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Groovelord Neato posted:melisandre obviously thinks there should be an afterlife hence my question about worshiping the god after you find out there's nothing at the end. Then a better question for that is: Why does entire Brotherhood Without Banners worship R'hllor?
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Lycus posted:Then a better question for that is: Why does entire Brotherhood Without Banners worship R'hllor? Because one of his priests repeatedly brought a loving dead guy back to life before their eyes
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skasion posted:Because one of his priests repeatedly brought a loving dead guy back to life before their eyes I know. I'm going by the logic in thinking that "no afterlife" should equal "no faith".
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 01:20 |
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Lycus posted:I know. I'm going by the logic in thinking that "no afterlife" should equal "no faith". Why would you not have faith in a guy who can magically resurrect the dead?
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skasion posted:Why would you not have faith in a guy who can magically resurrect the dead?
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 01:49 |
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I mean it's not really that weird. Like someone else said, Judaism is a real-world religion that's theistic but doesn't necessarily believe in an afterlife.
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In Judaism they have a concept of an afterlife, but its very different and not permanent. It's like a washing machine for your soul.
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Zippy the Bummer posted:The only instance from the books of the Seven maybe being real was that one priest-monk on the Quiet Isle that maybe perhaps might have magical healing abilities. IIRC Davos believes that he saw the Mother save him after Blackwater, though that could of course have been a hallucination.
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 02:59 |
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:I am in the minority who liked Bernie Sparrow. I liked the Sparrow for all of the 10 seconds of the trailer/preview in which he said those lines and it looked like they would follow the book approach of "the smallfolk getting fed of the nobility's bullshit and rising up on arms" But then they decided to take the evil zealot bishop approach and go on the gay crusades cause everyone in 201X knows that church is bad and nothing good ever comes of it cause religion is evil and church is bad. And then of course it all amounted to nothing when the Sparrow, his whole zealot and plotline get Dorned away with no lasting consequences to their passage through the show. But at least they gave us a dope ost in Light of the Seven lezard_valeth fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Jul 30, 2017 |
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Yeah, the bleh part of the whole sparrow thing is that the entire plotline basically only results in a) the entire supporting cast of KL & southern westeros exiting the show and b) cersei even angrier
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 07:07 |
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Demiurge4 posted:We also had that scene of old hag Mellisandra questioning her faith. This might seem odd or sappy but that scene was one of the saddest in the show, for me at least. It was so forlorn and despairing seeing her old (real) haggard self crawl slowly into bed and pull the covers up, like someone just giving up and willing themselves to die. Might just be me though.
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 07:20 |
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lezard_valeth posted:I liked the Sparrow for all of the 10 seconds of the trailer/preview in which he said those lines and it looked like they would follow the book approach of "the smallfolk getting fed of the nobility's bullshit and rising up on arms" I think that's how GRRM intended it though, GRRM even said in an interview that the church of the Seven is the same kind of mixed bag as the Catholicism it's based on because they're repressive but do want to help the poor folk at the same time.
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 07:21 |
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I would worship any god that could turn me into Carice van Houten
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Jeb! Repetition posted:I think that's how GRRM intended it though, GRRM even said in an interview that the church of the Seven is the same kind of mixed bag as the Catholicism it's based on because they're repressive but do want to help the poor folk at the same time. There's no real strong moralistic angle to the sparrows in the books. They're just pissed off the nobility have hosed up Westeros.
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Zippy the Bummer posted:This might seem odd or sappy but that scene was one of the saddest in the show, for me at least. It was so forlorn and despairing seeing her old (real) haggard self crawl slowly into bed and pull the covers up, like someone just giving up and willing themselves to die. Might just be me though. Agreed. Mel's chapter is one of my faves and this scene touched on a lot of what we learn in there w/ such a simple scene. It was a really nice surprise.
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drunken officeparty posted:I would worship any god that could turn me into Carice van Houten Seriously, where do I sign up?
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lezard_valeth posted:And then of course it all amounted to nothing when the Sparrow, his whole zealot and plotline get Dorned away with no lasting consequences to their passage through the show. that's what so bothersome about the show. nothing really has consequences (unless you're a "good", relatively speaking, guy). at least in the books the boltons had northern houses conspiring against it, in the show it's one women saying "the north remembers" and she gets flayed right after.
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 13:17 |
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InFlames235 posted:
Ok in the business side of things what's the difference between a six 2-hour episode season and a 12 1-hour episode season? It seems really silly to me.
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How is Jon going to react to Melisandre being with Dany & co.? I forget, but did he just send her out of the north or demand to never see her again or what?
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Boris Galerkin posted:Ok in the business side of things what's the difference between a six 2-hour episode season and a 12 1-hour episode season? It seems really silly to me. Actors are paid per-episode, so it's basically a way of getting more labor out of them for free. Not that I'm crying over the financial situations of any of these people.
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 16:03 |
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Producers discovered this one wierd trick.to halve salaries. Actors hate it!
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WampaLord posted:Actors are paid per-episode, so it's basically a way of getting more labor out of them for free. Not that I'm crying over the financial situations of any of these people. I have to imagine all the main actors have some pretty decent leverage over their salaries. Kind of late in the game to recast Jon Snow. That said, that'd be loving hilarious.
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 17:31 |
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None of the cast are very big names and they'd be burning one hell of a bridge by playing hardball with HBO, I think.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Ok in the business side of things what's the difference between a six 2-hour episode season and a 12 1-hour episode season? It seems really silly to me. I don't think they're going to be a flat 2 hours. It's just a 2 hour slot so the episode can run an hour and a half or an hour and 40 minutes or whatever. Whatever they feel is necessary.
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 18:35 |
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Vegetable posted:None of the cast are very big names and they'd be burning one hell of a bridge by playing hardball with HBO, I think. "Listen!" Said the vaguely ethnic looking woman, "do you know who the gently caress i am in this industry?! Im the the tit double for the frizzy haired bitch and you will not pull this poo poo with me!"
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banned from Starbucks posted:"Listen!" Said the vaguely ethnic looking woman, "do you know who the gently caress i am in this industry?! Im the the tit double for the frizzy haired bitch and you will not pull this poo poo with me!" Isnt this basically why Roz was impaled by a bunch of arrows?
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drunken officeparty posted:I would worship any god that could turn me into Carice van Houten Count me in.
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TheRat posted:Isnt this basically why Roz was impaled by a bunch of arrows? Dunno. Would be funny if it was
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 21:01 |
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They probably never planned on keeping Ros around. There have been a couple subsequent interviews in recent years that make me think it was Emilia Clarke that wanted her nude scenes cut down.
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 22:27 |
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IIRC it was Ros' actress that stipulated by contract to do less/no nudity and then they killed her off immediately lmao
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 22:35 |
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TOOT BOOT posted:They probably never planned on keeping Ros around. There have been a couple subsequent interviews in recent years that make me think it was Emilia Clarke that wanted her nude scenes cut down. The rumours at the time was that Emilia Clarke refused to do more nude scenes, but then a buttload of new nude scenes came along and if I remember correctly she even did nude scenes in life theatre performances?
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 22:47 |
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TheRat posted:The rumours at the time was that Emilia Clarke refused to do more nude scenes, but then a buttload of new nude scenes came along and if I remember correctly she even did nude scenes in life theatre performances? Yes and she was none too happy about GoT nerds rushing to the stage to take pictures of her nude.
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 22:57 |
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etalian posted:Yes and she was none too happy about GoT nerds rushing to the stage to take pictures of her nude. Besides that being pretty gauche at live theater it's not like her refusing to do future GoT nude scenes made the old ones scarcer? :shrug
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 23:05 |
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How many times was ros even nude? The winterfell scene with theon and the play with her rear end scene are all i remember.
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 23:12 |
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banned from Starbucks posted:How many times was ros even nude? The winterfell scene with theon and the play with her rear end scene are all i remember. Wasn't she naked in the scene with Joffrey right before her death? And also when Varys approaches her in the brothel.
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The idea that someone cast as a whore in a show would object to nude scenes is kind of a reach.
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 23:26 |
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All rumours are probably horseshit, and nerds just like to gossip about the people in their nerdshow.
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# ? Jul 30, 2017 23:34 |
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Vegetable posted:None of the cast are very big names and they'd be burning one hell of a bridge by playing hardball with HBO, I think. None of the actors have face to face talks with EP's about how much they get paid.
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# ? Jul 31, 2017 00:58 |
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Re-watching ep 2 and the early scenes have weird directing & acting, first obviously Dany is a little out of character with her aggressiveness across the board and specifically with Tyrion. But the Arya/Hotpie scene is really jarring at the start with the weird 'mechanical' eating and mouth-wiping. I'm blaming the directing mostly.
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It's to show her eating like the Hound now.
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