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facebook jihad
Dec 18, 2007

by R. Guyovich

facebook jihad posted:

I spent the entire first half of the episode yelling 'where the hell is there supply kit! Their food stuffs! Their shelter equipment'. Goddam the writers don't understand exploration logistics at all!!!!

I made this post in jest but going out into the wild blue yonder with just a sword and a heavy coat is kinda dumb

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Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here
The chains are a perfect example of bad writing.

The chains make no sense. So get rid of the chains. Then the dragon has to die on land. Oh no, you don't get the couple seconds of watching dead dragon sink under the water. You just get dead dragon. You lower your CGI costs and don't have a stupid plot hole.

This is a bad show.

Show, don't tell.

Davos: jon and dany are in love.
Tyrion: jon and dany are in love.
Audience sees: no chemistry between jon and dany, they aren't in love.

Bad show.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
I hope a golden company elephant steps on some more lannisters

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We
[quote="“Waltzing Along”" post="“475597827”"]
The chains are a perfect example of bad writing.

The chains make no sense. So get rid of the chains. Then the dragon has to die on land. Oh no, you don’t get the couple seconds of watching dead dragon sink under the water. You just get dead dragon. You lower your CGI costs and don’t have a stupid plot hole.

This is a bad show.

Show, don’t tell.

Davos: jon and dany are in love.
Tyrion: jon and dany are in love.
Audience sees: no chemistry between jon and dany, they aren’t in love.

Bad show.
[/quote]

the sinking dragon actually makes perfect sense because it avoids fans shouting “oh no why didn’t the dumb retards fry the dead dragon so they couldn’t resurrect it”

but then again this episode is a shoutfest anyway

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



facebook jihad posted:

I spent the entire first half of the episode yelling 'where the hell is there supply kit! Their food stuffs! Their shelter equipment'. Goddam the writers don't understand exploration logistics at all!!!!

facebook jihad posted:

I made this post in jest but going out into the wild blue yonder with just a sword and a heavy coat is kinda dumb

they had redshirts pulling a sled

poor redshirts were also the only ones that died. well I guess the drunk priest guy who also froze to death overnight

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
I always thought that the mythos of Essos was way more interesting than a bunch of flea ridden peasant kingdoms on a poo poo island.

Toilet Shoes
Aug 22, 2016

by Lowtax

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

why the gently caress didn’t that stupid idiot and her three useless dragons just fry the drat white walker command nexus conveniently clumped together, right after the boys talked about assassinating them. goddamn it martín i thought you were above this poo poo

Why didn't they just fly the Eagles to Mount Doom?

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We
[quote="“Toilet Shoes”" post="“475598105”"]
Why didn’t they just fly the Eagles to Mount Doom?
[/quote]

the eagles were too busy fuckin

Toilet Shoes
Aug 22, 2016

by Lowtax

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

the eagles were too busy fuckin

Oh. Well, that is perfectly reasonable. Eagles live for a good gently caress.

Rotacixe
Oct 21, 2008
They should have used skeleton rope. Everyone can accept that.

hillaryous clinton
May 11, 2003

super dynamic
Taco Defender

Waltzing Along posted:

The chains are a perfect example of bad writing.

The chains make no sense. So get rid of the chains. Then the dragon has to die on land. Oh no, you don't get the couple seconds of watching dead dragon sink under the water. You just get dead dragon. You lower your CGI costs and don't have a stupid plot hole.

This is a bad show.

Show, don't tell.

Davos: jon and dany are in love.
Tyrion: jon and dany are in love.
Audience sees: no chemistry between jon and dany, they aren't in love.

Bad show.

:agreed:

I'm guessing the dragon sinking was a weak fakeout to make us think the dragon was gone for good. But 20 seconds later we see that - surprise - the NK had massive chains all along! And also wights that could carry them underwater and somehow attach them to a dragon corpse in the dark depths of that frozen lake. So many plot holes in that one scene which only make sense if we assume either a) the NK is prescient and was waiting with chains, b) like 3 months passed between the dragon death and its revival, or c) writers are bad.

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Toilet Shoes posted:

Why didn't they just fly the Eagles to Mount Doom?

duhhh sauron would have eye-beamed them out of the sky, you idiot, you loving dumbass

Toilet Shoes
Aug 22, 2016

by Lowtax

The Protagonist posted:

duhhh sauron would have eye-beamed them out of the sky, you idiot, you loving dumbass

How do nerds react to being shamed? I just want to give you a swirly. I'm completely out of my posting depths here.

mike12345
Jul 14, 2008

"Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."





just lol if you go on a camping trip without big rear end chains

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
I'm glad the snow rescue team took all those redshirts with them so the skellymans could kill somebody without affecting the show.

facebook jihad
Dec 18, 2007

by R. Guyovich
The Night King made the chains. Who gives a poo poo. It looked cool.

If you are watching this show for anything more than 'holy poo poo these fight scenes own' at this point I kind of pity you

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
I hope some dragon chains fall on some more people.

Also lol if you think fight scenes in thrones are good. I blame Paul greengrass for ruining fight choreography forever with his shaky cam nonsense in Bourne Supremacy. Putting a camera at stomach height and having twenty camera cuts per second is not good fight scene material.

Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Aug 21, 2017

facebook jihad
Dec 18, 2007

by R. Guyovich
Game of thrones is basically a transformers movie now.

I rewatched the Mountain/Oberyn fight last night and drat that was pretty intense. The show definitely used to be a lot better then but it's still pretty cool now.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
GOT fight scenes peaked with that Jojen dweeb getting stabbed by a lazy zombie.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

steinrokkan posted:

GOT fight scenes peaked with that Jojen dweeb getting stabbed by a lazy zombie.

That was literally a skyrim random encounter and I laughed the whole time.

Yolomon Wayne
Jun 10, 2014

You call it "The Big Bang", but what really happened is
Grimey Drawer

facebook jihad posted:

The Night King made the chains. Who gives a poo poo. It looked cool.

If you are watching this show for anything more than 'holy poo poo these fight scenes own' at this point I kind of pity you

The fight scenes are a loving joke, so the "plot" is all that remains...

Honestly you can watch it for "how loving bad can the writing get" and nothing else.
Its literally a train carrying burning dumpsters, and also the train is on fire.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

facebook jihad posted:

Game of thrones is basically a transformers movie now.

I rewatched the Mountain/Oberyn fight last night and drat that was pretty intense. The show definitely used to be a lot better then but it's still pretty cool now.

I'd say it started going down in quality around season 4 or 5. The Jon Snow stabbing scene was great though.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
I stopped watching after season 5 and honestly couldn't tell you anything beyond like season 2 or 3 at this point. All the interesting characters got killed or relegated to one or two episodes. Way too many stupid names to keep track of. Diminishing returns on both tits and dragons. Basically no TV series needs to be longer than 5 seasons.

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We
i think the lannister convoy attack was really cool and something the show needs more of

FAGGY CLAUSE
Apr 9, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
GoT bad, etc

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We
got might be bad, but it’s bad in the same way the european union is bad, in that everyone else is worse

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Important characters that dies this season so far:
A mean ol' grandma
2 of 3 bad pussies
???

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
for a show that built its reputation on killing off characters with no regard for audience sympathies, they sure as hell are bitch to plot armor this season (and last season) (and the season before that)

FormerPoster
Aug 5, 2004

Hair Elf
Those potential spoilers for next season are lovely and unsatisfying, which leads me to believe they are 100% true.

NorgLyle
Sep 20, 2002

Do you think I posted to this forum because I value your companionship?

Yolomon Wayne posted:

I was like who the hell is benjen and ive read the loving books...
Kind of like Rickon, I'm not sure what purpose having Benjen in the show served. Rickon was worse since he was theoretically around constantly for five or six years just existing and drawing a paycheck for some child actor but Benjen was in what two episodes as the very beginning of season one when he was alive and then was 'missing' for six years before showing up once last year to be 'oh yeah I'm a good zombie' and then again here to die.

Why was he a good zombie? Why did anything about him matter? It didn't matter to anyone in the show. The book wiki says of him "Benjen joined the Night's Watch within a few months of Eddard's return north. His reasons for doing so are unknown". Even the books don't care about him. We're never going to figure out or learn how he became a good zombie since there's not enough time left to bother with that unless they wanted to turn Jorah or someone into another good zombie but I don't think that's likely.

He's a character that could easily have been completely excised from the show after his two episodes in season one. Nobody anywhere was really asking 'but what happened to Benjen? Did they ever find out?' Everyone would have just assumed that he met up with some of the zombie army and died north of the wall and they wouldn't have even had to mention him again this late during the show.

I felt the same way about Arya's wolf showing back up, though. And if the spoilers are true then it's even worse and stupider than the Benjen stuff.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
What about Dickon, he appeared for a retarded joke, then got murdered.

This show is loving awful.

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We
the last episode is going to be probably two hours long and they’re still going to surprise announce another season

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax
I'm just really disappointed that Jon and Dany didn't have passionate sex after reuniting. The writers had every chance to do that and they fumbled the ball!

NorgLyle
Sep 20, 2002

Do you think I posted to this forum because I value your companionship?

steinrokkan posted:

What about Dickon, he appeared for a retarded joke, then got murdered.

This show is loving awful.
The weird thing about Dickon was that I thought the obvious reason for introducing him was so that when the Dothraki / Dragons / Unsullied or whoever attacked the Lannisters there would be someone with a name we could focus on who could die in the battle but nope; their entire army is faceless schlubs who get incinerated and then Dickon and Randall get to chat before also being incinerated. Why bother?

Toilet Shoes
Aug 22, 2016

by Lowtax

Cough Drop The Beat posted:

I'm just really disappointed that Jon and Dany didn't have passionate sex after reuniting. The writers had every chance to do that and they fumbled the ball!

Post 13.7% of your incest porn library.

COMRADES
Apr 3, 2017

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
I just want Jon and Dany to gently caress already tbh.

FAGGY CLAUSE
Apr 9, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
I hope they zoom into their sex scene at the individual cell level, and we get to see Jons Snow swimming right the gently caress up Danys egghole that doesnt even bother to fertilize because all the dna is the same and she just becomes pregnant asexually

bloom
Feb 25, 2017

by sebmojo
I can't wait for the epic boatsex

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

steinrokkan posted:

What about Dickon, he appeared for a retarded joke, then got murdered.

This show is loving awful.

that actually owns

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steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
0It would own in a show that had a budget of 100 bucks per season rather than 100 million.

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