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I really don't like Dany's new dress. It's some dumb star trek uniform. She can't hold a candle to my Queen Cersei.
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violent sex idiot posted:arya already killed her in the first exchange or at least maimed her before that Arya lightly tapped her armour. She had to be kicked to remind her what the Hound told her.
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I'm just disappointed that the Brotherhood bypassed Winterfell. No Arya/Sandor/Brienne scene.
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PupsOfWar posted:i've always wondered why brienne is called brienne of tarth, rather than just brienne tarth Didn't you just answer your question? Her family name is also a placename. Eddard Stark isn't from Stark, hence no Eddard of Stark. Might also be cultural like IRL, some would be using a placename as a familyname, and add the 'of' to it.
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Lycus posted:I'm just disappointed that the Brotherhood bypassed Winterfell. No Arya/Sandor/Brienne scene. Do they go to the Wall in one of the leaked eps or something? The Brotherhood has only ever been running around in the Riverlands, and has never been north of the Neck. I'm sure they'll teleport directly to Winterfell should they decide to go there, but I don't see how they can be said to have bypassed it.
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GannerOne posted:Didn't you just answer your question? Her family name is also a placename. Eddard Stark isn't from Stark, hence no Eddard of Stark. right, but none of the other Tarths, who are presumably also from Tarth, do this it's like if we had Robb Stark, Sansa Stark, Bran Stark, Arya Stark, and then Rickon decided to go around calling himself Rickon of Winterfell, never introducing himself as Rickon Stark. legal, likely not too terribly confusing for people he meets, but odd. it bugs me, I think, because it makes her sound like she's a bastard or some kinda commoner hedge-knight, which are the sorts of people we usually see using place-names. Alyn of Hull, Arlan of Pennytree, Jenny of Oldstones, the innumerable "X, the bastard of Y"s, etc PupsOfWar fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Aug 9, 2017 |
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Maybe Brienne can't claim the surname after walking out on her family to be a hedge knight. Like, she got disowned and now is effectively common.
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Brother Friendship posted:I like following this thread for GoT because most posters know the story well and the TVIV thread is filled with such a ridiculous level of leaked info that it was killing my enjoyment of the show. Yeah, I'm not really a big fan of spoilers, but I'd rather read this thread in all it's spoilery glory than the keyboard vomit that is the TVIV thread. I just need to remember to stop treating this like a TVIV thread and posting the occasional joyful or excited thing in it.
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She's repeatedly called Brienne, The maid of Tarth as a sarcastic title, because no man wants her. It has just been shortened in the show for reasons. Another nasty title is Jewel of the Emerald Isle. Or just "The Pig" in the pig hunt. I'm sure there are others.
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PittTheElder posted:Do they go to the Wall in one of the leaked eps or something? The Brotherhood has only ever been running around in the Riverlands, and has never been north of the Neck. I'm sure they'll teleport directly to Winterfell should they decide to go there, but I don't see how they can be said to have bypassed it. We know they go to Eastwatch if I recall, but they were seemingly ahead of Arya, so it looks like they go directly there, and the next episode is "Eastwatch" so.. Lycus fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Aug 9, 2017 |
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counterfeitsaint posted:Yeah, I'm not really a big fan of spoilers, but I'd rather read this thread in all it's spoilery glory than the keyboard vomit that is the TVIV thread. I just need to remember to stop treating this like a TVIV thread and posting the occasional joyful or excited thing in it. you can be excited. were all excited here especially since the series is finally ending. ive liked most of this season so far
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Blind Sally posted:you can be excited. were all excited here especially since the series is finally ending. Yes you just can't be excited about the books because they are never coming out.
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I think the entire 'wight-hunting party' thing that supposedly is going to happen seems silly. Pretty stoked to see the Brotherhood without Banners-guys fighting tho. Their actions during the War of the Five Kings were always something I liked in the books even if you only heard rumours about it, but seemed to be a little random and neglected in the show. Can't wait for the reunion between The Hound/Sansa+Arya+Brienne
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Maybe Brienne can't claim the surname after walking out on her family to be a hedge knight. Like, she got disowned and now is effectively common. As far as we know Brienne is still the undisputed heir to Evenfall Hall, Selwyn Tarth doesn't have any other children and there's no indication he has ever disowned her (or stopped loving her). I guess it's supposed to be an ironic contrast to Sam's situation on some level. emanresu tnuocca fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Aug 9, 2017 |
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Yeah, Brienne's daddy permitted her training so he must be at least resigned to the type of life she's leading. I always wondered if it had to do with Tarth being her maiden name and/or her not being allowed to be called Ser or something. No other highborn women her age are being referred to by their father's name either, after all.
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counterfeitsaint posted:Yeah, Brienne's daddy permitted her training so he must be at least resigned to the type of life she's leading. Well, Cersei.
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She still didn't go by just Cersei Lannister. Well, maybe now that she's gone all Snow White's stepmom this season.
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We never hear anyone referring to Elia Martell as Elia Targaryen either. And I think Lysa Arryn is referred to as Lysa Tully about as often. Stannis is the only one who ever notes that Sansa is now a Lannister and does so derogatorily. I think generally the female scions of great houses sometimes tend to emphasize their paternal lineage so as to appear as equals but any way it's not 100% consistent.
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99% of the time ladies got married because of the house they were born into so might as well keep emphasizing that
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violent sex idiot posted:arya already killed her in the first exchange or at least maimed her before that Actually I think Arya is wielding a thrusting sword. Tapping someone with such a sword does not indicate doing damage.
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Ninja economist posted:Actually I think Arya is wielding a thrusting sword. Tapping someone with such a sword does not indicate doing damage. well yeah i mean if they were actually fighting for real, she got her throat
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TXT BOOTY7 2 47474 posted:Like seeing an old friend... It's truly beautiful. Has someone got the one of the Night's Watch dude nialing that Other woman on top of the wall?
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PittTheElder posted:Do they go to the Wall in one of the leaked eps or something? The Brotherhood has only ever been running around in the Riverlands, and has never been north of the Neck. I'm sure they'll teleport directly to Winterfell should they decide to go there, but I don't see how they can be said to have bypassed it. HBO's promo trailers/teaser included scens of them up north, including Berric igniting his sword as part of the group fighting white walkers, IIRC.
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GannerOne posted:I think the entire 'wight-hunting party' thing that supposedly is going to happen seems silly. It's stupid as hell, but it allows 10 good men to go off and sword fight for a while, so I assume the show will go for it.
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Variations of the wight hunting party and dany burning poo poo in the crownlands is almost certain to happen in the books. You can book it on Jon and 12 companions riding north of the wall to do something or other, though in the books everyone but Jon will die. And of course Dany is going to recreate the field of fire somehow.
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PittTheElder posted:It's stupid as hell, but it allows 10 good men to go off and sword fight for a while, so I assume the show will go for it. The 'big battle' budget was blown on the last episode and there's still half a season to fil.
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Josuke Higashikata posted:It's truly beautiful. 
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So all the Valyrian Steel weapons are in the hands of our heroes now?
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Normy posted:So all the Valyrian Steel weapons are in the hands of our heroes now? Yeah, Jaime & Brienne have Widow's Wail and Oathkeeper, Jon has Longclaw, Sam has Heartsbane and Arya has the unnamed dagger. I don't think that there were any other Valyrian weapons in the show. Which kind of makes the dagger being given to the catspaw even more bullshit.
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emanresu tnuocca posted:Widow's Wail He really was a oval office.
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Mad Hamish posted:Why the gently caress did that wagon train have a ballista with them? Having the ballista is fine, having nobody ready to man it was the stupid thing.
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I just had so much trouble believing that one person could load it and aim it with actual success in hitting a fast-moving, distant airborne target that no-one in living memory had ever tried to shoot at before. I can believe that people might have tried using ballistae against dragons during the Targaryen civil war, but I don't think you'd have a very good success rate. They're not Discworld characters in 'Guards! Guards!', one-in-a-million chances don't pop up nine times out of ten. Edit: I will say that the Lannister army showed astounding discipline in their ranks when an actual dragon shows up and starts breathing napalm at them. Is my D&D nerd showing if I expect people (and horses) to experience dragonfear? Mad Hamish fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Aug 10, 2017 |
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We better take our anti-dragon weapon with us from KL to Highgarden and back just in case Daenerys shows up. *7 weeks or maybe 2 days, who knows, later* Oh no a dragon! *fights for 10 minutes* Oh wait. We have literally a thing just for this situation. Duh. - master battlefield strategist Jaime Lannister
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Mad Hamish posted:I can believe that people might have tried using ballistae against dragons during the Targaryen civil war, but I don't think you'd have a very good success rate. http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Meraxes
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