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bobjr posted:Didn't Robert only successfully hide because he charmed some girl in the first place? Gotta make the eight
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I mean, what are you going to do, not make the eight?!
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I'm reading the wiki page for Jon Connington and they just outright gave Jorah Mormont the storyline where he contracts the greyscale while saving Tyrion from Jon Connington almost 1:1, so that might have a better resolution than "turns out the cure for greyscale is just to rip off the greyscale".
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13Pandora13 posted:So like...literally none prophecies came to fruition, right? Azor Ahai, Valonquar, so on? It's not a big surprise a lot of plot threads were abandoned since D&D made it clear they had no plan for White Walkers and ended up deciding how they would be defeated only after season 6 and they filmed death scenes for a few characters for the finale and the decision to not to use them was only done when piecing the episode together.They wanted a resolution that packed the most punch in their opinion and things were discarded to achieve that.
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christmas boots posted:I think this is exactly how it's going to play out in the books, and it fixes some of the issues with the show too. Cersei faces no backlash for blowing up the Sept? Actually it just turns people against her and makes them welcome Aegon when he deposes her. Varys is on his side so he has something to do, and won't have to resort to yelling the word treason at the top of his lungs until someone stops ignoring it. Dorne is allied with Aegon, and the Tyrells will probably follow, so there's no need for Dany to lose them and thus no need for Tyrion to start eating lead. Plus her heel turn works better if she gets to King's landing and another Targaryen is already living her fantasy of taking back the seven kingdoms to the adulation of the masses.  if D&D's plot machete cut out Dany's final boss, and arguably the last antagonist
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May 25, 2019 08:13
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bobjr posted:Didn't Robert only successfully hide because he charmed some girl in the first place? That was a big part of why Lyanna wasn't into him. I'd say Rhaegar wasn't much better, but I guess there's a difference between serial infidelity and polygamy.
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Just a heads up for everybody who's wondering about what happened to the Dothraki. In the scene where all the Starks say goodbye to each other and go their separate ways, the camera pans across two Dothraki strolling around rebuilt Kings Landing with their khopesh knockoff swords. Apparently the violent horde of Mongols have settled down and become productive tax paying citizens.
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galagazombie posted:Just a heads up for everybody who's wondering about what happened to the Dothraki. In the scene where all the Starks say goodbye to each other and go their separate ways, the camera pans across two Dothraki strolling around rebuilt Kings Landing with their khopesh knockoff swords. Apparently the violent horde of Mongols have settled down and become productive tax paying citizens. They just took the riverlands and formed Qing, nbd
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lovely Wizard posted:I'm reading the wiki page for Jon Connington and they just outright gave Jorah Mormont the storyline where he contracts the greyscale while saving Tyrion from Jon Connington almost 1:1, so that might have a better resolution than "turns out the cure for greyscale is just to rip off the greyscale". He's gonna accidentally give to to faegon. It's just too tragic for Gurm to resist.
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i forgot adebisi was on the show. why not make him strong belwas... edit: also why didn't they film/edit the walk of shame so you never saw cersei's face and full body in the same shot? the cgi's so obvious but the body double doesn't match her at all on top of it. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 15:34 on May 25, 2019 |
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TommyGun85 posted:Not sure if this was posted yet as I didnt want to read 2k posts... Watching this at 1.5x speed and everything just sounds more ridiculous
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Did I miss the Wizard Staff post? Or Wizard Master or whoever he was? I’ve been looking for it.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Did I miss the Wizard Staff post? Or Wizard Master or whoever he was? I’ve been looking for it. The Wizard Master post is the winter that’s coming and will auto  this thread
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YaketySass posted:That was a big part of why Lyanna wasn't into him. I'd say Rhaegar wasn't much better, but I guess there's a difference between serial infidelity and polygamy. For what's it's worth it reads like Rhaegar and Ellia did not marry for love but out of duty, and Rhaegar treated her like a good friend and cared for their children and her, but he couldn't bring himself to truly ever love her; where as it seems like he was smitten with Lyanna and vice-versa when they first saw each other. Barristan even talks about how Ellia and Rhaegar were never really romantic. Robert hosed anything with a pulse, and he has a lot more living bastards in the books Ellia Martell is honestly the most tragic character out of all of them: she was originally offered to Jaime but Tywin took it as an insult; she was very pretty but sickly in her youth and had problems having children, and her father in law hated her children. Then she dies so horribly after her husband who doesn't love her leaves her for another woman, and the only reason she was in KL and not in Dragonstone was because the Mad King wanted her as a hostage to keep Dorne loyal TulliusCicero fucked around with this message at 18:47 on May 25, 2019 |
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galagazombie posted:Just a heads up for everybody who's wondering about what happened to the Dothraki. In the scene where all the Starks say goodbye to each other and go their separate ways, the camera pans across two Dothraki strolling around rebuilt Kings Landing with their khopesh knockoff swords. Apparently the violent horde of Mongols have settled down and become productive tax paying citizens. Bran hijacked into one of them and made him kill himself while the others watched. They're cool now.
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Robert even ruined Stannis’s wedding by loving a girl on their wedding bed.
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Snowy posted:The Wizard Master post is the winter that’s coming and will auto
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The prop department kinda forgot to make the visors closeable
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May 25, 2019 19:36
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They did the first few seasons. They looked like bird beaks.
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Love these anti-protective helmets that turn into an execution device as soon as someone hits you in the head with anything
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Not wearing a helmet automatically means your immune to battle death. Unless things go slow mo, obviously.
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Just rewatching The Shield as it now streaming free in the UK and watching the early plotlines evolve is just such a demonstration of why D&D screwed the pooch here. In season 2 episode 2 Vic loses control completely and savagely beats and disfigures an extremely powerful crime boss who he can't use the law to dispose of. This is on the back of a double whammy where his family relationship slowly rots away in season one, they leave him in the season one finale, he is seen deseperate to find them in season 2 only to find them and be denied resolution immediately prior to his major player in the drug racket getting executed, having had the pressure continually rack up with evidence against Vic mounting and and gang violence against his interests escalating under intense scrutiny. As previously discussed, there are layering techniques in existence they could have used to make the dramatic turns in Season 8 more coherent, which is more glaring when tv shows a decade before were pulling it off. The above example has several other storylines running around it at the same time, granted it's a different genre but it shows they could have addressed things better than they did. If they were struggling that much they could've just studied as many examples of the genre as possible and milked the fruitful arcs dry, Kurt Sutter made a career out of it.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Did I miss the Wizard Staff post? Or Wizard Master or whoever he was? I’ve been looking for it. Wizard Master posted:I thought this episode was garbage personally.
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YaketySass posted:The credits should have given up that twist but nobody picked it up. I see nothing unusual about this.
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Groovelord Neato posted:i forgot adebisi was on the show. why not make him strong belwas... Pretty much every scene like that actually uses a fake body/cgi, according to the making-of I saw. I guess it's because most of the actors dont want to be confused for actual porn actors that were in the show, or maybe they do or something. It's fantasy so everyone has to look like a pornstar basically, if it was true to medieval life and all women were fat and hairy, GRRM would not sign the contract since he cant beat off to it if everyone looks like his wife and Im guessing actors would not approve to be remembered that way.
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I was disappointed they didn't bother doing a new opening for the finale with King's Landing burning and the keep destroyed. Lazy fucks.
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KL was destroyed in the opening tho just not as badly as it was in the show
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nooneofconsequence posted:I was disappointed they didn't bother doing a new opening for the finale with King's Landing burning and the keep destroyed. Lazy fucks. I thought they did?
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Dr. Video Games 0112 posted:Pretty much every scene like that actually uses a fake body/cgi, according to the making-of I saw. I guess it's because most of the actors dont want to be confused for actual porn actors that were in the show, or maybe they do or something. It's fantasy so everyone has to look like a pornstar basically, if it was true to medieval life and all women were fat and hairy, GRRM would not sign the contract since he cant beat off to it if everyone looks like his wife and Im guessing actors would not approve to be remembered that way. yeah it's funny also that like Brienne is supposed to be like hideous and Gwendolyn Christie looks like average at absolute worst, just Very Tall same with Tyrion, they don't even bother trying to like really ugly Dinklage up or anything I thought the woman who played Calamity Jane on Deadwood would have made a good Brienne, she's very tall and Not Hot but she isn't like buff or anything so idk edit: looking at IMDB she looks totally normal also I guess they just uglied her up for deadwood which is what they should have done with Brienne no matter who played her also but also the men who are supposed to be ugly as part of their character as well. I guess there was sam but that's it
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I rewatched the Long Night and I feel like if you start watching at the point at which the wights start falling into the fire to create a passage and just assume the episode started there then actually it all just feels a lot stronger. You've skipped most of the stuff that makes no sense and you haven't actually missed anything meaningful.
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U-DO Burger posted:KL was destroyed in the opening tho Yeah the gate is destroy and the map in the courtyard as cracked half similar to what happened later on in the episode.
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I actually liked the build up in that episode (except for the Dothraki charge when I was like, wtf is happening, did something spook the horses or... wait, why??), there was a palpable sense of dread leading up to the attack since literally everything was building up to this moment.
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Dr. Video Games 0112 posted:Pretty much every scene like that actually uses a fake body/cgi, according to the making-of I saw. I guess it's because most of the actors dont want to be confused for actual porn actors that were in the show, or maybe they do or something. It's fantasy so everyone has to look like a pornstar basically, if it was true to medieval life and all women were fat and hairy, GRRM would not sign the contract since he cant beat off to it if everyone looks like his wife and Im guessing actors would not approve to be remembered that way. yeah but you could film it so you never see her face and a full frontal body shot at the same time. the scene isn;t supposed to titillate so why get some attractive 20 something as a body double. and yeah on my rewatch i had x-ray up for a second on amazon prime and noticed one of craster's wives was a porn star. another bizarre decision because why would you go let's cast this attractive woman with huge tits as the wife getting brutally raped. it's comical how much poo poo i had to skip through once i got to seasons 5 and 6. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 00:51 on May 26, 2019 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:yeah but you could film it so you never see her face and a full frontal body shot at the same time. the scene isn;t supposed to titillate so why get some attractive 20 something as a body double. Probably because pretending to be violently raped is what some porn stars do, so they are more comfortably with the role than a normal actress.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I thought they did? I thought the gate might have been broken but the zoom through the city and the castle looked the same.
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And now his watch has ended. Goodbye, old friend.
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Dr. Video Games 0112 posted:Pretty much every scene like that actually uses a fake body/cgi, according to the making-of I saw. I guess it's because most of the actors dont want to be confused for actual porn actors that were in the show, or maybe they do or something. It's fantasy so everyone has to look like a pornstar basically, if it was true to medieval life and all women were fat and hairy, GRRM would not sign the contract since he cant beat off to it if everyone looks like his wife and Im guessing actors would not approve to be remembered that way. In this instance, it was because Lena Headey was pregnant at the time.
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