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The final shot of Game of Thrones: The Winterfell castle, slowly being rebuilt with the snow melted and grass starting to grow. It pulls back along the last remains of the battlefield, now mostly just rubble and bones among the grass. The pullback stops on a familiar looking necklace, its red jewel still glowing. A hand grabs the necklace, the hand is revealed to belong to Syrio Forel, who changes face into Jaqen H'ghar, and tosses an assassins coin in it's place. "A girl did well." Alternate version: it pulls back to Syrio Forel, who then talks into a throat mike hidden under his collar: "All the events have gone as intended. Congratulations everyone, Westeros World is now ready for release." I have been enjoying hatewatching this show for the last few seasons, I am a little sad to see it go, but man is it easy to make fun of now.
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Apr 30, 2019 22:03
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I would much rather the series-ending crossover be with Veep, as we reveal the adult face of Craster's baby; Jonah Ryan
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Apr 30, 2019 22:22
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Its Coke posted:Wait is that thing about the actors true It's why Bronn leaves the Dragonpit before Cersei gets there. Sky Shadowing posted:I think the point now is we're in the GoT equivalent of the Scouring of the Shire, a part of LotR that GRRM has outright said he finds brilliant. Sauron did things. He was the main plot. It would be like if Lord of the Rings spent 2.5 books/movies dealing with the shire problem but with dire warnings that the greater threat is Sauron, who then dies anticlimactically before he gets to do anything. And then they go back to the Scouring of the Shire.
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Apr 30, 2019 22:26
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Ague Proof posted:It's why Bronn leaves the Dragonpit before Cersei gets there. Trope: subverted.
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Apr 30, 2019 22:33
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They wanted to go with Arya cause it was unexpected. FINE. I actually don't have a problem with that. The problem comes when said victory comes at no sacrifice at all. Everyone who had outlived their character arc died. Everyone who still had an ongoing arc or was too high up on the popularity tables lived. You start playing the Piano of Doom and you show Tyrion and Sansa surrounded silently agreeing to sudoku. CUT. Brienne, Pod and Jaime pressed against the wall by the zombies. CUT. Tyrion and Sansa actually had a change of heart and escaped from the shopping mall on a helicopter. CUT. Brienne, Pod and Jaime are still getting teabagged. CUT. Tormund is standing on a pile of zombies he singlehandledly killed. CUT. Brienne, Pod and Jaime are still ok guys.
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May 1, 2019 00:15
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lezard_valeth posted:They wanted to go with Arya cause it was unexpected. But Brienne, Sam, and Greyworm didn't die. Especially Brienne, she should have been dead as gently caress after getting knighted. Podrick, Gendry and the Vale commander could also have died for more secondary character death.
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May 1, 2019 00:22
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Brienne is super popular. She is the one secondary character I'm 100% sure will survive. Sam will survive by virtue of Jon not having anyone else to talk to if he dies
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May 1, 2019 00:23
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If there's one character who outlived his arc, it's Bran and he's still alive. Dude's entire existence is to opposes an apparently unstoppable evil that's been stopped for good by a single stab to the dick. The gently caress does he have left to contribute to the story?
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May 1, 2019 00:32
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About as much as Bronn did by the time the book pointedly ejected him from the story while the series didn't.
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May 1, 2019 00:35
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Remind me again, why the heck did Bronn decide to get involved with the whole Dorne plot if by that point he already had a castle and his fat lady? e: I know the answer is "he was popular" but what instory excuse does Jaime use? Did he promise him a bigger castle?
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May 1, 2019 00:40
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They had to replace Payne with someone and Bronn got the draft
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May 1, 2019 00:47
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lezard_valeth posted:Remind me again, why the heck did Bronn decide to get involved with the whole Dorne plot if by that point he already had a castle and his fat lady? Yes but I think he also threatened to take his current castle if he didn't go along. It was definitely a dickmove on Jaime's part. Mr Luxury Yacht posted:If there's one character who outlived his arc, it's Bran and he's still alive. He's the repository of human memories or whatever. He can't die! There must always be a 3 eyed raven to peep on you.
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May 1, 2019 00:55
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Gendry can't die. Bro needs to take the throne. Also: https://mobile.twitter.com/Vladimir_furdik/status/1122435697636409344
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May 1, 2019 01:32
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Gendry can't die. Bro needs to take the throne. Also: Yeah D&D forgot all about this years ago.
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May 1, 2019 01:39
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Yeah D&D forgot all about this years ago. That's the dude who played the Night King, so just think of it as confirmation that they won't be doing a cool thing.
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May 1, 2019 02:19
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Well, the name is "Game of Thrones" not Game of Throne. Bran is playing to win the throne at the Heart of Winter.
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May 1, 2019 02:22
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Nutsack Rangoon posted:that will be explored in HBO's prequel show. make sure to renew your subscription. I did not know that the prequel was a thing. That explains so much.
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May 1, 2019 03:01
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:That's the dude who played the Night King, so just think of it as confirmation that they won't be doing a cool thing. Exactly. Remember when at the end of season 3 or 4 Michelle Fairley posted a picture of a heart made of stone on her twitter? Yeah, hold on to that hope guys, any day now
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May 1, 2019 03:20
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Cool idea I had: characters' armor and clothing being made into Dark Souls items that give vague and incomplete but evocative descriptions of who they belonged to. Like Brienne's gauntlets would say "The Maid of Tarth shunned delicate things for warfare and these large, well reinforced gauntlets are proof of her tastes." It also works because some characters' names are already Soulsian like Bronze Yohn, or at least their titles are like The Kingslayer
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May 1, 2019 03:30
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lezard_valeth posted:Exactly. Remember when at the end of season 3 or 4 Michelle Fairley posted a picture of a heart made of stone on her twitter? Wasn't that Lena Headey?
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May 1, 2019 03:35
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Anonymous John posted:Wasn't that Lena Headey? Yeah, it was Lena Headey. https://www.instagram.com/p/nEeNM0PA3L/?hl=en
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May 1, 2019 03:39
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Anonymous John posted:Wasn't that Lena Headey? Oh yeah my bad. It was so long ago I remembered it as Fairley doing it cause, well, that would have made sense :v
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May 1, 2019 03:40
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Definitely trolling. The next two episodes will be complete bullshit then we get another battle and the end.
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May 1, 2019 05:07
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:But Brienne, Sam, and Greyworm didn't die. Especially Brienne, she should have been dead as gently caress after getting knighted.
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May 1, 2019 05:26
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It would own if GRRM wrote a specific and superviolent swerve after convincing everyone there show has been deballed. They've actually laid the groundwork for it perfectly as everyone expects a table set for the finale Edit: the behind the episode featurette is just GRRM swinging a broken whiskey bottle at the camera and screaming "are you not entertained?!" Chef Boyardeez Nuts fucked around with this message at 05:38 on May 1, 2019 |
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May 1, 2019 05:35
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:It would own if GRMM wrote a specific and superviolent swerve after convincing everyone there show has been deballed. They've actually laid the groundwork for it perfectly as everyone expects a table set for the finale
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May 1, 2019 05:42
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Desiderata posted:It would really have been more Game of Thrones, to in that climatic pause moment, as the Night King and bran look at eachother, instead of drawing his sword, in a voice the sound of cracking ice he said something along the lines of: That would have been a great thing to happen even though I have no idea how you would film it in a way that felt satisfying.
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May 1, 2019 06:30
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Arya being the one to kill the Night's King is fine ultimately, it's not a satisfying pay-off narratively for Jon at all but that's by the by, he'll do other stuff I suppose. It's just entirely the way it goes down is just so bad. Just have some fighting happen, make it a co-operative effort, have Theon go down fighting to give Arya the shot she gets, have Brienne, Pod and Jaime holding off against the white walkers at the entry to the wood, the ones who stood there and let Arya just run past, have Bran die so they can't consult Google for "How to kill Cersei" but the NK is killed too so he achieved what he needed to and can die as happy as Wikipedia can be. Arya teleporting in and just shanking the dude to no consequence is just bad. It subverts expectations of being enjoyable but that's all.
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May 1, 2019 06:44
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Frog Act posted:the writers have completely abandoned, or forgotten, that things like demographics and physical distance exist in a medieval world. I mean people keep saying stuff like this as if "the writers" are keeping a good show from being made but I think you'll find that "the viewers" largely don't care and probably 99% of everyone who watched this episode loved it.
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May 1, 2019 06:52
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I've been trying to think back to when Jon had a decisive victory, and the only example I can think of is when he was training against other Watchers who had never picked up a sword before. Every other time someone bails him out at the last second. He was above average in sword-fighting but not legendary, he was just always in the wrong place at the right time
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May 1, 2019 06:57
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RealFoxy posted:I've been trying to think back to when Jon had a decisive victory, and the only example I can think of is when he was training against other Watchers who had never picked up a sword before. Every other time someone bails him out at the last second. He was above average in sword-fighting but not legendary, he was just always in the wrong place at the right time i mean he had to be saved a bunch of times but when he fights ramsey 1 v 1 it's a completely one sided, vicious beat down
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May 1, 2019 07:20
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frenton posted:i mean he had to be saved a bunch of times but when he fights ramsey 1 v 1 it's a completely one sided, vicious beat down
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May 1, 2019 07:52
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precision posted:I mean people keep saying stuff like this as if "the writers" are keeping a good show from being made but I think you'll find that "the viewers" largely don't care and probably 99% of everyone who watched this episode loved it. You could replace literally every scene in the entire second half of the series with either Tyrion quipping sarcastically about wine and whores or Arya flipping out and murdering extras with ninja superpowers and “the viewers” would still love it to death.
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May 1, 2019 08:56
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Preston's vid makes me very happy
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May 1, 2019 09:04
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esperterra posted:Preston's vid makes me very happy Did he lose his poo poo and ramble about how "genius mastermind gurm let his brain be preserved for posteriority" would have never written this poo poo? cause maybe it's time he rereads the last book
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May 1, 2019 09:06
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cheese posted:It would be pretty spectacular if they lulled everyone into another episode of characters talking while they march south and they just get brutally and spectacularly ambushed by the Golden Company. Brienne and Tormund having another one of their comedy scenes and then a scorpion bolt pins both of them together. They'll be saved by Yara. Cersei will repent or turn somehow. Euron will die terribly.
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May 1, 2019 09:08
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lezard_valeth posted:Did he lose his poo poo and ramble about how "genius mastermind gurm let his brain be preserved for posteriority" would have never written this poo poo? Somewhat amazingly, he actually criticised the books a little in this year's videos. Only to say sometimes they have bad lines too but you know, it's something.
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May 1, 2019 09:12
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lezard_valeth posted:Did he lose his poo poo and ramble about how "genius mastermind gurm let his brain be preserved for posteriority" would have never written this poo poo? nah preston's videos for the show tend to judge the show on its own inconsistencies and leave the book out of it
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May 1, 2019 09:26
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:It would own if GRRM wrote a specific and superviolent swerve after convincing everyone there show has been deballed. They've actually laid the groundwork for it perfectly as everyone expects a table set for the finale There is one specific issue with your idea. See if you can spot it!
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The gentleman prefers rum? Nah, an Elder Grrm only gets -5 to his writing skill for novels. He still write plenty, just not pages.
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