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

Graphic depictions of Leto II are never short of amazing

omg

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

Made for the 2017 Venice Beach Siyanoq Festival iirc

lonely worm just thinking baout things

looks like a big sneeze comin

Inhaled too much spice.

This is the proper turn for this thread

the sandworm has turned

*sand snake (duh)

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.,

And also Sansa manages to jammily wangle a runner-up prize without any sort of challenge

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.

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

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

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'

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.

THE END

… or is it?

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

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

all films with more than a part two are zombie movies

Arya Lost In New York ftw

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

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

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

Hodor was the only interesting thing about Bran.

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

also this is still canon:

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

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

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

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

unsullied discovery of cloning leads to technological advances and comic hijinx

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

She died doing what she loved, making out with hot dumb guys.

Managed to avoid spoilers and seen it today. Not that difficult because I don't know anyone.

If the dragon was super intelligent I doubt it would be explaining things like in the meme picture above. Question would be how complicit dragon was in the massacre. "She made me do it"?

I guess people might be for years pestering GRRMartin and the two showrunners about exactly how much Martin told them about his official ending.

Maybe the dragon was trying to kill Jon but is nearsighted and has lousy aim? It might also explain the wholesale slaughter of innocents.

The dragon just had a heavy cold the day before, is very embarrassed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/comments/c4f9np/so_my_wife_recently_discovered_snapchat_filters/

I am definitely not in a position of confidence on this opinion, but just anecdotally it seems that all the steam came out of this show the second it ended. I don't get the impression it left much of an, well, impression at all. It was over, people were done, they moved on, and every once in a while I see a quote from a cast member complaining that they wish they got a better ending.

Then again, for all I know it's still the talk of the water cooler set. Or maybe moving on from Major Cultural Events is just how things work these days? No idea.

mirrors my own impression

I still talk about it quite a lot. I saw an absolutely horrible piece of shit movie the other day, and my fellow critics and I were: 'It's bad, but at least not as bad as last season of Game of Thrones'. I've seen a lot of people who watched 'Chernobyl' say that it was really good it was so short and ended well, just what they needed after the steaming bowl of feces that was the last season of Game of Thrones. Just the other day I had an interesting discussion at my office about whether or not the catastrophic last season of Game of Thrones was bad enough to kill the elevated position tv has attained these last decades. So I really think it made an impression.

joke's on you, you watched it

I hear the last season of GoT is a bad tipper.

First maybe we should list the shows where people say around talking about the ending for weeks—let alone days—after it ended. I mean it really hardly ever happens.

Sopranos

Seinfeld

Lost and How I Met Your Mother (albeit not in a good way)

I mean, I barely watched any of it, but it feels like it's that like period where when something IS over you take a long time to digest it all around, then the retrospective thoughts emerge later. But ultimately you just really need to take a break.

I think most people IRL were flummoxed by Sopranos and Seinfeld too. The rare “perfect” ending I’ve seen has been on shows which are not event programs.

Anyway everyone I know talked about GOT for the usual amount of time people talked about the other shows. Which is to say not very long and then the next shows started up. Breaking Bad, there’s a major show people just sort of finished and left behind.