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Barreft posted:I never read F&B part 1 cause I knew GRRM wouldn't finish the story, so this is all a surprise to me. I like it
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Xiahou Dun posted:That’s…actually legit a good point and makes it far less stupid. I don't know. Wearing the pin that will associate you with being the brother of the Strongs, in order to get in there and kill them? pretty risky. It could've used a 2 minute or something beforehand to show this guy has Varys-like spider connections. It felt like the whole episode could've used an extra 10 minutes. Daemon's family alone I thought could've helped flesh him out a bit, I heard the scene was cut? Still really liked it though!
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"Stop! Who goes there?" *taps pin* "Oh, skulking bug guys. Alright, y'all can come in."
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Pattonesque posted:She tried to directly address it in the previous episode by attempting to betroth her oldest son to Alicent's oldest daughter. Which would have probably solved the issue pretty neatly but Alicent is insanely paranoid and prideful and sees it as a plot
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Sep 28, 2022 02:22
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Punkin Spunkin posted:"Stop! Who goes there?" "So you're an emissary of the House Strong?" *all thieves nod* "When did you receive this honor?" *all thieves look at each other awkwardly while each makes casual hand gestures that bear no relation to the others*
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That DICK! posted:[templing fingers sagely] the notion of team alicent v. rhaenerya is an intentionally faulty premise that even the most toothless yokel peasant within the narrative rejects, which was born from the fact that every single noble is traumatized by the unnaturalness of their lot in life and seeks to inflict trauma upon others in turn I'm on Team The System Isn't Perfect But It's The Best We've Got. I hope that the logic of feudalism triumphs over A&R and remakes them in its murderous image.
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Sep 28, 2022 02:27
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Punkin Spunkin posted:"Stop! Who goes there?" That DICK! posted:"So you're an emissary of the House Strong?" haha
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alicent is certainly a jabroni but why are so many people here guffawing at her rejection. even if there was no question rhaenerya's bastards were trueborn she'd have reason to be paranoid about what that could mean for her boys, should enough nobles decide rhaenerya sucked. the fact that every scene involving the rhaenerya kids involves some character looking at them and saying "oh, jesus christ, come on dude" makes that concern about 1000x more reasonable
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That DICK! posted:alicent is certainly a jabroni but why are so many people here guffawing at her rejection. even if there was no question rhaenerya's bastards were trueborn she'd have reason to be paranoid about what that could mean for her boys, should enough nobles decide rhaenerya sucked. the fact that every scene involving the rhaenerya kids involves some character looking at them and saying "oh, jesus christ, come on dude" makes that concern about 1000x more reasonable wait who's doing that? Alicent way many understandable reasons to be the way she is. e: oh you meant the marriage pact. nah that's stupid she should've accepted It at least would have borrowed time to plan something else while everyone knew Rhae's plan, like contacting her father. which seems will be in next episode but too late Barreft fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Sep 28, 2022 |
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Barreft posted:I don't know. Wearing the pin that will associate you with being the brother of the Strongs, in order to get in there and kill them? pretty risky. If that’s what they were going for, it could work. It depends on how often he gives dudes that pin and has them do poo poo for him. If those are the only ones ever that’s obviously super sus. But if that’s his livery and everyone working for him wears that? Dude is a prominent son of a major house who needs to distinguish HIS people from all the other Strongs’ people. He probably has a poo poo ton of dudes and it’s less “hey we’re the murder squad” and more “dudes wearing a work uniform.” Of course they could immediately double down on murder squad in which case yeah, lmao. But as of now there’s a less stupid option that’s consistent with the on screen evidence. Not confident they’ll maintain it, but it’s a good point that poster had and they did good if nothing else.
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Barreft posted:wait who's doing that? Alicent way many understandable reasons to be the way she is. Disagree, but I will not argue it further as I am not Team Green, I am Team John Madden Using A Telestrator To Illustrate The Exact Points Where Either Team Botched The Play
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Xiahou Dun posted:If that’s what they were going for, it could work. It depends on how often he gives dudes that pin and has them do poo poo for him. If those are the only ones ever that’s obviously super sus. Yeah i got no idea. we'll see. they've been good so far on the show, it was a minor nitpick. At least this isn't Rings of Power
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Pattonesque posted:She tried to directly address it in the previous episode by attempting to betroth her oldest son to Alicent's oldest daughter. Which would have probably solved the issue pretty neatly but Alicent is insanely paranoid and prideful and sees it as a plot It's a good solve on paper but it's real dumb to offer your bastard kid as a marriage pact to the person who's pissed off at you for having bastard kids
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Y'see this is where the Rhaenerya's Cowboys really botched their formation
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New Alicent has this permanent sneer stamped on her face and it’s great, just conveys the distaste she feels for everyone and everything around her. The only time it breaks is when she’s half horrified half excited by the possibilities at the very end of the ep.
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That DICK! posted:Y'see this is where the Rhaenerya's Cowboys really botched their formation She should've been like Margaery to Renly and just tell the dude to bust in her after being with his SO.
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That DICK! posted:Y'see this is where the Rhaenerya's Cowboys really botched their formation Her butt?!?! The botched her butt?
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Vanilla Bison posted:It's a good solve on paper but it's real dumb to offer your bastard kid as a marriage pact to the person who's pissed off at you for having bastard kids yeah that's what makes it understandable too. Her whole thing has been this seething resentment of her former friend's freedom and willingness to lie to her for over a decade. Now she's basically being told "hey one of my kids who I got by banging the strongest knight in the Seven Kingdoms should marry one of your kids from a rotting old man. But we should keep pretending they're Laenor's." I'm wondering how much Rhaenyra understands just how much Alicent resents her, and *why* she resents her
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Pattonesque posted:yeah that's what makes it understandable too. Her whole thing has been this seething resentment of her former friend's freedom and willingness to lie to her for over a decade. Now she's basically being told "hey one of my kids who I got by banging the strongest knight in the Seven Kingdoms should marry one of your kids from a rotting old man. But we should keep pretending they're Laenor's." Blame Viserys
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This show is misogynist because the kids' hair only follow their father genes.
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Barreft posted:Blame Viserys even his fuckups are understandable because he made Rhaenyra heir out of love (and lingering guilt from Rhaenys being passed over) and married Alicent because she was kind to him when he was grieving and lonely see this is what I like about HotD compared to latter-season GoT. When people do stupid things they do them for explicable reasons. So far. They still have plenty of time for "Dany kind of forgot about the iron fleet"
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Pattonesque posted:even his fuckups are understandable because he made Rhaenyra heir out of love (and lingering guilt from Rhaenys being passed over) and married Alicent because she was kind to him when he was grieving and lonely Agreed that's why I'm in.
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Barreft posted:Agreed that's why I'm in. me too 100 percent like I remember when Battle of the Bastards happened people were like "Jon is so stupid to run after Rickon" and like, yes, it was stupid, but it was stupid for an understandable reason. That's Jon's baby brother! Then everything after that was just stupid because D&D were stupid
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Barreft posted:Agreed that's why I'm in. On the one hand it’d be nice if a point actually developed beyond “huh, that sucks don’t it”. On the other, I’m a messy bitch who loves drama.
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That DICK! posted:On the one hand it’d be nice if a point actually developed beyond “huh, that sucks don’t it”. On the other, I’m a messy bitch who loves drama. Considering Saul Gone, and we have a mass amount of garbage streaming content, I'm just glad it keeps my attention.
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Wow. Um, this episode really jumped up the quality huh? I was liking it before but I was plastered to the screen the entire time for this one.
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Pattonesque posted:She tried to directly address it in the previous episode by attempting to betroth her oldest son to Alicent's oldest daughter. Which would have probably solved the issue pretty neatly but Alicent is insanely paranoid and prideful and sees it as a plot daemon would just cowabunga aegon and aemond the second viserys died
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I hope this show keeps the quality up. It could be the later seasons of GOT making me biased, but I think I’m liking HotD more than it’s predecessor.
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stephenthinkpad posted:This show is misogynist because the kids' hair only follow their father genes. Well, you know, I've heard that the seed is strong.
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I also recently watched some episodes here and there of GoT, I forgot how lovely some of the combat fights were.
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What if its supposed to be The SeeD is strong and Jenny of Oldstones is a reality-warped Ultimecia. In this 35 section post I will lay out the theory that
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Ornery and Hornery posted:I also recently watched some episodes here and there of GoT, I forgot how lovely some of the combat fights were. The fight choreography has always been extremely dodgy. There are episodes of Buffy with better fights for gently caress's sake.
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Pattonesque posted:She tried to directly address it in the previous episode by attempting to betroth her oldest son to Alicent's oldest daughter. Which would have probably solved the issue pretty neatly but Alicent is insanely paranoid and prideful and sees it as a plot Barreft posted:She should've been like Margaery to Renly and just tell the dude to bust in her after being with his SO. Xiahou Dun posted:The fight choreography has always been extremely dodgy.
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Barreft posted:I never read F&B part 1 cause I knew GRRM wouldn't finish the story, so this is all a surprise to me. I like it It's much easier to finish F&B than asoiaf the main plot points are already there in a world of ice and fire, so F&B just need to fill in some details plus there isn't a zillion minor subplots to resolve like in the main series
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Does F&B have any supernatural elements? Surprise twist? Long buried character origin stories? Nipples on breastplates? Pink Mast? If not, it's a hell lot easier to write.
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stephenthinkpad posted:Does F&B have any supernatural elements? Surprise twist? Long buried character origin stories? Nipples on breastplates? Pink Mast? If not, it's a hell lot easier to write. not anywhere near the same extent as main series
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Typo posted:It's much easier to finish F&B than asoiaf I think that’s what I’m really enjoying about Dragon. We aren’t visiting 23 places for only 3 minutes each per episode. We’re getting nothing but 50 mins of story in one main place, and maybe a few mins in one other.
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Yeah, everything has taken place at King's Landing, Dragonstone, or the Step Stones, it's basically the opposite of GoT where they had to invent a new way of showing TV audiences maps so they know wtf is going on. Maps really help btw, I'm reading the First Law series for the second time and the first time I had no map but now I do and I'm following things so much easier. Also I'm this guy https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1452813485700702214
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Y'know, I wonder if when the war keeps off proper and we have to start looking at scenes in other parts of Westeros the following seasons that the intro will change to the map like in the original show? And something destroys King Goon's diorama this season of course.
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Roman Reigns posted:And something destroys King Goon's diorama this season of course. A tragedy to rival the Red Wedding
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