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phasmid posted:It was more "monarchy sucks, but it's all we've got". This show is feudalist realism.
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May 21, 2019 09:05
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Its not even that; historically civil wars dont end this way; if everybody is too exhausted to fight new wars they set up independent kingdoms which then vie for control of each other in protracted, bloody, wars all while laying claim to the former whole they were part of or a central authority exerts power and rules it through force and typically by reforming social order for more centralization of power. Like Im genuinely struggling to come up with a historical example like the show uses where this sort of "make a useless git king" wasnt the purposeful prelude to a civil war but the end.
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May 21, 2019 09:10
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i like how embarrassed everyone at the end is, yeah we came to save westeros with a dragon wielding psychopath sorry everyone no hates bran right?
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May 21, 2019 09:29
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Remember that small council scene where the characters who weren't walking memes at the time sat down strategically, with Cersei moving a chair to be next to Tywin, and Tyrion moving a chair to sit opposite him, and how you didn't need to have the symbolism of that smashed over your head like the Seinfeld coffee shop scene we got in the finale? Also - why isn't Gendry the obvious choice to be king, being Robert Baratheon's last living heir? Seems to me that he'd make a better king than a guy who saw the future of a million innocent people being chargrilled and let it happen because it was his path to being king himself?
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May 21, 2019 10:16
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Presumably Bran has no motivations left that any normal human can understand. The councillors'll bring him moral conundrums and be like "sire, which course of action will help the realm?" and he'll say "ehhh pick whatever I don't care either way" and warg all day.
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May 21, 2019 10:45
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in the early seasons werent there people who doubted white walkers ever existed? what did they think that half-mile tall wall was built for?Grevling posted:Presumably Bran has no motivations left that any normal human can understand. The councillors'll bring him moral conundrums and be like "sire, which course of action will help the realm?" and he'll say "ehhh pick whatever I don't care either way" and warg all day. "no! go away!"
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May 21, 2019 10:51
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The final episode should have finished after the cut to black after dany died
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May 21, 2019 10:51
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May 21, 2019 11:09
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Gotta say, I'm pretty happy for the Dothraki. I thought they were wiped out by the army of the dead, which since Dany killed all the other khals and united their entire culture would have sucked, but nope, they survived that, and got to pillage and slaughter. Would have been nice to see more feigned retreats and horse archery as befitting a made up culture based on the mongols, but at least they took all comers.
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May 21, 2019 11:27
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Grevling posted:Presumably Bran has no motivations left that any normal human can understand. The councillors'll bring him moral conundrums and be like "sire, which course of action will help the realm?" and he'll say "ehhh pick whatever I don't care either way" and warg all day. So the show ends like it started, with a king who doesn't give a poo poo. It's like pottery it rhymes. At least Robert was doing cool stuff like drinking and loving instead of being a creepy voyeur.
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May 21, 2019 11:33
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Count me amongst the people who were shaking their head in befuddlement when Tyrion gave his "deep" speech. What the gently caress does any of that mean? Another "deep" moment was the dragon melting the iron throne. Wow, what symbolism. How deep and... wait, why did the dragon do that? Why did this flying dog melt a chair? What? And lol at Sansa pulling a Brexit and everyone else not immediately going, "What? We could do that?" edit: And obviously everything needed more breathing room. I kept thinking of when Tyrion was due to be executed in season 4(?) when Obyrren fought the Mountain. Am I crazy or was he locked up for about 4 episodes as it all built up? I miss that. That sense of build up to a final confrontation. Y'know? And sorry for getting the Wildling thing so, so wrong. It's been years since I last watched the earlier episodes I thought getting south of the wall was more than just zombies. Drunken Baker fucked around with this message at 12:04 on May 21, 2019 |
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May 21, 2019 12:00
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Why could Arya disguise as anyone? Where did that go? Why did Cersei have prophesies of her death? What did that inform? Why did Berric Dondarrion have a flaming sword, and why did he come back from the dead a bunch of times? (I guess the Lord of Light being real wasn't a big deal?) What was Varys for? Why was Jaime at the Long Night fight? (Bran said something important?) What was the significance of the tree people creating the white walkers? What was the significance of the white walkers at all really? Edit: Yeah, the dragon melting the throne was sort of ... interesting? Breifly, because in the books it mentions that the only thing that could destroy / melt the iron throne is dragonfire (for some reason?) so it was like, 'oh poo poo, that one thing is happening!' And I briefly wondered what the implication was, "Maybe no more monarchy, that's kind of closure of sor" "BRAN IS KING NOW" oh ok. !Klams fucked around with this message at 12:06 on May 21, 2019 |
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May 21, 2019 12:04
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jeez dude have you ever watched the show while not vacuuming?
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May 21, 2019 12:10
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I love how much time the finale spent on wordlessly confirming that yup, getting a big old castle dropped on you kills you (even if it doesn't smush your face). Splendid work. I mean, it's not like they had any stampeding, yelling, scythe-wielding loose ends they could have tied up instead. Seriously what happened to the Dothraki?
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May 21, 2019 12:13
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im glad their swords were on fire for that 45 seconds and then they ...lived? it looked like what was being portrayed was that they all died but that... i mean
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May 21, 2019 12:16
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the dothraki did a big trick. some guy whispered about how cool it would be with flaming swords around useless magic lady so she did that to seem cooler. when the dothraki charged against the zombie army they just put the swords in the snow and did a hard left to hide in the dark.
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May 21, 2019 12:24
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the extra with extra
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May 21, 2019 12:28
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what happened to the other bloke arya was going to kill illyn payne? Did Arya get ANYONE on her list?
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May 21, 2019 12:32
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Clawtopsy posted:what happened to the other bloke arya was going to kill She killed her character motivation
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May 21, 2019 12:34
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https://twitter.com/MatthewKass/status/1130296717457461255 lol
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May 21, 2019 12:36
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Drunken Baker posted:
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May 21, 2019 12:52
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Quietly hilarious that the GoT YouTube haven’t uploaded their usual “behind the episode” clip for the finalé yet as they don’t want it downvoted into oblivion. The numbers are telling, for episode 2 it’s like 44k / 1k positive to negative votes. But for episode 5 it’s something like a 44k / 89k ratio. That’s how quickly the normies turned on them.
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May 21, 2019 12:54
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how long before the writers blame whoever declared that it was going to be an only 6 episode final season? that info was released around march 2017 which seems (and bare with me on this) a somewhat premature decision
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May 21, 2019 12:59
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Parkingtigers posted:Quietly hilarious that the GoT YouTube haven’t uploaded their usual “behind the episode” clip for the finalé yet as they don’t want it downvoted into oblivion. There are no two men more acutely aware of and obsessed with the memes associated with their show and the internet fan reactions. It's how characters like Lady Mormont get to die shoving a knife into a giants eye after manning the loving gates, or a remorseless murderer like tormund becomes a hero and no one ever brings up how he slaughtered villagers originally. The internet just loved them SO MUCH that obviously we have to make them huge characters and everyone will love us. It's how they cover up their inept writing and storytelling: with memes. I can imagine them trying not to go to imgur and failing, then crying, then starting the whole cycle over again.
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May 21, 2019 13:05
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Parkingtigers posted:Quietly hilarious that the GoT YouTube haven’t uploaded their usual “behind the episode” clip for the finalé yet as they don’t want it downvoted into oblivion. Surely the people going out of their way to downvote YouTube videos are “normies” and not terminally online weirdos
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May 21, 2019 13:06
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Verisimilidude posted:Surely the people going out of their way to downvote YouTube videos are “normies” and not terminally online weirdos Normies are terminally online weirdos in 2019. It's not 1999 anymore grampa
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May 21, 2019 13:08
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Durzel posted:Also - why isn't Gendry the obvious choice to be king, being Robert Baratheon's last living heir? Seems to me that he'd make a better king than a guy who saw the future of a million innocent people being chargrilled and let it happen because it was his path to being king himself? Gendry is an illiterate blacksmith apprentice.
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May 21, 2019 13:15
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bradzilla posted:Normies are terminally online weirdos in 2019. It's not 1999 anymore grampa
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May 21, 2019 13:18
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I don’t buy into Stannis being the best choice for king (but he’d not be the worst), but I’m still salty that they kept throwing Emmys and whatever at Dinklage and Emilia Clarke when Stephen Dillane acted the gently caress out of Stannis. The scenes where he burned Shireen, then later his realisation how hosed he is in the fight outside Winterfell, is the best acting performance in the entire show.
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May 21, 2019 13:24
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Pervasive cosmic dread is the standard mood in russia and always has been
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May 21, 2019 13:25
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Saint Drogo posted:this. people who have lived behind a computer since pre-9/11 genuinely conduct themselves better on the internet than ordinary people lol. We got drip fed the internet so we slowly became immune to its stupid the normies got way too much internet all at once and it broke them
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May 21, 2019 13:27
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i enjoyed the show but now my watch has ended
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May 21, 2019 13:30
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Moola posted:We got drip fed the internet so we slowly became immune to its stupid I think as well, their INTRODUCTION was social media. Like, they were told day 1 page 1 that the internet IS real life. Edit: apparently for a long time they had pencilled in "what are we going to watch now?" As the final line
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May 21, 2019 13:32
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Pick posted:HBO does not have literally 1 good show in its entire roster, ever. people just pretend because they like to nut. Pick trollin’
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May 21, 2019 13:46
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Solice Kirsk posted:Cleagane Bowl won't happen until next season and they will probably wind up killing each other. Possibly by Sandor being fatally stabbed and dragging both of them into a pool of dragon's flame or something else incredibly on the nose. Posted 5/27/17 (page 6). Goddamn. Frank Frank fucked around with this message at 14:16 on May 21, 2019 |
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May 21, 2019 13:59
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Parkingtigers posted:Truth. And I maintain that somehow, the show that turned into... [gestures vaguely]... this, was legit better than the book back then. Between seasons 3 and 4 I figured I’d read the books to see how they compared, and oof I could barely get through even just the first one. By the dozenth meaningful/prophetic dream a character had I was rolling my eyes so hard I could see my own spine. You know how you start reading a post, then you're like two lines in and go "who the gently caress is writing this dumb poo poo", then you actually look at the poster's name and go oooohhhh.
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