He was the worst part of the books and show and I kept waiting for him to die.

Yerac, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link

bran is the leto ii of this story

here he is saying "just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in"
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/dune/images/8/86/Sandra-yagi-god-emperor-of-dune.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190309191118

mark s, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link

I would have preferred for the Night King to kill Bran before being stabbed by Arya, forcing humanity to find a way forward without magic seer memory bookdudes

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link

well that's my halloween costume sorted for this year xp

michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link

Graphic depictions of Leto II are never short of amazing

the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link

omg

https://photos.travelblog.org/Photos/95057/1020114/f/9864325-Leto-II-0.jpg

jmm, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link

Made for the 2017 Venice Beach Siyanoq Festival iirc

the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link

lonely worm just thinking baout things

mark s, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link

looks like a big sneeze comin

Evan, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link

Inhaled too much spice.

jmm, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link

This is the proper turn for this thread

the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link

the sandworm has turned

Number None, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link

*sand snake (duh)

Evan, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link

Hello. Not really been following the thread as not been on ILX that much lately. But this is what I thought of the last episode:

It was okay. Good bits and bad bits.

Funniest bit: Arya decides she's going to do a gap yah.

Most shocking bit: Brienne not waiting for the ink to dry before closing the book

Weird postmodern moment: People chuckling about democracy

Lousy: everything to do with Jon Snow and I mean every second of time he spent on screen

Also lousy: Lots of long expository monologues on behalf of Tyrion, who even as a prisoner seems to get away with giving everyone terrible advice

Lol: Bran the Boring is king? What the hell. And also Sansa manages to jammily wangle a runner-up prize without any sort of challenge

Corny: 'Oh no Dany really isn't a nice person after all, she has scary dragon wings and her army are all dark and scary and crazy and the music is ominous DO YOU SEE?'

Again, what the hell: How did they come up with that Council at the end? A motley crew of supporting cast and people from across Westeros who didn't really get along before manage to grab the Megabus to King's Landing just so they can decide what to do with Tyrion... How did he not just get murdered by Worm Tongue in the meantime?

But I still maintain this wasn't the worst series. It was flawed, logically. It was a hot mess in many many ways. But it was still entertaining and it constantly kept me guessing. I was excited for each episode whereas a few series back, I was ready to stop watching because it felt like they were just stalling for time by making characters do the same things over and over again each episode.,

frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 23 May 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link

And also Sansa manages to jammily wangle a runner-up prize without any sort of challenge
Challenge from whom? All of her major political opponents are dead. She played her cards extremely well, waiting to declare independence at a point when the old power structures of Westeros are in turmoil, and everyone owes the North tremendous gratitude for stopping the army of the dead, so the situation is most favourable for secession. On top of that her brother is crowned king and would obviously be sympathetic to the demands of his old home country; Sansa was expecting that king-brother to be Jon, but Bran works too.

I've seen some people complain that Sansa got a too good an ending because of the way she worked against Dany, but I wonder if those complainers have ever understood the nature of the show? It's not a story where every good deed is rewarded and every bad deed punished. Sansa's whole character arc was about learning how the power relations and realpolitik in Westeros works, so her learning to play the game of thrones and emerging as the one unquestionable winner was a perfect ending for that arc.

Tuomas, Thursday, 23 May 2019 05:48 (four years ago) link

I assume Charlie means from Yara for starters, who'd been promised independance by Dany herself and doesnt seem the type to just roll over when it doesnt happen.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 May 2019 06:29 (four years ago) link

Yara quaffing ale from an Iron Islands turret, later: "I really wanted that...independence..."

nashwan, Thursday, 23 May 2019 07:51 (four years ago) link

I imagine the new Prince of Dorne might have liked the opportunity also

Number None, Thursday, 23 May 2019 08:23 (four years ago) link

that's what I mean. It's all 'yes let's have a united Westeros' and Sansa's like 'except the North, even if the king is Northern idk' and everyone's like 'alright fine'

frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 23 May 2019 10:26 (four years ago) link

The message of the show has been that power is inherently corrupting and that people with it will do virtually anything to preserve it and the very neat bow that the ending with tied up with felt like a betrayal of that.

Matt DC, Thursday, 23 May 2019 10:42 (four years ago) link

THE END

… or is it?

mark s, Thursday, 23 May 2019 11:08 (four years ago) link

ep 1 of the next* series will be arya stark landing on the iron islands in a tiny boat scudding before the wind screaming "these ones do water!" and then after her -- like that good scene in serenity, of the reaver ships coming out of the spacecloud -- millions and millions of raggedy boats bursting from the fog full of ravenous zombies from the uttermost west

*bets down now eh

mark s, Thursday, 23 May 2019 11:15 (four years ago) link

Wasn't Pirates of the Caribbean series essentially a zombie pirate movie?

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 May 2019 11:33 (four years ago) link

all films with more than a part two are zombie movies

mark s, Thursday, 23 May 2019 11:42 (four years ago) link

Arya Lost In New York ftw

frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 23 May 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/mnfWu7p.jpg

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 May 2019 13:13 (four years ago) link

People being surprised Bran ended up king: how did you not see this coming? It makes perfect sense.

nathom, Thursday, 23 May 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link

Do people from like Dorne even know who the fuck Bran is?

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 May 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link

Hodor was the only interesting thing about Bran.

Yerac, Thursday, 23 May 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link

also hodor is the interesting thing abt bran that proves he is worse than dany = he can control and destroy lives across all time

mark s, Thursday, 23 May 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link

also this is still canon:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/S1mFoDK4sUQ/maxresdefault.jpg

mark s, Thursday, 23 May 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link

i reject it because it makes a nonsense of my bran/night king slashfic

michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 May 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link

Oh I totally forgot why Hodor says "hodor". I was just thinking of all the good Hodor jokes that happened for one week.

Yerac, Thursday, 23 May 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link

next series should be the hilarious escapades of the unsullied trying to figure out how to establish a house

or a very sad, slow cinema style show all about the unsullied slowly dying out because they can't replace their population.

unsullied: the last grey worm

these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Thursday, 23 May 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link

unsullied discovery of cloning leads to technological advances and comic hijinx

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 May 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link

Have we talked yet about what a sicko move it is to stab someone to death while you're frenching them?

mick signals, Friday, 24 May 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link


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