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BaronVanAwesome posted:Can we at least agree Matt Smith in dread slayer armour is among the best things put to film so far Is that the dragoon armor from the tourney? if so, hell yeah
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Gresh posted:lol jesus how do these guys not have 3 arms yet [/quote] Pre-show spoilers? Fire and Blood posted:The Old King and Good Queen Alysanne ruled together until her death in 100 AC (aside from two periods of estrangement, known as the First and Second Quarrels), and produced thirteen children. Four of them—two sons and two daughters—grew to maturity, married, and produced children of their own. Never before or since had the Seven Kingdoms been blessed (or cursed, in the view of some) with so many Targaryen princelings. From the loins of the Old King and his beloved queen sprang such a confusion of claims and claimants than many maesters believe that the Dance of the Dragons, or some similar struggle, was inevitable. Their flippers didn't fair so well.
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Gresh posted:lol jesus how do these guys not have 3 arms yet I'd have to double check the family tree, but I think the Targaryens still compare favorably in the genetic diversity department to the Ptolemies. And other than a big schnoz and picking the wrong horse to back in the Last War of the Republic, Cleopatra did pretty well for herself considering her family tree was more of a family wreath.
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I liked it. Seems solid and as the story is actually finished it might have a more coherent end.
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Question: I took the city watch thing as them accusing random people of the crimes and not actually guilty people as an exercise in instilling fear into the King's Landing populace of the City Watch. Several reviews I read took it at face value that they actually were criminals who had committed the crimes they were accused of. How did you all take that scene?
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The way Daemon's #2 was just seemingly randomly pointing to dudes in the throng of captured citizens and screaming out the name of crimes, I assumed the whole thing was pure theater and a bunch of potentially innocent people were being dismembered or outright murdered.
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Yeah that wasn't too bad. More game of thrones, early seasons, I figure they got the point across that it was a prequel pretty well to normal viewers. Will it take off as much as GOT? No, probably not. But lets give it a year or two and see.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:I wonder what the starks are up to Also brutally decapitating people.
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Aug 22, 2022 09:17
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Honestly how I figure it for the city watch is they probably started off with a preplanned list of targets to make a show of who might not meet modern standards of guilt but were probably based on like, SOMETHING, but once things got going, not above grabbing people at random.
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I give it a C+ so far. has potential, but I can't see how they'd make multiple seasons out of this worthwhile
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1000 Sweaty Rikers posted:I give it a C+ so far. has potential, but I can't see how they'd make multiple seasons out of this worthwhile 1) Insane Targs on parade 2) MORE DRAGONS, MORE BETTER!
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Aug 22, 2022 10:33
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Bring in David Tennant as a Lannister and Christopher Eccleston as a Stark or a Greyjoy, obviously!
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Jerusalem posted:Bring in David Tennant as a Lannister and Christopher Eccleston as a Stark or a Greyjoy, obviously! David Tennant Highgarden. Patrick Capaldi Lannister.
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Mu Zeta posted:I don't usually notice stuff like this but I think all the Targaryen characters have awful looking wigs. i thought rhaenyra's and matt smith's were the only offensively bad ones but yeah
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What do dragons smell like, if they smell so strongly that everyone know Rhaenyra has been on one
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Also Daemon’s open-face jousting helmet doesn’t seem like too much of a good idea
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Jerusalem posted:The way Daemon's #2 was just seemingly randomly pointing to dudes in the throng of captured citizens and screaming out the name of crimes, I assumed the whole thing was pure theater and a bunch of potentially innocent people were being dismembered or outright murdered. Probably. The show is pretty explicit that the whole system is pretty hosed up and the whole absolute monarchist thing with all leadership being decided by luck of the genetic lottery or what family is in charge is pretty obvious.
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MrMojok posted:Also Daemon’s open-face jousting helmet doesn’t seem like too much of a good idea Yea that was dumb. I was hoping what would have set him off, which was to be expected, would be getting hit in the chin by an errant piece of wood or something.
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MrMojok posted:2) MORE DRAGONS, MORE BETTER! Didn't they mention at one point that they currently had 10 dragons? Apparently they only had the budget to only ever show 1 on screen at any point
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Aug 22, 2022 12:39
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They spent a lot of money on that anime.
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Its good but feels like its walking a tightrope where it could easily fall into suck really fast.
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Yeah it was pretty underwhelming. I thought they would have done something bigger to capture everyone’s attention and generate some excitement and faith Also doctor who man is ridiculous casting for the malevolent badass. He is so unbelievable in that role
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The sets and costume design are very impressive and I'm cool with a slow build. My main problem is that, by virtue of this being a prequel, I know that whatever these characters will inevitably fail.
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blue squares posted:Yeah it was pretty underwhelming. I thought they would have done something bigger to capture everyone’s attention and generate some excitement and faith  QuoProQuid posted:The sets and costume design are very impressive and I'm cool with a slow build. My main problem is that, by virtue of this being a prequel, I know that whatever these characters will inevitably fail. Kinda - this is 172 years in the past though so who knows what can happen. We know someone has a kid and they become king and go mad so Jamie Lannister can kill em.
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QuoProQuid posted:The sets and costume design are very impressive and I'm cool with a slow build. My main problem is that, by virtue of this being a prequel, I know that whatever these characters will inevitably fail. I mean kinda. The whole book is basically an unreliable in universe text about how the targs took over and then basically destroyed themselves to the point that there were no dragons by the time of Dany and the family was easy enough to deposed. Like so far, I think the show will be pretty solid and it helps that they have a completed story that they can play with and tweak which they are clearly going to do. Part of the reason got poo poo the bed was partly they ran out of material outside notes and partly because dnd didn’t give a gently caress anymore and were fine making GBS threads out whatever because they thought they would be making bigger stuff like Star Wars, which died in the crib because they crash landed the series.
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D-Pad posted:Question: I took the city watch thing as them accusing random people of the crimes and not actually guilty people as an exercise in instilling fear into the King's Landing populace of the City Watch. Several reviews I read took it at face value that they actually were criminals who had committed the crimes they were accused of. How did you all take that scene? My reading was the same as yours. It made me think of the protests from 2020. Cops were emboldened and felt they had to instill fear amongst the public to silence any criticism. There's a lot of footage where they were just attacking random people rather than protesters.
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Vintersorg posted:
I mean. You can go read exactly what is going to happen to the main characters in any game of thrones wiki. They may change a few things but I can't imagine it will be a lot.
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Why would I do that though? As someone who hasn't/won't read the books I am going to let the show tell me what happens.
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Chemtrailologist posted:My reading was the same as yours. It made me think of the protests from 2020. Cops were emboldened and felt they had to instill fear amongst the public to silence any criticism. There's a lot of footage where they were just attacking random people rather than protesters. HBO has a long history of shows that make pretty overt references to current events and modern themes even if they are set in different time periods. "Police force gets its rocks off on terrorizing people they view as vermin" isn't exactly subtle. I had low expectations going in and the pilot definitely impressed me, perhaps as a result of that. I've never seen Matt Smith in anything before so I thought he was great as Daemon. The cast overall was really strong- no "cute kids that grow up to be terrible actors" to worry about here. And no obvious Kit Harrington charisma black holes either- though the guy who plays Criston Cole could end up that way. I'm optimistic about the show.
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"Hey Prince Daemon, your sister-in-law and newborn nephew just died!" *Daemon promptly poops his pants and has sex* William Bear fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Aug 22, 2022 |
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I liked it but I felt the stuff at the end about and he called it a Song of Ice and Fire was tacky and not needed. I really like how its setting up all the politiking and it reminded me a lot of The Accursed Kings series (which I know Martin has often mentioned).
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Aug 22, 2022 15:12
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So Aegon had a prophecy dream about Arya Stark and knew he needed to take over Westeros so she could kill the night king? ok
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I heard HBO killed four horses shooting that jousting scene. Three to get the horse's fall just right, and then Matt Smith's horse heard a noise and got spooked and broke his leg right after.
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Okay I don't know what the gently caress they're doing with this show. Show me a castration, a couple hand choppings, Matt Smith hitting it doggystyle in an very unnerving manner, a gross hamstringing, and now a nonconsensual murder/C-section and the episode is barely half over. Super not feeling whatever vibe they're going for so far.
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Open Source Idiom posted:
Channelling Malcom Tucker.
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clapped when they showed the big house all the dragons lived in like in the title of the show edit: kind of weird when Daemon cheated so the Hand's kid face planted off a horse and like literally everyone including the Hand shrugged. At least the son appears to still be sort of alive. Vishass fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Aug 22, 2022 |
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Phenotype posted:Okay I don't know what the gently caress they're doing with this show. Show me a castration, a couple hand choppings, Matt Smith hitting it doggystyle in an very unnerving manner, a gross hamstringing, and now a nonconsensual murder/C-section and the episode is barely half over. Super not feeling whatever vibe they're going for so far. Lol pussy
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Phenotype posted:Okay I don't know what the gently caress they're doing with this show. Show me a castration, a couple hand choppings, Matt Smith hitting it doggystyle in an very unnerving manner, a gross hamstringing, and now a nonconsensual murder/C-section and the episode is barely half over. Super not feeling whatever vibe they're going for so far. wtf a nonconsensual murder? that's it this show has finally gone too far
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BWV posted:I liked it but I felt the stuff at the end about and he called it a Song of Ice and Fire was tacky and not needed. I really like how its setting up all the politiking and it reminded me a lot of The Accursed Kings series (which I know Martin has often mentioned). very obviously telling the regular weird GoT fans that name their children Daenerys or Khaleesi that this is still a loving prequel just in case the "175 years before" message wasn't clear enough.
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