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Is Theon supposed to still have his balls? Theoretically, he could still produce an heir. And there's been a lot of discussion about costs to Mel for resurrecting Jon but in the show, it's 100% presented as The Red God doing the resurrecting. You just ask after having completely poo poo the bed and given up and he'll be like, "Yeah, okay." The way it's set-up, she should be completely fine because she didn't really do anything except ask for it with as much as melancholy as The Red God likes to see in a person. Majorian posted:Dear everybody whining about Ramsay "getting away with whatever he wants" - you do realize he's not actually going to get away with this, right? He's not smart enough to keep the North together, and it's not going to take very long for his own (metaphorical and literal) hounds to turn on him and tear him to pieces. When Roose died, I felt bored and disappointed. Ramsay's bad writing. He feels gratuitous and silly. When in Better Call Saul, Jimmy's boss was mad at him, I was on the edge of my seat because the writing's good. When Ramsay fed Walda and his infant half-brother to the war dogs, it felt like something out of Troma just filmed in the wrong style.
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May 3, 2016 14:34
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lezard_valeth posted:Makes you wonder how there have not been any other necromancer building an army in ASOIAF aside from the Night's King. Qyborn is doing it for Cersei, and there's the theory that the Ironborn did it a bit back in the day. IIRC Dagmar Cleftjaw was supposedly a reanimated corpse. Necromancy would also explain the origins of "what is dead can never die".
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May 3, 2016 14:45
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Professor Shark posted:I'm rewatching the first season of True Detective and it's reminding me of when HBO was on goddamn fire In a way it still is! 
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May 3, 2016 14:49
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Professor Shark posted:The High Sparrow is deader than poo poo but he's going to smile as he dies I'd be tickled if he was dragged behind a horse on the same path Cersei had to walk. Then they'll string him up. All hell will break loose for sure.
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May 3, 2016 14:52
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Blind Melon posted:there's the theory that the Ironborn did it a bit back in the day. IIRC Dagmar Cleftjaw was supposedly a reanimated corpse. Necromancy would also explain the origins of "what is dead can never die". Can you link me to this theory? I like to waste my time reading fan theories for this series
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May 3, 2016 14:54
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Lloyd Boner posted:Mel trimmed his hair. Jon is ruined. Professor Shark posted:Can you link me to this theory? I like to waste my time reading fan theories for this series
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May 3, 2016 15:07
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TK-42-1 posted:My wife blurted out 'What are you doing?? You bitch!' during that scene. Ah, the female audience. Thanks to them we are stuck with blah characters like Jon Snow here, and Daryl from the Walking Dead.
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May 3, 2016 15:12
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As opposed to straight dudes, who gave us Ros and the Bad Pussies. Or gay dudes, who gave us every character on True Blood.
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May 3, 2016 15:15
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BreakAtmo posted:In a way it still is! They should throw whoever greenlit Vinyl and cancelled Togetherness into the Winterfell dog pens.
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May 3, 2016 15:17
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Utopia ended up being cancelled before filming took place, HBO is going through something and everything is coming out vanilla
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May 3, 2016 15:20
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Professor Shark posted:When ADWD came out I went to the store and bought my reserved copy as soon as it opened, I was the only one there When ADWD came out, before I could put my hands on the official kindle and audible copies, I was killing my eyes reading the loving cellphone photos of the leaked book, jpg by jpg. Not again GRRM. I will just read the thread next time, if there is a next time.
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May 3, 2016 15:22
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lezard_valeth posted:Ah, the female audience.  you're the saddest person in the world aren't you?
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Oh, women are to blame for Jon Snow. Of course it's women. Women and their prophesied heroes and resurrection myths, Pfft. Lycus fucked around with this message at 15:28 on May 3, 2016 |
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May 3, 2016 15:25
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lezard_valeth posted:Ah, the female audience. She was making a joke. Jesus christ dude.
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I liked Episode 2 a whole lot, faith restored in adaptationProfessor Shark posted:I'm rewatching the first season of True Detective and it's reminding me of when HBO was on goddamn fire Veep is better than it was when that came out Silicon Valley didn't exist yet Jon Oliver didn't exist yet Hmmmmm
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:I liked Episode 2 a whole lot, faith restored in adaptation lol Edit: I've watched every episode of SV and I don't think I've laughed once, and it's only gotten worse Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 15:58 on May 3, 2016 |
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May 3, 2016 15:55
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Accretionist posted:Is Theon supposed to still have his balls? Theoretically, he could still produce an heir. My favorite fan theory is that there is no red god and it's just Bloodraven loving around What if bloodraven is the littlefingerest littlefinger
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May 3, 2016 15:57
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Blind Melon posted:Qyborn is doing it for Cersei, and there's the theory that the Ironborn did it a bit back in the day. IIRC Dagmar Cleftjaw was supposedly a reanimated corpse. Necromancy would also explain the origins of "what is dead can never die". I don't remember the details of Dagmar Cleftjaw, but thinking about him made me think of Damphair Greyjoy, and then Patchface, both of whom could also be considered resurrected characters. They both also came back acting completely different from their pre-resurrection selves.
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May 3, 2016 15:59
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Professor Shark posted:lol Why did you watch every episode of a comedy show if you didn't find it funny. I think the problem here is your broken brain
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May 3, 2016 16:13
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Wait, we're not supposed to watch things we hate? How are you supposed to wallow in seething bile if you just ignore the things that bother you? My blood pressure isn't going to spike dangerously all on its own.
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May 3, 2016 16:16
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This season doesn't feel like GOT. Pacing is off and there are too many tropes not being subverted. loving hack writers.
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May 3, 2016 16:20
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cool and good posted:Why did you watch every episode of a comedy show if you didn't find it funny. I think the problem here is your broken brain Because HBO has like 2 shows on at any given time and I'm going to get my monies worth 
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May 3, 2016 16:23
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I want them to hurry the gently caress up with the Weirtrix and show me more flashbacks More matrix jokes go Bran: "I know warging" Bloodraven: "Show me" Bloodraven's fightin Bran!
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May 3, 2016 16:29
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If we're already getting the Tower of Joy next episode I'm curious if there'll be any more weirwood flashbacks after it, that seems to be the pinnacle of flashbacks for the show(and the books, for that matter). I'd like to see a flashback showing how Rhaegar was a nut obsessed with prophecy, but since they didn't cast anyone to play him obviously we won't see anything like that this season.
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May 3, 2016 16:33
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I'm pretty sure we're seeing Jaime killing Aerys, but I don't know if that will be before or after Tower of Joy.
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May 3, 2016 16:42
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Perhaps they'll finally show us that scene of Ned's dad and brother getting killed by Aerys that was cut from season 1?
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May 3, 2016 16:48
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They will split the Tower of Joy and show the fight in the next episode but the R+L=J reveal will have to wait at least one episode, if not more.
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Azazell0 posted:This is really entertaining but man, as a non-native english speaker, I could really use some subtitles (not automatic ones). I don't know about subtitled versions, but they do written reviews as well. Edit: Choice quotes, though the entire thing is quotable. quote:My Gawd, my Gawd, MY GAWD we back up in this piece like we never left. Well, I mean, some people left ‘cuz plenty folks been fed the gently caress up with Game of Thrones poo poo of late, but that’s not what we do here at BNP. We head to the trenches and report back on awesomeness and fuckboys alike. So let’s get back into this No Chill TV Viewing Experience to kick off Season 6. Dr. Poz fucked around with this message at 17:02 on May 3, 2016 |
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May 3, 2016 16:50
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kcroy posted:I don't think those were golden path elements - they were important parts of his rule ( eg Female warriors) , but I got the impression that much of his rule was designed to create a stagnant situation that would later fuel the Scattering. Could be wrong though. I love any opportunity to talk about Dune. It's a dead universe writing-wise and it's one of my favorites. It's too bad we don't live in the universe where HBO picked up the idea to adapt Dune into a TV series instead of
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May 3, 2016 16:54
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They did do a pretty good job with the Expanse.
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I did like Ep2 a lot but it still feels like we're moving way too fast. I don't see how in the hell they possibly tie things up with just one more season without it feeling impossibly rushed.
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The Expanse with HBO money would have been great Westworld looks like it's going to be DOA, so much for that potential Sci Fi series
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MrSlam posted:You're right. What I mentioned were probably just side-effects of his rule but it's kind of hard to draw the line between Keikaku Golden Path and Keikaku Benevolent Tyranny. But you are right, enforcing everyone to live in tiny villages with poo poo technology for over a thousand years was the main thrust of the Golden Path, if not the entire point of it. They obviously got the right idea with GoT by choosing not to try to recreate the first person narrative structure of the book exactly. Sure, we see the story mostly through the eyes of certain characters, but they're (mercifully) not trying to get us to understand everything they're thinking at any given moment.
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Professor Shark posted:Because HBO has like 2 shows on at any given time and I'm going to get my monies worth I respect this answer
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May 3, 2016 17:20
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I watched the latest episode of Silicon Valley to spite you and forgot that I liked the Chinese character, so I guess I'm a dirty liar (like the Japanese!  )
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Narmi posted:They did do a pretty good job with the Expanse. And I do like the Dune Mini-series actually. It's got one of my favorite character actors Ian McNeice as Baron Harkonnen and Alec Newman as Paul as well as a gorgeous Chani (who I hope decides to divorce her husband and move to the boonies of America to marry some fat loser). Also it had a very sleepy William Hurt. It was a great adaptation overall and was a helluva lot more faithful than Lynch's version (which I also love) and didn't rape the plot like Jodorwosky's intentions (not hyperbole). But there are a lot of moments where the budget was pretty obvious, particularly the matte paintings. Fun Fact I Discovered On My Own: If you play the four main notes of the mini-series main theme backwards you get the four notes of the main theme from Lynch's Dune (by Toto). At this point I should probably stop talking about Dune in the Game of Thrones thread. MrSlam fucked around with this message at 17:28 on May 3, 2016 |
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savinhill posted:I don't remember the details of Dagmar Cleftjaw, but thinking about him made me think of Damphair Greyjoy, and then Patchface, both of whom could also be considered resurrected characters. They both also came back acting completely different from their pre-resurrection selves. Although we get Aeron's POV and there's nothing undead about his thoughts
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Ginette Reno posted:I did like Ep2 a lot but it still feels like we're moving way too fast. I don't see how in the hell they possibly tie things up with just one more season without it feeling impossibly rushed. I have a feeling they are just going to bail quickly on the East once Westeros is close to where they need to be to setup Daenerys et all returning.
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MrSlam posted:I like what I've seen so far from The Expanse. It may convince me to pick up the books by the time I finish watching it. The writing is pretty bad... almost like a Syfy special, in book form
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