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Hunky Joe posted:That always bothered me. I wondered how wildlings fired arrows up 700 feet with primitive bows and they still could kill a man but something something words words physics something Ren Faire something They mention that. Only one dude even gets hit with an arrow, it was caught by an updraft, and it didn't kill him-- it just pained and startled him and he fell off the Wall.
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Hunky Joe posted:That always bothered me. I wondered how wildlings fired arrows up 700 feet with primitive bows and they still could kill a man but something something words words physics something Ren Faire something Please do, we can swap stories  
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I always wondered why George Lucas never sued over the blatant ripoff of his IP that is 40k.
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PittTheElder posted:Never forget the 700 foot high, 300 mile long wall of ice. That people fight off of somehow. I'm just waiting for the day for that fuckin' wall to crack open when some dumbass blows that lovely horn that Sam found and a poo poo load of Ice Spiders come pouring out
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Hunky Joe posted:That always bothered me. I wondered how wildlings fired arrows up 700 feet with primitive bows and they still could kill a man but something something words words physics something Ren Faire something Westeros feet are much smaller than normal feet, thus resolving the problems with both the Wall and Tormund's glorious member.
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Ravel posted:To be clear it just called him the Night's King, but we don't know if he's THE Night's King or if it's just a separate title. "Night's King" is probably like "Bob" up there.
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The TVIV thread obsessing over all the rape scenes in the show makes me laugh so hard. Oh, sweet summer children, you know nothing of rape...
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Octopode posted:Westeros feet are much smaller than normal feet, thus resolving the problems with both the Wall and Tormund's glorious member. Getting in the obligatory Longspear Ryk mention here.
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unlimited shrimp posted:Viewer's guide called him the Night's King but it was quickly deleted. Ah, ok. Thought I only counted 9, but I was too focused on trying to see what was coming forward. Don't recall a crown either, just the darth maul bumps. I guess I'll have to rewatch.
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They are darth maul bumps, but I'm sure their intentionally meant to be reminiscent of a crown. But yeah, HBO mucked up and identified him as the Night's King before they were supposed to.
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Lycus posted:They are darth maul bumps, but I'm sure their intentionally meant to be reminiscent of a crown. But yeah, HBO mucked up and identified him as the Night's King before they were supposed to. So assuming he is the Night's King, does that mean he changed the first 12 Lord Commanders after the fact? Thats weird or I missed something.
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Solice Kirsk posted:So assuming he is the Night's King, does that mean he changed the first 12 Lord Commanders after the fact? Thats weird or I missed something.
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Reading the Night's King entry page (and with the fabulous fanart), I realize I missed/forgotten a couple of side hints stuck in the history/lore of things. Especially the Bran/Stark connection, because I usually sperg hard about the background/worldbuilding stuff. Also, it seems less dumb and terrible now that 'they are teh human you see'. ANyway, it's almost as if some cruel and overbearing Ice God(dess) is gearing up to fight against a cruel and overbearing Fire God(dess). HMMMM.
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Hunky Joe posted:That always bothered me. I wondered how wildlings fired arrows up 700 feet with primitive bows and they still could kill a man but something something words words physics something Ren Faire something GRRM supposedly said that when he saw it to scale in CGI for the show, he straight up said "I made the wall too big." He says Westeros is about the size of South America, but people travel up and down that thing in no time. He's not a numbers man.
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SaviourX posted:ANyway, it's almost as if some cruel and overbearing Ice God(dess) is gearing up to fight against a cruel and overbearing Fire God(dess). HMMMM. That sounds like it would make a great song or something.
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A song of frost and combustion.
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Could call it "A Song of Fire and Ice" or something. That could make a good title for an episode.
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Aurain posted:He says Westeros is about the size of South America, but people travel up and down that thing in no time. unless they are Brienne...
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I'm pretty sure it would take well over a year to ride a horse from Colombia to the tip of South America.
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The trip between Winterfell and King's Landing took one month I believe. Plus having the whole "Kings Road" would certainly speed things up compared to hiking through the Andes or bushwhacking through the rainforest.
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So question after watching the latest episode - I know how it happens in the books, but how did Bran get across the Wall in the show?
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Medullah posted:So question after watching the latest episode - I know how it happens in the books, but how did Bran get across the Wall in the show? They're staying in one of the abandoned wall castles when Sam and Gilly pop out of the floor and are like what the gently caress and Bran's like hey does that hole go to the other side and they're like yeah but dont go its cold and he's like nah bro I'm having visions and poo poo I gots to.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:They're staying in one of the abandoned wall castles when Sam and Gilly pop out of the floor and are like what the gently caress and Bran's like hey does that hole go to the other side and they're like yeah but dont go its cold and he's like nah bro I'm having visions and poo poo I gots to. this is pretty much how i ended up in Canada btw
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Intel&Sebastian posted:They're staying in one of the abandoned wall castles when Sam and Gilly pop out of the floor and are like what the gently caress and Bran's like hey does that hole go to the other side and they're like yeah but dont go its cold and he's like nah bro I'm having visions and poo poo I gots to. Yeah, this is pretty much it. There was no explanation given to why all the wildlings don't just go pouring through there really either. I'm guessing it was Sam pulling some book knowledge to know that it's there, but the gate Bran goes out on the other side looked pretty damned obvious.
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Ahhh that's right. Hahaha I just imagined the Wall climbing scene, a tired wildling struggling to reach the top, looks down and sees his bud just walk through the abandoned castle. "GODS DAMMIT"
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PittTheElder posted:Yeah, this is pretty much it. There was no explanation given to why all the wildlings don't just go pouring through there really either. As soon as the hobbit cripple knocks a bucket down that hole they are in for a world of poo poo.
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Medullah posted:Ahhh that's right.
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PittTheElder posted:Yeah, this is pretty much it. There was no explanation given to why all the wildlings don't just go pouring through there really either. I'm guessing it was Sam pulling some book knowledge to know that it's there, but the gate Bran goes out on the other side looked pretty damned obvious. I thought the door Sam and Gilly go through would only open for a man of the Nights Watch or some poo poo because it's magical. Like a weirwood stops you going through unless you repeat your vows. And I suppose the tree knows if you're a traitor in case someone like Mance rolled up and talked at it. Maybe its just a flimsy as hell plot device and not much more than that.
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In the books it is. No such thing is mentioned in the show.
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lemonadesweetheart posted:I always wondered why George Lucas never sued over the blatant ripoff of his IP that is 40k. Because if the idea of retro space-feudalism was something that could be sued over, Lucas would get sued by Frank Herbert.
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Mr.48 posted:Because if the idea of retro space-feudalism was something that could be sued over, Lucas would get sued by Frank Herbert. I don't think Frank Herbert is going to sue anyone over anything.
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returnh posted:I don't think Frank Herbert is going to sue anyone over anything. His son seems to have free reign to make bad decisions with his estate though? I wonder how Chris Tolkien feels about George R.R. Martin's appropriation of fat hobbit saving the day.
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I missed it earlier, but here's the Rolling Stone interview with Grum, which is actually pretty decent. And even though he could have written a page a day and finished a book since Dance, that old gently caress still has a touch of the goon (or is it that we have a touch of the George? is he in us or us in him?). http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/george-r-r-martin-the-rolling-stone-interview-20140423 quote:By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren't gone – they're in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?
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Weren't orcs magically corrupted elves? I thought in tolkeins world, evil couldn't create, only destroy. So no orc cradles.
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Mr.48 posted:Because if the idea of retro space-feudalism was something that could be sued over, Lucas would get sued by Frank Herbert. Frank's poo poo was technophobic space fascism with Islamic terminology for no apparent reason, not feudalism. And then he went senile and wrote the last 2 books. Then is son who his retarded paid a hack to take a steaming danys on his legacy.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Weren't orcs magically corrupted elves? I thought in tolkeins world, evil couldn't create, only destroy. So no orc cradles. Tolkien was pretty inconsistent on this stuff because it really doesn't loving matter for the story he was telling. The fact that GRRM spends days, months and possibly years sperging over dumb poo poo like this is why this is called the bad thread and not the wow that was a good trilogy thread.
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