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I suppose it's much too late for this: The Book Barn › ASoIaF: I start all my Tinder conversations by asking for a Hodor Casket
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# ? May 31, 2016 23:10 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 03:48 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KYnNnzJfaE "there aren't many things done unintentionally in game of thrones"
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# ? May 31, 2016 23:19 |
syscall girl posted:"there aren't many things done unintentionally in game of thrones" I mean he had to actually type each word out manually so technically that quote is accurate.
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# ? May 31, 2016 23:43 |
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AtAt-de-fay posted:I suppose it's much too late for this: oh you naaaasty girl. emanresu tnuocca posted:Tyrion is grotesquely ugly though, it's uncertain whether he's capable of doing cartwheels or not though, it seems as though his agility and acrobatic abilities declined rapidly past the first book.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 00:39 |
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emanresu tnuocca posted:Brienne is just plain though, it's one of these things that come up again and again but you're supposed to figure out she's just perceived as ugly cause she's such a huge musclebound freak. huh - I never got the first two. I mean I didn't think she was hideous, but "plain" + weird ( muscular / non conventional ) is pretty much an attractiveness death sentence. I thought the wildlings thought ygritte was attractive, but their standards were different than ours, and in part was based on her skill set. I figured she would be if not downright unattractive, at least super rough around the edges. definitely not some fake "ugly" girl where you take her glasses off and suddenly realize how attractive she is.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 00:49 |
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Fhate posted:The Dothraki could raise Hell in the Reach , the Storm Lands and the Riverlands (what's left of them), probably Dorne too. They probably couldn't do poo poo in the North, however. I doubt they're used to fighting in a blizzard, and by the time Daenerys reaches Westeros it's going to be full-blown winter. The only person in Dany's entire entourage with any knowledge at all about winters in the North is Tyrion, now that Jorah's temporarily (permanently?) out of the picture, and all he'll know is what he's read in books. Have the Dothraki even seen snow before? Have they heard about wights and the Others? They might have trouble taking the Vale, too, what with the altitude, snows and narrow paths through fortified keeps. Obviously Daenerys has the dragons, but they're still relatively young and far from invincible. Drogon's a big boy but he's no Balerion the Black, at least not yet. I can't see her getting farther than the neck while winter holds, if she goes the full on conquest route. I'm not sure about Dorne. It's a literal desert and while the sea of grass has some wasteland aspects to it riding through a desert and not knowing where the water's at means you're dead in a few days at best. Dorne didn't fall the the Targs when they had dragons, I doubt the Dothraki would fair too well. The Others are going to have a Cavelcade posted:The show's fine. It's got enough going on to be interesting and half of it is really well filmed (and half of it is filmed badly, like the Margaery and Tommen scene in the sept was just badly cut together). The fighting is mostly good with some really bad fights and some really cool ones. I dunno, I think the only reason to hate it is if you don't like shows about bad people or hate GRRM for giving you eternal blue balls. I liked the flaming morning star that Simon Benjmont used against the undead in the last episode. All that scene lacked was a remix of Bloody Tears. Intel&Sebastian posted:btw the mountains helmet is sooooooooooo coming off during that fight The fact that he has a head and everyone knows who he is is going to lessen the impact a good bit though. In the books he has a helm that completely hides his features and he has no head because it's sitting in Dorne, at least going by theories based one the witch of the mound(?) or some other seer basically describing headless FrankenGregor
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 01:54 |
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The fact they haven't shown us a scarred zombie-Mountain face - particularly given how unsutble the show is and how they haven't tried to hide who Ser Strong is - suggests to me they have some kind of reveal planned for the face. Like maybe it's Ned's or Robert's or something ~shocking~ like that under there. In the books, yeah, seems to me that Ser Strong is likely literally headless, but show-Strong explicitly has a head, and implicitly has the head of someone important or shocking given the above.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 02:07 |
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:The fact they haven't shown us a scarred zombie-Mountain face - particularly given how unsutble the show is and how they haven't tried to hide who Ser Strong is - suggests to me they have some kind of reveal planned for the face. Like maybe it's Ned's or Robert's or something ~shocking~ like that under there. In the books, yeah, seems to me that Ser Strong is likely literally headless, but show-Strong explicitly has a head, and implicitly has the head of someone important or shocking given the above. They're going to use HBO's George W head again
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 02:22 |
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I don't think he'll have someone's head, he'll just be noticeably a zombie and that'll be a huge scandal and will likely disqualify him being a champion because a fuckin abomination
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 02:31 |
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:The fact they haven't shown us a scarred zombie-Mountain face - particularly given how unsutble the show is and how they haven't tried to hide who Ser Strong is - suggests to me they have some kind of reveal planned for the face. Like maybe it's Ned's or Robert's or something ~shocking~ like that under there. In the books, yeah, seems to me that Ser Strong is likely literally headless, but show-Strong explicitly has a head, and implicitly has the head of someone important or shocking given the above. The dwarf head makes sense, but I've always hoped it is Ned's. That seemed the maximum shock value. ( And Theon's cock, and Tyrion's nose, and... etc etc... wish I could draw the obscenity that this thread came up with )
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 03:03 |
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I think it's Gregor's own head and they cover it because it's grotesque.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 03:18 |
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Didn't Ned's head get stuck on a pike? Or was that only in the show? It probably rotted and poo poo long before they made Zombie mountain.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 03:21 |
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Dirt posted:It probably rotted and poo poo long before they made Zombie mountain. Really depends which time stream you're going with. It's probably fine if your watch is set to GBT (Gilly's Baby Time).
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 03:25 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Really depends which time stream you're going with. It's probably fine if your watch is set to GBT (Gilly's Baby Time). Haha Good point. I was at my sisters house over the weekend, her and my brother in law are both show only types, and were a bit behind. We watched the Hodor dies episode together one night, and they both thought it was the dumbest poo poo ever. I was so proud
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 03:32 |
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:The fact they haven't shown us a scarred zombie-Mountain face - particularly given how unsutble the show is and how they haven't tried to hide who Ser Strong is - suggests to me they have some kind of reveal planned for the face. Like maybe it's Ned's or Robert's or something ~shocking~ like that under there. In the books, yeah, seems to me that Ser Strong is likely literally headless, but show-Strong explicitly has a head, and implicitly has the head of someone important or shocking given the above. We've had multiple views of his eyes and could see the discoloration to them and what skin was visible. Dirt posted:Didn't Ned's head get stuck on a pike? Or was that only in the show? It did, but I'm pretty sure his remains were eventually sent back to the north by someone (Tywin?) because in the books the lady who was suposedly going to marry Ned before Brandon died mentions something about how her brother died in the rebellion and Ned buried him down south instead of bringing him back, and she's all pissed and bitter and wants to give Ned's bones to her dogs.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 04:09 |
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Tyrion is the one who sends Ned back to the north, but his remains were hijacked on the way back, possibly.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 08:45 |
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Neds remains are one of those things that just flaps in the breeze long forgotten by GRRM.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 09:36 |
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davecrazy posted:Neds remains are one of those things that just flaps in the breeze long forgotten by GRRM. Let me see, tyrion sent it to rob at riverrun as a gesture but also to conceal his attempt to break out jaime. And then the lady up north hanging out with Roose Bolton who had wanted to marry ned but was mad he married catelyn tully said she wanted to intercept his bones if they come home and piss on them or feed them to dogs or something. She said this to theon? Did I imagine this? The lady wants to make a bone toilet?
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 10:42 |
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I forget what she was gonna do, but yeah, she was gonna do something bad to them!!! GRRM never forgets.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 14:05 |
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davecrazy posted:Neds remains are one of those things that just flaps in the breeze long forgotten by GRRM. And it's this kind of thing I'm going to be mad about if he doesn't finish the books. Too many good mysteries. He has continued to work them in to the story so he hasn't forgotten them. They were traveling north from Riverrun with the Silent Sisters and no one knows where they are now. Lady Dustin wanted them but doesn't have them.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 14:24 |
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Its going to be that Howland Reed has them
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 14:27 |
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Lady Dustin is baller as gently caress and would fit into this thread full of bitter fucks as well as any character in the series except maybe the Yellow Whale.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 14:36 |
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:GRRM never forgets.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 14:39 |
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davecrazy posted:Neds remains are one of those things that just flaps in the breeze long forgotten by GRRM. I dunno if this counts as long forgotten seeing as they come up in ADWD. Unless you mean forgotten in the sense that it's all forgotten since the rest of the story will go unwritten.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 15:02 |
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frankenfreak posted:He constantly forgets writing though. This deserves a
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 15:08 |
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kcroy posted:
Still in med school here, but....not necessarily. Achondroplasia and several other causes of dwarfism usually don't have a big effect on muscle tone, so you can be quite strong, especially when it comes to moving your our smaller, light frame around. Many of the issues come from repeated/long-term effort, where the bone malformations can be painful and limiting: climbing large flights of stairs, staying on a normal saddle for hours on end, not to mention that a normal saddle would have stirrups you can't reach. So yeah, a bit of quick effort like jumping/tumbling is not really beyond the pale at all. Also, it's mentioned several times in the books that Tyrion did lots of tumbling as a child to amuse his uncles until Tywin told him he looked like a fool, and he does a bit more of it on the boat in ADWD.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 16:40 |
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Invicta{HOG}, M.D. posted:And it's this kind of thing I'm going to be mad about if he doesn't finish the books. Too many good mysteries. He has continued to work them in to the story so he hasn't forgotten them. Correct me if im wrong but in the show they are delivered to Cat by Littlefinger, so its probable that nothing will come of it.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 18:01 |
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Evil Fluffy posted:The fact that he has a head and everyone knows who he is is going to lessen the impact a good bit though. In the books he has a helm that completely hides his features and he has no head because it's sitting in Dorne, at least going by theories based one the witch of the mound(?) or some other seer basically describing headless FrankenGregor I really don't think HBO, GRRM and/or this show of all people are going to let that helmet come off and not cause some major poo poo at least by proxy. People calling him out as The Mountain before he even fights on the show isn't a sign to me that it's going to be a let down, it's a sign that that particular letdown isn't coming. Or this show sucks and it is. It's all part of charm.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 18:42 |
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Is there even a point to the books any more? Everything will happen either more or less just like the show, or the exact opposite of what the show does, either way it's really predictable.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 21:12 |
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No, no, I'm sure the new book from the guy who hasn't written a complete one in 16 years, that's part of a massive complicated series, that's being hosed around with at a late hour under duress while all it's secrets are leaked via the most popular television show on air will come out great.
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 21:21 |
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Intel&Sebastian posted:No, no, I'm sure the new book from the guy who hasn't written a complete one in 16 years, that's part of a massive complicated series, that's being hosed around with at a late hour under duress while all it's secrets are leaked via the most popular television show on air will come out great. Same
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# ? Jun 1, 2016 21:51 |
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Sephyr posted:Still in med school here, but....not necessarily. Achondroplasia and several other causes of dwarfism usually don't have a big effect on muscle tone, so you can be quite strong, especially when it comes to moving your our smaller, light frame around. Many of the issues come from repeated/long-term effort, where the bone malformations can be painful and limiting: climbing large flights of stairs, staying on a normal saddle for hours on end, not to mention that a normal saddle would have stirrups you can't reach. oh! very cool! He did more tumbling? I totally missed that, but to be fair I skimmed tyrions poo poo, and could never muster up the energy for a re-read.
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# ? Jun 2, 2016 00:28 |
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If gurm can hurry up and release the last two books in the next month and somehow incorporate Tyrion ninja flip skills as a 100% integral part of the end game so we get to see a CGI Dinklage flipping off of the wall, onto a dragon, and then jumping off that onto the Night King as he stabs him in the neck with a dragon glass dagger, I would be the happiest boy in the world.
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# ? Jun 2, 2016 00:53 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:If gurm can hurry up and release the last two books in the next month and somehow incorporate Tyrion ninja flip skills as a 100% integral part of the end game so we get to see a CGI Dinklage flipping off of the wall, onto a dragon, and then jumping off that onto the Night King as he stabs him in the neck with a dragon glass dagger, I would be the happiest boy in the world.
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# ? Jun 2, 2016 02:28 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5pJkldtAh0 Preston Jacobs meets his hero, learns that Martin probably hasn't been seeding in subplots from stories he wrote 40 years ago.
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# ? Jun 2, 2016 06:26 |
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The Ninth Layer posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5pJkldtAh0 wildcards reference.
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# ? Jun 2, 2016 09:31 |
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Now this is the story all about how my head got sewed on upside down~
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# ? Jun 2, 2016 11:45 |
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:The fact they haven't shown us a scarred zombie-Mountain face - particularly given how unsutble the show is and how they haven't tried to hide who Ser Strong is - suggests to me they have some kind of reveal planned for the face. Like maybe it's Ned's or Robert's or something ~shocking~ like that under there. In the books, yeah, seems to me that Ser Strong is likely literally headless, but show-Strong explicitly has a head, and implicitly has the head of someone important or shocking given the above. Maybe they're hiding his face to keep from confusing the audience after having recast him yet again
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# ? Jun 2, 2016 11:47 |
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I'm surprised after season one, when all the show-onlys kept saying "eh? Who's that?" That they didn't just etch a name tag into everyone's armor. That way during Cleganebowl his crudely bolted-on STRONK label could fall off after a harsh blow, revealing his true name tag: CLEGAN (they ran out of room for the E okay?) No more confusion, no costly makeup sessions or CGI. Win-win, baby.
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# ? Jun 2, 2016 11:51 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 03:48 |
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visceril posted:I'm surprised after season one, when all the show-onlys kept saying "eh? Who's that?" That they didn't just etch a name tag into everyone's armor. Honestly I don't understand why they didn't have like 2 second establishing shot every time they change scenes or just writing out the guy's name on the bottom the first time they talk in an episode. Maybe that'd get really tiresome. I don't know. But goddamn it there's so many people.
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# ? Jun 2, 2016 12:20 |