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Abel Wingnut posted:that makes sense but i didn't detect/feel/sense that at all It makes sense if the characters knew they were in a TV show and were trying to create drama and suspense.
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banned from Starbucks posted:Did anyone on the show ever ask what happened to the kingsguard arya killed in bravos? Like he just doesnt come back and noone cared? They didnt even give a poo poo what happened to an entire noble house- House Frey. What are you gonna do? Send a CSI unit?
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Constant posted:They didnt even give a poo poo what happened to an entire noble house- House Frey. I think Jaime at least MENTIONS the Frey's in passing when he was talking to Cersei about how many enemies they have in one of the opening episodes this season. Something along the lines of "And whoever killed the Frey's, they're not on our side either!". But that's it. As for Ser Meryn Trant, he was basically a redshirt that had some screentime because he killed Arya's Water Dancer fellow. To quote the Hound: "Any boy whore with a sword could beat three Meryn Trants."...which coincidentally, it was a girl posing as a girl whore with a dagger that killed him. So the Hound overestimated Mr. Trant when he said that.
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Captain Splendid posted:It wasn't a divorce, it was an annulment, meaning that technically he was never married to Elia and, I guess, that all his children by her are bastards and Jon becomes his only heir. Under Catholicism they would not be bastards since legitimacy merely requires a putative marriage. I'm not even sure how it would affect succession. Mary I was from an annulled marriage but still became queen after Henry VIII's son died. No clue how it would work in GoT though.
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banned from Starbucks posted:Did anyone on the show ever ask what happened to the kingsguard arya killed in bravos? Like he just doesnt come back and noone cared? At least no one seemed to ever give a poo poo about him. The show made it pretty clear that Margeary was the most popular person in KL (certainly more popular than Cersei), and yet blowing her up with 200 other people in the middle of the city had 0 political blowback for Cersei. Oh except for Olenna turning on her I guess, but just Olenna since her army didn't.
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Reflections85 posted:Under Catholicism they would not be bastards since legitimacy merely requires a putative marriage. I'm not even sure how it would affect succession. Mary I was from an annulled marriage but still became queen after Henry VIII's son died. No clue how it would work in GoT though. Wasn't that a special case though? Didn't Henry go through Parliament to get Mary recognized as his daughter? But let's be real. The show writers don't give that big of a poo poo.
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precision posted:Even so, the way it was written/filmed/shot made it super weird. How did the Mountain know she was bluffing? What are you on about? She let him go. That's what the nod was for.
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Jaime asks Cersei to give the order and she gives a vague nod towards the Mountain; it's not really an order to kill Jaime. As everyone with visual memory, auditory memory and empathy knows, Zombie-Mountain didn't just oblige Tyrion with suicide either.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYOkYquttQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZioX4y3f8E A friend just sent me this and I'm laughing my rear end off watching The Tumblr Bar reacts to GoT lezard_valeth fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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lezard_valeth posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYOkYquttQ Without clicking, is that the Burlington Bar poo poo? Their videos give me all the cringe and it fills me with life.
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its cool they got to watch the ep with euron
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lezard_valeth posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYOkYquttQ jesus these people are terrifically awful thankin' you for that,  ahaha they're all drinking High Life it's like 2005 died and rotted in there precision fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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the tumblr bar is great
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I wish anything in life made me as excited as those people are pretending to be.
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precision posted:I wish anything in life made me as excited as those people are pretending to be. hey I legitimately cheered when Arya sliced Petyr's smug throat, but I also look and act like a loving adult and not 2005 hipster culture frozen and resurrected.
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precision posted:I wish anything in life made me as excited as those people are pretending to be. This week's Twin Peaks did that for me tbh, but in general 
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The Spoils of War one had me laughing out so hard The three girls in the front were cheering when the dragons burns the army but then they are almost crying when Jaime is watching the people burning and screaming way to take queues from the music to know how you are supposed to react
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This is the level of viewer that D&D and Dave Hill are targeting. No wonder they spelled out Jon's parentage so explicitly.
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They've been doing this at that bar for a while, so there's plenty of cringe for you all to enjoy.
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esperterra posted:They've been doing this at that bar for a while, so there's plenty of cringe for you all to enjoy. They make more money from Youtube than from bar sales. That's loving insane.
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WampaLord posted:This is the level of viewer that D&D and Dave Hill are targeting. It's also why the idea that Dany is going to have poo poo flung at her rotting corpse doesn't ring true.
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I miss Olenna. I wonder what quips she'd make during the Cersei and Dany meeting? Also, the casting choice for Rhaegar was actually quite good - looking similar to Viserys. I was hoping they'd tell Jon - but naturally, it's put off until next season. What I don't understand is how the magic of the wall seemingly was completely forgotten. Why bother having Benjen mention it if no magic is happening? There must be some remnant of magic in the ice that was destroyed, right?
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's also why the idea that Dany is going to have poo poo flung at her rotting corpse doesn't ring true. although i'd enjoy watching the bar reaction video if it happened
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precision posted:I wish anything in life made me excited
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Valar Morghulis posted:I miss Olenna. I wonder what quips she'd make during the Cersei and Dany meeting? if they even bothered they could just handwave it as: dragon = magic cancels wall magic or bring up the Bran mark thing
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's also why the idea that Dany is going to have poo poo flung at her rotting corpse doesn't ring true. Remember in an interview a while ago Euron's actor said he was going to be more hated than Joffrey? He didn't give more details but he knows he's gonna be having poo poo flung at a kelly c corpse and people are gonna hate his guts in real life
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lmao at the latest Preston Jacobs video. I didn't even notice most of the completely batshit insane writing mistakes and inconsistencies, so much of the dialog is just complete nonsense gibberish now, it doesn't mean anything 
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Bottom Liner posted:They make more money from Youtube than from bar sales. That's loving insane. oh my god when they talk it's even worse and... "SJW-ettes"? really??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkxhPPlF-Ho this is irony right this has to be ironyborn
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"Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:lmao at the latest Preston Jacobs video. I didn't even notice most of the completely batshit insane writing mistakes and inconsistencies, so much of the dialog is just complete nonsense gibberish now, it doesn't mean anything "oh come on maybe this scene takes place over several hours" As the quality of the show has gone down, the quality of Preston's videos has gone up.
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lezard_valeth posted:" I don't know why, but Sam assigned to transcribe a 20y old book for the library did it for me. I genuinely started laughing how that made zero loving sense
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Sam's grand arc being all about figuring out stuff that the viewers and other characters already knew is really the best. The fact that in one case it was something that Sam already knew was really amazing. One must also wonder wtf does Rhaegar's marriage even mean by this point, it changes nothing, the reveal comes at the point where the plot it was supposed to entangle is already resolved and creates no tension whatsoever. Will Dany think Jon is suddenly going to usurp her? are we supposed to turn off our brains and thing it will cause strife between them? For once Jon already vowed allegiance to Dany, and he was a King even before people knew he was the rightful heir, so who gives a hoot? "Hi Dany, turns out I'm the rightful king" "Oh but we're already married, we can just keep ruling together I guess?" "Yeah." "Yeah." emanresu tnuocca fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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To be honest the Mountain vs. Viper duel ending had me groan in real life too, even though I'm a book reader and I knew what was gonna happen. Some of my friends said they were legit shocked for the Red Wedding.
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Vinylshadow posted:Finally getting to the entire premise the show was about isn't a good thing? It's called Game of Thrones, not A Song of Ice and Fire Dragons.
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Valar Morghulis posted:I miss Olenna. I wonder what quips she'd make during the Cersei and Dany meeting? The show forgets poo poo at the speed of light, lately. And they already had a setup to dispel the magic: the mark the Night's King put on Bran. Just one throwaway line or moment to make us realize his passing through the wall got rid of its magic. Speaking of poo poo from like last year they forgot entirely, why the gently caress didn't Randyll Tarly send someone after Sam to get the family sword back? It goes missing in the middle of the night after he fucks off, Randyll knows he's going to Oldtown, and he doesn't do anything? Does the show even remember Sam took it?
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TeaJay posted:To be honest the Mountain vs. Viper duel ending had me groan in real life too, even though I'm a book reader and I knew what was gonna happen. Some of my friends said they were legit shocked for the Red Wedding. I had read the books and knew it was coming and was still shocked at the pregnant lady belly stabbing. The amount of shock started as a wide eyed indoor voice "holy poo poo" and escalated to me still being silently stunned by it and discussing it on facebook with my friends who were also shocked. Not screaming at the tops of my lungs while flailing my arms over my head and grasping and shaking whoever I had sitting next to me. But even then just by searching on youtube I know some people did react that way. To the Red Wedding The one were they stabbed a pregnant lady on the belly. I can understand that. Not the Wall collapsing, specially more so when we all knew that was gonna happen eventually. And the Red Wedding reaction was a consistent reaction too. Not loving cheering for an army of people getting roasted and then start crying when the PoV and BGM changes. I hate doing real life comparisons but since dragons are fantasy nukes this is the equivalent of cheering over the bomb drop over Hiroshima and then being shocked and crying because "Oh I guess killing people actually makes them go dead. Who would have seen this coming?".
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emanresu tnuocca posted:Sam's grand arc being all about figuring out stuff that the viewers and other characters already knew is really the best. The fact that in one case it was something that Sam already knew was really amazing. I would hope it would lead toward there being strife post WW war between them, because they'll hopefully not be boning any more when Jon finds out she's his aunt, but the show isn't clever enough to have Jon being heir in line before Dany having any impact whatsoever on their relationship, or the plot. I also fully expect them to have Bran and Sam hold off on telling Jon about his parents, because they'll realize Jon and Dany are bonin' and that's awkward. If I had any integrity I would toxx that Jon doesn't learn until the finale, if at all. But alas for I am a cheap woman and  could buy me most of a pack smokes instead. They're pricey up north.idk maybe it means Dany dies so Jon will be king. e: ^^^ Oberyn's death was the only one that really made me gasp out loud while reading it. The Red Wedding surprised me, but it was drawn out and had Cat noticing something was wrong from the beginning. Oberyn stepped in as this big character and our first real window into Dorne, and Elia's side of the Rhaegar/Lyanna situation. Then his fuckin head exploded. The show delivered for me, it was exceptional even w/ all the cutting between shots they were doing during the fight. The death, though, was as gruesome and sudden as it needed to be, and Jaime's expression and Ellaria's fuckin screams of anguish were A+. Shame they gave Indira Varma nothing of value after that. esperterra fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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With the episode on Monday it's the first time that people I've been watching it with (and the wider audience) haven't been happy about an episode. Mostly the consensus seems to be "So what was littlefinger's plan anyway??". Not just in this episode but at all, ever. What was his plan? It's like his entire character has now been totally wasted.
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Taear posted:What was his plan? He got botulism when he arrived at Winterfell and never really recovered from the brain damage, we'll never learn his plan now. RIP
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Well this season was a mess, I can't say that I regret how they're doing the show's endgame though, since everything the show has ever done good or bad has always in some way made me appreciate the books more and more. Going into the end If I had to rank how they handled the show as a whole, I would rank it like, God Tier Lena Headey's performance throughout the entire show Excellent Tier Almost Everything King's Landing related in Seasons 1, 2, & 3 Ned's death Battle of Blackwater The Mountain and the Viper Arya in S1-4 The Hound in S2-4 The Red Wedding scene on its own Theon's S2 storyline Casting of Tyrion, Arya, Theon, Tywin, & Joffrey the visual execution of the Tower of Joy reveal Good Tier changes in Sam's overall attitude/personality in the show v. the books Dany's story in S1 & S3 Jon's story in S3, S5, & S6 most of the overall main cast S7 Euron Hold the Door the Walk of Shame The Spoils of War Jaime in S1-3 Sept explosion Inconsistent Tier The overall pacing of the series episode per episode The rest of Jon and Dany's storylines Tyrion and Shae Tyrion post season 4 Sansa post season 4 Littlefinger's accent Ramsay in S5 Theon's arc in S5 & S7 Robb's story in S2 & S3 the level of spectacle in the last three seasons The overall Iron Islands storyline The Night King as a villain Jaime Post Season 3 Stannis poo poo Tier Having the tragic fall and end of Stannis in S5 occur over the span of just two episodes Killing Mance Rayder Arya in S5 & 6 Littlefinger post S4 Varys in S7 the decision that S7 only needed 7 episodes Everything else besides Oberyn relating to Dorne No One Beyond the Wall Unbent Unbowed, Broken e: gently caress im writing too much about this dumb show, am I now the tv show version of the book thread posters CPFortest fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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